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Ingrid Andress will embark on an expansive, cross-continental tour in September. On Monday (July 26), the singer revealed her headlining Feeling Things Tour, which begins with a string of U.S. dates that kick off in Boston, Mass., on Sept. 27.After making 12 stops in the U.S. in late 2021, Andress' headline tour will embark on an international leg beginning in January. The trek will take her to stops in Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Denmark and more venues cross Europe and the United Kingdom, ultimately wrapping in Oslo, Norway, on Feb....

Britney Spears’ new lawyer has filed a petition to remove her father, James “Jamie” Spears, from her conservatorship, The New York Times reports. Mathew S. Rosengart, who became Spears’ lawyer earlier this month, reportedly filed the petition in Los Angeles probate court Monday, July 26th, although it was not made immediately available to the public. Rather, the petition was mentioned in a separate public filing that sought to name a replacement for Jamie Spears. The public filing requested that Jason Rubin, a certified public accountant in California, be named as...

Ever since Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani started sharing details about their early July wedding ceremony, it's been clear that their families were at the forefront of the celebration. Specifically, the bride's three sons — 15-year-old Kingston, 12-year-old Zuma and 7-year-old Apollo — were a big part of the special day, with Stefani even getting their names embroidered into a custom veil that she wore at the wedding.But the boys' involvement wasn't just symbolic: In fact, they played a very important part of the legal proceedings involved in the event, TMZ reports....

Steely Dan is set to hit the road this fall on the Absolutely Normal Tour, their first since the pandemic shut down live music back in March of 2020. The run kicks off in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, October 5th with a four-night stand. After Florida, the band will hit 14 cities, wrapping at the Orpheum in Boston. Tickets are on sale on Friday, July 30th, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Steely Dan is also set to drop a new live album, Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!, as...

Ahead of his just-announced upcoming album, Same Truck, Scotty McCreery has released a brand-new song called "Why You Gotta Be Like That."The playful tune was written by McCreery, James McNair, and Jordan Schmidt, a trio with great writing chemistry. “Writing with James and Jordan is always so much fun, and I think that genuine feeling comes through in the song as well.”“Why You Gotta Be Like That” appears to have some basis in reality. “My wife Gabi and I had a date night the evening before I wrote ‘Why You...

Ahead of R. Kelly’s Brooklyn trial on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, prosecutors are seeking to admit additional evidence — but not charges — of sexual abuse against the singer, as well accusations of bribery and witness tampering. In documents filed Friday prior the trial’s scheduled August 9th start date for jury selection, federal prosecutors stated they have evidence of “uncharged acts” including the alleged sexual abuse of a 17-year-old male who met Kelly while the minor worked at a McDonald’s in December 2006. Prosecutors stated that Kelly later...

Brandi Carlile previewed an unreleased album track from her upcoming new album, In These Silent Days, during a stop at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York on Friday night (July 23.)The song, called "This Time Tomorrow," is third on the track list for In These Silent Days, a project that Carlile announced just two days before her Friday night show. As usual for her live performances, she debuted the song flanked by her creative partners and bandmates, twins Phil and Tim Hanseroth, who accompanied her on close vocal harmony...

The 15-year battle over James Brown’s estate has finally been resolved as the soul legend’s heirs have reached a settlement agreement. Brown died on Christmas Day in 2006. Since then, the singer’s many heirs — children, grandchildren and an ex-wife who was ultimately eliminated as an heir after it was revealed she was still legally married to someone else when she wed Brown in 2001 — have fought over the estate, resulting in a dozen lawsuits and legal bickering that tied up the singer’s publishing rights and desired charitable endeavors....

Fifteen years ago today (July 25, 2006) was an important day for Jake Owen: It was on that date that the Florida native's debut album, Startin' With Me, was released.Startin' With Me, released on RCA Nashville, includes two Top 20 singles: "Yee Haw" and "Something About a Woman." Additionally, the record's title track landed in the Top 10."I was sitting with a couple of buddies talking about some things that we've all done in our lives that we wish we probably could have done together," Owen recalls to Songfacts about the...

Hours after the lighting of the ceremonial torch signaling the start of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Jimmy Fallon and the Roots’ Tariq Trotter performed a song dedicated to this year’s Summer Games on The Tonight Show. “This Olympics” — a parody of Florida Georgia Line and Nelly’s 2020 single “Lil Bit” — finds the host and the rapper partake in many of this year’s Games, from archery and weight lifting to  fencing and rowing. “It’s time to represent your country / No matter where you’re from / Waking up at...

The president of the Nashville branch of the NAACP is speaking out against Morgan Wallen's Good Morning America interview on Friday morning (July 23), saying the country singer's reasoning for using the N-word in a video that surfaced in February is faulty.Nashville NAACP President Sheryl Guinn tells TMZ that she thinks Wallen's interview with Michael Strahan wasn't arranged because he felt sorry for using the word, but because he was sorry for being caught.Wallen told Strahan he'd been partying all weekend with some longtime friends when he used the N-word...

Grandson and Jessie Reyez find themselves in the fight of their lives in the new music video for “Rain,” their collaboration for James Gunn’s upcoming movie The Suicide Squad. The new clip pairs footage from The Suicide Squad with a parallel narrative in which Grandson and Reyez find themselves in a club being roughed up by some very large paramilitary goons. With the actual Suicide Squad indisposed, it’s up to the two musicians to take matters into their own hands, and the clip ends with a big blowout that leaves...

Johnny Cash's late-career comeback reached another peak on July 24, 2003: On that date, 18 years ago today, the music video for his remake of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt," from American IV: The Man Comes Around, received six MTV Video Music Awards nominations.The MTV VMA nods for "Hurt" included a slew of technical nominations (Best Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Editing and Best Cinematography) and two artistic ones: Best Male Video and the prestigious overall Best Video.Cash's "Hurt" clip was filmed at his house and also features scenes from the House...

Alessia Cara acts out a silly noir melodrama in the new music video for her recent single, “Shapeshifter.” The video was directed by Tusk, and in it, Cara plays all the main roles: The jilted wife with the bottomless martini glass, the cheating husband, the clumsy private eye, the gardener and the maid. The clip mainly follows the private eye as he tries to figure out who the husband’s secret lover is, and the mystery ends with a very unexpected and surreal twist, when the investigator catches the husband smooching...