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True or false: Blake Shelton is a member of the Grand Ole Opry. What about Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts and George Strait? Are they members, and if not, why?Two of these four artists are among the 70-plus members of the Grand Ole Opry, and two are not. The Opry explains how it chooses new members and what someone needs to do to earn membership, but explanations for why an icon like Hank Williams Jr. isn't a member can only be offered by the man himself.Keep scrolling. We asked Hank this question, and his...

Riley Keough insisted there is both clarity and happiness within the Presley family after the sudden death of her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, briefly pitted Keough against her grandmother, Priscilla Presley, over control of the Elvis estate. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Keough diplomatically summed up the conflict that emerged after Lisa Marie’s death. “When my mom passed, there was a lot of chaos in every aspect of our lives,” she said. “Everything felt like the carpet had been ripped out, and the floor had melted from under...

Lonely Boy Activities Singer was inspired after listening to "old Disney songs" and reflecting on Banksy's "Dismaland" Saint Harison is lonely. On Tuesday, the singer released the poignant video for his song “More Weed, Less Friends,” which follows him coming to terms with the solitude that’s taken over his life. “This song is my absolute baby, I wrote and produced this one all by myself and it just means the fucking world to me,” he wrote on Instagram. The Teeeezy C-directed video sees Harison — with his bright pink hair...

Darius Rucker's first album in six years will drop this fall. The previously announced Carolyn's Boy pays tribute to his mother, Carolyn. She died in 1992, before his success with Hootie and the Blowfish.On Friday (Aug. 4), the "Fires Don't Start Themselves" singer shared more details of Carolyn's Boy. It will be released on Oct. 6 and feature 15 songs, including his current radio single, the No. 1 hit "Beers and Sunshine" and "Ol' Church Hymn," a collaboration with Chapel Hart that dropped in 2022.Rucker first revealed that he planned to...

The third day of Lollapalooza 2023 highlighted the big presence of several South Korean acts this year, including Tomorrow x Together headlining for the first time on Saturday (they performed earlier in the day in 2022) and the fest also featured its first-ever K-pop girl group NewJeans on Thursday, marking the group’s first-ever U.S. performance. It also featured great hip-hop sets, including headliner Pusha T. The day also featured a steady course of rain, which muddied the fields and likely contributed to it feeling  not as crowded throughout the day...

Jelly Roll is on a roll at country radio. The rapper-turned-country singer has scored his second No. 1 country hit with his current single, "Need a Favor."Jelly Roll tops Billboard's Country Airplay chart for the coming week dated Aug. 12 with "Need a Favor," from his debut country album, Whitsitt Chapel. The singer-songwriter — whose real name is Jason DeFord — scored his first No. 1 country hit in January of 2023 with "Son of a Sinner." His chart-topping success with "Need a Favor" breaks a three-month deadlock on the No. 1...

Full Circle "I have never heard that many people scream in my fucking life hahaha Billie Eilish has an army!!," rapper tweets after performing viral hit with the singer its named after in Montreal Last summer, rapper Armani White scored a viral hit with “Billie Eilish,” his semi-ode to the big t-shirt-wearing singer. Eilish herself headlined Montreal’s Osheaga Festival Saturday and, with White also on the fest’s lineup, she brought out the rapper to deliver the track during her set. During the latter half of Eilish’s set, she asked the...

Priscilla Presley lived the good life in her incredibly lavish estate in Beverly Hills, and pictures show a luxury residence fit for music royalty.The former Dallas star and wife of Elvis Presley lived in a spectacular 7-bedroom, 8.5-bathroom, 8,952-square-foot villa that sat on 1.08 acres of prime real estate in one of the world's most exclusive zip codes, 90210 in Beverly Hills. The private estate is gated, and carefully manicured grounds offer a mix of luxury and privacy.Built in 1951, the villa has been carefully maintained and updated over the years. The vine-covered...

Like the first day of Lollapalooza 2023, Day Two featured competing headliners that vied for some 100,000+ people’s attention. On one side was the 1975, whose frontman Matty Healy has been making headlines, and on the other was one of the greatest rappers of all time, Kendrick Lamar.  Unlike Thursday, where it felt like every person was there to see Billie Eilish, Friday’s finales were more equally divided. So while Lamar headlined the bigger end of the park, both artists’ sides were comfortably packed at set time. Of course, there...

Dennis Quaid says he's now "the happiest I've ever been," but he's had a long struggle to get there. The 69-year-old actor opens up about his faith journey after struggling with cocaine addiction in a new interview with People.The actor and musician admits he was battling addiction throughout the '80s as he established himself as a movie star in films including The Right Stuff, Suspect, The Big Easy, D.O.A. and more. He entered rehab — or, as he calls it, "cocaine school" — in 1990 after a startling realization about where he...

Dave Davies pays tribute to "a friend and important contributor to the Kinks music during his time with us," appearing on 10 albums in the Seventies John Gosling, who served as keyboardist for the Kinks throughout their fruitful Seventies period, has died at the age of 75. The band announced Gosling’s death in a statement Friday, “We are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of John Gosling. We are sending our condolences to John’s wife and family.” No cause of death was provided. The surviving founding members of...

Country music fans raised in country music families should know which artist was hot when they were born. Find nearly 60 top country albums on this list of the No. 1 projects from each year between 1964 and 2022.The list is divided by Soundscan, the now-accepted album tabulation service that makes tallying sales a no-brainer. Pre-1991, there are no accurate sales numbers for country albums (record store owners estimated with an anti-country bias), so we selected the album that spent the most weeks at No. 1 for that year. That means a whole lot of...

🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 "This is for the lovers of the original reggaetón recipe," Queen said of the track La diva, la perra, la potra! Ivy Queen tapped Puerto Rican stars Brray, Marconi Impara, Lennox, and Eix for a remix of her previously-released song “Toma.” The Young Hollywood-produced song dropped Friday and mixes Queen’s classic reggaetón sound with Middle Eastern sounds as the musicians reference reggaetoneros — like Tego Calderón, Bad Bunny, Rauw Alejandro, and RaiNao — and Plan B’s “Frikitona” in the lyrics. “I can’t wait to share this powerful remix with...

Taylor Swift kicked off her final string of 2023 shows in the U.S. Thursday night in Los Angeles. Among the fans cheering at SoFi stadium were the late Kobe Bryant's wife, Vanessa, and two daughters, Bianka, 6, and Natalia, 20.Swift knew they were there, and during her signature song "22," the once-country, now-pop icon gave little Bianka an interaction she won't soon forget. As the singer made her way down the catwalk — decked out in a black hat and big white T-shirt — her walk turned into a run. She...