coup de main - noun
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Definition of coup de main : an attack that achieves complete surprise.

Must-listen: 100 gecs' new 'ringtone (Remix)' feat. Charli XCX, Rico Nasty & Kero Kero Bonito.

100 gecs (Chicago-based producer-songwriter Laura Les and Los Angeles-based producer-songwriter Dylan Brady) have today shared a new track from their forthcoming album, '1000 gecs & The Tree of Clues' - a remix of 'ringtone' (from their debut album) featuring Charli XCX, Rico Nasty, and Kero Kero Bonito.

Fact: Wallows have covered One Direction's 'What Makes You Beautiful'.

Currently touring their homeland, Wallows tonight in North Carolina debuted a short rendition of One Direction's 'What Makes You Beautiful' amidst a medley of covers (which also included the Arctic Monkeys song 'Do I Wanna Know?').

Watch some fan-filmed snippets of the One Direction cover below...

P.S. Read our latest Wallows interview here.

Is The 1975's new song 'If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)' all you can think about?

If you like us, are currently obsessed with The 1975's new currently unreleased song 'If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)' and are hanging out for its supposed release in "a couple of weeks", then we offer to you the below three options - none of them being quite as perfect as we imagine the much needed studio recording of the song to be, but they shall have to suffice in the meantime!

The 1975 want you to help them make a song + Matty Healy reveals that he and George Daniel will release solo albums.

The 1975's Matty Healy has taken to Twitter to ask fans of the band to send him "a recording on your phone of you reading out the worst most hurtful thing that has been tweeted / written about you". It's unclear if the song that these recordings are for is to do with their upcoming album 'Notes On A Conditional Form' or something completely unrelated, but the e-mail address that Matty has set up has "noacf" in the name... so make of that what you will.

Listen: Allie X's new album 'Cape God'.

Allie X has today shared her new album, 'Cape God', inspired by the HBO documentary 'Heroin: Cape Cod, US' and her own experience of battling debilitating childhood illnesses.

About the new album, Allie says: "I was waiting for the right moment and place and maturity level where I could comfortably and accurately put these feelings into song. This sort of margin in time and space helped me dive in and explore some repressed childhood feelings."

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