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Jason Aldean grew up in a very different world than the one his children know today.The country superstar opened up to me in an interview in 2025 on Taste of Country Nights about the contrast between his childhood and the life he's been able to provide for his kids, admitting that he never really knew anyone growing up who had the kind of things his children have now.I asked Aldean how different his kids' rooms are from the room he grew up in."Oh, so different," he replied. "I mean, our...

The trio brought their Burning Up Tour: All Over Again to the New York City venue on Thursday night Jonas Brothers debuted a new song, “Listen When Sad,” during their concert at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. The group, Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas, showcased the track during the latter half of the show. “We’ve tapped back into a sound that was kind of the sound of the early 2000s,” Nick told the crowd. “To be honest, that was heavily inspiring to us. Bands like Switchfoot, Taking Back Sunday,...

Hayden Panettiere's boyfriend Brian Hickerson released a statement that says little about his feelings after her death.Instead, his first remarks come via his attorney. The short message reminds people that police saw no signs of foul play.Hayden Panettiere died on Sunday (Aug. 16) in Greenville, S.C.Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson were with her at the time (per police reports).The couple had been on and off for seven years, and their relationship included several incidents of alleged and convicted abuse.Who is Brian Hickerson?Brian Hickerson is an actor who hails from South...

Musician, who revealed first Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis in 2013, says cancer’s return won’t slow him down Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell recently told radio station YSKL that he has cancer again. Campbell previously revealed that he was battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2013, which returned in 2015. “There’s only been one time that I felt it was gonna kill me,” Campbell told the El Salvadoran station. “In the winter of 2023, I got really scared about what was happening and the pace at which it was happening. And I realized at that...

Justin Moore can pinpoint how his drinking went from something casual to something he could no longer control — and it happened gradually."A drink at 5:00 turned into 3:00 and noon. Then, before you know it, it's all day, every day," Moore recalled during a new appearance on Tracy Lawrence's TL's Road House podcast.The country singer says he went nearly 20 years without having an issue with alcohol. But eventually, drinking began taking up more of his time and energy, ultimately leading him to check himself into rehab earlier this...

Paul Keuker, 51, accidentally fell during the show and transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead The cause of death of a 51-year-old concertgoer, Paul Keuker, who accidentally fell at Madison Square Garden during a Goose concert on June 20 has been determined.  According to a medical examiner, Keuker died of multiple blunt impact injuries, ABC7 reports. Keuker was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Goose released a statement following the show. “We are deeply saddened and heartbroken to learn of the tragic event that...

Rascal Flatts front man Gary LeVox has spent decades making country music, but he still has a hard time wrapping his head around the idea that today's country artists were influenced by the music he made with the group.When I asked LeVox, on Taste of Country Nights, if it took him a while to appreciate the impact Rascal Flatts had on artists who came after them, he admitted that it's still something that feels strange to him.Rascal Flatts' Gary LeVox Says It’s 'Weird' to Be an Influence on New ArtistsLevox said, "It's...

A former gang member who says he worked “under the table” security for Suge Knight during Death Row Records‘ heyday testified Tuesday he knew “everybody that was there” the night Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in Las Vegas — but he’s not naming names. Taking the witness stand on the second day of Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ murder trial in Clark County, Nevada, James “Mob James” McDonald told jurors he was working at Knight’s Vegas nightclub, Club 662, when he learned Shakur and Knight had been wounded in a drive-by...

Former Nashville star Hayden Panettiere has died at the age of 36, and fans are clamoring for any information they can get about the circumstances surrounding her tragic passing.Who Was Hayden Panettiere?Hayden Panettiere was an actor who began her career as a child star, appearing in television shows and films including One Life to Live, Guiding Light, Message in a Bottle, Remember the Titans and more.She shot to fame for her role on Heroes, but country fans remember her primarily for her role as country singer Juliette Barnes on Nashville.How...

The Welsh vocal group Only Men Aloud also honored the late singer with a performance of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” A Welsh men’s choir honored Bonnie Tyler with a moving rendition of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” at the singer’s funeral in Swansea, Wales, Monday, Aug. 17. The vocal group Only Men Aloud performed Tyler’s 1983 hit near the end of the service, with the full performance available via an Associated Press video starting around the 59:30 mark. Though the choir had some accompaniment from a small...

For six seasons, the show Nashville had both country music fans and drama lovers in its palm.The series was a fictional adaptation of the world of country music. Or, as IMDB describes it, "the lives and tragedies of rising and fading country music stars."Nashville centers around Rayna Jaymes, an aging country singer whose popularity is starting to fade as her core audience gets older. She is forced to work with a young rising star, Juliette Barnes, who is looking to shed her pop music stereotype in order to be taken...

Taylor Swift can’t stop listening to Phoebe Bridgers‘ new album Lost Weekend. Same, Taylor, same. In a social media post celebrating Bridgers’ birthday, the the pop superstar praised her friend, and former collaborator, on her trip around the sun, and “triumph” of an album. “It’s her birthday but she gave us a gift,” Swift wrote of Lost Weekend. “Haven’t been able to stop listening. This album is an absolute triumph in every way. To write about grief with such vulnerability and detail, and to trust the listener with this much...

Scotty McCreery's 3-year-old son, Avery, has apparently decided that watching his dad perform from backstage isn't quite good enough.The country star says there's one question Avery asks him before every show, every single time he is out on the road with his dad.Scotty McCreery's Son Avery Has One Question for Daddy Before Every ShowMcCreery was a guest on Taste of Country Nights, and I asked him about the recent viral video of his son, Avery, singing with his dad on stage at a show.It turns out that if Avery had...

Ariana Grande welcomed her Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo to the stage in London last night for a surprise performance of “For Good.” The song is the titular track from last year’s sequel film Wicked: For Good, which saw Grande and Erivo reprising their roles as Glinda and Elphaba. Joining forces at Grande’s show at London’s O2, the pair also sang a medley of “Get Happy” and “Happy Days Are Here Again.” Grande is currently on her Eternal Sunshine Tour, which comes to an end with 10 dates at London’s O2...