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Craig Morgan's son has reportedly gone missing following a boating accident. The accident occurred over the weekend in Tennessee and the singer's 19-year-old son reportedly capsized in a boat. Thus far it's unclear if he was wearing a floatation device at the time of the accident.

"It was just as simple as hitting a wave and turning over and not coming back up," Sheriff Chris Davis confirmed. "We're focusing all our attention right now on the point of the accident. We've taken the information from the driver of the boat at the time and we're taking that information and we're focusing our efforts on that area right now."

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Mary Wilson of the Supremes has opened up about the recent spate of police violence. In a statement with TMZ, the soul star said that she is hoping for change in America, but is not expecting it any time soon. "It's one of those things where it takes time for things to evolve," she said. "Things don't change over night . . . things are bad before [they] get better."

"I think we all need to pray for peace and happiness. Back in the Motown days, we were not even citizens," she continued. "It does not even compare. Except we didn't have the violence. We really didn't. You know why? Because we, as black people, knew our place. So it wasn't your Martin Luther King, civil rights, all that stuff where things started changing and we started standing up for the rights. It was a different platform."

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Lorde says after spending three days alone in the wilderness, she made some album "breakthroughs," according to NME. The singer took to Twitter to tell her fans about her recent trip, which helped to inspire her as she's working on the follow-up to her debut album, Pure Heroine. "took a helicopter out into the wilderness spent 3 days alone writing . . ."

"took a helicopter out into the wilderness spent 3 days alone writing and made some of the most exciting breakthroughs on this record so far," Lorde wrote on Twitter.

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Jake Owen has released his newest track "If He Ain't Going To Love You" featuring Chris Stapleton. The funky track is the ninth off of Owen's new release American Love and finds the country star asking if he can step in for a special someone who isn't getting the love she deserves. "Don't want to come on too strong / Don't get me wrong / Girl, I need to talk to you . . ."

"I remember, years back, calling and asking for Chris Stapleton

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Steven Tyler has opened up about the current state of rock music today. Despite his current cross over into the country ranks, the Aerosmith frontman was compelled to share his thoughts on rock and roll and says that honestly real rock is hard to find these days. "Look what happened with the rock world," Tyler told the Arizona Republic. "Look where it went."

"Look what happened with the rock world," Tyler told the Arizona Republic. "Look where it went. It kind of spun off like a supernova and now there isn't really much of it at all. You don't hear anything like the Kinks or the Stones. You won't hear 'You Really Got Me.' Something that when you hear it one time, you go, "f—!" and you know you won't ever forget it. That kind of era is gone with rock."

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Jennifer Hudson has inked a new deal with Netflix to appear in Adam Sandler's upcoming new film Sandy Wexler. Hudson will reportedly play the role of the romantic lead. "The film follows Sandy Wexler (Adam Sandler), a talent manager working in Los Angeles in the 1990s, who diligently represents a group of eccentric clients on the fringes of show business."

"The film follows Sandy Wexler (Adam Sandler), a talent manager working in Los Angeles in the 1990s, who diligently represents a group of eccentric clients on the fringes of show business," according to a press release. "His single-minded devotion is put to the test when he falls in love with his newest client, Courtney Clarke (Jennifer Hudson), a tremendously talented singer who he discovers at an amusement park."

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Kip Moore has offered up his cover of a Josh Turner song for a recent St. Jude's Children's Hospital charity. Moore shared a video from his visit to the hospital during which he offers up his version of Turner's song "Your Man." Moore has long been a supporter of children's charities and also recently shared a video of two children of different races sharing a long hug.

"It's a beautiful thing how when kids are born, they don't see color. They don't feel hate," Moore says.

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Marilyn Manson has signed on to appear in the role of a ruthless hitman in the new film Let Me Make You A Martyr. The film is set to premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and initial footage shows Manson's character delivering a frightening ultimatum. "Look, you would have shot me if you were man enough when I walked through the f*****g door . . ."

"Look, you would have shot me if you were man enough when I walked through the f*****g door," Manson's character threateningly shouts. "Let's just get this s**t over with. You know you're dead already."

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Garth Brooks has hinted at possible Australian and European tour dates once he finishes his North American leg of his world tour, according to Taste of Country. The country singer is scheduled to finish up his North American leg in 2017. Prior to his shows at New York City's Yankee Stadium on July 8 and 9, Brooks told the media he may be headed to Europe and Australia.

"The guys from Australia came up and talked to us, they were very sweet," Brooks tells Taste of Country.

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Willie Nelson and Neil Young will headline the inaugural Outlaw Music Festival as it gets underway in Scranton, Pennsylvania this fall. As per usual, Nelson will be joined by his Family Band, while Young is backed by Promise of the Real, featuring Nelson's sons Lukas and Micah Nelson.

The Outlaw Music Festival will be held at the Pavilion on Montage Mountain, the site of the Peach Music Festival and the Allman Brothers Band's annual gathering, on September 18.

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