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• Rosie Perez on how Madonna asked her to “hook her up” with Tupac

  09-11-2024 12:49 via nme.com
  
  Rosie Perez has shared that Madonna once asked her to “hook her up” with Tupac Shakur.READ MORE: Madonna live in London: pop queen grapples with her legacyLast Thursday (November 7), Perez appeared as a special guest on The Drew Barrymore Show to promote her new Apple TV+ series Before, in which she stars alongside Billy Crystal.
  Per Complex, Perez recalled preparing to attend the 1993 Soul Train Music Awards – she was stood up by her unnamed date at the last minute, so Sh
  
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• Hybe Grapples With Continued Fallout Over Leaked Document — Weverse Magazine Issues Formal Apology

  12-11-2024 23:23 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  A promo image for Hybe’s Weverse superfan app, which is welcoming non-K-pop acts including Megan Thee Stallion. Photo Credit: Hybe
  Multiple weeks and angry fan responses later, Hybe is still grappling with fallout stemming from the leak of an internal document containing criticism of rival K-pop firms’ talent.
  This newest twist in the increasingly convoluted episode arrived in the form of an official statement from Weverse Magazine. Predictably, given that it bears the name of Hybe&r
  
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• Wembley Stadium is teasing a massive Linkin Park show

  12-11-2024 22:47 via nme.com
  
  Linkin Park fans will want to keep an eye out for an announcement on 12pm GMT on Thursday (November 14) if a new social media post from Wembley Stadium is anything to go by.READ MORE: Mike Shinoda tells us about his love of Sleep Token and supporting emerging talentThis evening (November 12), a post appeared on Wembley’s X, formerly Twitter, account featuring a photo of the external screens at the stadium reading “Counting From Zero” – ‘From Zero’ being t
  
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• Wembley Stadium are teasing a massive Linkin Park show

  12-11-2024 22:47 via nme.com
  
  Linkin Park fans will want to keep an eye out for an announcement on 12pm GMT on Thursday (November 14) if a new post from Wembley Stadium’s is anything to go by.READ MORE: Mike Shinoda tells us about his love of Sleep Token and supporting emerging talentThis evening (November 12), a post appeared on Wembley’s X, formerly Twitter, account featuring a photo of the external screens at the stadium reading “Counting From Zero” – ‘From Zero’ being the na
  
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• Tekashi 6ix9ine Headed Back to Prison After Violating Parole

  12-11-2024 22:44 via rollingstone.com
  
  The rapper will also see his probation extended by a year — about six months before it was set to expire
  
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• Swedish House Mafia: “We had an album, we scrapped it”

  12-11-2024 22:34 via nme.com
  
  Swedish House Mafia‘s Steve Angello revealed that the group have “scrapped” the material that would have been the follow up album to 2022’s ‘Paradise Again‘.READ MORE: Swedish House Mafia: “Dance music is freedom – that’s our language”The trio – comprised of Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso – have released two singles since their 2022 debut LP. The two singles were ‘Lioness’ with Niki & the Dove an
  
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• Weezer announce only UK headline show of 2025 with Bad Nerves and more

  12-11-2024 22:00 via nme.com
  
  Weezer have announced their only UK headlining show slated for next year – check out all of the details below.READ MORE: Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo: “If Taylor Swift ever wants to make a rock album, I’d love to help out!”River Cuomo and co are set to headline TK Maxx presents Live at The Piece Hall in West Yorkshire on Monday (June 30 2025). The likes of Bad Nerves and Teen Morgage will be serving as opening support.
  Tickets for the ‘Say It Ain’t So’ hi
  
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• Download 2025 announce stacked line-up with Green Day, Sleep Token, KoRn and more

  12-11-2024 22:00 via nme.com
  
  Green Day, Sleep Token and KoRn are set to headline Download 2025. Take a look at the full line-up below.READ MORE: Download Festival 2024 review: despite all odds, a promising step in a new directionThe music bash will return to its home of Donington Park, Leicestershire, for its 22nd year and take place from June 13-15. MasterCard pre-sale tickets will go on sale from 9pm tonight (November 12) with Download pre-sale tickets on sale from 9pm tomorrow (November 13). General tickets go on sale at
  
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• The B-52’s announce details of Las Vegas residency

  12-11-2024 21:51 via nme.com
  
  The B-52’s have announced that they’ll be extending their ‘LOVESHACK’ residency in Las Vegas into 2025 with five new dates in April – buy tickets here.
  READ MORE: The B-52s: “If someone’s ruining ‘Love Shack’ on karaoke, I’ll get up there and save it!”
  The new wave four-piece, performing as a trio since Keith Strickland stepped back from touring in 2013, began their residency in 2023, and are set to continue the run of shows with
  
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• Beyoncé congratulates “Queen Linda Martell” on first Grammy nomination for ‘Cowboy Carter’ collab

  12-11-2024 21:34 via nme.com
  
  Beyoncé has shared a social media post congratulating “Queen Linda Martell” on her first Grammy nomination for her feature on ‘Cowboy Carter’.READ MORE: Beyoncé – ‘Cowboy Carter’ review: country reinvention strikes goldThe pop icon took to her official Instagram account and posted a photo of Martell – the first commercially successful black female artist in the country music field and the first to play the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville
  
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• TikTok Launches Photo Sharing Integration with Lemon8 as a US Ban Looms Large

  12-11-2024 21:23 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Photo Credit: TikTok
  TikTok launches integration with Lemon8, ByteDance’s newer social media platform, making photo sharing more feasible between the two.
  TikTok has announced integration with parent company ByteDance’s newer social app, Lemon8, enabling photo sharing between the two, the company revealed on Tuesday (November 12). The two platforms have been working on integration since at least August 2023.
  ByteDance says this integration will make photo sharing more feasible and gi
  
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• John Mayer, McG Dropping a Reported $60 Million to Buy Jim Henson Studio Lot in Hollywood

  12-11-2024 21:18 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Photo Credit: John Mayer by Christina / CC by 2.0
  John Mayer and McG are dropping a reported $60 million to buy the historic Jim Henson Studio lot (and former A&M Records HQ) in Hollywood.
  Grammy-winning singer John Mayer and filmmaker McG have teamed up to buy the historic Hollywood home of The Muppets in Hollywood. The storied property at 1416 N. La Brea in Los Angeles, formerly home of A&M Studios and Charlie Chaplin Studios, has been the subject of speculation that the Church of Scie
  
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• Glastonbury’s Emily Eavis named in the Time 100 Climate list 2024

  12-11-2024 20:56 via nme.com
  
  Glastonbury Festival co-organiser Emily Eavis has been named in the Time 100 Climate list for 2024, which highlights people making progress in fighting climate change through their work.READ MORE: IDLES! Little Simz! Kneecap! Glastonbury 2024’s most magical moments from Worthy FarmThe official Glastonbury X (formerly Twitter) account shared the news earlier today (November 12) along with a link to the full list, which sees Eavis sit alongside figures including Prince Harry, Bill Gates
  
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• Tom Morello Says Post Malone Writes Like Chris Cornell: ‘Hooky, Beautiful, Terrifying’

  12-11-2024 20:53 via rollingstone.com
  
  Morello said he and Malone also collaborated on an unfinished track, which the guitarist called "what 'Beat It' was to Michael Jackson"
  
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• John Lydon’s Handwritten Sex Pistols Lyrics Headed to Auction Block

  12-11-2024 20:43 via rollingstone.com
  
  The original lyrics to "Holidays in the Sun" and "Submission" were written on a single sheet of paper, which is estimated to sell for over $80,000
  
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• Warner Music India Takes a Minority Stake in SkillBox as WMG Bets on Emerging Market Growth

  12-11-2024 20:21 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Photo Credit: Amarjeet Singha, Jay Mehta, Sujar Parekh, Anmol Kukreja, Roydon Bangera
  Warner Music India takes a minority stake in ticketing and live events platform SkillBox as WMG bets on emerging market growth.
  Warner Music India (WMI) announced a minority stake in ticketing and live events platform SkillBox as the broader Warner Music Group bets on emerging market growth in the region. The partnership aligns the platform’s ambition to diversify and expand its services within the music
  
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• Selena Gomez is obsessed with Kurt Cobain documentary ‘Montage Of Heck’

  12-11-2024 20:13 via nme.com
  
  Selena Gomez has swapped stories with NME about her favourite musicians – including a teenage obsession with Kurt Cobain – during an interview that covered acting techniques, her current break from recording music and what it’s like to get an 11-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival.Read more: ‘Emilia Perez’ review: Zoë Saldaña and Selena Gomez let loose in flawed musical melodramaThe 32-year-old singer and actress is promoting her Oscar-t
  
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• T-Pain Put Tallahassee On the Map — Now The City Is Renaming a Street ‘T-Pain Lane’

  12-11-2024 20:12 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Photo Credit: Tallahassee Today
  Tallahassee native T-Pain received honors from his hometown with a street naming dedication, a key to the city, and a sold-out concert.
  The event happened over the weekend with the street renaming a portion of Pasco Street to ‘T-Pain Lane’ in Tallahassee. The portion that was renamed is the ame street he walked on as a child from Nims Middle School to the Walker Ford Community Center. T-Pain has donated resources for a music studio and other needs to t
  
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• Tencent Music Posts Double-Digit Q3 2024 Subscriber and Profit Growth — Non-Streaming User Dip Continues

  12-11-2024 19:51 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Tencent Music achieved continued subscriber and profit growth during Q3 2024, per a new earnings report. Photo Credit: TME
  Despite suffering another revenue decrease on the non-streaming side, Tencent Music has reported double-digit subscriber and profit growth for 2024’s third quarter.
  These and other performance particulars came to light in the Shenzhen-headquartered company’s newly released Q3 earnings report. Previously, 2024’s first and second quarters saw Tencent Music ac
  
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• My Chemical Romance announce Long Live The Black Parade 2025 North American stadium tour

  12-11-2024 19:50 via nme.com
  
  My Chemical Romance have announced a US tour in celebration of their 2006 album ‘The Black Parade’ slated for next summer.READ MORE: My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Foundations of Decay’ is a fierce, fearless returnThe run of dates will kick off on July 11 2025 at the T-Mobile Park in Seattle. From there, Gerard Way and co will make stops in cities such as San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Arlington, East Rutherford, Philadelphia, Toronto and more. The tour will wrap up at the
  
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• Jelly Roll Discusses Chart Manipulation, Says His Team Noticed Discrepancies

  12-11-2024 19:30 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Photo Credit: SiriusXM
  A few weeks ago, Jelly Roll said he would “put the music industry on blast” in October, promising to expose slimy behind-the-scenes behavior. This week, the country singer took to ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show to discuss what he calls slimy business practices.
  Jelly Roll’s new album Beautifully Broken dropped the same week that Charli XCX dropped a remix album of Brat called It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat. Jelly Roll doesn’t
  
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• Jelly Roll Congratulates Rod Wave on Being the Actual #1 Chart-Topping Artist

  12-11-2024 19:30 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Photo Credit: SiriusXM
  A few weeks ago, Jelly Roll said he would “put the music industry on blast” in October, promising to expose slimy behind-the-scenes behavior. This week, the country singer took to ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show to discuss what he calls slimy business practices.
  Jelly Roll’s new album Beautifully Broken dropped the same week that Charli XCX dropped a remix album of Brat called It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat. Jelly Roll doesn’t
  
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• My Chemical Romance Revive ‘The Black Parade’ for 2025 Tour

  12-11-2024 19:26 via rollingstone.com
  
  The Jersey punk rockers will be bringing their seminal album to stadiums across the U.S.
  
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• Bjork Breathes Life Back Into Endangered and Extinct Animals for Paris Art Museum With AI

  12-11-2024 19:11 via rollingstone.com
  
  "We wanted to remind citizens of the raw vitality of endangered creatures," artist says of Centre Pompidou collaboration with Aleph
  
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• Kid Rock Will Gather ‘God-Fearing Patriots’ Again for 2025 Rock the Country Tour

  12-11-2024 18:27 via rollingstone.com
  
  Nickelback will also headline the festival run, which will make stops across 11 small towns in the U.S. between April and July 2025
  
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• Kristin Chenoweth 'still praying' for Sean 'Diddy' Combs

  12-11-2024 18:00 via music-news.com
  
  Kristin Chenoweth has addressed Sean 'Diddy' Combs arrest.
  
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• The Alarm’s Mike Peters calls for stem cell donors as cancer returns

  12-11-2024 17:47 via nme.com
  
  Mike Peters, frontman of Welsh new wave band The Alarm, has called for people to become potential stem cell donors after the return of his cancer.
  Peters shared the news of his cancer diagnosis back in April in a statement uploaded to the band’s website. “On Sunday morning April 21st, I awoke with a large swollen gland on the left side of my neck,” he wrote. “The early results have determined that my Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) has undergone a transformation into
  
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• Light of Day Announces 25th Anniversary Celebration With John Rzeznik, Brian Fallon

  12-11-2024 17:47 via rollingstone.com
  
  The charity fest that Bruce Springsteen helped build has raised over $6 million for Parkinson's research over the past quarter century
  
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• Pitbull announces huge 2025 shows with Lil Jon in UK and Europe 

  12-11-2024 17:45 via nme.com
  
  Pitbull has announced a series of huge shows across the UK and Europe, set to take place in 2025. Find ticket details below.
  Announced today (November 12), Pitbull will be bringing his ‘Party After Dark Tour’ across the pond at the start of next year, for five new shows across Europe.
  Joined by Lil Jon as a special guest, the run of new shows kicks off on February 19 with an opening night at the 3Arena in Dublin. From there, it’ll continue two days later with a slot at The O2 i
  
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• John Mayer Buys Historic Jim Henson Studios Lot in Hollywood

  12-11-2024 17:19 via rollingstone.com
  
  The property was founded by Charlie Chaplin and owned by A&M Records before becoming the home of the Muppets
  
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