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Country singer and actor Jamie Lynn Spears wants you to know she does support her big sister Britney Spears, and she doesn’t need outside validation to prove it.Taking to Instagram, the younger Spears clapped back hard at those who were critical of her for not outwardly showing support for the pop superstar as she fights to end her conservatorship. At times angry, at times emotional, Jamie Lynn Spears says she’d back her older sister if she wanted to live on Mars or in a rainforest, or re-take her throne as...

Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” spent a fifth week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. After debuting at Number Two behind J. Cole, “Good 4 U” — which alternates between bass-heavy swagger and full-throttle pop-punk — climbed to the top of the chart, and it has stayed there ever since. Each week, the single’s streams have fallen: While it hit Number One with 57.4 million streams five weeks ago, “Good 4 U” pulled in 28.2 million last week. But despite the gradual decline, it has...

Chris Lane and his wife, Lauren Bushnell Lane, are sharing more details about their labor and delivery experience after welcoming their first child, baby boy Dutton, earlier in June.Overall, Lauren tells People, she was pleasantly surprised by how peaceful the birthing process was. "I was really, really nervous. Chris can attest to it, especially the day leading up to it. I was a nervous wreck just not knowing what to expect," the singer's wife explains. "I thought it would be a beautiful, but stressful and chaotic, experience. And it was...

Jon Hassell, the avant-garde composer and trumpet player who collaborated with artists like Talking Heads, Brian Eno and Ry Cooder in addition to his explorations into “Fourth World” music, died Saturday at the age of 84. “After a little more than a year of fighting through health complications, Jon died peacefully in the early morning hours of natural causes,” Hassell’s family said in a statement on social media. “His final days were surrounded by family and loved ones who celebrated with him the lifetime of contributions he gave to this...

After putting out his six-song EP Hollywood Gold in October 2020, Parker McCollum will be back with his major-label, full-length debut on July 30. Called Gold Chain Cowboy, the project contains ten tracks, a couple of which should already be familiar to fans."Pretty Heart," McCollum's breakout single, features on the upcoming album. The song was a major success for the singer in 2020, and he wrapped up that year by bringing it to the No. 1 spot on both the Billboard Country Airplay and Mediabase Country Top 30  charts. The...

Johnny Solinger, the former Skid Row singer who served 15 years as the vocalist for the metal act, has died at the age of 55. In May, Solinger revealed he had spent the past month in a hospital due to liver failure. “It is with a heavy heart I must let everyone know what’s going on with me and my health. I have been hospitalised for over the last month,” he wrote on Facebook May 8th. “I have been diagnosed with liver failure. And prognosis is not so good. As...

Country superstar Trace Adkins has called upon fellow country star Luke Bryan and Mr. Worldwide himself, Pitbull, for a new summer track, "Where the Country Girls At?"Released Friday (June 25), the song effortlessly mixes genres in a fun way that's still palpable to country fans who lean old school. We get the classic Adkins bass and slow drawl, the stadium energy of hip-shaking hitmaker Bryan, and the rap swag of Pitbull. The guitar-driven party anthem mirrors the good time energy of Adkins’ hit "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" and asks a very simple question: Where are the country girls?!The song reads...

Beabadoobee virtually performed her new single “Last Day on Earth” live(-ish) for the first time on Friday’s episode of The Tonight Show. This “Last Day on Earth” begins as a typical pandemic-era virtual performance before the camera pulls back and reveals Beabadoobee and her band are actually in a large studio where there are many things happening simultaneously: A DJ throwing a party, girls drinking wine in a bathtub and, inexplicably, actor Simon Pegg eating an ice cream cone. Eventually, the entire party relocates back to Beabadoobee’s stage for the...

Trisha Yearwood joined Brooke Eden on the Grand Ole Opry on Friday night (June 25) for a very special performance. The country icon joined Eden — who revealed that she is in a long-term romantic relationship with a woman early in 2021 — to sing her classic 1991 hit, "She's in Love With the Boy," altering the lyrics to say, "She's in Love With the Girl."Nashville's Tennessean newspaper reports that Eden was on stage at the Opry on Friday evening, and she had already gotten part of the way through a...

Lucy Dacus performed three songs off her just-released new album Home Video and discussed her new LP on CBS This Morning Saturday. For the show’s “Saturday Sessions,” Dacus and her band convened in the singer-songwriter’s native Richmond, Virginia to deliver “Brando,” “VBS” and “Hot and Heavy” from Home Video, which arrived Friday. Dacus also sat down with CBS This Morning’s Anthony Mason to talk about her new LP, her songwriting process, the supergroup Boygenius and returning to a changed Richmond after living in Philadelphia for two years. For the album,...

June 26, 1989, might have seemed like any other day in Nashville, but it was actually one of those watershed moments that only reveals itself in retrospect. A struggling young country singer named Alan Jackson signed his first recording contract that day -- 32 years ago today -- launching one of the most celebrated country music careers of all time. The photo above, from Jackson's private collection, shows the aspiring young singer with Tim DuBois, then-president of Arista Records, and Barry Coburn, Jackson's manager at the time.For someone who would go...

“I want to have the real deal. I want to be able to get married and have a baby,” 39-year-old pop legend Britney Spears told a Los Angeles judge on Wednesday.  In an emotional, 23-minute plea to L.A. Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny, Spears went on to detail exactly how the conditions of her conservatorship are standing in the way of her modest goals, referring specifically to her desire to have her intrauterine device, or IUD, a form of long-term birth control, removed. Spears said her guardians oppose the decision....

He might be one half of the duo behind one of the most recognizable sounds in country music, but Brian Kelley knows that fans might not immediately know that it's his voice if they hear him singing solo on the radio. That's because Kelley's role in Florida Georgia Line has typically been as a harmony vocalist, with his bandmate Tyler Hubbard taking lead."If I do have to reintroduce myself , I'm fine with that. And that's understandable, too, because Tyler's been the lead voice of our group, that's awesome," Kelley...

Willow Smith’s new album Lately I Feel Everything will be out on July 16th, the singer announced on Friday. She also shared her latest single from the album, “Lipstick,” a heavy metal-inspired ode to freedom of expression. “I just wanted to let loose with this album,” Smith said in a statement. “I wanted to have fun and be young and not be so existential and worrying all the time.” “Lipstick” follows Smith’s previous single “Transparent Soul,” featuring Travis Barker, which also took a more rock-oriented route than her previous music releases....