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Following their triumphant performance at Lollapalooza, Limp Bizkit have canceled the remainder of their August concerts due to safety concerns related to Covid-19. “Out of an abundance of caution and concern for the safety of the band, crew and most of all the fans, the Limp Bizkit show this Monday and the remaining August tour is being cancelled,” the band said in a statement. “Refunds are available at their points of purchase. All tickets purchased online will be automatically refunded.” The tour cancelation comes after the band’s concert Friday at...

Rodney Crowell is one of those rare talents who has found success as both a singer and a songwriter in equal parts. As a recording artist, he's released more than 20 studio albums, earned a couple of Grammy Awards and taken five singles to No. 1. As a songwriter, he's written hits for everyone from Waylon Jennings to Keith Urban to Tim McGraw.The Boot's list of Crowell's Top 10 songs draw from from both of these pools: Crowell as a performer and Crowell as a songwriter. There's a little bit of everything on this...

Following the premiere “Rift Tour” event Friday, Ariana Grande has shared the full “performance” that she staged within the popular gaming app Fortnite. The Rift Tour featured the Grande avatar singing a handful of her hits — “Raindrops,” “7 Rings,” “Be Alright,” “R.E.M.,” “The Way,” and “Positions” — plus songs by Wolfmother, LSD (Labrinth, Sia and Diplo) and Juice WRLD and Marshmello’s “Come & Go.” According to GameSpot — which uploaded the entire 14-minute event — the unique “musical experience” took gamers on a series of vibrant adventures, including snowboarding...

The Mavericks are one of the most innovative country bands around. Formed in Miami, Fla., in the late 1980s -- and fronted by vocalist Raúl Malo -- the band melds traditional country, blues and soul sounds with Latin instrumentation and styles.The group first broke big with their third album, 1994's platinum-selling What a Crying Shame, which spawned four Top 40 country hits and propelled the band to nab the ACM Awards trophies for Top New Vocal Group and Top Vocal Group. (For good measure, the Mavericks also won Vocal Group of the Year...

Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, longtime saxophonist and co-founding member of the legendary funk outfit Kool & The Gang, has died at the age of 70. The band announced Thomas’ death Saturday, revealing that he “passed away peacefully in his sleep” in New Jersey. No cause of death was provided. “An original member of Kool & The Gang, Dennis was known as the quintessential cool cat in the group, loved for his hip clothes and hats, and his laid-back demeanor,” the group said in a statement. “A huge personality while also an extremely private person, Dennis...

Despite being vaccinated, both Reba McEntire and her boyfriend, Rex Linn, contracted COVID-19, the country star recently shared."It's not fun to get this ... You don't feel good," McEntire said during a livestream on TikTok, during which the singer chatted with fans from her "birdyard" (i.e., her home's courtyard). "Stay safe, stay home, and be protected the best you can."The CDC reports that the current seven-day moving average of new daily COVID-19 cases in the United States increased 33.7 percent from the previous seven-day moving average. Ninety-three percent of all newly reported...

The Wu-Tang Clan set their sites on world domination in the new trailer for Season Two of the biographical series, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, premiering September 8th on Hulu. Where Season One was steeped in pre-Wu-Tang lore, delving into the events that led to the group’s formation, Season Two will ostensibly center around the creation of their classic debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). The first scene in the new trailer even opens with the RZA (played by Ashton Sanders) listening to one of the album’s most famous samples, the...

Country hitmaker Razzy Bailey has died. The "Midnight Hauler" singer is known for a string of 13 Top 10 hits in the early 1980s, including five No. 1 songs on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart."Loving Up a Storm" was the first of four straight No. 1 hits for Bailey in 1980. "I Keep Coming Back" and "Friends" join "Midnight Hauler" in rounding out his streak. A fifth would come in with 1981's "She Left Love All Over Me."Sonically, Bailey brought a gentler, string-led sound to the format that fit in well...

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have released a studio video for their version of the classic Cole Porter standard, “I Get a Kick Out of You.” The song is one of several covers of the Broadway composer that will be appearing on Love for Sale, an entire collection of Porter songs performed by Gaga and Bennett. The duo announced the album earlier this week on August 3rd, Bennett’s 95th birthday, and it will be out October 1st via Columbia/Interscope. Love for Sale marks the second album from Lady Gaga and...

Jim Femino, an influential singer-songwriter, producer and publisher in Nashville's country music scene, has died. Femino's son, Art Femino, confirms his father's death on Tuesday (Aug. 3) to Taste of Country. He was 69 years old.Femino died after suffering his tenth heart attack in recent years, Art Femino says. The songwriter, who devoted much of his life to a publishing and consulting business called Songstarters! Inc., had struggled with his health increasingly over the last two years. He died in the hospital while undergoing exploratory surgery to check for a...

The Weeknd has released the video for his pulsating new song, “Take My Breath.” It’s the first single from his upcoming album, which is the follow-up to his 2020 smash, After Hours. In the Cliqua-directed clip, which comes with an epilepsy warning, the singer is seen walking outside in a dawn setting and also down a hallway before he emerges in a club with pulsating strobe lights and dancing. He hooks up with a love interest as they dance and share breaths from an oxygen tank. Later his breath is...

More than 70 people who attended last month's Faster Horses Festival in Brooklyn, Mich., have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and another nine were infected by that group of primary cases.The country music festival took place at Michigan International Speedway from July 16-18. Luke Combs, Thomas Rhett and Jason Aldean headlined the three-day event, now in its eighth year. Michigan health officials report 83 total COVID-19 cases linked to the festival: 74 primary and nine secondary cases.MLive states that one of the secondary cases resulted in hospitalization, and that the median age of primary cases is 24 years old....

Paul Johnson, the Chicago producer and DJ whose ferociously melodic style of house music yielded a series of classic singles and inspired producers in Chicago and beyond, died on Wednesday at age 50, his agent confirmed to Rolling Stone. While a cause of death was not specified, Johnson had been battling Covid-19 and was put on a ventilator in the hospital, according to a series of videos he posted on Instagram. Johnson developed his fearsome skills in Chicago’s flourishing house music scene during the late 1980s. But even in a...

Victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting will be honored with a permanent memorial. MGM Resorts has donated two acres of land, and a committee is now fielding community input.In the meantime, a sign indicating that a memorial is coming will soon go up on a plot of land that's in the northeast corner of the Las Vegas Village, the site of the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting at a country music festival. Since then, per the Las Vegas Journal Review, that land has been split into two sections: A south section to...