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• The War On Drugs have reportedly been filming a new music video

  04-07-2021 23:53 via nme.com
  
  The War On Drugs have reportedly been filming a new music video, according to a new post on Reddit.
  The band, led by Adam Granduciel, are said to have been filming in a barn somewhere in the US.READ MORE: The War On Drugs – ‘A Deeper Understanding’ Review“Randomly stumbled upon this on Facebook!” Reddit user frontyer0077 posted on the Indieheads subreddit. “Looks like they’re filming a music video!”
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• Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Share a Romantic Kiss in Dreamy Vacation Photos

  04-07-2021 23:32
  
  Katy Perry and fiancé Orlando Bloom captured an unforgettable kiss in the latest snapshots the pop star posted on Instagram.
  “infinity & beyond,” Perry wrote on Sunday (July 4), alongside a pair of images of the couple posing in the middle of a dreamy landscape. The caption was surrounded by heart emojis.
  Six Senses Kaplankaya, a resort in Turkey, was tagged on Perry’s post. The upscale resort boasts “space, seclusion and serenity,” and Aegean Sea views.T
  
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• BLACKPINK’s Jennie and Rosé are working on new music in LA

  04-07-2021 23:19 via nme.com
  
  BLACKPINK members Jennie and Rosé are in Los Angeles working on new music, their agency YG Entertainment has confirmed.
  Rumours began to circulate about what the stars were doing in LA after paparazzi photos of them in the city appeared online.READ MORE: Watch OH MY GIRL sing hits by BLACKPINK, The Ting Tings and moreAfter the pictures were published by US gossip sites, YG responded, clarifying the purpose of the rapper and singer’s trip out of South Korea. “Rosé a
  
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• Fans Choose Big Red Machine’s ‘Renegade’ Featuring Taylor Swift as This Week’s Favorite New Music

  04-07-2021 22:31
  
  Big Red Machine’s new song “Renegade,” featuring Taylor Swift, has topped this week’s new music poll.
  Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (July 2) on Billboard, choosing the upbeat collaboration between the indie-folk duo of The National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the pop superstar as their favorite new music release of the past week.
  “Renegade,” which will be featured on Big Red Machine’s upcoming album, brought
  
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• Pop Smoke offers advice to fans in ‘Outro’ to second posthumous album

  04-07-2021 22:10 via nme.com
  
  The ‘Outro’ track for Pop Smoke’s second posthumous album has been released and features the late rapper sharing advice for fans.
  The star – whose real name was Bashar Barakah Jackson – was shot and killed during a home invasion in Los Angeles in February 2020. He was 20 years old.READ MORE: A year after his death, Pop Smoke’s influence lives on in drill scenes across the globeThe new posthumous record is set to be released on July 16 and has now been con
  
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• Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

  04-07-2021 21:45
  
  Tyler, the Creator scores his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest studio effort, Call Me If You Get Lost, debuts atop the tally. The set was announced on June 17, released on June 25 via Columbia Records and earned 169,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending July 1, according to MRC Data.
  In total, Call Me is the artist’s sixth top 10 (the entirety of his charting efforts). Tyler previously hit No. 1 with his last release, 2019’s Igor.
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• Courtney Love Tears Up While Performing Moving Cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Lucky’

  04-07-2021 20:52
  
  Courtney Love has delivered a moving acoustic cover of Britney Spears’ 2000 song “Lucky” as part of her ongoing covers series.
  The former Hole singer took to Instagram on Saturday (July 3) to share her take on the ballad, which appeared on Spears’ second album, Oops!… I Did it Again. The cover arrived shortly after The New Yorker published an in-depth article about Spears’ conservatorship, which features quotes from Love.
  “Someone asked me what son
  
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• Johnny Marr: 'It was a blind spot of The Smiths, being so occupied with the media and notoriety'

  04-07-2021 20:07 via music-news.com
  
  “You’re taking me back, I haven’t played these songs in 30-odd years…”, says Johnny Marr to Simon Armitage as The Smiths guitarist strums
  
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• Ed Sheeran heading for second week at Number 1 with 'Bad Habits'

  04-07-2021 19:55 via music-news.com
  
  The Official Chart: First Look, which airs on BBC Radio 1 today between 6pm – 7pm, offers a first glance of the Top 20 ahead of Friday’s Official
  
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• Ed Sheeran on performing for England football team: “I don’t think there’s many moments that will top that”

  04-07-2021 19:51 via nme.com
  
  Ed Sheeran has spoken about performing for the England football team last month, saying it will be a hard moment to beat.
  The star headed to the national team’s St George’s Park HQ to give them a private performance in June.READ MORE: NME Explains: How Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds wrote ‘Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home)’During an appearance on the BBC’s Crouchy’s Year-Late Euros, which was hosted by Peter Crouch, Sheeran said he ha
  
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• Jennifer Lopez Hits the Streets of Miami in Teaser for Rauw Alejandro Collab ‘Cambia El Paso’

  04-07-2021 19:18
  
  Jennifer Lopez and Rauw Alejandro are heating things up this summer with their new song “Cambia El Paso.” In the days leading up to the track’s official release on Monday (July 5), the 51-year-old singer and actress has been teasing the collaboration on social media.
  On Sunday, Lopez gave fans a sneak peak of the music video, which features images of the superstar singer strutting down the neon-lit streets of Miami in a flashy denim outfit. Another scene finds Alejandro posing
  
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• Raye quits social media after claiming label won’t let her release debut album

  04-07-2021 18:47 via nme.com
  
  Raye is taking a break from social media, days after revealing claims that her label won’t let her release her debut album.
  The singer has been signed on a four-album deal with Polydor since 2014 but has yet to release a full-length record.
  Writing on Twitter earlier today (July 4), Raye (whose real name is Rachel Keen) announced she would be stepping back from social media for the time being. “I am supposed to be in ‘Call On Me’ promo mode but I just don’t have the
  
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• Watch Courtney Love’s acoustic cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Lucky’

  04-07-2021 18:02 via nme.com
  
  Courtney Love has covered Britney Spears’ ‘Lucky’ in the latest part of her Instagram covers series – scroll down the page to watch it below.
  Love launched the series last month with a cover of Billy Bragg and Wilco’s ‘California Stars’, with The Big Moon’s Juliette Jackson playing guitar on the performance.READ MORE: Britney Spears’ court appearance was a display of her strength, and the power of #FreeBritneyNow, the Hole frontwoman has
  
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• See Courtney Love Cover Britney Spears’ ‘Lucky’

  04-07-2021 16:33 via rollingstone.com
  
  Singer also spoke to New Yorker as part of investigation into Spears' conservatorship
  
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• SZA jokes that she might scrap her new album and “start from scratch”

  04-07-2021 15:55 via nme.com
  
  SZA has half-joked that she’s considered scrapping her new album and “starting from scratch”.
  The singer hosted a new livestreamed event called IN BLOOM in collaboration with Grey Goose this week, and promised that she would debut new music during the event.
  “I feel like IN BLOOM really captures where I’m at right now, especially after a year and a half of lockdown, which is also why it feels like the best place to debut some of my new material,” she said in a
  
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• Watch Sebastian Stan show off drumming skills as Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee

  04-07-2021 15:16 via nme.com
  
  A new clip of Sebastian Stan testing out his drumming skills as Mötley Crüe‘s Tommy Lee has been shared by a fan on TikTok.
  Stan will be starring in Pam & Tommy, a new original limited series for Hulu, opposite Lily James, who will be playing Pamela Anderson. The pair will portray the couple during their relationship through to the leak of their notorious honeymoon sex tape.
  After fans got a first look at the series in May, more images of Stan in his role as Lee were sha
  
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• Lana Del Rey Delays ‘Blue Banisters,’ Teases New Song

  04-07-2021 15:09 via rollingstone.com
  
  "Album out later later… Single out soonish," singer writes a day before new LP's planned July 4th release
  
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• Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox share cover of System Of A Down’s ‘Chop Suey’

  04-07-2021 14:34 via nme.com
  
  Toyah Willcox and her husband, King Crimson founder Robert Fripp, have shared a cover of System Of A Down‘s ‘Chop Suey’ – watch it below.READ MORE: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp’s 10 best lockdown covers – ranked!The pair launched their Sunday Lunch video series last year, sharing renditions of songs by Nirvana, David Bowie, Metallica, Billy Idol, The Rolling Stones, Judas Priest, The Prodigy, G
  
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• “Football’s coming home again”: watch Atomic Kitten sing reworked hit for England fans

  04-07-2021 13:36 via nme.com
  
  Natasha Hamilton has shared footage of herself and fellow Atomic Kitten member Liz McClarnon singing their 2001 single ‘Whole Again’, borrowing the football-themed lyrics appropriated by England fans in praise of manager Gareth Southgate.
  The hit started being sung by travelling supporters during the 2018 World Cup in Russia, as the England national team progressed to the tournament’s semi-finals.READ MORE: Why ‘Three Lions’ is still the ultimate football anthemThe
  
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• Fans pay tribute to The Doors’ Jim Morrison on 50th anniversary of his death

  04-07-2021 13:26 via nme.com
  
  Yesterday (July 3) marked the 50th anniversary of the death of The Doors‘ Jim Morrison, and fans have been paying tribute to the late star, both in person and online.
  Morrison died in July 1971 aged 27. He was found in the bathtub of a Paris apartment. At the time, Morrison and The Doors were mid-way through the recording process of their seventh album ‘Other Voices’.READ MORE: The Doors’ Jim Morrison: 10 profound, bizarre and brilliant quotesTo mark the occasion, many fa
  
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• Julien Baker joins The Ophelias on new single ‘Neil Young On High’

  04-07-2021 12:57 via nme.com
  
  Julien Baker has joined Ohio-based rock band The Ophelias on a new song – watch the video for ‘Neil Young On High’ below.
  The track is the first preview of the band’s new album ‘Crocus’, set for release on September 24 via Joyful Noise.READ MORE: Julien Baker on ‘Little Oblivions’: “I had to unlearn the idea of recovery being linear”Explaining the origins of the collaboration, The Ophelias’ singer and guitarist Spencer Peppet said
  
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• Shame joke that they’ll “drop album 3” if England win Euro 2020

  04-07-2021 11:15 via nme.com
  
  Shame have playfully suggested that they’ll release their next album this month – but only if England go all the way at this year’s European Championships.READ MORE: Shame live in Brighton: commanding chaos, and a huge dollop of hopeFollowing England’s impressive 4-0 win over Ukraine in the tournament’s quarter finals last night (July 3), the band referenced the success on social media with a joke about their follow-up to this year’s critically celebrated &lsq
  
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• James Bay's new album improved by COVID pandemic

  04-07-2021 11:04 via music-news.com
  
  'Hold Back The River' rocker James Bay says the tracklisting for his upcoming third studio LP has changed because he wrote so many new songs during the COVID-19 lockdown.
  
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• H.E.R. says working with Barack Obama was 'life-changing'

  04-07-2021 11:04 via music-news.com
  
  H.E.R. admits to relishing her experience of working with Barack and Michelle Obama.
  
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• Britney Spears called 911 on eve of testimony to report conservatorship abuse

  04-07-2021 09:56 via nme.com
  
  Britney Spears phoned the police to report conservatorship abuse on the eve of her recent testimony in court, it’s been revealed.READ MORE: Britney Spears’ court appearance was a display of her strength, and the power of #FreeBritneySpears has been in a conservatorship since 2008. Last month (June 23) she gave landmark testimony in which she said she wanted the “abusive” arrangement to end without further evaluation.
  In a new investigation by The New Yorker, Ronan Fa
  
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• Jennifer Lopez teases new song about moving on

  04-07-2021 09:31 via music-news.com
  
  J.Lo has teased the inspiration behind her upcoming track with Puerto Rican artist Rauw Alejandro.
  
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• Cardi B promises her fans another album

  04-07-2021 09:04 via music-news.com
  
  Rap star Cardi B has insisted she has no plans to leave the music scene.
  
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• Belinda Carlisle can't listen to her own music

  04-07-2021 09:04 via music-news.com
  
  Belinda Carlisle has admitted she never listens to her own music and some of her later solo LPs bring back bad memories of her addiction struggles.
  
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• Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape gets Tabloid podcast treatment

  04-07-2021 07:06 via music-news.com
  
  A new podcast is to look into one of the great celebrity sex scandals.
  
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• Mick Jagger's ghostwriter quit after 'awful' two weeks with Rolling Stones star

  04-07-2021 07:06 via music-news.com
  
  The story of the Rolling Stones is still yet to be told.
  
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• Lana Del Rey shares cover art for ‘Blue Banisters’, teases new song

  04-07-2021 07:06 via nme.com
  
  Lana Del Rey has shared new cover art for her forthcoming album, ‘Blue Banisters’, along with a teaser for a new song.
  On social media, the singer posted the cover art which features her sitting in a yellow gown alongside her German Shepherds, Tex and Mex.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Lana Del Rey (@lanadelrey)In a separate post, the singer shared an excerpt of an unreleased song. The clip shows Del Rey singing along to a slow, piano-led track.
  Watch it below:View this
  
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• John Legend pairs with Insecure stars to support formerly jailed writers

  04-07-2021 07:06 via music-news.com
  
  John Legend is moving into film, TV, and podcast production.
  
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• Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith to duet for New York City reopening gig - report

  04-07-2021 07:06 via music-news.com
  
  Live music is coming back to New York.
  
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• Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith to duet for New York City reopening gig

  04-07-2021 07:06 via music-news.com
  
  Live music is coming back to New York.
  
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• Watch Ed Sheeran’s vampire transformation in the behind-the-scenes video for ‘Bad Habits’

  04-07-2021 06:40 via nme.com
  
  Ed Sheeran has revealed his transformational process into a slippery vampire in a new behind-the-scenes video for his latest single, ‘Bad Habits’.READ MORE: Ed Sheeran’s new song ‘Bad Habits’ is an on-trend bop from one of the savviest men in popTaking to Twitter to share the visual, the singer wrote “this was a lot of fun to shoot, apart from the jumping off a building bit x”.Behind the scenes from the Bad Habits music video up on my youtube channel, th
  
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• Lana Del Rey Previews New Single, Says ‘Blue Banisters’ Album Will Be ‘Out Later Later’

  04-07-2021 04:16
  
  Lana Del Rey’s new album Blue Banisters, which she originally said would be available on July 4, now has a release date that is “TBD.”
  “Album out later later,” she wrote in a Saturday night (July 3) update to fans on social media, where she shared the Blue Banisters album art and a music video teaser for a new, as-yet-untitled single in the meantime. Del Rey says the song, in which she can be heard singing “My body is a map of L.A.,” will be “out s
  
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• Camila Cabello, Shawn Mendes Celebrate Two Years of Dating With Anniversary Photos

  04-07-2021 02:55
  Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes appear to be spending their anniversary on a romantic getaway.
  The couple, who celebrated two years together on Saturday (July 3), shared sweet messages and snapshots from the Carribean on Instagram.
  “Happy 2 years my baby,” Mendes wrote to girlfriend Cabello, along with a heart emoji.
  “happy anniversary Kuko,” Cabello said on her own post dedicated to her boyfriend. “here’s to more joy, more friendship, and more love.”Cab
  
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• Selena Gomez Models New La’Mariette Swimsuit Collection

  04-07-2021 00:41
  
  Selena Gomez’s swimwear collaboration with La’Mariette launched on Saturday (July 3), and she shared photos of herself wearing a bikini and a one-piece from the new collection’s campaign on social media.
  “So grateful that I get the opportunity to celebrate my friends’ endeavors. My collaboration with @lamariette is out today!” Gomez announced in an Instagram post.
  “What I love about this brand is that it celebrates women who love their bodies uncondition
  
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• Liam Gallagher leads entertainment world reactions to England’s Euros victory over Ukraine

  04-07-2021 00:20 via nme.com
  
  Liam Gallagher is one of many figures from the entertainment world celebrating the England football team’s latest Euro 2020 victory.READ MORE: Why ‘Three Lions’ is still the ultimate football anthemThe former Oasis frontman took to Twitter after the game to tweet the famous ‘It’s coming home’ refrain from ‘Three Lions’, the 1996 track by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, and the Lightning Seeds, which has become one of the country’s most enduring
  
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