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Dave Grohl has had a lot of memorable Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nights during the past decade. In 2013, he donned a kimono and blond wig to induct Rush and rock out with them on “2112.” The next year, Nirvana entered the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility and he played their music with Krist Novoselic for the first time since Kurt Cobain died in 1994. The year after that, he jammed with Joan Jett and got stoned out of his mind with her and...

Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini will co-host the 2021 CMT Music Awards, the network announced on Wednesday (May 12). The annual country music event is set for June 9.Brown also co-hosted the postponed 2020 CMT Music Awards ceremony in October, with Ashley McBryde and actor Sarah Hyland, but it will be Ballerini's first time helming the awards show. Producers say in a press release that the "dynamic duo reflects the show’s revitalized energy as live music returns to center stage in a night filled with incredible outdoor performances, cross-genre collaborations...

Liz Phair has released “In There,” the latest track from her upcoming seventh studio album, Soberish. The simmering track, released with an animated lyric video, sees Phair contemplating her own vulnerability in the shadow of a new relationship. “Like smoke under the door/Like cold comes through the floor/You got in there,” she sings. Along with the tracks on Soberish, “In There” was co-written and co-produced by Phair and Brad Wood, who previously worked with her on her critically-acclaimed Nineties albums Exile in Guyville, Whip-Smart, and whitechocolatespaceegg. Phair previously released three songs from the album: “Good...

Granger Smith and his wife, Amber, are expecting a baby boy in August, and the couple turned to YouTube on Tuesday (May 11) to share the name they have chosen. In a moving video, they reveal that their baby boy's name will honor his late brother, River.The couple laugh nervously and ask each other, "Are we really doing this?" at about the 14:50 mark in the video below before putting the name they've chosen for their baby boy on the screen. As they explain, the name Maverick Beckham Smith is a...

A woman who had been involved in a long-term romantic relationship with Soulja Boy has filed a lawsuit against the rapper, accusing him of sexual and physical abuse. The plaintiff filed the civil suit as “Jane Doe” in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday. The rapper, whose real name DeAndre Cortez Way, is accused of violently punching and hitting the plaintiff, including once so severely when she was pregnant that it caused a miscarriage, as well as coercing her into sex through threats of violence. “Our client is fortunate she...

Kip Moore plays the part of good-timing bus driver for a collection of happy-go-lucky eccentrics in the music video for his new single, "Good Life."The singer's return to the road for the first time in over a year — ever since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — is cause for celebration, and in the "Good Life" music video, he makes a point of highlighting the euphoric power of human connection. Whether that comes in the form of an in-person country concert or a crowded bus full of partying strangers, that togetherness...

Bob Dylan doesn’t turn 80 until May 24th, but several artists have already announced plans — from Patti Smith’s upcoming tribute concert to the Flaming Lips’ rendition of “Lay Lady Lay.” On Monday, Chrissie Hynde revealed that a Dylan covers album is on the way, containing classics like “You’re a Big Girl Now” and “Sweetheart like You.” Recorded with her Pretenders bandmate James Walbourne, the album stems from Hynde’s “Dylan Lockdown Series,” which began early on in the pandemic. Hynde has always excelled at covers, whether it’s the Ramones’ “Something...

During the first episode of live performances of The Voice's Season 20 on Monday night (May 10), contestant Rachel Mac impressed all four coaches with her rendition of Kacey Musgraves' ethereal "Rainbow."The singer, who is on Team Nick Jonas, has made a name for herself on the show thus far with her soul-baring covers of songs by Elton John, Patty Griffin and more beloved singer-songwriters. On Monday night, Mac proved once again that she deserves to be in the show's Top 17, infusing subtle emotion and maturity into her version of "Rainbow," a ballad...

Billie Eilish, the Killers, Lizzo, and Tame Impala are set to headline the 2021 Firefly Festival, which will take place September 23rd through the 26th at the Woodlands in Dover, Delaware. The lineup for the four-day festival also boasts Megan Thee Stallion, Roddy Ricch, Cage the Elephant, Wiz Khalifa, Machine Gun Kelly, Diplo, Portugal. the Man, Nelly, Phoebe Bridgers, Blackbear, Sylvan Esso, Glass Animals, Khruangbin, Band of Horses, Taking Back Sunday, Girl in Red, Dominic Fike, Arlo Parks, Flo Milli, Denzel Curry, Duke Dumont, Big Wild, Iann Dior, and Kim...

Mile 0 Fest was one of the few country music festivals to happen in 2020, and it was one of the first to return in 2021. Dozens of artists headed to Key West, Fla., for the April 27-May 1 event.Mile 0 usually runs in late January -- in 2020, it ended on Feb. 1, about six weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic really took hold in the United States -- but for 2021, festival organizers pushed the event back about three months. They also capped attendance at 75 percent capacity --...

Eddie Vedder delivered an updated rendition of Pearl Jam’s “Corduroy” and a cover of Little Steven’s “I Am a Patriot” during Global Citizen’s Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World. Backed by a band that included former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitiarist Josh Klinghoffer, Vedder powered through a harder, accelerated version of the Vitalogy classic. “I Am a Patriot” was similarly louder and quicker than the often-acoustic version that Pearl Jam has performed throughout the past few decades. Vedder’s latest cover also caught the attention of its songwriter, Steven Van...

On Mother's Day (May 9), Keith Urban tributed his wife, actor Nicole Kidman, in a social media post celebrating some of the special qualities that she has passed down to their two daughters, 12-year-old Sunday Rose and 10-year-old Faith Margaret."Our girls are ALL love, color, kindness and compassion, curiosity and so much more because YOU are all these things...and so much more," the singer wrote on Twitter. "We LOVE you!"The celebrity husband-and-wife duo of 14 years are known for their frequent, adoring posts celebrating one another and their sweet love story. While they...

Jennifer Lopez led a singalong of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” to kick off Global Citizen’s Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World, a Covid-compliant event at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium that marked for many both onstage and in the crowd their first concert since the pandemic began. “We’re all here in the same room,” Lopez exclaimed before bringing her own recently vaccinated mother Guadalupe Rodríguez onstage to perform “Sweet Caroline,” which her mom sang to her as a child. Keeping with the Mother’s Day theme, Lopez also delivered her single...

Thomas Rhett and his wife, Lauren Akins, are adding a fourth baby to their family.The singer shared the big news onstage during his show at the Fort Worth, Texas, honky-tonk Billy Bob's on Saturday night (May 8). The set was one of a string of shows Rhett booked for Billy Bob's in May -- some of his first full-band live shows since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.After revealing Lauren's pregnancy to the crowd in person, Rhett followed it up with a social media announcement, where he also explained the backstory behind the...