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Cody Jinks deviated from his set list of outlaw-country tunes like “I’m Not the Devil” and “Must Be the Whiskey” during his weekend show in Round Rock, Texas, weaving in a Foo Fighters cover to pay tribute to the band’s drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died March 25. Around the halfway point of his concert at the Round Rock Amp north of Austin, Jinks recalled seeing the Foo Fighters perform in December in Las Vegas. “Taylor was such a big part of their show. It was so much fun getting to...

Brothers Osborne closed down the 2022 Grammy Awards on Sunday night (April 3), performing their fast-paced and catchy "Dead Man's Curve" to end the show after the last trophy was handed out.But after the curtain fell on that performance, brothers and bandmates T.J. and John Osborne apparently went on to have two very different kinds of nights."As soon as the show's over, trust me, we're gonna find a party," T.J. told Laverne Cox on the red carpet for E! News Online. "You know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, so...

Federal prosecutors are pushing back hard against R. Kelly’s claim that sentencing for his sex trafficking conviction in New York, now set for May 4, should be postponed until after his upcoming federal trial on separate charges in Illinois. Kelly’s new lawyer is seeking the delay with the argument Kelly deserves a chance to work with a sentencing mitigation expert without fear “his words might be used against him in some manner” at his next trial, set to start Aug. 1. The lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, says Kelly has a Fifth...

The first performers for the 2022 CMT Music Awards have been announced, and the lineup includes some of the biggest names in country music today.Kelsea Ballerini, Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd, Carly Pearce, Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson and Keith Urban are all among the first round of performers CMT announced in a press release on Tuesday morning (March 22). They will take the stage to perform songs and collaborations during the ceremony, during which CMT will award categories...

Father John Misty quietly dropped a sprawling new song, “The Next 20th Century,” the sorta title-track from his upcoming album, Chloë and The Next 20th Century, set to arrive this Friday, April 8, via Sub Pop. “The Next 20th Century” is an epic ballad that starts at a steady atmospheric pace, but with an extremely attention-grabbing first line, “The nazis that we hired/For our wedding band/Played your anthem like I wasn’t there.” From there, Father John Misty waxes philosophical on empire, death, decay, and pop culture (including a Val KIlmer...

Brothers Osborne took the stage at the 2022 Grammy Awards on Sunday night (April 3) to perform "Dead Man's Curve," delivering an energetic rendition.The sibling duo of guitarist John Osborne and singer T.J. Osborne gave a high-energy and engaging performance of the song to close out the 2022 Grammys, taking the stage after a night of all-star awards and performances.The winning performance followed their triumphant Grammy Awards win, when their song "Younger Me" won Best Country Duo/Group Performance during a special afternoon ceremony prior to the televised nighttime show on...

Justin Bieber might get his peaches out in Georgia, but he brought his Grammy-nominated single to Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Arena. On Sunday, Bieber brought out Giveon and Daniel Caesar for a show-stopping rendition of their “Peaches” collaboration. Bieber began his performance from behind the piano, doing a slow jam take on the hit song solo. He was soon was joined by a full band and his collaborators Caesar and Giveon. The second half of the song was more enthusiastic — especially for whoever was in charge of bleeping out...

Fifty-one years ago today, on April 3, 1971, Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty's "After the Fire Is Gone" claimed the top spot on the charts. The song is the first single that Lynn and Twitty released as a duo; it comes from their debut album, We Only Make Believe.Written by IE White, "After the Fire Is Gone" is about two people who fall in love while still married to other people. With lines such as, "Love is where you find it / When you find no love at home / And there's nothin'...

The Radiohead side project the Smile debuted the studio version of their song “Pana-vision” in tonight’s episode of Peaky Blinders, with the track appearing online hours before the series finale episode. The track was paired by an animated video directed by Sabrina Nichols featuring artwork by Radiohead’s in-house artist Stanley Donwood. In addition to “Pana-vision,” singer Thom Yorke also recorded a new piano instrumental, “That’s How Horses Are,” in tonight’s episode; the frontman previously released his solo track “5.17” in March during Peaky Blinders’ third episode. Prior to the final...

When Thomas Rhett was putting together his latest album, Where We Started, there were no plans to make the title track a collaboration. It was a member of Rhett's team who sent the song over to Katy Perry to see if she was interested.“I was like, ‘Yeah, but they’re not gonna respond.’... And literally within 24 hours Katy responded and said, ‘I love this. I resonate with this so well,’” Rhett shares with Music Mayhem. “When she put her vocal on it, it took her, like, two weeks. She really put...

Tragedy struck the legendary roots reggae act Mighty Diamonds this week as two founding members — lead singer Donald “Tabby” Shaw and longtime band mate Fitzroy “Bunny” Simpson — both died within days of each other. On Tuesday, March 29, Shaw was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in the Mighty Diamonds’ native Jamaica, where the prolific trio were one of the country’s longest-running and most venerated reggae acts. Shaw was 67. Three days later, on April 1, Simpson died at the age of 71 at an undisclosed hospital...

C.W. McCall, who was best known for his massive 1975 hit "Convoy," has died after a battle with cancer.The Washington Post reports that McCall died on Friday (April 1) at his home in Ouray, Colo. He was 93 years old.McCall, whose real name was Bill Fries, was an advertising executive in the early 1970s, and he first conceived the character of C.W. McCall for a 1973 advertising spot for Old Home Bread. That ad spot won a Clio Award, which led Fries — performing as the character from the commercial, who...

For Jennifer Lopez, a November 2014 performance in Macau wasn’t entirely out of the ordinary. She’d have to sing (here, to a backing track) for 40 minutes, accompanied by six to eight dancers; the contract stipulated she’d be furnished with “first-class” sound and lights. No recording or taping of the performance would be allowed. But no tickets were sold, either. And the payday stood out, too: $1.25 million. To celebrate the birthday of a relative, a wealthy Chinese family flew Lopez to Asia to perform for them, tossing in $500,000...