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

Watch: Harry Styles inducts Stevie Nicks into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame for her second time.

Stevie Nicks tonight made history as the first ever woman to be twice inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame (following 22 men who have been double-inducted), with Harry Styles presenting the award to her, as well as performing a duet of 'Stop Draggin' My Heart Around' together live.

Watch clips from the induction below...

Matty Healy speaks out against paid meet & greets.

The 1975's Matty Healy has taken to Twitter to take a stand against musicians who charge their fans for meet and greets. The concept has become popularised and normalised over recent years, where musicians - small and large alike - will only meet certain fans who pay extra money for a quick photo and a hug. Healy berated musicians and their labels, shouting: ‘DON’T ONLY MEET THEM IF YOU’RE GETTING PAYED HONESTLY WHAT ARE YOU DOING’. 

Interview: Daffodils’ Jade Bryham on gender equality in the music industry and more.

As the only female member of up-and-coming New Zealand band Daffodils, Jade Bryham is helping to further the conversation around women in music, just by existing as a young women in the industry. The band are in the middle of ticking off a number of firsts - from signing a global release deal with Kartel Music Group, opening for Pale Waves in New Zealand last year, and playing St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival last month in Auckland.

Interview: Pond’s Jay Watson on their new album, 'Tasmania'.

Australian band Pond have followed up their 2017 album ‘The Weather’ with ‘Tasmania’, a progressive meditation on the state of the world we live in today - particularly touching on issues around the environment and climate change, with frontman Nick Allbrook questioning in ‘Sixteen Days’, “While the whole world melts, am I just meant to watch?”

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