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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...

Guns N’ Roses brought out Wolfgang Van Halen to join them on “Paradise City” Saturday during the band’s concert in Hollywood, Florida. “Wolfgang Van Halen. You know how cool that is to say that? That’s fucking cool,” Axl Rose told the crowd while introducing Van Halen. “You don’t understand. We’re talking legacy!” Van Halen — whose band Mammoth WVH, making their touring debut, has served as opener for GNR’s latest reunion dates — played guitar and sang backup vocals alongside Slash and Duff McKagan on the Appetite for Destruction hit....

Eagles fans couldn't believe it when the long-feuding group announced they were reuniting for a tour in 1994. The reunion was a smash success, but unfortunately for some fans, it got cut short when the band was forced to cancel some of the later dates.On Oct. 3, 1994 —27 years ago today — the Eagles announced that they were suspending the final dates of their humorously-named Hell Freezes Over Tour due to singer-guitarist Glenn Frey's illness.The tour was the band's first since 1980's The Long Run album, after which they dissolved in rancor...

Pearl Jam closed out Ohana Music Festival’s encore weekend Saturday with a rendition of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” with Sleater-Kinney, Brandi Carlile, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and more. Prior to the song, frontman Eddie Vedder essentially invited every person watching from the stage’s wings to join the band onstage. The result was an eclectic mix of people including actor Tim Robbins, tennis legend John McEnroe and singer Patty Smyth, surfer Kelly Slater, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and guitarist Andrew Watt… basically, if you...

Kacey Musgraves helped open Saturday Night Live's 47th season on Saturday night (Oct. 2). The singer-songwriter performed two songs, both from her recently released album Star-Crossed, during the sketch comedy TV show's season premiere, but it was her first performance of the night that was particularly daring.During her song "Justified," Musgraves appeared to be onstage completely naked. She remained seated on a stool throughout the performance, her legs crossed at the knees and an acoustic guitar in her lap; while her band remained largely in the shadows, Musgraves was illuminated by golden, pink,...

Kacey Musgraves performed songs off her new album Star-Crossed on the 47th season premiere of Saturday Night Live. Musgraves played a stripped-down version of “Justified” as her first number, seated on a stool and strumming a guitar that obscured any clothes she may have been wearing — creating the illusion that she was naked, a subtle homage to a scene in Forrest Gump. “If I need just a little/More time to deal with the fact/That you should have treated me right,” she sang, her legs crossed in cowboy boots. For...

The Chris Young on the cover of his self-titled debut album is hardly recognizable to fans who know his newer work. The singer was a brand-new face on the national country music scene, and only 21 years old, when he released his self-titled debut album on Oct. 3, 2006 — 15 years ago today.Born and raised in Murfreesboro, Tenn., just south of Nashville, Young performed in plenty of children's theater productions and at other local events, and even toured extensively while enrolled at Middle Tennessee State University. It was a turn on...

Emily Ratajkowski accuses Robin Thicke of groping her on the set of his music video “Blurred Lines” in the model’s upcoming book My Body. In the excerpt, first reported by the Sunday Times of London, Ratajkowski — who appears topless in the edited and unrated versions of the controversial visual — initially had no issues with the nudity the Diane Martel-directed video required. However, things changed when Thicke “returned to the set a little drunk to shoot just with me,” Ratajkowski writes. “Suddenly, out of nowhere, I felt the coolness...

Ray Stevens is sharing his views on the debate over COVID-19 vaccines. “The vaccinations… do work,” he tells People.The "Comedy King of Music City" has seen the worst of COVID-19, as he's had multiple friends die of the virus.“My friends, a lot of them have had the vaccinations and are doing well,” he says. “Some, however, have died from COVID-19. It’s sad to hear when someone else you knew well is gone. But that’s how it is. I’m not going to say who is right and who is wrong when it comes to...

It’s been a charmed few years for Brandi Carlile since she released 2018’s By the Way, I Forgive You. The Washington State singer-songwriter co-founded the groundbreaking country collective the Highwomen, covered Joni Mitchell’s Blue at a triumphant concert event, produced Grammy-winning work for Tanya Tucker, and wrote a memoir. Carlile herself gave a standout Grammy performance of “The Joke” in 2019, wowing both those in the know and Carlile neophytes with the pulverizing power of her voice. Carlile’s new album In These Silent Days opens with the song “Right on...

Elvis Presley wasn't swayed by discouragement, and it's a good thing. The singer made his first -- and last -- Grand Ole Opry appearance on this day (Oct. 2) in 1954 ... and it didn't go as well as he had hoped.Presley performed on the Opry's famous stage in the very early part of his career, debuting his high-energy brand of rockabilly with "Blue Moon of Kentucky." But his innovative music and gyration-filled performance were not received well at the conservative establishment; one of the officials there reportedly suggested that Presley...

Former Van Halen singer David Lee Roth will play the last concert of his career on January 8th, 2022, at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, a spokesperson for Roth confirmed to Rolling Stone. “I’m throwing in the shoes,” Roth told the Last Vegas Review on Friday (August 1st), before sending the audio of his side of the conversation to the Van Halen News Desk fansite. “I’m retiring.” “I am encouraged and compelled to really come to grips with how short time is, and my time...

Jason Aldean fans know him as a singer who won't back down, and this week he didn't after engaging with his wife's Instagram followers over a picture of the family in anti-Joe Biden T-shirts.It started on Saturday (Sept. 25), when Brittney Aldean shared pictures of herself and her kids wearing shirts that read "Anti-Biden Social Club" and "Hidin' from Biden." Jason Aldean was not pictured, but in the comments he wrote, "My boy," referring to his son, Memphis.While many in the comments section supported the Aldeans' statement, others either didn't,...

Les Paul’s original Gibson Les Paul solid body electric guitar will go up for auction at Christie’s New York on October 13th. The guitar, earliest approved production model of the famed axe, which dates circa 1951-52, is estimated to be worth between $100,000 and $150,000, according to Christie’s. The guitar, know Les Paul’s “Number One,” is being put up for sale by the inventor’s son, Gene Paul, and Tom Doyle, Paul’s long-time guitar builder, engineer, and producer. “This was the most historically significant, valuable, pivotal, and important guitar to my...