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• EXO drop music video for ‘Cream Soda’

  10-07-2023 11:30 via nme.com
  
  EXO have officially released their seventh album, titled ‘Exist’, alongside a music video for lead single ‘Cream Soda’.READ MORE: Ryu Su-jeong: “Sometimes I need to tell myself, ‘This is just a job’”The K-pop boyband’s new album is the group’s first record in two years. The accompanying video for ‘Cream Soda’ features seven members of the boyband, with Kai unable to join due to his military enlistment. However, a nod wa
  
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• Hybe Liquidates Supertone After Disastrous $32M Acquisition

  28-07-2026 21:41 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Photo Credit: Supertone
  Hybe is liquidating artificial intelligence startup Supertone after a disastrous $32 million acquisition just a few short years ago.
  Hybe is liquidating Supertone, the artificial intelligence audio specialist it initially saw as a future growth engine. The South Korean entertainment giant concluded that keeping it afloat would be little more than a money sink just three years after the acquisition. The decision ends a short but notably expensive chapter in Hybe’s on
  
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• Tyler Childers Looks Back on ‘Long Violent History’: ‘It’s Ruffled Some Feathers’

  28-07-2026 21:16 via rollingstone.com
  
  The songwriter also encourages Ameicans to listen to New Orleans piano player James Booker's "Make a Better World"
  
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• $5 Billion ‘OCVibe’ Complex in Anaheim is Rapidly Coming to Life—Here’s a First Look at the 5,000-Capacity Concert Hall

  28-07-2026 21:07 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Photo Credit: Digital Music News / OCVibe
  Anaheim’s OCVibe reaches a major construction milestone for its concert hall and offers a first look inside ahead of its planned opening in March.
  OCVibe’s highly anticipated 5,000-capacity concert hall in Anaheim reached a major construction milestone this week with the first seat installations. To commemorate the occasion, the development welcomed media, music industry executives, and key partners to a first look. Orange County’s newe
  
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• Tom Morello teams up with Kneecap and Beartooth for new album ‘Everyone Gets Everything They Want’ as he shares new single ‘Date Night’

  28-07-2026 20:40 via nme.com
  
  Tom Morello has announced his new solo album ‘Everyone Gets Everything They Want’ and shared the single ‘Date Night’ – listen below.READ MORE: Tom Morello: “In the past, I’ve wanted to use music as a battering ram for social justice”The Rage Against The Machine guitarist will release the record on September 25 via Mom + Pop Music and it will feature collaborations with Irish rap trio Kneecap on ‘Unconquered&rsquo
  
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• Arctic Monkeys Producer James Ford Battled Cancer to Emerge with a Life-Affirming Solo Album

  28-07-2026 20:28 via rollingstone.com
  
  Lost in Another World, released under his full name James Ellis Ford, was partially recorded in a London hospital while the songwriter underwent treatment for leukemia
  
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• Robyn and Zara Larsson Raise Heart Rates on ‘Talk to Me’ Remix

  28-07-2026 20:23 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Sexistential collaboration follows their team-up on the "Puss Puss" remix from Larsson's Midnight Sun: Girls Trip
  
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• AM/FM Radio Refuses to Die: Even in 2026, Its ‘Audience Share Is 10X Larger Than Spotify’s’ Ad-Supported Tier, Report Finds

  28-07-2026 20:18 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  A breakdown of stateside audience overlap between traditional radio and Spotify’s ad-supported tier. Photo Credit: Edison Research at SSRS
  Where do fans go when they don’t want to pay for premium audio? AM/FM radio, which, far from dying off, currently boasts a U.S. audience share in excess of 10 times larger than that attributable to Spotify’s ad-supported tier.This and other significant findings come from Edison’s newly released Q2 2026 “Share of Ear” report
  
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• AM/FM Radio Refuses to Die: Even in 2026, Broadcast Radio Audience Share Is 10X Larger Than Spotify’s Ad-Supported Tier, Report Finds

  28-07-2026 20:18 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  A breakdown of stateside audience overlap between traditional radio and Spotify’s ad-supported tier. Photo Credit: Edison Research at SSRS
  Where do fans go when they don’t want to pay for premium audio? AM/FM radio, which, far from dying off, currently boasts a U.S. audience share in excess of 10 times larger than that attributable to Spotify’s ad-supported tier.This and other significant findings come from Edison’s newly released Q2 2026 “Share of Ear” report
  
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• Madison Beer and Justin Herbert Are Engaged: Here’s a Full Timeline of Their Relationship

  28-07-2026 19:37 via rollingstone.com
  
  The pop singer and Justin Herbert of the Los Angeles Chargers began their romance about a year ago
  
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• Daniel Lanois Looks Back at His Work with Bob Dylan and U2

  28-07-2026 19:31 via rollingstone.com
  
  With a new album, Belladonna Nocturne, out now, the legendary producer looks back at collaborations with Dylan, Peter Gabriel, and D'Angelo in our new interview
  
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• Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament to share hundreds of unseen photos and reflect on formation of band in new book ‘Since Forever’

  28-07-2026 19:15 via nme.com
  
  Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament has announced a new photography book titled Since Forever, featuring more than 250 images from the band’s formative years.READ MORE: Pearl Jam – ‘Dark Matter’ review: some of their strongest work in recent memoryThe 9” x 12” hardcover book will bring together Ament’s black-and-white photographs of the people, places and moments that surrounded Pearl Jam’s rise during the 1990s.
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• Steve Lacy Spoils ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ Faces Nerd Crash-Outs

  28-07-2026 19:05 via rollingstone.com
  
  The identity of Sadie Sink's character in the new Spider-Man movie is top secret, but Lacy may not have known that 
  
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• David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen to Reunite … for a TED Talk

  28-07-2026 18:22 via rollingstone.com
  
  Event will take place in Fargo, North Dakota on Thursday and be available to stream at a later date
  
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• Elizabeth Hurley knew she 'was going to like' Miley Cyrus before dating Billy Ray Cyrus

  28-07-2026 18:00 via music-news.com
  
  Elizabeth Hurley has revealed that she has long admired Miley Cyrus.
  
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• Bernie Taupin releasing first solo album in almost 40 years

  28-07-2026 18:00 via music-news.com
  
  Bernie Taupin last released a solo album in 1987.
  
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• Latitude Festival signs new lease to stay at Henham Park for another 20 years

  28-07-2026 17:44 via nme.com
  
  Latitude Festival has signed a new 20-year lease to remain at Henham Park in Suffolk until 2046.
  Festival founder and managing director Melvin Benn announced the agreement with the Rous family, who own the Henham Park estate, during the closing day of Latitude’s 20th edition on Sunday (July 26).
  “I have signed a new 20-year lease with the Rous family,” Benn told festival-goers. “Latitude will call Henham Park home until 2046. I could not be prouder to make that commi
  
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• New York’s Hottest Club Is Bon Jovi at MSG

  28-07-2026 17:25 via rollingstone.com
  
  From Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen to Pink and Ed Sheeran, the band greeted a steady stream of well-wishers during their Madison Square Garden residency
  
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• New York’s Hottest Club Is Bon Jovi

  28-07-2026 17:25 via rollingstone.com
  
  From Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen to Pink and Ed Sheeran, the band greeted a steady stream of well-wishers during their Madison Square Garden residency
  
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• Tom Morello Previews New Solo Album With ‘Anti-Fascist’ Rock Song ‘Date Night’

  28-07-2026 17:19 via rollingstone.com
  
  The LP, out in September, features appearances from Serj Tankian, Kneecap, and Beartooth
  
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• AI Music: Coming of Age. Why the Next Music Revolution May Be Bigger Than Napster

  28-07-2026 16:00 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  AI music has entered a new phase. Major record companies that initially focused on litigation are now building licensed creation platforms, artist opt-in frameworks, and attribution systems. At the same time, studios, streamers, advertisers, and game companies are examining AI-assisted workflows that can produce more musical options, versions, and localized assets under tighter deadlines. The central question is no longer whether AI will be used in music. It’s who may use it, what it may
  
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• The 25 Best Anti-Trump Protest Songs

  28-07-2026 15:52 via rollingstone.com
  
  From hip hop to folk to punk, from personal statements to sweeping anthems -- here are our favoritesongs about the worst president ever
  
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• Viral New Zealand metal gig ruined by “mess of shit, just completely spread all in the mosh pit”

  28-07-2026 15:40 via nme.com
  
  A concert featuring New Zealand metal band Devilskin was reportedly ruined by “a huge mess of shit, just completely spread all in the mosh pit.”
  The show, which took place at the University of Otago’s Union Hall over the weekend, was the second date of Devilskin’s current tour, a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the band’s ‘Be Like The River’ album, which topped the NZ charts in late 2016.
  According to the Otago Daily Times, the incident started wh
  
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• Graham Coxon announces second batch of vinyl reissues for complete solo catalogue

  28-07-2026 15:39 via nme.com
  
  Graham Coxon has announced the second batch of reissues from the ongoing re-release of his entire solo catalogue.READ MORE: Graham Coxon: “I’ve always wondered about relevance – there seems to be this forever-changing front row”The reissue campaign began last month with the release of Coxon’s previously shelved 2011 album ‘Castle Park’, alongside new editions of ‘The Sky Is Too High’ and ‘The Golden D’.
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• Bernie Taupin Has Been Writing for Elton John for Six Decades. He’s Finally Releasing a New Solo Album

  28-07-2026 15:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  The lyricist also reveals that Gary Oldman is making a documentary about his life, and says he and Elton have no plans to sell their publishing
  
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• Tom Cruise’s estranged daughter with Katie Holmes legally cuts ties

  28-07-2026 14:54 via nme.com
  
  Tom Cruise‘s estranged daughter Suri, with Katie Holmes has reportedly dropped her legal surname.
  The 20 year-old who is attending Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has legally changed her surname from Cruise to Noelle, her mother’s middle name, according to voter registration records via Entertainment Weekly.
  It was first reported via The Independent in 2024 that Suri was going by a different surname when she graduated high school, with “Suri Noelle&
  
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• Full line-up announced for Jorja Smith and Tems at London’s All Points East 2026 with Katy B, Maverick Sabre and more

  28-07-2026 14:02 via nme.com
  
  The full Friday line-up for All Points East has been announced, with headliners Jorja Smith and Tems being joined by Katy B, Maverick Sabre, Bricknasty and more.READ MORE: Sault, Cleo Sol and Chronixx live at All Points East 2025: a dizzying, confusing marathonHeld on August 21 in Victoria Park East London, the line-up for the first day of the event has been curated by Jorja Smith herself, alongside her label FAMM. The final wave of additions include Maverick Sabre, Katy B, Bricknasty, Crazy Cou
  
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• Bloc Party dance through heartbreak on new single ‘Now We Can’t Be Friends’ and announce UK record store tour

  28-07-2026 13:43 via nme.com
  
  Bloc Party have shared their new single ‘Now We Can’t Be Friends’ and details of a UK record store tour – check them out below.READ MORE: Bloc Party on their new “disco heartbreak” album with Trevor Horn and being “at peace” with ‘Silent Alarm’The latest taster from their upcoming album ‘Anatomy Of A Brief Romance’ sees frontman Kele Okereke “heading back out clubbing again” after a romantic break-up and “n
  
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• Fat Dog paint a picture of “two fucking insane people who argue constantly” on manic new single ‘Shit Love’

  28-07-2026 13:16 via nme.com
  
  Fat Dog have unveiled their new single ‘Shit Love’, the third release from the forthcoming album ‘Cancel Me (I’m Tired)’.READ MORE: The party never sleeps: Fat Dog unleashed in AmericaThe fast-paced, synth-led trackiss introduced by frontman Joe Love as being about “two fucking insane people who argue constantly and they are world-enders every time”. You can listen to the track here, and watch the visualiser for the song below.
  The follow-up to 2024 debu
  
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• The NME Magazine July/August 2026 issue is out this week – here’s how to get your copy

  28-07-2026 13:00 via nme.com
  
  The July/August 2026 issue of NME Magazine is out this week – marking the comeback of the classic NME crossword! Here’s how you can buy your copy, which will be bundled with MusicTech Magazine.
  Having first launched in 1952, NME’s last printed edition of the weekly incarnation of the magazine stopped in 2018. In July 2023, NME announced our return to print with a bi-monthly global magazine that showcases the best new artists and bands on earth, alongside exclusive new franchise
  
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