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“You shoulda known better to fuck with someone like me,” Avril Lavigne sings on “Bite Me,” her return single. “Forever and ever you’re going to wish I was your wifey.” “Bite Me,” Lavigne’s debut on Travis Barker’s label DTA Records, shows the Canadian musician harking back to her early pop-punk days on Let Go, released nearly 20 years ago. Except now, things have gotten a little more complicated. “And we’ll be together never,” she quips. “So baby you can bite me.” According to Lavigne, the track is “an anthem about...

Luke Bryan will host the CMA Awards for the first time on Wednesday night (Nov. 10). It's also the first time the CMA host has gone solo since Vince Gill did it nearly 20 years ago. He's ready, and loose enough to talk smack at his former ACM Awards co-hosts.The two-time CMA Entertainer of the Year referred to his past hosting experience when asked if he was nervous to fly solo."Blake (Shelton) and Dierks (Bentley) can’t ruin my moment like they used to," he quipped. Bryan and Shelton hosted the...

The night before the deadly Astroworld Festival in Houston, Darius Williams and dozens of other recently hired Contemporary Services Corp. staffers attended a five-hour orientation to work the ill-fated event as newly minted unarmed security staff. They were photographed, fingerprinted, and asked to take a state licensing exam for Level 2 security personnel that included questions about when physical force, even deadly force, might be a justified response, Williams says. “If you look at my resume, I only have hospitality and retail experience,” Williams, 32, tells Rolling Stone. “It felt...

Where you see Gwen Stefani, you'll usually find Blake Shelton, because the newlyweds — both stars in their own right — love performing together. Naturally, Shelton couldn't resist swinging by Stefani's last show during her Las Vegas residency to send her off in style.Stefani played the 57th run of her Just a Girl residency at the Zappos Theater located inside Planet Hollywood on Saturday night (Nov. 6). In addition to the her normal rotation of hits, fans were treated to a surprise performance of Shelton and Stefani's charming duet, "Happy Anywhere."Following the show,...

Billie Eilish stopped by Sesame Street to perform a new rendition of “Happier Than Ever” with the Count ahead of the show’s 52nd season premiering on Nov. 11. Eilish’s full episode doesn’t air until June 16. Perched on the front steps of a building, the 19-year-old singer croons: “When I’m counting with you, I’m happier than ever.” The Count joins in a moment later: “Numbers sound so much better.” Eilish comes up with a plan then: for the pair to count to two. With appearances from Bert, Two-Headed Monster, Elmo,...

It's been a long road for Walker Hayes to make it to the top at country radio, but this week, he finally scored his first No. 1 hit with his viral "Fancy Like."Released as part of his newest EP, Country Stuff, over the summer, "Fancy Like" tells the real-life story of Hayes' and his family's more modest version of the finer things in life: Namely, a night out at Applebee's.It became a grassroots hit on TikTok after the singer and his teenage daughter, Lela, choreographed a dance to go along...

Drake, who made a surprise appearance during Travis Scott’s set at Astroworld in Houston on Friday, has issued his first statement about the tragedy. At least eight people died and hundreds were injured following a crowd surge during the event. The second night of the festival was canceled. “I’ve spent the past few days trying to wrap my mind around this devastating tragedy,” Drake wrote on Monday via Instagram. “I hate resorting to this platform to express an emotion as delicate as grief but this is where I find myself. My...

It was Week 8 of Dancing With the Stars on Monday (Nov. 8), and Jimmie Allen performed not one, but two dances during Janet Jackson Night.First, both Allen and his partner, Emma Slater — decked out in gold, glittery costumes — danced the Cha-Cha to Jackson’s "Escapade." Ultimately, the judges didn’t feel like it was Allen's best, giving the performance a total of 32 out of 40 possible points.Allen hasn't just improved on his dancing throughout the season, but has also found a lifelong friend along the way. During an interview clip before his first performance, fans saw...

Summer Walker’s music evokes the spirit of the blues. The 25 year old Atlanta native has a writing ability reminiscent of Bessie Smith’s descriptive love narratives, deeply personal but at the same time reflecting universal emotions and desires. Walker’s 2019 debut, Over It was the most streamed album by a female artist since Beyonce’s Lemonade a few years earlier; her mix of soulful, classic-feeling R&B and raw modern-day lyrical themes like social anxiety and difficult relationships had fans appointing her, half jokingly, a feminine version of Drake. And while it’s...

Jason Aldean and his family are wearing their political viewpoints on their sleeves — literally. The singer's wife, Brittany, and his sister, Kasi Rosa Wicks, have teamed up to launch a new line of right-leaning clothing items that are available for fan purchase now via their online pop-up shop.However, Brittany explains, the clothes won't be available for long."This is a flash sale, so these pieces will only be available for 3 days, then gone forever!!" she writes in the caption of an Instagram post made Monday morning (Nov. 8). A portion of...

It was Evan Pond’s first concert in nearly two years. The 16-year-old Toronto resident had expected a cathartic two days in Houston, Texas, at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival — an escape from a trying year and a half of no live music during the pandemic. By the end of the weekend, though, he was grieving on the sidewalk at a makeshift memorial site. “If one person pushed, it was a wave effect of people getting pushed to the front, sides, and back,” Pond says, recalling what he saw at the...

Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde act out two very different sides of the same love triangle in the music video for "Never Wanted to Be That Girl," portraying the wife and mistress, respectively, of the same man.Much like in the lyrics of the song itself, the music video puts the two women -- and the empathy they find for each other -- in the spotlight, with their shared love interest appearing only in shadows in the background. He isn't the focus of the video: Instead, the clip plays out how...

On Friday, Nov. 5, at least 50,000 people attended the first day of Travis Scott’s Astroworld in Houston on Friday to catch a lineup that was set to feature SZA, Bad Bunny, and Tame Impala alongside Scott himself. But tragedy unfolded that evening when the massive crowd surged towards the stage during Scott’s performance. At least eight people died in the ensuing melee, and many more were injured.  Investigators are still trying to determine what led to the surge in the first place. “I’m honestly just devastated by what took...

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are the two main stars of the upcoming Yellowstone prequel 1883, but that doesn't mean they're living high on the hog on the set of the Paramount+ show. In fact, in a new interview in advance of the premiere, Hill admits that she's had to make do without any access to a proper bathroom in the arduous conditions in which they've been filming — and that's just the beginning.McGraw and Hill star as James and Margaret Dutton, the great-grandparents of John Dutton, Kevin Costner's character on Yellowstone....