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Reba McEntire and Miranda Lambert have both reportedly signed on to appear at Blake Shelton's "Healing in the Heartland" benefit concert. The show will benefit the victims of the devastating Moore, Oklahoma tornado and will take place on May 29. The event will air live on NBC and Blake said he's happy to lend a hand in the recovery effort.
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Trey Songz's smartphone app, The Angel Network, which allows fans to become "instant VIPs," is a big-time earner for the R&B sensation, pulling in about $54,000 a month. The app, created by Los Angeles startup Handmade Mobile Entertainment, allows fans to send Trigga virtual gifts like bottles of champagne or boxes of chocolates.
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Jennifer Lopez has teamed up with Verizon Wireless for a new brand called Viva Movil. The new network will be aimed specifically at the growing demographic of Latino mobile users, reports the Los Angeles Times. Speaking with the Times, Lopez said she was thrilled to connect with Verizon on the project.
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Tim McGraw is prepping the release of cuts recorded during his current Two Lanes of Freedom tour. The release marks the first time McGraw has issued live material. All the songs will be available on his official website. "The sound and energy from a live show gives an entirely new perspective to any song," McGraw said. "I'm always looking for ways to give the fans something extra."
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Katherine Fox, a Dunstable, U.K. woman, says she comforted George Michael after the pop star had a car accident. Speaking with the BBC, Fox says she pulled over to offer help after "seeing a body lying in the road." "I was driving in the third lane of the motorway and had to slam my brakes on and go between the third and fourth lane."
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Darius Rucker has signed on to appear at Blake Shelton's Healing in the Heartland benefit concert. The show will benefit the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund and will take place on May 29. The event will air live on NBC, helping to raise the profile of the disaster's victims said Blake in a presser.
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Jessie J is in full promotional mode for her latest single "Wild," rolling out a teaser video clip. The track, featuring spots from Dizzee Rascal and Big Sean along with production from Ammo, was released to iTunes on Monday. The black and white video clip features J walking through an abandoned warehouse.
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Chris Brown helped celebrate Memorial Day in Las Vegas at the Palms Pool, where he was joined by Sean Kingston for the pair's new hit "Beat It," while the riled up crowd happily sang along. Breezy has another single, "They Don't Know," set to drop early this week. The track features an assist from the late Aaliyah.
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Taylor Swift, who recently bought a new home in Rhode Island, was spotted out at the state's Olympia Tea Room with Lena Dunham, writer and actress in the HBO hit series Girls. According to Life & Style, the two were rolling with Ed Sheeran, who joined Swift on "Everything Has Changed," Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit), Jack Antonoff (fun.) and Jessica Szohr (Gossip Girls).
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Mumford and Sons launched their U.S. summer tour with a headlining slot at the Sasquatch! Music Festival over the weekend. The band took the stage before a boisterous crowd of 25,000 fans at Washington State's Gorge Amphitheatre. According to USA Today, Marcus Mumford and company offered up a mix of tracks from their first two releases.
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Billy Joel is doling out footage of his recent performance at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, dropping one song per week over the next month. He has already released the first song, "Miami 2017," to his website. The Piano Man, who recently announced his retirement from touring, also sat down for an interview with New York Times Magazine and said he thinks it's a good time to hang it up.
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After releasing a teaser earlier this week, Jessie J has released the full music video for "Wild," the lead single from her upcoming sophomore album. The black and white vid, which features guest spots from Dizzee Rascal and Big Sean, features the buzz cut beauty dancing in a studio, while Big Sean rocks a black fur coat.
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Kenny Chesney has taken the number one spot on the People Magazine Country's Hottest Guys issue. The singer wears a gray T-shirt and khakis on the cover and the issue features an exclusive interview with Chesney, where he talks about the new album and the photo shoot for the People honor, which took place while he was in Georgia rehearsing for the No Shoes Nation tour.
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"Even Flow," the hit song from Pearl Jam's debut album, Ten, has gotten a funky remake from Prince. The Purple One released the cover tune for free web streaming, and it's now available via SoundCloud. According to music site Dr. Funkenberry, Prince, who also released a video for "Fixurlifeup" on the same day, has been rehearsing the track for a weekend set . . .
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Mumford & Sons admit that they had some reservations about accepting the headlining slot at this year's Glastonbury festival. "It's a really huge deal to headline Glastonbury: we're a young band with only two records behind us," Marcus Mumford told Time Out. Winston Marshall added: "I've seen the Stones play for three hours and the crowd knew every song . . .
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Aerosmith took to the stage at the Boston Strong concert, a benefit held to support the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. The band closed the night out, performing a number of their hits like "Sweet Emotion," "Livin' On the Edge," "Come Together," "Dream On," and the Boston anthem "Dirty Water" featuring a stage crowded with the night's many performers.
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Carrie Underwood took the stage with the Rolling Stones to sing "It's Only Rock'N Roll (But I Like It)" this weekend. The former American Idol winner was supposed to make a surprise guest appearance at the Stones' Toronto show on Saturday, but guitarist Ronnie Wood spilled the beans on the band's Twitter page before the show . . .
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Lady Gaga joins Michelle Rodriguez in the new trailer for the upcoming Machete film. Gaga makes her acting debut in the sequel, playing a character called La Chamele¢n. The trailer features two quick glimpses of the singer, who is seen hitchhiking and then brandishing a machine gun. Danny Trejo returns as deadly assassin Machete Cortez.
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Johnny Cash will be featured on a new stamp by the United States Postal Service. The limited edition Johnny Cash Forever stamp will be released on June 5, 2013 at a public event in Nashville. Members of the Cash family will be on hand to commemorate the event. "It is an amazing blessing that my father Johnny Cash be honored with the issue of this stamp."
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James Murphy says that the upcoming Arcade Fire album is "really great." The LCD Soundsystem frontman, who served as producer for part of the new album, spoke to Rolling Stone magazine about the Montreal-based band's fourth album. "I think it's going to be a really great record, actually," Murphy said. "I'm eager to see it come out."
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Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey have made their exit from the American Idol judge's table. "W/ global success of "#Beautiful" (#1 in 30+ countries so far) @MariahCarey confirms world tour & says goodbye 2 Idol http://mariahcarey.com" tweeted Carey's publicity firm, PMK BNC. Randy Jackson will also be leaving.
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Brad Paisley penned a song for the new Sheryl Crow album, Feels Like Home, which marks the singer-songwriter's first foray in the country music world. Paisley, who was instrumental in helping Crow crossover into country, wrote the song "Waterproof Mascara," which Crow says Paisley supplied in exchange for her doing the country album.
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Frank Ocean has announced a string of international tour dates after having a break out year in the United States. The R&B star will bring his California Live tour to the U.K., Germany, Iceland, and Australia, before wrapping the international leg of the tour in Toronto on August 4. The first of the newly announced dates is scheduled to take place in Munich, Germany, on June 25.
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The Eagles have added an extra leg to their upcoming History of the Eagles tour. The tour was originally set to close on September 21 in Detroit, but will now continue to Lincoln, Nebraska and then ten more dates before wrapping on October 24 in St. Louis. Other cities the country-rock band will hit on the new leg of the tour include Denver (October 4), Dallas (October 11) and more.
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Bruno Mars' mother has died at the age of 55 of a brain aneurysm.Bernadette Hernandez, who was born in the Philippines and became a hula dancer when she emigrated to Hawaii, died on Saturday at Honolulu's Queens Medical Center after suffering a suspected heart attack on Friday. She was surrounded by her children and grandchildren, according to her friend Anita Sojot . . .
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Laurie Anderson, the wife of Lou Reed, says her husband is convalescing after an emergency liver transplant. She dished to the U.K. paper, the London Times, noting the severity of Reed's condition. "He was dying. You don't get it for fun. You send out two planes - one for the donor, one for the recipient - at the same time."
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Garth Brooks, Ronnie Dunn and Toby Keith have all been confirmed for a follow up to Blake Shelton's Oklahoma benefit concert last week. Dunn, who had a big hand in organizing the "second wave" charity show, announced the news via Twitter. "I talked to Garth, and he agreed that we'd keep our heads down until Blake's thing was done and until Toby took the lead."
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Jennifer Lopez and Mary J. Blige took the stage at Chime for Change: the Sound of Change Live, a benefit concert at Twickenham Stadium in London over the weekend. "C'mon! I need a little help Mary," said J-Lo at one point during the show, subsequently inviting Blige up on the stage. The two performed the Beatles track "Come Together" in an impromptu duet.
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It seems that KISS fans have nothing to worry about because the band isn't going anywhere anytime soon, at least not according to Gene Simmons, who said in a recent interview that he sees the band continuing for another decade. "Not today. We're having a great time," Simmons told Expressen TV in Stockholm, Sweden about whether or not the end is near for the band.
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Taylor Swift and the Rolling Stones joined forces on stage Monday night in Chicago, Illinois. Swift joined the legendary rockers during the last of the Stones' three shows in the Windy City, appearing with them at the United Center. Swift sang on the band's classic "As Tears Go By."
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U2 and Coldplay have been linked to a New York studio, fueling speculations and rumors that Martin will appear on the Irish band's new album. All four members of U2 were seen at the Electric Lady Studios in New York on Friday, where Danger Mouse is reportedly mixing their new album. Soon after they arrived, a reporter for fansite atu2.com turned up at the studio.
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Rodney Atkins' third annual Music City Gives Back concert in Nashville will benefit victims of the deadly tornado that touched down in Moore, Oklahoma on May 20. "Each year I gather some of my friends together to put on this show and have fun with our fans before CMA Music Fest, but the reason we get up here is to help the community . . ."
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Khyati Shah, who was unceremoniously bashed in the head during Miguel's performance at the Billboard Music Awards, may sue the show's producers and/or the star himself. Shah's lawyer, Vip Bhola, told TMZ that the young lady may have suffered brain damage: "Some of the difficulties she's experiencing are cognitive in nature and lead to suspicion of . . ."
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Adam Lambert was voted as the favorite to judge American Idol next season in a poll taken on The Wendy Williams Show. Jennifer Hudson has already signed on to the show, while reports indicate Kelly Clarkson is close to signing. Lambert, who would be the final piece of the Idol puzzle, told Just Jared that he would jump at the opportunity.
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The Last Ship, Sting's first full-length album of original material in over ten years, is set for release on September 24. According to the New York Times, the Police bassist wrote the LP while working on a musical. The musical, which may be due for a Broadway debut in 2014, is set in a shipyard near Wallsend, England, where Sting spent his youth.
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Ashanti made a special stop by NBC's culinary show, The Chew, to cook up a batch of peanut butter s'mores. The singer and Army Wives star helped host Carla Hall roll out molasses dough, but joked that she's not wild about eating it raw. "I don't eat a lot of dough. I spend a lot," joked Ashanti.
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Music legend Barry Manilow is among the special guests set to perform at the National Mall for their annual A Capitol Fourth concert. Manilow will join a star-studded cast of performers that also includes American Idol Season 10 winner Scotty McCreery, the latest Idol winner Candice Glover, Glee's Darren Criss and more.
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Adrian Belew has quit the latest Nine Inch Nails lineup. The King Crimson guitarist (who along with Jane's Addiction founding member Eric Avery was slated to join NIN founding member Trent Reznor for a new album and tour this summer) originally posted a message regarding his departure on his Facebook page.
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Kelly Clarkson couldn't have picked a better place to debut as a country singer than the 2013 CMA Music Festival. Clarkson, sporting shoulder length blonde hair and a red mini-dress, said she was starting the country music phase of her music career on the wrong foot as she forgot to wear her engagement ring. She apologized repeatedly to fianc
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Eve stopped by BBC Radio 1's studios during her overseas Lip Lock promotional tour where she took the mic to drop some freestyle rhymes over the Rihanna cut "Pour It Up." "I told ya'll motherfu**ers don't count me out / E-V-E never been down and out / I heard 'em say I was down for the count / F**k was ya'll talkin' 'bout / You could never get rid of me," rapped Eve over the beat.
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