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• Trivium 'deleted everything' and started again after Ascendancy session took bad turn

  11-01-2025 09:00 via music-news.com
  
  Trivium frontman Matt Heafy has recalled how the band "deleted everything" and had to re-record their breakthrough album.
  
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• Soul legend Sam Moore has died, aged 89

  11-01-2025 11:14 via nme.com
  
  Sam Moore, the last surviving half of the legendary soul duo Sam & Dave, has died aged 89.
  The news was confirmed by his publicist Jeremy Westby, who said Moore had died on Friday (January 10) following complications while recovering from surgery.
  Alongside Dave Prater, who shared his gospel roots, the pair created some of soul’s most enduring hits in their tenure at Stax Records. Their 1965 single on the Memphis imprint, ‘You Don’t Know Like I Know’ triggered a serie
  
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• Paris Hilton launches fund for families displaced by the LA wildfires

  11-01-2025 10:43 via nme.com
  
  Paris Hilton has launched a fund to help families who have lost their homes to the Los Angeles wildfires.READ MORE: Entertainment world reacts to “heart-wrenching” Los Angeles wildfiresThe TV personality’s home was one of many that were caught in the fires that began on Tuesday (January 7). Since, Hilton has shared her experience of watching her home burn on television.
  Hilton said on Thursday (January 9) the time: “Sitting with my family, watching the news, and seei
  
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• Ethel Cain voices support for killing CEOs: “Make them fear for their lives”

  11-01-2025 09:52 via nme.com
  
  Ethel Cain has shared her thoughts on the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saying that while she wasn’t being “reactionary”, violence was “sometimes” the answer, while using the hashtag “KillMoreCEOs”.READ MORE: Ethel Cain – ‘Perverts’ review: daring discomfort from a true cult starHealthcare boss Thompson was shot dead outside a Manhattan hotel last December, with the killer remaining at large for several days afterwards.
  
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• The Weeknd on why he wants to retire the moniker: “I’ve overcome every challenge as this persona”

  11-01-2025 09:48 via nme.com
  
  The Weeknd has said he wants to retire his moniker after overcoming “every challenge as this persona”.READ MORE: The Weeknd – ‘Dawn FM’ review: soulful star meets a new day with hope and hindsightThe artist, real name Abel Tesfaye, has been releasing music as The Weeknd since 2011, and is currently gearing up to release his sixth studio album under the moniker ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’, which comes out on January 24 2025. The record will be the final
  
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• Kerry King says Dave Mustaine 'can’t help but stick his foot in his mouth'

  11-01-2025 09:00 via music-news.com
  
  Slayer‘s Kerry King says Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine “can’t help but stick his foot in his mouth” but he praised his skills as a musician.
  
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• Dolly Parton and Orville Peck to appear on new Wiggles album

  11-01-2025 09:00 via music-news.com
  
  Dolly Parton and Orville Peck will appear on 'The Wiggles’ new country album 'Wiggle Up, Giddy Up!’
  
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• The Weeknd set to drop stage name

  11-01-2025 05:00 via music-news.com
  
  The Weeknd is planning to retire his alter ego and go by his real name.
  
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• Ethel Cain Says ‘#KillMoreCEOs’: ‘Make Them Fear’

  11-01-2025 03:32 via rollingstone.com
  
  The singer-songwriter used the hashtag while sharing a post about the role of money in politics
  
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• Sam Moore, Soul Man Who Scored Hits With Sam and Dave, Dead at 89

  11-01-2025 03:31 via rollingstone.com
  
  Powerful vocalist helped Stax Records become massively influential and revered soul music label
  
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• Paris Hilton, Who Lost Home to L.A. Fires, Launches Fund for Displaced Families

  11-01-2025 02:09 via rollingstone.com
  
  The L.A. icon pledged $100,000 — and plans to match up to $100,000 in donations — to help families with "little ones"
  
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• Dolly Parton to guest on Wiggles new country album

  11-01-2025 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  Dolly Parton and Orville Peck are collaborating on The Wiggles' new country album.
  
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• Azoff family announce FireAid benefit concert

  11-01-2025 02:00 via music-news.com
  
  Irving and Shelli Azoff are putting on a benefit concert to support the fire-affected communities of Los Angeles.
  
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• Music Industry Funding Was Defined by Several Key Trends in 2024 – Here’s What They Mean for 2025

  11-01-2025 01:54 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  2024 music industry funding trends are providing valuable insights as 2025 ramps up. Photo Credit: Kelly Sikkema
  On top of bringing close to $5 billion in music industry capital announcements, 2024 delivered several noteworthy funding trends. Here’s a breakdown of what the key developments mean as 2025 kicks into high gear.
  Illustrating those details is possible thanks to DMN Pro’s one-stop Music Industry Funding Tracker, which compiles funding disclosures from in and around the musi
  
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• De La Soul to Release Rare EP Featuring A Tribe Called Quest

  11-01-2025 00:26 via rollingstone.com
  
  Clear Lake Auditorium will officially drop in March, over 30 years after it was first recorded in 1994
  
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• Aly & AJ Celebrate the Beauty of Life’s Changes on ‘What It Feels Like’

  11-01-2025 00:09 via rollingstone.com
  
  Rock track is the lead single off their upcoming LP, Silver Deliverer, out March 28
  
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• ‘It Looks Like a Nuclear Bomb Went Off.’ Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith on the L.A. Fires

  10-01-2025 23:56 via rollingstone.com
  
  "If people are wondering, 'Is it really as bad as it looks?,' it is," musician who lost his studio tells Rolling Stone
  
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• Jordan Adetunji announces new mixtape ‘A Jaguar’s Dream’ with single ‘Too Many Women’ featuring Kwn

  10-01-2025 22:48 via nme.com
  
  Jordan Adetunji has announced a new mixtape ‘A Jaguar’s Dream’, alongside the single ‘Too Many Women’ featuring Kwn. Check it out below.READ MORE: Jordan Adetunji: “In 2025, I’m looking to take over straight away”The former NME The Cover star is set to release ‘A Jaguar’s Dream’ on January 24 via 300 Entertainment and Warner UK (pre-save it here).
  Produced and written by Adetunji, the 10-track project includes collaborations with
  
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• Slayer’s Kerry King says Dave Mustaine “can’t help but stick his foot in his mouth”

  10-01-2025 22:43 via nme.com
  
  Slayer‘s Kerry King has opened up about his relationship with Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine, saying he “can’t help but stick his foot in his mouth”.READ MORE: Slayer film ‘The Repentless Killology’ is vulgar, gruesome and problematic – just like the bandKing – who briefly played with Megadeth alongside Mustaine back in 1985 – appeared as a guest on the Lipps Service with Scott Lipps podcast and discussed his relationship with the frontman, s
  
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• Jay-Z Pushes for Dismissal and Sanctions in Jane Doe Sexual Assault Suit: ‘A Cavalier Effort to Destroy Another Person’s Reputation’

  10-01-2025 22:21 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  A live performance from Jay-Z, who’s urging the court to toss the sexual assault civil case filed against him. Photo Credit: Mike Barry
  Jay-Z is officially urging a federal court to dismiss the sexual assault lawsuit he’s facing and to impose sanctions against the Jane Doe plaintiff’s attorney.
  The Roc Nation founder just recently moved to toss the much-publicized complaint and to tag attorney Tony Buzbee with monetary sanctions.
  Buzbee is reportedly representing north of 200 a
  
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• Songwriter Of The Year nominees are boycotting Spotify’s Grammy party

  10-01-2025 22:10 via nme.com
  
  The nominees for the Songwriter Of The Year category at this year’s Grammy Awards have decided to boycott Spotify‘s party for the ceremony.READ MORE: Artists on the challenges of 2023 and hopes for 2024: “I just want to see us getting paid for selling records”The likes of Jessi Alexander, Amy Allen, Jessie Jo Dillon and RAYE – who have all been nominated for Songwriter Of The Year have announced they will be skipping the streaming platform’s celebratory bash a
  
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• Dolly Parton and Orville Peck are set to appear on The Wiggles’ new country album

  10-01-2025 21:42 via nme.com
  
  Dolly Parton and Orville Peck are set to feature on The Wiggles‘ upcoming country album. Find more details below.READ MORE: The Wiggles – ‘ReWiggled’ review: Stella Donnelly, Spacey Jane and more pitch in for a sunny yet strange covers album‘Wiggle Up, Giddy Up!’ is due for release on March 7, and will see Parton and Peck appear alongside other country artists such as Dasha, Lainey Wilson, Jackson Dean, MacKenzie Porter, and Lucky Oceans.
  Elsewhere, Austr
  
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• Jim Jones Calls Drake’s Petitions Against UMG and Spotify a ‘Power Move’ That Won’t Impact His Street Cred

  10-01-2025 21:30 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Photo Credit: Jim Jones by Soletron / CC by 2.0
  Rapper and producer Jim Jones doesn’t take issue with Drake’s legal petitions against UMG and Spotify, calling the decision a ‘power move.’
  In an interview on Respectfully: The Justin Laboy Show, rapper and record producer Jim Jones weighed in on Drake filing petitions against Universal Music Group and Spotify over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track, “Not Like Us.” According to Jones, filing the petitions was a sm
  
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• Grammy Songwriters Are Boycotting Spotify’s Grammy Songwriter Party

  10-01-2025 21:26 via digitalmusicnews.com
  
  Photo Credit: Spotify
  Songwriters Jessi Alexander, Amy Allen, Jessie Jo Dillon, and RAYE will not be attending Spotify’s Songwriter of the Year Grammy party on January 28.
  Songwriters are protesting Spotify’s treatment of their ilk, and will not be attending the streaming service’s Songwriter of the Year Grammy party. Jessi Alexander, Amy Allen, Jessie Jo Dillon, and RAYE have all indicated they will neither attend nor perform at the January 28 event, with Allen and Dillon citi
  
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• Watch Billy Strings, Gillian Welch Celebrate a Legendary Bluegrass Band in Nashville

  10-01-2025 21:18 via rollingstone.com
  
  Acoustic artists gathered at the Ryman Auditorium on Thursday to pay tribute to Old & In the Way, an influential group of pickers from the Seventies led by Peter Rowan
  
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• Rob Lowe reveals he once recorded a demo while on coke with Toto

  10-01-2025 21:12 via nme.com
  
  Rob Lowe has revealed that he nearly embarked on a music career and once recorded a demo with Toto while under the influence.
  During the latest episode of his episode of SiriusXM podcast Literally! With Rob Lowe, the veteran actor and 80s heartthrob reflected on the experience with journalist, author, and fellow podcaster Bill Simmons.
  The two began discussing 80s music and Music Box: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, the film that Simmons recently executively produced. During this discussion, Lowe op
  
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• Robbie Williams savages his own lyrics to hit song

  10-01-2025 21:00 via music-news.com
  
  Robbie Williams has turned on his chart-topping single Millennium.
  
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• Britney Spears gives update after Los Angeles fires cause two-day communication blackout

  10-01-2025 21:00 via music-news.com
  
  Britney Spears did her best to cheer up those who had lost everything amid the ongoing Los Angeles fires.
  
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• Joe Bonamassa confirms collection of vintage guitar gear – one of the largest in the world – is safe from LA wildfires

  10-01-2025 20:44 via nme.com
  
  Joe Bonamassa has confirmed his collection of vintage guitar gear – one of the largest in the world – has been saved from the Los Angeles wildfires.READ MORE: Entertainment world reacts to “heart-wrenching” Los Angeles wildfiresNews that his collection was at risk emerged yesterday (January 9) after he shared a photo of one of his Nerdville museums, which doubles as one of the world’s largest collections of vintage electric guitar and acoustic guitar gear, amid
  
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• Lindsay Lou, the Black Opry Anchor Nashville’s Day of Concerts at Indie Venues

  10-01-2025 20:34 via rollingstone.com
  
  Dubbed "615 Indie Live," the Feb. 1 campaign aims to highlight 14 local clubs with a full day of shows and one $15 cover
  
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