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Maren Morris is one step closer to becoming a Broadway star. On Thursday (Aug. 11), the "Circles Around This Town" singer revealed that she was one of the lucky few chosen to audition in-person for the role of Elphaba Thropp in the long-running Broadway musical Wicked."I got a callback for Wicked," she writes in a tweet. "I am in tears. What the hell. 💚😭"The exciting news comes almost three months after Morris first shared her intentions to submit an audition tape in response to the musical's recent casting call."Test shot for my self tape audition. The THEATRE dah-ling...

Rage Against the Machine announced Thursday that they must cancel the upcoming European dates of their reunion tour due to Zack de la Rocha’s leg injury. The singer suffered the injury on just the second show of the band’s pandemic-postponed reunion trek, and while he persevered through the pain by remaining seated for all subsequent shows on the Guy Fieri-attended first U.S. leg — which concludes Aug. 14 at New York’s Madison Square Garden — the band said the European shows in Aug. and Sept. were off “per medical guidance.”...

Twenty-one years ago today (Aug. 11, 2001), Blake Shelton scored his first No. 1 hit with his debut single, "Austin."Blake Shelton AustinGiant/Warner Bros. Nashvilleloading..."Austin" was released in April of 2001 and spent five weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, tying a record set by Billy Ray Cyrus' debut single, "Achy Breaky Heart," in 1992. It was also a pop success, hitting No. 18 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100."Austin" was the first single from Shelton's self-titled debut album, which was released on July 31, 2001. It...

Former A$AP Mob member Terell Ephron, aka A$AP Relli, has come forward as the man A$AP Rocky allegedly shot last November, as Rolling Stone has learned that he plans to file a civil suit against his high school best friend. Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was arrested in April for assault with a deadly weapon over the alleged shooting, with police withholding the victim’s name. Mayers has not been charged, but heads to court on August 17 over the matter. But ahead of the hearing, Ephron has come...

The 2022 Academy of Country Music Honors will celebrate artists including Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton, and the awards show will make its debut on its new network, Fox, when it returns to television in September.The annual awards show, which is billed as "country music's favorite night," is celebrating 15 years in 2022. Lambert is slated to receive the ACM Triple Crown Award, while Stapleton will accept the ACM Spirit Award.Additionally, Shania Twain will receive the ACM Poet’s Award. The 2022 ACM Honors will also recognize ACM Milestone Award recipient...

On Post Malone’s darker Hollywood’s Bleeding LP, he welcomes Ozzy Osbourne on one of the album’s standouts, “Take What You Want,” and in turn a contemporary legend in the making meets a rock & roll god. Osbourne’s signature vocals open the track with an automatic timelessness only a rock icon like him can achieve. For someone like Malone, getting him on a track is one thing, but getting to finally meet the guy was “absolutely fucking mind-blowing.” In an exclusive clip, Malone greets the Prince of Darkness for the very...

Legendary performance series Austin City Limits is set to return this fall for its 48th season. Beginning Oct. 1, artists will once again grace the ACL stage, kicking off with a performance from Brandi Carlile.It'll be Carlile's third appearance on the show, and backed by a nine-piece band, she's set to deliver a performance that will spotlight her latest album, In These Silent Days, as well as revisiting highlights from across the span of her career.After Carlile's kick-off performance, a new episode of ACL will air live weekly on PBS,...

Remi Wolf’s debut album Juno is an exhilarating introduction to the California artist’s psychedelic mind. In the latest installment of the Green Room — filmed ahead of her set at Lollapalooza in Chicago — she talks about how sobriety influenced her approach to music-making. Following the success of her project I’m Allergic To Dogs, which featured the TikTok hit “Photo ID,” Remi Wolf entered rehab. “Liquor Store,” her lead single from Juno, was the first song she recorded after returning to Los Angeles to begin composing her debut project. She...

From under the stage rose the man in black — black hat, black pearl snap — grinning wildly and prepared to entertain 60,000-plus people. Garth Brooks wrapped his three-year-long stadium tour in Houston, Texas, on Saturday night (Aug. 6), and his excited energy was matched — and then some — by the crowd inside the Texans' NRG Stadium.Quickly, the country icon launched into 2018's lively "All Day Long," followed by "Rodeo" (1991) and "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" (1990), and quickly, Brooks was glistening with rhinestone...

Mariah Carey remembered idolizing Olivia Newton-John as a kid and then later getting the chance to share the stage with her as an adult in a touching tribute to the late pop star/actress, who died yesterday, Aug. 8, at the age of 73. Carey wrote that she first “fell in love with Olivia’s voice” after hearing her 1974 classic, “I Honestly Love You,” though she was soon equally enamored by Newton-John’s other hits, like “Magic,” Suddenly,” and “Have You Never Been Mellow.” These tunes, Carey wrote, “showcased her beautiful airy...

By the time Luke Bryan released Tailgates & Tanlines on Aug. 9, 2011, he'd placed two albums in the No. 2 spot on the country albums chart, earned five Top 10 singles (including two No. 1s) and won a few awards. His third studio album, though, kicked his career to another level.It started with "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)," the lead single from the album, released in March of 2011. Although the song — written by Bryan and Dallas Davidson — peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, it's endured...

Farewell, Olivia Newton-John, the eternally beloved pop queen who died Monday at age 73. No Seventies star had a weirder pop trajectory, going from the world’s favorite Australian country singer to a brazen Eighties black-leather New Wave diva in just a few years. But Olivia could do it all: weepy ballads like “I Honestly Love You,” country twang like “Let Me Be There,” Fifties pastiche in Grease. Disco show tunes with Gene Kelly and ELO in Xanadu. Heavy-breathing rock odes to sex like “Magic” and “Make a Move On Me.”...

Less than an hour after news of actor and singer Olivia Newton-John's death broke, her most famous on-screen romance shared his emotions on social media. John Travolta took to Instagram with a photo and a personal note.Newton-John and Travolta starred opposite one another as Sandy and Danny in the 1978 film Grease. The movie and the soundtrack was a generational success."My dearest Olivia," Travolta begins, "you made all of our lives so much better. Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road...

Kanye West is being weird again. In the aftermath of Kim Kardashian’s split from Pete Davidson, the rapper has regressed back to the same social media bullying he enacted when the pair first started dating. This time, West took to Instagram to share a photoshopped New York Times front page that reads: “Skete Davidson Dead at 28.” An optimistic take on the morbid headline would be that with Skete Davidson dead and gone, West’s relentless mocking of Pete Davidson could finally come to an end. But the small print underneath...