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One Liners: Ross From Friends, Charlie Puth, Sigrid, more

By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 16 March 2018

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• Ross From Friends has signed to Brainfeeder and now you can hear ‘John Cage’. I will not explain this further.

• Major music publisher Sony/ATV has promoted Jacob Fain to SVP of A&R and Head Of Research And Analytics, which sounds like fun. “Our analytics work has modernised the artist and writer discovery process to give us the sharpest competitive edge in music publishing”, he beams.

• That Charlie Puth they have now has released a new single, ‘Done For Me’. It features Kehlani. His second album, ‘Voicenotes’, is out on 11 May.

• Sigrid has released new single ‘Raw’. Her UK tour starts this weekend.

• Kali Uchis has announced that she will release her debut album, ‘Isolation’, on 6 Apr. Here she is performing recent single ‘After The Storm’ on ‘The Tonight Show’.

• Courtney Barnett has released the second single from her upcoming new album ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’. Here it is, ‘Need A Little Time’.

• Jack White will play a tiny, almost non-existent show at The Garage in London on 28 Mar. Tickets go on sale at midday today.

• Nine Inch Nails will play the Royal Albert Hall on 24 Jun. Two days earlier, they will play the Royal Festival Hall as part of Robert Smith’s Meltdown Festival. A right royal time will be had by all at both, I’m sure.

• Migos have announced that they will play Brixton Academy on Tuesday. Tickets went on sale this morning.

• Blackalicious have announced that they will play Koko in London on 10 Jul. Tickets on sale now.

• Vök have won the Icelandic Music Prize. Just in time for the start of their UK tour next week.

• Check out our weekly Spotify playlist of new music featured in the CMU Daily – updated every Friday.