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D’Angelo shares full version of ‘Unshaken’. Listen

D’Angelo has shared the full studio version of October’s surprise ‘Unshaken’

Available now across all platforms, ‘Unshaken’ marks D’Angelo’s first piece of all-new music since 2014’s ‘Black Messiah’; the song was also featured on the soundtrack of last year’s Read Dead Redemption II video game.

Listen below:

Sam Smith and Normani announce new collaboration

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Sam Smith has announced his first piece of new music for 2019, teaming up with Normani for their long-awaited new collaboration.

Titled ‘Dancing With A Stranger’, the song will give fans a taster of what the duo cooked up during their time in the studio together back in August. According to Genius, the track will also come as the lead single from Sam’s third studio album, expected to drop at some point this year.

Check the teaser below; ‘Dancing With A Stranger’ lands on 11th January:

Hear Bring Me The Horizon’s new song, ‘Medicine’

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Sheffield’s Bring Me The Horizon have released their new song, ‘Medicine’.

Premiered as Annie Mac’s latest Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1, the rock group’s latest track gives further cues into the direction of their upcoming album ‘Amo’, out later this month, and follows previous release ‘Wonderful Life’ alongside the record’s lead single, ‘Mantra‘, which dropped back in August.

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James Blake’s new album reported to be released this month

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It looks like James Blake will release a new album this month, following a slipped listing on Amazon France.

According to the retailer, the follow-up to 2016’s ‘The Colour In Anything’ will be released on 25th January. The project will be titled ‘Assume Form’.

Prior to the listing being altered, the album’s guest-listing also made a brief appearance online, and will see contributions from Andre 3000, Travis Scott, Moses Sumney, Rosalía, Metro Boomin, and SwaVay.

Last month, Blake previewed ‘an unreleased collaboration with Andre‘ – with a North American tour set to kick off in February, it’s looking likely everything will fall into place for 2019 to see one of electronica’s finest champions return.

Check the supposed ‘Assume Form’ tracklisting below:

01 “Assume Form”
02 “Mile High”
03 “Tell Them”
04 “Into The Red”
05 “Barefoot In The Park”
06 “Can’t Believe The Way We Flow”
07 “Are You In Love?”
08 “Where’s The Catch?”
09 “I’ll Come Too”
10 “Power On”
11 “Don’t Miss It”
12 “Lullaby For My Insomniac”

Hear Chaka Khan’s new single ‘Hello Happiness’

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Last summer, Chaka Khan released ‘Like Sugar‘, back then touted as the first single from her first album in 11 years.

Whilst all has remained quiet on the new album-front, the soul queen has now shared a second new song, upping the groove with ‘Hello Happiness’, and joining last year’s jam on her new ‘Goodbye Sadness Hello Happiness’ EP.

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Hear The Streets’ ‘One Live in Nottingham’ performance from 2002

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Mike Skinner has gone back to the archives, sharing a 17 year-old performance from The Streets on all streaming platforms.

Titled ‘One Live In Nottingham’, the EP hears the full recording from the band’s live show back in February 2002, and features classics including ‘Turn The Page’, ‘Let’s Push Things Forward’ and ‘Weak Become Heroes’.

2019 is set to be a big year for Skinner and co; an extended run of shows at London’s Brixton Academy will kick off later this month, whilst back in December, the Birmingham producer also teased his return to Glastonbury for a DJ set at The Rum Shack.

Listen to ‘One Live In Nottingham’ below:

Hear Chrome Sparks’ mind-blowing ‘Be On Fire’ EP

Chrome Sparks (aka Jeremy Malvin) has kicked off 2019 with his new EP, ‘Be On Fire’.

Taking the same all-inclusive, dreamily-realised approach that made last year’s self-titled debut project so enticing, the 5-song collection hears the producer layer together a multitude of sub-electric genres – an ’80s boogie groove is the bedrock of the title-track, whilst ‘Ultraviolet Rainbow’ sounds how you’d expect: rainbow-beam synths and bright-sparkling arpeggios, combined with a turbocharged hip-hop bounce. In comparison, ‘I Could Be The Voice Inside Your Head’ is woozy and relaxed, notes bending elastically in and out of shape, tinged with an air of melancholy.  

Lead single ‘In2 Your Love’ is a sandblast of synths, heavy-hitting drums and lo-fi 80s soul, inspired by the idiosyncratic demos of George Smallwood, whose music he’s become obsessed with since a friend recently introduced it to him, and whose sampled vocal served as the starting point for the track. Malvin’s hip-hop-indebted, energy-drenched style lights up his source material, paying homage to Smallwood’s freewheeling spirit, while turning it into something new. “The result is a track that I feel pays homage to an under appreciated musical gem and surrounds it with a breath of new spirit,” says Chrome.

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Coachella reveals 2019 lineup, including new headliners

Childish Gambino, Tame Impala and Ariana Grande are the confirmed headliners for this year’s Coachella at Indio, California.

Additional names include returns from Solange, The 1975, Blood Orange, Kaytranada and Anderson .Paak, whilst this April’s 20th anniversary will also see Coachella debuts from Juice WRLD, Bad Bunny and SOPHIE. Meanwhile other notable additions comes from Janelle Monae, Maggie Rogers, Billie Eilish, Aphex Twin, CHVRCHES, Four Tet and Christine and the Queens.

The line-up announcement follows yesterday’s news of Kanye West’s cancellation of his widely-rumoured headline slot.

Coachella returns to Indio’s Empire Polo Club across April 12-14 and 19-21st weekends. In a first for the festival, organisers will celebrate the event’s 20th anniversary by live-streaming both weekends on YouTube for the first time (historically, only the opening weekend has been available for global audiences. Check the full lineup below:

Kanye West pulls out of reported Coachella 2019 headline appearance

Kanye West has cancelled his reported appearance as one of this year’s Coachella headliners.

The star, who continues to make the news with his often-controversial outbursts on Twitter, was expected to appear in the forthcoming line-up announcement (rumoured to land this week), however negotiations have now fallen by the wayside after a disagreement regarding Kanye’s stage set-up. TMZ were the first to report the news earlier today.

According to the website, Kanye was reluctant on performing on the traditional 60×40 stage, citing it as “artistically limiting”. A source close to Kanye told TMZ – “These 40×60 stages are so archaic. It’s the same type of stage on which Shakespeare’s works were performed hundreds of years ago.”

West was due to join other headliners Justin Timberlake and Childish Gambino at 2019’s Coachella (which kicks off in April), however Timberlake recently scrapped his plans following the cancellation of some of his ‘Man Of The Woods’ shows due to bruised vocal chords.

More as we hear it.

Lana Del Rey announces next new song

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Lana Del Ray has announced her latest taster of new music.

Taking to her Instagram in the early hours, the singer revealed that her next song, titled ‘hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have- but i have it’ will be released on Wednesday 9th January.

During a fan chat on Instagram Live last week, Lana also confirmed her forthcoming album ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell’ was “completely finished” – ‘hope is a dangerous thing…’ is expected to join last year’s ‘Venice Bitch‘ and ‘Mariners Apartment Complex‘ on the new record. Listen to a brief teaser below: