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      John Summit Drops Official Remix of a Britney Spears Classic: ‘This Is the Energy You Must Channel While Listening’

      In 2011, Britney Spears released one of the most dance-forward songs of her career with “I Wanna Go.” Written and produced by Max Martin and Shellback, the thumping Hi-NRG track hit No. 12 on the Global Dance Songs chart, where it spent 16 weeks. Now it’s back with a fresh twist courtesy of John Summit. A longtime ID in Summit’s set, the official remix is out Friday (Oct. 17) through Summit’s Experts Only label and Darkroom Records. Summit leaves much of Spears’ original vocal in tact, in moments chopping it up and adding spaces of near silence for dramatic effect,…

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      XG Announce Japanese Dates for Kick-Off of 2026 World Tour

      Japanese girl group XG announced the initial dates for their second world tour on Friday (Oct. 17), which is slated to kick off on Feb. 6 with the first of three shows at K-Arena Yokohama in Yokohama, Japan. Following a run of 10 more shows in Japan, a press release announcing the outing promised as-yet-unannounced shows in North America, U.K. and Europe, Australia, Latin America and other regions. Exclusive early ticket reservations for the 13 Japan dates will open to members of XG’s ALPHAZ fan club will begin on Nov. 1, with additional details coming soon. The tour is in…

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      Friday Music Guide: New Music From Tame Impala, Joji, 5 Seconds of Summer & More

      Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.  This week: Everyone’s favorite super-ambitious Australian indie slacker returns with his first new album in five years, Joji shakes the block with long-distance romantic frustration and 5SOS finally address the “boy band” question (but not really). Tame Impala, Deadbeat Lord forgive Kevin Parker, but it’s time for him to go back to the old Tame Impala. Well, not really: When Parker sings about being “back into…

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      Britney Spears Lashes Out at Ex Kevin Federline Again Over Memoir: ‘Why Is HE SO ANGRY’

      In the wake a series of salacious excerpts from his upcoming tell-all memoir, Britney Spears lashed out at ex-husband Kevin Federline again in an Instagram post on Thursday night (Oct. 16) in which she claimed that the former dancer is attempting to spin her pain for “profit.” “To be loved unconditionally and with a naive heart like mine, always being threatened or made to believe I’m the bad one as they profit off my pain,” Spears wrote without naming names. “Oh dear Jesus show me there is a God and I can too be loved unconditionally and not have to…

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