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• Surviving Murderdolls members feuding over anniversary plans

  30-08-2022 23:50 via nme.com
  The surviving members of Murderdolls are feuding over plans to mark the 20th anniversary of the band’s debut album, ‘Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls’.
  The horror-punks released their first record in August 2002 – the only album to be released during their first stint together. After reuniting in 2010, they shared a second record in ‘Women And Children Last’.
  Earlier this month, pre-orders for a vinyl reissue of ‘Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls&
  
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• Kesha’s legal team asks court to hear singer’s appeals before Dr. Luke trial

  30-08-2022 23:44 via nme.com
  Kesha’s legal team has asked the court to hear the singer’s appeals before her long-running legal battle with producer Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald reaches trial.
  Dr. Luke sued Kesha for defamation in 2014, in part claiming she had defamed him by telling Lady Gaga he had raped Katy Perry. Perry denied the claim during a deposition, while Dr. Luke has also denied the claim. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Jennifer G. Schecter ruled in the producer’s favour in 2020.
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• R. Kelly Prosecutors Rest Case as Final Accuser Testifies to Underage Sexual Acts

  30-08-2022 23:24 via rollingstone.com
  “Nia,” who sued singer in 2002, testifies disgraced artist performed sexual acts with her when she was age 15
  
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• Epic Games Defeats Another Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Fortnite Dances

  30-08-2022 22:27 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Fortnite maker Epic Games has swatted away another copyright infringement lawsuit over dance moves. A U.S. judge has dismissed the lawsuit from a professional choreographer who says the ‘It’s Complicated’ Fortnite emote rips off a routine he created for the Charlie Puth song, “How Long.” Choreographer Kyle Hanagami filed the lawsuit in April 2022. The […]
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• Sony Music Entertainment Files Multimillion-Dollar Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Triller

  30-08-2022 22:12 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is officially suing short-form video-sharing app Triller over an alleged “failure and refusal to pay millions of dollars in contractual licensing fees.” The Big Three record label yesterday submitted the firmly worded copyright infringement action to a New York federal court. And the defendant company, for its part, unveiled a new […]
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• ‘I Didn’t Fit In Anywhere’: Mariah Carey Discusses Growing Up Biracial With Meghan Markle

  30-08-2022 22:04 via rollingstone.com
  The diva and the Duchess spoke about representation, perception, and figuring out how to fit in on Markle's podcast, Archetypes
  
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• Tickets for Reading & Leeds 2023 go on sale tomorrow

  30-08-2022 22:03 via nme.com
  Tickets for Reading & Leeds 2023 are set to go on sale tomorrow (August 31) following the wrap-up of the 2022 festivals.READ MORE: Reading Festival 2022 review: megastar headliners shake up end of summer celebrationMegan Thee Stallion, Dave, Arctic Monkeys, Bring Me The Horizon, The 1975 and Halsey topped the bill at this year’s twin weekenders, which saw the events boast six headliners for a second year.
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• Phoenix tease their new album is coming soon: “Done in the studio”

  30-08-2022 22:01 via nme.com
  Phoenix have teased that fans won’t have to wait much longer for their next album, revealing that they are now “done in the studio” and have “new music coming”.READ MORE: 20 albums to get excited about in 2022The French band, who returned recently with the song ‘Alpha Zulu’, have been working on their seventh album. It will be the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Ti Amo’ and has been described by the group as a “weird Frankenstein of an
  
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• Megan Thee Stallion Lands Guest Appearance on ‘She-Hulk: Attorney At Law’

  30-08-2022 21:37 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Rapper Megan Thee Stallion will appear in an upcoming episode of ‘She-Hulk: Attorney At Law.’ According to a report from Deadline, the rapper’s cameo will involve a catfishing case that must be solved. “A gentleman is being catfished by somebody that lives in another universe, let’s say. Another world,” actor Josh Segarra says. The apparent […]
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• Dionne Warwick 'confused' by Yung Gravy's stage name

  30-08-2022 21:31 via music-news.com
  
  The Mr. Clean rapper's real name is Matthew Hauri.
  
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• Beck announces intimate solo acoustic show at London’s Lafayette

  30-08-2022 21:30 via nme.com
  Beck has shared details of an intimate solo acoustic show at London’s Lafayette next week.READ MORE: Beck – “Was the ’90s a golden time for rock music? It was more like tarnished brass”The Grammy award-winning artist will take to the stage at Lafayette in King’s Cross, London on Tuesday (September 6). Tickets go on sale at 9am local time tomorrow (August 31), with more information on where to purchase them expected to come in due course.
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• First Trailer for ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Biopic Is Here

  30-08-2022 21:02 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Roku has given us our first peek at Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al in ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.’ Weird Al uploaded the trailer on Monday, giving us a peek at Radcliffe sporting a curly brown wig, mustache, glasses, and Weird Al’s infamous accordion. “My whole life all I wanted was to make up new […]
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• First Trailer for Roku’s ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Biopic Is Here

  30-08-2022 21:02 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Roku has given us our first peek at Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al in ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.’ Weird Al uploaded the trailer on Monday, giving us a peek at Radcliffe sporting a curly brown wig, mustache, glasses, and Weird Al’s infamous accordion. “My whole life all I wanted was to make up new […]
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• ‘Terminator 2′ star Robert Patrick tried to get Nine Inch Nails on soundtrack instead of Guns N’ Roses

  30-08-2022 20:54 via nme.com
  Terminator 2: Judgement Day actor Robert Patrick has spoken about the time he tried to get a Nine Inch Nails song on the 1991 film’s soundtrack instead of one by Guns N’ Roses.READ MORE: From the archives – 61 of the greatest film soundtracks everIn a new interview, Patrick revealed that it was lead star Arnold Schwarzenegger (the Terminator) who ultimately rejected the suggestion he’d put to director James Cameron. Instead, Guns N’ Roses soundtracked the sequel wit
  
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• Music industry warns UK music studios could close without energy bills support

  30-08-2022 20:21 via nme.com
  Figures from the UK music industry have warned that without support to combat rising energy bills, music studios, venues and other businesses could face closure.
  The government has committed to helping domestic households with rising energy bills, which are expected to soar by as much as 80 per cent in October with an updated price cap, however no price cap has been introduced for businesses in the music, leisure and hospitality sectors.
  Some music venues have reported their bills rising by betw
  
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• Live Music’s Latest Battle Isn’t Onstage. It’s at the Merch Booth

  30-08-2022 20:04 via rollingstone.com
  "I was seething, livid,” one merch vendor says of a employer taking some of their tip earnings from a recent concert
  
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• Yungblud samples The Cure’s ‘Close To Me’ on buoyant new song ‘Tissues’

  30-08-2022 19:58 via nme.com
  Yungblud has sampled The Cure‘s ‘Close To Me’ on ‘Tissues’, the latest cut from his self-titled album arriving this Friday (September 2).READ MORE: Yungblud – “This album is about reclaiming my name and humanising the caricature”The singer-songwriter, who grew up listening to the influential British band, has spoken about how the sample came about, including convincing singer Robert Smith to allow it.
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• Kesha Accuses Dr. Luke of Stalling Defamation Case, Says She’s ‘Eager’ to Face Him in February Trial

  30-08-2022 19:31 via rollingstone.com
  Singer says February 2023 defamation trial date is in danger because Dr. Luke is thwarting her attempts to expedite pre-trial appeals
  
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• Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer says producer Rick Rubin was a “hindrance”

  30-08-2022 19:29 via nme.com
  Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has opened up about the band’s producer Rick Rubin, saying he was “more a hindrance than help” on their 2011 album.READ MORE: Red Hot Chili Peppers – “We feel fresh, like a new band”Klinghoffer was asked in a new interview to reflect on the two albums he made with the Chili Peppers – 2011’s ‘I’m With You‘ and 2016’s ‘The Getaway’, the former of which the intervi
  
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• The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz is suing the FBI

  30-08-2022 19:16 via nme.com
  The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz is suing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to obtain any records that the organisation has on the band and its members.
  In 1967 an FBI informant attended a concert on the band’s first tour in the US and filed a report that claimed the concert featured “subliminal messages […] depicted on the screen which, in the opinion of [informant] constituted ‘left wing intervention of a political nature’”.
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• Royalty-Free Music Platform Soundstripe Announces $9 Million Series B, Outlines Plans to ‘Invest Heavily’ In Enterprise Business

  30-08-2022 19:02 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Video-focused royalty-free music platform Soundstripe has officially announced a $9 million Series B funding round. Nashville-headquartered Soundstripe, which says that it’s issued north of 10 million licenses since debuting in 2016, unveiled the multimillion-dollar round today. The raise comes about three years after the company pulled down $6 million from investors – $4 million in […]
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• Yungblud: 'I put on eyeliner because of Robert Smith'

  30-08-2022 18:51 via music-news.com
  
  YUNGBLUD joins Zane Lowe live on Apple Music 1 to discuss his new song “Tissues” from his forthcoming self-titled album
  
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• Woman, 25, dies after falling ill at Creamfields North festival

  30-08-2022 18:38 via nme.com
  A 25-year-old woman from south Wales has died after she fell ill at Creamfields North festival on Friday (August 26).READ MORE: Why drugs testing at festivals is an excellent – and well overdue – ideaThe unnamed woman was taken to Warrington District General Hospital after police were called to the site in Cheshire at 10.15pm on the second night of the dance music festival.
  She died earlier today (August 30) in hospital. Her next of kin have been informed.
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• Watch AURORA perform with Hans Zimmer at Earth Prom 2022

  30-08-2022 18:23 via nme.com
  AURORA joined Hans Zimmer at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC’s Earth Prom on Saturday night (August 27) to perform ‘Take Me Back Home’ with the composer.READ MORE: Øya Festival 2022 review: Aurora and Nick Cave shine at the fest of the futureThe acclaimed composer and producer recently teamed up with Camila Cabello on the new track, which features in the trailer for the upcoming documentary Frozen Planet II.
  AURORA joined Zimmer and an orchestra at the iconic Lond
  
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• Dawn Richard and Composer Spencer Zahn Team Up for New Collaborative Album ‘Pigments’

  30-08-2022 18:10 via rollingstone.com
  Duo share four tracks comprising the project's first movement
  
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• Courteeners announce massive Heaton Park gig and reissue of ‘St. Jude’

  30-08-2022 18:03 via nme.com
  Courteeners have announced celebrations for the 15th anniversary of debut album ‘St. Jude’, by confirming a deluxe reissue as well as a massive homecoming gig at Manchester’s Heaton Park – get ticket details below.READ MORE: The Courteeners live in Manchester: Fray and the gang cement their place among the greatsAfter performing at Heaton Park in 2015 and 2019, Courteeners will be returning to the venue for a headline show on June 9, 2023 where they’ll play ‘S
  
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• Reading & Leeds boss: “We’ve booked three and a half headliners for 2023”

  30-08-2022 18:00 via nme.com
  Reading & Leeds boss Melvin Benn has confirmed to NME that “three and a half” headliners have already been booked for 2023’s festival – as well as revealing his highlights of this year’s event.READ MORE: Reading Festival 2022 review: megastar headliners shake up end of summer celebrationThis past weekend’s edition of the twin-site iconic festival at Bramham Park in Leeds and Little John’s Farm in Reading was the second year of having two main stages
  
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• Crawlers announce debut mixtape ‘Loud Without Noise’

  30-08-2022 17:48 via nme.com
  Crawlers have announced details of their debut mixtape, with ‘Loud Without Noise’ coming this October.READ MORE: ​​Crawlers: Merseyside misfits making striking alt-rock with a powerful messageAfter announcing the project onstage at Reading Festival over the weekend, Crawlers have now revealed details of ‘Loud Without Noise’.
  The six-track record will include previously released singles ‘I Can’t Drive’, ‘Fuck Me (I Didn’t Know How
  
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• Noel Gallagher reveals details of new custom Gibson guitars

  30-08-2022 17:29 via nme.com
  Noel Gallagher has revealed more details of his two new custom Gibson and Epiphone guitar models, which launch today (August 30).
  The indie icon announced the plans for a signature electric guitar launch earlier this year, hinting at its imminent arrival last week.READ MORE: Noel Gallagher live at Glastonbury 2022: how The Chief owned the Pyramid StageTwo models have now been unveiled – a limited edition guitar from the Gibson Custom Shop, and another instrument that forms part of Gib
  
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• Joe Jonas Honors a Fellow Disney Channel Icon With DNCE Cover of Hilary Duff’s ‘Come Clean’

  30-08-2022 17:09 via rollingstone.com
  The extremely unplugged rendition features Jack Lawless drumming on a tissue box
  
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• Muse’s Will Of The People could claim Official Albums Chart first

  30-08-2022 16:57 via music-news.com
  
  The group’s ninth studio LP on course to become first-ever Number 1 album using NFT technology, as it currently outsells rest of Top 10 combined.
  
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• Police investigate reports of spikings at Reading & Leeds 2022

  30-08-2022 16:55 via nme.com
  Police are investigating reports of a series of spiking that are alleged to have occurred at Reading & Leeds 2022 over the weekend (August 26-28).
  Festival-goers at both the Richfield Avenue site in Reading and Leeds’ Bramham Park reported alleged incidents of spiking by injection.
  Two teenage girls were reportedly injected with unknown substances at Leeds. One of the girls, 17, said she felt a throbbing pain in her thigh while waiting in a crowd on Saturday (August 27), according to t
  
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• Britney Spears & Elton John and Eliza Rose challenging LF System for UK’s Number 1 single

  30-08-2022 16:55 via music-news.com
  
  There’s currently a three-way battle for Number 1 on this week’s Official Singles Chart, as Britney Spears & Elton John’s hotly
  
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• My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Mad Gear And Missile Kid’ EP released on streaming

  30-08-2022 16:27 via nme.com
  My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Mad Gear And Missile Kid’ EP has finally been made available on streaming, 12 years after it was first released.READ MORE: My Chemical Romance live in Cornwall: giddy rock’n’roll from returning emo heroesThe three-track record was originally released in 2010 as the soundtrack for the fictional Killjoys who inhabit the cartoonish, post-apocalyptic world of My Chemical Romance’s ‘Danger Days’.
  Now ‘F.T.W.W.W.’,
  
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• ‘Iconic and Amazing’: Inside Britney Spears’ Comeback Duet With Elton John

  30-08-2022 16:26 via rollingstone.com
  "She knew exactly what she wanted to do," producer Andrew Watt says
  
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• ‘Brazen Contempt’: Sony Says Triller Stopped Paying Licensing Fees, Kept Using Music in New Suit

  30-08-2022 16:16 via rollingstone.com
  Label says video sharing app kept it from "compensating its creators" in new million dollar lawsuit
  
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• ‘They Called Us Outlaws’ Documentary Tells the Story of Country’s Rebel Period

  30-08-2022 16:08 via rollingstone.com
  Watch the trailer for the six-part film, featuring icons like Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter and modern-day stars Eric Church and Miranda Lambert
  
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• Police issue statements after reports of “disorder and tent-burning” at Reading & Leeds

  30-08-2022 15:48 via nme.com
  Police have responded to claims of “disorder and tent-burning” at both Reading & Leeds festival sites over the weekend.
  Over the Bank Holiday weekend, tens of thousands of music fans flocked to Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds to see performances from the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Megan Thee Stallion, The 1975, Bring Me The Horizon, Halsey, Dave and many more.
  Footage from both sites was shared on social media showing tent-burning across both sites, wi
  
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• The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz Would Like a Word With the FBI

  30-08-2022 15:31 via rollingstone.com
  The group's last surviving member is suing the FBI after they failed to hand over band's J. Edgar Hoover-era FBI file
  
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• The 100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time

  30-08-2022 15:16 via rollingstone.com
  As a commercial entity, country music has existed for nearly a century following the 1927 Bristol Sessions with the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. That means it’s older than rock & roll, older than soul, and still going strong in 2022 with branches that have spread far and wide. But where the recording of albums […]
  
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• Deluxe boxset of The Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ to be released

  30-08-2022 15:13 via nme.com
  The Beatles producer Giles Martin has confirmed a deluxe boxset of the band’s 1966 album ‘Revolver’ is in the works.READ MORE: Producer Giles Martin on remixing The Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’: “I was surprised by the camaraderie”Previously ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, ‘White Album, ‘Abbey Road’ and ‘Let It Be’ have all received the deluxe boxset treatment, with the records being remixed and rema
  
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• Exclusive: Bastille’s Dan Smith wants to soundtrack ‘Red Dead Redemption 3’

  30-08-2022 14:58 via nme.com
  The next Red Dead Redemption game could get a Brit rock edge, if one of the UK’s biggest bands have anything to do with it. Speaking exclusively to NME, Dan Smith, frontman of Bastille has revealed that he wants to compose the soundtrack to Red Dead Redemption 3.READ MORE: Bastille talk their “surreal, otherworldly” ‘Give Me The Future’ digital experienceWhen asked which game series he’d most like to create an upcoming soundtrack for, the Bastille founder, sin
  
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• Rapper TKorStretch killed in stabbing at Notting Hill Carnival

  30-08-2022 14:18 via nme.com
  Police have confirmed that Takayo Nembhard, a 21-year-old drill rapper from Bristol, was stabbed at Notting Hill Carnival over the weekend and later died.
  Nembhard, who performed under the stage name TKorStretch and had over 10,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, went to Carnival “with his younger sister and friends to have a good time,” said his manager Chris Patrick in a statement. “This is the worst possible ending for a talented kid.”
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• Michael Jackson wanted to play Morpheus in ‘The Sandman’, says Neil Gaiman

  30-08-2022 13:55 via nme.com
  The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman has revealed Michael Jackson had wanted to be cast as Morpheus.
  Gaiman discussed the early iterations of the Netflix project in the 1990s, adapting his comic book series which ran from 1989 to 1996.READ MORE: ‘The Sandman’ review: unfilmable fantasy epic becomes rip-roaring realityIn an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Gaiman said: “By 1996, I was being taken to Warners, where the then-president of Warner Bros sat me down and tol
  
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• Enter Shikari and The Offspring to headline Slam Dunk 2023

  30-08-2022 13:26 via nme.com
  Slam Dunk Festival has confirmed the 2023 event will be headlined by Enter Shikari and The Offspring.READ MORE: Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds talks Pendulum’s “killer” remix of ‘Sorry You’re Not A Winner’Slam Dunk will be returning to Hatfield Park on 27 May and Leeds Temple Newsam on 28 May. Joining Enter Shikari and The Offspring will be Creeper, Billy Talent and Bowling For Soup.
  The festival has also confirmed exclusive reunions from The Academy
  
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• Def Leppard became a 'cool legacy band' thanks to streaming services

  30-08-2022 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott has discussed why he believes the group continues to appeal to each generation.
  
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• Charli XCX feels the 'pressure' to top last two albums

  30-08-2022 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  Charli XCX admits she is still shocked by the mainstream success of her last albums.
  
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• Mariah Carey's home allegedly targeted by Atlanta gang members

  30-08-2022 12:31 via music-news.com
  
  Marlo Hampton, Brad Guzan, and Calvin Ridley were also allegedly targeted.
  
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• Benjamin Clementine announces new record ‘And I Have Been’, shares lead single ‘Genesis’

  30-08-2022 12:23 via nme.com
  Benjamin Clementine has announced details of his new record ‘And I Have Been’ and shared lead single ‘Genesis’ – check it out below.READ MORE: Every single Mercury Prize winner: what happened next?‘And I Have Been’ is the follow-up to 2017’s ‘I Tell A Fly’ and is due for release October 28, via his own label Preserve Artists.
  According to Clementine, “‘And I Have Been’ was conceived during COVID. Like everyone, I was a
  
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• Watch Le Tigre reunite for their first show in over a decade

  30-08-2022 11:46 via nme.com
  Le Tigre, a dance punk group featuring Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and JD Samson, reunited for the first time in 11 years over the weekend – check out footage below.READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life – Kathleen HannaThe band appeared at the Saturday (27 August) of This Ain’t No Picnic festival before headliners LCD Soundsystem.
  Le Tigre started their first gig since 2011 with 1999’s ‘The The Empty’. The 16-song set saw the group also perform ‘Hot Topi
  
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