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Luke Bryan says that his two sons, Bo and Tate, are the best part of the holiday season. Speaking with Great American Country, the star said they've given him a new perspective on family. "[I enjoy] watching them grow older and starting to understand Christmas and understand the excitement of Christmas," he tells GAC. "It's just fun watching them tear into toys and sitting on Santa."
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Queen featuring Adam Lambert will play an intimate New Year's show at London's Westminster Central Hall for a crowd of just 1,800, but, for those unable to attend, the band will stream the event live on BBC Music. "I never imagined we would be around to usher in the year of 2015," drummer Roger Taylor said. "What a thrill! We promise you a great night."
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Prince has unveiled a lyric video for his 3RDEYEGIRL collaboration track "ANOTHERLOVE." "ANOTHERLOVE" is featured on Prince's recent album PLECTRUMELECTRUM, which was released in September. This song was originally written by Alice Smith, Rebecca Jordan and Reginald "Syience" Perry, and released on Smith's album She.
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Elvis Presley was allegedly unimpressed with his holiday song "Blue Christmas" when he recorded the song. One of the backing vocalists on the track, Millie Kirkham, broke the news during a recent interview for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Kirkham, who provided the backing "woos" on the track, opened up on the session.
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Lars Ulrich has opened up about Metallica's 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster and says that the movie may have been the only thing that saved the band from disaster. During a recent interview with The Wrap, Ulrich says that the cameras may have kept the band on their best behavior. "The making of the movie was one of the most extraordinary experiences in my life . . ."
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Fleetwood Mac's reunion will extend past their "On With the Show" tour, which wraps this summer, according to Lindsey Buckingham, who admits the band will head into the studio as soon as they are off the road. Buckingham said that he will put his own solo material on the backburner while he puts together a new Fleetwood album with Christine McVie.
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The members of Jefferson Starship say they plan to honor the members of their predecessor group Jefferson Airplane during their upcoming tour. Both Paul Kantner and David Freiberg were members of both bands and are still touring regularly with Starship.
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Queen And Adam Lambert's performance from New Year's Eve at Central Hall Westminster, near Big Ben, in London is now streaming online. The 2009 American Idol runner-up joined Roger Taylor and Brian May onstage as they rung in 2015 performing for a crowd of 2,000 fans. After the hour-long intimate show, a fireworks display was set off along the Thames river.
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Chris Brown and Tyga channeled the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross in the promo art for their upcoming joint offering, Fan Of A Fan: The Album. The album will be a sequel to the Fan Of A Fan mixtape they released in 2010. In several promo photos that have hit the net, Brown dons a camo hoodie, sweatpants and a backwards cap, while Tyga sports a camo jacket.
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Glyn Johns, the producer best known for his work with the Beatles, has taken aim at the famed album Let It Be. Johns had been enlisted to engineer the album, thinking that George Martin would produce, but he said he was disappointed when Phil Spector ended up producing. "I was disappointed that Lennon got away with giving it to Spector . . ."
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Paul Simon is facing a new lawsuit filed by his former accountant Kenneth Ira Starr, who is currently in prison for stealing from Simon and many other celebrities in a Ponzi scheme. TMZ is reporting that the trustee who was assigned to oversee Starr's finances has uncovered an unpaid bill for services rendered to Simon. The trustee is seeking the amount of the bill, $17,174.49.
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Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift are some of the most well-mannered people around, according to the National League of Junior Cotillions (NLJC). Both singers have both landed on the list of the NLJC's Twenty-Five Best-Mannered People of the Past Twenty-Five Years in honor of their politeness and social graces. Underwood came in at number 13.
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Future has released the music video for "Mad Luv," a cut from his recent mixtape, Monster. The video, directed by Rick Nyce, was shot in Atlanta and features cameos from Jeezy, Rae Sremmurd and Mike WiLL Made-It. "I wanted to go back to my roots before I start this journey of creating album music," Future told The FADER.
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Blake Shelton will pull double duty as host and musical guest on the January 24 episode of Saturday Night Live. It's Blake's first time as host, although he's no stranger to TV after several seasons on NBC's The Voice. He has also hosted the ACM Awards with Luke Bryan several years.
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If you were to ask Queen's Brian May about Adam Lambert, he would tell you that he is a "gift from God." May says that Lambert was the only performer they had found who was capable of filling the shoes of iconic frontman Freddie Mercury. "Adam is the first person we've encountered who can do all the Queen catalogue without blinking," May tells Classic Rock.
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Marilyn Manson says that he coined the term "grunge" in a music review he did in his youth. Manson told Noisey that the term came to him while writing about the Nirvana album Bleach. "I hated rock n' roll when I started. It was on the cusp of grunge and a lot of bands that I used to call 'commonist rock' because everyone wanted to be like the common man with the flannel."
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Marilyn Manson is streaming his latest album, Pale Emperor, in full ahead of its January 19 release. It's the ninth studio LP from the shock rocker, who says that it's his best since 2000's Holy Wood. "The album feels tied in to the fable of Mephistopheles, where life is fated. I haven't felt this way since Holy Wood, where fate has brought things together."
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AC/DC has officially signed on to perform at the Grammys. The Aussie rock legends had previously been amongst a group of performers rumored to play the event. Other hinted at performances have included U2, Madonna, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran and Eric Church.
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Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason says he's annoyed that Apple got off "scot free" following the troubled release of U2's latest album Songs of Innocence. The LP was automatically downloaded onto all Apple subscribers' iTunes accounts upon release. Speaking with GQ, Mason says that the Irish rockers seemed to have taken all the heat.
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Florida Georgia Line have added a string of dates to their Anything Goes tour. The new dates pick up where the previously announced 2015 dates ended on May 9 in Columbia, Maryland. FGL will be joined by Thomas Rhett and Frankie Ballard on the trek. "With this tour, it's our first worldwide tour," Brian Kelley told Radio.com.
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Christina Aguilera has shared the first photo of her new baby girl, Summer Rain. The pop singer finally posted a photo of her daughter on Twitter on Sunday. In the photo, Summer Rain is dressed in a pink dress and a diaper that has the words "Lil Diva" printed across the bum. A caption came with the photo, which read, "Watch out . . . another one's getting ready to conquer . . ."
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The Strokes' Nikolai Fraiture has announced that he has launched a new band called Summer Moon. The band also features members of Au Revoir Simone and the Like. The band have not released any music yet but have been described by the Examiner as "harder than the melodic pop of both Strokes and Like, with Tennessee Thomas giving it jet propulsion."
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2 Chainz has offered up a preview of his new single "Keep It 100" featuring guest appearance by Cap 1, Skooly, Short Dawg and Kaleb. The track is pulled from the rapper's newest mixtape T.R.U. Jack City and hit the web via SoundCloud earlier this week. Chainz has been all over the news lately, specifically after he faced off with Nancy Grace.
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Chvrches has revealed that they are taking inspiration from Prince and Michael Jackson for their upcoming new release. During a recent interview with NME, group member Martin Doherty said that they plan to strip their sound back to a few key pop elements. "I think we'll use fewer instruments but ultimately try and do more with them," Doherty says.
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Kid Rock has become the most recent celebrity to share his thoughts on the controversial new Bradley Cooper film American Sniper. The film has drawn public statement by both supporters of U.S. military vets and those who think the film glamorizes questionable military tactics. Rock has specifically hit out at director Michael Moore and actor Seth Rogen.
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Death Cab For Cutie has released the new song "Black Sun," which will be featured on their upcoming album, Kintsugi. This new album, produced by Rich Costey, will be the first since founding member Chris Walla left the group in 2014. Frontman Ben Gibbard says he hopes the band's recent offerings won't affect fans' enjoyment of their new album.
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John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are featured in the February edition of GQ magazine. The sexy pair host an intimate shoot while getting cozy in bed and sipping champagne in the shower. In one pic, Legend wears a sweater while spreading his parner over the kitchen table. Legend, along with rapper Common, are up for an Oscar nomination for their collab "Glory."
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J. Cole has revealed that he hoped to sign Kendrick Lamar to his label in the MC's early days. During a recent interview with Rap-Up.com, Cole says that he met Kendrick before anyone had heard his name and was positive of his star power. "I met Kendrick at a time when all I had out was The Warm Up, nobody knew who he was, he didn't have a deal," he said.
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Lady Gaga took to Instagram earlier this week for a tribute to the late Whitney Houston. The Mother Monster posted an image of Houston and recalled the massive influence Whitney has had on her life and career. "Every year around the Grammys I think about Whitney," Gaga captioned the pic.
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Drake, Avicii and David Guetta have been announced as the headlining acts for this year's Wireless Festival. The trio will join previously announced headlining performers Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj. Drake will headline Friday night, after the likes of Labrinth, Nero, Duke Dumont and Joey Bada$$ take to the stage during the day.
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The Band Perry has signed on to serve as mentors for the 2015 Grammy Amplifier contest. The contest will whittle down 25 competitors to three finalists who will get the chance to record with a Grammy winning producer. Other top names working on the project will include jazz/soul singer Allen Stone, Ziggy Marley and Mark Ronson.
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Ariana Grande hit the stage at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix for a special Super Bowl edition of the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. She hit the stage backed by Jimmy's house band The Roots for a rendition of her latest single "One Last Time."
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Marilyn Manson performed his song "The Beautiful People" with the teenage metal band Unlocking The Truth over the weekend. The 1990's rocker was joined by the Brooklyn band, all of whom are under the age of 16 and were not even born when "The Beautiful People" was released in 1996, for a rendition that ended with a group stage-dive into the crowd at the show, held in Bethlehem.
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Justin Timberlake has reportedly signed on to participate in the upcoming 40th anniversary special for Saturday Night Live. The event is set to air at 8 p.m. on February 15 and will bring together a mix of current and former cast members as well as many other celebrity guests.
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Neil Young was joined by Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show for a rendition of the classic rocker's tune "Old Man." Fallon was dressed as Young and doing his spot on vocal impersonation, which made for a surreal sight. "With Young as a direct comparison, Fallon's impersonation was even more impressive," wrote the Wrap of the pairing.
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John Legend has declined an invite to perform at the Beverly Hills Hotel because its owner, the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, rules a country in which homophobia is rampant. "John Legend will not be attending the . . . party . . . in light of the horrific anti-women and anti-LGBT policies approved by the hotel's owner, the Sultan of Brunei," Legend's rep explained.
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Toto has released "Orphan" the lead single from their upcoming Toto XIV. The cut is available to those who pre-order the album on Amazon and iTunes. "When you put us in a room, and everybody brings in their pieces, the next thing you know it all fits together," guitarist Steve Lukather said. "Everybody's performances are top-notch. We are really bringing our best out."
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Fun. is shooting down rumors of their breakup. The band released an official statement on their Facebook page. "First and foremost to answer the question that has been raised most often: fun is not breaking up. One thing that has always been so special about fun. is that we exist as three individuals in music who come together to do something collaborative," says the band.
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Paul McCartney joined Rihanna and Kanye West for their stripped-back performance of "FourFiveSeconds" at the 2015 Grammy Awards. The former Beatle provided acoustic backing, strumming the song's riff on guitar, as Rihanna and Kanye sang their verses. Most of the performance took place in front of a white-light backdrop.
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Iggy Azalea is threatening to sue Papa John's pizza after one of their delivery drivers allegedly gave out her personal phone number. "@PapaJohns was my favorite pizza but the drivers they use give out your personal phone number to their family members," she tweeted Sunday. Azalea tweeted a number of photos of messages she received as a result.
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