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Lil Wayne unexpectedly dropped a new song on streaming services Thursday, with “Ya Dig” arriving without much fanfare less than a week after the rapper released his collaborative Trust Fund Babies mixtape with Rich the Kid. However, the new song is anything but: According to Lil Wayne HQ, “Ya Dig” dates back to 2007 or 2008, arguably the peak of his creative powers, putting the track and Wayne’s flow more in line with Tha Carter III than his recent LP. The song, produced by StreetRunner, is also built around a...

Luke Combs isn't waiting to let his fans hear his newest song, a steamy love song that leaves very little to the imagination. The "Cold As You" singer took to YouTube to share "The Kind of Love We Make."Written with the Brothers Hunt (Dan and Reid Isbell), Jamie Davis and Dustin Nunley, the new, still-unreleased track describes long overdue lovemaking."Let's get some candles burning and some records turning / All the lights down low, take it nice and slow," Combs sings at the chorus of "The Kind of Love We Make.""The way your...

Seventeen years after Tears for Fears last released an album of new music, the beloved band behind “Head Over Heels,” “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” will return in 2022 with The Tipping Point. Ahead of the LP’s arrival on February 25th via Concord Records, Tears for Fears founding members Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith also shared the first single and title track “The Tipping Point,” which — like the album — was inspired by a series of professional and personal “tipping points” in the years following their...

Lainey Wilson has gotten a chuckle out of most of the responses to her chart-topping song "Things a Man Oughta Know." It's really wild, she says, what some women think their man oughta know."One girl was like, ‘I think a man should know all the Disney princesses,'" Wilson tells Taste of Country Nights' Evan and Amber. "I’m like, ‘I want my man to know how to ride a horse!’”Wilson is the newest featured guest on this weekly multi-media show, with additional artists revealed on video (see below) and on demand every...

Ariana Grande has won a five-year restraining order against a man who allegedly flashed a large hunting knife outside her Los Angeles house and threatened to kill her. Aharon Brown, 23, was arrested near the singer’s home September 10th on suspicion of making criminal threats and remains in police custody with a court appearance set for Thursday. On Tuesday, a security guard for the singer testified about his confrontations with Brown, leading Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Reginald L. Neal to grant Grande the long-term protection order that expires...

“This was my favorite thing in 2019,” Jason Isbell said, greeting his band’s first audience of ShoalsFest 2021. “I was so looking forward to doing it last year. I know you had to jump through some hoops, but I’m glad you’re here and we’re here to have a good time.”Addressing a polarizing topic in front of an audience potentially filled with Alabamians requires a certain kind of tact. On Tuesday (Oct. 5), the Alabama Department of Public Health announced that the state’s number of COVID-19-related deaths in 2021 had surpassed...

Young Thug and Gunna performed a medley of tracks during the 2021 BET Hip-Hop Awards Tuesday in the rappers’ hometown of Atlanta. A little more than a week before Young Thug drops his new album Punk, the rapper performed the single “Tick Tock” from atop a giant arachnid before Gunna dropped in from the other side of the stage, delivering his new track “Too Easy,” sans Future. The two rappers then teamed up centerstage for their collaborative single “Ski,” off the Slime Language 2 compilation. Young Thug was nominated for...

Country star and veteran The Voice coach Blake Shelton filled out his Season 21 roster of hopefuls during Tuesday night's (Oct. 4) set of blind auditions. The eight-time champion, who calls his team the G.O.A.T ("greatest of all time"), turned his chair for rock singer Tommy Edwards.The 27-year-old from Montana performed in the middle of the one-hour program, auditioning with Train’s “Drops of Jupiter.” As with all The Voice auditions, he channeled the tune to blind eyes.The pressure was even more intense for Edwards, as Shelton and fellow coaches John Legend and Kelly...

Meek Mill’s Expensive Pain rises to Number One on this week’s Apple Music Pre-Add Chart. In the week leading up to its October 1st release, Meek’s fifth studio album saw more pre-adds than any other album on the platform, offering a good indication that it will do well on the charts.  Ed Sheeran’s = rises to Number Two, followed by Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres, which rises four spots to Number Three. Rounding out the top five are two newcomers: A (Special Edition), the latest release from J-pop group INI...

Dylan Scott will hit the road as a headlining act in 2022. The "Nobody" singer has announced his Livin' My Best Life Tour, a run that will kick off in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Feb. 24 and extend through the end of April.It'll be a chance for Scott to take the stage as a headliner after serving as opening support for Luke Bryan's Proud to Be Right Here Tour throughout 2021 and joining Bryan's annual Farm Tour in the fall. He'll also have some new music under his belt, as...

Summer Walker has announced her sophomore album Still Over It, which will arrive on November 5th. In a trailer teasing the album, the R&B singer recreates the cover of her Over It album. The flashback clip features Walker on a phone call with a then-incarcerated JT of City Girls dated from two years ago to the date. Walker discusses troubles in her relationship, and they talk about their excitement for when JT gets out so they can hang, hinting at the possibility of an upcoming collaboration. Last week, Walker teased that...

Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe wowed movie viewers of all ages, the cowboys of the silver screen’s musical selections and moral compasses filled a role in popular culture similar to that of today’s superheroes. For examples, see the singing cowboy films of the 1930s and ‘40s.Nowadays, Western films and television series rely on moral relativity and violence to paint a brutally honest picture of the Old West. Yet in the heyday of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and others, good guys wore white hats, constantly broke out into song and didn’t...

Britney Spears took to Twitter to thank supporters of the #FreeBritney movement following a judge’s ruling last week to suspend the pop star’s father James “Jamie” Spears from his role as conservator in her $60 million estate. “#FreeBritney movement … I have no words … because of you guys and your constant resilience in freeing me from my conservatorship … my life is now in that direction !!!!!,” she tweeted, sharing a video of her outside soundtracked to Kanye West’s “Fade.” “I cried last night for two hours cause my...

Blake Shelton just revealed the track listing for the deluxe edition of his album Body Language, due out Dec. 3, and it includes a couple of exciting collaborations. The expanded project will feature four brand new tracks, including "Fire Up the Night" — featuring rising star Hardy — and "Throw It on Back," featuring Brooks and Dunn.This is Shelton's first time recording a song with either artist, though Hardy was credited as a co-writer on the Body Language track "Now I Don't." Hardy is listed in the writing credits for "Fire Up the Night" as well as the album's fiery...