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Miley Cyrus reveals she has been sober for six months

Miley Cyrus has revealed that she has been sober for six months. The singer-songwriter told Variety that her family history, her craft and a surgical procedure on her vocal cords prompted her to give up the drink. “It’s been really important for me over the last year living a sober lifestyle, because I really wanted to polish up my craft,” Cyrus explained. “I had really big vocal surgery in November. I had freaking four weeks where I wasn’t allowed to talk.” Advertisement Cyrus revealed that “over-use of the vocal cords” prompted her to get the surgery and to begin her...
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Love Record Stores Day boosts music retail, taking over £1 million in revenue

Love Record Stores Day has delivered a big boost to music retailers in the UK after taking over £1 million in revenue. Read more: How you can help your local independent record shop amid the coronavirus crisis Taking place online on Saturday (June 20), Love Record Stores Day was held to replace the rearranged Record Store Day 2020 — which has been postponed twice this year due to the coronavirus outbreak — as the latter will now be split over three dates (August 29, September 26 and October 24). Its aim was to get music-lovers to support their favourite independent...
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Haim announce virtual performance benefitting Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust

Haim have announced that they will be putting on a virtual performance to promote their upcoming new album, ‘Women In Music Pt. III’. Read more: Haim – ‘Women In Music Pt. III’ review: experimental and emotionally charged album is their best yet Organised by Banquet Records, the band will also host a Q&A with the co-producers of their new album, Rostam Batmanglij and Ariel Rechtshaid. The event takes place on July 3 – you can get tickets here. Sharing the news on Instagram, the band wrote: “U.K.! sitting down with our producers @matsor@arielrechtshaid and a few of you for a deep...
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Porn star Ron Jeremy has been charged with sexually assaulting four women

Adult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with sexually assaulting four women. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced the charges against Jeremy, 67, today (June 23) and a warrant has been issued for his arrest, according to Consequence of Sound. The alleged assaults took place between 2014 and 2019 and involved four women between the ages of 24 and 46. Advertisement Jeremy has been charged with eight counts, including forcible rape, forcible penetration and forcible oral copulation. He faces a possible maximum sentence of 90 years to life in prison. Prosecutors are recommending bail to be...
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Tallinn Music Week reveals strict coronavirus measures ahead of Estonia festival

Estonian festival Tallinn Music Week has revealed strict social distancing measures ahead of its annual bash in August. The 12th edition of the new music showcase and cultural conference event was originally scheduled to run from March 25–29, but was postponed just over two weeks before the festival was due to get underway because of the coronavirus outbreak. Read more: Coronavirus: every cancelled gig, festival and tour – and how to get your ticket refund It was later confirmed that the bash would take place from August 26-30 following a decision by the Estonian government. Advertisement Organisers have now set...
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Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello surprises 10-year-old fan with signature guitar

Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello has surprised a 10-year-old fan by gifting her one of his signature guitars. Read more: The Big Read – Tom Morello: “If we can’t punch Nazis, who can we punch really?” Nandi Bushell’s recent cover of Rage classic ‘Guerrilla Radio’, in which she played drums, bass, and guitar, caught the attention of Morello and prompted him to have one of his new signature Fender Soul Power Stratocaster’s delivered to young musician. Bushell dedicated her cover to Black Lives Matter and the fight to end racism, and Morello shared the performance on Twitter, writing: “Well now...
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Echo & The Bunnymen announce huge 2021 UK tour

Echo & The Bunnymen have announced a raft of new UK tour dates for 2021. Read more: Coronavirus: every cancelled gig, festival and tour – and how to get your ticket refund The post punk band will be hitting the road for a 16 date jaunt to mark over 40 years since they released their debut album ‘Crocodiles’, starting at Sheffield City Hall on Friday, May 7, with a stop at London’s Roundhouse on May 12. Tickets go on sale Friday (June 26) at 9.30am. Advertisement Speaking about the dates, frontman Ian McCulloch said: “Well then, here are the...
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G-Eazy shares hazy new track ‘Nostalgia Cycle’

G-Eazy has shared a dreamy new track called ‘Nostalgia Cycle’ – listen to it below. Set to appear on his recently announced new project ‘Everything’s Strange Here’, which is due to arrive on Friday (June 26), the new single is the fourth from the project and follows ‘Free Porn, Cheap Drugs’, ‘Stan By Me’ and ‘Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime’. Speaking about his first full-length release since 2019’s ‘Scary Nights’, the ‘Me Myself & I’ rapper wrote: “8 weeks ago I didn’t know I needed to make this. The world has been turned upside down and inside out – but a...
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Apple AirPods will now let you switch between devices

Apple has announced plans to allow AirPods to switch between different devices. Read more: Don’t mourn the death of iTunes. It was crap The automatic switch feature, which will apply to AirPods pro, second-generation AirPods, Powerbeats, Powerbeats Pro, and Beats Solo Pro will allow users to switch between devices through their iCloud account. This means that if AirPod users are listening to something on their phone, they can then watch a video on their computer, or answer a call while they’re listening to something on their laptop. Advertisement The new feature is part of Apple’s new updates for iOS...
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At The Drive-In’s Omar Rodríguez-López: “I can hear an incredible amount of suffering in my old songs”

Omar Rodríguez-López is what you’d describe as a mercurial musician. Alongside Cedric Bixler-Zavalad, throughout the 90’s and too little of the subsequent 00’s the guitarist made-up 50% of the magic dust sprinkled upon El Paso’s At The Drive-In. Never just another hardcore band, it was a blueprint he and his big-haired soul brother took with them to their progressive rock band The Mars Volta – an outfit in contention for the title of the most askew, interesting rock act on the planet. When that band went on hiatus in 2012 – also the year of Omar’s mother’s passing, an...
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