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Sebastián Yatra tapped John Legend for a revamped version of the single “Tacones Rojos,” featuring lyrics in both English and Spanish. The pair showcased the song with an upbeat music video filmed in Los Angeles, in which Legend plays Yatra’s neighbor. “‘Tacones Rojos’ has such a beautiful sunny vibe,” Legend said in a statement. “It’s about meeting someone new who brings love, light and wonder into your life. I love that energy and that we were able to create something new together for this lovely song.” He added, “It was...

The world was a much different place the last time crowds descended upon Willie Nelson's ranch in the Texas Hill Country for a full day of live music. Back before the term "coronavirus" was in most of our vocabularies, a few thousand fans enjoyed sets from Yola, The Cactus Blossoms, Steve Earle and Shakey Graves at Luck Reunion 2019. The annual festival was scheduled to return in 2020, but the sudden emergence of COVID-19 forced the event to cancel just a week before it was scheduled to be held. The festival was again scrapped in 2021...

Coffee and menthol. Cold beer and ice cream. Soccer Mommy and a devastatingly direct chorus. Sophie Allison knows her combinations, and she’s back at it with “Shotgun,” a new gem that chases after the perfect metaphor for what it’s like to be emphatically in love. Soccer Mommy released her last album, Color Theory, in February 2020, approximately 9 years ago in pandemic time. “Shotgun” is a far cry from that record, with its angsty emotional palette of distorted riffs and early aughts nostalgia. The musician who once sang that she’s...

Happy 36th birthday to Brett Eldredge! The singer was born on March 23, 1986, in his hometown of Paris, Ill.Eldredge grew up listening to an eclectic list of music that included Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin. From very early on, music was a part of his life."There’s a video of me singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in the living room with a Chicago Cubs helmet on; we’re huge Cubs fans," Eldredge tells The Boot. "In it, you can see that I could actually carry a tune at...

Miley Cyrus’ plane was forced to make an emergency landing while en route to Paraguay Tuesday when the aircraft was struck by lightning, according to a social media post from the singer. Cyrus was in South America to headline the second day of Paraguay’s Asunciónico festival, which has not been held since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our plane was caught in a major unexpected storm and struck by lighting,” the “Wrecking Ball” singer wrote on Instagram. “My crew, band, friends and family who were all traveling with me...

Congratulations are in order for Cody Johnson, who has just earned his first-ever No. 1 single on country radio with "'Til You Can’t." The chest-thumping life anthem currently sits at the top of both the Billboard Country Airplay and Country Aircheck charts.With universally relatable lyrics, it’s no surprise that country fans from all walks of life have gravitated to the song.“If you got a chance, take it, take it while you got a chance / If you got a dream, chase it, 'cause a dream won't chase you back /...

Any posthumous album is, by its nature, haunting — the sound of ghosts on wax forever floating in a state between unfinished project and final-ever recordings. But in the case of Phife Dawg, who died in 2016 at the age of 45 from diabetes complications, that purgatorial sense feels particularly cruel. At the time of his death, the rapper born Malik Taylor had reunited — albeit tenuously — with New York hip-hop icons A Tribe Called Quest. That reunion led to Tribe’s final album, the excellent We Got It From...

American Idol has officially wrapped up its Season 20 auditions, but not without a few necessary hijinks. The latest episode of the show, which aired on Monday night (March 21), saw judge Luke Bryan becoming the butt of a hilarious prank, and it was all courtesy of his wife, Caroline Boyer Bryan.The laughing matter wasn’t all too surprising, given that the husband and wife team have a long history of pulling pranks on each other. Folks may recall in April of 2020, Bryan scared his wife when he startled her with a...

Spring has officially sprung, and Weezer marked the occasion with a whimsical, fantasy-filled rendition of the group’s new single “A Little Bit of Love” on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The band transformed the late-night show’s stage into a fanciful forest, complete with a creepy mandolin-playing rabbit and frontman Rivers Cuomo sporting a pair of pointy elf ears. Contrary to the sad sack nerd rock that propelled Weezer to fame in the early 90s, “A Little Bit of Love” is a blithe and uplifting ambling rock number, jam-packed with inspirational aphorisms. “Take a...

Courtney JayeThe Awakening: "The Kingdom is Inside of Me/Hymns and Hallucinations"Courtney Jaye returns with her first solo album since 2013, and these tracks serve as part one of her story. The record is a spiritual journey, accompanied by a short film that she will share in installments leading up to the full length that she will independently release on May 20. It's a beautiful, spiritual journey that Jaye has spent years working to perfect.In a statement, Jaye said, "It’s mainly about my life journey, and going through hell—in childhood, adulthood, in...

Fontaines D.C. grapple with the dilution and disruption of Irish culture abroad on their new song “Skinty Fia,” the title track from the outfit’s upcoming album, out April 22 via Partisan Records. “Skinty Fia” moves at a quick but menacing pace, the clang in the percussion echoing over an ominous churn of guitars and synths. Lyrically, the song uses a metaphor of a doomed relationship to explore some of the ideas the term “Skinty Fia” — an old Irish swear meaning “the damnation of the deer” — conjured for Fontaines...

Jamey Johnson will be the next inductee into the Grand Ole Opry. An esteemed vocalist and songwriting mainstay, Johnson got his invite on Saturday night (March 19) during a writers round at the Opry that also featured the legendary likes of Buddy Cannon and Whisperin' Bill Anderson.Anderson, who is the senior-most Grand Ole Opry member, did the honors of asking Johnson to become a member. He began his invitation with a joke, telling Johnson -- who debuted on the Opry stage 17 years ago -- that that night would mark...

In a video released on Sunday night, the Puerto Rican reggaeton icon Daddy Yankee announced that he’s retiring from music. To close out his three-decade career, he shared that he’s releasing a final album called Legendaddy and planning one last tour. Daddy Yankee, whose real name is Ramón Ayala, posted the video on his official website, where he also shared a link to pre-save the upcoming album and outlined his upcoming La Ultima Vuelta tour. The U.S. leg kicks off in Portland, Oregon on Aug. 10 and ends in New...

Carly Pearce wrote the songs on 29: Written in Stone about her real-life experiences with navigating divorce and grief. Once she put out the project, though, she began to realize that through sharing her stories, she'd helped fans tap into their own, and she began to connect with her listeners more deeply than ever before.Case in point: Pearce encountered two very special fans during a stop on her The 29 Tour in Albany, N.Y. on Saturday night (March 19.) She shared the story on social media after the show, including...