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Kelsea Ballerini is currently in the midst of her Heartfirst Tour, and during a stop at Chicago's Rosemont Theatre on Saturday night (Oct. 1), the singer had a very special surprise in store: She brought out her longtime friend and duet partner Carly Pearce for a surprise onstage rendition of "You're Drunk, Go Home.""I did say I love this city," Ballerini told the Chicago crowd from the stage before revealing her special guest performer. "And I have to do something to make it a little bit extra special for you...

Rapper makes runway debut as he leads charge down muddy path for Summer 2023 collection Kanye West was back in his natural habitat Sunday — Paris Fashion Week — where the rapper kicked off Balenciaga’s Summer 2023 collection showcase by leading the march down the muddy “runway.” While Ye has severed ties with the Gap, his partnership with Balenciaga continues on as West was the first “model” to stomp down the dark circular dirt path — “a metaphor for digging for truth and being down to earth,” Balenciaga creative director...

Reba McEntire's For My Broken Heart was, indeed, a salve. At the time of its release, on Oct. 1, 1991 — 30 years ago today — the singer was mourning the deaths of most of her band in a plane crash that happened just over six months prior.The 10 songs on For My Broken Heart, McEntire shared in the album's liner notes, were chosen to serve as "a form of healing for all our broken hearts." McEntire co-wrote just one of the songs, "Bobby," the story of a man imprisoned for killing his ailing...

Nineties Reunion Singer was band’s surprise guest during their Friday set at Roundhouse in London Courtney Love made a surprise appearance during the Lemonheads’ show at Roundhouse in London on Friday, where she joined the band to perform “Into Your Arms.” Before they launched into the song — which appeared on the band’s 1993 LP, Come on Feel the Lemonheads — Love paid homage to her longtime friend, the band’s frontman Evan Dando, whom she called her “one constant” adding that he “doesn’t have a fucking bad bone in his...

Wynonna Judd took the stage for the opening night of the Judds' Final Tour on Friday night, and she paid touching tribute to the life and legacy of her late mother, Naomi Judd, in a series of powerful moments.Naomi Judd died on April 30, and her daughters issued a statement attributing her death to her long struggle with mental illness. Ashley Judd later revealed that the cause of her death was a self-inflicted firearm wound.During a private memorial service in Nashville on May 7, Wynonna Judd announced that she intended to honor the duo's...

PARTWAY THROUGH FARRUKO’S set, the stage at Miami’s FTX Arena turned into a pulpit. On a mild night in February, the Puerto Rican artist had been standing at the center of the nearly 20,000-person venue, a tangle of flashing lights and smoke-cannon explosions blaring behind him. Fans screamed along as he sang some of his biggest hits, like the 2021 party anthem “La Tóxica,” plus other tracks from his deeply personal 2021 album, La 167. In between, Farruko talked directly to the audience, telling them he’d been striving to become...

Patty Loveless is one of the stars of the neo-traditional country movement with her honky-tonk and bluegrass-infused music. She's recorded 14 studio albums and released memorable No. 1 hits such as "Chains," "Blame It on Your Heart" and "Lonely Too Long."But before all of her success, Loveless was a brand-new artist releasing her debut, self-titled album 35 years ago, on Oct. 1, 1986. Patty Loveless was a minor success, peaking at No. 35 on the Billboard charts and producing four singles.Today, we're going back through Loveless' understated debut album and ranking...

When the Tragically Hip played their final show on Aug. 20, 2016, at the sold-out Rogers K-Rock Centre in the group’s native Kingston, Ontario, bassist Gord Sinclair stood onstage in awe of the moment — wondering what the future held for the larger-than-life Canadian rock band. “There was a deep connection with the people, and as we progressed on that last tour, got stronger and stronger. By the time it got to the last show, it was just like, ‘We should be playing more,’” Sinclair tells Rolling Stone. “It was...

Brandi Carlile will kick off the 48th season of Austin City Limits on Saturday night (Oct. 1), but The Boot and Taste of Country readers are getting a special sneak peek at her set today. The acclaimed singer-songwriter's third ACL appearance features an eclectic mix of tracks from throughout her impressive career, including cuts from her latest record, In These Silent Days.Backed by a nine-piece band, which includes longtime creative collaborators the Hanseroth Twins on guitars and renounced musician and In These Silent Days co-producer Shooter Jennings on keys, Carlile offers up a blazing rendition of her...

LCD Soundsystem’s first new song in five years, “New Body Rhumba, from the upcoming film adaptation of White Noise, has arrived. The band’s first new music since their 2017 comeback album American Dream was penned by frontman James Murphy along with LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Wang and Pat Mahoney and produced by Murphy for DFA Productions. In the context of the Noah Baumbach-directed film — which premiered at the Venice Film Festival ahead of its theatrical (Nov. 25) and Netflix (Dec. 30) release — the seven-minute dancefloor-ready “New Body Rhumba” soundtracks...

Carrie Underwood has her hands full at home, and she's outnumbered! Between her husband, Mike, and her two sons, Isaiah, 7, and Jacob, 3, it's a house filled with masculinity — and bodily functions."They’re seven and three. Everything with them is farts and wrestling," she tells Country Countdown USA host Lon Helton of her young boys. "I wish I could have them turn it off at the table. But it always ends up there.It's not uncommon behavior for little humans at that age, but Underwood is quick to point out that each of her...

The song is an upbeat, energetic ode to mambo sounds Reggaeton legend Don Omar has been busy in the studio over the last year. After releasing the hard-hitting rap banger “Flow HP” with Puerto Rican artist Residente in September 2021, he followed things up with a more playful and romantic track called “Soy Yo,” featuring longtime genre veteran Wisin and the Cuban duo Gente de Zona. Don Omar is having even more fun on his latest offering: “Let’s Get Crazy” is a delightful throwback to mambo sounds that pulls in...

Evan Paul hosts Taste of Country Nights, On Demand, a weekly country music interview podcast that focuses on the music. Follow wherever podcasts are found, like Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave a rating and review. ​​​​​​​​​​​This show is part of the Townsquare Media On Demand network.We know and love Breland for the songs that he has released that have been widely successful, but did you know that he wasn't always a country music star? He once had a day job that he hated with a passion.I got the chance to sit down with country music's rising star, Breland, and let me tell you,...