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The Taylor Swift Impact Bridgers credited Swift with inspiring her to pursue her dreams of becoming a songwriter Phoebe Bridgers was on hand Monday night to present Taylor Swift with the 2023 Innovators Award at the iHeart Radio Music Awards. Before Swift took to the stage to accept the award, Bridgers delivered a touching speech about the impact that the “Anti-Hero” singer has had on her own career as a singer/songwriter. Bridgers is opening for Swift on the Eras tour starting in May for a total of 12 stops. She is also...

Country fans (and, truthfully, The Boot staff members) love when their favorite stars are active on social media; it makes them feel connected to the artists' day-to-day lives. While many country favorites stand out online, there's one legend who undoubtedly shines: Reba McEntire.McEntire loves a good Throwback Thursday, the day on which everyone from your neighbor to Carrie Underwood to your grocery store cashier posts an old photo of themselves. She's not shy about sharing photos from her past, and her Throwback Thursday pictures are proof of that.This photo gallery of some of McEntire's...

Pink accepted the Icon Award in a massive way during the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards ceremony on Monday. The singer celebrated the distinction onstage by duetting with Kelly Clarkson, before accepting the award from her fellow powerhouse vocalist, and highlighting the power of being vulnerable. “I usually do try to joke or be self-deprecating in these moments, but I want to be a better friend to myself tonight. I would like to try and say something honest. Every room I walk into, my heart walks in first. Every lyric that...

The Band Perry are parting ways — at least for now. The sibling trio shared an update with their fans on social media on Monday (March 27), explaining that they plan to halt their work together as a band."We wanted to let you know that the three of us have decided to take a creative break as a group and each focus on our individual creative pursuits," the statement reads. "During this season, we will continue to support each other as artist and family in all we do."They also expressed...

For 10 days this summer, Kelly Clarkson will swap out her powerhouse covers on set at The Kelly Clarkson Show for an exclusive stretch of large production shows in Las Vegas. The singer’s residency at the Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood — billed as Chemistry: An Intimate Evening with Kelly Clarkson — will support her first album in six years, Chemistry. “I could only commit to 10 shows, that’s why it’s exclusive,” Clarkson told the Kelly Clarkson Show audience as she announced the performances and surprised a fan with tickets....

Nashville-based performer Shelly Fairchild enlists singer-songwriter and social media star Shamir for a lively and vocal-driven performance of Loretta Lynn's "Fist City," a cover that Fairchild was spurred by the two artists' shared grief in the wake of the country legend's death."I was scheduled to record at Blackbird Studios in Nashville with Blackbird Academy students, and as I was driving to the studio for my second day of tracking, I got a text that said Loretta had passed," she remembers. "Her music changed the face of country for women. She...

Kelly Clarkson said she is dropping a new album soon and music from it even sooner. The singer and daytime show host shared details about the LP, which is called Chemistry, on Sunday via Instagram. In her post, she said that it has been three years in the making, and that she wasn’t sure if she was going to release it initially. She explained the reasoning behind the title of the album, and that it may also be the name of a song that will appear on it. “I was...

Before American Idol returns with its next round of auditions on Sunday night (March 26), the show shared an early preview of a performance that was so impressive, Luke Bryan  couldn't help but rise to his feet.21-year-old restaurant singer Kaeyra sat at a piano for her audition performance, and immediately drew judges in with a husky and emotive performance of Chris Stapleton's "Cold." She started out the heartbreak ballad slow and low, then showcased the upper ranges of her vocal register in the chorus, substituting Stapleton's raspy vocal runs for...

'I'll Be Back' “Playing to 4,000 people for 34 nights is not enough, and I know that, so I am coming back,” singer says at her final scheduled gig at the Colosseum Adele’s Saturday night concert marked the final scheduled gig of her “Weekends With Adele” Las Vegas residency, but the singer informed the audience during the show that she’s not leaving the Colosseum at Caesars Palace just yet. Additionally, Adele revealed that she’ll document her next series of “Weekends With” shows for an upcoming concert film. “Playing to 4,000...

Brandy Clark will share her fourth studio album this spring, marking a full-circle moment in her career.Set for release on May 19 via Warner Records, the acclaimed singer-songwriter's self-titled album features 11 new tracks produced by Brandi Carlile."This album is a return home to me in many ways," Clark says. "Musically, it's the rawest I've been since 12 Stories and maybe even rawer."That sharp honesty is at the center of the record cut "Buried," which finds the 47-year-old planning a checklist of adventures to embark on in the years ahead....

Three years ago, when relationship rumors began swirling between the Spanish fusionist Rosalia and Puerto Rican multi-hyphenate Rauw Alejandro, the two of them did their best to keep their budding romance under wraps. This, of course, only fueled more interest in the couple, who surprised some fans with a bond that made perfect sense to some and none to others: She was known as an avant-pop innovator with a penchant for provocation, while he was a smooth, quick-stepping reggaeton and R&B star, gliding and gyrating his way to the top...

Margo Price sent a message -- both to fans and to the music industry at large -- with her debut album: The independent singer and songwriter has honest, vulnerable and occasionally uncomfortable stories to share, and she'll be successful while doing it her way.Released on March 25, 2016, seven years ago today, Midwest Farmer's Daughter debuted in the Top 10 (No. 10) on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart: the first time since the chart began in the 1960s that a solo woman's debut album did so without having charted on the Hot Country Songs chart....

'Thank You Jonah Hill' "No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people," rapper writes in return to social media Kanye West returned to social media for the first time in months late Friday to declare that he “likes Jewish people again,” all thanks to Jonah Hill’s performance in 21 Jump Street. In his first Instagram post of 2023 — and his first since a series of antisemitic tirades got him booted from social media in the first place...

Buck Owens' legendary country career spanned five decades. During that time, he made his name as a singer-songwriter, bandleader, solo artist and crossover television star (he was one of the hosts of the long-running country variety show Hee Haw).By the numbers, Owens career resulted in over 39 studio albums and 21 No. 1 hits, and many of his songs -- both written and performed by him -- have since become country standards.The Boot dug through those 39 albums' worth of music and pared Owens' catalog down to his 10 absolute best tunes....