Sky Ferreira song 'Rancid Girl' leaks online - listen

February 28, 2014 19:50

Her debut album 'Night Time, My Time' comes out in the UK on March 17

An offcut from Sky Ferreira's debut album has leaked online.

The song 'Rancid Girl', was co-written by Jon Brion, Cass McCombs and Blake Mills, reports Pitchfork. Click below to listen to the track. Speaking about the leak yesterday (February 27) on Twitter, she wrote: "Leaks usually bother me but I actually like 'Rancid Girl' so that's...cool?"

Sky Ferreira was recently forced to temporarily pull her support slot with Miley Cyrus after falling on stage and injuring her leg. The singer fell during her performance in Anaheim, California, on February 21, and was hospitalised afterward, needing 60 stitches in her leg. She injured herself during the first song of her set, but did manage to finish her performance before being taken away in an ambulance.

The singer, whose debut album 'Night Time, My Time' is officially released in the UK on March 17, will play a one-off show at London's Oslo on March 10.

To check the availability of Sky Ferreira tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0844 858 6765

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In online baby shower, Shakira seeks mosquito nets, vaccines for the poor

Colombian pop star and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) ambassador, Shakira, walks with her boyfriend, Barcelona soccer player Gerard Pique, after her joint news conference with Israel's president Shimon Peres (not seen) at the 3rd annual Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem June 21, 2011.

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NEW YORK | Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:11pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Singer Shakira and Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué are asking fans to donate gifts like mosquito nets and vaccines for the world's poorest children in an online baby shower to mark the couple's first child.

The 35-year-old Colombian pop star, who is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and the FC Barcelona center back said on Wednesday they had launched a "virtual living room" for purchase of life-saving items which will be distributed to children and communities in some of the poorest parts of the world.

The singer, who has not announced her due date but has posted recent photographs indicating the baby is likely due later in January.

"To celebrate the arrival of our first child, we hope that, in his name, other less privileged children in the world can have their basic needs covered through gifts and donations," the couple said in an announcing the "Inspired Gifts" program.

Fans and supporters can enter the virtual shower and pay for items ranging from a $5 mosquito net, which protects babies from malaria or $10 for polio vaccines for 17 children, to the top-priced $110-item - therapeutic food, which is a peanut-based paste that can save an acutely malnourished child.

The virtual shower can be accessed at uni.cf/baby.

Shakira has also been working on her eighth studio album and will fill in for Christina Aguilera as one of the regular coaches for the next season of the U.S. singing competition "The Voice."

Shakira first publicly confirmed her relationship with Piqué in March 2011 and revealed in September that they were expecting their first child.

(Reporting by Chris Michaud, editing by Jill Serjeant and Cynthia Osterman)

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NYPD probing online post on Tupac shooting in '94 (AP)

NEW YORK – New York City police are investigating an online posting from a convicted felon who claims to have shot and robbed Tupac Shakur in 1994, two years before the rapper was slain.

Police spokesman Paul Browne said Wednesday that if police determine the post is legitimate they will seek to interview the prisoner.

The claim, attributed to Dexter Isaac, was posted on the website AllHipHop.com. In a letter that the site said came from a Brooklyn prison, Isaac said he was paid $2,500 by another hip-hop mogul to rob Shakur outside a studio in Manhattan in 1994.

Shakur suffered gunshot wounds but eventually recovered. He was killed in 1996 in an unsolved slaying.

Much of the post is laced with bitterness directed at the person the writer says hired him to carry out the crime. The writer says that person has wrongly accused him of being a government informant.

"Now I would like to clear up a few things, because the statute of limitations is over, and no one can be charged, and I'm just plain tired of listening to your lies," Isaac wrote, adding that the mogul also allowed him to keep some of the jewelry he stole from Shakur.

"I still have as proof the chain we took in the robbery," he writes.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, a person named Dexter Isaac is serving life in prison and is housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

An employee there said inmates were not allowed to receive calls and were allowed only approved in-person visits. In order to be approved, a person must first write to the inmate, and receive a visitor form.

It wasn't clear whether Isaac still had a lawyer, and a call to the website wasn't returned.

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