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• Listen to Benny The Butcher join Belly on eerie new track ‘Money On The Table’

  07-04-2021 23:48 via nme.com
  
  Canadian rapper Belly has teamed up with Benny The Butcher on a new track called ‘Money On The Table’ – listen to it below.READ MORE: Benny The Butcher – ‘The Plugs I Met 2’ review: gifted rapper’s skippable sequelAlso sharing ‘IYKYK’, both tracks have been released to announce Belly’s forthcoming album ‘See You Next Wednesday’, due out later this year via XO Records/Roc Nation.
  A nod to filmmaker John Landis, the new album
  
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• Clubhouse Data Leak or Not? – Clubhouse CEO Says ‘No Leak Happened’

  13-04-2021 00:03 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Over the weekend, claims of a Clubhouse data leak exposing 1.3 million accounts surfaced. Is it true? Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison has denied the report, claiming it is false. Cyber News reported on information appearing on a hacker forum, describing the leak as an SQL database’s contents. The information includes names, usernames, Twitter, Instagram, and […]
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• Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak Are ‘Poppin’ Bottles’ After Silk Sonic Hits No. 1 on Hot 100

  12-04-2021 23:46 via billboard.com
  
  Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak are toasting to Silk Sonic’s debut single “Leave the Door Open” hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
  Mars unlocks his eighth Hot 100 No. 1 hit and .Paak earns his first this week (dated April 17) as the duo tops the chart.
  “[email protected] WE DID IT BRO!!! It is now safe to wear your bell bottoms all week!! #LeaveTheDoorOpen is the number 1 song in the country and I can’t thank y’all enough!” .Paak wrote on Twitter while shar
  
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• What Do Spiderwebs Sound Like? – Scientists Create Music from their Vibrations

  12-04-2021 23:37 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Do you know what a spiderweb sounds like? Scientists have turned these complex arachnid hunting grounds into ‘instruments’ for the first time. Spiders use the vibrations picked up on their webs to hunt their prey. But what would a spiderweb sound like if you could pluck it like the strings of a harp? Researchers have […]
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• Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Spotify Curates COVID Vaccine Playlist

  12-04-2021 23:24 via billboard.com
  
  Spotify users have created countless soundtracks for their COVID-19 vaccine journey, and the streaming service has boiled it down to a science — and to one playlist.
  Since Jan. 1, Spotify users have curated more than 7,700 vaccine-related playlists around the world. In the last 90 days, Spotify has witnessed a 350% increase in fan-generated playlists specific to the COVID-19 vaccine and naming playlists after the various vaccine manufacturers, including Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson &am
  
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• Creeper vocalist Will Gould announces new EP with side-project Salem

  12-04-2021 23:17 via nme.com
  
  Salem – the side project of Creeper vocalist Will Gould – have announced details of a new EP and shared a new song.
  ‘Draculads’ is the first preview of upcoming EP ‘Salem II’, set for release on May 7. The track comes complete with its own video.READ MORE: Creeper’s Will Gould on new band Salem: “These are spooky, silly, romantic punk rock songs”“‘DRACULADS’ is the sound of two lovers kissing in a bar fight,” Gould sai
  
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• Neumos in Seattle, in a Pandemic: ‘We’re Promoters. We Expect Sh– to Go Wrong’

  12-04-2021 23:06 via billboard.com
  
  As co-owner of Seattle’s popular independent venue Neumos in Capitol Hill, Steven Severin has been a staple in the Seattle music industry for more than 20 years. Roughly 10 years ago, he helped create the Seattle Nightlife and Music Association to bring together the area’s live event insiders, and for the past 16 years has helped run Neumos with its sister club Barboza and the accompanying Runaway bar.
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• Guess on Teaming Up With FriendsWithYou & J Balvin for Capsule: ‘He’s Really Our Guy’

  12-04-2021 22:56 via billboard.com
  
  J Balvin, Guess and FriendsWithYou have joined forces for a vibrant capsule that “aims to remind people that happiness is found in everyday life.”
  For Guess, the new collection, which will be available in stores and online Thursday, comes “full circle” thanks to Balvin, who introduced artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III to the brand. After collaborating on merch and other small projects, Guess and FriendsWithYou presents a bigger capsule collection with 75 piec
  
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• Watch Lamb Of God cover Bad Brains with Fever 333’s Jason Aalon Butler

  12-04-2021 22:50 via nme.com
  
  Bad Brains classic ‘I Against I’ has been covered by Lamb Of God with special guest Jason Aalon Butler from Fever 333.
  The quarantine performance was recorded from the artists’ respective homes – check it out below.READ MORE: Fever 333: “When people say ‘I don’t see colour’, that’s ignorance”“The idea to cover I Against I goes back at least 20 years to a camping trip the band was on,” Randy Blythe of Lamb Of G
  
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• Phoebe Bridgers Auctions Her Smashed SNL Guitar for $101,500

  12-04-2021 22:43 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Phoebe Bridgers auctioned her smashed SNL guitar for charity, bringing in $101,500. Bridgers caused a stink online after some musicians commented on the smashed instrument in February. The smashed guitar was recently put up for auction by GLAAD and sold for over $100k at the auction’s close. The supervising producer of the GLAAD Media Awards […]
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• AJR Announce 2022 ‘OK Orchestra’ Tour

  12-04-2021 22:36 via billboard.com
  
  AJR has announced a 27-date U.S. tour set to kick off in April 2022. Produced by Live Nation, the OK Orchestra Tour will be in support of their latest album of the same name.
  The tour will launch April 28, 2022, at Toyota Music Factory in Dallas and move throughout Orlando, Philadelphia, New York, Nashville, Chicago, Denver, Seattle and San Francisco. The trek is currently scheduled to close out on June 21, 2022, at Ak-Chin Pavilion in Phoenix.AJR recently released their fourth-fu
  
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• Dua Lipa Is ‘Free’ in New YSL Libre Fragrance Ad

  12-04-2021 22:31 via billboard.com
  
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  Dua Lipa is fittingly free in the new campaign advertisement on Monday (April 12) for YSL Beauty’s Libre Eau de Parfum and Eau de Toilette.
  “Don’t be afraid of your freedom,” she says in the clip as she climbs up a set of stairs to the top of a building, where she removes her top and bares all to the city below.
  “‘Cause I’m
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo Is ‘Screaming & Crying’ After Doubling Up in the Hot 100 Top 10

  12-04-2021 22:26 via billboard.com
  
  Olivia Rodrigo is experiencing déjà vu this Monday (April 12), when her latest single “Deja Vu” debuted in the top 10 of the  Billboard Hot 100.
  The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series breakout star had her debut single “Drivers License” ride to the top slot of the all-genre tally in January, making it the first single to debut at No. 1 in 2021. Her former eight-week Hot 100 No. 1 hit drops to No. 5, while its follow-up
  
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• Nessa Barrett & jxdn Enlist Travis Barker for ‘la di die’ on ‘Ellen’

  12-04-2021 22:21 via billboard.com
  
  With help from Travis Barker, Nessa Barrett and jxdn performed their single “la di die” Monday (April 12) on Ellen.
  The Blink-182 drummer assisted the two for their hazy performance from inside an open cage. All three wore all-white outfits, coordinating with each other and complementing the pink and blue fog surrounding them. This marks the second time the three have performed the song together on television, the first being April 7 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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• Cher Can’t Contain Her Appreciation for Christopher Meloni Either

  12-04-2021 22:12 via billboard.com
  
  Cher gets it too! The iconic performer took a break from promoting her upcoming documentary, Cher & The Loneliest Elephant, to — like many people in recent days — share her appreciation of Christopher Meloni. But in her case, it’s his acting skills she’s praising.
  “CHRISTOPHER MELONI IS EXCELLENT, CHARISMATIC ACTOR,” Cher tweeted in the early morning hours of Monday (April 12).
  The Emmy-nominated actor responded, “A lovely way to start the day.&
  
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• Yeehaw! Someone’s made a country cover of Fall Out Boy’s ‘Sugar, We’re Goin Down’

  12-04-2021 22:10 via nme.com
  
  A YouTuber has reworked Fall Out Boy‘s ‘Sugar, We’re Goin Down’ into a country song – listen to it below.READ MORE: Green Day vs ‪Weezer vs Fall Out Boy – which band sits on the Hella Mega Tour’s iron throne?Alex Melton’s new version of the ‘From Under The Cork Tree’ single follows his cover of Paramore’s ‘Misery Business’ last month.
  Recorded in his ​”unfinished upstairs bathroom,” Melton&
  
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• South Korean Lawmakers Face Criticism Over ‘Unrealistic and Unfair’ BTS Military-Deferment Terms

  12-04-2021 21:57 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  The Korea Music Content Association (KMCA) has filed a formal complaint over the “unfair” military-service deferment that K-pop sensation BTS received in 2020’s final month. To recap, lawmakers in December of 2020 passed a measure that allowed BTS members to delay completing their mandatory military service – effectively enabling the Seoul-based act to remain together […]
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• Ariana Grande, Olivia Rodrigo & More Seek Justice for Daunte Wright After Minnesota Police Fatal Shooting

  12-04-2021 21:45 via billboard.com
  
  Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by Minnesota police during a traffic stop on Sunday, and artists are seeking justice in his name.
  Around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Brooklyn Center Police Department officers pulled over Wright for a traffic violation and tried taking him into custody upon discovering he had an outstanding arrest warrant. Police said Wright instead went back inside his vehicle, where his girlfriend was in the passenger seat, and an unidentified o
  
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• Olly Alexander Is ‘Starstruck’ In Solo Years & Years Music Video

  12-04-2021 21:38 via mtv.com
  
  On Monday (April 12), Olly Alexander unveiled the music video for "Starstruck," his first single as a solo artist after transforming the band Years & Years into his own personal project.
  
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• Swizz Beatz celebrates DMX's 'different type of spirit' in emotional tribute

  12-04-2021 21:36 via music-news.com
  
  Rapper DMX died at the age of 50 on Friday.
  
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• Watch Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama’s podcast parodied on ‘SNL’

  12-04-2021 21:34 via nme.com
  
  Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama‘s Spotify podcast has been parodied on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live – watch it below.READ MORE: Bruce Springsteen – ‘Letter To You’ review: a powerful synthesis of past and presentLaunched back in February, Renegades: Born In USA hears the pair discuss their lives, music, and enduring love of America — despite all its challenges. It was recorded in one session last year.
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• Macklemore to become father of three

  12-04-2021 21:31 via music-news.com
  
  Macklemore and his wife Tricia Davis already share two daughters - Colette, three, and five-year-old Sloane.
  
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• Macklemore & Wife Tricia Davis Are Expecting Baby No. 3

  12-04-2021 21:11 via billboard.com
  
  It’s going to be an exciting summer for Macklemore! Tricia Davis, the rapper’s wife, announced via her Instagram Story on Monday (April 12) that the couple are expecting their third child together.
  “Summer baby,” she wrote on top of a photo of her baby bump.
  The couple quietly married in June 2015, after “the Supreme Court ruled same sex couples could too,” Davis shared on Instagram at the time. The “Thrift Shop” rapper — born Ben Haggerty &m
  
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• Check out Brockhampton’s rescheduled UK tour dates for 2022

  12-04-2021 20:55 via nme.com
  
  Brockhampton have rescheduled their UK tour dates for the second time – check out the new schedule below.READ MORE: Brockhampton – ‘Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine’ review: pain and resolutionThe shows, announced behind the band’s 2019 album ‘Ginger’, were originally set to take place in summer 2020, but were cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions.
  Rescheduled dates were then set for May 2021, but continued restrictions on large gatherings mean the sh
  
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• Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ & Justin Bieber’s ‘Peaches’ Top Billboard Global Charts, BTS’ ‘Film Out’ Hits Top 5

  12-04-2021 20:49 via billboard.com
  
  Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” ascends from No. 2 to No. 1 for its first week atop the Billboard Global 200, while Justin Bieber’s “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, spends a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart.
  Plus, BTS’ “Film Out” enters the Global 200 at No. 5 and bounds 185-3 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” debuts at No. 8 on the Global 200
  
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• Kirk Hammett’s signed guitar from Metallica’s ‘One’ video sells for £82,000 at auction

  12-04-2021 20:42 via nme.com
  
  The guitar used by Kirk Hammett in the video for Metallica‘s classic single ‘One’ has sold for $112,500 (£82,000) at auction.READ MORE: What makes Metallica? The ultimate metal band, unpickedThe ESP 400 series instrument, which was described as being ​in “excellent” condition, was purchased yesterday (April 11) by an anonymous buyer via Heritage Auctions.
  Hammett’s signature appears in silver ink at the bottom of the natural solid body, with t
  
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• AEG Hosting Summer Concerts in Wyoming With Fewer Pandemic Restrictions

  12-04-2021 20:42 via billboard.com
  
  As live music looks to mount a post-pandemic comeback, AEG Presents has announced it will book a new outdoor music venue this spring.
  Chinook at Terry Bison Ranch is a 5,000 capacity venue set on a dude ranch on the outskirts of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
  “We liked it a lot because we saw it as a place in the short and long term opportunity,” said Don Strasburg, co-president of AEG presents Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest. “We’re looking for cool new ways to present music,
  
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• Alejandro Fernandez Announces ‘Epic’ ‘Hecho en Mexico’ Tour: Exclusive

  12-04-2021 20:29 via billboard.com
  
  After a more than 12-month hiatus that saw him interrupt his tour mid-start, Mexican superstar Alejandro Fernandez has announced a 19-date U.S. tour. It will see him performing with 25 people onstage, including his full band, his Mexican mariachi, special guests Christian Nodal and his son, Alex Fernández, as well as a handful of guests in different cities.
  The “Hecho en México [Made In Mexico]” tour, so named after Fernández’s Grammy-nominated album (out o
  
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• Grey Daze working on new album featuring previously unreleased Chester Bennington vocals

  12-04-2021 20:13 via nme.com
  
  Grey Daze, the band fronted by Chester Bennington before he went on to form Linkin Park, are working on a new album to honour the late singer.READ MORE: Grey Daze – ‘Amends’ review: lost album from Chester Bennington’s former band is a reminder of his singular talentBennington left the band in 1998, but had reunited with them and was in the middle of re-recording music for a new album when he died in 2017.
  Last year, Grey Daze released ‘Amends’, an album of re
  
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• Trampolene announce details of third album ‘Love No Less Than A Queen’

  12-04-2021 19:55 via nme.com
  
  Indie trio Trampolene have announced details of their third album, ‘Love No Less Than A Queen’.READ MORE: Watch Pete Doherty and Trampolene play and talk us through ‘Paradise Is Under Your Nose’The record, which has been previewed over recent months via a series of singles, will come out on July 16 via Pete Doherty‘s Strap Originals label. Today (April 12), the band have also shared a new single called ‘Gotta Do More Gotta Be More’.
  ‘Love No Less T
  
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