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• Rosalia and Rauw Alejandro Announce 3-Song Bundle ‘RR’

  13-03-2023 23:30 via rollingstone.com
  
  The couple will release songs "Beso," "Vampiros," and "Promsea" on March 24
  
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• The Cure Hopes to Fight Ticket Scalping with Non-Transferrable Tickets

  13-03-2023 23:18 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  The Cure says that tickets for their first US show in seven years will be non-transferrable in an effort to keep them at face value. As The Cure prepares to embark on their first US tour in seven years, the English rock band announces their tickets will be non-transferrable, part of an effort to help […]
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• Drake and 21 Savage announce huge 2023 ‘It’s All A Blur’ tour

  13-03-2023 23:14 via nme.com
  
  Drake and 21 Savage have announced a huge 2023 arena tour of North America – find details below and buy tickets here.READ MORE: Drake and 21 Savage – ‘Her Loss’ review: exciting prospect marred by lazy songwritingThe 29-date tour, dubbed ‘It’s All A Blur’, begins in June and comes in support of the two rappers’ recent collaborative album ‘Her Loss’.
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• Watch Rick Ross’ documentary on all-Black Red Bull Symphonic gig

  13-03-2023 22:57 via nme.com
  
  Rick Ross has released a new documentary chronicling the making of his sold-out Redbull Symphonic gig in Atlanta last November.
  At the prestigious Atlanta Symphony Hall, the Floridian rap legend collaborated with the all-Black symphony Orchestra Noir and its founder, maestro and musical director Jason Ikeem Rodgers, for a one-off night where hip-hop and classical music collided.
  The documentary features never-before-seen rehearsal footage and exclusive interviews with Rodgers, Orchestra Noir mem
  
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• Beatport Launches ‘Beatport.io’ — New Web3 Hub for Electronic Music

  13-03-2023 22:50 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Beatport has announced a new digital collectible marketplace called Beatport.io, in partnership with the Polkadot blockchain. Developed and designed in partnership with Define Creative, Beatport.io will launch on Aventus, a web3 solutions provider for enterprises and parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Beatport says the new platform will serve as its first permanent home in the […]
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• Rap collective Codefendants earn hip-hop legend The D.O.C’s first verse in 20 years on ‘Fast Ones’

  13-03-2023 22:37 via nme.com
  
  The rap collective Codefendants have collaborated with Death Row founder and hip-hop legend The D.O.C for ‘Fast Ones’. Check out the video below.
  The track and its accompanying music video featuring The D.O.C, delivering his first since his third studio album, 2003’s ‘Deuce’, sees the rap legend team up with the punk supergroup.
  The group formed in November 2022 and created a pentalogy ahead of the group’s upcoming album, ‘This Is Crime Wave’. &lsq
  
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• Codefendants earn hip-hop legend The D.O.C’s first verse in 20 years on ‘Fast Ones’

  13-03-2023 22:37 via nme.com
  
  Codefendants have collaborated with Death Row founder and hip-hop legend The D.O.C for ‘Fast Ones’. Check out the video below.
  The track and its accompanying music video featuring The D.O.C, delivering his first since his third studio album, 2003’s ‘Deuce’, sees the rap legend team up with the punk supergroup.
  The group formed in November 2022 and created a pentalogy ahead of the group’s upcoming album, ‘This Is Crime Wave’. ‘Fast Ones’
  
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• SM Entertainment Stock Plummets As Hybe Calls Off Takeover Plans: ‘The Market Has Been Showing Signs of Overheating’

  13-03-2023 22:36 via digitalmusicnews.com
  After a much-publicized battle for control of rival K-pop company SM Entertainment, Hybe has officially opted to “discontinue the acquisition process” at once, citing the possibility that completing the buyout would “harm shareholder value.” The BTS agency just recently announced the conclusion of its effort to take control of SM Entertainment, including by replacing the […]
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• Steel Panther’s Satchel says BTS make the “worst fucking music I’ve heard in my life”

  13-03-2023 22:34 via nme.com
  
  Steel Panther guitarist Russ ‘Satchel’ Parrish has hit out at K-pop icons BTS, saying they make the “worst fucking music I’ve heard in my life”.READ MORE: RM of BTS: “My whole twenties were an exhibition… but I chose to be a star”The guitarist was talking to Classic Rock Magazine for a new Q&A, when he discussed how he found out about BTS.
  “Recently we went to Japan and I had a day to kill. I was trapped in my hotel room and somebody tol
  
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• Watch Ashnikko’s dystopian music video for ‘Worms’

  13-03-2023 22:21 via nme.com
  
  Ashnikko has released a futuristic environmentally-conscious music video for ‘Worms’ taken from her highly-anticipated debut album ‘WEEDKILLER’.READ MORE: Ashnikko on new track ‘You Make Me Sick’ and her next project: “I’m controlling the narrative”Directed by Ramen Djafari, the music video is “an artistic commentary” on two prevalent issues; the climate crisis and the advancement of technology. Also inspired by the popular dystop
  
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• Sub Focus announces “’90s inspired” new album ‘Evolve’

  13-03-2023 22:12 via nme.com
  
  Sub Focus has announced details of new album ‘Evolve’, which will be released soon via EMI Records.
  The London-based electronic music producer third album will host 14 tracks with guest spots from the likes of CamelPhat, Gene Farris and LOWES. Sub Focus – real name Nick Douwma – will also include his UK Top 30 single ‘Ready To Fly’ on the record.
  “Having grown up in the ’90s, I was inspired to channel elements of my musical evolution over the cours
  
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• World Cup Anthem Singer Myriam Fares Removes Blackface From 2018 Video

  13-03-2023 22:09 via rollingstone.com
  
  "We are now very well aware of the offensiveness that escaped our judgment when we launched the music video," Fares' management team tells Rolling Stone
  
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• RIAA Chief Raises ‘Profound Red Flags’ About TikTok — Says Platform “Exploits Recorded Music to Build An Audience”

  13-03-2023 21:14 via digitalmusicnews.com
  RIAA CEO Mitch Glazier says his organization is challenging TikTok’s exploitation of recorded music to build its audience. The RIAA released its recorded music revenue data for 2022, showing a seventh straight year of growth. That’s partially due to an 8% increase in paid subscription streaming revenues. 84% of the U.S. recorded music revenues now […]
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• Drake Announces ‘It’s A Blur’ 2023 Tour with 21 Savage

  13-03-2023 20:44 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Drake has announced his 2023 ‘It’s All A Blur’ tour featuring 21 Savage in a 29-date arena run. ‘It’s All A Blur’ is Drake’s first return to touring since his 2018 tour with the Three Migos. The title hints at the tour being a celebration of the last decade—because catalog tours are so hot right […]
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• Gary Glitter back in jail a month after his early release

  13-03-2023 20:34 via nme.com
  
  Convicted paedophile Gary Glitter is back behind bars for breaching his bail agreement, a month after he was released from prison early.
  Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed for 16 years in February 2015 after being found guilty of sexually abusing three young girls between 1975 and 1980.
  He was sentenced for attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one for having sex with a girl under 13. During sentencing, Judge Alistair McCreath said he could find “no real evide
  
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• Watch Nandi Bushell deliver “most difficult cover she has ever made”

  13-03-2023 20:20 via nme.com
  
  12-year-old Nandi Bushell has dropped another drum cover, declaring this one as “the most difficult cover [she] has ever made”.
  This time the young prodigy covered Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Juan Tizol’s percussion-heavy ‘Caravan’. The jazz-y cover took Bushell three months to learn, and then a week to film.
  “First I needed to learn new techniques, then memorise all the sheet music,” she said. “It was hard! I pushed myself and practiced so mu
  
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• Listen to Mella Dee’s ‘Riptide’ featuring New Order’s Bernard Sumner

  13-03-2023 20:14 via nme.com
  
  Producer Mella Dee has released his newest single ‘Riptide’, featuring New Order and Joy Division’s Bernard Sumner.
  Released on Friday (March 10) via Pete Tong‘s Three Six Zero Recordings, The track harkens back to the ’70s styles of Italo-disco to invoke nostalgia.
  Mella Dee said ‘Riptide’ “was originally written in a time when we weren’t able to celebrate life together”, referring to the recent worldwide lockdown in 2020.
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• Sharp Dressed Men: Elvis Costello, Billy Gibbons Jam on ZZ Top Classics

  13-03-2023 20:13 via rollingstone.com
  
  Musicians joined forces at a special benefit concert in Nashville
  
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• We Built ‘Swift City’: Glendale, Arizona Changes Name Ahead of Taylor Swift Eras Tour Opener

  13-03-2023 20:02 via rollingstone.com
  
   "We are writing our own love story for her and greeting every Swiftie in style!" wrote the Glendale mayor in a statement
  
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• Ticketmaster to be more transparent about ticket fees

  13-03-2023 19:49 via nme.com
  
  Ticketmaster has told investors that it will be more transparent about extra fees added to tickets after multiple recent controversies.
  Live Nation and Ticketmaster were the subject of a recent hearing in the US Congress which examined the issues with the ticketing market that contributed to a well-publicised fiasco relating to the pre-sale of Taylor Swift’s upcoming ‘Eras’ tour.
  Tickets for the tour went on sale in November and saw thousands of fans reporti
  
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• Musicians Organization Renews Discovery Mode Criticism Amid Indie Expansion: ‘The Most Brazenly Anticompetitive Form of Payola We’ve Seen in Digital Music’

  13-03-2023 19:14 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  As it attempts to generate $100 billion annually by 2032, Spotify is rapidly expanding Discovery Mode to indie artists – a move that’s spurring new criticism of the long-controversial offering. Multiple organizations and individuals are pushing back against the effort to build out Discovery Mode, which enables artists and labels to influence listener recommendations in […]
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• Interpol announce new 2023 UK headline tour dates

  13-03-2023 19:05 via nme.com
  
  Interpol have announced details of new UK headline shows for summer 2023 – find the full list of dates below and ticket details here.READ MORE:  Interpol: “We were rejected by every record label – including the one we’re signed to”The New York indie icons, who released seventh album ‘The Other Side Of Make-Believe’ last summer, will return to the UK for five headline dates spread out across the summer.
  On May 28, the tour will begin in Brighton
  
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• Watch Lynyrd Skynyrd Salute Gary Rossington at First Show Since Guitarist’s Death

  13-03-2023 18:46 via rollingstone.com
  
  The undeterred Southern rockers played "Tuesday's Gone" for Rossington at a Florida concert, a week after its last original member died at 71
  
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• Jason Derulo teases his first album in eight years

  13-03-2023 18:44 via nme.com
  
  Jason Derulo has teased that he’s working on his fifth studio album, which would be his first in eight years.
  The last record Derulo released was the 2015 record ‘Everything Is 4’, which became a highly-acclaimed Top 40-charting album.
  Speaking to The Sun‘s Bizzare column, as quoted by Yahoo, the 33-year-old said: “I’m finally with a record label I feel really comfortable with”. He also promised that he’ll be “releasing a song every single mo
  
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• Lil Keed’s posthumous announced with new single ‘Self Employed’

  13-03-2023 18:40 via nme.com
  
  A posthumous album from the late rapper Lil Keed has been announced, launched with the new single ‘Self Employed’.READ MORE: Lil Keed: the Atlanta rapper with a hustler mentality who leaves a legacy of inspirationThe new album, ‘Keed Talk To ‘Em 2’, will be the first posthumous LP released by the star’s camp and the sequel to his breakthrough 2018 mixtape ‘Keed Talk To ‘Em’.
  The album will be the follow-up to the 2020 album ‘Trapped On
  
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• Coldplay surprise Brazilian fans with special guest Seu Jorge at São Paulo show

  13-03-2023 18:37 via nme.com
  
  Coldplay brought out Brazilian legend Seu Jorge to perform with them during their six-night residency in São Paulo, Brazil. Check out footage below.READ MORE: Coldplay on the cover: “This is our period of having no fear”The band are currently still on tour celebrating their Grammy-nominated ninth studio album, ‘Music Of The Spheres’, which started in 2021.
  During the band’s show at Estádio do Morumbi on Saturday (March 11), they invited Seu Jorge on st
  
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• Feid Announces North American Dates for Ferxxo Underground Nitro Jam Tour

  13-03-2023 18:36 via rollingstone.com
  
  "We want people to find a space where they can feel good, connect and live in the moment," he previously said about touring
  
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• Watch the Spice Girls’ never-seen-before alternative music video ‘Stop’

  13-03-2023 18:32 via nme.com
  
  Spice Girls have released an alternative never-seen-before music video in celebration of their ’90s smash hit ‘Stop”s 25th anniversary.READ MORE: Spice Girls’ ‘Wannabe’ at 25: what we’ve learned from the iconic girl group since‘Stop’ turned 25 on March 9 and was the third single from the band’s second studio album, ‘Spiceworld’.
  In the original music video, we saw the Spice Girls knock on each others’ doors before danc
  
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• Marcus Mumford, Anna Calvi, Hozier and more for Turkey and Syria fundraiser at Royal Albert Hall

  13-03-2023 18:20 via nme.com
  
  Marcus Mumford, Anna Calvi and Hozier are among the artists set to play a fundraising event for Turkey and Syria in London next month.
  On Saturday, April 15, the famous Royal Albert Hall will host the event, which will raise funds for War Child and the Turkey Mozaik Foundation in response to the deadly recent earthquake.
  The night will also feature guest appearances by Olivia Colman, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Omid Djalili, as well as the Turkish and Syrian Solidarity Ensemble.
  Olivia Colman said of he
  
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• TLC and Shaggy Announce ‘Hot Summer Nights’ Tour With En Vogue and Sean Kingston

  13-03-2023 17:59 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Nineties favorites will perform at amphitheaters across North America starting in June
  
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• Miley’s Weird Journey: From ‘Hannah Montana’ to ‘Flowers’

  13-03-2023 17:45 via rollingstone.com
  
  Miley Cyrus has had one of pop's most unpredictable careers. We tell her full story in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now
  
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• Listen to The Vaccines’ Freddie Cowan’s atmospheric new single ‘Begin Again’

  13-03-2023 17:42 via nme.com
  
  The Vaccines‘ guitarist Freddie Cowan has revealed ‘Begin Again’, the third single to be released as part of his upcoming solo album. Check it out below.READ MORE: The Vaccines’ Freddie Cowan talks debut album as Freddie Cowan & The ScenariosThe new track will feature as part of the artists’ new solo endeavour, Freddie & The Scenarios – a project that sees Cowan take on the role of frontman alongside some other famous faces.
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• JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown announce collaborative album ‘Sharing The Hoes’, share single

  13-03-2023 17:30 via nme.com
  
  Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA have formally announced their new collaborative album, ‘Sharing The Hoes’.READ MORE: JPEGMAFIA: “I’m not trying to be different. I am naturally different”The two rappers revealed while hosting an NTS Radio show last year that they had made an album together, announcing the project at Smoker’s Club festival in southern California where they also performed a new, currently untitled song.
  The album was confirmed
  
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• Animal Collective to reissue debut album and EP with unreleased songs

  13-03-2023 17:30 via nme.com
  
  Animal Collective have announced the reissue of their debut album, ‘Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished’ – featuring brand-new artwork and a host of previously unreleased tracks.READ MORE: Animal Collective – ‘Time Skiffs’ review: adventurers get back on the right trackAnnounced today (March 13), the reissue will arrive on May 12 and features remastered versions of the 10 original tracks. In addition, the band are also set to release a new
  
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• Counting Crows Plot Summer 2023 ‘Banshee Season’ Tour With Dashboard Confessional

  13-03-2023 16:54 via rollingstone.com
  
  Frank Turner will join the two bands at select shows on the 56-date trek
  
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• Courtney Love shares text with Dave Grohl and calls for more women in Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

  13-03-2023 16:52 via nme.com
  
  Courtney Love has shared a text conversation she had with Dave Grohl, as part of a call for more women to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
  The Hole vocalist took to Twitter and Instagram this week to share the words of author and journalist Jessica Hopper, who shared an article titled “Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame celebrates women who rock.”
  In response, Hopper wrote: “Do they tho? 719 inductees to the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, only 61 are women. That’s
  
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• Animal Collective’s Ancient Fleetwood Mac Cover to Come Out This Spring

  13-03-2023 16:47 via rollingstone.com
  
  A rendition of "Dreams" will feature on a reissue of the group's first full-length, Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
  
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• Audoo Appoints Music Publishing Vet Nigel Elderton as Chairman

  13-03-2023 16:32 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Audoo is a new music technology company that aims to revolutionize public performance royalties. Music publishing veteran Nigel Elderston has been appointed Chairman. Audoo now has a growing team of international music industry experts whose combined experience boasts 45 years in the music industry. This move helps form part of Audoo’s global business expansion, adding […]
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• Machine Gun Kelly and Mod Sun named “worst directors” at the Razzies

  13-03-2023 16:02 via nme.com
  
  Machine Gun Kelly and Mod Sun jointly took home the Worst Director award at the Razzies for their film Good Mourning.READ MORE: Good Mourning review –  it’s Machine Gun Kelly’s Excellent AdventureThe 2023 Golden Raspberry Awards winners were revealed on Saturday (March 11). The “Razzies”, as the YouTube-hosted awards is nicknamed, annually celebrate the “worst” in film.
  Kelly and Sun’s stoner film follows movie star London Clash (portrayed by
  
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• Primavera Sound on launching new Madrid festival and fixing 2022’s issues

  13-03-2023 15:02 via nme.com
  
  An organiser from Primavera Sound festival has spoken to NME about the ambitious launch of their new sister event in Madrid, as well as what goes into putting the line-up together and what caused the issues with last year’s Barcelona return.READ MORE: Primavera Sound Barcelona 2022 review: logistical gaffes can’t dampen the spiritPrimavera had previously announced a stacked line-up with the likes of Depeche Mode, Blur, Kendrick Lamar, Rosalía to headline, along with the likes o
  
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• Mikhail Baryshnikov Details 75th Birthday Concert With Laurie Anderson, Regina Spektor

  13-03-2023 15:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  The event will also feature Diana Krall and Kaoru Watanabe
  
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• Christine & The Queens announces Sigur Rós, Django Django and more as first acts for Meltdown Festival 2023

  13-03-2023 15:00 via nme.com
  
  Christine & The Queens has shared the first names booked for Meltdown Festival 2023, with Sigur Rós and Django Django confirmed to headline.READ MORE: Christine and The Queens – ‘Redcar les adorables étoiles’ review: high art meets dark, uneasy synth-popThe singer-songwriter and producer is the curator and headliner of this year’s event at London’s Southbank Centre, which runs from Friday, June 9 until Sunday, June 18.
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• The 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time

  13-03-2023 14:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  Devil horns up! From Sabbath to Scorpions to Slipknot, from the Sunset Strip to Scandinavia
  
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• Micky Dolenz Won’t Let the Monkees Die

  13-03-2023 14:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  'It's weird being the last man standing,' the Sixties pop band's last surviving member says as he prepares to take their classic album 'Headquarters' on tour in April
  
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• The Who’s Roger Daltrey gives update on Keith Moon biopic

  13-03-2023 13:15 via nme.com
  
  The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has spoken to NME about the long-awaited Keith Moon biopic, vowing that the film “will be made” despite numerous past setbacks.
  The project has been in the works since at least 2005, when Mike Myers signed up to portray the late drummer. However, it’s since languished in development limbo and failed to get off the ground.READ MORE: Roger Daltrey on Teenage Cancer Trust and the chances of new music from The WhoIn early 2022, it was reported that th
  
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• Spice Girls share alternative Stop music video for 25th anniversary

  13-03-2023 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  The Spice Girls have continued their 'Spice World' 25th anniversary celebrations with the new version of the 'Stop' music video.
  
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• Gene Simmons would still love to do a Las Vegas residency

  13-03-2023 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  Gene Simmons admits he has no idea if another residency is on the cards but he'd be keen to play Sin City again.
  
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• Former Super Furry Animals members' new outfit, Das Koolies, release debut EP

  13-03-2023 13:04 via music-news.com
  
  Das Koolies' "genesis lies in the nineties, half-a-decade between chapters and subject of rumour ever since."
  
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• Drake Announces First North American Arena Tour in Five Years ‘It’s All a Blur’

  13-03-2023 13:03 via rollingstone.com
  
  The tour with 21 Savage marks his first stretch of shows in North America since the Aubrey & the Three Migos tour hit arenas in 2018
  
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• Lady Gaga rushes to help photographer who falls on Oscars red carpet

  13-03-2023 12:56 via music-news.com
  
  Lady Gaga helped the photographer get back up and made sure he was OK.
  
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