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Fresh off their appearance before the United Nations General Assembly, BTS kicked off the 24-hour 2021 Global Citizen Festival with “Permission to Dance,” their track co-written with Ed Sheeran. The festival features hundreds of artists, activists and advocacy organizations working together this weekend to inspire awareness, seek unity and bring about global change. Sheeran, Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Shawn Mendes are among this year’s performers, with the event timed to the UN General Assembly and G20 climate meetings. The festival culminates in Global Citizen Live, a festival...

Summer may be officially over, but RaeLynn isn't ready for Sad Girl Fall just yet. Her new song "Get That All the Time" is a flirty and infectious collaboration with Mitchell Tenpenny.RaeLynn co-wrote "Get That All the Time" with Tyler Hubbard, Kane Brown and her Round Here Records labelmate Corey Crowder. The song finds RaeLynn and Tenpenny trading compliments and plying each other with an impressive array of pickup lines."I knew that you could have anyone in here tonight / But you'd be better off mine / I bet you get that all the time," RaeLynn sings in the...

Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. The 2021 Global Citizen Festival is upon us, with hundreds of artists, activists and advocacy organizations working together this weekend to inspire awareness, seek unity and bring about global change. Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder, Shawn Mendes and BTS are among the performers donating their time for the event, which takes place over a 24-hour...

Kelly Clarkson has scored another victory in her ongoing divorce from her estranged husband, Brandon Blackstock. According to multiple reports, a judge in the case has declared Clarkson legally single amid the continuing divorce proceedings, which have dragged on for more than a year.Us Weekly and other news outlets have obtained legal documents pertaining to the divorce in news that broke on Friday (Sept. 24), showing that a judge declared both of the parties legally single in August of 2021. Clarkson filed a legal request with the court in July...

In the depths of her court-ordered conservatorship, while Britney Spears was performing hundreds of shows for her Vegas residency and raking in millions, the pop star was under a strict budget and intense, 24-hour surveillance that monitored her every move — including a wiretap in her bedroom. Those are some of the stunning claims in Controlling Britney Spears, the new documentary from The New York Times that premiered Friday night on FX and Hulu, just five days before a critical court hearing in the 13-year case. Related: How to Watch...

Tim McGraw will be the first to tell you that wife Faith Hill saved his life. His exact words were "I'd be dead," but the full story is deeper and much sweeter.It's also just one part of this week's trivia video. How well do you know Tim McGraw? Questions about his raising, his tattoos, why he wears a black cowboy hat and the moment he knew he needed to get sober are all part of this video. There are six questions — see how many you can get right:McGraw's next...

Hip-hop legend Rick Ross shares life lessons and secrets to success (many drawn from his new book, The Perfect Day to Boss Up: A Hustler’s Guide to Building Your Empire) in an interview with Jeff Ihaza on the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “That, to me, is the definition of the boss mentality,” Ross says. “When you find yourself with downtime, and instead of just sitting around, you write a book.” Ross, who appears on Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, also talks about how Kanye West pushed him...

Walker Hayes’ infectious hit “Fancy Like” gets yet another boost with a feature from pop star Kesha on a remixed version of the song.The Billboard-charting song caught Kesha’s attention as a fun, relatable track. “This song speaks to me on a very deep level,” the singer shares on Twitter, describing herself as "a southern b---h who loves a Waffle House after a night at the dive bar n karaoke.”The remix, though sonically identical to the original, includes an injection of pop via a new verse from the “Tik Tok” singer. “Oh, I...

John Mayer appeared on The Late Show for the debut live performance of his song “Wild Blue,” off the singer’s new album Sob Rock. Mayer, performing with his live band, offered a soulful, intimate rendition of the song. Mayer released Sob Rock, his eighth album, in July. Sob Rock marks Mayer’s first studio album since 2017’s The Search for Everything. Since 2015, he has been performing as part of the Grateful Dead supergroup Dead & Company. “I’m only interested if I get to put new paints on the canvas. And if my...

Twenty-two years ago today (Sept. 24, 1999) was a big day for Lonestar: It was on that date that the band scored their first platinum album, signifying sales in excess of one million units, with their Lonely Grill disc.All four of the singles from Lonely Grill went to the top of the charts, including the song "Amazed," which was a No. 1 hit on the pop charts as well."Artists wait for a song like that to come along that can take their career to another level, and that song did that...

R. Kelly’s defense delivered their closing argument Thursday in the singer’s Brooklyn trial on federal racketeering charges. According to the Chicago Tribune, Kelly’s lawyer Deveraux Cannick used his closing arguments to make excuses for Kelly’s behavior, even though it was not what Kelly was on trial for. Cannick acknowledged that some of the singer’s relationships with allegedly underaged girls were of the “May to October” variety; the saying — used for couples with a significant age difference — is actually “May-December.”   Cannick also defended Kelly’s bedroom activities, and how...

The hook of Cole Swindell's new song "Some Habits" is perhaps the most memorable of his career thus far. The singer's easy new love song isn't one he wrote, yet somehow, it's his most personal since "You Should Be Here."Hearing Swindell work through the comparisons that lead up to his "I love you" moment brings about a real warmth. A slow, patient melody through the chorus is the type that any singer in town would love on a record. Scooter Carusoe, Josh Miller and Chris LaCorte paint a vivid landscape with their words, but...

Brandi Carlile and Sturgill Simpson were two of the night’s big winners at the 2021 Americana Honors and Awards, held Wednesday night at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Carlile won the Artist of the Year honor for a second time (she previously won the same award in 2019), while Simpson won Album of the Year for radically reworking his old material on Cuttin’ Grass, Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions). Carlile’s been on a white-hot streak since releasing By the Way, I Forgive You in 2018. In the last year,...

In her Artist of the Year acceptance speech at Tuesday night's (Sept. 22) 2021 Americana Honors & Awards, Brandi Carlile praised her peers and friends — Allison Russell, Yola and Joy Oladokun among them — for, during a difficult year, creating "music that has moved me, elevated me beyond where I thought I could go.""To be Artist of the Year in the one like we've all had," Carlile reflected, "... I think it's profound, and I don't take this for granted, because it was hard to be an artist this year."Carlile's words capped...