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Selena Gomez has shared the tracklist for her first EP sung in Spanish, Revelación. The seven-song set will arrive on March 12th and it’s available for preorder. The singer shared the song names in an Instagram post, which also features clips of her previously released EP singles, “De Una Vez” (“At Once”) and “Baila Conmigo” (“Dance With Me”) with Puerto Rican singer-rapper Rauw Alejandro. “I am incredibly proud of my Latin background,” she said in a statement upon releasing “De Una Vez” in January. “It felt empowering to sing in...

Luke Combs was told he wasn't interesting enough, that he wasn't a true headliner and that "no one is ever going to pay money to see you." The hitmaker and songwriter has proven them wrong with these 11 songs.This playlist and gallery is more than a simple listing of his best songs according to some dude. Each song validates the singer's decision to quit college early and chase a music dream despite having few contacts in Nashville and very little money.Early on, few men and women in suits encouraged Combs. His popularity...

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner continues her busy year with the announcement of Jubilee, her third album, out June 4th.  Zauner dropped the single “Be Sweet” Tuesday, featuring a hilarious self-directed video that stars Zauner and Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa Dabice as FBI agents. They work late nights, tracing maps and gripping flashlights accompanied by Eighties power-pop chords. Jubilee will arrive two months after the release of Zauner’s upcoming memoir Crying in H Mart, which focuses on growing up Korean-American and losing her mother to cancer. “After spending the last five years...

The March 2021 Top 40 Country Songs list is tight with superstars in the middle, and a lot of newcomers leading. Niko Moon and Gabby Barrett have two of this month's Top 3 songs, while a most unusual entry returns after a decade away.Taylor Swift's "Love Story" was the No. 1 song in country music (per Billboard) when the new version — Taylor's version — was released, and while it has cooled in the weeks since, she's still good enough to check in at No. 8. Find songs from Miranda Lambert and...

Brandi Carlile announced an upcoming livestream benefit concert, her first full-band show since before the COVID-19 pandemic. The performance — set for Sunday, March 28th at 8:00 p.m. ET from Nashville’s famous Ryman Auditorium — will support the Rainey Day Fund and Fanny’s School of Music, with remaining proceeds aiding the songwriter’s live band and crew. Tickets are currently on sale in two formats: general admission and a bundle featuring a pre-order of her new memoir, Broken Horses. Full details are available at the Veeps site. Broken Horses, out April...

American Idol judge Katy Perry dubbed Cecil Ray Baker a "country Justin Bieber" during his audition for the TV singing competition, which aired on Sunday night (Feb. 28). The 20-year-old from Cameron, Texas, certainly has the pop star's shaggy hairstyle and hair flip down pat, but otherwise, he's pretty dang country.Baker turned Morgan Wallen's "Talkin' Tennessee" into a soulful, acoustic guitar-driven audition piece. (Of note: American Idol's Season 19 auditions took place in late 2020, well before Wallen was "indefinitely suspended" from his recording contract and taken off radio station and...

British jazz artist Theon Cross will give the first 3D digital avatar performance at South by Southwest this year, with the annual festival going virtual due to Covid-19. Cross’ avatar experience will launch March 16th at 4 p.m. ET/3 p.m. CT, and will be available to watch on SXSW’s online virtual platform. The show — which follows similar events like Travis Scott appearing as an avatar in Fortnite, or Lil Nas X performing virtually in Roblox — was produced by British Underground in conjunction with SXSW, with support from Arts Council...

Jason Aldean might be one of the biggest names in country music today, but it hasn't always been smooth sailing for the "Hicktown" singer. The now-superstar was signed, and then released from two different record companies before finding a home at Broken Bow Records.Aldean learned to play guitar from his dad, with whom he spent his summers in Florida; during the school year, he was raised by his mother in Georgia. Aldean started songwriting after a few years of playing clubs around the Southeast, before he headed to Nashville in 1998...

A lawyer representing nearly a dozen people is calling for a sexual abuse investigation against rapper T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris. In a letter sent to state and federal authorities in Georgia and California, lawyer Tyrone A. Blackburn, who is representing the 11 “victimized” people, alleged “sexual abuse, forced ingestion of illegal narcotics, kidnapping, terroristic threats and false imprisonment” against the rapper (birth name Clifford Harris) and his wife spanning from 2005 to 2018, the New York Times reports. Five of the victims cited in the letters claimed...

Alan Jackson was a dozen studio albums into his successful country music career when he decided to do something he'd never done before: release a gospel album. Precious Memories -- what turned out to be the first of two projects by the same name -- arrived 15 years ago, on Feb. 28, 2006.Jackson had previously released two Christmas albums in addition to his string of Top 5 country records, but Precious Memories was a particularly personal project; in fact, it was never intended to be heard widely. The country star originally recorded...

Colombian star J Balvin surprised fans with performance of “Ma’ G,” the first song from his forthcoming fifth album, during Saturday’s highly anticipated Canelo Álvarez vs. Avni Yildirim fight at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. After debuting the track during his friend Álvarez’s trek to the ring, Balvin then released the single and its accompanying video to online platforms. As for the follow-up to 2020’s Colores, the album is almost done, Balvin confirmed to Rolling Stone over the phone from Miami on Thursday, adding that it will be coming “soon.” Balvin...

Miranda Lambert and Elle King are at the center of a raucous wedding in the music video for their new collaboration, "Drunk (and I Don't Wanna Go Home)." The twosome travel back to 1986, to King's imaginary wedding day.King and Lambert kick off the special day with a cigarette and beer next to an old truck adorned with mint green balloons and sitting outside the chapel. Throughout the video, they transition from bride and maid of honor, respectively, to wedding singers who compel you to chant, "Baby, I'm drunk and I don't wanna...

J Balvin has new music coming out soon, and so does The Pokémon Company. At the end of the Pokémon Day 25th anniversary virtual concert Saturday (February 27th), headlined by Post Malone, a somewhat ambiguous end card appeared on screen with Balvin and Katy Perry’s names. Rolling Stone has learned that both Balvin and Perry — who was announced as the face of Pokémon’s celebratory P25 campaign in January — are creating original songs as part of a 14-track album called Pokémon 25: The Album. It will include music by...

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman made the news after a confrontation took place with another patron when they attended the opera in Australia in January, and in a new interview, the country superstar explains why another opera-goer got so upset that he "whacked" Kidman with his program, causing a major scene.The couple made headlines with the incident, which Urban says started innocently enough when they attended a performance of The Merry Widow at the Sydney Opera House. They stood to applaud the performance, which drew the ire of another opera...