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Listen to Girli’s emotive new song ‘More Than A Friend’

Girli has released an emotive new song called ‘More Than A Friend’ – you can listen to it below. READ MORE: Girli interview: “There’s always going to be a place for a male indie band, but it’s harder if you’re female artist” The track, which was released yesterday (May 28), follows the story of a character who falls for her friend but the feelings aren’t reciprocated. Speaking about the song, Girli – aka Milly Toomey – said the single was autobiographical. “I wrote this song about crushing hard on a girl who didn’t want me back,” she explains. Advertisement...
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Quincy Jones backs new environmentally friendly NFT platform

Quincy Jones has backed a new environmentally friendly platform for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). READ MORE: WTF is an NFT? Kings Of Leon’s weird non-fungible token thing – explained! Jones has partnered with a new platform which he describes as being “environmentally friendly, artist-friendly and fan friendly” in a new Instagram post. A report earlier this year by Wired explored the impact of selling NFTs on climate change, suggesting it to be hugely negative. According to the publication, the 10 seconds it took for cryptocurrency website Nifty Gateway used up 8.7 megawatts of energy – which is similar to how much...
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Ed Sheeran talks “really different” new single and playing with a band for first time

Ed Sheeran has revealed that his “really different” new single was meant to be out in time for his appearance at Radio 1’s Big Weekend. The singer-songwriter, whose third record ‘Divide’ came out in 2017, gave a special performance on the banks of River Alde in Suffolk for a virtual edition of the station’s annual festival. READ MORE: 50 things you didn’t know about Ed Sheeran Having released the song ‘Afterglow’ last December, Sheeran told fans back in February that he’d return with his fourth album at some point “later this year”. Advertisement Speaking to Radio 1’s Jordan North...
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Swizz Beatz on DMX’s posthumous album: “I had to pull this through for him”

Swizz Beatz has opened up DMX’s posthumous album, which was released yesterday (May 28). READ MORE: 10 big talking points from the posthumous new DMX album ‘Exodus’ DMX, whose real name was Earl Simmons, was hospitalised following a heart attack as a result of reported overdose on April 3, where he remained in intensive care until his passing on April 9. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Swizz reminisced about the last year the two spent together in the studio working on the album, ‘Exodus’, recalling that DMX was “ready” to make the album but that he appeared “tired” at times. “We’d been...
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Ed Sheeran says he was “third choice” for role in ‘Yesterday’

Ed Sheeran has said that he was “third choice” for the role in Richard Curtis’ Yesterday. READ MORE: ‘Yesterday’ movie: Richard Curtis, Danny Boyle, and Himesh Patel on teasing Ed Sheeran and imagining a world without The Beatles The musical played a version of himself in the 2019 film but has now revealed that both Harry Styles and Chris Martin were initially chosen ahead of him. Speaking on BBC Radio 1’s ‘Kids Ask Difficult Questions’ segment, Sheeran said: “They asked Chris Martin, he said no, they asked Harry Styles, he said no, and I was third choice.” Advertisement He continued:...
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Olivia Rodrigo becomes youngest artist to land UK Number One double

Olivia Rodrigo has become the youngest solo act to go to Number One in the UK singles and albums chart in the same week. The NME Big Read: Olivia Rodrigo – “It’s important for me to be taken seriously as a songwriter” The California pop star, 18, last week (May 21) released her debut album ‘Sour’, which NME hailed in a four-star review as “an almost-masterpiece that’s equal parts confident, cool and exhilaratingly real”. Yesterday (May 28) saw the record land at Number One in the UK, with Rodrigo’s latest single ‘Good 4 U’ simultaneously topping the singles chart (via...
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Billie Eilish’s next ‘Happier Than Ever’ single is coming “very soon”

Billie Eilish has teased the arrival of her next single – check out the posts below. READ MORE: Billie Eilish’s ‘Your Power’ is a quietly potent response to abuse of power The pop star is gearing up to release her highly anticipated second album ‘Happier Than Ever’ (out July 30), which has been previewed with the songs ‘My Future’, ‘Therefore I Am’ and ‘Your Power’. Taking to Instagram yesterday (May 28), Eilish posted a close-up clip of herself in what appears to be a forthcoming music video. In the caption, she wrote: “New song out next week.” Advertisement Meanwhile, her...
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MPs demand urgent action to save music festivals from another “lost summer”

A group of MPs have demanded urgent action to save music festivals from another “lost summer”. READ MORE: UK Festivals on testing, vaccine passports, line-ups and what to expect from the summer: “Safety is all we think about” A cross-party committee of MPs has said, in a 42-page report that is due to be published today (May 29), that ministers must implement a government-backed insurance scheme for music festivals now, to avoid further cancellations this summer. The report, written by the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said unless urgent action is taken by the government, many festivals risk...
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Rufus Wainwright shares Judy Garland cover to celebrate Pride month

Rufus Wainwright has shared a cover of a classic Judy Garland song to mark Pride Month – scroll down the page to listen to it now. Pride Month will begin next week on June 1 and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community, with Pride Day taking place on June 28. READ MORE: Rufus Wainwright: “It’s impossible to minimise the ineptitude and pure evil of the Trump administration” Wainwright has shared his take on Garland’s 1939 song ‘Over The Rainbow’, which was featured on the soundtrack of the film The Wizard Of Oz. The new performance will also feature in the star’s upcoming...
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Britney Spears musical to premiere in Washington D.C. this November

The musical based around Britney Spears’ songs will premiere in Washington D.C. in November, it has been confirmed. Once Upon A One More Time was originally scheduled to make its debut in Chicago in 2019, but was delayed to April 2020. Its shows were later cancelled completely because of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. READ MORE: Framing Britney Spears: what happens now in the pop star’s conservatorship fight? The jukebox musical will finally hit the stage on November 29 at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company. Its run will be limited, with performances only taking place until January 2, 2022....
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