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Don’t expect to see Britney Spears on stage in the near future. The singer posted a lengthy message on Instagram Sunday, reflecting on her the work she put out during her 13-year conservatorship and declaring she will “probably never perform again.” Spears opened the post by lamenting about her lack of creative control over her music videos during that era — she says the only visual she liked from that time was the one for “Work Bitch” — and her unpleasant experience working with photographers. In typical fashion, the post...

Kane Brown and wife Katelyn Brown finally released their first duet in "Thank God" from Brown's Different Man album, and the new music video brings the romantic song to life.Directed by Alex Alvga and filmed in Hawaii, the video finds the married couple of nearly four years on a tropical adventure as they sing together.The "Thank God" music video opens on the couple driving in an open-air vehicle — Brown drives and sings, while Katelyn rides in the passenger's seat. As the journey continues, they stop off at various places along the road to...

Pearl Jam were about halfway through their special concert for SirusXM at Harlem’s Apollo Theater on Saturday night when Eddie Vedder’s mind went to Bessie Smith’s residency at the venue way back in 1935. “She played here four weeks in a row at one point,” he told the audience. “She was the singer, so she was probably standing right where I’m standing. We never got to be in this room before. The fact that we get to be on this stage is just remarkable.” Vedder’s reverence for the hallowed ground...

John Michael Montgomery was involved in a serious bus crash on Friday (Sept. 9) that left three people injured. The country singer was on his way to a concert in North Carolina when the accident occurred.Montgomery says he'll need several weeks to recover.WATE-TV in Campbell County, Tenn., shares that the country singer's bus was traveling south along I-75 near Jellico, Tenn., when it veered off the road and hit an embankment and overturned.Tennessee Highway Patrol report notes that three people were injured: Montgomery, Marc Wood of Frankfort, Ky., and William Salyer of...

“I am a pretty normal guy in a very extraordinary situation, that I’m still trying to navigate,” says Fall Out Boy co-founder and lead guitarist Joe Trohman, whose first book, None of This Rocks, is out on Sept. 13. It’s a very different kind of rock memoir from most, offering a darkly funny, revealing, and relentlessly neurotic look at his own story and his band’s rise. We learn about his rough relationship with his mom, who endured personality changes after the removal of a benign brain tumor, and his battles...

Country legend Dolly Parton is paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and sending prayers to the British royal family in the midst monarch's death on Sept. 8, 2022.In a post, shared Friday (Sept. 9), Parton recalls meeting the Queen and performing for her on a trip to London in 1977. She also including a photo of momentous day, showing herself smiling brightly as she meets the Queen."I had the honor of meeting and performing for Queen Elizabeth II on my trip to London in 1977. She carried herself with grace and...

AS SOON AS a pair of silver vans arrive at the VIP entrance of Birmingham, England’s Alexander Stadium, the whispers start. “Is that Sharon Osbourne?” a squinting security guard asks her friend.  “I think so,” the other guard says. “Does that mean … ?” The drivers keep security in the dark — literally — by turning off their dome lights as they wait for Prince Edward to finish a speech for the closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games, a multisport event similar to the Olympics that took place in early August....

Buick Audra has been just about everywhere you can go in the music industry: she's won two Grammys as a result of her work with Joss Stone. She is the guitarist and primary songwriter for Nashville heavy music duo the Friendship Commanders. With her third solo album Conversations with My Other Voice, Buick Audra turns her songwriting sights inward.The album is partially comprised of songs she wrote when she was younger, paired with new songs that reflect her current, more mature outlook. "Simply Said," her latest single, is a minimalist...

We might be OK, but we’re actually not fine at all after Taylor Swift suggested that the scarf from her fan-favorite epic ballad “All Too Well” might not actually be lingering in the drawer of a former flame. In fact, the scarf with the power to remind ex-lovers of innocence and that reportedly smells like the chart-topping singer-songwriter is, according to Swift, nothing but a carefully constructed metaphor. The revelation came during Swift’s appearance Friday evening at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the Grammy Award-winning artist was promoting her...

Luke Bryan's Crash My Playa Festival is back for its eighth year in 2023, returning to Riviera Cancun, Mexico, and the star is spilling the details.The four-day, all-inclusive event will run Jan. 19-22, 2023 at Moon Palace Cancun, and the lineup features some of country's biggest stars.Bryan will serves as a two-night headliner, and his fellow American Idol judge Lionel Richie will make his debut appearance at the event during Bryan's final show. Chris Stapleton and Cole Swindell will headline the remaining two night, respectively.Other performers at 2023 Crash My Playa include: Ashley...

No Such Thing as Coincidences Pearl Jam frontman made no mention of the late monarch before busting out the Abbey Road secret track Eddie Vedder made the incredibly specific choice of doing a quick cover of the Beatles’ “Her Majesty” during Pearl Jam’s show in Toronto on Thursday following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Vedder made absolutely no mention of the late monarch, or her death at the age of 96, before launching into the cover. Instead, he just quickly quipped, “This is just a little one I’m gonna...

In 1999, Montgomery Gentry signed their first record deal. Between then and when Troy Gentry was killed in a helicopter crash on Sept. 8, 2017, the duo released eight studio albums. Although the majority of their songs came from outside songwriters, Gentry and duo partner Eddie Montgomery did occasionally help co-write their material; Gentry specifically co-wrote eight of the songs that Montgomery Gentry released during his lifetime.Below, readers can listen to the eight Montgomery Gentry songs that Gentry himself helped write. The first came on the duo's 2001 album Carrying On; the songs are arranged chronologically, so...

Groundbreaking group was considered a pillar of the Latin rock genre, counting performers including J Balvin and Bad Bunny among its fans Horacio Eduardo “Marciano” Cantero, the songwriter and frontman for Argentinian rock band Enanitos Verdes, died this afternoon in a hospital in his hometown of Mendoza. He was 62. The singer had recently undergone surgery to remove one of his kidneys and part of his spleen.  The group is among one of the most successful Latin American rock outfits, with a career that spanned four decades. Their classics include...

Tyler Childers is back with an ambitious and unique new project. On Sept. 30, the celebrated singer-songwriter will release Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?, a brand new album featuring eight new songs presented in three parts.These three chapters — titled Hallelujah, Jubilee and Joyful Noise — supply three different sonic interpretations of Childers' latest collection of tracks. The Hallelujah segment features a more organic, stripped down style of production formed during a two-day live recording session at guitarist James Barker's home studio. For Jubilee, Childers supplies a more layered sound featuring the...