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After a week of rumors that Ed Sheeran would have to forgo his Saturday Night Live performance after recently testing positive for Covid-19, the English singer-songwriter returned to Studio 8H with two songs from his new album, =. Sheeran told Howard Stern there was never a question he would make the live performance, despite having “really, really, really bad symptoms” for three days. With just an acoustic guitar, Sheeran gave a rousing performance of the upbeat “Shivers.” His second set featured his recent single, the love-affirming, electric guitar-inflected “Overpass Graffiti.”...

Carrie Underwood's husband Mike Fisher says he stands with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers and supports the right to choose what goes into his body, especially as it pertains to the COVID-19 vaccine.Furthermore, he calls the firing of a person over their medical choice "un-American and unacceptable."The former NHL player's statement on Instagram comes in response to criticism of Rodgers, who caught the COVID-19 virus this week after previously indicating he was vaccinated."I stand with @aaronrodgers12 I believe in the freedom to choose what we put in our bodies and the freedom of conscience," Fisher writes....

Details of the tragedy at the Astroworld Festival that left at least eight fans dead in Houston are still coming in, and they are absolutely horrifying. “Fans were recording the concert and people doing CPR,” concert attendee/registered nurse Madeline Eskins told Rolling Stone. “Fans were yelling at the stage crew around us, saying stop the concert, people are dying. No one listened….I tried to jump up as much as I could to get air. I couldn’t breathe. I just felt it. I knew it was coming.” Sadly, this is not...

Dolly Parton is set to reunite with her 9 to 5 co-stars, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. The country icon will join Fonda and Tomlin in the series finale of their hit Netflix show, Grace and Frankie.Deadline reports that production on the series wrapped this week, with the first four episodes of Season 7 now available to stream. The final 12 episodes of the seventh and final season will bow in 2022, marking the end of Netflix's longest-running original show. Along with Fonda and Tomlin, Sam Waterston, Martin Sheen, June...

Britney Spears’ ex-managers are fighting her demand they cough up financial records from the start of her embattled conservatorship through 2018 and denying any knowledge of a listening device placed in the pop star’s bedroom. In new documents signed Friday and obtained by Rolling Stone, lawyers for Tri Star Sports and Entertainment Group argue there’s no evidence of “extrinsic fraud” on the part of the singer’s former management team that would entitle Spears to subpoena documents from prior accounting periods previously approved by the court. They claim only records from...

Country music rising star Drew Green spent years playing shows just steps from the world-famous Ryman Auditorium, playing covers and paying his dues in the honky-tonks of Nashville and dreaming of a day he could play such a grand stage.And on Oct. 10, he finally did.“I've actually had tickets to go (to the Ryman), but once I realized I was signing the record deal, I figured at some point I would be playing there,” he tells Taste of Country of his show at the almighty Mother Church. “And so, I...

Beloved internet comedian Rickey Thompson returns as a narrator on Aminé’s TWOPOINTFIVE (out today) after serving as the connective tissue of the Portland rapper’s last project-in-between-albums. “Fuck all the bullshit you going through right now,” Thompson urges stringently at the start of Aminé’s latest release. “Fuck that! It’s time to get up, go have some fun. Shake some ass! Ow!” Falling in line, on TWOPOINTFIVE Aminé tries on a range of breathless, lively styles. “Dididumduhduh” feels like a brisk ride with the windows down, channeling Don Toliver’s dark, bass-heavy sound. “Charmander”...

Walker Hayes will bring "Fancy Like" and his catalog of catchy, pop-friendly country songs to stages across America in 2022. The Fancy Like Tour begins Jan. 27 in Grand Rapids, Mich., with dates through April.Tickets are now on sale at Hayes' website.Mackenzie Porter, who currently has a Top 10 single called "Thinking 'Bout You" with Dustin Lynch, is going to open all but one concert on the tour. "Fancy Like" is closing in on the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Country Airplay chart.While Hayes has gone viral on social media...

Lorde has shared two new bonus tracks from Solar Power, “Helen of Troy” and “Hold No Grudge.” “These songs were fun explorations on the album journey,” she said of the songs. “They didn’t quite fit into the tracklist for whatever reason but they’re both big tunes.” She said in a statement that “Helen of Troy” reveals her working through some of the threads on the album. “We wrote it super quickly in the tiniest room at Westlake where we did a bunch of Melo and it was fun the whole...

Blake Shelton has finally released his heartfelt wedding song, "We Can Reach the Stars." The country superstar penned the emotional tune — which served as his marriage vows — ahead of his July 3, 2021 wedding alongside acclaimed hit songwriter, Craig Wiseman."@gwenstefani and I decided we were going to write our own vows for the wedding, but I decided to surprise her by writing a song instead…" Shelton shared previously on Twitter."Who are we to question God and His greater plan/You and me are a blessing and we all we’ve got to...

Gorillaz will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut with a massive box set, out Dec. 10. The collection contains previously unreleased documents from the Department of Music Correction, which contains 27 pages of memos, faxes, and early Jamie Hewlett drawings that were thought to be destroyed in a fire. In addition to the original debut, the eight-LP box set also contains demos, an unreleased live set from the Forum, and the remix LP Laika Comes Home, on vinyl for the first time. The band will also bring their...

It's been years — maybe even decades — since Dolly Parton and her husband Carl Dean were captured in a photograph together. A new (old) picture shared on the country singer's Instagram page emphasizes the point.Parton has been feeding fans a steady diet of throwback photos on social media, including the cover of her famous Playboy magazine shoot from 1978 and several with the late Kenny Rogers.Her latest share finds her holding hands with Dean, who is quite a bit taller than Parton, but with his own distinct features. The businessman...

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have dropped new single “It Don’t Bother Me.” Their take on Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch’s acoustic song will appear on their collaborative album Raise the Roof, which is their first LP they’ve culled together in 14 years. The album arrives Nov. 19. Their rendition, which serves as their final preview to the Raise the Roof before it drops, also features guitarists Mark Ribot and Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo. “You twist my words/Like plaited reeds/To mark your gain,” the duo duets on the track about shaking off...

Carrie Underwood, Mickey Guyton and more stars from across all facets of the entertainment world have been announced to appear at the 2021 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in November.Underwood and Guyton will join Jimmie Allen and Chris Lane to represent country music at the annual event, which returns to its pre-pandemic format of floats, marching bands and in-person crowds lining the streets of New York City in 2021 after having to alter its approach considerably in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 crisis.According to USA Today, the other stars slated...