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Styx have released a sneak peek of their upcoming televised Vegas concert, Live at the Orleans Arena Las Vegas, featuring the band performing their hit "Renegade." According to Billboard, Styx guitarist James "JY" Young praised the concert's "spectacular visuals," noting that the format gives the band "a really great way to promote the current lineup of the band . . ."



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Montgomery Gentry have released their latest single "Folks Like Us," making it available to fans now on iTunes. "It's what you might expect to hear out of Montgomery Gentry," Troy Gentry tells Billboard. "It's a song about American society and making ends meet. It's about being patriotic and showing your faith and the love of family. It's one of those blue-collar songs."



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Stevie Wonder provided the 10 Greatest Advantages to Being Blind on a recent episode of CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman. Wonder launched into the impromptu top ten with number 10, "You can act like you don't see nothing when you really do," number 9, "you can say you didn't see that when you did," he began.



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Kendrick Lamar has released the official tracklisting for his upcoming new album To Pimp A Butterfly. Kendrick describes the album as "honest, fearful, and unapologetic." "You take a black kid out of Compton and put him in the limelight, and you find answers about yourself you never knew you were searching for," he said of the record. "There's some stuff in there, man."



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Sam Hunt has released the music video for "Take Your Time," a dark clip from director Tim Mattia, who says he wanted Sam's fans to look at him in a different way. "I want Sam to surprise people with this video and its darker, grittier edge," says Mattia. The video features Hunt as the savior to a woman and child who are being battered by an abusive husband.



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Robert Plant is hitting the road behind his latest album, Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar, beginning on May 24 at George, Washington's Sasquatch Festival. The dates include appearances at, Napa, California's BottleRock Festival; Hunter, New York's Mountain Jam Festival; Rochester Hills, Michigan's Meadowbrook Music Festival; Manchester, Tennessee's Bonnaroo Festival, among others.



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Gregg Allman and the Doobie Brothers are teaming up for a late summer run up and down the East Coast. "I've loved the Doobie Brothers since I can remember," Allman said. "I'm honored to tour with my old pals. We always have a good ol' time."



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Dierks Bentley will be hosting this year's ACM Motorcycle Ride and Concert in Texas. Bentley will lead the ride, which starts in Dallas and ends in Carrollton, where Bentley will then perform.



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Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive has unveiled his new single "The Edge," the opening cut from his new solo album, Heavy Blues. The record sees Bachman joined by guests like Robert Randolph, the late Jeff Healey, Joe Bonamassa and Neil Young.



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Jhené Aiko has released a new song, "Living Room Flow." The song also features a beat created by Fisticuffs.

Aiko released her critically-acclaimed debut Souled Out last year. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 70,000 copies upon its release, doubling the first week sales of her debut EP Sail Out. The album also debuted at number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and R&B Albums charts.

Aiko will join rapper J. Cole on the European leg of his Forest Hills Drive Tour, which kicks off April 30 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Aiko was nominated for three Grammy awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards earlier this year, including "The Worst" for Best R&B Song and Souled Out for the Best Urban Contemporary Album.





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