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• Grimes’ new album compared to Smashing Pumpkins and Beyoncé

  11-03-2022 23:44 via nme.com
  
  Grimes’ highly-anticipated sixth studio album has been compared to seminal releases by both Smashing Pumpkins and Beyoncé.READ MORE: Grimes – ‘Miss Anthropocene’ review: an iconoclast continues to march to the beat of her own drumDuring a conversation for a new cover feature with Vanity Fair, interviewer Devin Gordon noted that the upcoming “space opera”-themed album, ‘Book 1’ was Grimes’ “‘Mellon Collie and the Infinit
  
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• Alanis Morissette unveils details of UK and Ireland tour

  11-03-2022 23:39 via nme.com
  
  Alanis Morissette unveiled details earlier this week (March 9) of a UK and Ireland tour. Tickets are available here.
  The dates are those rescheduled for the 25th-anniversary celebrations of her acclaimed album ‘Jagged Little Pill’. The original tour dates were cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.READ MORE: Alanis Morissette – ‘Such Pretty Forks In The Road’ review: a cutting return after eight years awayThe shows were originally due to take place
  
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• Can’t Make It to Seoul? Here’s How to Watch BTS’ Permission to Dance on Stage Concert Online

  11-03-2022 23:34 via rollingstone.com
  
  For three nights, BTS is performing their first live concerts in South Korea since 2019 at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul — here's how to stream the show online and watch in theaters
  
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• Google and LyricFind Beat Genius’ Plagiarism Lawsuit In Appellate Court Decision

  11-03-2022 23:19 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Back in August of 2020, a federal judge dismissed lyrics database Genius’s $50 million lawsuit against Google and competing lyrics platform LyricFind, which Genius alleged had lifted and misappropriated its work. Now, an appellate court has officially upheld the ruling. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals just recently affirmed the district-court decision in the much-publicized […]
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• Pink Floyd and David Gilmour remove music from streaming services in Russia, Belarus

  11-03-2022 22:30 via nme.com
  
  Pink Floyd and David Gilmour are removing their music from streaming services in Russia and Belarus to show their support for Ukraine.READ MORE: Ukrainian artists on the Russian crisis: “Now is the time to push for change”Ukraine officially severed diplomatic ties with Russia and declared martial law after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on the neighbouring nation on February 24. At the time of writing, the Russian invasion has killed at least 549 citizens, in
  
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• Katy Perry wins ‘Dark Horse’ copyright appeal case

  11-03-2022 22:05 via nme.com
  
  Katy Perry has won a copyright infringement case against a rapper who claimed she stole his music to make her hit single ‘Dark Horse’.READ MORE: Katy Perry – ‘Smile’ review: pop icon sounds somewhat recharged, but lacks the fireworks of oldOn Thursday (March 10) a federal appeals court refused to reinstate the original $2.8million verdict against Perry.
  In 2014, when Marcus Gray, who performs as Flame, alleged that the pop singer had copied his track ‘Joy
  
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• 100ms Secures $20M in Series A Funding for Live Video Apps

  11-03-2022 21:41 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Live video conferencing infrastructure startup 100ms has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The startup was established in 2020 after the founders were working at Disney+ Hotstar in India. They began work on a feature that would enable people in India to watch live matches together. “We decided to build a feature, which enabled […]
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• Nick Cannon calls talk show 'a dream come true' following cancellation

  11-03-2022 21:31 via music-news.com
  
  Nick Cannon''s show is expected to end around May.
  
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• Court rules that Kesha cannot seek legal fees from Dr. Luke in defamation battle

  11-03-2022 21:31 via music-news.com
  
  Kesha and Dr. Luke's defamation case has been ongoing since 2014.
  
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• Ukraine’s ‘Cellar Violinist’ Becomes Viral Icon on Social Media

  11-03-2022 21:24 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Ukraine’s ‘cellar violinist’ has gone viral on social media to symbolize hope to besieged Ukrainians. Vera Lytovchekno says she took shelter in the basement of her apartment building in Kharkiv – a city under siege by the Russian army. The heavy Russian bombing of Kharkiv started two weeks ago. So Lytovchenko and her father and […]
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• Jhay Cortez Explains Why He Changed His Name to ‘Jhayco,’ Drops ‘Sensual Bebé’

  11-03-2022 21:09 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Puerto Rican rapper wants to switch things up
  
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• Slipknot’s Corey Taylor gives update on new album and it’s arrival date

  11-03-2022 20:45 via nme.com
  
  Corey Taylor has given an update on Slipknot’s new album and its expected arrival date.READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Slipknot: “I’m just going to tell you the facts: this album is a masterpiece”In a new interview on Down To Hell with Doug Bradley, the Slipknot frontman said that they’re now in the process of mixing the album with an anticipated summer release date.
  He said: “We don’t have a hard [release] date yet ’cause we’re lazy
  
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• Placebo announce North American tour for their album ‘Never Let Me Go’

  11-03-2022 20:41 via nme.com
  
  Placebo have shared the details behind their first North American tour in almost a decade.READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Placebo’s Brian MolkoThe string of dates will follow the release of the band’s eighth studio album ‘Never Let Me Go’ which is set for March 25. Tickets are on sale here.
  The tour kicks off in Vancouver in September, with stops in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco before it ends in New York. See a full list of dates below.
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• Astroworld Gag Order War Intensifies: Include Travis Scott or ‘Rescind,’ Victim’s Dad Pleads

  11-03-2022 20:13 via rollingstone.com
  
  In a new filing Friday, the father of 9-year-old Astroworld victim Ezra Blount says court should pull Scott under gag order umbrella or scrap it altogether "so that the playing field is level"
  
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• Katy Perry Wins Appeal In Years-Running ‘Dark Horse’ Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

  11-03-2022 20:11 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Katy Perry has once again emerged victorious in the long-running copyright infringement lawsuit filed against her over 2013’s “Dark Horse,” as an appellate court has ruled in her favor. The underlying courtroom confrontation kicked off way back in 2014, when Christian rapper Flame accused Katy Perry of infringing upon his “Joyful Noise” track, which first […]
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• Warner and Sony Music groups suspend operations in Russia

  11-03-2022 19:22 via nme.com
  
  Warner and Sony Music have become the latest music groups to suspend their operations in Russia as the ongoing war with Ukraine continues.READ MORE: Ukrainian artists on the Russian crisis: “Now is the time to push for change”Ukraine officially severed diplomatic ties with Russia and declared martial law after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on the neighbouring nation on February 24.
  In a statement yesterday (March 10), Warner Music Group said: “Warner Music
  
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• Rex Orange County: “Tyler, The Creator taught me by giving me a mirror to look at what I did on my own”

  11-03-2022 19:14 via nme.com
  
  Rex Orange County has opened up about working with Tyler, The Creator, and how it was transformative for his career.READ MORE: Rex Orange County: “I want the music to sound and feel free – because I feel free”Speaking to NME for our latest Big Read, Alex O’Connor told us about his experience providing vocals for Tyler’s 2017 album, ‘Flower Boy’ and how it opened his eyes to “a different world” he “couldn’t possibly understand from
  
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• Stereophonics score eighth UK Number 1 album with 'Oochya!'

  11-03-2022 18:55 via music-news.com
  
  Stereophonics have secured their eighth UK Number 1 album with Oochya! after outselling their closest competition by 2:1, according to Official Charts Company data.
  
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• Dave scores second UK Number 1 single

  11-03-2022 18:54 via music-news.com
  
  Dave’s Starlight has debuted straight at the top of the Official Singles Chart. It marks the acclaimed rapper’s second UK Number 1 single
  
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• ‘Really High Highs and Real Low Lows:’ Showtime Announces Sheryl Crow Doc

  11-03-2022 18:51 via rollingstone.com
  
  "It wound up really being kind of a gift and a great journey," Crow said of the film
  
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• Syd on Erykah Badu: “She Makes What She Needs to Make”

  11-03-2022 18:48 via rollingstone.com
  
  Erykah Badu has been one of Syd's biggest influences from childhood. When they finally met, "It was amazing"
  
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• Pink Floyd, David Gilmour Remove Music From Streaming Services in Russia, Belarus

  11-03-2022 18:24 via rollingstone.com
  
  Band is removing all music from 1987 to the present as well as all of singer-songwriter's music to stand with Ukraine
  
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• Sigrid announces her second album ‘How To Let Go’

  11-03-2022 18:18 via nme.com
  
  Sigrid has announced her second studio album ‘How To Let Go’ while sharing the official video for recent single ‘It Gets Dark’.
  The Norwegian pop star will release the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Sucker Punch’ on May 6 via Island. You can pre-order it here.READ MORE: Griff & Sigrid at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: pop perfection from the dynamic duo‘How To Let Go’ features 12 tracks including the previously released songs ‘Burning Brid
  
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• Cardi B forced to postpone what would have been her first starring movie role

  11-03-2022 18:18 via nme.com
  
  Cardi B has been forced to postpone what would have been her first starring movie role.
  Cardi was due to star in Paramount Pictures comedy Assisted Living, but a week before production was due to start, the rapper was forced to back out of the production according to Deadline.
  Cardi was due to play a “low-level criminal on the run when she’s wrongly accused of a crime”, who goes on to hide out in her grandmother’s retirement home, per the film’s official synops
  
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• Patti Smith, Gogol Bordello Stand Against ‘Monstrous Fascist Regime’ at Ukraine Benefit

  11-03-2022 17:39 via rollingstone.com
  
  "It’s pretty fucking far from being a local matter," Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz said of the Russia-Ukraine war at a New York fundraiser on Thursday
  
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• Robbie Williams says he has nowhere to live after selling all of his houses

  11-03-2022 17:25 via nme.com
  
  Robbie Williams has said that he doesn’t have anywhere to live currently after selling all of his properties.
  The former Take That singer turned solo star reportedly sold his mansion in Los Angeles, California to Drake for £35million in a private deal, though it has not been confirmed (via the Mirror).READ MORE: Better Man: eight classic stories the Robbie Williams biopic should includeWilliams is also said to have sold his house in Wiltshire for £6.75million in January, a
  
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• Joan Jett Strips Down ‘(I’m Gonna) Run Away’ for New Acoustic Album

  11-03-2022 17:12 via rollingstone.com
  
  Changeup, out March 25, boasts acoustic renditions of 25 tracks from Jett's catalog, from the Runaways to the Blackhearts
  
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• Muse announce new single ‘Compliance’, coming next week

  11-03-2022 16:43 via nme.com
  
  Muse have announced another new single, ‘Compliance’ – check out the teaser below.
  Matt Bellamy and co. returned back in January with ‘Won’t Stand Down’, the first preview of the trio’s as-yet-untitled ninth studio album. Their most recent record, ‘Simulation Theory’, came out in 2018.READ MORE: Global chaos? Corrupt politicians? Here’s why we need Muse more than everEarlier this week (March 9), Muse signalled that more new music c
  
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• Alan Jackson Makes ‘Last Call’ With Headlining 2022 Tour

  11-03-2022 16:36 via rollingstone.com
  
  The trek is the country superstar's first outing since revealing his diagnosis with Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a degenerative nerve disease, in 2021
  
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• Cardi B drops out of Assisted Living movie days before shoot - report

  11-03-2022 16:31 via music-news.com
  
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• Cardi B drops out of Assisted Living movie days before shoot

  11-03-2022 16:31 via music-news.com
  
  Cardi B has yet to comment on the report.
  
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• Bop Shop: Songs From Oliver Sim, Megan Thee Stallion And Dua Lipa, And More

  11-03-2022 16:20
  
  This week's Bop Shop features a blockbuster collab between two of pop's reigning queens, a dizzyingly creative solo effort from Oliver Sim, and more.
  
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• Watch Keith Richards Reunite With the X-Pensive Winos at New York Benefit

  11-03-2022 16:18 via rollingstone.com
  
  The group played the Richards original "999" and the Stones classics "You Got the Silver" and "Before They Make Me Run"
  
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• Morgan Wade: 'I was told my voice was really strange'

  11-03-2022 16:01 via music-news.com
  
  Morgan Wade joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky this morning to talk about her rise to fame and the unusual way she found her band.
  
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• Wish Hard on This Stripped-Down Version of Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘Chinese Satellite’

  11-03-2022 16:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  Rendition is part of Secretly Canadian's SC25 singles series
  
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• Noel Gallagher says rock music is too middle class to find another Oasis

  11-03-2022 15:24 via nme.com
  
  Noel Gallagher has said that rock music is now too middle class to find another Oasis.READ MORE: Watch Noel Gallagher’s track-by-track guide to ‘Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021)’He and brother Liam grew up in a working class family in Burning, Manchester and thinks that “working class kids” like them would now struggle to make it on the rock scene.
  Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Noel said: “Where are the 14 year olds in bands now? Working
  
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• Machine Gun Kelly hits back at TikToker who says he doesn’t play his guitar live

  11-03-2022 15:12 via nme.com
  
  Machine Gun Kelly has hit back at a TikTok user who suggested that he doesn’t play guitar live at his concerts
  As E! News reports, a TikToker called Gunnar DüGrey – who claimed that he works at a Guitar Center shop – uploaded a post titled “Machine Gun Kelly EXPOSED” to the video platform last week.READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Machine Gun Kelly: “I’ve been jumping up and down on the table, believing in myself, for-fucking-ever&
  
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• Machine Gun Kelly hits back at TikToker who said he doesn’t play his guitar live

  11-03-2022 15:12 via nme.com
  
  Machine Gun Kelly has hit back at a TikTok user who suggested that he doesn’t play guitar live at his concerts
  As E! News reports, a TikToker called Gunnar DüGrey – who claimed that he works at a Guitar Center shop – uploaded a post titled “Machine Gun Kelly EXPOSED” to the video platform last week.READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Machine Gun Kelly: “I’ve been jumping up and down on the table, believing in myself, for-fucking-ever&
  
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• Orville Peck Tries to Outrun a Haunted Old Love in ‘The Curse of the Blackened Eye’ Video

  11-03-2022 15:07 via rollingstone.com
  
  Track is one of four new songs comprising Chapter Two of the masked country singer's second album, Bronco
  
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• Alanis Morissette Seeks Absolution on New Powerhouse Track ‘Olive Branch’

  11-03-2022 14:41 via rollingstone.com
  
  New song arrives ahead of the musician's Jagged Little Pill 25th-anniversary tour
  
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• Tributes paid to former NME journalist Gavin Martin

  11-03-2022 14:16 via nme.com
  
  Tributes have been paid to former NME journalist Gavin Martin, who has died.
  The news was reported by Louder Than War earlier today (March 11). A cause of death has not yet been confirmed.
  Born in 1961, Martin was first published in the NME letters page when he was just 13-years-old before moving to London as a teenager to work at the magazine alongside Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons and Danny Baker.
  Martin wrote U2‘s first-ever NME cover interview in 1981 ahead of the group releasing their
  
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• LCD Soundsystem add two new dates to Brixton Academy residency

  11-03-2022 13:38 via nme.com
  
  LCD Soundsystem have added two new dates to their upcoming Brixton Academy residency. Tickets are available here.READ MORE: From The NME Archive – Celebrate 15 years of LCD Soundsystem’s debut with this classic interview: “Most live bands today are horrible”The residency is being held to celebrate the “platinum” 20th anniversary of the first time they performed live in London in 2002 at Arthur Baker’s ‘Return To New York’ and Erol Alkan&
  
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• Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner gives update on ‘Crying In H Mart’ movie

  11-03-2022 13:33 via nme.com
  
  Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has shared an update on the film adaptation of her 2021 memoir, Crying In H Mart.READ MORE: Japanese Breakfast live in Santa Fe: a warped residency of time-travelling tunesAs announced in June last year, the musician is writing the screenplay for the film adaptation and the soundtrack under the moniker, Japanese Breakfast.
  Speaking to Consequence about her progress on the film, Zauner said: “So I actually just finished the first draft of the
  
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• YUNGBLUD unleashes his insecurities on new song Funeral

  11-03-2022 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  YUNGBLUD is feeling "bulletproof" after unleashing his insecurities on his new song 'Funeral'.
  
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• Bryan Adams to be inducted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

  11-03-2022 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  Bryan Adams and his songwriting partner Jim Vallance have been chosen for induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
  
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• Bobbie Nelson, sister of Willie Nelson, has died aged 91

  11-03-2022 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  Willie Nelson is mourning the loss of his sister, Bobbie Nelson, who has passed away at the age of 91.
  
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• Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa serve up Sweetest Pie

  11-03-2022 12:59 via music-news.com
  
  Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa turn heads in the raunchy fantasy music video for 'Sweetest Pie'.
  
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• The Rolling Stones tease UK and European tour

  11-03-2022 12:47 via nme.com
  
  The Rolling Stones have teased a new tour in the UK and Europe.READ MORE: Charlie Watts, 1941 – 2021: the ballast that kept The Rolling Stones tempered and on-trackIn a new video posted to Instagram this morning (March 11), a map of the UK and Europe was dotted with the Stones’ iconic logo, which lit up over several locations – including London.
  They captioned the post: “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” – see it below.
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• Robbie Williams has 'nowhere' to live after selling luxury houses

  11-03-2022 12:41 via music-news.com
  
  Robbie Williams recently sold his homes in England and America.
  
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• Grimes reveals she and Elon Musk have 'broken up again'

  11-03-2022 12:41 via music-news.com
  
  Grimes told a fan that their daughter's name will "most definitely change".
  
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