Music

Think Walker Hayes' "Fancy Like" was ubiquitous in 2021? Apparently, it's just as inescapable in 2022 -- at least, it was on Sunday afternoon (Jan. 30), when Hayes performed his biggest hit and a medley of other songs at the Chiefs-Bengals halftime show at Kansas City, Missouri's Arrowhead Stadium.Before Hayes hit the stage, something went awry with the audio levels, with hilarious (and deafening) results: The opening bars of "Fancy Like" completely drowned out commentary from a panel of broadcasters. The chaos continued throughout the halftime show. As Hayes proceeded...

Wrestling fanatic Bad Bunny made his surprise return to the ring Saturday during the WWE’s Royal Rumble event at the Dome in St. Louis. According to the WWE, Bad Bunny was the 27th person to enter the ring during the 30-wrestler event, with the reggaeton superstar eliminating a pair of WWE stars (Sheamus, Dolph Ziggler) and spending an admirable seven minutes in the ring. (By comparison, Johnny Knoxville, another celebrity contender, lasted only 90 seconds before he was eliminated.) BUNNY DESTROYER!!!#RoyalRumble @sanbenito pic.twitter.com/d8qWzXLZNC — WWE (@WWE) January 30, 2022 Unfortunately...

Put down whatever you're doing, because the first booming notes of celebrated Canadian musician Matt Andersen's bourbon-infused voice are sure to stop you in your tracks.Belting in the style of R&B's most beloved legends, Andersen stuns with his timeless breakup anthem "Other Side of Goodbye." In a statement, Andersen notes that “breaking up is sometimes the easiest part, the hardest part is moving on.”Take a listen to "Other Side of Goodbye" below:Anderson has earned acclaimed across Europe and Canada, earning the 2013 and 2016 European Blues Award for Best Solo/Acoustic Act, a JUNO Award nomination, a CIMA...

Nils Lofgren has joined Neil Young in removing his music from Spotify to protest the misinformation about vaccines spread by the streaming service’s Joe Rogan Experience. “A few days ago, my wife Amy and I became aware of Neil and Daryl standing with hundreds of health care professionals, scientists, doctors and nurses in calling out Spotify for promoting lies and misinformation that are hurting and killing people,” the Rock Hall-inducted guitarist and Crazy Horse and E Street Band member wrote Saturday on the Neil Young Archives. “When these heroic women...

Back when variety television shows were all the rage, few came out of central casting quite like Glen Campbell. His musical appeal and down-home personality crossed genre and generation gaps without compromise, pleasing fans of such varied talents as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Andy Williams. Toss in the success of the Grammy-winning album Wichita Lineman and Campbell’s film debut alongside John Wayne in True Grit, and an Arkansas farm boy made fiscal sense in 1969 as a prime-time television star.And so, 53 years ago today, on Jan. 29, 1969, The...

Morgan Wade mixes the King of Rock & Roll with a little Electric Light Orchestra on a new cover of the evergreen “Suspicious Minds.” The track appears as one of six new songs on her LP Reckless (Deluxe Edition) that was released Friday. Like many of Wade’s original songs, there’s a less-is-more approach to the arrangement. There’s no intro — it opens straight into the first verse, where Wade’s singular voice is accompanied by muted guitar, sustained piano notes, and a four-on-the-floor kick drum. The song ramps up quickly with...

Sara Evans and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine might not outwardly seem like a musical match made in Heaven, but they teamed up for a very convincing performance of a classic Stevie Nicks song on Jan. 29, 2008 -- 14 years ago today.Evans paired up with Maroon 5 for an episode of CMT Crossroads, a show that matches country singers and rock stars for sometimes unlikely collaborations. Her most recent album at the time was Real Fine Place from 2005, while Maroon 5 were riding high on the smash success...

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...