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• Taylor Swift Makes Chart History With ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

  29-04-2024 00:19 via rollingstone.com
  
  The album bowed at Number One on the Billboard 200, it’s her 14th album that’s landed in the top spot
  
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• U2 rocker Adam Clayton divorces wife of 10 years

  29-04-2024 00:01 via music-news.com
  
  Adam Clayton is single once more.
  
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• Selena Gomez: 'Getting off Instagram was a rewarding gift'

  29-04-2024 00:01 via music-news.com
  
  Selena Gomez takes breaks from Instagram to preserve her mental health.
  
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• Watch Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes join BABYMETAL on stage for ‘Kingslayer’ at Sick New World

  28-04-2024 23:35 via nme.com
  
  Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes joined BABYMETAL during their set at Sick New World 2024 on Saturday – check out footage below. READ MORE: Bring Me The Horizon on love for Fontaines D.C. and when fans can expect the new album The Japanese band were playing the Las Vegas festival yesterday (April 27), when they were joined by Sykes on a version of their collaborative track. 
  ‘Kingslayer’ was first released on BMTH’s 2020 record ‘Post Human:
  
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• Taylor Swift Bandcamp page secured by Ogbert The Nerd frontman to share screamo music

  28-04-2024 22:28 via nme.com
  
  The emo band Ogbert The Nerd have secured the Bandcamp domain name for Taylor Swift, and have posted their own screamo music onto it. READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ review: a rare misstep The New Jersey group have managed to obtain use of the URL taylorswift.bandcamp.com, and the first post on the page is a blistering 62-second track named ‘Taylor Swift 1’. 
  The band’s frontman Madison James posted on X on Thursda
  
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• Rihanna Again Teases New Album ‘R9’: ‘It’s Gonna Be Amazing’

  28-04-2024 21:30 via rollingstone.com
  
  "I feel like music is a playground, and I want to have fun with it and show truly where I am at," singer says of long-awaited Anti follow-up
  
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• R. Kelly's child pornography conviction upheld

  28-04-2024 21:01 via music-news.com
  
  R. Kelly was convicted in 2022 on child pornography charges.
  
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• Kanye West accused of racism by former security guard

  28-04-2024 21:01 via music-news.com
  
  Kanye West is facing legal action from his former employees.
  
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• Watch Vampire Weekend cover Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen at New Orleans Jazz Festival

  28-04-2024 20:12 via nme.com
  
  Vampire Weekend covered Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen during their appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival last night (April 27) – check out footage below. READ MORE: Vampire Weekend – ‘Only God Was Above Us’ review: back to the Big Apple Their set included first-time-ever performances of Dylan deep cut ‘When He Returns’, first released on 1979’s ‘Slow Train Coming’, as well as The Boss’ 1980 hit
  
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• Sabrina Carpenter challenging Taylor Swift for first UK Number 1 single

  28-04-2024 19:55 via music-news.com
  
  She’s working late because she might be Number 1…Sabrina Carpenter is looking to secure her first-ever UK chart-topper with Espresso this week! (1).
  
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• Watch Post Malone play fan request country covers with Brad Paisley & Dwight Yoakam at Stagecoach

  28-04-2024 19:29 via nme.com
  
  Post Malone played an entire set of classic country cover songs at Stagecoach Festival last night (April 27) – check out footage below. 
  The artist was appearing on night two of the annual country festival, and he had sent out a phone number beforehand, asking for requests for songs that he could perform on the night. 
  The set included a guest showing from Brad Paisley, with whom he duetted on Paisley’s ‘I’m Gonna Miss Her’, as well as Vince Gill’s &
  
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• Moby says “there was a sadness” to his feud with Aphex Twin

  28-04-2024 18:55 via nme.com
  
  Moby has reflected on his early-1990s feud with Aphex Twin, admitting that “there was a sadness to it”. READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – MobyThe conflict dates back to a 1993 joint headline tour between Moby, Aphex Twin and Orbital. The tension reportedly developed between the two artists due in part to Moby’s insistence on travelling to each gig by plane, while the others went by tour bus. 
  Speaking to Stereogum, the US electro
  
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• Nine-year-old Taylor Swift fan dies after cancer diagnosis, following viral moment with star

  28-04-2024 17:40 via nme.com
  
  A nine-year-old Taylor Swift fan, who went viral after spending a special moment on stage with the star, has died following her cancer diagnosis. 
  Scarlett Oliver from Perth, Australia, shared a hug with Swift that was spread widely online during a Sydney date on the Eras Tour earlier this year. 
  Taylor routinely hands out a signed hat during her song ‘22’, and after Scarlett’s family made a social media plea, the young girl was successful in receiving the honour, wit
  
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• Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant reveals the “worst moment” of his life at Glastonbury

  28-04-2024 17:14 via nme.com
  
  Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant has said that the duo’s performance at Glastonbury in 2022 was the “worst moment” of his life.READ MORE: Pet Shop Boys – ‘Nonetheless’ review: still setting pop’s benchmark The electronic duo’s performance on The Other Stage on the Sunday of the festival was marred by technical difficulties which saw Tennant have to perform solo for six songs.
  Although they also delighted fans by bringing out Olly Alexander to
  
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• Watch Slipknot play career-spanning setlist in old-school costumes at Sick New World 2024

  28-04-2024 16:17 via nme.com
  
  Slipknot co-headlined Sick New World Festival in Las Vegas last night (April 27) with a career-spanning setlist for which they donned their classic original masks and red boiler suits.READ MORE: Slipknot’s Clown talks 2024 tour and new material: “This band has never been happier”Appropriately for their attire, and for their celebrations of the 25th anniversary of their self-titled 1999 debut album, their setlist leaned on material from their first three records, the others bein
  
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• Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death for protesting against government

  28-04-2024 15:30 via nme.com
  
  The Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been condemned to death for participating in anti-government protests in 2022, says his lawyer, sparking outcry from human rights organisations.
  Salehi’s music has been critical of the Iranian regime, while he has also been particularly outspoken about the government on social media. He was involved in weeks-long protests that swept the country after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, which occurred under suspicious circumstances while in p
  
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• Post Malone Teams With Brad Paisley, Dwight Yoakam for Country Pivot at Stagecoach

  28-04-2024 15:00 via rollingstone.com
  
  Covers-filled set also features Sara Evans as Malone set the foundation for his long-teased new era at the California country music festival
  
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• Listen to Ringo Starr’s EP with The Strokes’ Nick Valensi, ‘Crooked Boy’

  28-04-2024 13:55 via nme.com
  
  Ringo Starr’s EP with The Strokes‘ guitarist Nick Valensi, ‘Crooked Boy’, is now available on streaming after being originally released on exclusive vinyl for Record Store Day.READ MORE: ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ review: Peter Jackson’s long and winding but utterly unmissable epic The four-track EP was co-written with Linda Perry, who Starr previously worked with on the tracks ‘Coming Undone’ and ‘Everyone And Everything’.
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• Jon Bon Jovi: Work with Richie again? It’s been eleven years and I’m still waiting for that phone call...

  28-04-2024 13:13 via music-news.com
  
  Ahead of their new docu series Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story on Disney+, members of the legendary rock group
  
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• Sisqo's children give him 'brutally honest' feedback on new music

  28-04-2024 12:01 via music-news.com
  
  Sisqo knows one of his songs "ain't dope" if his kids can't pay attention to it.
  
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• Miranda Lambert Surprises Stagecoach 2024 With Reba McEntire, Debuts New Song ‘Wranglers’

  28-04-2024 11:45 via rollingstone.com
  
  The two country vocalists delivered smoking versions of 'Mama's Broken Heart,' 'Fancy,' and 'Gunpowder & Lead'
  
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• Bryson Tiller: 'I lost a lot of confidence due to the criticism from my first album'

  28-04-2024 10:15 via music-news.com
  
  Bryson Tiller joins Rebecca Judd on Apple Music 1 to discuss his self-titled new album and feeling confident to push himself even
  
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• Dua Lipa feels 'close' to those suffering 'injustices'

  28-04-2024 10:01 via music-news.com
  
  Dua Lipa has opened up about returning to London when she was 15.
  
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• R. Kelly loses appeal over conviction for child sex crimes in Chicago

  28-04-2024 09:09 via nme.com
  
  A federal appellate court in Chicago has upheld R. Kelly‘s conviction and 20-year prison sentence for possessing child pornography and child enticement.
  The disgraced singer was found guilty of six of 13 counts of owning and producing child pornography and enticing a minor back in September. On Thursday (February 23), he was sentenced to 20 years in prison but he will serve almost all of his sentence simultaneously alongside the jail term he received last year for 
  
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• Jon Bon Jovi 'wasn't impressed' by Livin' On a Prayer

  28-04-2024 09:04 via music-news.com
  
  Jon Bon Jovi "wasn't that impressed" with 'Livin' On a Prayer' when it was first written and thought 'Always' ought to be shelved.
  
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• Gary Barlow tried to snub Take That for surprising reason

  28-04-2024 09:04 via music-news.com
  
  Gary Barlow almost rejected Take That when he was first approached about the band.
  
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• Bill Wyman: Rolling Stones 'refused to accept' departure for TWO YEARS

  28-04-2024 09:04 via music-news.com
  
  Bill Wyman has claimed therest of the Rolling Stones "refused to accept" he had quit for more than two years.
  
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• Salma Hayek Joins Madonna for ‘Vogue’ in Mexico City

  28-04-2024 05:25 via rollingstone.com
  
  Actress serves as guest judge for song's ballroom competition at penultimate date of the Celebration Tour
  
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• Britney Spears celebrates end of legal battles with her father

  28-04-2024 02:01 via music-news.com
  
  Britney Spears has marked the end of the legal battles over her conservatorship.
  
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• Drew Carey said he’d “stick his dick in a blender” for Phish, so they sent him a signed blender

  27-04-2024 23:44 via nme.com
  
  US game show host Drew Carey proclaimed last week he would “stick his dick in a blender” after seeing Phish, so the band have sent him a blender – and took the liberty of signing it too.
  In December, it was announced that Phish would be the next band to take up residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas, following the conclusion of U2’s run. Those four dates took place last week, from April 18-21.
  Carey was there for the final of those shows, and the Price Is Right host could n
  
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