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• Iggy Azalea Debuts New Green Hair Ahead of 2 New Songs

  01-04-2021 22:37 via billboard.com
  
  Thursday (April 1) may be April Fools’ Day, but Iggy Azalea’s new green hair color is perfect for St. Patrick’s Day.
  The Australian rapper showed off her new neon chopped locks, and she says the new look is for her upcoming single “Sip It,” featuring Tyga, which will be released on Friday along with another new song “Brazil.” Azalea and Tyga previously teamed up on “Kream” from her 2018 EP Survive the Summer.
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• Mark Hoppus is selling instruments and music gear from his personal collection

  15-04-2021 10:15 via nme.com
  
  Blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus is set to sell off a selection of instruments and music gear from his personal collection as part of a new partnership with Reverb.
  The online marketplace, which is “dedicated to buying and selling new, used and vintage musical instruments”, recently teamed up with Hoppus’ ex-Blink bandmate Tom DeLonge for a similar sale.READ MORE: Watch Blink’s Mark Hoppus and All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth – collectively Simple Creatures – g
  
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• Listen to Fiona Apple cover Sharon Van Etten’s ‘Love More’

  15-04-2021 10:02 via nme.com
  
  Fiona Apple has delivered a rendition of Sharon Van Etten‘s ‘Love More’, recorded for the anniversary edition of the latter’s 2010 album ‘Epic’.
  While Apple’s version still maintains the tender feel of Van Etten’s string-led original, she substitutes the strings for rolling percussion, reminiscent of her work on her 2020 album ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’.
  Van Etten previously teased the cover on social media, sharing her performance of the
  
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• David Bowie ’70s recordings announced for new compilation

  15-04-2021 09:46 via nme.com
  
  A collection of David Bowie’s non-album singles, alternate versions and BBC In Concert sessions will be packaged for a new compilation, ‘The Width of a Circle’.READ MORE: David Bowie’s 40 greatest songs – as decided by NME and friendsThe compilation will mostly comprise recordings from a session with John Peel in 1970, in which Bowie performed alongside The Tony Visconti Trio, otherwise known as ‘The Hype’.
  Also among the collection is the five-song scor
  
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• Diane Warren Shares Hilarious Oscars-Themed Dating Profile: ‘I Like Them Short, Bald, Smooth and Golden’

  15-04-2021 09:33 via billboard.com
  
  Hey, Oscar, are you single?
  Superstar songwriter and 12-time Academy Award nominee Diane Warren posted a tongue-in-cheek dating profile on Wednesday, and the man she’s in search of shares a lot of similarities with the golden guy doled out every year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
  “So, it’s never too late to put out the beacon: Yes, I’m single. Yes, I’m looking,” reads the Match.com profile, “Songwriter and hopeless romantic,&rdquo
  
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• Kendrick Lamar’s engineer says rapper’s new album “might” emerge this year

  15-04-2021 09:16 via nme.com
  
  Kendrick Lamar‘s long-serving engineer Derek “MixedByAli” Ali has hinted that the rapper’s forthcoming new solo album “might” be released this year.
  Fans of the Compton rapper continue to eagerly await the follow-up to 2017’s ‘DAMN.’, which celebrated its fourth anniversary yesterday (April 14).READ MORE: The artists we really, really want new music from in 2021New solo music from Lamar has been promised for some time, with the president of h
  
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• Arcade Fire share new 45-minute song ‘Memories of the Age of Anxiety’ for meditation app

  15-04-2021 08:24 via nme.com
  
  Arcade Fire have shared a new 45-minute song titled ‘Memories of the Age of Anxiety’ for a meditation and sleep app.
  The instrumental was created for the Headspace app, which offers meditation and mindfulness skills “on everything from managing stress and everyday anxiety to sleep, focus and mind-body health”.READ MORE: Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld shares ‘With Love And Blindness’ and talks “healing” new solo albumArcade Fire have contributed
  
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• Christina Aguilera Is Working on a Spanish-Language Album

  15-04-2021 07:55 via billboard.com
  
  Christina Aguilera is hard at work on not one but two albums, including her “overdue” Spanish-language LP.
  The U.S. pop veteran is recording an English LP and a Spanish set, just her second after 2000’s Mi Reflejo (My Reflection), which peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and ruled the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums surveys.
  “I’m months away from anything being announced,” she tells Health magazine. “I’m simultaneously w
  
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• Remi Wolf announces remix EP, featuring Beck, Hot Chip, Panda Bear and more

  15-04-2021 07:38 via nme.com
  
  Remi Wolf has announced a new remix EP, ‘We Love Dogs!’, containing remixes of tracks from the artist’s back catalogue.READ MORE: Remi Wolf: Inside her vivid tales of love and life in LADue out May 5 through Island, the collection will feature contributions from Beck, Free Nationals, Hot Chip, Nile Rodgers, Panda Bear and Tune-Yards, among others. Coinciding with the announcement, Wolf has shared the Sylvan Esso remix of ‘Rufufus’, taken from her 2019 debut, ‘
  
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• Mercury Prize 2021 Sets Big Reveal

  15-04-2021 05:34 via billboard.com
  
  The Mercury Music Awards Show returns this year, with a COVIDSafe event at London’s Eventim Apollo on Sept. 9. Before that, the shortlist of 12 albums will be announced July 22, with BBC Music on board as broadcast partner.
  Car manufacturer Hyundai is sponsor of this year’s Mercury Prize, which celebrates artistic achievement across British and Irish music.
  The award was established as the Mercury Music Prize in 1992 by labels body the BPI and its counterpart retail association ERA (
  
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• Reservoir Media Is Officially Set to Arrive on NASDAQ

  15-04-2021 04:54 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Late last month, reports suggested that New York City-based music publisher Reservoir Media was preparing to go public by merging with blank-check acquisition company Roth CH Acquisition II (ROCC on NASDAQ). Now, the parties have officially set the process in motion by inking a “definitive agreement.” Reservoir Media announced today that it and Roth CH […]
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• Watch Arlo Parks cover Patti Smith’s ‘Redondo Beach’

  15-04-2021 04:46 via nme.com
  
  Arlo Parks has taken on a Patti Smith classic, performing a rendition of the latter’s hit ‘Redondo Beach’.
  Presented by Parisian La Blogothèque, Parks’ performance was captured as part of the film-making publication’s Reprise series, which showcases ten artists from various music backgrounds as they cover a cult track from a different part of the music scene to their own.
  Parks’ rendition of the 1975 song – taken from Smith’s 1975 debut albu
  
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• Listen to Rina Sawayama’s new Elton John-featuring version of ‘Chosen Family’

  15-04-2021 03:20 via nme.com
  
  Rina Sawayama has released a new version of her song ‘Chosen Family’, which features Elton John as a special guest.
  The track originally featured on the artist’s debut album ‘Sawayama’, which came out back in April 2020.READ MORE: Rina Sawayama: “I need to get some rock’n’roll lessons from Matty Healy”The new rendition of ‘Chosen Family’ arrived on Wednesday (April 14), with the track initially premiering on Zane Lowe’s Appl
  
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• Hear Rina Sawayama’s heartfelt new Elton John-featuring version of ‘Chosen Family’

  15-04-2021 03:20 via nme.com
  
  Rina Sawayama has released a new version of her song ‘Chosen Family’, which features Elton John as a special guest.
  The track originally featured on the artist’s debut album ‘Sawayama’, which came out back in April 2020.READ MORE: Rina Sawayama: “I need to get some rock’n’roll lessons from Matty Healy”The new rendition of ‘Chosen Family’ arrived on Wednesday (April 14), with the track premiering on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music sh
  
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• Marc Anthony to Executive-Produce New Comedy Series ‘Liked’

  15-04-2021 03:12 via billboard.com
  
  Multi-Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning musician Marc Anthony has another project set up with ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS), a comedy set in the world of social media.
  Liked is described as a comedy series about a millennial who does whatever it takes, including lying, to achieve fame as an online influencer. Anthony and VIS president JC Acosta announced the project Wednesday (April 14) during a pre-recorded keynote session as part of the digital MIPTV international television m
  
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• Triller Parent Company TrillerNet Appoints New CEO, Acquires Amplify.ai and FITE

  15-04-2021 03:10 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Triller parent TrillerNet has acquired Amplify.ai, tapped the customer-engagement platform’s co-founder to serve as CEO, and purchased combat-sports streaming service FITE. The company behind the short-form video-sharing app (and foremost TikTok competitor) unveiled the Amplify.ai purchase and CEO appointment – as well as the FITE buyout – in a pair of formal releases today. Worth […]
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• Orca ‘Almost Started Crying’ When He Took His ‘Masked Singer’ Mask Off a Final Time

  15-04-2021 03:05 via billboard.com
  
  [Spoiler alert: This story contains the identity of the eliminated contestant on Wednesday night’s (April 13) The Masked Singer.] 
  As The Masked Singer prepares for its two-hour Super Eight special next week, viewers were introduced to new wildcard contestant Yeti — who ultimately beat out Orca in the fight for the Golden Mask.
  Orca joined season 5 of the show as the first-ever wildcard contestant, where he rocked the stage with Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not
  
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• Reservoir Leading Music Publishing Funds Onto the US Stock Market

  15-04-2021 02:56 via billboard.com
  
  Reservoir Holdings, which owns Reservoir Media, is going public on the Nasdaq stock exchange through a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in an apparent move to gain liquidity and a lower cost of capital. This marks the first standalone publishing company to go public on a U.S. stock market.
  Reservoir will form a business combination with Ross CH Acquisition II (currently trading on Nasdaq under the symbol ROCC) and when the deal is completed sometime in the th
  
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• Reservoir Is Going Public by SPAC to Fuel More Catalog Acquisitions

  15-04-2021 02:56 via billboard.com
  
  Reservoir Holdings, which owns Reservoir Media, is going public on the Nasdaq stock exchange through a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in an apparent move to gain liquidity and a lower cost of capital.
  Reservoir will form a business combination with Ross CH Acquisition II (currently trading on Nasdaq under the symbol ROCC) and when the deal is completed sometime in the third quarter, the combined company will be named Reservoir Media but with a new ticker, R
  
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• Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei’s 2020 Pay Rises to $47.1 Million

  15-04-2021 02:46 via billboard.com
  
  John Malone’s Liberty Media — which owns audio entertainment giant SiriusXM, the Atlanta Braves baseball team and the Formula One racing circuit — disclosed that president and CEO Gregory Maffei’s 2020 compensation amounted to $47.1 million, up from $44 million in 2019 and $20.1 million in 2018.
  He had made $19.8 million in 2017 and $16.9 million in 2016. The pay details were disclosed in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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• Watch Darren Criss Make His Late-Night Performance Debut With ‘Runnin’ Around’ on ‘Corden’

  15-04-2021 01:33 via billboard.com
  
  Darren Criss made his late-night television performance debut Tuesday night on The Late Late Show With James Corden with “Runnin’ Around.”
  He “got one hell of a gang together” for the first-ever performance of the song (originally titled “F*kn Around”), featuring Este Haim of HAIM (bass), The Pocket Queen (drums), frequent collaborator and San Fermin frontwoman Charlene Kaye (guitar) and the song’s co-writer CJ Baran (keys).
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• Carlos Rivera & Maluma’s ‘100 Años’ Hits Top 10 on Latin Pop Airplay Chart

  15-04-2021 01:20 via billboard.com
  
  As Carlos Rivera and Maluma’s “100 Años” hits the top 10 on Billboard’s Latin Pop Airplay chart (dated April 17), Rivera scores his first top 10 on any airplay chart. The song, which jumps 12-10, earns Maluma his 23rd top 10 dating back to his first chart visit, “La Temperatura” with Eli Palacios (No. 8, 2014).
  “100 Años” bounds with a 30% increase in audience impressions, to 3 million earned in the week ending April 11, according to
  
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• Crumb announce new album ‘Ice Melt’

  15-04-2021 01:12 via nme.com
  
  Crumb have announced the forthcoming release of their second album, ‘Ice Melt’.
  The album will follow their 2019 debut ‘Jinx’, produced by Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado and now released on the band’s own Crumb Records.
  ‘Ice Melt’ is supposedly named for the blend of coarsely ground salts used to dissipate ice on your front steps – absorbing water and giving off heat – available cheaply at US hardware stores.
  The record will feature the three
  
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• Lil Nas X’s “Montero” Is Getting Removed From Spotify, Apple Music, Other Streaming Platforms In Certain Countries

  15-04-2021 01:08 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Lil Nas X recently warned fans that “all the streaming services” were preparing to remove his “Montero” track, and Columbia Records described the potential takedown as “out of our control.” But the song is still live on DSPs for listeners in the United States – and unavailable to those in certain other regions. The precise […]
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• The 15 Books Every Music Fan Should Read

  15-04-2021 00:51 via billboard.com
  
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission.
  Looking for a new book to read can be overwhelming, given the plethora of options available to purchase both online and in bookstores.
  To make it easier for music fans, we’ve compiled a list of 15 must-read music books — from moving memoirs and essays to deep dives on musical history, science and more.
  See our list — many of which are ava
  
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• Rina Sawayama And Elton John Are ‘Chosen Family’ And It’s Adorable

  15-04-2021 00:42 via mtv.com
  
  Rina Sawayama and Elton John released a poignant new version of Sawayama's single "Chosen Family" on Wednesday (April 13) that celebrates finding love and acceptance within one's friendship circle.
  
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• TikTok Is Quietly Beefing Up Its Music Licensing Team

  15-04-2021 00:35 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  TikTok is looking to beef up its legal team with experts in music licensing. TikTok is looking to hire a junior transactional attorney who specializes in music licensing for digital platforms. The company wants to beef up its music licensing libraries available to its users through license agreements. “You will draft and negotiate a variety […]
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• The Players Behind Silk Sonic’s ‘Leave the Door Open’: See the Full Credits

  15-04-2021 00:35 via billboard.com
  
  Silk Sonic, the duo comprised of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, topped the Billboard Hot 100 this week with its single “Leave the Door Open,” up from No. 3 last week. The track marks Mars’ eighth No. 1 on the tally — making him one of just 18 artists in Hot 100 history to boast at least eight songs atop the Hot 100 — and the first for .Paak.
  “Leave the Door Open” logged 21.5 million U.S. streams and sold 28,600 copies in the week ending April 8
  
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• Music Heavyweights Sign Open Letter Opposing Restrictive Voting Laws

  15-04-2021 00:27 via billboard.com
  
  An open letter headlined “We Stand For Democracy” and opposing restrictions on voting drew hundreds of signees from across corporate America, including many names from the entertainment industry.
  Among the companies attaching their names to the letter were Netflix, ViacomCBS, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Eventbrite, CAA, Sonos, UTA and Live Nation Entertainment.
  Individuals signing the letter included notable entertainment figures Scooter Braun, Katy Perry, Debra L. Lee, JJ Abrams, Georg
  
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• Which Taylor Swift Re-Recorded ‘1989’ Song Do You Want to Hear Most? Vote!

  14-04-2021 23:57 via billboard.com
  
  Taylor Swift’s fans can’t shake off the theory that she might be re-recording her fifth album 1989 next. If that’s the case, which song do you wish she would re-record next?
  The Billboard 200 No. 1 LP and 2016 Grammy album of the year winner spawned three No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 — “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space” and “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar. The Swifties already heard a snippet of “Wildest Dreams&r
  
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