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Amidst all the Random Access Memories jubilee and hullabaloo, miserable news related to the Daft Punk camp emerged on the weekend.

The DJ and singer Romanthony, best known for contributing vocals to Daft Punk’s 2000 smash ‘One More Time’, has passed away aged 46. According to a Facebook post by his sister Mellony earlier this month, the singer died at his home in Austin, Texas on May 7. A cause of death has yet to be announced. The message read:

‘My baby brother Romanthony AKA Anthony Moore passed away 7 May 2013 at his home in Austin TX.Our family is shocked with grief. A memorial service is being planned for a future date.’

Romanthony began working as a singer and house producer in the early 1990s, releasing a pair of LPs (1996′s Romanworld and 2000′s R. Hide In Plain Site) plus 12″s on the likes of Roulé, Stealth, and his own Black Male records.  His moment in the sun came with his banner appearance on the opener to Daft Punk’s 2001 LP Discovery, where he also contributed vocals to ‘Too Long’. Later notable appearances included a guest spot on Teengirl Fantasy’s Tracer, and work with Boyz Noize was apparently in the underway.

A host of artists have paid tribute on Twitter, including:

Tom Middleton: #RIP #ROMANTHONY a voice/DJ/Producer of our generat...

East London club 93 Feet East, closed in January following a major police raid, is to reopen.

The Brick Lane venue, home to a string of live music nights (include a famous 2008 Radiohead gig) and the Fuse clubnight, was stung as part of Operation Condor, the Metropolitan Police’s capital-wide crackdown on licensing infringements. 175 officers, dog units and a helicopter descended on the venue in December 2012, resulting in ten arrests ranging from possession misdemeanours to intent to supply offences. The venue was subsequently closed for good when the local council voted to remove its entertainment and alcohol licenses.

According to the venue’s Facebook page, 93 Feet East is set to open its doors once again. The Facebook message reads: “We are delighted to announce that on 17th May 2013, Thames Magistrates’ Court allowed 93 Feet East’s appeal against the decision of Tower Hamlets council on 7th January 2013 to close 93 Feet East. 93 Feet East, which has been at the heart of Brick Lane’s evening economy since the year 2000 as part of The Old Truman Brewery, is free to reopen immediately.”

More information is available on the 93 Feet East website. A string of notable UK clubs, including Cable, The Croft, and Sankeys, have closed in the last six months.

The Scandi-pop compendium has overtaken the Fab Four’s opus in the all-time sales stakes.

As NME report, ABBA’s Gold has leapfrogged Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to become the second biggest selling album of all time in the UK. According to the Official Charts Company, both albums have sold over 5.1m copies in the UK, but ABBA’s greatest hits collection has now inched ahead with 15,000 more sales.

The 1992 album assembles a host of the band’s best known material, including ‘Waterloo’, ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘Dancing Queen’ and a panoply of chirpy pop standards that your Mum’s probably krumped to at a wedding at some point. The disc already holds the honour of being the UK’s all-time highest selling CD, with over 4 million copies sold as of 2012.

The best-selling album of all-time in the UK is Queen’s 1981 Greatest Hits collection, with Adele’s megasmash 21 at No. 4 and Oasis’ (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? at No. 5. Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories is currently on 7/1 odds to become the biggest selling album of all-time in the UK by 2015. ABBA, of course, found fame performing at Eurovision; why not toast their achievement by casting your final vote in FACT’s Alternative Eurovision?

90’s rock revivalists Splashh will be releasing their debut LP, Comfort, on June 4th via Kanine Records in the US, but in the meantime the band has given everyone a taste to get them through with a single “All I Wanna Do” b/w “Today (Fade Away).” After hearing the a-side, we now get a stream of the equally strong b-side “Today (Fade Away),” which will also serve as the first single from the debut album. Stream it below.

Bankrupt!, the latest from Phoenix has been out for a bit now and one of the standout tracks is “Trying To Be Cool” that the band has been parading around to live television performances. Recently, San Francisco’s Silver Swans revealed their atmospheric reworking of the song taking away some of the “cool” vibes of the song in favor of a more relaxed vibe. You can stream the remix below and download it here.

London trio London Grammar released their first video for the beautifully morose “Wasting My Young Years.” In the visual, we see bodies floating around, most likely to symbolize in someway floating through life and wasting away their time on this planet to fit with the song theme. It is gorgeously shot in black and white with shakey camera movement. The Wasting My Young Years EP will be out June 16th through Metal & Dust Recordings.

Denmark’s MØ is proving once more she is no one trick pony with now her fourth song released “Waste of Time.” While she has been lumped in with several other female indie pop artists of the moment, MØ is slowly separating herself with the consistent quality of her songs to date. Listen to the track and watch a video for the song below. “Waste of Time” will be released on the 7th July 2013 through Chess Club Records/RCA Victor.

The 13th annual Billboard Music Awards took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ceremony featured performances from Prince and Miguel, among others.

Prince, who was honored with a Billboard Icon Award, performed “Let’s Go Crazy” and new song “Fix Ur Life Up”.

Meanwhile, Miguel performed “Adorn”.

And then this happened:

The Lonely Island have dropped another song and video off their forthcoming third studio LP, The Wack Album. Following “Spring Break Anthem” and “I Fucked My Aunt”, “Diaper Money” focuses on the alter-egos of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer as they ironically champion the horrifying mid-life pressures of the married and family life. Despite the ridiculous over-the-top humor, it’s a pretty smart song, which, sans the whole fucking aunts thing, seems to be a trend for this album. Catch it below.

The Wack Album arrives June 11th via Republic Records. Guest contributors include Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams, Green Day

Anthony Moore, best known as the house producer and singer Romanthony, has passed away at age 46. Romanthony’s death was confirmed by his sister Mellony Moore via Facebook. Moore reportedly passed away at his home in Austin, but the cause of death is unknown.

Romanthony launched his career as a producer in New Jersey, and ran his own label Black Male Records in the early 90s. He released four of his own records over the years: Romanworld (1997), Instinctual (1999), Live in the Mix (1999) and R.Hide in Plain Site (2000). Romanthony was perhaps most widely known for his collaborations with Daft Punk as a vocalist on the songs “One More Time” and “Too Long”. In a 2001 interview with Remix Mag, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk said:

“We met him at the 1996 Winter Music Conference and became friends. What’s odd is that Romanthony and Todd Edwards [who is featured on the "Discovery" track "Face To Face"] are not big in the United States at all. Their music had a big effect on us. The sound of their productions

Anthony Moore, best known as the house producer and singer Romanthony, has passed away at age 46. Romanthony’s death was confirmed by his sister Mellony Moore via Facebook. Moore reportedly passed away at his home in Austin, but the cause of death is unknown.

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