Music

Jane Birkin, the iconic British-born actress, singer and model who became a chart-topping artist in France with her collaborations with then-partner Serge Gainsbourg, has died at the age of 76. Birkin’s death was announced Sunday by the French culture ministry, which said Birkin was found dead at her Paris home. No cause of death was provided. Birkin recently canceled concerts due to unspecified health reasons; in recent years, she also suffered a stroke and battled leukemia. French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted Sunday, “Because she embodied freedom, because she sang the...

Kenny Rogers' twin sons, Justin and Jordan, open up in a new interview, sharing their memories of their famous father — including the advice he gave them about bullying.“I used to be bullied a lot. I’d come home crying and my dad would say, ‘Just keep being yourself. You’re very funny,’” Jordan tells People. “Every day I still live up to that.”Rogers was a father to the twins late in life with his fifth wife, Wanda. They were 16 years old when he died at the age of 81 in 2020....

City Girls’ JT has dropped the video for “No Bars,” her first new solo single since 2019’s “JT First Day Out.” The video is dedicated to a friend of hers who died, Monica Suh. It opens with JT in Paris at night in front of the Eiffel Tower. She addresses her friend Monica at the beginning. “I’m in Paris, just like we talked about,” she says, adding: “So this one’s for you” as she pours one out from a bottle of wine for Monica. From there, the visual moves to...

Mickey Guyton's new single is a duet with a massive country superstar. Guyton teams with Kane Brown for her new song, "Nothing Compares to You."The Grammy nominee and Brown join forces for the lush ballad, which Tyler Hubbard co-wrote with Bebe Rexha and Jordan Schmidt.“This song said everything I needed to about my relationship with my husband and really spoke to me the moment I heard it," Guyton says in a press release. “Having been a fan of Kane’s from the beginning, I felt this was the perfect song for...

Walk the Moon, the Ohio pop-rock group behind the 2014 hit “Shut Up and Dance,” announced their “hibernation,” with singer Nicholas Petricca saying, “The time has come for us to take a good long break from touring and making records together.” In a video shared on YouTube, Petricca suggested it was likely that the band would “reconvene” one day and that when it happens, it “will be a glorious day.” But, he added, “The truth is, we don’t know when that’s gonna be.”  The band will take care of some...

Dan + Shay have revealed the next phase of their musical journey. The superstar country duo are set to release their next album on Sept. 15, and they are teasing new music with a new single titled "Save Me the Trouble."The duo consisting of Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney turned to social media on Thursday (July 13) to share the news of new music, writing, "Our new album, Bigger Houses, will be available everywhere September 15, and pre-order begins tonight at 11 PM CT.""In addition to 'Save Me the Trouble,'...

Surprise Assist Two of rap's biggest superstars took the stage during Drake's show at the Bell Centre  During Drake’s It’s All a Blur tour stop at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada, J. Cole joined him onstage in place of 21 Savage on Friday. The Off-Season rapper was seen walking through the crowd, in the same fashion Drake opened his tour last week in Chicago, while wearing a shirt that read, “The game has changed, you have been warned.” While 21 Savage, who made his entrance Chicago’s United Center to Fantasia’s “When I See...

Thirty-three years ago today (July 14, 1990) is a day that Garth Brooks will likely not forget. It was on that date that his hit "The Dance" soared to the top of the charts, where it stayed for three straight weeks."The Dance," which was Brooks' second No. 1 single, comes from Brooks' self-titled debut album. Written by songwriter Tony Arata, the tune helped both Brooks and Arata find their place in country music."We were both doing whatever we could to stay in Nashville, trying to get our songs heard by anybody," Arata recalls. "The...

ALBUM REVIEW Songwriter El Kempner turns pandemic-era stress into great songs The latest release from Palehound is one hell of a ride. The album was inspired by the “apocalypse road trip” across the U.S. that the indie Boston band took mid-tour to get safely back home as the pandemic hit in early 2020. The stress and tension of that moment informs the album, even when the song’s aren’t specifically about the pandemic. In a larger sense, the greatest adventure on Eye on the Bat is Palehound’s musical evolution: they’re sharper,...

Dan + Shay just announced their next studio album. The duo's fifth album is called Bigger Houses and it will be available later this summer."Save Me the Trouble," "Heartbreak on the Map" and "Bigger Houses" are three songs fans who pre-order the album will get immediately. It goes on sale Sept. 15, but the pre-order begins at 12AM ET July 14.Dan Smyers, Shay Mooney and their loved ones quickly filled the comments section of an Instagram post revealing the news:attachment-Dan and Shay albumInstagramloading...Good Things was the last Dan + Shay album,...

Gabe Lee has managed to package a prayer, a truth, and a dream in one album. Drink the River, his fourth studio album, delivers this trifecta through each of its nine songs, doling them out in a way that feels like both a fever and a fairytale.  He’s here to tell stories, after all. Specifically, ones he’s collected since Farmland in 2019 and left Nashville, only to come back again. While his 2022 album The Hometown Kid solidified Lee as one of the city’s most promising contenders, Drink the River...

Jimmie Allen says Jane Doe defamed him during an interview in which she accused him of sexual assault. The singer also says Jane Doe 2 stole his cellphone after agreeing to allow him to record video of their sexual encounter.Two new lawsuits filed on Thursday (July 13) in Nashville find Allen countersuing for unspecified monetary damages. Billboard broke the news of the lawsuits, detailing the filed documents in great detail.Variety shared Jane Doe's story and revealed news of her lawsuit against him in May. She is identified as Allen's former day-to-day manager,...

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Bikini Kill and Le Tigre frontwoman plans spring release for autobiography that includes passages on her bandmates, Kurt Cobain, and others Kathleen Hanna will look back on her turbulent formative years and success as the singer for Bikini Kill and Le Tigre in a new memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, out May 14. The book will chronicle the tumult that surrounded Hanna’s childhood, as well as her epiphanies at Olympia, Washington’s Evergreen College where she launched a fanzine called Bikini Kill and...

Few things fit together quite like college football and country music. This year, the Allstate Sugar Bowl will host its first-ever Country Kickoff to the 2023 NCAA football season. The lineup this year features Garth Brooks as the headliner with Lainey Wilson and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band opening the musical event.The Sugar Bowl Country Kickoff will take place Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La. The event is open to the public, with tickets on sale starting Friday, July 21.“Being asked to be part of the first-ever...