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Dizzee Rascal has received a community order requiring him to wear an electronic tag and observe a 24-week curfew, The Guardian reports. The sentencing in a south London court today (April 8) followed the ruling in March that he had assaulted his ex-fiancée during a domestic dispute. The judge said he had shown “no remorse” and continued “to place the blame” on his ex-partner. He was also given a 12-month restraining order. The grime artist, 36, was charged with assault last August. In court, prosecutors detailed Dizzee Rascal’s assault against the woman, who is also the mother to his two children. He had pushed her to the ground while arguing about custody of the children after “barging” his way into her home. Dizzee Rascal reportedly smashed a press photographer’s camera after the guilty...

I love horror films, but it was also important to me that my film feel more than just scary. I wanted it to feel gentle, sad, personal, and homemade: the kind of “horror” movie that might make you cry. When Alex’s gorgeous, emotive “Main Theme” enters during our opening credits (and then recurs in mutated forms throughout the movie), it’s meant as a signal to the audience of exactly this ambition.

Sharon Van Etten has shared a new cover of David Bowie’s 1972 song “Starman.” The cover is featured in the new Netflix documentary Return to Space, about the rise of SpaceX and Elon Musk. Check out Van Etten’s version, which plays over the film’s end credits, below. This week, Van Etten announced her new album, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, out May 6. She previously shared the songs “Porta” and “Used to It” earlier this year, but they will not appear on the forthcoming album. Revisit “Sharon Van Etten on How Opening for Nick Cave Led to Her Role in The OA” on the Pitch. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

About 3-4 years ago I was visiting Yasiin in Europe and we started to talk about songs to do on an album, so I flew an engineer out just to see what that would be. Once I realized this conversation is starting to organically become a creative conversation, I started making sure to have the engineer around at all times. There was one day we were just in a hotel listening to Madlib beats, and he’s like, “Play that Madlib tape again.” I’m playing the beats and he starts doing rhymes to the beats. And that’s how we did the first song. This is very similar to how we did the first album. But the first album, there were no mobile studios. This entire album, we have not set foot in one recording studio. It’s all been done in hotel rooms and backstage at Dave Chappelle shows.