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• Diplo wins court case against woman who accused him of distributing revenge porn

  21-09-2022 23:46 via nme.com
  Diplo has won a court case against a woman who he claims was harassing and extorting him.
  The DJ, whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz, called for an arbitration hearing against the woman, accusing her of violating a dual restraining order agreement that the pair allegedly signed back in January 2021.
  In the new ruling, an arbitrator who considered both sets of arguments, came down on the side of Diplo and recommended that the Los Angeles Superior Court award him more than $1.2million (£
  
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• Sony Music Catalog Removed From ByteDance-Owned Streaming Service Resso

  21-09-2022 23:22 via digitalmusicnews.com
  ByteDance-owned streaming service Resso has removed the music of commercially successful Sony Music Entertainment (SME) acts including Harry Styles and Doja Cat. All manner of disappointed fans took to social media to vent about the takedowns towards September’s beginning, but the song removals just recently entered the media spotlight. Moreover, Resso is available solely in […]
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• Select Sony Music Artists Removed From ByteDance-Owned Streaming Service Resso

  21-09-2022 23:22 via digitalmusicnews.com
  ByteDance-owned streaming service Resso has removed the music of commercially successful Sony Music Entertainment (SME) acts including Harry Styles and Doja Cat. All manner of disappointed fans took to social media to vent about the takedowns towards September’s beginning, but the song removals just recently entered the media spotlight. Moreover, Resso is available solely in […]
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• YouTube Will Allow Creators to Monetize Videos with Licensed Music

  21-09-2022 23:09 via digitalmusicnews.com
  YouTube will soon allow creators to monetize long-form videos that feature licensed music. Yesterday’s Made on YouTube event revealed a new program called ‘Creator Music.’ This gives creators a huge catalog of popular music for use in their videos without worrying about getting demonetized. Creators are given a few options when using licensed music. License […]
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• Santigold Returns to Punk Roots in New Video for ‘Fall First’

  21-09-2022 22:45 via rollingstone.com
  Former Stiffed singer embraces DIY aesthetic in latest Spirituals visual
  
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• New York University Is Offering A Course on Lana Del Rey

  21-09-2022 22:20 via digitalmusicnews.com
  New York University is following up its Taylor Swift course offering with a new one for Lana Del Rey. The NYU course will examine the singer’s impact on the music landscape and her connection to social justice movements. According to Variety, the coursework for “Topics in Recorded Music: Lana Del Rey” will “examine Del Rey’s […]
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• Watch Billie Eilish perform ‘Guitar Songs’ tracks ‘TV’ and ‘The 30th’ live in Singapore forest

  21-09-2022 21:56 via nme.com
  Billie Eilish has shared two performances of her playing ‘TV’ and ‘The 30th’ live in a forest in Singapore.READ MORE: Billie Eilish: “I owe it to everyone to put on a good Glastonbury show”The videos – directed by Singaporean director Choānn and filmed in partnership with the Singapore Tourism Board – find Eilish and her brother Finneas performing acoustic in the nature park Cloud Forest.
  Both tracks recently featured on her ‘G
  
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• Stevie Nicks announces return with new single ‘For What It’s Worth’

  21-09-2022 21:53 via nme.com
  Stevie Nicks is set to release a new song this Friday (September 23), a cover of Stephen Stills’ ‘For What It’s Worth’.READ MORE: Stevie Nicks: “In Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie and I were a force of nature”“I am so excited to release my new song this Friday,” Nicks wrote in a handwritten letter posted to social media. “It’s called ‘For What It’s Worth’ and it was written by Stephen Stills in 1966. It meant somet
  
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• Blink-182's Mark Hoppus 'grateful' after cancer scan 'comes back clean'

  21-09-2022 21:31 via music-news.com
  
  The rocker revealed he was undergoing treatment for stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in mid-2021.
  
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• Liam Gallagher says he’s been “walloping the brandy” ahead of gigs over the last year

  21-09-2022 21:01 via nme.com
  Liam Gallagher has said that he has been swigging “half a bottle of brandy” before he goes on stage over the last year.READ MORE: Oasis – every album ranked and ratedThe former Oasis frontman, who turned 50 today (September 21), said he had been drinking brandy with honey and hot water to warm up his voice.
  Speaking to Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1, he discussed his recent pre-show ritual but said he had attempted to “chill out” his drinking at his last few gigs.
  
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• Björk Says ‘Violence’ in the U.S. Contributed to Move Back to Iceland: ‘Too Much for Me’

  21-09-2022 20:57 via rollingstone.com
  “The violence in the USA is on a scale I can’t even fathom,” singer says
  
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• Shakira breaks silence on Gerard Piqué split

  21-09-2022 20:41 via music-news.com
  
  The Colombian popstar and Spanish soccer player announced their split in June.
  
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• Shakira breaks silence on Gerard Piqué split

  21-09-2022 20:41 via music-news.com
  
  The Colombian popstar and Spanish soccer player announced their split in June.
  
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• Leftfield announce intimate UK tour dates, share new track ‘Accumulator’

  21-09-2022 20:38 via nme.com
  Leftfield have shared a high-octane new single, ‘Accumulator’, and announced a run of “intimate” UK tour dates ahead of their new album ‘This Is What We Do’ in December.
  A press release describes ‘Accumulator’ as “a combination of skin and circuits, old and new,” as well as “an instinctive nod towards classic rave sounds”.
  It was also the first track written for the album, and was tested early on by Neil Barnes – who h
  
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• Eric Clapton Catalog Moving to Surfdog for Marketing, Licensing & Administrative Oversight

  21-09-2022 20:24 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Eric Clapton’s catalog of studio albums is moving from Warner Records to Surfdog Records in October. The marketing, licensing, and administrative rights will transfer to Surfdog on October 1, 2022. Clapton’s catalog of studio albums recorded between 1983 and 2010, plus three live albums, are included as part of the deal. So why the move? […]
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• SG Lewis announces new album and shares single ‘Vibe Like This’ featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Lucky Daye

  21-09-2022 20:02 via nme.com
  SG Lewis has announced a new album and shared the first single from the record featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Lucky Daye.READ MORE: SG Lewis – ‘times’ review: kitchen disco bangers that ache with nostalgia‘AudioLust & HigherLove’ is set for release on January 23 via PMR/EMI Records and is the follow up to his 2021 album ‘times’.
  He has also shared a new double single ‘Infatuation’ and ‘Vibe Like This’, the latter of which fe
  
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• Fontaines D.C. share bittersweet video for ‘The Couple Across The Way’

  21-09-2022 19:46 via nme.com
  Fontaines D.C. have released a video for their latest single ‘The Couple Across The Way’.READ MORE: Fontaines D.C.: “People are looking to me for answers. What the fuck do I know?”Taken from their new album ‘Skinty Fia’, which debuted at Number One on both the UK and Irish Official Albums Charts, the track’s lovelorn video was directed by Polocho and conceptualised by frontman Grian Chatten.
  The clip sees the frontman playing accordion and singing o
  
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• See Billie Eilish Play Her ‘Guitar Songs’ Live in a Singapore Forest

  21-09-2022 19:42 via rollingstone.com
  "The Cloud Forest is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen in my life," singer says of venue for "TV" and "The 30th" videos
  
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• Shakira Calls ‘Incredibly Difficult’ Separation From Gerard Piqué Her ‘Darkest Hour’

  21-09-2022 19:29 via rollingstone.com
  "I am not lonely. Sometimes a woman can be enough," she told Elle. "I can be enough at this point for myself and for my family, for my kids"
  
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• Doja Cat says she’s not doing a ‘90s German rave album after all

  21-09-2022 19:10 via nme.com
  Doja Cat has said she is now not doing a ‘90s German rave album after all.READ MORE: Doja Cat – ‘Planet Her’ review: controversial pop-rapper enters her imperial phaseThe rapper recently said in an interview that she was currently inspired by the German rave music of the 1990s and she was “sort of embracing that” adding: “That’s kind of a hint to the album. Rave culture, not house.”
  But in a series of tweets she has backtracked on her pr
  
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• Listen to Nilüfer Yanya cover PJ Harvey’s ‘Rid Of Me’

  21-09-2022 18:46 via nme.com
  Nilüfer Yanya has shared a cover of PJ Harvey‘s ‘Rid Of Me’, the artist’s first musical release since the arrival of her second album in March.
  Speaking about her cover of the 1993 track, Yanya said: “‘Rid Of Me’ haunted me for many years after I first heard it, but in a comforting kind of way, like I knew it was always there for me. It comes across defiant, alien and twisted, but it is a perfect song.
  “I actually think it’s very romanti
  
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• Jesse Jo Stark explores “duality of love” on dramatic new single ‘Lipstick’

  21-09-2022 18:13 via nme.com
  Jesse Jo Stark has released her debut studio album ‘Doomed’ – check out the video for her latest single, ‘Lipstick’, below.
  Comprising 11 tracks, the Los Angeles singer-songwriter’s first full-length record was co-produced with Jesse Rutherford (The Neighbourhood, Benny Blanco) and Michael Harris (Haim, Angel Olsen).
  The project was recently previewed with the haunting track ‘Tornado’, a “melancholic and wistful take on a passionate and all-c
  
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• Warner Music Group Officially Names Robert Kyncl CEO — YouTube Exec Will Replace Stephen Cooper In 2023

  21-09-2022 18:08 via digitalmusicnews.com
  YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl is officially set to replace Stephen Cooper as CEO of Warner Music Group (WMG). The Big Three record label formally announced the appointment this morning. June saw 75-year-old Stephen Cooper, who signed on as WMG’s CEO in 2011, reveal plans to step down by 2023’s conclusion. Meanwhile, 52-year-old Robert […]
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• Listen to The 1975’s tender new single ‘All I Need To Hear’

  21-09-2022 18:04 via nme.com
  The 1975 have released another new single, ‘All I Need To Hear’ – you can listen to it below.
  The song is the latest preview of the Manchester band’s upcoming fifth album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, which is due out on October 14 via Dirty Hit (pre-order/pre-save here).READ MORE: The 1975 live at Reading Festival 2022: “It’s. Just. Fucking. Bangers”It follows on from the recent tracks ‘Part Of The Band’, ‘Happiness&
  
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• Nilüfer Yanya Reimagines a Classic With New Cover of PJ Harvey’s ‘Rid of Me’

  21-09-2022 17:59 via rollingstone.com
  "'Rid of Me' haunted me for many years after I first heard it, but in a comforting kind of way," Yanya said
  
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• Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee launches OnlyFans account

  21-09-2022 17:45 via nme.com
  Tommy Lee has made good on his promise to launch his very own OnlyFans account.READ MORE: Pam & Tommy review: sex tape scandal takes aim at ’90s sleazeIt comes after the Mötley Crüe drummer announced earlier this month at a show with the band in Las Vegas that he was joining the subscription-based social media platform which is popular with sex workers, where users can buy and sell original content.
  At the time he made reference to a full-frontal nude selfie he post
  
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• Miss Grit’s ‘Like You’ Explores Uncanny Sounds and Feelings on the Way to Alt-Rock Deliverance

  21-09-2022 17:15 via rollingstone.com
  It's the first bit of new music from singer-songwriter Margaret Sohn since their 2021 EP Impostor
  
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• Smash Hits and ‘Puro Desmadre’: After Taking Over Musica Mexicana, Grupo Firme Is Ready For More

  21-09-2022 17:00 via rollingstone.com
  The groundbreaking band talks about building a career on grit and determination, making history in the LGBTQ community, and preparing an impressive stadium return next year
  
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• Smash Hits and ‘Puro Desmadre’: After Taking Over Música Mexicana, Grupo Firme Is Ready for More

  21-09-2022 17:00 via rollingstone.com
  The groundbreaking band talks about building a career on grit and determination, making history in the LGBTQ community, and preparing an impressive stadium return next year
  
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• Sammy Hagar on How the Pandemic Inspired His New LP, Why He’s Down on Both Trump and Biden

  21-09-2022 17:00 via rollingstone.com
  The singer's new album Crazy Times was cut with his longtime band the Circle and Nashville producer Dave Cobb over the course of just a single week
  
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• Hear Wet Leg Rework ‘Convincing,’ Cover Ashnikko’s ‘Daisy’ for ‘Spotify Singles’

  21-09-2022 17:00 via rollingstone.com
  Album track "is one of the songs that has gone through a little shapeshift over time as we've been playing gigs for the last year," band says of new version
  
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• Luke Combs, Carly Pearce on Tap for ‘CMT Artists of the Year’

  21-09-2022 16:54 via rollingstone.com
  Cody Johnson, Kane Brown, Walker Hayes round out the 2022 honorees
  
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• Father John Misty adds new dates to 2023 UK and European tour

  21-09-2022 16:53 via nme.com
  Father John Misty has added new dates to his 2023 UK and European tour – tickets are available here.READ MORE: Father John Misty live in London: showman schmoozes with old-school Hollywood sparkleThe singer-songwriter announced the run of shows earlier this year, but he’s now an extra three UK gigs at Brighton Dome on March 10, Portsmouth Guildhall (11) and Leeds University (12).
  Misty (real name Joshua Tillman) has also confirmed an additional concert at Oslo Sentrum Scene on F
  
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• Kanye West claims music catalogue is being put up for sale without his knowledge

  21-09-2022 16:41 via music-news.com
  
  Kanye West compared himself to Taylor Swift.
  
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• Emeli Sandé engaged

  21-09-2022 16:41 via music-news.com
  
  Emeli Sandé has accepted the classical pianist's proposal.
  
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• White Lung announce their fifth and final album ‘Premonition’

  21-09-2022 16:20 via nme.com
  White Lung have announced their fifth and final album ‘Premonition’ – listen to new tracks ‘Date Night’ and ‘Tomorrow’ below.
  The Canadian punk band, who formed back in 2006, are due to release the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Paradise’ on December 2 via Domino. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.
  ‘Premonition’, which is about “birth and rebirth”, comes after an unintended five-year hiatus and “transformative perio
  
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• Steve Lacy announces new 2022 UK and European tour dates

  21-09-2022 16:01 via nme.com
  Steve Lacy has announced details of a short UK and European tour in late 2022 – see the list of dates below and buy tickets here.READ MORE: Steve Lacy – ‘Gemini Rights’ review: a fearlessly funky follow-up from The Internet guitaristThe guitarist of The Internet released his second solo album ‘Gemini Rights’ this summer, and will bring it to Europe for four gigs in December.
  The ‘Give You The World’ tour will begin in London on December 11 with a s
  
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• Spoon Team With U.K. Dub Icon Adrian Sherwood for Full ‘Lucifer On the Moon’ Remix Album

  21-09-2022 16:00 via rollingstone.com
  Sherwood's complete reconstruction of the indie outfit's latest LP, Lucifer on the Sofa, will arrive in November
  
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• Watch Ari Lennox Deliver ‘Age/Sex/Location’ Medley on ‘Fallon’

  21-09-2022 15:43 via rollingstone.com
  Dreamville singer performs "POF" and "Waste My Time" from acclaimed second LP
  
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• Five Years Since the Route 91 Massacre No One Knows a Damn Thing

  21-09-2022 15:31 via rollingstone.com
  In 2017, a gunman opened fire on a Las Vegas country music festival. Today, traumatized survivors and victims’ loved ones still lack answers — even the official death toll is up for debate
  
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• Scottish DJ and producer Jamie Roy has died

  21-09-2022 15:17 via nme.com
  Scottish DJ and producer Jamie Roy has died, his family revealed in a statement.
  In a post on Facebook today (September 21), the Roy family revealed that their son, who was a regular in the clubs of Ibiza, passed away on Tuesday.
  “Jamie passed away yesterday,” the post began. “Jamie was a much loved and talented son, brother, nephew and uncle and loved by his many friends and colleagues both within the music industry and beyond that. We are all absolutely heartbroken.”
  Ro
  
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• Groove Armada share first new single in over two years, ‘Hold A Vibe’

  21-09-2022 15:00 via nme.com
  Groove Armada have shared a new single called ‘Hold A Vibe’ and announced a special career-spanning boxset, ‘GA25’.
  The compilation album is due to for release on November 11 via BMG – pre-order/pre-save here. It’ll mark the 25th anniversary of the electronic duo’s debut single, 1997’s ‘At The River’.
  To preview the forthcoming collection, Groove Armada have today (September 21) dropped their first new track in over two years.
  Described
  
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• 'Serious, man!': Liam Gallagher confirms John Squire supergroup talks

  21-09-2022 14:04 via music-news.com
  
  Liam Gallagher and John Squire have discussed working together after the latter joined the former Oasis frontman at Knebworth.
  
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• Glamour Meets Horror as Jesse Jo Stark Purges Inner Pain in ‘Lipstick’ Video

  21-09-2022 14:00 via rollingstone.com
  Song appears on singer’s newly-released debut studio album, Doomed
  
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• Ed Sheeran says he owes his success to the late Jamal Edwards

  21-09-2022 13:48 via nme.com
  Ed Sheeran has paid fresh tribute to Jamal Edwards, saying he owes his success to his late friend and collaborator.
  The SBTV founder and DJ died in Acton, west London on February 20. He was 31 years old. Last month, a coroner ruled that his death was a result of a cardiac arrest due to taking cocaine.READ MORE: RIP Jamal Edwards, an inspiration who turned SBTV into a Black British cultural dynastyEdwards was an early champion of Sheeran’s music through his SBTV YouTube channel, which
  
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• Watch Lil Nas X FaceTime Lizzo, Olivia Rodrigo and more with Madame Tussauds waxwork

  21-09-2022 13:32 via nme.com
  Lil Nas X has shared a video in which he pranks famous friends including Lizzo and Olivia Rodrigo with his new Madame Tussauds waxwork.READ MORE: Lil Nas X – ‘Montero’ review: ‘Old Town Road’ prankster makes his case as a Serious ArtistYesterday (September 20), the rapper was given his first ever waxwork at Madame Tussauds Hollywood, and proceeded to FaceTime his friends, tricking some of them into believing that it was actually him.
  “Oh my god, hi!&rdquo
  
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• Doja Cat isn't releasing a German rave-influenced album

  21-09-2022 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  Doja Cat has claimed she was joking when she said her new album will be rave-influenced.
  
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• Ciara recruits Summer Walker for Better Thangs

  21-09-2022 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  Ciara has confirmed Summer Walker is featured on 'Better Thangs'.
  
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• Garbage announce new ‘Anthology’ compilation: “It’s testimony to almost three decades of creative work”

  21-09-2022 12:48 via nme.com
  Garbage have announced a new ‘best-of’ compilation album called ‘Anthology’ – find all the details below.
  The Shirley Manson-fronted band will release the career-spanning, 35-track collection on October 28 via BMG/Stunvolume. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.READ MORE: Garbage: “If you’re as successful as we were in the ’90s, that is a burden”“This anthology is testimony to almost three decades of creative work together, our collectiv
  
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• Maren Morris doesn't 'feel comfortable' attending CMA Awards after dispute with Aldeans

  21-09-2022 12:36 via music-news.com
  
  Maren Morris feels peaceful about not going to the annual awards ceremony.
  
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