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KISS performed a cover of the Eagles classic "Take It Easy" before their arena football team, the L.A. Kiss took on the Jacksonville Sharks at Los Angeles' Honda Center on Saturday. Paul Stanley called the recently deceased Glenn Frey, who co-wrote the song with Jackson Browne, a "brilliant songwriter."
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Beck announced two upcoming shows in the U.K. this summer - London's Brixton Academy on June 28 and Manchester's Albert Hall the next day. The singer has previously announced U.K. dates set for Glastonbury (June 22-26), and the FOLD Festival in London (June 24-26). Beck's producer Greg Kurstin said that the his upcoming album was being finished up.
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Rumors are swirling that Janet Jackson may be expecting a baby at the age of 49. The pop icon dropped what may be a hint about a baby on the way in a Twitter video saying that she and husband Wissam Al Mana are "focused on planning our family." "We're in the second leg of the tour, and there actually has been a sudden change," Jackson said in the clip.
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Drake and Future saw their sales for their cut "Jumpman" jump following Taylor Swift's "Taylor vs. Treadmill" commercial for Apple Music. According to AdWeek, global sales for the song shot up 431 percent globally after the ad aired. Apple Music's #GymFlow playlist, which it created especially for the ad, saw a 325 percent increase in plays.
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Chris Brown has sounded off on Tinashe after she publicly called him petty. The comments come after Tinashe opened up about their collaboration on "Player" and Breezy's statement that singer Kehlani's suicide attempt may have been a publicity stunt.
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Lady Gaga's childhood upright piano is getting set to hit the auction block with a pre-sale estimate of $100,000 to $200,000. The piano was purchased for Gaga by her grandparents for $780 in 1966 and later given to her parents. The piano is being offered at Julien's Auctions' "Music Icons" memorabilia sale at the Hard Rock Cafe New York on May 21.
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Chase Bryant is opening up about the girl who served as the inspiration behind his song "Little Bit Of You." "This was a girl I met . . . The first day I was cutting my record I met her. She came into the studio with the owner of Broken Bow Records," Bryant told Taste of Country night.
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Mariah Carey has insured her vocals chords and legs for a combined $70 million, according to TMZ. "To guard against all that, our sources say Mariah and company just got a $35 million insurance policy for her voice, and another policy of equal amount for her gams," TMZ reports.
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Ariana Grande debuted a new song, "Leave Me Lonely," during a show in Las Vegas on Thursday night. The concert came in celebration of the grand opening of the city's new T-Mobile Arena, and featured a co-headlining slot from Nicki Minaj. "Absolutely stunning. Ariana is giving me life with this performance," wrote Direct Lyrics of the performance.
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Tegan and Sara have released "Boyfriend," premiering the cut on Beats 1. Speaking with NME, Sara Quin said that the track is a "pretty straightforward pop song" with a "gender twist." "It's a pretty straightforward pop song about a relationship that I was getting into with a girl who had never dated a girl before," Quin said.
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Radiohead have reportedly shot a new video with director Paul Thomas Anderson. News of the collaboration came via comedian Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, who claims that they filmed a portion of the video in her house. "Oh, this happened, I forgot to tell you! So, I'm at home and there's a knock at the door . . . there's a guy with a clipboard," she began.
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The music video for "The King & I," a duet featured on Faith Evans's upcoming album, will feature a Notorious B.I.G. hologram. The hologram, described as a "humangram" by its designers ARHT Media, will also be featured on live dates around the nation. "I look forward to continue working with them and presenting the world with his Humagram in both video and stage format."
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Zac Brown Band have announced that "Castaway" will serve as their new single. "Pour me another one / Make it a strong one / We're gonna have some fun tonight," the new single opens, putting the song's sunny vibes and beachy tones on display right from the start thanks to island themes and copious pedal steel guitar.
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Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has the revealed that the group's forthcoming release should be out sometime this year. It will be their first new offering since 2008's Death Magnetic and Ulrich opened up about the new release while speaking with Billboard. "I think it's going to get wrapped up soon," Ulrich said.
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Noel Gallagher has offered up his opinion on the new release from the Stone Roses. Speaking with NME, Gallagher revealed that he ran into a member of the band at the supermarket recently and got an update about the progress on their comeback release. "I am very excited, for them mainly," Gallagher told NME of the band's return.
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Brad Paisley and John Fogerty joined forces at the Grand Ole Opry to perform three songs. The performance, which marked Fogerty's Opry debut, saw Paisley perform three of his own songs before he brought the iconic musician out to the stage.
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Paul McCartney was joined onstage in Seattle by former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, who helped out during the encore performance of "Helter Skelter." Novoselic and Paul both played bass and the former also added vocals. The performance came during Macca's ongoing One on One tour. McCartney and Novoselic previously hooked up with Dave Grohl and Pat Smear.
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The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, the Who, Bob Dylan and Neil Young are among the classic rock legends rumored to perform at a newly forming festival. The Los Angeles Times reports that the fest, scheduled for October, will go down at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California - the same site where Coachella takes place.
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Lil Wayne has been awarded the key to the city of Lafayette, Louisiana for his "philanthropic efforts." The Mayor-President of Lafayette, Joel Robideaux, presented him with the key at the University of Louisiana's Cajundome.
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Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton will spend a portion of his summer playing bass for Thin Lizzy. Thin Lizzy will perform a number of festival dates this summer, including two nights in Germany, and they are also scheduled to appear on the Rock Legends Cruise V with such names as Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, REO Speedwagon and Don Felder.
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Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj are featured on Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People list. The double issue, for the week of May 2-9, features Minaj's Young Money boss, Lil Wayne, giving her high praise. "She's so influential and doing all the right things," he began. "She's an icon, a boss, and a role model to all these young girls out here . . ."
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Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine debuted a short film called The Odyssey at her website on Thursday. Episodes from the 40 minute piece were previously released as music videos from F+TM's latest album How Big How Blue How Beautiful. Welch worked with director Vincent Haycock on the vids, which he called a "personal journey."
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Cage the Elephant has released the music video for "Trouble," featuring an old west theme with a psych twist. The vid, directed by CTE fronter Matt Shultz, and first time helmer, has a top-notch pedigree. "I really wanted to make a video that was like John Wayne or a young Clint Eastwood acting in a Cocteau play . . ."
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Green Day rocker Billie Joe Armstrong hit the stage with Joan Jett following the premiere of the former's film at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York earlier this month. Armstrong played two songs for the soundtrack to his new film Geezer as well as several Green Day songs. He was flanked by Green Day drummer Tre Cool for the show.
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Bruce Springsteen has offered up his own personal tribute to the recently departed Prince. The Boss took on a cover of the Prince classic "Purple Rain" during a recent performance in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn over the weekend. He offered up the cover to his audience simply adding "Prince forever, thank you."
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Ariana Grande and Jimmy Fallon took part in an entire lip sync conversation on Monday night's episode of The Tonight Show. The 22-year-old is sitting in her dressing room when Fallon enters singing "Ooo, ooo, it's just me myself and I," which are lyrics to G-Eazy's "Me, Myself & I." Grande responds with "Hey, hey, hey, I said hey, what's going on?"
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"Beyoncé 100% made it her own, and I'm very glad to have been a part of it," he writes.
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Minnesota police have confirmed that Prince was in possession of prescription drugs at the time of his death. The rock legend was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley Park home/business compound earlier this month. Authorities have carried out a post mortem but thus far no official cause of death has been revealed.
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Paul Simon has released a new single titled "Cool Papa Bell." The track is set to drop as part of Simon's new release Stranger to Stranger, which is due for release on June 3. He has previously opened up with Rolling Stone about the direction of the release. "About getting you to actually hear something in a new way . . . about making music that sounds old and new . . ."
He also adds that his new release was influenced by composer Harry Partch.
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Tom Jones has reached out to fans thanking them for their condolences on the passing of his wife Lady Melinda Rose Woodward. Jones shared the note on his official website saying that it has made things easier in the wake of her passing. "A heartfelt Thank You to all who sent notes of their sympathy and support to me and my family over the last couple of weeks."
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Kid Rock has announced that he has canceled his previously confirmed appearance at the upcoming 2016 Detroit Music Awards. The event is scheduled to take place on April 29 and Rock pulled out of the event following the sudden passing of his assistant Mike Sacha. Sacha was killed in an ATV accident on Rock's property in Nashville earlier this week.
"We offer our condolences to the family of Mike Sacha and to Kid Rock and his organization at this terrible time. We certainly understand and agree that this is not the right time for a celebration," the DMAF Board says in a statement. "The Distinguished Achievement Award would only be a reminder of this week's tragedy rather than a commemoration of a significant career as an artist and humanitarian. We look forward to presenting the award some time in the future when it can be a positive, celebratory experience."
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Tom Petty has shared his memories of Prince's legendary guitar solo during a performance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. The solo came during a tribute performance for the late George Harrison and Prince joined an all-star band for a cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
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Dixie Chicks covered Beyoncé's "Daddy Lessons" at their recent show in Manchester over the weekend.
The track is taken off Beyoncé's most recent compilation, Lemonade.
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When lead singer Natalie Maines missed her starting cue for the song, she laughed it off, saying, "I already messed this whole thing up."
The band managed to recover and performed the song with the crowd responding with cheers.
Both the Dixie Chicks and Beyoncé are currently on their world tours. The country group is in Europe playing shows at the moment, while Bey is trekking the U.S. on her Formation tour.
Beyoncé recently cancelled her upcoming Nashville show and there's all kinds of rumors circulating citing different reasons for the cancellation.
The Nashville stadium's Twitter account says the show will be "postponed due to stadium construction," however, Beyoncé's rep said otherwise.
"Following Wednesday's sold out opening night Formation World Tour concert in Miami, promoters Live Nation announced that the Nashville concert previously scheduled for Thursday, May 5 will be rescheduled," Bey's rep told E! News in a statement. "Details about the rescheduled date will be announced shortly and Nashville tickets holders are advised to retain their tickets which will be honored at the rescheduled event."
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Jennifer Nettles appears in a deleted scene from Dolly Parton's made-for-TV movie Coat Of Many Colors. In the never-before-seen clip, Nettles, who plays Parton's mother, is seen talking to her oldest daughter Willadeene and instilling some confidence and love into her. The clip is featured as bonus content on the Coat Of Many Colors DVD.
"You have to edit a movie forever to get the time for TV, but we really left a lot of stuff in," Parton says. "We left a lot of scenes that didn't make it, some interviews, the making of the movie. It's really got a lot of interesting things in it."
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On the heels of the release of the lyric video for "Dammn Baby," Janet Jackson continues to tease the official video with a new video clip. "Hey you guys, I love and miss you!" she tweeted along with a Gif of herself sashaying and flinging her gorgeous mane of curly hair.
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming Jackson's seventh album to top the chart.
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Many artists have been coming out of the woodwork to work with Sam Hunt, including Snoop Dogg, who Hunt admits pitched him music for his sophomore album. "He came on the bus and played me a few songs before we played the show," Hunt tells Rolling Stone Country. "I was just flattered that he was interested enough to offer those opportunities and contribute."
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Liam Gallagher says he's a fan of a new Oasis documentary, Oasis: The Rock 'N' Roll Band That Defined a Generation. On Twitter the musician called the doc "biblical." "Just seen the 1st cut of the OASIS film BIBLICAL what ever happened to my ROCKNROLL." The doc, produced by Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees (Amy), chronicles the band's rise to fame.
"We have all this footage from behind the scenes leading up to the gigs, most of which can't be used as there's just monstrous drug taking."
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Frankie Ballard has announced a new 10-date European trek for later this year. The fall run kicks off October 3 in Amsterdam and wraps up October 14 in Dublin, Ireland with stops in Hamburg, Germany, Glasgow, Scotland and London, England along the way. "Our first trip was such a great time, we decided to come back for more," says Ballard in a press release.
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Willie Nelson will peform at the 2016 Austin City Limits festival, which goes down in Texas over two weekends - September 30-October 30 and October 7-9. Other top acts set to take the stage include Radiohead, Chris Stapleton, Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar and LCD Soundsystem.
"With phone charging stations, an Art Market, a mini-fest for kids, photogenic spaces and merch to bring home with you, there's plenty to do for the entire family."
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Jennifer Lopez has released a new video for the Meghan Trainor-penned track "Ain't your Mama." The new clip sees Lopez rallying all women to stop being taken for granted with the cry "I ain't your momma." The video kicks off with a soaking wet Lopez in a phone booth embroiled in a conversation that consists of "I'm tired, I've been working all day!"
"Ain't Your Mama" debuted at number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 and registered 1.8 million streams in the U.S. during its first full week.
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