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• Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon opens up on Charli XCX and Taylor Swift collaborations: “It was a really cool experience”

  03-04-2025 11:04 via nme.com
  
  Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon has opened up about his collaborations with Taylor Swift and Charli XCX on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. READ MORE: Bon Iver – ‘SABLE’ EP review: Justin Vernon strips things back on transitional gemThe singer appeared on the talk show, where he discussed his upcoming album ‘sABLE, fABLE‘ and his recent collaborations with Charli XCX and Taylor Swift. He teamed up with Charli on her ‘Brat’ remix albu
  
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• Noah Kahan, The Corrs among latest honorees in Nordoff and Robbins’ 2025 Awards

  09-04-2025 00:57 via music-news.com
  
  Nordoff and Robbins, the UK’s largest music therapy charity, has revealed the second wave of winners for the 2025 O2 Silver Clef Awards, celebrating
  
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• Gary Barlow explains why Take That's Las Vegas residency failed to happen

  09-04-2025 00:00 via music-news.com
  
  Gary Barlow has opened up about Take That's failed bid for a Las Vegas residency.
  
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• Blink-182 star Mark Hoppus reveals mental health battle

  09-04-2025 00:00 via music-news.com
  
  Blink-182's Mark Hoppus has opened up about past struggles.
  
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• Electric Castle 2025 announces Yungblud as final headliner

  08-04-2025 23:36 via nme.com
  
  Yungblud has been announced as the final headliner at Electric Castle 2025.READ MORE: Yungblud tells us about BLUDFEST 2 and “fucking bonkers” new double album: “This is the master plan”The singer-songwriter – real name Dominic Harrison – joins previously announced headliners Queens Of The Stone Age, Bicep, Justice and Justin Timberlake at the annual music bash which will return to its home of the Cluj-Napoca on the grounds of Banffy Castle in Transylvani
  
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• Ed Sheeran dancing towards highest new entry with 'Azizam'

  08-04-2025 23:17 via music-news.com
  
  Are you ready to dance? Ed Sheeran’s romantic return to pure pop, Azizam, is right now ahead to become the highest new entry of the week in the UK (2).
  
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• Bell X1 announce UK live return with intimate London acoustic show

  08-04-2025 23:00 via nme.com
  
  Bell X1 have announced their live return with an initimate acoustic show in London.
  The Irish band have announced a one-off concert at the Union Chapel in Islington on December 19.
  Tickets go on general sale on Friday (April 11) at 10am BST and can be purchased here. A pre-sale will be held the day before (April 10) for mailing list subscribers, who will receive a link allowing them to purchase tickets.
  Formed in 1999 in Ireland, Paul Noonan, Dave Geraghty and Dominic Phillips have released eigh
  
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• Extended TikTok Forced-Sale Deadline Draws Congressional Pushback: ‘A Clear Violation of the Law’

  08-04-2025 22:55 via digitalmusicnews.com
  A federal lawmaker is criticizing the latest TikTok sale deadline extension. Photo Credit: Solen Feyissa
  Is the latest extension to the TikTok forced-sale deadline “a clear violation of the law”? At least one member of Congress believes so, and he’s expressing “deep reservations” as a result.Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) just recently voiced that pushback in an open letter to President Trump, who last week extended the cutoff for ByteDance to divest from TikTok in the
  
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• Sugababes share ‘Weeds’: “One of the most beautiful songs we’ve ever worked on”

  08-04-2025 22:47 via nme.com
  
  To celebrate the start of their spring tour, Sugababes have shared their new single, ‘Weeds’ – listen to it here.READ MORE: Sugababes live in London: their triumphant comeback continuesThe trio, comprising Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena and Siobhán Donaghy, dropped the track as a surprise today (April 8), the same date they kick off their biggest-ever arena tour with a date at Leeds’ First Direct Arena, and it follows ‘Jungle’, which came out in Marc
  
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• Singer Rubby Pérez Hospitalized After Deadly Nightclub Roof Collapse in Dominican Republic

  08-04-2025 22:17 via rollingstone.com
  
  At least 44 people have died following the deadly accident: “He’s injured, but he’s hospitalized; they found him singing," said Pérez's daughter
  
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• Billie Joe Armstrong says “fucking asshole” Perry Farrell didn’t want “boy band” Green Day on classic 1994 Lollapalooza line-up

  08-04-2025 22:07 via nme.com
  
  Green Day‘s  Billie Joe Armstrong has shared that Perry Farrell dismissed the group as a “boy band” and didn’t want them on the bill at Lollapalooza in 1994.READ MORE: Green Day – ‘Saviors’ review: their best work since ‘American Idiot’The row, which has been documented in a new book Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival, erupted when the Jane’s Addiction frontman approa
  
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• Blink-182 announce huge ‘Missionary Impossible’ 2025 US tour with Alkaline Trio

  08-04-2025 22:01 via nme.com
  
  Blink-182 are heading out on a massive US tour with Alkaline Trio this autumn – find tickets here.READ MORE: Blink-182 at Reading Festival 2024: a welcome return for the unfiltered pop-punk pioneersOn the tour, they’ll be heading to major venues across the country, taking in cities from Virginia Beach to Kansas City. The run of dates begins on August 28 at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, and runs through September before finishing at Palm Desert’s Acrisure Arena in C
  
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• Jet Set Nightclub Roof Collapses in Dominican Republic, Killing Dozens

  08-04-2025 21:44 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Photo Credit: National Police of the Dominican Republic
  At least 44 people have died while over 100 were being treated for injuries after a roof collapsed at a Dominican Republic nightclub.
  Rescue crews have been searching for potential survivors in the rubble at the Jet Set club in Santo Domingo after a roof collapsed, killing at least 44 people. More than 100 others have been treated for injuries. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the roof collapse.
  “We presume that many of t
  
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• Cassie Ventura Will Testify Using Her Name in Diddy Trial

  08-04-2025 21:40 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Photo Credit: David Shankbone / CC by 3.0
  Cassie Ventura is set to testify against her former partner Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs using her real name instead of the ‘Victim 1’ designation. She will tell the court about her relationship with the rap mogul during his upcoming trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
  She is one of four victims who are set to testify in court at Comb’s trial—and the first to make public allegations against the rap mogul. Ventura
  
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• Lady Gaga Can’t Wait to Play This ‘Mayhem’ Song at Coachella: It ‘Just Pops Off’

  08-04-2025 21:13 via rollingstone.com
  
  "We're crafting it moment by moment," she said of her headlining set, choreographed with Parris Goebel
  
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• Marcus Mumford explains why wife Carey Mulligan kicked him out of home

  08-04-2025 21:00 via music-news.com
  
  Marcus Mumford has revealed why "My wife kicked me out of the house".
  
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• Mac DeMarco announces 2025 UK, European and North American tour

  08-04-2025 20:46 via nme.com
  
  Mac DeMarco has announced plans for a UK, European and North American tour – find full details below.READ MORE: Mac DeMarco hits his mellow patch: “There was a long time that I was pretending to be something that I wasn’t”The Canadian singer-songwriter will hit the road in Los Angeles on August 29 before heading over to Europe in Amsterdam on October 21 for a series of dates that will wrap up in Brussels on November 5.
  He will then embark on a UK and Ireland tour whi
  
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• Death Grips respond to rumours they’ve split up

  08-04-2025 20:45 via nme.com
  
  Following speculation that Death Grips had disbanded, they’ve responded with a short but sweet statement on Instagram.Read More: NME’s intense, unseen Death Grips interview from 2012It confirms that the band are still active and is signed off by vocalist MC Ride – real name Stefan Burnett – and producer and drummer Zach Hill. There’s no signature from Andy Morin, producer and keyboardist, who co-founded the group alongside Burnett and Hill in 2010, however.
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• Scooter Braun-Led Hybe America Inks Distribution Agreement with Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Recordings

  08-04-2025 20:15 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Photo Credit: Scooter Braun and Jermaine Dupri
  Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Recordings enters a distribution partnership with Hybe America, led by Scooter Braun.
  The agreement sees Hybe distribute So So Def’s catalog while the two work together on releases for upcoming talent. Since the 1990s, Dupri and So So Def have worked with stars like Mariah Carey, Usher, Nelly, Xscape, Bow Wow, and Jagged Edge. Dupri also notably mentored Braun when he entered the music industry over 20 years ag
  
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• Blink-182 Announces 2025 U.S. Tour ‘Missionary Impossible’

  08-04-2025 20:03 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Photo Credit: Rory Kramer
  Blink-182 is set to hit the road again after their blockbuster 2024 tour. Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge, and Travis Barker have announced their ‘Missionary Impossible’ tour supporting the release of their latest album, One More Time….
  This is the first album in over a decade that features the original trio back in the studio. The upcoming shows will lean into Blink-182’s punk roots, with a setlist packed with classics spanning their entire catalog. T
  
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• Hard Life (FKA Easy Life) face an uncertain future on new single ‘Othello’

  08-04-2025 19:59 via nme.com
  
  Hard Life are back with ‘Othello’, the group’s first new single since last year’s ‘Tears’ – listen to the track here.READ MORE: Easy Life live in London: an emotional farewell amid legal drama‘Othello’, BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record tonight (April 8), was written and recorded by frontman Murray Matravers in Japan after a period of change for the band formerly known as Easy Life.
  Matravers booked a spontaneous trip to the East Asian
  
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• GEMA Reports 4.3% Revenue Growth for 2024 As Live Collections Jump, Streaming Slips

  08-04-2025 19:53 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Berlin, Germany. Photo Credit: Fernando Pascullo
  GEMA has reported a 4.3% year-over-year (YoY) revenue increase for 2024, when its live music collections spiked by nearly 17%.The German society revealed these and other figures in an English-language summary of its 2024 annual report, which points to €1.33 billion (currently $1.45 billion) in total revenue for the year.
  Behind that sum – and thanks in part to a cost-rate decrease – GEMA made north of $1.23 billion/€1.13 bill
  
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• Dire Wolves Are Back. One ‘Dire Wolf’ Never Went Away.

  08-04-2025 19:52 via rollingstone.com
  
  Scientists' remarkable discovery regarding the extinct carnivores has music fans thinking back to a classic Grateful Dead tune
  
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• Stereolab return with euphoric single ‘Aerial Troubles’, world tour dates, and first album in 15 years, ‘Instant Holograms On Metal Film’

  08-04-2025 19:45 via nme.com
  
  Stereolab have announced their first album in 15 years and shared new single ‘Aerial Troubles’. Check out full details below.
  ‘Instant Holograms On Metal Film’ is the follow up to the band’s last LP, 2010’s ‘Not Music?’ and will feature guest contributions from Cooper Crain and Rob Frye (Bitchin Bajas), Ben LaMar Gay (International Anthem), Ric Elsworth, Holger Zapf (Cavern Of Anti-Matter), Marie Merlet and Molly Hansen Read.
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• The Lonely Island reveal Justin Timberlake wasn’t actually singing on their iconic hit collab

  08-04-2025 18:37 via nme.com
  
  The Lonely Island have revealed that Justin Timberlake never actually sang on one of their biggest hits.Read More: Justin Timberlake – ‘Everything I Thought It Was’ review: sullied superstar gets trapped in the typicalThe Saturday Night Live comedy trio – made up of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone – have teamed up with Timberlake on a number of occasions in the past, first on their famous ‘Dick In A Box’ sketch in 2006 and then on the
  
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• Young Thug Promises to Enunciate After Viral Tattoo Confuses His Lyrics

  08-04-2025 18:32 via rollingstone.com
  
  The tattoo artist swears it was intentional
  
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• Robbie Williams reveals he was diagnosed with '17th century pirate disease'

  08-04-2025 18:00 via music-news.com
  
  Robbie Williams has opened up about how his diet has affected his mental health.
  
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• Arcade Fire return with euphoric single ‘Year Of The Snake’ and announce new ‘Pink Elephant’ album details 

  08-04-2025 17:59 via nme.com
  
  Arcade Fire have shared details about their forthcoming album ‘Pink Elephant’, and dropped the new lead single ‘Year Of The Snake’. Check it out below.READ MORE: Arcade Fire’s ‘Funeral’ at 15: the album that killed indie rock as we knew itThe new material comes after frontman Win Butler and co. began teasing their comeback in recent days and made a cryptic update to their social media bio last month. A series of unusual, pink-tinted posts were shared acr
  
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• Blink-182 Will Go on Its ‘Missionary Impossible’ Tour this Fall

  08-04-2025 17:58 via rollingstone.com
  
  Band will bring Matt Skiba's Alkaline Trio on the road for the upcoming shows
  
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• Turnstile roar with new album ‘NEVER ENOUGH’ and share title track

  08-04-2025 17:45 via nme.com
  
  Turnstile have announced their new album ‘NEVER ENOUGH’ and shared the title track from the record.READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Turnstile: “When the stars align for things to happen, we follow them”The album is the follow up to 2021’s ‘GLOW ON‘, and it is due for release on June 6. It is available for pre-order/pre-save here, with several limited edition vinyl colour variants on offer in the band’s official online store here.
  
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