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• Watch Ben Gibbard’s touching tribute to The Monkees’ Mike Nesmith

  11-12-2021 23:17 via nme.com
  
  Ben Gibbard has paid tribute to The Monkees’ Mike Nesmith with a series of covers of tracks penned by the late musician.
  Nesmith’s family announced his death yesterday (December 10), saying in a statement he had “passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes”. He was 78 years old.
  In a video posted to his Instagram account, the Death Cab For Cutie frontman explained he had become “really good friends” with the mus
  
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• Watch Megan Thee Stallion Receive Her Degree at College Graduation Ceremony

  11-12-2021 23:02 via rollingstone.com
  
  "Megan Thee Graduate" earns bachelor's degree in health administration from Texas Southern University
  
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• Grammys boss says The Weeknd boycott “doesn’t affect us or offend us”

  11-12-2021 21:47 via nme.com
  
  The head of the Recording Academy has spoken about The Weeknd’s boycott of the Grammys, saying the star’s move “doesn’t affect us or offend us”.
  The Weeknd vowed not to submit his music for consideration for the Grammys in the future after his album ‘After Hours’ failed to be nominated for a single award at the 2021 ceremony.READ MORE: Why the Grammys are right to not add a Best K-pop category – and why it should stay that wayIn a new intervie
  
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• Watch Ben Gibbard Pay Tribute to Michael Nesmith With ‘Different Drum’ Cover

  11-12-2021 21:17 via rollingstone.com
  
  Death Cab for Cutie frontman remembers his friend and Monkees legend with acoustic takes on "The Crippled Lion" and "Joanne"
  
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• BTS, IU, aespa and ENHYPEN lead winners at 2021 MAMA

  11-12-2021 19:55 via nme.com
  
  BTS won nine awards at the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards today (December 11), including Artist Of The Year.
  The annual awards show was held at CJ ENM Content World in Paju, South Korea, with the theme for this year’s ceremony being “Make Some Noise”.READ MORE: BTS live in LA: a euphoric return to live performance for the K-pop juggernautsBTS collected the trophies for Album Of The Year for ‘BE’, Worldwide Icon Of The Year, Artist Of The Year, Favourite Moment, B
  
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• Proceeds from Kanye West’s Larry Hoover benefit merch reportedly won’t go to charity

  11-12-2021 18:51 via nme.com
  
  No proceeds from merchandise produced for Kanye West and Drake’s Larry Hoover benefit concert will be given to charity, a representative has confirmed.
  The two rappers put their beef to bed and performed together at a special benefit show in Los Angeles on Thursday (December 9).READ MORE: Kanye West and Drake live in Los Angeles: titans unite for a near-religious experienceWhile proceeds from ticket sales will reportedly be donated to a selection of criminal justice reform groups, the
  
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• Fans Endure 4-Hour Delay to Catch Bad Bunny’s Landmark ‘P FKN R’ Event

  11-12-2021 18:34 via rollingstone.com
  
  Despite four-hour delay, the first night of reggaeton superstar's two-day San Juan festival was a testament to his talents and his fans' dedication
  
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• Bad Bunny’s ‘P FKN R’ Concert Makes Puerto Rican History, but Not Without Issues

  11-12-2021 18:34 via rollingstone.com
  
  Despite four-hour delay, the first night of reggaeton superstar's two-day San Juan festival was a testament to his talents and his fans' dedication
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo explains why ‘SOUR’ tour isn’t in bigger venues

  11-12-2021 18:04 via nme.com
  
  Olivia Rodrigo has explained why she isn’t playing bigger venues on her ‘SOUR’ world tour next year after tickets swiftly sold out.
  The breakout pop star of 2021 announced a raft of tour dates for 2022 last week, including two shows at London’s 5,000-capacity Eventim Apollo.READ MORE: Olivia Rodrigo: “It’s important for me to be taken seriously as a songwriter”Some fans reported being in queues of 90,000 people for the tickets to Rodrigo’s dat
  
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• Ed Sheeran: 'I’m a massive fan of No Diggity by Blackstreet'

  11-12-2021 17:30 via music-news.com
  
  Big Narstie is joined by long-time friend and global superstar Ed Sheeran for an extra special episode of his music show for
  
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• Watch Rick Ross, Jazmine Sullivan Bring ‘Outlawz’ to ‘Fallon’

  11-12-2021 16:33 via rollingstone.com
  
  Rapper's new album Richer Than I Ever Been arrived Friday
  
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• Beach House: 'My love drips in red, out of my mind at the edge of the sky'

  11-12-2021 16:27 via music-news.com
  
  Beach House joined Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1 to discuss the release of the second of four chapters from their forthcoming album
  
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• Jxdn releases deluxe edition of Travis Barker-produced debut album

  11-12-2021 15:47 via nme.com
  Jxdn has surprise-released the deluxe edition of his Travis Barker-produced debut album, ‘Tell Me About Tomorrow’.READ MORE: Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with JxdnThe original 18-track record was released in July on Barker’s DTA Records. This expanded edition features four new tracks: ‘Crack My Skull’, ‘Lips’, ‘Dead Or Alive’ and the seasonal ‘Christmas Sucks’. Check it out here.
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• Burna Boy announces ‘One Night In Space’ at Madison Square Garden

  11-12-2021 15:46 via nme.com
  
  Burna Boy will become the first Nigerian artist to headline New York’s prestigious Madison Square Garden next year, with the rapper announcing an historic one-off show dubbed ‘One Night In Space’.READ MORE: Burna Boy: “A revolution is needed. I want to inspire it”The show is set to take place at the iconic stadium – which has a seating capacity of 20,789 – on Thursday April 28, 2022. Tickets go on sale at 12pm EST next Friday (December 17), with an artis
  
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• Anheuser-Busch Discontinues Travis Scott’s Cacti Hard Seltzer Line

  11-12-2021 15:02 via rollingstone.com
  
  "We believe brand fans will understand and respect this decision," the beverage maker says of ending partnership with rapper after less than a year
  
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• Tony Iommi on Black Sabbath reunion shows: “You can never say never, can you?“

  11-12-2021 14:54 via nme.com
  Tony Iommi has opened up about the possibility of more Black Sabbath shows following their farewell tour, saying “You can never say never, can you?”READ MORE: 10 WTF things you didn’t know about Black SabbathBlack Sabbath finished off their 81-date farewell tour ‘The End’ in 2017 with a homecoming show at Birmingham’s Genting Arena. In a new interview with Planet Rock, though, Iommi says a reunion isn’t impossible.
  “You can never say never, ca
  
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• Jean Dawson links up with Mac DeMarco for gritty new single ‘MENTHOL*’

  11-12-2021 14:52 via nme.com
  
  LA-based genre-bender Jean Dawson has shared a new striking new track titled ‘MENTHOL*’, for which he teamed up with modern-day indie icon Mac DeMarco.READ MORE: Jean Dawson: Britpop-inspired creative maverick making sense of boundless inspirationThe track opens with a grungy, fuzzed-out chord progression evocative of ‘Bleach’-era Nirvana, before a digitised drum beat and layer-stacked vocal melody whips listeners down an entirely different path. Dawson hits the (expletiv
  
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• Squid announce North American tour dates for 2022

  11-12-2021 13:02 via nme.com
  
  Squid have announced a 10-date run of North American tour dates, marking their second slate of shows on US soil since the release of their recent debut album, ‘Bright Green Field’.READ MORE: Squid live in London: looking to the weird and wonderful futureThe stint will kick off on Tuesday March 8 at Seattle venue The Crocodile, before the band make their Canadian debut the following night. That gig will go down at the Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver, with further Canadian dates pinned f
  
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• Lil Yachty, Rosalía, Ezra Koenig to star in HBO’s ‘Chillin Island’

  11-12-2021 13:02 via nme.com
  Lil Yachty, Rosalía, Vampire Weekend‘s Ezra Koenig and more are set to star in the forthcoming HBO series Chillin Island.
  The unscripted TV show will be hosted by a trio of rappers – Definitive Jux member Alec ‘Despot’ Reinstein, former Das Racist hypeman Ashok ‘Dap’ Kondabolu, and Aleksey ‘Lakutis’ Weintraub – as they take a range of musicians into the wilderness.
  The series is based on the radio series of the same
  
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• Camila Cabello's songwriting heroes

  11-12-2021 12:49 via music-news.com
  
  Camila Cabello approached Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran early in her career for advice and praised them both for being open to mentoring her.
  
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• Metallica’s 40th anniversary concerts will stream live on Amazon

  11-12-2021 12:15 via nme.com
  
  Metallica fans outside San Francisco will be able to watch the metal titans’ 40th anniversary shows next week, as both will stream live via Amazon.READ MORE: Metallica and friends: “‘The Black Album’ was a victory for the underdog”Both gigs are set to go down at the Chase Center next week – the first on Friday December 17, then the second on Sunday 19 – with limited tickets still available via Ticketmaster. For those unable to attend in the flesh, howeve
  
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• Machine Gun Kelly says he hasn’t “given myself the time to accept that it’s OK to not be OK”

  11-12-2021 12:00 via nme.com
  
  Machine Gun Kelly has opened up about his mental health, saying: “I haven’t given myself the time to just accept that it’s OK to not be OK.”READ MORE: Machine Gun Kelly: “I’ve been jumping up and down on the table, believing in myself, for-fucking-ever”Speaking on The Drew Barrymore Show, Machine Gun Kelly (real name Colson Baker) started the interview by saying: “I don’t want to come off like I’m cold or shy but I’m just a little
  
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• Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes teams up with experimental electronic group IC3PEAK

  11-12-2021 11:26 via nme.com
  
  Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes has continued his streak of experimental collaborations, teaming up with electronic group IC3PEAK for their new track ‘VAMPIR’.READ MORE: Bring Me The Horizon live in London: a spectacular cyber-punk circus‘VAMPIR’ is the first track the Russian audio-visual project have released this year, and it follows on from their fifth album, 2020’s ‘До Свидания&
  
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• Listen to American Football’s seven-minute cover of Mazzy Star’s ‘Fade Into You’

  11-12-2021 11:01 via nme.com
  
  American Football have joined the likes of Miley Cyrus, Inhaler, Perfume Genius and Kelly Clarkson as the latest act to cover Mazzy Star’s 1993 classic ‘Fade Into You’.READ MORE: Why Mazzy Star’s return is cause for celebrationThe song initially appeared on Mazzy Star’s second album, ‘So Tonight That I Might See’, and was issued as a single in April of 1994. American Football’s cover hones in on the track’s dreaminess, twining gentle, honeyed
  
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• COVID-19’s genetic code has been turned into song, available to buy as NFTs

  11-12-2021 10:36 via nme.com
  
  The genetic code of the Coronavirus has been turned into a variety of songs that are now available to own as NFTs.READ MORE: The 50 best songs of 2021According to Viromusic, who are behind the project, the ambient tracks “are made using the genetic sequence inside the Coronavirus. Using a technique called DNA Sonification, the melody in the songs is derived entirely from the viral sequence. Every note in the melody is part of the step-by-step instructions the virus uses to make more copies
  
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• Team Me announce third album, drop bewitching new single ‘Just Another Sleepless Night In The Dark’

  11-12-2021 10:09 via nme.com
  
  Norwegian indie-pop outfit Team Me have locked in a release date for their first album in seven years, ‘Something In The Making’, celebrating the occasion with a slinky new single titled ‘Just Another Sleepless Night In The Dark’.READ MORE: Spielbergs are the Wombats-approved post-hardcore troupe who want to fight everyday boredomIt’s a cruisy synthpop tune that leans heavily on the ‘synth’ element – in fact, the song stands out in Team Me&rsq
  
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• Halsey always wants to reinvent her genre

  11-12-2021 09:31 via music-news.com
  
  Halsey finds it "super liberating" to take risks with her music.
  
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• Big Sean inspired by Juice WRLD

  11-12-2021 09:19 via music-news.com
  
  Big Sean says Juice WRLD was a "tremendous, extraordinary, talented, honest artist" whose music will live forever.
  
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• Questlove reveals official ‘Summer of Soul’ soundtrack will be released next year

  11-12-2021 04:46 via nme.com
  
  Questlove, drummer for The Roots, has revealed that an official soundtrack for his recent documentary Summer of Soul is set to be released early next year.
  Questlove shared the news on Thursday (December 9), saying that the album will arrive on January 28 via Legacy – exactly one year since the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival.READ MORE: ‘Summer Of Soul’ review: forgotten festival of Black brilliance finally gets its duesIt will comprise 17 songs that were recorded live
  
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• Earl Sweatshirt shares new track ‘Tabula Rasa’ from forthcoming project, ‘Sick!’

  11-12-2021 03:08 via nme.com
  
  Earl Sweatshirt has revealed he has a new project on the way titled ‘Sick!’, marking the announcement with a track from the forthcoming LP.
  The new cut, ‘Tabula Rasa’, features hip-hop duo Armand Hammer, and was produced by Theravada and Rob Chambers. It’s reminiscent of a ’90s rap cut, with a repetitious piano line, slinky percussion and samples of muffled speech that sound like they’ve been lifted from an old-time movie.
  An accompanying music video dir
  
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• Trailblazing Rapper Lily Jay Shares Her Secrets to Overcoming Challenges

  11-12-2021 02:57 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” – Lou Holtz The following comes from Ascend Agency, which has partnered with Digital Music News to bring you this profile on Lily Jay. Though most people strive to achieve success in whatever they do, only a few […]
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• Latest Music Industry Gigs: UMPG, Warner Chappell, Symphonic, UTA, More

  11-12-2021 02:02 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Here’s a recap of recent executive shuffles — including both hirings and in-house promotions — from across the music industry. If you have a job shuffle to share, we’re all ears. Send us a note to [email protected]. If you’d like to post a job on our Job Board, just send us a request to [email protected]. And, keep track of […]
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• A Loose Salute to Michael Nesmith, the Coolest Monkee of Them All

  11-12-2021 00:04 via rollingstone.com
  
  He was a musical visionary who fought for the group to write its own songs, and helped to invent country-rock on a series of cult-classic solo LPs
  
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• Charli XCX shares new Perfume Genius remix of ‘Good Ones’

  11-12-2021 00:03 via nme.com
  
  Charli XCX has shared a new remix by Perfume Genius of her single ‘Good Ones’.READ MORE: Charli XCX live in London: isolation anthems finally get their special airingThe new version sees Charli’s vocals slowed down to the point where they’re almost unrecognisable and is much darker than the original take of the electro single. You can hear the remix below.
  The single was originally released in September and marked the London singer-songwriter’s first material s
  
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