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• Ibeyi share new single ‘Single 2 Sister’ and unveil details of new album

  14-02-2022 23:45 via nme.com
  
  Ibeyi have shared a new single – listen to ‘Sister 2 Sister’ below.READ MORE: Pa Salieu: “I’ve been cut from the system, but I will rise up like a phoenix”It comes as the Afro-French Cuban musical duo – comprising twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz – also unveiled details of a new album ‘Spell 31’, which arrives on May 6 via XL. You can pre-order the album here.
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• Shamir Rejects Expectations and Embraces Messiness on ‘Heterosexuality’

  14-02-2022 22:53 via rollingstone.com
  
  The polymath indie artist delivers an album about breaking free from traumas and constricting binaries
  
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• Spotify, Amazon Consider Making Rival Bids for Audioboom, Report Says

  14-02-2022 22:20 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Both Spotify and Amazon are reportedly considering placing bids on podcast distribution, production, and monetization platform Audioboom (LON: BOOM), which has a market cap of over $375 million (£277.59 million). New York City-headquartered Audioboom formed back in 2009, and the London-listed company’s stock price has increased by five times since mid-February of 2021. Moreover, the […]
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• Silk Sonic Rides ‘Love’s Train’ to the Eighties for Valentine’s Day Cover

  14-02-2022 22:10 via rollingstone.com
  
  The song was originally performed by Con Funk Shun in 1982
  
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• Kanye West announces ‘DONDA 2’ performance in Miami on release day

  14-02-2022 22:00 via nme.com
  
  Kanye West has announced details of a new performance  in Miami for his forthcoming new album ‘DONDA 2’ on the album’s prospective release date.READ MORE: Divorce, Drake disses and problematic features: 10 talking points from Kanye West’s ‘DONDA’Earlier this week (February 9), it was reported that West, who is now legally known as Ye, had held a private listening party for the ‘DONDA’ sequel in Los Angeles. The likes of Drake,&n
  
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• Listen to Giant Party’s emotive new single ‘Loving Arms’

  14-02-2022 21:57 via nme.com
  
  Giant Party have shared a new single – listen to ‘Loving Arms’ below.
  The track, released last week (February 11), is a further taste of the band’s upcoming new album that’s set for release this summer.
  The album is described in a statement as “an emotionally-charged reaction to a wave of tragedies experienced by brothers Al (vocals/guitars) and Tim Harrod (keyboards/vocals)”.
  It continues: “The death of three family members, in particular their es
  
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• September date set for Jam Master Jay murder trial

  14-02-2022 21:56 via nme.com
  
  A date for Jam Master Jay’s murder trial, 20 years on from his death, has been set for this September.READ MORE: Chuck D: “Public Enemy, Run DMC and Beastie Boys on one track was a utopian moment for me”The Run-DMC rapper (real name Jason Mizell) was fatally shot inside his Jamaica, Queens recording studio at the age of 37 in 2002.
  It was a cold case until 2020 when police, the FBI and other law enforcement bodies indicted two men, Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr., on
  
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• How Much Did Coachella Lifetime Pass NFTs Go For? – Auction Results Are In

  14-02-2022 21:36 via digitalmusicnews.com
  The sales of Coachella Lifetime Passes as NFTs saw at least two go for over $250,000 each. The Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival announced it would offer an NFT auction on February 1. The Coachella NFT collection included items like photos to be redeemed for physical prints and collectible posters. However, the Coachella Key […]
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• Bush’s Gavin Rossdale is filming his own cooking show

  14-02-2022 21:33 via nme.com
  
  Bush‘s Gavin Rossdale is launching a new cooking and entertainment show called E.A.T.READ MORE: Gavin Rossdale on Bush’s album ‘The Kingdom’, ‘The Voice’ and catching flak in the ’90sThe frontman, as Deadline reports, will “invite celebrities to his home in the Hollywood Hills where he will design, prepare and serve them a three course meal”.
  Rossdale will eat the food with his guests, discuss their careers and generally ask what makes them t
  
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• Julia Fox and Kanye West split

  14-02-2022 21:31 via music-news.com
  
  The rapper and Uncut Gems actress started dating in early January.
  
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• Natalie Imbruglia announces ‘Left Of The Middle’ 25 year anniversary tour

  14-02-2022 21:03 via nme.com
  
  Natalie Imbruglia has announced a new tour to mark the 25th anniversary of her debut album ‘Left Of The Middle.’READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Natalie ImbrugliaImbruglia will mark 25 years of her 1997 debut on a tour that is described as “a celebration of the album that made her a global star”.
  It will include hits from the multi-platinum album as well as career highlights and more recent songs from her last album ‘Firebird’.
  Tweeting about the tour, Imbrug
  
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• Major NFT Marketplace Shuts Down Due to Rampant Fraud

  14-02-2022 20:52 via digitalmusicnews.com
  The NFT marketplace that sold Jack Dorsey’s original tweet for $3 million shuts down, citing rampant fraud. The NFT marketplace Cent has halted transactions on the exchange. Founder Cameron Hejazi says people are selling NFTs of content that does not belong to them. Hejazi calls this a fundamental problem in the digital assets market, which […]
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• Chubby and the Gang Offer Up a Punk Rock Valentine’s Treat, ‘Who Loves Ya (Coup d’état)’

  14-02-2022 20:51 via rollingstone.com
  
  Track appears on the London outfit's new three-song EP, Labour of Love
  
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• Rihanna: “You’re still going to get music from me”

  14-02-2022 20:13 via nme.com
  
  Rihanna has promised fans that new music is still on the way, after she announced recently that she is pregnant with her first child.READ MORE: Rihanna: every album ranked and ratedThe pop star’s last album was 2016’s ‘Anti’. She’s been teasing its “completely different” follow-up for years – and told paparazzi last December that it’s coming “soon soon soon”.
  In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly the Barbadian singer a
  
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• Godspeed You! Black Emperor release first tape in full

  14-02-2022 20:11 via nme.com
  
  Godspeed You! Black Emperor have shared their first tape in full.READ MORE: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘G_d’s Pee AT STATE’s END’ review: music for tumultuous timesThe group first released ‘All Lights Fucked On The Hairy Amp Drooling’ in 1993. It was dubbed onto just 33 cassette tapes at the time and has become a much sought after recording by fans over the years.
  The tapes and songs were thought to be lost. However, recently the tracks were shared to
  
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• Bring Me The Horizon and Ed Sheeran to release their collaborative version of ‘Bad Habits’

  14-02-2022 19:46 via nme.com
  
  Bring Me The Horizon and Ed Sheeran look set to release a studio version of their recent BRITs collaboration.READ MORE: Ed Sheeran’s ‘Bad Habits’ is an on-trend bop from one of the savviest men in popOn Tuesday (February 8), Sheeran teamed up with the metal group for a reworked version of his 2021 track ‘Bad Habits’ to open the BRIT Awards 2022.
  Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes has now shared a FaceTime call that he had with Sheeran in which the pair discuss t
  
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• Wilco are in the studio “chipping away at a new record”

  14-02-2022 19:40 via nme.com
  
  Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy has said the band are in the studio working on their 12th album.READ MORE: Wilco – ‘Ode To Joy’ review: a quietly triumphant return to formTweedy, who revealed the news in his Substack on Friday (February 11), explained to fans that his correspondence had been more irregular of late owing to the fact that Wilco are making the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Ode To Joy‘.
  “I’ve been in the studio with Wilco making some new music, chipp
  
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• Miley Cyrus Gets ‘Honest’ With Fans: ‘I’m Just Finding My Feet Along This Platform Again’

  14-02-2022 19:37 via rollingstone.com
  
  Cyrus shares intimate moment with fans at Super Bowl Music Festival concert, one of a number of star-studded events for Super Bowl weekend
  
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• Frank Turner looks set to achieve his first Number One album this week

  14-02-2022 19:12 via nme.com
  
  Frank Turner is on course to achieve his first Number One album this week.READ MORE: Frank Turner on losing Scott Hutchison and finding “acceptance” on his new albumAccording to The Official Charts Company, ‘FTHC’, which stands for Frank Turner Hardcore – is currently leading the charts with more than double the sales of his closest competition, Alt-J’s ‘The Dream‘.
  It would be Turner’s highest-charting album to date following on fr
  
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• Happy Mondays’ Bez says he hid in a Moroccan cave for weeks after he shoplifted

  14-02-2022 19:01 via nme.com
  
  Bez has revealed that he once hid out in a cave for weeks after he was chased out of an area in Morocco where he’d shoplifted.READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Happy Mondays’ BezThe Happy Mondays percussionist/dancer said in a new interview that he’d turned to theft as a way to survive while travelling the world in his late teens, which was before he joined the band in 1985. Bez was “mostly homeless and sofa-surfing” at the tim
  
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• Saweetie Has Hella Boyfriends in Video for Disco Pop Bop ‘Closer’ With H.E.R.

  14-02-2022 19:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  Take off your shoes when you get in Saweetie's car "cuz my floor mat's feather"
  
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• James Morrison scored zero points singing his own song on computer game

  14-02-2022 18:56 via music-news.com
  
  Earlier today, during BBC Radio 2’s Ken Bruce Piano Room session, a listener asked James (Morrison) if he had ever played the computer game
  
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• Indie Labels Address Approval of Sony Music’s AWAL Buyout: ‘We Remain Concerned That This Acquisition Will Have a Negative Effect on Competition’

  14-02-2022 18:56 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Last week, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued preliminary approval to Sony Music’s roughly $430 million buyout of AWAL. Now, indie labels are speaking out against the decision and the overarching transaction. Kobalt first agreed to sell AWAL (as well as Kobalt Neighboring Rights) to Sony Music Entertainment (SME) last February, and the […]
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• Frank Turner set to claim first ever UK Number 1 album with FTHC

  14-02-2022 18:55 via music-news.com
  
  FTHC could become Frank Turner’s first ever UK Number 1 album this week, as it leads a barrage of new entries in the midweek Top 10.
  
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• Sunflower Bean’s Julia Cumming says “virus who shall not be named” ruined plans to join Manic Street Preachers at Wembley

  14-02-2022 18:39 via nme.com
  
  Sunflower Bean’s Julia Cumming has shared that she almost performed with Manic Street Preachers at Wembley Arena last year before COVID forced her to change plans. Watch our full video interview with Cumming above.READ MORE: Sunflower Bean: “We’re coming at the world with a jackhammer”Speaking to NME for the latest ‘In Conversation’ interview, the singer discussed her experience singing with the Welsh rock veterans on ‘The Secret He Had Missed’ fro
  
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• Frank Turner on losing Scott Hutchison and finding “acceptance” on his new album

  14-02-2022 18:16 via nme.com
  
  Frank Turner has opened up about how losing Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison and the theme of “acceptance” shaped his new album ‘FTHC’.READ MORE: “We’ll always miss him” – Frightened Rabbit, their closest friends and collaborators celebrate the beauty of Scott HutchisonHutchison, who died by suicide in 2018, was recently immortalised by his friend Turner on the single ‘A Wave Across The Bay‘ from his ninth album &lsq
  
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• Romeo Santos Drops Lonely Hearts’ Anthem ‘Sus Huellas’ Just in Time for Valentine’s Day

  14-02-2022 18:04 via rollingstone.com
  
  The new song is the first single from his upcoming album Formula Vol. 3.
  
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• Watch the video for Rex Orange County’s warm new single, ‘Amazing’

  14-02-2022 17:55 via nme.com
  
  Rex Orange County has shared the music video for his new single ‘Amazing’, the second offering from his upcoming album ‘Who Cares?‘. Watch below.READ MORE: Rex Orange County Live in London: despair and self-doubt dispelled with manic and mellow energyThe upbeat and sunny-sounding ‘Amazing’ is described as an ode to falling in love, with visuals featuring finger puppets directed by Chris Ullens. It follows lead single ‘Keep It Up’, which was re
  
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• Can a Married Indie-Pop Duo Feel Daniel Johnston’s Valentine’s Day Heartbreak?

  14-02-2022 17:30 via rollingstone.com
  
  With the right amount of hope and yearning, Haunted Summer's cover of "You Put My Love Out the Door" improbably captures Johnston's mood
  
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• Green Day air classics and rarities at first live show of 2022

  14-02-2022 17:08 via nme.com
  
  Green Day kicked off their 2022 tour with a set at the Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest on Saturday night (February 12).READ MORE: 10 albums that wouldn’t exist without Green Day’s ‘Dookie’The band were co-headlining the third and final night of the festival at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, alongside Miley Cyrus. Over the course of their set, they played 28 songs from across their career, plus several covers.
  Opening with ‘American Idiot’, the first hal
  
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• Listen to White Lies soaring new single, ‘Blue Drift’

  14-02-2022 17:06 via nme.com
  
  White Lies have shared a soaring new single called ‘Blue Drift’ – listen to it below.READ MORE: White Lies open up on new album ‘Five’ and tease ‘To Lose My Life’ 10th anniversary showsIt’s the latest offering from the trio’s upcoming sixth album, ‘As I Try Not To Fall Apart’ which arrives on February 18 – you can pre-order it here.
  Speaking about the new song, the band’s Charles Cave said: “Dare I say
  
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• Breland Is a Streaming-Music Star. Amazon Music Is Making Him the Face of Its ‘Breakthrough’ Campaign

  14-02-2022 17:01 via rollingstone.com
  
  The country/hip-hop songwriter aims to level up with the support of the streaming service, who are also providing indie artists with financial help via a new fund
  
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• Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson to host American Song Contest

  14-02-2022 16:31 via music-news.com
  
  The 56 performers will be revealed at a later date.
  
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• Sech Picks Five Songs to Get You in Your Feelings for Valentine’s Day

  14-02-2022 16:27 via rollingstone.com
  
  The reggaeton romantic's mini-playlist includes Julieta Venegas, Juanes, Reik, and more
  
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• Foo Fighters Add 10 Shows to 2022 North American Tour

  14-02-2022 16:19 via rollingstone.com
  
  Band will play a handful of shows in May before launching a proper run in support of Medicine at Midnight in July
  
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• The World’s Two Largest Music Companies are Spotify Shareholders. They’ve Been Silent on the Joe Rogan Debacle

  14-02-2022 16:17 via rollingstone.com
  
  Sony and UMG are not only major music rightsholders on the Spotify platform, they're shareholders in the company
  
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• ‘It’s a Full-Circle Moment’: Epik High on Their New Album and 2022 Tour Plans

  14-02-2022 16:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  Tablo, Mithra Jin, and DJ Tukutz talk about their 10th album and what the future holds
  
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• The 1975 hint at new music by deleting social media accounts

  14-02-2022 15:59 via nme.com
  
  The 1975 have deleted their social media accounts and turned their website blank, hinting at the imminent arrival of new music.
  As of today (February 14), the band’s official Instagram and Twitter accounts have both been deactivated, while their official website purely features a blank white page.
  In the past, when teasing new material, the band deleted all traces of themselves from social media. Now, as they did before announcing 2018 album ‘A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
  
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• Fontaines D.C. are in the studio with Slowthai, Kwes Darko and Dan Carey

  14-02-2022 15:05 via nme.com
  
  Footage has been shared of Fontaines D.C. in the studio with Slowthai among others – see a video of work-in-progress new music below.
  Video of the Irish band working with the Northampton rapper alongside Slowthai’s longtime producer Kwes Darko and Dan Carey was shared by Carey’s label Speedy Wunderground on Twitter.
  In the clip, Fontaines’ drummer Tom Coll, guitarist Carlos O’Connell (playing bass in this instance), frontman Grian Chatten (playing guitar) and guitar
  
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• The Bluetones’ Mark Morriss accused of jok​ing about sexual predator allegations on stage

  14-02-2022 14:49 via nme.com
  
  Footage has been shared on social media of The Bluetones‘ frontman Mark Morriss joking on stage about allegations made against him last year by his ex-wife, who called him a sexual predator and claimed he had abused her.
  In a lengthy blog post, titled ‘If I’m Lying, Come Sue Me’, newspaper executive Anna Wharton accused Morriss of being a “pathological liar and serial predator” – detailing years of alleged gaslighting, abuse and cheating.
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• Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson to host Eurovision-style ‘American Song Contest’

  14-02-2022 14:21 via nme.com
  
  Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson have been announced as the hosts of the upcoming American Song Contest, a Eurovision-styled singing competition set to premiere on NBC this March.READ MORE: Eurovision 2021 was a giddy reminder of the joys of live music (and that no one likes us)Initially announced in 2020, the new contest was due to appear on TV in February but was delayed by NBC. It will feature “original musical performances representing all 50 states, five US territories and the
  
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• Rihanna: You will still get music from me

  14-02-2022 14:04 via music-news.com
  
  Rihanna has insisted her pregnancy and impending motherhood won't stop her from releasing new music.
  
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• Ricky Wilson: Taylor Swift's Shake It Off got me through lockdown

  14-02-2022 14:04 via music-news.com
  
  Ricky Wilson played Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' non-stop to cure lockdown blues.
  
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• Michael Ball and Alfie Boe set for Hampton Court Palace Festival

  14-02-2022 14:04 via music-news.com
  
  Hampton Court Palace Festival adds Michael Ball and Alfie Boe to an already-stellar lineup.
  
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• Coldplay to perform free show for Dubai Expo

  14-02-2022 13:57 via nme.com
  
  Coldplay are set to perform a free show in Dubai this week in support of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Programme for People and Planet.READ MORE: Coldplay: “This is our period of having no fear”The concert will take place live at Al Wasl Dome on February 15 and will also be livestreamed on VirtualExpoDubai.com, Expo TV on YouTube and Expo 2020’s Facebook page.
  The band will be performing tracks from their 2021 ‘Music Of The Spheres’ album, while highlighting the impo
  
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• Adele claims delays made her Las Vegas residency look “really half-arsed”

  14-02-2022 13:10 via nme.com
  
  Adele has said that the delays which affected her Las Vegas residency meant the show was not at the quality she wanted.READ MORE: Adele-ageddon! ‘30’ marks lockdown four for musicThe singer was due to start the residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on January 21, with the run of shows extending through to April. However, Adele postponed the gigs the day before the opening night, telling her fans in a video message that her show wasn’t ready.
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• Kodak Black in a stable condition after shooting

  14-02-2022 12:38 via nme.com
  
  Kodak Black is in a stable condition following being shot at a Super Bowl party over the weekend, his lawyer has confirmed.
  The rapper was one of four people injured in a shooting outside of Justin Bieber’s Super Bowl party in Los Angeles on Friday (February 11).
  The pop star performed at Los Angeles venue Pacific Design Center last night before moving onto club The Nice Guy, ahead of the Super Bowl taking place at SoFi Stadium on Sunday (February 13).
  According to TMZ, Blac
  
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• Rihanna struggled to keep pregnancy secret from her friends

  14-02-2022 12:31 via music-news.com
  
  Rihanna's friends noticed her habits changing.
  
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• Watch Mickey Guyton’s National Anthem performance at Super Bowl

  14-02-2022 12:21 via nme.com
  
  Country singer Mickey Guyton performed a rendition of the United States national anthem at yesterday’s Super Bowl (February 13). Watch below.READ MORE: The biggest moments from the Super Bowl Halftime Show 2022The musician has been widely praised for the performance, which took place before the game between Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals kicked off at the SoFi Stadium.
  Guyton announced earlier this month that she would be singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at
  
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• Watch Jhené Aiko’s stunning Super Bowl performance of ‘America The Beautiful’

  14-02-2022 11:55 via nme.com
  
  At last night’s (February 13) 2022 Super Bowl, Jhené Aiko joined the celebrations for a rendition of ‘America The Beautiful’ – watch the performance below.READ MORE: The biggest moments from the Super Bowl Halftime Show 2022For the performance, Aiko was joined by a harpist for a delicate rendition of the classic track, which came in a pre-game performance before  Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige played an a
  
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