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Tim McGraw's 19-year-old daughter, Audrey, plays the lead role in the music video for his new song, "7500 OBO," flipping the story line of the song's lyrics to be not about a guy and his truck -- but rather, a girl and her truck.And while the original idea for the video was to follow a female protagonist who finds first love, then heartbreak, from behind the steering wheel of her Ford F-150, McGraw says that there were a couple of hoops to jump through before he could cast Audrey to...

Michelle Branch and her husband, Black Keys drummers Patrick Carney, are expecting their second child together. The singer-songwriter announced her pregnancy on social media on Sunday (Aug. 15), choosing an adorable baking-themed motif to break the news about her "bun in the oven.""You know you're pregnant when..." she wrote in the caption of her post, alongside a slideshow of images and video of a batch of scones she made, complete with some difficult-to-track-down English toppings that were crucial for fulfilling a pregnancy craving."Woke up to a picture my friend Sonya...

The Wu-Tang Clan staged their first concert in over a year Friday at Morrison, Colorado’s scenic Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a gig that featured the rap collective backed by the Colorado Symphony. The Denver orchestra took a break from its usual schedule of Mozart and film scores to form an unlikely pairing with the Wu-Tang Clan, accompanying the RZA, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and company on tracks like “C.R.E.A.M.” and “Protect Ya Neck” (via Stereogum). The Colorado Symphony also had a front row seat for performances of “Method Man” and “Shimmy Shimmy...

Brandi Carlile reunited with the surviving members of Soundgarden to perform a pair of the band’s classics during her gig Saturday at George, Washington’s the Gorge. Joined by guitarist Kim Thayil, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd, an exuberant Carlile and her band delivered renditions of “Black Hole Sun” and “Searching With My Good Eye Closed,” the two songs that featured on her Record Store Day 2020 EP A Rooster Says EP that also featured the Soundgarden trio. The appearance also marked the members’ first performance together in their...

Billy Joel performed the Goo Goo Dolls’ hit “Iris” alongside singer John Rzeznick during Saturday night concert at Highmark Stadium near Buffalo, New York, the birthplace of the Goo Goo Dolls. “Welcome to my hometown,” Rzeznick told Joel before the band launched into the 1998 hit, with Joel accompanying the lengthy rendition on piano. Like Joel’s previous concert at Boston’s Fenway Park earlier this month — his first Covid-era concert — the singer used his “River of Dreams” as a vessel to pay tribute to ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill, once...

Stephen Colbert, Sara Bareilles, Idina Menzel and more band together to sing Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind” in a new video that serves as a tribute to the Big Apple amid the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the New York Times, Joel gave permission to volunteer organization NYCNext to use his 1976 song, with documentary filmmaker Joshua Seftel crafting a video with the artists involved singing lines from the track at many New York City landmarks. “This was another moment where New York could really use a song that...

Fourteen years ago today, on Aug. 14, 2007, Luke Bryan released his debut album. I'll Stay Me was released on Capitol Records.After working in a grocery store and on his family's farm, Bryan moved to Nashville and focused on his career. By the time I'll Stay Me was released, Bryan had already found success as a songwriter, having co-written Billy Currington's "Good Directions," which shot straight to the top of the charts in 2006.Capitol Nashville"We started writing close to four years ago, and that’s when the magic started happening in my career," Bryan told Songwriter Universe in...

Nanci Griffith wrote songs that the music world loved to cover. With news of her death on August 13th at the age of 68, many are revisiting her folk and country standards — or learning about her incredible singing and songwriting gifts for the first time. But throughout the 1980s and into the Nineties, she was a stalwart for many in the folk and evolving country music scene — what Steve Earle termed “the great credibility scare” when Nashville “opened its doors (and ears) to such left-of-center artists” as Griffith,...

Tim McGraw's daughter, Audrey McGraw, plays the lead in his new music video for the song "7500 OBO." The just-released clip is about a truck, but it's so much more than that.While in the song "7500 OBO" the truck is up for sale became it reminds the protagonist too much of an ex, the video focuses on a young woman's relationship with a boyfriend who eventually leaves town. After she earns the money to buy the truck from her father, viewers watch their love story unfold from the truck's backseat:...

Rauw Alejandro has had a prolific summer after releasing his breakthrough album Vice Versa and collaborating with everyone from Tainy and Yandel to Jennifer Lopez. Now, he’s teamed up with the Mexican pop band Reik for the unexpected “Loquita,” a slow-paced, popetón romantico that shows off a smoother side of the artists. The song was written by Reik and the Colombian producer Keityn, and it fits in with the more tempered sound of Keityn’s past songs, like Karol G’s “Tusa” and Maluma’s “Hawaii.” And while Reik and Rauw might seem...

Trisha Yearwood's new song "I Dare You to Love" might sound familiar. In April of 2020, Kelly Clarkson released the same song as a multilingual collaboration; in fact, by the time Yearwood heard the demo of the song, the pop and sometimes-country star had already claimed it."What happened is, publishers play you songs, and when I was listening to songs for  Every Girl and I heard it, they didn't know the pop division of their publishing company had already pitched it," Yearwood explains of the Natalie Hemby, Laura Veltz and Best West-penned song....

DJ Snake has collaborated with Rick Ross and Rich Brian on a new single, “Run It.” The track comes from upcoming Marvel Studios’ film Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings. “Run It” appears in the new trailer for the film, and will also serve as the anthem for ESPN’s coverage of this year’s College Football season, which kicks off on August 28th. “I grew up inspired by @marvel heroes so it’s been hard to keep this secret,” DJ Snake wrote on Instagram. “I’m honored to play a part...

AEG Presents has announced that it will require proof of vaccination in order to gain entrance to its live events moving forward.Billboard reports that AEG Presents, which is the concert and live events wing of AEG, announced on Thursday (Aug. 12) that it will require all fans and staff in attendance at its club venues, concert theaters and festival events to furnish proof that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19.The news comes amid alarming surges in new cases and deaths in the U.S. and worldwide due to the Delta variant...

Seconds into the video for “Borracho Bailando Champeta,” the singer Kevin Florez walks by a neon-bright pico, the booming sound systems known for roaring out Afro-Colombian melodies at dance parties in predominantly Black communities across Colombia’s Caribbean coasts. These iridescent selectors have been called the “radio stations of champeta,” a genre that’s deeply rooted in African music traditions and originated in the Palenque region around the 1960s and 1970s — and the sound that Florez and the producer Captain Planet proudly highlight on “Borracho Bailando Champeta.” Florez, who grew up...