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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....

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...