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Music News for Your Weekend

Oct 5, 2018 | 6:15 AM

KATY PERRY AND ORLANDO BLOOM HEADED TOWARDS AN ENGAGEMENT?: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom may have only rekindled their romance recently, but it looks like things are really getting serious. A source close to the pair revealed to People magazine that the actor is considering proposing to the singer. “Orlando doesn’t have a ring yet but has been talking about the future. Everyone would be excited if they got engaged. Katy is wonderful,” they shared. Perry and Bloom have been dating on and off for the past two years, and just last week, they took their romance to a new level by making their red carpet debut together as a couple at the Gala for the Global Ocean at the Opera of Monte-Carlo in Monaco.

COURT FAVORS GWEN STEFANI AND PHARRELL IN ‘SPARK THE FIRE’ COPYRIGHT SETTLEMENT: Gwen Stefani and Pharrell were hit with a copyright lawsuit last year regarding their 2014 track “Spark the Fire.” In the lawsuit, musician and former Stefani hairdresser Richard Morrill alleged that Stefani’s song stole its chorus from his 1996 song “Who’s Got My Lightah.” Morrill, who later rerecorded the song in 2009, claimed he played his song for Stefani while coloring her hair in the late 90s. Two decades later, he claimed his ‘Who’s got my lightah? Who got the fire?” became their “Who got the lighter? Let’s spark the fire,” citing the way both songs rhyme “lighter” and “fire,” as well as the two-syllable pronunciation of the word “fire.” A California federal judge has ruled in favor of Stefani and Pharrell. Judge Dolly M. Gee determined that the similarity of vocal inflection isn’t enough to sustain a copyright claim, and that “the last word on beat four of a line often rhymes” and that “pronouncing words that end in ‘er’ with an ‘ah’ sound is a common practice in African American Vernacular English.”

JENNIFER LOPEZ TO DEBUT NEW SINGLE AT AMAS: Jennifer Lopez will be performing at the 2018 American Music Awards and is set to debut a new single that will be featured on the soundtrack for her upcoming film Second Act. The AMAs take place October 9th at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Other performers include Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Camila Cabello, Mariah Carey, Shawn Mendes, Post Malone, Carrie Underwood, and more.

IMAGINE DRAGONS TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘ORIGINS’ IN EARLY NOVEMBER: Imagine Dragons has revealed that the band will release its fourth studio album, titled Origins. on November 9th. The news comes as something of a surprise since the Las Vegas-based act is just coming to the end of the tour cycle for its previous effort, 2017’s Evolve, and is not taking any time off before releasing the new disc. Singer Dan Reynolds said, “We just kept creating and so we had these songs we created after Evolve, where we thought we could wait a couple years I guess, like bands are supposed to and put it out . . . but then it will be irrelevant. So we thought, ‘Well, this is a new world of music why don’t we put it out right now.’”Guitarist Wayne Sermon told us not long ago that Imagine Dragons always works on way more songs than it needs for an album: “Once we get to about 20, that’s kind of what we work on in the studio — about 20 songs that we record and we see how they work and then we pick, you know, the 10 or 12 that all make sense together and all seem to work out the best. So that’s basically what we do. We haven’t stopped doing that since the beginning.”

Reynolds added, “It feels like a sister album to Evolve, it kind of completes the cycle to us. It’s fresh, it feels green and it feels healthy . . . we’re all really proud of it. Evolve is like ‘where am I going, I know there’s color, there’s something new’ and Origins is ‘this is where you are going and it’s a bright future.’”The band recently issued a new song called “Zero,” which will appear on Origins and also shows up on the soundtrack to the upcoming Disney animated movie Ralph Breaks The Internet.

MUMFORD & SONS MAP OUT EXTENSIVE WORLD TOUR: Mumford & Sons have mapped out a world tour behind the band’s upcoming new album Delta. The lengthy trek will first take them throughout the UK in November before a short North American run begins in Philadelphia on December 7th. That string of dates will close out in Toronto on December 17th.Once 2019 rolls around, the band will tour Australia in January before returning to North America for dates throughout February and March. Those start on February 27th in Providence, Rhode Island and will wind down on March 31st in Milwaukee, after which the quartet will spend most of April and May traveling throughout Europe. Keyboardist Ben Lovett said about the group’s plans for its live production, “The show’s going to be amazing . . . It’s a completely re-imagined version of a gig. No one’s ever done it, no one’s ever used arenas like this.”

Newly announced Mumford & Sons tour dates (subject to change):
December 7 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
December 9 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
December 10 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
December 14 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
December 17 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
February 27 – Providence, RI – Dunkin Donuts Center
February 28 – Hartford, CT – XL Center
March 2 – Albany, NY – Times Union Center
March 4 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
March 5 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Center
March 8 – Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center
March 9 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena
March 11 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
March 12 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena
March 14 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
March 16 – Charlottesville, VA – John Paul Jones Arena
March 17 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena
March 18 – Charleston, SC – North Charleston Coliseum
March 20 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
March 22 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
March 23 – Birmingham, AL – Legacy Arena at The BJCC
March 25 – Indianapolis, IN – Bankers Life Field House
March 27 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
March 29 – Chicago, IL – United Center
March 30 – Madison, WI – Kohl Center
March 31 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum

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