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Petition calling for visa-free EU travel hits 222,000 signatures

Speedboat unveil playful synth-pop single ‘Dog Toy’

UK government must give the live music sector a “restart date”, report says

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Primavera Sound successfully trial live music event with rapid Covid-19 testing

Oklou delivers an entrancing remix of Dua Lipa’s and Angèle’s ‘Fever’

Tom Did It shares orchestral version of ‘Thinking Too Much’

Sia drops Shia LaBeouf from her film ‘Music’, calls him a “pathological liar”

Bad Bunny is starring in an action film with Brad Pitt

Caroline Polachek releases her cover of The Corrs’ ‘Breathless’

Live events industry lost over $30 billion in 2020, report finds

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RyL0 shares glitched-out hyperpop single ‘Fancam’

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Lil Nas X is virtually performing his ‘Holiday’ single on Roblox

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Miley Cyrus’s ‘Party In The USA’ and N*SYNC’s ‘Bye Bye Bye’ re-enter charts after Biden win

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Dua Lipa says it’s her “duty” to fight for LGBTQ rights

Grammys change World Music category to Global Music due to “connotations of colonialism”

Spotify announces new feature where artists can promote their music at a price

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Grimes has made a baby AI lullaby to help you sleep

Glastonbury lawyer says the 2021 festival will be going ahead

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Arts Council England announces £18 million funding package for DJs, artists and more

Ariana Grande says she’s releasing a new album this month

Festivals receive official advice on how to go ahead next summer

Kelvin MacKenzie enters BBC chairman job race with plans to axe Radio 1 and 2

Rishi Sunak says workers will need to adapt for employment amid the pandemic

Britney Spears could be under conservatorship for the rest of her life, claims former estate manager

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Premiere: Odillia taps up Snoop Dogg for the funk-indebted ‘Break It Down’

Purity Ring have remixed Alice Deejay’s ‘Better Off Alone’

UK events industry figures stage Parliament protest against latest Covid measures

Dorian Electra’s forthcoming album features Village People, Rebecca Black and Pussy Riot

RYL0 takes aim at the music industry “rat race” on hyperpop new single

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England’s 10pm curfew restrictions could remain in place for six months

One third of musicians could quit due to the pandemic, new survey reveals

The Trump administration is banning TikTok downloads in the US from Sunday

‘Can Music Make You Sick?’ asks why musicians are three times more likely to have anxiety or depression

A petition has been launched to extend the furlough scheme for the live music industry

Facebook explains its crackdown on live “music listening experiences”

Vinyl outsells CDs for the first time in three decades

Lava La Rue returns with elegant Queer anthem ‘G.O.Y.D.’

MPs back changes to post-Brexit immigration bill due to concern for touring musicians

Visa fees for artists touring the US to rise by over 50%

Oliver Dowden announces ‘Operation Sleeping Beauty’ to bring back live indoor events

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Reading and Leeds faces backlash after booking no female headliners for seventh year running

Study finds that British female artists are severely underrepresented on UK radio

TikTok launches legal action with the Trump administration over US ban

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A. G. Cook announces ‘Apple’ album: hear ‘Oh Yeah’

A contact-tracing app developed by music tech employees has launched in Berlin nightclubs

Charli XCX’s virtual live show unleashed months of pent-up lockdown energy

Charli XCX is hosting a one-off digital performance of ‘how i’m feeling now’ to help the homeless

Google Play Music to completely shut down by the end of the year

Let The Music Play campaign demands the UK government protect more jobs in the live music sector

Michael Eavis says Glastonbury might not return until 2022

Mercury Awards consider changes to eligibility rules after Rina Sawayama backlash

Frank Ocean’s teenage brother reportedly dies in car crash

Rina Sawayama criticises Mercury Awards after being deemed not British enough to take part

Music festivals to be supported in government coronavirus funding package

Rina Sawayama drops teaser trailer for ‘The Making of SAWAYAMA’ documentary

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Indoor gigs can resume in England from August 1st, Boris Johnson announces

Premiere: umru reshapes Banoffee’s ‘Fukwit’ into a glitchy pop slammer

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K-pop fans rally to support Black Lives Matter

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UNTOLD and Neversea pledge their festival equipment to Romanian hospitals

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Marathon Labs announce five music tech businesses for their mentoring programme

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Brother-sister duo Chasing Daze reveal the sunshine-soaked ‘Eyes’ EP

Rina Sawayama pokes fun at capitalist ignorance on ’00s-inspired pop cut ‘XS’

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Gorillaz team up with slowthai and Slaves for Britpop-inspired track ‘Momentary Bliss’

FKA twigs says she wasn’t asked to sing at the Grammy’s Prince tribute

Rosalía shares emotional prison visit video for flamenco song ‘Juro Que’

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Rina Sawayama announces ‘Sawayama’ album: hear ‘Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys)’

Charli XCX collaborates with Nintendo on a song for its Japanese theme park

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At her Fire headline show, Hannah Diamond reignited her maximalist pop sound

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The 10 Best Pop Songs With A Punk Mentality, according to Alma

Rina Sawayama confronts racial stereotypes on date from hell in the video for ‘STFU!’

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Grandma, Phabo, Pool Cosby and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

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Premiere: SOPHIE collaborator Kota Banks shares luxe pop anthem ‘BIG BUCKS’

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Quelle Rox, Kwaku Asante, Crook and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Haich Ber Na, Deema, Rada and Theodor Black kick off Dummy’s BRAND NEW Laylow residency

Bloodz Boi, Joey G ii, Sandy Hsu and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

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Inka Upendo, Limvge, T. Evann and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Premiere: Measure For Measure’s ‘PaperCuts’ channels “obsession, rejection, intimacy”

The best Norwegian artists who played Øya festival 2019

Haich Ber Na, Tiggz, Shahrae and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Tohji, Rockstar Payso, Lonelyspeck and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

The 10 Best Drag Race Lip Synch For Your Life Tracks, according to Blanck Mass

ISM calls on government to cover musicians’ costs in event of no-deal Brexit

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slowthai, Little Simz, IDLES nominated for the Hyundai Mercury Prize 2019

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Rosalía brought London to pin-drop silence at her Somerset House show

Sky Ferreria, Yaeji, Kim Petras feature on Charli XCX’s new album ‘Charli’

AMAZONDOTCOM, Daniel Adé, ZEM and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

M.I.A. dedicates MBE to her mother who hand-sewed medals for the Queen

The 10 Best Self-Produced Tracks, according to NIKI

Erika de Casier sounds like pop’s past and future at the same time

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The 10 Best Swedish Non-Dance Music From The Last Year Or So, according to Kornél Kovács

Charli XCX recruits Lizzo for ‘Blame It On Your Love’

SEANTHOMMONEY, Lul Lion, Deaton Chris Anthony and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Scammers are selling fake Vybz Kartel dubplates while he’s incarcerated

The 10 Best Tracks by Filipino Artists, according to No Rome

Premiere: Ashnikko plays with gentleman’s club tropes in her ‘Special’ video

Robyn’s first London show in eight years was pure pop perfection

Premiere: Katie McBride embraces the natural world in the video for ‘NBSL’

Charli XCX and MNEK have worked on a song on K-pop group TWICE’s album

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Caleon Fox, Lady Midnight, Mignon and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Pirate Studios launch a hunt for fresh UK talent with their Pirate Prodigy programme

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Lizzo tops our NEXT HYPE playlist this week

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Grimes reveals plans to kill her ‘Grimes’ moniker, gives confusing new interview

The 10 Best Paris-Inspired Tracks, according to Lolo Zouaï

Holly Herndon tops our NEXT HYPE playlist this week

The 10 Best British Artists Who Aren’t Playing Copy Cat, according to Kadiata

Skengdo x AM top our NEXT HYPE playlist this week

Premiere: LATER produce another ’80s-influenced banger with ‘Young’

Secretive LA duo Emotional Oranges reveal ‘Corners Of My Mind’, inspired by painful heartbreak

Big Nate, Atelier Blue, Jeannel and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Doja Cat, Col3trane, UNIIQ3 and more added to Dummy’s NEXT HYPE playlist

Woke acceptance speeches and weak feminism: five takeaways from the Brit Awards 2019

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Premiere: Skepta collaborator Daisy Maybe shares two dimensions of her sound on ‘Cinnamon’ and ‘Stop’

Quelle Rox, Chrisfrmkro, Ta-Ra and more added to Dummy’s BRAND NEW playlist

Kehlani builds anticipation for her ‘While We Wait’ mixtape: Hear ‘Butterfly’

Kali Uchis and Jorja Smith announce ‘The Kali & Jorja Tour’

Roses Gabor shares luxurious electronic-pop number ‘Turkish Delight’

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Kim Petras drops three new tracks: hear SOPHIE collaboration ‘1,2,3 dayz up’

Taking Off: Celeste

Murlo, Kojey Radical, Big Boi and more added to Dummy’s NEXT HYPE playlist

Glastonbury kicks off its Emerging Talent Competition for 2019

A new DAWN: Dummy meets the one-woman movement redefining independence

Vampire Weekend announce ‘Father Of The Bride’ album: Hear ‘2021’ and ‘Harmony Hall’

Toro y Moi just gave away a free mixtape on Dropbox, ‘Soul Trash’

Rosalía joins a motorbike gang and burns windmills in the stunning video for ‘De Aquí No Sales’

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Premiere: Iglooghost-championed BABii shows off dizzying electronics on ‘SEiiZURE’

Chris Brown arrested in Paris on rape charges

Max Jury shares groove-laden ‘Sweet Lie’, announces album ‘Modern World’

Mike Ashley ‘in talks’ to buy HMV

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TĀLĀ’s ‘Birthday Cake’ visuals flip female objectification

Why Manchester is the new creative epicentre of neo-soul and hip-hop

Premiere: Selma Judith’s ‘Inner Thigh’ is another intimate take from the Danish singer

DAWN celebrates female sexuality on the Hudson Mohawke-produced ‘sauce’

The 10 Best Sade Tracks, according to Taliwhoah

Premiere: Rina Mushonga goes lush and vibrant on Afro-pop jam ‘For A Fool’

Lafawndah announces ‘ANCESTOR BOY’ album: Hear ‘DADDY’

Kehlani, Skinny Malone, Aitch and more added to Dummy’s NEXT HYPE playlist

Hudson Mohawke, A.G. Cook and more played a music festival inside Minecraft yesterday

The 10 Best New Artists Coming Out Of Australia, according to Cub Sport

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The 10 Best Andrè 3000 verses, according to Daniel Alexander

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Lana Del Rey shares sparse new track ‘hope is a dangerous thing…’

Grimes uploads ‘Nightcore’ remix of ‘We Appreciate Power’

Mike Skinner, The Heatwave and more confirmed for Snowboxx 2019

Killavesi, D’Angelo, Bladee and more added to Dummy’s NEXT HYPE playlist

Fatima is making her Roundhouse debut: win two tickets

James Blake reportedly has an album coming with André 3000, Rosalía guest slots

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Celeste explores modern-day relationships in the shadowy video for ‘Lately’

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Watch Jerome Thomas’s ‘Afrofuturist Western’ video for ‘Bruises’

No Fear: Dummy meets Jarreau Vandal

Friendly Fires’ club rave at Oval Space was a masterclass in the live experience

Listen to Yaeji’s ‘Blowing Up The Workshop’ karaoke mix

Black Josh, Murlo, Ian Isiah and more added to Dummy’s NEXT HYPE playlist

“Everything I make seems to oscillate between sweetness and violence”: Dummy meets Fauness

Premiere: Semi Precious transcends music and fashion in new video for ‘Vacancy’

Rina Sawayama shares new difference-embracing pop anthem ‘Flicker’

The 10 Best Mariah Carey Album Cuts, according to Homeshake

Stormzy and Pharrell feature on a new EP aiming to help end extreme poverty

Daisy Maybe enlists Skepta for dark-edged cut ‘The Answer’

Hannah Diamond announces new album: Listen to ‘True’

The Dummy guide to M.I.A.

“I want to write about real emotions”: Dummy meets Mahalia

Ariel’s ‘In-N-Out’ is a pop-tinged ode to our throwaway, fast food culture

The 10 Best Underrated Pop Gems, according to LIZ

Charli XCX jumps on Tommy Genesis’s ‘100 Bad’

Jamie xx: “I’m not a lyrics guy.”

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