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• Arca unveils new ‘KICK’ box set and shares new video for ‘Cayó’

  13-04-2022 23:26 via nme.com
  
  Arca has unveiled a new box set of her expansive ‘Kick’ series.READ MORE: Arca – ‘Kick ii’, ‘Kick iii’, ‘Kick iiii’ & ‘Kick ‘iiiii’ review: a sprawling departure from definitionThe release includes all of Arca’s latest albums, ‘KiCk i’, ‘KICK ii’, ‘KicK iii’, ‘kick iiii’, and ‘kiCK iiiii’, collected in a five LP vinyl box set released on May 20 via XL.
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• The UK Music Industry Grew By 12.8% In 2021 — As Digital’s Market Share Declined For the First Time

  13-04-2022 22:37 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  The UK music industry generated £1.26 billion (about $1.65 billion at the present exchange rate) in 2021, up 12.8 percent year over year, as “unabated” demand for vinyl and the broader resurgence of physical contributed to digital’s first year-over-year decline in revenue share in nearly two decades. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) revealed these and […]
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• Glasgow urged to mark anniversaries of Optimo and Sub Club

  13-04-2022 22:36 via nme.com
  
  Glasgow city council has been urged to recognise the anniversaries of two major clubs in the city this year.READ MORE: Music venues and nightclubs “on the brink of collapse” and demand immediate” government actionSub Club will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2022, while Optimo’s club night will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
  A local councillor has asked the city council and its cultural branch to celebrate the anniversaries by giving the public oppo
  
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• The Kid Laroi Appears to Shade Scooter Braun, Promotes Next Single in Very Efficient TikTok

  13-04-2022 22:33 via rollingstone.com
  
  Using a snippet of his unreleased song "Thousand Miles," the Australian pop artist suggested Braun was his "last mistake"
  
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• Jason Isbell, Black Keys Set for 2022 Mempho Music Festival

  13-04-2022 22:29 via rollingstone.com
  
  Wilco, Widespread Panic, Fantastic Negrito, Allison Russell, and Adia Victoria will also perform at the Memphis festival this fall
  
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• ‘Concert Crush’ Documentary About the Astroworld Tragedy Is Hitting Texas Theaters — Live Nation’s Lawyers Aren’t Thrilled

  13-04-2022 22:06 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  A documentary about the Astroworld tragedy called ‘Concert Crush’ is debuting in Texas theaters. But lawyers for Live Nation argue that the film will taint the jury pool. The Rolling Stone reports Live Nation attorneys filed a letter on April 8 expressing concerns about the documentary’s upcoming release. The letter also raises concerns that Riccardo […]
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• Idlewild announce intimate ‘The Remote Part’ album show at village hall in Ullapool

  13-04-2022 21:56 via nme.com
  
  Idlewild have shared details of an intimate show in the Scottish village of Ullapool near where they recorded parts of their third album, ‘The Remote Part’, in 2001.READ MORE: Idlewild – ‘Interview Music’ reviewThe 20th anniversary show – pertaining to the record’s 2002 release – takes place on September 3 at Ullapool Village Hall. Tickets go on sale this Friday (April 15) at 10am here.
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• Live Nation’s Veeps Launches on iOS, Android, Roku TV for Live Streaming Concerts

  13-04-2022 21:46 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Live Nation’s concert live streaming service Veeps has launched on iOS, Android, Apple TV, and Roku TV. Upcoming live streamed concerts inside the app include Kings of Leon at London’s O2 Arena, dancers Galantis at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, Indigo Girls, Icelandic rock-blues band Kaleo, and Guns N’ Roses’ Slash and his group […]
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• Listen to Just Mustard’s dreamy new single, ‘Mirrors’

  13-04-2022 21:29 via nme.com
  
  Just Mustard have shared a new track today (April 13) – listen to ‘Mirrors’ below.READ MORE: Just Mustard live at SXSW: no wonder The Cure are fansThe track is taken from their upcoming second album, ‘Heart Under’, which is released on May 27 via Partisan and can be pre-ordered here. It follows on from previous single releases, ‘Still’ and ‘I Am You’.
  Guitarist and ‘Mirrors’ co-vocalist David Noonan said of the single: “&lsq
  
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• Dr Dre is in the studio with ‘Donda 2’ co-writer Fat Money

  13-04-2022 21:26 via nme.com
  
  Dr Dre has been pictured in the studio with Fat Money, the co-writer of Kanye West‘s latest album ‘Donda 2‘.READ MORE: Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’: A 4/20 deep dive into the album that changed hip-hop foreverThe veteran rapper and entrepreneur is seen posing alongside the songwriter in images shared over the last week. It comes as rumours continue to swirl around a possible release of Dre’s much-delayed album ‘Detox’, which was first announc
  
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• Indie music continues to surge with fourth year of growth

  13-04-2022 19:44 via nme.com
  
  Analysis from the BPI – the UK association of independent and major record labels – has shown that independently released music has had its fourth consecutive year of growth.READ MORE: The Greatest Indie Labels Of All TimeThe new figures were released via the the BPI All About The Music 2022 yearbook today (April 13). The publication is distributed free to BPI members but can also be purchased and viewed here.
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• Built To Spill announce first new album in seven years, ‘When The Wind Forgets Your Name’

  13-04-2022 19:44 via nme.com
  
  Built To Spill have shared details of their first album in seven years, ‘When The Wind Forgets Your Name’ alongside the release of new single, ‘Gonna Lose’, and tour dates – buy tickets here.READ MORE: Built to Spill deliver a masterclass of grunge escapism at rare UK outingThe Idaho band’s last album was 2015’s ‘Untethered Moon’. ‘When The Wind Forgets Your Name’, the group’s first release through Sub Pop, arrives on Septem
  
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• Attorney for Astroworld Victims Slams ‘Tattle-Tale’ Letter from Live Nation Over Upcoming Doc

  13-04-2022 19:11 via rollingstone.com
  
  Lawyers for concert promoter raised concerns that the release of Concert Crush in Texas would "taint" the jury pool
  
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• Watch Rising Star Thuy and Bay Area King P-Lo Coach Basketball in ‘Inhibitions’ Video

  13-04-2022 19:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  "Collaboration-wise, we’ve been overdue but 'Inhibitions' feels like perfect timing," P-Lo says about working with Thuy
  
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• ‘A New Nata’: How Corridos Tumbados Wunderkind Natanael Cano Fought to Make Music on His Own Terms

  13-04-2022 18:57 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Mexican star on his adventurous new album, how his Los CT label is changing the game, and the future of corridos
  
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• KOKO partners with crypto company Luno for DJ shows and immersive events at refurbished venue

  13-04-2022 18:51 via nme.com
  
  KOKO has today (April 13) shared details of a partnership with global cryptocurrency platform Luno for DJ shows, talks and immersive experiences at a new event space.READ MORE: “We wanted togetherness and community” – how gigs came back with a bang in 2021The Luno is a new multi format space situated at the top of historic 19th century London theatre, which has functioned as a live music venue for more than 30 years. KOKO is set to reopen on April 29 after a three-year &po
  
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• Avatar-Technology Company Genies Raises $150 Million, Touts Deals With Universal Music and Warner Music

  13-04-2022 18:49 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Avatar-technology company Genies, which counts Offset, 50 Cent, The Chainsmokers, and whiskey entrepreneur A$AP Rocky as investors, has announced the completion of a $150 million Series C funding round. Los Angeles-headquartered Genies, which “provides consumers and celebrities with the tools to create high-quality avatars,” just recently revealed the $150 million Series C. Silver Lake, a […]
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• Black Opry Revue, Joshua Ray Walker, Miko Marks Are All Part of AmericanaFest’s 2022 Lineup

  13-04-2022 18:43 via rollingstone.com
  
  The annual celebration of roots music, set for September in Nashville, has announced its initial roster of talent
  
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• Listen to Alfie Templeman’s soaring new song ‘Colour Me Blue’

  13-04-2022 17:58 via nme.com
  
  Alfie Templeman has today (April 13) shared a new song – listen to ‘Colour Me Blue’ below.READ MORE: Alfie Templeman announces debut album ‘Mellow Moon’: “It’s a place to get away from anxieties”It’s taken from his upcoming debut album, ‘Mellow Moon’, which is set for release on May 27 via Chess Club Records/AWAL. It follows on from, ‘Leaving Today’, which arrived earlier this month, and the previously released cu
  
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• Brix Smith unveils new band for tour with Public Image Ltd

  13-04-2022 17:56 via nme.com
  
  Brix Smith has announced details of a tour with Public Image Ltd, for which she’ll be joined by an all new band.READ MORE: Brix Smith at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: Liam Gallagher’s free gig for NHS workers “was absolutely fantastic”The musician, who has been a member of The Fall and a host of other punk bands across her decades in music, will play a series of shows in June alongside John Lydon’s PiL.
  At the shows, she will launch an all-new, all-female band announ
  
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• Jennifer Lopez and Her Iconic Halftime Show Are Getting the Doc Treatment

  13-04-2022 17:27 via rollingstone.com
  
  Film about both J.Lo's Super Bowl performance and midpoint of career arrives on Netflix on June 14
  
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• The 80s reigns supreme as UK’s favourite musical decade

  13-04-2022 17:17 via music-news.com
  
  Have you ever wondered what musical decade is the nation's favourite? Over the last six weeks Absolute Radio, which has a station
  
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• Björk plays a scary seeress in ‘The Northman’ exclusive clip

  13-04-2022 17:14 via nme.com
  
  A new clip of Björk in The Northman has just been shared exclusively with NME – take a look above to watch it.
  The musician and actor stars in Robert Eggers’ viking epic as a whispering Seeress predicting the future of Alexander Skarsgård’s Amleth.
  The film follows Amleth as he seeks revenge for the murder of his father, played by Ethan Hawke, and aims to save his mother Queen Gudrún, played by Nicole Kidman.
  Anya Taylor-Joy also stars in the film as Olga
  
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• Tami Neilson, Willie Nelson Grieve Heavy Losses in Their New Duet ‘Beyond the Stars’

  13-04-2022 17:04 via rollingstone.com
  
  The video was filmed at Nelson's Luck Ranch, where Neilson got to perform in March
  
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• Stormzy, Björk, Phoebe Bridgers and more for Montreux Jazz Festival

  13-04-2022 17:04 via nme.com
  Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival has announced its 2022 line-up, featuring Stormzy, Björk, Phoebe Bridgers and more.
  The festival will run from July 1-16 on the shores of Lake Geneva, and feature an all-new layout for 2022.
  As well as its usual two venues – the Auditorium Stravinski and the Montreux Jazz Lab – the festival will reveal its “beating heart” in the form of a Lake House venue.
  A press release explains: “This large three-story residence wil
  
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• Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman announces memoir ‘None Of This Rocks’

  13-04-2022 17:04 via nme.com
  
  Fall Out Boy guitarist and co-founder Joe Trohman has revealed that he’s releasing a new memoir this autumn.READ MORE: “These songs feel bigger than our band”: how Fall Out Boy’s ‘From Under The Cork Tree’ inspired a generationThe book, titled None Of This Rocks, will explore Trohman’s youth and evolution into a musician. It’s described as being “unlike any [memoir] you’ve ever read.”
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• Interpol: 'It feels like a natural evolution in the next chapter in our book'

  13-04-2022 16:55 via music-news.com
  
  Paul Banks and Daniel Kessler of Interpol join The Matt Wilkinson Show on Apple Music 1 to premiere their brand-new single
  
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• Lizzo named shapewear line in honour of late aunt

  13-04-2022 16:31 via music-news.com
  
  After her new shapewear line, Yitty, came out on Tuesday, Lizzo revealed the name referred to a nickname bestowed on her by her late aunt.
  
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• J Balvin postpones U.S. tour following 'production challenges'

  13-04-2022 16:31 via music-news.com
  
  The tour had been set to kick off in San Antonio, Texas on 19 April.
  
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• Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul’ Doc Inspires New Harlem Festival Set for 2023

  13-04-2022 16:21 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Harlem Festival of Culture will take place at same park that hosted the 1969 fest captured in Oscar-winning documentary
  
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• ‘Imaginary Playgrounds’: Kikagaku Moyo’s Psych-Rock Odyssey

  13-04-2022 16:10 via rollingstone.com
  
  These five Tokyo musicians have spent the past 10 years refining their heady, retro-flavored sound. Now, they’re saying goodbye on their own terms
  
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• Belle And Sebastian share new single ‘Young And Stupid’ with a message from Jon Hamm

  13-04-2022 16:02 via nme.com
  
  Belle And Sebastian have shared their new single ‘Young And Stupid’ from their forthcoming new album ‘A Bit Of Previous’.READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart MurdochThe track, which you can listen to below, follows ‘Unnecessary Drama’ and the band’s ‘Shooting At You’ in support of victims of the conflict in Ukraine.
  The single comes with a message from actor Jon Hamm in referen
  
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• The Kills announce 17th anniversary reissue of ‘No Wow’

  13-04-2022 16:00 via nme.com
  
  The Kills are set to celebrate the 17th anniversary of their album ‘No Wow’ this summer with a special deluxe reissue.READ MORE: The Kills debut ‘Weed Killer’ video and tell us about B-sides and new musicJamie Hince and Alison Mosshart’s second LP came out in 2005 and the new reissue will land on June 3.
  The new edition of ‘No Wow’ features the original album alongside a full album mix by Grammy-winning producer Tchad Blake.
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• Kurt Vile’s ‘Watch My Moves’ Is a Majestically Mellow Zone-Out Session

  13-04-2022 15:22 via rollingstone.com
  
  Laid-back Philly guitar wizard’s ninth album stretches out and gets comfortable amidst the chaos
  
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• Shack’s Michael Head And The Red Elastic Band share new single ‘Broken Beauty’

  13-04-2022 15:04 via nme.com
  
  Shack’s Michael Head has shared his new single with The Red Elastic Band, ‘Broken Beauty’ – you can view the video for it below.READ MORE: “If I wrote songs thinking about how they’ll be received, I’d be The 1975”: Bill Ryder-Jones on his accidental new albumThe track is lifted from their new album ‘Dear Scott’, which is due for release on May 27, via Modern Sky UK.
  The follow-up to 2017’s ‘Adiós Señor Pussycat
  
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• Michael Head And The Red Elastic Band share new single ‘Broken Beauty’

  13-04-2022 15:04 via nme.com
  
  Shack‘s Michael Head has shared his new single with The Red Elastic Band, ‘Broken Beauty’ – you can view the video for it below.READ MORE: “If I wrote songs thinking about how they’ll be received, I’d be The 1975”: Bill Ryder-Jones on his accidental new albumThe track is lifted from their new album ‘Dear Scott’, which is due for release on May 27, via Modern Sky UK.
  The follow-up to 2017’s ‘Adiós Señor Pussycat
  
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• Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page reveals he is working on “multiple projects”

  13-04-2022 14:21 via nme.com
  
  Led Zeppelin‘s Jimmy Page has given an update on new music, revealing that he’s currently working on “multiple projects”.
  “There’s various things I’m working towards,” Page told Classic Rock magazine in a new interview.
  “It’s not just one thing, it’s multiple things, and I don’t want to even give a hint, because if you do … you give a one-sentence sound bite, and then if it doesn’t materialise, it
  
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• Madison Beer's Life Support tour comes to London

  13-04-2022 13:39 via music-news.com
  
  Madison Beer wowed fans atLondon's 02 Shepherd's Bush Empire as she performed the UK leg of her 'Life Support' tour.
  
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• DJ Jazzy Jeff defends Will Smith over Oscars slap: “He’s human”

  13-04-2022 13:31 via nme.com
  
  DJ Jazzy Jeff has become the latest artist to wade into the Will Smith Oscars slap debate, defending the actor for his “human” reaction.READ MORE: A history of Oscar scandals – is Will Smith’s slap really the most controversial ever?Last month, Smith struck Chris Rock on-stage during the Academy Awards ceremony following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Following numerous apologies over the incident, Smith resigned from the
  
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• Yard Act claim biggest vinyl album of 2022 so far with 'The Overload'

  13-04-2022 13:27 via music-news.com
  
  Yard Act claim the biggest vinyl album of 2022 so far with debut record The Overload. It tops the Official Charts Company’s
  
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• Richard Hawley adds extra show to help support Sheffield Leadmill

  13-04-2022 13:24 via nme.com
  
  Richard Hawley has added an extra date to his forthcoming run of gigs at the Sheffield Leadmill.READ MORE: If Sheffield’s Leadmill – the venue that helped break Arctic Monkeys – closes, we all lose somethingThe singer-songwriter unveiled details of two concerts earlier this week taking place on August 8 and 9 to help the venue after news that is under threat of closure.
  Now, the venue has announced a third date due to “phenomenal demand” on August 11. Tickets a
  
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• Frank Turner's 'A Wave Across A Bay' becomes 2022’s top vinyl single so far

  13-04-2022 13:20 via music-news.com
  
  Frank Turner’s A Wave Across The Bay is named the best-selling vinyl single of the year so far.
  
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• Post Malone's new album to drop next month

  13-04-2022 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  According to Post Malone's manager, Dre London, his new album will drop next month.
  
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• Jimmy Page rejected offer to feature on Ozzy Osbourne's album

  13-04-2022 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  Jimmy Page rejected Ozzy Osbourne's offer to record a song together for his upcoming LP.
  
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• Florence + The Machine are slowly revealing their ‘Dance Fever’ tracklist

  13-04-2022 12:59 via nme.com
  
  Florence + The Machine are slowly revealing the tracklist to their forthcoming new album ‘Dance Fever’.
  Florence Welch and her band’s fifth album is set for release on May 13 via Polydor, and has been previewed so far by the singles ‘My Love’, ‘King’, and ‘Heaven Is Here’.READ MORE: The story of NME in 70 (mostly) seminal songsOn the band’s official website, a series of playing cards are slowly being turned over with song
  
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• Ariana Grande gig Manchester Arena bomb attack victims’ families feel “failed” by MI5

  13-04-2022 12:48 via nme.com
  
  The family of a victim of the Manchester Arena terrorist attack have said they feel “badly failed” by the MI5.
  Twenty-two people died and hundreds were injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the foyer at the venue at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.
  Martyn Hett, 29, was among those who died and his father Paul Hett has now said he “can’t understand” why the attacker Salman Abedi was not classed as a person o
  
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• Jennifer Lopez was 'taken totally off guard' by Ben Affleck's bubble bath proposal

  13-04-2022 12:31 via music-news.com
  
  Jennifer Lopez became "literally speechless" when Ben Affleck popped the question.
  
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• Elvis Presley's back catalogue acquired by Universal Music Publishing

  13-04-2022 12:31 via music-news.com
  
  Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed.
  
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• Jessi releases fierce music video for new single, ‘Zoom’

  13-04-2022 12:07 via nme.com
  
  Jessi has released a music video for her latest digital single, ‘Zoom’.READ MORE: OH MY GIRL on their beautiful new album ‘Real Love’, seventh anniversary and ‘Queendom’ adviceIn the dynamic visual released today (April 13), the Korean-American singer and rapper is the subject of a photoshoot, taking viewers through a wide variety of photography sets and backdrops. The video also features scenes of her performing eye-catching choreography with a team of backup
  
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• Partygate protesters outside Number 10 are blasting ‘Fight For Your Right’ and ‘I Fought The Law’

  13-04-2022 12:03 via nme.com
  
  Protesters outside Number 10, Downing Street last night (April 12) blasted out Beastie Boys and The Clash – see footage below.
  Protests broke out after Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were given fines referred by the Metropolitan Police for breaking COVID lockdown rules by attending parties at Downing Street and Whitehall.
  The Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, along with Johnson’s wife Carrie, have been notified about the fixed penalty notices, which are the late
  
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