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Mary Chapin Carpenter is hitting the road this summer for a stretch of U.S. headlining dates.The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member will kick off the set of intimate performances with a stop at New Orleans' Orpheum Theater on June 2 before stopping at venues across the country through the end of August. The tour follows Carpenter's Best Folk Album nomination for One Night Lonely (Live) at last month's Grammy Awards.Tickets for all newly-announced concert dates below will go on sale this Friday, March 10, at 10 AM local time. A special...

After a couple of weeks off, the UEFA Champions League is back for the second leg of its round of 16 stage. As always, there’s been plenty of excitement in the world’s biggest club tournament. In one of the round’s biggest matchups, Bayern Munich clinched their first game against Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, and the rest of the Paris Saint-Germain squad. Another exciting match during the round of 16’s first leg saw RB Leipzig hold on with a tie against the tournament’s No. 1 prospect, Man City. How to Watch...

Sam Hunt will hit the road in 2023. The superstar has announced his Summer on the Outskirts Tour, a 27-stop string of shows that launches on July 6 in Hartford, Ct., and continues into early September.He's pairing his new tour with new music. Hunt will drop a new song called "Outskirts" on Friday (March 10), which is the same day tickets to the tour go on sale. That song — which lends its name to the tour — follows "Walmart," which he released in February.Find Tickets to See Sam Hunt in...

Let the Game Begin Track, featuring guest vocals from Kirby, will appear on the pair's collaborative album of the same name Black Thought and El Michels Affair have shared another new song, “Glorious Game,” featuring Kirby, the title track from their collaborative album, out April 14. The track is anchored by stuttering drums and a bulbous bass line, with Kirby’s from-the-heavens falsetto on the psych-soul chorus providing the perfect counterbalance to the Black Thought’s crystalline flow. “Glorious Game” is accompanied by an engrossing animated visual (helmed by Gugen Allan) that...

Preston Duffee has been singing and playing music for as long as he can remember, thanks to his father, who gifted him with an acoustic guitar one Christmas. But it has taken the 21-year-old artist years to be able to sit down and write a song.During the latest episode of Season 21 of American Idol, Duffee bravely told viewers that he unexpectedly lost his mother to suicide two years ago.“She just struggled with bipolar and depression, and over time it got harder and harder for her to hide it from...

After some not-so-subtle social media teasing, Miley Cyrus confirmed that she would return to the Disney fold with a new music special, Miley Cyrus — Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions), set to premiere March 10 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on Disney+. The special will find Cyrus performing songs from her new album, Endless Summer Vacation (also out March 10) for the first time. The show will boast a rendition of her latest hit, “Flowers,” seven additional tracks from the album, a special collaboration with Rufus Wainwright, and one...

Gary Rossington, the last remaining original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died of unspecified causes at the age of 71. The guitarist had overcome several health battles in recent years."It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today," the band wrote in an official statement. "Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in heaven and playing it pretty, like he always does. Please keep Dale, Mary, Annie and the entire...

Biebz Back Onstage Singer performs "Private Landing" with Toliver just days after canceling the postponed Justice World Tour Don Toliver lined up special guests Justin Bieber, James Blake and Kali Uchis for the trap singer’s Saturday night set at Rolling Loud California. Performing just two weeks after the release of his latest LP Love Sick, Toliver enlisted the three guest singers to bring their collaborative album tracks to life live: Blake first appeared for “Let Her Go,” followed by Uchis (the live debut of “4 Me”) and finally Bieber, who...

Sixty years ago today (March 5, 1963) was a tragic day for the country music community: It was on that date that Patsy Cline, along with Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, was killed in a plane crash while on her way home from a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kan.Country Music Memories: Although she was ill with the flu, Cline performed three shows at Kansas City's Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall on March 3, to raise money for the family of DJ Jack "Cactus" Call, who had been killed in a car crash that January....

Singer-songwriter performed new music from her Rolling Up the Welcome Mat EP Kelsea Ballerini made her Saturday Night Live debut this weekend, performing during an episode that featured NFL star Travis Kelce (yes, they noticed how similar their names sound) as host. Ballerini’s two songs included “Blindsided” and “Penthouse,” selections from her recent surprise EP Rolling Up the Welcome Mat. For her “Blindsided” performance, Ballerini came out in a zebra-like black jumpsuit and stood in front of a flashing screen displaying a spooky silhouette that looked as though it was...

Thirty-nine years ago today, on March 4, 1983, George Jones wed Nancy Sepulvado. The ceremony took place at the home of Jones' sister, Helen Scroggins, in Woodville, Texas.The marriage was the fourth for Jones. Previously, he had been married to Dorothy Bonvillion, Shirley Ann Corley and Tammy Wynette, the last of whom he divorced in 1975. But it was Sepulvado, his wife until his death in 2013, whom Jones considered his soulmate."No teenage boy ever fell harder for a girl than I fell for Nancy Sepulvado," Jones said in his...

Saturday Sessions The on-tour New Zealand indie-pop band perform their latest album's title track, "Your Side" and "When You Know You Know" New Zealand indie-pop band the Beths visited CBS Mornings to showcase tracks off their 2022 album Expert in a Dying Field for the “Saturday Sessions.” Currently in the midst of a U.S. tour, singer Elizabeth Stokes and company’s three-song mini-set featured the album-opening title track, “Your Side” and “When You Know You Know.” The Beths followed up their acclaimed 2018 debut album Future Me Hates Me with 2020’s...

Jennifer Nettles will return to the big screen with a role in The Exorcist, a 2023 update on the original 1973 horror classic.Variety announced Nettles' participation in the film, also reporting that while it's not yet clear which part she plays, it will be a "primary role."Acting is not a new gig for the Sugarland star and solo country artist. She has held roles both on stage and on the screen, making her Broadway debut in 2015 in the role as Roxy Hart in Chicago and playing a role in...

Late Night Jams The song is the band's lead single from their upcoming album First Two Pages of Frankenstein The National took to the late night stage Friday to perform “Tropic Morning News” on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Frontman Matt Berninger led the vocals while backed with bandmates Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, and Scott Devendorf. In January, the group announced their upcoming album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, sharing “Tropic Morning News” as the project’s lead single. The following month, they released “New Order T-Shirt,” the second pre-release track...