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Saturday Night Live alum Chris Redd misses the old Kanye West. It’s not just the one from before the rapper’s recent anti-semitic and anti-Black tirades, but the one from way before he stepped foot on the SNL dress rehearsal stage for the first run through of his unaired pro-Trump rant in September 2018. During a recent appearance on the Daily Beast’s The Last Laugh podcast, the comedian recalled his encounters with West when he appeared on the show as musical guest on an episode hosted by Adam Driver. “He came...

A Luke Bryan fan jumped on stage during his show in Florida over the weekend, and security pounced up to whisk him away. They didn't get the chance.The "Country On" singer and host of the 2022 CMA Awards played MidFlorida Amphitheater in Tampa on Saturday (Nov. 5). As he sang "That's My Kind of Night," a shirtless man jumped up to join him. Typically that's a short-lived cameo, with security taking care of business in ways that can be violent.One guard tried to move the unknown party-crasher along, but Bryan said no, let...

Hall of Fame In a statement, Morissette said that "there is no need for me to spend time in an environment that reduces women." Alanis Morissette took to Instagram to respond to “mis-informed rumblings” surrounding her absence from a performance at Saturday’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. Morissette was set to perform “You’re So Vain” with Olivia Rodrigo as a tribute to inductee Carly Simon. While Variety reported that Morissette was at rehearsals on Friday and was listed on all the in-house schedules for the show, it wasn’t immediately clear...

Just before the pandemic, accomplished singer-songwriter Jerry Joseph traveled from his home in Portland, Ore. to Water Valley, Miss. to fulfill a longtime dream of recording a record with his longtime friend, Drive-By Truckers' founding member Patterson Hood. It was there, at Truckers' bassist Matt Patton's studio Dial Back Sound, that they crafted The Beautiful Madness, the celebrated 2020 record from Joseph and the Drive-By Truckers under the moniker The Stiff Boys.Those recording sessions were fruitful, and when all the dust settled, they were left with a treasure trove of tracks...

Spencer Sutherland — the singer/songwriter known for songs like “Wonder” and his soulful TikTok covers — is heading on the road. On Monday, the rising star announced that he’s heading on the In His Mania tour across the U.S. starting next March. “Let me be the FIRST to welcome you to THE IN HIS MANIA TOUR!!!!!” he wrote on Instagram with the tour poster. “Let’s make this a tour to Remember!!!!” Sutherland, who recently starred in Netflix’s Afterlife of the Party with Victoria Justice, will start his tour in the...

The amphitheater shows that Turnpike Troubadours have been performing throughout the year have all included massive bills, and Saturday (Nov. 5) night's appearance at Dailey's Place in Jacksonville, Fla. was no exception."This lineup is a mini-festival," BJ Barham, frontman of opening act American Aquarium, assured after taking the stage promptly at 7 p.m."How y'all doing out there, Duval?" he asked the crowd with the proper accent on the county name before introducing the 2012 track "Jacksonville." "We're American Aquarium from Raleigh, North Carolina," Barham continued. "I might be from North Carolina,...

For Maestro Jason Ikeem Rodgers, the founder and musical director of Orchestra Noir in Atlanta, collaborating with Rick Ross for Red Bull’s global Symphonic series seemed like destiny. The project pairs contemporary musicians with classically trained orchestras, and Rodgers says he grew up on the rapper. When he was younger, he remembers spending two years driving around his native Philadelphia with a broken CD player that looped three songs. One was Ross’s 2013 Jay-Z collaboration “Devil is a Lie.”  “Rick Ross’s music helped me navigate my life and inspired me...

The Houston Astros had a country mega-star in their corner before their game against the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday (Nov. 5): George Strait stopped by before the game, and even stuck around to give the traditional "Play Ball" call.The legendary country singer made a stop at Minute Maid Park ahead of Saturday's game, and chatted with a few Astros while he was there, according to a report from KHOU 11. Among them were Hall-of-Famer Craig Biggio, and another was pitcher Lance McCuller Jr., who signed an autograph for Strait and...

Rappers continue their viral, troll-happy press run with phony musical guest spot that definitely wasn't 'Live From New York' Drake and 21 Savage continued the troll-happy viral press run for their collaborative LP Her Loss Saturday with a faux SNL performance for “On BS,” complete with an introduction from actor Michael B. Jordan. “Ladies and gentlemen, your musical guests this evening, Drake and 21 Savage, performing a song off one of the relatable albums of all time, Her Loss,” Jordan said in his too-flowery-to-be-real SNL introduction. Drake shared the SNL...

Dolly Parton closed out this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony with a new original song titled "Rockin.'"She came strolling out in a leather outfit, then gave an electric-guitar strum worthy of Pete Townshend. "And you thought I couldn't rock!" she exclaimed.Parton told  Pollstar that she'd written "Rockin'" specifically to sing in Los Angeles: "It's a fine little song, and it’s real rock-y, so I'll have something fun to play off of, to ease some of the tension." The lyrics referenced many of rock's earliest pioneers, then...

Jimmy Iovine has had one of the most illustrious careers in music. Over the course of five decades, from engineer to producer to executive and entrepreneur, Iovine has been at the crossroads of some of music’s biggest moments. On Saturday, Bruce Springsteen recalled a particularly meaningful one during his glowing speech, inducting his “little brother” Iovine into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and presenting him with the Ahmet Ertegun Award. It was 1978. “No one knew what the words Mercedes Benz meant to me,” Springsteen said. “But Jimmy...

Country artists and fans are gearing up for the CMA Awards on Wednesday (Nov. 9) on ABC, and there are plenty of exciting programs on ABC and ESPN in the days leading up to the show.CMA Week officially kicks off with On the Red Carpet: Countdown to the CMA Awards, which will air on ABC stations on Saturday Nov. 5 and Sunday, Nov. 6 (check local listings). The 30-minute program will feature ABC7/KABC-TV Los Angeles’ entertainment reporter George Pennacchio as he interviews CMA nominees such as Miranda Lambert, LoCash, Maddie & Tae and Lainey Wilson.Also on Saturday, CMA Awards...

“What happened was, we reached the moon. But lost in space, I think we got there all too soon. But you know what? I’m coming back for you, baby.” That’s the spoken-word bridge to the title track of Carly Rae Jepsen’s The Loneliest Time, a charming retro-disco duet with one of her favorite artists, singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright. The song has a strong, infectious chorus – but that’s not the part that TikTok users have embraced. Instead, they’ve seized on the spoken-word bridge, to the point where that section is getting an...

It's been more than a year since Devin Dawson released his last collection of music with 2021's Pink Slip, and apart from a handful of posts, the singer has been mostly quiet on social media this year, too.In a new interview with SiriusXM the Highway's Storme Warren, Dawson explains his absence, revealing that an unforeseen issue caused him to slow down his solo artist career."It’s been an interesting year for me," Dawson prefaces. "There’s been a lot of great stuff that has happened, but then a lot of really hard stuff, too."The "God's...