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Justin Moore has released another single, "Somebody Else Will." The track is taken from latest album, Kinda Don't Care. The new release is the second single from the album, following "You Look Like I need A Drink," which came out just under a year ago. Kelly Archer, Adam Hambrick and Tebey Ottoh wrote "Somebody Else Will" for Moore.
Moore has been touring with Brantley Gilbert in recent months. In early 2017 he will go out with Lee Brice for the American Made Tour.
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Fresh off a massive world tour with Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks kicked off her joint tour with The Pretenders on October 25 at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. Nicks is promoting 24 Karat Gold - Songs From The Vault, her eighth solo album, which was released in September 2014.
The joint tour includes around 28 concerts across the country, with a few stops in Canada. The tour will wrap up on December 18 at The Forum in Los Angeles.
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Arcade Fire reportedly played some new songs during a small venue show at the Secondline Stages on October 29. However, the small audience of 175 people was forced to relinquish their cell phones at the door, so there is likely no footage of the new material. Arcade Fire played 14 songs during their set.
Arcade Fire is continuing to work on a new album. However, no release date has been set and the album currently remains untitled. Once completed, it will be their fifth studio album. Their previous album was Reflektor, which was released in October 2013.
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Country star Travis Tritt announced that he will release his new two-disc live album and DVD, A Man and His Guitar - Live From The Franklin Theatre, on November 18. Fans can pre-order the new album now on his official website. The album features 24 songs that were recorded during an unplugged solo concert at the Franklin Theatre in Franklin, Tennessee.
Tritt is currently on tour in the U.S. and has a number of upcoming shows in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi in November.
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Country legend Willie Nelson lent his voice to a Nike commercial honoring the Chicago Cubs World Series Championship. The commercial aired right after the Cubs stunning win against the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday night. The Cubs were on a 108-year championship drought. Their last World Series win was in 1908. In a nail biting game that stretched into an extra tenth inning, the Cubs pulled off what many had deemed a long-overdue victory.
The commercial uses the song, "Funny How Time Slips Away." The song was originally penned by Billy Walker in 1961.
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Def Leppard will release a new DVD-Blu-ray/two-CD set, And There Will Be a Next Time - Live From Detroit, which documents the release of their 2015 self-titled album. And There Will Be a Next Time was filmed July 15, 2016 during their stop at the DTE Energy Music Center. "I had this idea that we should film one of the shows from the 2016 tour . . ."
And There Will Be a Next Time will be released on February 10, 2017.
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A Lansing, Michigan Dollar General cashier, Lucas Holiday may be ready for an alternate career. At his job, Holiday serenades his customers as he cashes them out. One customer filmed the budding performer and posted it on Youtube. Now Maxwell has invited Holiday to gig with him. Nakia Robinson is the customer responsible for launching Holiday's newfound success.
"You sound unbelievable. I wanted to personally invite you onstage at my Detroit show this Friday . . . Congratulations! You have a sick amazing voice."
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Green Day recently urged their fans to stop using their phones at their concerts. The plea was made during a recent Q&A event in London where frontman Billy Joe Armstrong spoke about a wide range of topics.
The Daily Star reports Armstrong stated, "at our shows I see lot of people holding up cell phones. You can look at a screen at home; you can look at your computer or your phone anywhere."
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George Strait has added several more dates to his Las Vegas showcase. Billed as "2 Nights of Number 1s," Strait will be holding a series of two-night stints in Vegas throughout 2017 where he will showcase his 60 number one hits. The new Las Vegas dates are set for April 7 and 8, July 28 and 29, September 1 and 2, and December 8 and 9, 2017.
George Strait Extends Las Vegas Residency Into 2017 to February 17 and 18, 2017
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Slipknot percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan recently discussed his directorial debut with Rolling Stone. Crahan directed the film adaptation of the graphic novel Officer Downe. The story follows a policeman who is resurrected from the dead and does battle with anthropomorphic monsters. Crahan wanted to stay true to the source material.
The film stars Sons of Anarchy's Kim Coates in the lead role.
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John Legend has just released a new single, "I know Better." The track comes off his forthcoming album, Darkness and the Light. The song deals with Legend's up and down career. The artist sings about mistakes he has made in the past regarding compromising his integrity for money. In the song, Legend sings, "They say sing what you know, but I've sung what they want . . ."
Legend told the Los Angeles Times, "If you follow me on Twitter, you know I have a point of view. I want to do the same with my art. I want to contribute to the conversation."
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JoJo took to the stage of Good Day LA to perform her new song "Mad Love," the title track off of her recently released album, her first in ten years. The singer also sat down to talk about her legal battle with former record label Da Family Entertainment, which was the reason it took her so long to release a proper third album, and how she felt throughout the entire process.
The album features lead single "F**k Apologies."
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Merle Haggard is soon to have music inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. His 1969 Vietnam War protest song, "Okie From Muskogee," will be immortalized at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. A selection of 25 songs will make the cut for the 2017 inductions. This will bring the collection to a total of 1,038 songs.
President and CEO Neil Portnow said in a press release, "The Grammy Hall of Fame represents all genres of music, acknowledging the diversity of musical expression for which the Academy has become renowned. Memorable and inspiring, these recordings are proudly added to our growing catalog and are an integral part of our musical, social and cultural history."
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The-Dream took to Instagram to announce the release of his new EP, Love You To Death, with the hashtag #thedreamlives. The new EP will be out December 9. This will mark the first release for The-Dream since his short independent film, Genesis, which featured ten tracks. Since then nearly a year has passed, however, The-Dream was not remained idle in this time.
The-Dream's new EP will be released independently. The album will be released on the singer's own Radio Killa Records and Roc Nation.
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Claude "Butch" Trucks, the drummer for and one of the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band, passed away on the evening of January 24 at the age of 69. He died in West Palm Beach, Florida. His cause of death is currently unknown.
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J. Geils, the guitarist of the J. Geils Band, has passed away at the age of 71. Geils was found dead in his home in Groton, Massachusetts on Tuesday, April 11. It is believed that he died of natural causes.
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Seattle indie rockers the Head and the Heart are one of the best-traveled bands in America at the moment: in 2017 alone, they're playing Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, and just about every other big-name festival in the country.
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Those festivals might not even exist if the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival hadn't been a massive success. That festival, a blueprint for Woodstock and all that followed, marked the first time promoters realized fans would pay to see a long list of bands over the course of one weekend. (It helped that the weekend in question included iconic performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Who, and others.)
"I think the gravity of what we're about to do sunk in just now when we had a rehearsal with Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas," the Head and the Heart's singer-guitarist Jonathan Russell told Rolling Stone (inside the Levi’s Outpost lounge) on Sunday afternoon, shortly before the band's set at the festival's 50th anniversary. "You don't get too many chances to sing with legends like that. It's just an honor to be here."
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The Doors have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Kendall and Kylie Jenner over the pair's controversial new line of T-shirts featuring the pair's faces superimposed over musicians including Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G. and Ozzy Osbourne. In one shirt, Kendall Jenner's face can be seen over the Doors' logo.
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Notorious B.I.G.'s Mom Slams Kendall, Kylie Jenner's 'Disgusting' T-Shirts Youngest members of Kardashian-Jenner clan are under fire for plastering their faces over rap and rock icons
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Billy McFarland, the beleaguered entrepreneur who co-organized the Fyre Festival debacle earlier this year, now faces a federal charge of wire fraud. The New York Times reports he was arrested on Friday and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, though, if convicted, the penalty would likely be less severe.
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Fyre Festival Head Billy McFarland: 'We Were a Little Naive' "We were overwhelmed and just didn't have the foresight to solve all these problems," organizer says. "Next year, we will definitely start earlier"
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Nearly thirty years after it was recorded, a video of Nirvana attempting to film a music video in an empty Aberdeen, Washington Radio Shack has surfaced.
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The footage was filmed on January 24, 1988, one day after the band recorded a demo with Jack Endino. Then known as "Ted Ed Fred," this early version of Nirvana featured Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and the Melvins' Dale Crover. According to Mike Ziegler, who uploaded the nearly 20 minute clip, Dana Bong and another unknown party filmed the band with their instruments unplugged in the temporarily closed Radio Shack location in Cobain's hometown.
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The photographer who shot the Tupac Shakur portraits that Kendall and Kylie Jenner used for their controversial "vintage" T-shirt line has sued the reality TV stars for copyright infringement.
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The shirts were briefly on sale before an onslaught of criticism over the clothing – which also jacked trademarked images from Led Zeppelin, the Notorious B.I.G., Pink Floyd, Ozzy Osbourne, the Doors and more – were pulled.
Miller's lawsuit added that the photographer was never notified that the Jenners "intended to exploit his photography, let alone obtain his authorization." The lawsuit also mentioned that Miller didn't want to be associated with Kendall in particular following the model's minor role in the Fyre Festival disaster as well as*infamous Pepsi ad, which the lawsuit called "public relations disasters."
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Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Rancid's Tim Armstrong have teamed to form a new supergroup called the Armstrongs. Billie Joe's son Joey Armstrong (of the punk band SWMRS) and Tim's nephew Rey Armstrong round out the quartet, which also released their first song, "If There Was Ever a Time."
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"If there was ever a time to stay together / If there was ever a time it's tonight," the punk legends sing on the chorus. "If there was ever a time to hold your brothers and your sisters / Then the time is right."
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The War on Drugs delivered a celestial new slow-burner "Strangest Thing" from their upcoming album, A Deeper Understanding, out August 25th.
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The nearly-seven-minute tune boasts a steady rock groove tinged with airy country vibes and spacey synths, while its also marked distinctly by a gargantuan guitar solo. Singer Adam Granduciel presides over the track with a Dylan-esque vocal performance, singing in an acrid croon, "I recognize every face but I ain't got everything I need/ If I'm just moving in the space between the beauty and the pain/ It's the strangest thing."
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Blink-182 announced that their "Welcome to Blinkin Park" co-headlining tour with Linkin Park is cancelled following the death of Chester Bennington.
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"Blink-182 is wrecked by the loss of our friend and amazing musician Chester Bennington. We could never imagine playing 'Blinkin Park' without his incredible talent and voice. It just would not be possible," the band said in a statement early Saturday.
"We send our deepest sympathies to his family, bandmates, friends and fans. Refunds will be available at the point of purchase."
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U2 closed their Paris concert on Tuesday by bringing out Patti Smith for a moving performance of "Mothers of the Disappeared." Bono and Smith trade lead vocals, with the latter interpolating lyrics from her 1988 single, "People Have the Power."
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"I was dreaming in my dreaming/ of an aspect bright and fair," Smith recited over the Edge's skyrocketing guitar tone and Bono's yelp. "And my sleeping it was broken/ But my dream it lingered near." The singers embraced onstage after finishing the set.
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Arcade Fire spoke out against Donald Trump's efforts to ban transgender Americans from the military during the band's Thursday night gig in Brooklyn, a show that was live streamed on Apple Music.
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"I would just like to briefly say that trans people are not disturbances," singer Win Butler told the crowd. "Usually a bully starts with someone who he thinks is weak, but it's the fucking wrong call."
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Ryan Adams unleashed a series of tweets mocking the Strokes Monday, two months after the band detailed the rift between them and the singer-songwriter.
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In the book Meet Me in the Bathroom, a look at NYC indie rock in the early 2000s, Adams is painted as a "bad influence" for the Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr.
"Ryan would always come and wake me at two in the morning and have drugs, so I'd just do the drugs and kind of numb out,” Hammond said in the oral history. "I knew I would shoot up drugs from a very young age. I'd been wanting to do heroin since I was 14 years old."
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G-Eazy teams with Jadakiss for his atmospheric new single, "Get a Bag," one of four new songs the Oakland rapper released Thursday.
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The MCs alternate between career boasts, religious pleas and familial praise on the lush track.
"My number one is making sure that mom's straight/ My whole family eating off of this plate," G-Eazy rhymes over Remo the Hitmaker's chiming synth arpeggio and digital choir. "Death is a guarantee, that's for certain," Jadakiss adds in his verse. "Faith in the god, but the devil won't stop lurkin'."
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Lorde, Ed Sheeran, the Weeknd and Miley Cyrus are among the artists scheduled to perform at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards.
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MTV announced Monday that Fifth Harmony, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Shawn Mendes and host Katy Perry will also take the stage at this year's VMAs, which invades Inglewood, California's The Forum on August 27th.
More performers will be announced in the 20 days and counting until the VMAs.
As previously reported, this year's ceremony marks the first time MTV has eliminated gender-specific categories, combining the Best Female and Male Video awards into Artist of the Year. The 2017 VMAs will also debut a new category, Best Fight Against the System.
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Macklemore announced his North American Gemini Tour with a unique ultimatum.
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"Everybody knows in the old days a tour was decided by a bow and arrow," said the Seattle rapper in a campy video. If the rapper shoots an arrow and gets a bullseye on the first try, he reveals the tour dates. If not: "I will stay home, get into progressive drum and bass and pierce my penis." After firing an arrow straight into the ground, Macklemore shrugs.
"Guess I'm getting a dick ring."
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At the Drive-In mine technology-driven paranoia and dread in their new "Call Broken Arrow" video. Director Rob Shaw weaves stop-motion animation throughout the clip – a prequel to his visual for "Hostage Stamps," from the band's recent fourth LP,in•ter a•li•a.
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"Call Broken Arrow" follows the same disheveled prisoner and disturbing, faceless captors previously seen in "Hostage Stamps," with a cameo from street-swarming robot spiders. The new clip explores how the protagonist wound up in prison, though its shadowy shots of car-wiring, poisoning, surveillance photos and flaming corpses follow more of a dream logic than literal narrative.
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Wilco have released a new song titled "All Lives, You Say?" Monday night to help raise money for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
All Lives, You Say? by WilcoFans can download the track for $1 at Wilco's Bandcamp page, with proceeds going to the SPLC in the memory of Jeff Tweedy's father Robert L. Tweedy, who died on August 4th.
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"My dad was named after a Civil War general, and he voted for Barack Obama twice. He used to say 'If you know better, you can do better.' America - we know better," Tweedy said in a statement. "We can do better."
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Green Day unveiled a stark and fraught new video for "Troubled Times" off their last album, Revolution Radio.
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The clip opens with singer Billie Joe Armstrong wearing headphones and singing the track while ostensibly recording himself on a phone. That intimate image is soon surrounded by a rapidly shifting montage of chaos and strife including scenes of domestic violence, car crashes, workers in sweat shops, fleeing refugees, war zones and environmental decay.
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Future canceled his Saturday night concert in Charlottesville, Virginia, a week after the white supremacist march in the college town. The rapper's Sunday night gig in Virginia Beach, Virginia was also postponed.
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"Out of respect for the tragic events I felt it wasn't rite [sic] to perform at this time. Please understand my heart mean well VA," the rapper tweeted Friday. "VA is important to me & always will be. I'm comin very soon, my word! Love Forever."
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Foo Fighters "rickrolled" the audience at Tokyo's Summer Sonic festival Sunday by having Rick Astley join the band on a grungy version of his "Never Gonna Give You Up."
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This is fucking crazy," Grohl said before the performance. "I just met [Astley] two minutes ago." The singer was also booked for the Summer Sonic fest.
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Linkin Park will host a public event in Los Angeles to honor late singer Chester Bennington. The band announced their plans in a short but poignant note on Facebook, saying they would share specific details soon. Bennington died by suicide on July 20th.
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Linkin Park also addressed their fans, writing, "Just wanted to say thank you to all our fans around the world for the tremendous outpouring of love, which has strengthened our spirit during this incredibly difficult time. The five of us are so grateful for all of your support as we heal and build the future of Linkin Park."
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MTV has extended 2017 Video Music Awards invitations to active duty transgender military troops, CNN reports. The military service members' attendance at Sunday's event will be contingent on military approval.
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"At this time the Department of Defense is reviewing the parameters of the request," Pentagon Spokesman Lt. Col. Paul Haverstick told CNN. Active duty military members are under certain restrictions when it comes to participating in national public events.
"MTV has invited transgender members of the U.S. armed forces to the 2017 Video Music Awards and we would be honored if they could attend," MTV president Christopher McCarthy said. "Any patriot who is putting their own life at risk to fight for our freedom and stands for equality is a hero at MTV, and to young people everywhere."
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Katy Perry, host of the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, kicked off the ceremony by descending down onto the stage in a metallic moon person outfit.
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"You guys look so great because actually, before I left, I took a little break – and when I left it seemed like things were kinda screwed up," she said in her monologue kickoff, hinting at her music hiatus prior to the recent release of her album Witness.*"But you all look so happy and helpful and peaceful. And it feels like since I've been gone you've figured out all the problems in the world right now and the world is doing so well, right?"
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In May, Todd Rundgren released White Knight, his 27th solo album, which features guest appearances by everyone from Donald Fagen and Daryl Hall to Trent Reznor and Bettye LaVette. In advance of a fall tour with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band, the veteran singer-songwriter took some time to discuss five classic songs of resistance that are still relevant today.
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