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• Watch Olivia Rodrigo’s video for new single ‘good 4 u’

  14-05-2021 23:55 via nme.com
  
  Olivia Rodrigo has shared a new song and video – watch and listen to ‘good 4 u’ below.
  The track is the third preview of the ‘Drivers License’ singer’s imminent debut album ‘SOUR’, which arrives next week (May 21).The NME Big Read: Olivia Rodrigo: “It’s important for me to be taken seriously as a songwriter”In a new NME cover feature, Rodrigo spoke of the inspiration behind the new song, saying: “We wanted to take an early 2
  
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• Life After Joel Pimentel: Everything We Know About CNCO’s New Era

  14-05-2021 23:39
  
  CNCO is giving their last-ever concert as a fivesome on Friday night (May 14), marking the last time Joel Pimentel performs with the group.
  The news was announced earlier this week, on Sunday, when the Latin group announced that “after five and a half unforgettable and life-changing years together,” Pimentel decided to exit CNCO to grow and explore new artistic avenues.
  The news hit the CNCOwners fandom hard, with the majority of fans saying they support Pimentel on his new venture b
  
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• 20 Questions With Thalia: Mexican Singer Talks ‘desAMORfosis,’ DM’ing New Artists for Collabs & More

  14-05-2021 23:32
  
  If Thalia could describe her new album in one word it would be, “íntimo (intimate),” she tells Billboard over a Zoom interview. “It’s a personal journey where I explore and expose my most inner-being like I’ve never done with any other album.”
  Home to 14 eclectic tracks, including her latest single “Mojito,” desAMORfosis documents the Mexican pop icon’s transformation and ultimate liberation from whatever obstacles that held her b
  
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• Sigrid teases new music by sending fans on a treasure hunt

  14-05-2021 23:26 via nme.com
  
  Sigrid appears to be teasing new music in the form of a scavenger hunt for fans.
  The singer has launched a new project called ‘Walk With Sigrid’, which encourages fans to get out of the house and discover clues concerning what seems to be new music.READ MORE: Sigrid – ‘Sucker Punch’ reviewAnnouncing the scheme earlier today, Sigrid shared a photo of herself out walking on Instagram, and wrote: “So I’m not a big fan of working out, and I only do it when i
  
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• 20 Questions With P1Harmony: K-Pop Rookies on the High Energy of ‘Disharmony: Break Out’ Mini-Album

  14-05-2021 23:25
  
  P1Harmony explore a wide range of topics and genres on their high-intensity mini-album Disharmony: Break Out, which was released April 20 as the follow-up to their first EP, Disharmony: Stand Out.
  Named one of the rookie K-pop groups to watch in 2021 by Time, members Keeho, Theo, Jiung, Intak, Soul and Jongseob had a unique experience stepping into the spotlight for the first time: The septet debuted in the Korean film P1H: The Beginning of a New World&nbs
  
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• Despite Early 2021 Cancellations, More Full-Capacity Live Music Is Forthcoming

  14-05-2021 23:16 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Despite some adults’ reluctance to resume enjoying crowd-based entertainment before fall – and an array of early 2021 event cancellations – evidence suggests that many fans will have the chance to attend full-capacity music gigs this summer. Though live-entertainment professionals including Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino have long expressed the hope that non-socially distanced music […]
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• Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic & More Rally to Support Former Nirvana Publicist’s GoFundMe

  14-05-2021 23:02
  
  A GoFundMe for Seattle music fixture Susie Tennant is rallying some of the key players from the ’90s grunge explosion to help the former Geffen Records publicist and her family as they face a litany of health issues and costs. Nirvana’s Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, Sub Pop Records, Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Poneman, Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, music manager Susan Silver and many more have contributed to a GoFundMe account for her organized by former Sub Pop r
  
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• Miley Cyrus Announces ‘Stand by You’ Pride Special as Part of NBCUniversal Overall Deal

  14-05-2021 22:52
  
  Miley Cyrus has signed a wide-ranging overall deal with NBCUniversal.
  The singer-songwriter, actress and performer will develop and appear in projects across the NBCU Television and Streaming portfolio. The deal includes a development component and a commitment to three specials starring Cyrus. The first of the three, Stand By You, will be a one-hour Pride concert special that will stream on Peacock.
  “Miley is the true definition of a multi-hyphenate superstar and her Pride special, Stand
  
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• First Spin: The Week’s Best New Dance Tracks From Skrillex & Four Tet, Cookiee Kawaii, Ghastly & More

  14-05-2021 22:50
  
  Perhaps no one would have predicted that Future’s “Mask Off” would have captured the collective aspirations of the early 2020s. And yet, here we are, 14 months into the pandemic and now getting word from the CDC that it’s okay for fully vaccinated people to take that mask off in most indoor spaces. (Outdoor spaces have been deemed safe to go maskless, too.)
  Does this mean clubbing is coming back soon? We don’t know. Does it put us one step closer to stepping back on
  
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• First Spin: The Week’s Best New Dance Tracks From Skrillex & Four Tet, Cookie Kawaii, Ghastly & More

  14-05-2021 22:50
  
  Perhaps no one would have predicted that Future’s “Mask Off” would have captured the collective aspirations of the early 2020s. And yet, here we are, 14 months into the pandemic and now getting word from the CDC that it’s okay for fully vaccinated people to take that mask off in most indoor spaces. (Outdoor spaces have been deemed safe to go maskless, too.)
  Does this mean clubbing is coming back soon? We don’t know. Does it put us one step closer to stepping back on
  
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• Willie Jones on His New Single and Country Music’s Future

  14-05-2021 22:44
  
  Willie Jones is nearly a decade past being a teenage X Factor contestant in 2012, performing such tunes as Josh Turner’s “Your Man” Now, the 26-year old African-American Shreveport, Louisiana native — who combines free styling and a hip-hip inflection with traditional country elements (with his baritone even drawing comparisons to Randy Travis) — is leading the conversation as he moves country music toward the future.
  “Country music has predominantly been
  
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• Shannon and the Clams announce new album ‘Year Of The Spider’

  14-05-2021 22:42 via nme.com
  
  Shannon and the Clams have announced details of a new album – get all the info on ‘Year Of The Spider’ below.
  The Oakland, California band’s sixth album will come out via Easy Eye Sound, the label of The Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, who also plays on the album.
  The record, due out on August 20, follows 2018 record ‘Onion’ and is being previewed by first song ‘Midnight Wine’.
  Discussing the new single in a statement, guitarist/vocalist Cody Bla
  
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• Erasure announce remix album and share brand new song ‘Secrets’

  14-05-2021 22:13 via nme.com
  
  Erasure have announced they’re releasing ‘The Neon Remixed’, a companion album to their 2020 LP, ‘The Neon’.READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Andy Bell, ErasureThe new LP, which is set to arrive on CD and limited-edition double coloured vinyl starting July 30 via Mute Records, is mostly compiled of re-workings from producers like Octo Octa, OMD’s Paul Humphreys, and Gareth Jones.
  However, to accompany the announcement, th
  
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• J. Cole, Nicki Minaj, Olivia Rodrigo & More: What’s Your Favorite New Music Release? Vote!

  14-05-2021 22:09
  
  This week’s new music drops turned back the clock to 2009 when J. Cole and Nicki Minaj, who also released a song with her Young Money brothers Drake and Lil Wayne, released music on the same night. But which one do you have on repeat?
  Minaj brought her 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty to streaming services for the first time, and it beamed the Barbs back a decade to fan favorites like “Itty Bitty Piggy” while they were also “Seeing Green” on the Young M
  
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• On This Day In Billboard Dance History: Daft Punk Brought ‘Da Funk’ To Da Club – And Da Charts

  14-05-2021 21:47
  
  It was May of 1997, and technology was asserting itself.
  In New York, an IBM supercomputer named Deep Blue delivered a gut punch to the power of human intellect by beating chess legend Gary Kasparov in a series of six matches. In theaters, a just-released film called The Fifth Element took audiences to the 23rd century. And in nightclubs, a French duo (who in two years would actually “become” robots) was ushering in a style of electronic music that paid homage to the analog
  
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• How to Watch the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards Online

  14-05-2021 21:45
  
  The 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards are coming up this weekend, but this year, they’ll be split into two shows.
  Winners in scripted categories will be announced at the two-hour main show, hosted by Leslie Jones and emceed by Snoop Dogg. The event will air live from the Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday (May 16) at 9 p.m. ET on MTV.
  While there isn’t a way to stream the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards online free, it will be available to watch live on Paramount+, plus a number of&
  
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• BTS star Jin struggling with looming military service break from the band

  14-05-2021 21:31 via music-news.com
  
  Jin, 28, has been allowed to delay his compulsory stint in the South Korean army until he turns 30.
  
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• Alice Cooper is selling his rare Andy Warhol painting

  14-05-2021 21:22 via nme.com
  
  Alice Cooper is set to sell his rare Andy Warhol painting at auction later this year.READ MORE: Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Alice CooperThe painting will sell at the 2021 Fall Larsen Art Auction at the Larsen Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona in October.
  Cooper has discussed how he re-discovered the painting, which is expected to fetch between $2-4million at the auction, saying: “This silkscreen was given to me during some crazy years and I had completely f
  
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• Kvelertak share new video game and EP featuring 8-bit versions of songs from ‘Splid’ LP

  14-05-2021 21:20 via nme.com
  
  Norwegian metallers Kvelertak have unveiled a new video game and EP featuring 8-bit versions of songs from their 2020 album ‘Splid’ – listen to it below.READ MORE: The best videogame soundtracks ever – and when to listen to themReleased yesterday (May 13), Game Of Doom is a retro-style game that sees fans take singer Ivar Nikolaisen on an epic quest to find the band’s other members.
  Players will also need to defeat the ghost of Tagholdt, who “ha
  
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• First Stream Latin: New Music From Justin Quiles, Elena Rose, Lupillo Rivera & More

  14-05-2021 20:55
  
  First Stream Latin is a compilation of the best new Latin songs, albums and videos recommended by the Billboard Latin editors. Check out this week’s picks below.
  J Quiles, Chimbala, Zion & Lennox, “Loco” (Warner Music Latina)Justin Quiles reeled in Dominican artist Chimbala and reggaeton duo Zion y Lennox for his new single, “Loco,” a track that was completely born in DR. Giving life to those Caribbean flares, “Loco” fuses Soca with Afrobeats, making
  
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• My Chemical Romance confirm details of more rescheduled tour dates

  14-05-2021 20:28 via nme.com
  
  My Chemical Romance have shared details of three more rescheduled tour dates – check out their new schedule below.READ MORE: Life after death – Why My Chemical Romance still have so much more to giveIt comes after the band announced last month that they were moving their planned 2021 tour dates back to next year, a move that made them “deeply sad”.
  “We just want to be as sure as we can be that everyone is safe,” the band said when rescheduling the dates,
  
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• Government won’t explore festival insurance until lockdown lifts, says culture secretary

  14-05-2021 20:24 via nme.com
  
  Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said that the government won’t be exploring insurance schemes for festivals until after lockdown restrictions lift in June.READ MORE: UK Festivals on testing, vaccine passports, line-ups and what to expect from the summer: “Safety is all we think about”At present, insurance companies are refusing to cover coronavirus-related cancellations, meaning that festivals face huge financial losses and risk bankruptcy if they have to cancel last-m
  
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• Every Feature on J. Cole’s ‘The Off-Season’ Broken Down

  14-05-2021 20:12
  
  After three years, a few singles and a documentary, J. Cole gifted fans with his highly anticipated album, The Off-Season.
  The album’s tracklist, revealed less than 24 hours before the album dropped, appeared to be devoid of features. Seconds into the opening track, it’s proven to be quite the contrary. For the first time since his 2013 album, Born Sinner, the Fayetteville, NC emcee recruits a roster of hip-hop favorites including Lil Baby, Cam’ron and 21 Savage, bringing
  
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• How to Watch ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’ Season 2

  14-05-2021 20:10
  
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  High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is back!
  The popular series starring Billboard cover star Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett, Sofia Wylie, Matt Cornett and more unveiled its second season on Disney+ on Friday (May 14). While the streaming platform no longer offers a free trial, HSM fans can sign up for the base plan here for $8
  
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• Recording Academy Officially Appoints Harvey Mason Jr. President and CEO

  14-05-2021 19:44 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Some 16 months after becoming the Recording Academy’s interim president and CEO in the wake of Deborah Dugan’s abrupt – and much-publicized – departure, Harvey Mason Jr. is set to assume the roles on a permanent basis. The Recording Academy just recently announced that its board of directors had appointed Harvey Mason Jr. president and […]
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• Kele Okereke shares powerful new solo track ‘From A Place Of Love’

  14-05-2021 19:41 via nme.com
  
  Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has shared a new song – listen to ‘From A Place Of Love’ below.READ MORE: Kele Okereke – ‘2042’ review: Bloc Party frontman wows with politically charged funk and experimental electroThe new track is the latest preview of the singer’s upcoming solo album ‘The Waves Pt. 1’, due out on May 28 via his own KOLA Records label and !K7.
  After sharing a cover of Bronski Beat’s 1984 song ‘Smalltown Boy
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo, BTS, Taylor Swift & More of the Week’s Biggest Winners (May 14)

  14-05-2021 19:37
  
  Olivia Rodrigo took us on a joy ride through her life following her breakout hit “Drivers License” for Billboard’s new cover, and it was smooth sailing. But nothing can be as smooth as “Butter,” BTS’ upcoming English-language single that the K-pop boy band will be performing for the first time at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards.
  Speaking of award shows, Little Mix and Taylor Swift brought girl power to the 2021 Brit Awards and imparted words of
  
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• Jon Bon Jovi, Don Henley Called Antitrust ‘Co-Conspirators’

  14-05-2021 19:30
  
  Are some of the most famous musicians on the globe actively participating in an antitrust conspiracy that could finish off the radio business? That might sound hyperbolic, but it’s exactly what attorneys at the prestigious law firm of Latham & Watkins told a California federal court on Thursday.
  The firm is representing the Radio Music License Committee, whose membership includes some 10,000 radio stations throughout the nation. These stations are fighting off licensing demands from Gl
  
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• Juice WRLD’s Mom Carmella Wallace Hopes to Normalize Mental Health Discussions in the Black Community

  14-05-2021 19:22
  
  Today (May 14), Juice WRLD’s Live Free 999 Fund announced a partnership with Crisis Text Line in order to help people have easy access to confidential crisis counseling.
  Accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, people can text LF999 to 741741 to receive free mental health support. According to Juice WRLD’s mom, Carmella Wallace, it was a priority to establish this alliance in light of Mental Health Awareness Month.
  “I want to encourage people to focus on their mental healt
  
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• Culture Secretary’s claims of visa-free touring in 17 EU countries branded “misleading”

  14-05-2021 19:19 via nme.com
  
  UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden’s new claims that artists will be able to tour visa-free in 17 of the 27 countries in the European Union post-Brexit have been branded as “misleading” by a prominent campaign group.
  After over 300 figures from the arts industry signed an open letter last month urging the government to act following a “lack of progress” regarding the post-Brexit touring crisis, Dowden today (May 14) shared new information on how things will work whe
  
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• String Cheese Incident, Oysterhead & More to Perform at Peach Music Festival

  14-05-2021 19:12
  
  Scranton, Penn., is getting one of the first four-day camping festivals to return since the pandemic began. From July 1 to 4, the Peach Music Festival will return to Montage Mountain with multiple sets from The String Cheese Incident, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and Dark Star Orchestra.
  The festival produced by Live Nation along with the Allman Brothers Band, will also see performances from Oysterhead, Umphrey’s McGee, moe., Twiddle, Blackberry Smoke, Doom
  
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• Nine Inch Nails & Korn Join Metallica for Louder Than Life Festival

  14-05-2021 19:08
  
  Louder Than Life’s lineup just got bigger than life. The Kentucky festival has announced Nine Inch Nails and Korn will join Metallica as headliners for its 2021 edition.
  Louder Than Life will return to Louisville at the KY Expo Center’s Highland Festival Grounds from Sept. 23 to 26. The headliners will be joined by Judas Priest, Snoop Dogg, Jane’s Addiction, Staind, Rise Against, Mudvayne, Cypress Hill, Machine Gun Kelly, Anthrax, Gojira, Ghostemane, Seether, Pen
  
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• PETA calls out The Offspring for animal cruelty in ‘We Never Have Sex Anymore’ video

  14-05-2021 19:06 via nme.com
  
  PETA has called out The Offspring for featuring a pair of chimpanzees in their ‘We Never Have Sex Anymore’ video.READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – The OffspringThe video, directed by Daron Keet and Matt Egan, sees two chimpanzees dressed up in various different outfits while acting out roles on sets that include a strip club.
  Today (May 14), PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has sent a letter to the band’s frontman, D
  
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• Will German Copyright Go Kaput? Plan to Curb Song Clip Rights Hits a Wall

  14-05-2021 19:02
  
  For more information on how the EU Copyright Directive could change the music business, check out the Billboard Pro Spotlight event “Creators and Copyright,” which includes several panels and keynote interviews with ABBA co-founder and CISAC president Björn Ulvaeus and U.S. Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter. billboard.com/spotlight
  LONDON — The music business may have spent the better part of a decade trying to solve one problem with online licensing, only to create
  
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• Nicki Minaj Opens Up About Her Father’s Death: ‘May His Soul Rest in Paradise’

  14-05-2021 19:00
  
  In an emotional letter to fans in which she wrote about the joy of spending time with her baby son and her obsessions with The Crown and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Nicki Minaj opened up about the devastating death of her father. Robert Maraj, 64, was hit by a car in February while crossing a street in Mineola, New York, in a hit-and-run accident. A short time later, a 70-year-old man was arrested in the incident and charged with leaving the scene of an accident and tampering with physical e
  
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• Rag’n’Bone Man’s Life By Misadventure charges in at Number 1

  14-05-2021 18:55 via music-news.com
  
  Rag’n’Bone Man’s new album Life By Misadventure charges straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart.
  
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• First Out: New Music From St. Vincent, Joy Oladokun, Shaed & More

  14-05-2021 18:54
  
  With Pride Month just around the corner, the time has come to refresh your playlists with some new tunes from your favorite queer artists. Billboard Pride is here to help with First Out, our weekly roundup of some of the best new music releases from LGBTQ artists.
  From St. Vincent’s highly anticipated album to Joy Oladokun’s new collaboration with Maren Morris, check out just a few of our favorite releases from this week below.St. Vincent, Daddy’s HomeAfter
  
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• Body by Tion Wayne & Russ Millions claims a second week at Number 1

  14-05-2021 18:54 via music-news.com
  
  The landmark drill Number 1 scores 81,000 chart sales in its biggest week yet, including 11.8 million streams - double the
  
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• Bop Shop: Songs From Katy Perry, Joywave, The Marías, Wonho, And More

  14-05-2021 18:48
  
  This week's Bop Shop features a return to empowerment pop from Katy Perry, a suburban summer cut from Joywave, Wonho's collaboration with Kiiara, a Skrillex smorgasbord, and more.
  
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• TikTok star Bella Poarch signs to Warner and shares debut single ‘Build A Bitch’

  14-05-2021 18:38 via nme.com
  
  TikTok star Bella Poarch has signed a record deal with Warner and shared a debut single.READ MORE: TikTok is nostalgic for the noughties school experience. Believe me, it wasn’t that greatThe artist, recognised as the number one Asian-American content creator on the planet, has emerged today with first track ‘Build A Bitch’.
  Discussing the song, which was created alongside producer and songwriter Sub Urban, Poarch said: “‘Build A Bitch’ is about accepting your
  
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• PETA Calls Out The Offspring’s ‘We Never Have Sex Anymore’ Video For ‘Egregious Exploitation’ of Chimps

  14-05-2021 18:37
  
  The Offspring’s video for their new single, “We Never Have Sex Anymore,” was criticized by PETA on Friday (May 14). In a letter addressed to singer Dexter Holland, the animal rights organization called the band out for what it said was the “egregious exploitation” of the chimpanzees in the clip.
  “The out-of-touch video for ‘We Never Have Sex Anymore’ risks resurrecting the chimpanzee trade in Hollywood,” PETA wrote of the visual in which
  
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• Vaccinated Sections at Concerts Are Happening, But They’ll Be Short-Lived

  14-05-2021 18:25
  
  When the Hollywood Bowl released its 2021 season schedule on Tuesday, fans eager to get back to live events this month and next were greeted with an option for vaccinated and unvaccinated sections. The Bowl’s safety information states that the outdoor venue is reserving 67% of its tickets for vaccinated attendees. The remainder of the Bowl, comprised of two sections, will be designated for attendees who are not vaccinated but can provide negativ
  
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• Festival Republic planning to host 10,000-capacity camping pilot event next month

  14-05-2021 18:05 via nme.com
  
  Festival Republic boss Melvin Benn has revealed that plans are in place to host a 10,000-capacity festival-style event next month to further test the safe return of live events in the UK this summer.
  Such an event would follow on from the two club shows and the Blossoms gig that took place in Liverpool earlier this month that were both part of the UK Government’s ongoing Events Research Programme.READ MORE: On the scene at the first big gig in the new world: Blossoms at Liverpool’s S
  
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• How Zoe Wees Turned Her Musical ‘Hobby Into a Full-Time Job’

  14-05-2021 17:54
  
  Zoe Wees admits she never excelled in school, but says her mom always had her back. “She was always like, ‘Zoe, you’re going to find your way, just do whatever you feel like.’ It’s not usual for a mom [to say that].” Enabling Wees to follow her passions paid off, though, as the rising singer-songwriter with a larger-than-life voice is now enjoying global success.Wees — who recently celebrated her 19th birthday — started 2021 by making her U.S.
  
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• David Bisbal Announces ‘En Tus Planes’ U.S. Tour: See the Dates

  14-05-2021 17:53
  
  After postponing his 2020 tour dates, David Bisbal is hitting the road for his 2021 “En Tus Planes” trek that is set to kick off Sept. 30 at The Fillmore in Miami.
  The coast-to-coast U.S. tour — which will follow Bisbal’s 11 shows in Spain over the summer — will make stops in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. The 16-date tour will wrap up Oct. 30 in San Jose, Calif.
  Bisbal’s “En Tus Planes” tour is named after his 2020 album t
  
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• J-Hope Reveals the ‘Precious’ Lesson He Learned During the Pandemic, How His Next Mixtape Is Coming

  14-05-2021 17:49
  
  In a breakout from the new BTS Rolling Stone cover story, 27-year-old rapper-dancer J-Hope talked about the lessons he learned during the pandemic, what it’s been like to grow up in the band and what we can expect from his second mixtape. The member with positivity baked into his name told the magazine that the yearlong COVID-19 lockdown taught him a precious lesson about existence.
  “It was an opportunity to learn how precious our ordinary lives were,” he said. “And I had
  
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• Lil Nas X Is Dropping a New Song Ahead of His ‘SNL’ Performance

  14-05-2021 17:39
  
  Lil Nas X is on a roll. The rapper, who recently shared with fans that he finally got his driver’s license at age 22, revealed that he’s dropping another single really soon.
  The song, titled “Sun Goes Down,” arrives May 21. The artist made the announcement on his social media accounts Thursday (May 13) with the title and date, along with a raindrop emoji and teaser image. The photo shows X among the clouds, dressed in a white suit and tie — his eyes a creepy light i
  
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• Visa-free touring will be possible in 17 EU countries post-Brexit, claims culture minister

  14-05-2021 17:33 via nme.com
  
  UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said that artists will be able to tour visa-free in 17 of the 27 countries in the European Union post-Brexit.
  PM Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade deal, which was passed last December, failed to secure visa-free travel for UK artists and their crew as well as Europe-wide work permits. That sparked fears that acts will face huge costs for future live tours of the continent, which could prevent rising and developing artists from being able to
  
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• How Lin-Manuel Miranda Adapted ‘In The Heights’ For Cinema — And a New Era

  14-05-2021 17:11
  
  In the Heights was born in the winter of 1999 in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s dorm room at Wesleyan University, inspired by what simply wasn’t there. “It was, in many ways, an attempt to write what I saw was missing, both in terms of representation and in terms of stories about [Latinos] in popular culture,” he says.
  Now, Miranda’s story has made its way to movie theaters as an adaptation of the Broadway show that ran from 2008-11 — one of the few Latin musicals to be
  
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• Halsey and Rihanna criticised for tweeting about Israel-Palestine conflict

  14-05-2021 17:11 via music-news.com
  
  Gal Gadot has also come under fire for her social media post.
  
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