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Bryan Adams has tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving in Milan ahead of the unveiling of the 2022 Pirelli calendar, which he photographed. This marks the second time the singer has caught the virus in the past month. “Here I am, just arrived in Milano, and I’ve tested positive for the second time in a month for Covid,” Adams wrote in an Instagram post. “So it’s off to the hospital for me. Thanks for all your support.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) Adams...

Luke Combs will be in Dallas for Thanksgiving. Country music's newest Entertainer of the Year is scheduled to perform at halftime during the Dallas Cowboys' home football game against the Las Vegas Raiders.The game starts at 4:30PM ET on CBS, which puts halftime at about 6PM, give or take 30 minutes.As is tradition, the game will also be the annual Red Kettle Kickoff for the Salvation Army. In fact, it's the 25th annual Red Kettle Kickoff, meaning you can expect to begin seeing bell-ringers with their red kettles outside of major...

Marvel has released the full audio for “Save the City,” the musical number featured in the first episode of new Disney Plus series Hawkeye. In the episode, Jeremy Renner’s titular character brings his kids to see Broadway show Rodgers: the Musical, which features all of the Avengers singing and dancing onstage. To make a classic riff on a Broadway musical, the show’s creators brought in composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman. The duo is best known for creating the musical Hairspray and they’ve worked on several other prominent musicals, including...

The internet is abuzz with speculation about the current status of Turnpike Troubadours, the acclaimed Oklahoma band who have been on an indefinite hiatus since 2019.On Nov. 24, fans were surprised to find that the band's official website had been replaced with an image of their trademark logo with the words "Coming Soon" added beneath. All previous posts shared to the official Turnpike Troubadours Instagram account have also been deleted. These changes align with methods many artists currently use to wipe the slate clean ahead of releasing new music or sharing big announcements.Although these may initially...

Cardi B is welcoming a judge’s ruling this week that will give him a direct line to her STD test results at a California hospital ahead of trial in her libel and defamation lawsuit against a YouTube blogger, her lawyer tells Rolling Stone. In the narrow ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge William Ray ordered the Center for Women’s Pelvic Health at UCLA to send him “any and all medical records” for Cardi “related solely to testing for herpes and HPV.” The test results are central to Cardi’s lawsuit against YouTube...

Erin Rae"Candy & Curry""I'm hearing many voices, so convincing," Erin Rae sings on this meditative new track, which was inspired by an early-pandemic reverie at a friend's cabin in Madison, Tenn. Produced by Jonathan Wilson, the song pairs Rae's ethereal, multi-tracked vocals with an arrangement that combines elements of dream-pop and psychedelic rock. The third single off Rae's upcoming album Lighten Up, out Feb. 4, "Candy & Curry" is one of the Nashville singer-songwriter's most hypnotic entries to date. -- Will Groff...

Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker appeared on The Tonight Show to perform their joint single “Bite Me.” Appearing with Lavigne’s band, the duo gave a punk-inspired performances complete with fish-eye lens shots. “Bite Me,” released earlier this month, marks Lavigne’s debut on Travis Barker’s label DTA Records. The song shows the Canadian musician harking back to her early pop-punk days on Let Go, released nearly 20 years ago. According to Lavigne, the track is “an anthem about knowing your worth, what you deserve, and not giving someone a second chance who doesn’t...

A close look at the characters that will join James and Margaret Dutton's journey to Montana reveals new plotlines. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are set to star in Yellowstone prequel 1883. The full cast was revealed this week.Previously, Sam Elliott, Billy Bob Thornton, Isabel May and LaMonica Garrett were announced to play major characters on Taylor Sheridan's newest drama. Each represents a migrant, law enforcement power, criminal element or some combination. May, for example, is Elsa Dutton, daughter of James and Margaret and presumed narrator of the series.The newest cast...

“Patria Y Vida,” the protest anthem that won Song of the Year and Best Urban Song at this year’s Latin Grammys, is getting a full-length documentary through a partnership between Exile Content Studio and composer/musicians Beatriz Luengo and Yotuel Romero. The film will explore how “Patria Y Vida” became a rallying cry that Cubans shouted in the streets during unprecedented demonstrations on the island this summer. The song features Romero, Gente de Zona, El Funky, Descemer Bueno, and Maykel Osorbo, who has been detained by the government and has remained...

The process for selecting Grammy nominees underwent big changes for 2022, but in country music, the end results were similar. The electorate also gave a cold shoulder to a marketing trick that's becoming more and more popular as the industry shifts from airplay and hard sales to streaming as the hallowed metric.Once again, country music's biggest radio hits were overlooked for songs and collaborations deemed to have more artistic merit. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Best Country Solo Performance category, where Jason Isbell's "All I Do Is Drive" (a...

Starting in 2022, the Brit Awards will remove separate male and female prizes for best solo and best international act. The gendered categories will be replaced with two gender-neutral awards: artist of the year and international artist of the year. “The Brits have committed to making the show more inclusive,” the organizers said in a statement on Twitter. On the awards show’s website, they added it was about “celebrating artists solely for their music and work, rather than how they choose to identify or as others may see them, as...

There's a grownup tone to Walker Hayes' new song "AA" that, when set alongside his hit "Fancy Like," feels downright melancholy. All this talk of addiction, insecurities, real life parenting and the grind of daily life — who is this guy all of a sudden?New fans who've plowed past "Fancy Like" in his catalog have discovered Hayes is not just capable of adding depth to his infectious rhythms and guitar licks (this time, it's an easygoing little run that connects chorus to verse), he prefers it. Longtime fans are seeing how he's learned...

Taylor Swift’s 10-minute version of “All Too Well” is now the longest Number One hit of all time, replacing Don McLean’s “American Pie” on Monday — a.k.a. the day the music died. According to Billboard, the extended version of Swift’s greatest song, released earlier this month on Red (Taylor’s Version), assumes Number One at 10 minutes and 13 seconds. “American Pie” held that rank for nearly 50 years since it first landed on the charts in Jan. 1972. “You guys sent a 10-minute song to Number One for the first...

It's been 30 years since some of country music's most impactful albums of the early '90s were first introduced to fans.In many ways, 1991 marked the beginning of a very important and formative chapter in the genre's history. It was the year that many artists, including Trisha Yearwood and Tracy Lawrence, were first introduced to fans through their debut records. It also brought some already established acts, like Brooks & Dunn and George Strait, new credibility and fame.Take a look back at the 10 iconic country albums that turned 30 in 2021:10 Country...