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Neil Young has a new ally in his battle against Spotify: Joni Mitchell. On Friday, the singer-songwriter posted a statement, titled “I Stand With Neil Young!”, to her website announcing the decision. “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify. Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” Mitchell wrote. “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.” That Mitchell would openly support Young’s stand against the streaming giant should come as no surprise; the singers, who...

Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser are looking to recreate the magic of 2021's sold-out Country Cadillac Tour with a second installment in 2022. The longtime friends will be sharing the stage for Part 2 this spring.Billed as a "special acoustic performance" together, the Country Cadillac Tour will begin in Green Bay, Wisc., on March 24 and run through April 16, with a final stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. More dates will be added.What makes the tour unique is the fact that both artists are on stage together and there is...

New York R&B singer and producer Amber Mark made her debut in 2017 with 3:33AM, a movingly grief-stricken ode to her dead mother. It was a strikingly personal statement for a first release, and during the recording of her second EP, the bossa-nova-influenced Conexão, she struggled to match its emotional heft. “I was just throwing songs away because they weren’t deep enough or good enough,” she said in an interview at the time.  On her first full-length, Three Dimensions Deep, Mark searches for a way out of her slump, adopting...

Waylon Jennings was well-known for his strong will, as the producers and all-star lineup of "We Are the World" found out first-hand. On Jan. 28, 1985, the country icon got into a dispute over the lyrics to the legendary charity single and ended up walking out of the recording session before it was complete.Harry Belafonte conceived "We Are the World" as an all-star project to raise money to fight the famine in Ethiopia, which took the lives of roughly 1.2 million people between 1983 and 1985. Quincy Jones signed on...

Lil Yachty filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against NFT seller Opulous on Thursday, claiming the company “maliciously” used his name and likeness to raise more than $6.5 million in venture capital funds. The rapper, born Miles Parks McCollum, states in the filing that he only engaged in a couple of exploratory conference calls with the Singapore-based company in May 2021 that included Opulous founder Lee Parsons, the CEO of Ditto Music. In the suit, he states “no agreement or deal terms” were reached, and he never saw a dime of...

Sam Elliott plays the ultra-gruff Shea Brennan on 1883, Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone origin story. While praised for his kindness and patience by his fellow castmates, he's not one to take every opinion sitting down.During conversations with media ahead of the premiere of 1883, the veteran actor volunteered his thoughts on comparisons between the two shows. The context of his thoughts is important — this quote came as he was praising Sheridan and his writing. Every actor on the show speaks highly of the shows's creator."Yellowstone is all over this. We're tainted...

The audition is finally here. The Beatles’ famous farewell rooftop concert is finally getting its digital audio release. Get Back: The Rooftop Performance will have the complete 40-minute gig, with new mixes in stereo & Dolby Atmos by Giles Martin and Sam Okell. It’s available for streaming at midnight ET on Friday, January 28 from Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe. This marks the first-ever release for the January 1969 roof show, in the wake of the Peter Jackson docuseries Get Back and the expanded Special Edition box of Let It Be. “We...

The Chicks' major-label debut album, Wide Open Spaces, turns 23 on Jan. 27, 2021. Formed in 1989 by Laura Lynch, Robin Lynn Macy and sisters Martie and Emily Erwin (these days, they're Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer), the band known as the Dixie Chicks until the summer of 2020 released three albums as an independent band, in 1990, 1992 and 1993, before signing a developmental deal with Sony Music Nashville, then an official record deal with Sony's newly revived Monument Records imprint.In October of 1997, the Chicks released "I Can Love You Better" as...

Spotify has begun to remove Neil Young’s music following the rocker’s protest of dissemination of Covid-19 misinformation on the streamer’s Joe Rogan’s podcast. Both Young, who shared a letter on his website, and Spotify confirmed the news in separate statements. On Monday, Young posted a since-deleted letter on his website addressed to his management and record label demanding his music be removed from Spotify, noting that the company can have “Rogan or Young. Not both.” The Wall Street Journal first reported the news that Spotify will take down Young’s catalog. Spotify begun...

If you are an avid listener of Neil Young's extensive songbook, you'll soon have one less way to access it. The singer-songwriter says he is pulling all of his music from Spotify after accusing the streaming platform of promoting and spreading COVID-19 "misinformation" via the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.Earlier this month, a group of scientists and health experts approached Spotify with the request to take down the Dec. 31 podcast episode of the Joe Rogan Experience that featured virologist and immunologist Dr. Robert Malone. During the episode, Malone made multiple statements about the virus that...

Morrissey told his former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr to stop mentioning him in interviews and “using my name as clickbait,” in an open letter published on his website. While Morrissey insists the letter, published Tuesday, Jan. 25, isn’t a “rant or a hysterical bombast,” some of his more grandiose tendencies do flourish as he tells off Marr. “We haven’t known each other for 35 years — which is many lifetimes ago,” Moz writes. “When we met you and I were not successful. We both helped each other become what it...

Look in the dictionary under the phrase "whirlwind romance," and chances are you'll find a photo of Miranda Lambert and Brendan McLoughlin: The couple met in November of 2018 and secretly got married on Jan. 26, 2019, at Cogan’s Farm, which is located in Henderson, Tenn.“I feel like I’ve been through enough in my life to know what I don’t want," Lambert told People in October of 2019, "so when I know what I do want I snatch it right up."The country star announced her wedding news in mid-February of...

No one is discrediting Kid Rock’s shitty lyricism after he dropped ear bleed-causing track “We the People” on Tuesday. In the new 4-minute song, Rock plagiarizes a Christmas classic (“But Covid’s near, it’s coming to town”), encourages a coronavirus superspreader (“Climb aboard this love boat/And rock that bitch up and down the coast”), and projects his own health problems on Gen Z (“‘Wear your mask, take your pills’/ Now a whole generation’s mentally ill.”) On the song, he taps into the right-wing agenda by dropping F-bombs about social media platforms,...

Jason Aldean is being recognized for his continued philanthropy. The "Night Train" hitmaker has been named the 2022 recipient of the Country Radio Broadcasters' Artist Humanitarian Award.Aldean will accept the honor during the annual Country Radio Seminar, which will be held Feb. 23-25 in Nashville and virtually.The country star — a multi-Platinum artist with two dozen No. 1 hits to his name — has supported numerous charitable organizations over the course of his career by raising millions of dollars to further their work. This includes raising more than $2 million for the Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight...