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Looks like Taylor Swift accepted Travis Kelce’s invitation, after all. Swift was spotted cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, further fueling rumors of a potential romance between the singer and Chiefs tight end.  As Kelce and his team took on the Chicago Bears, the singer was seen sitting in a private suite box next to Kelce’s mother, Donna Kelce, ahead of the kickoff at the Kansas City, Missouri, stadium. At one point, the camera panned over to show her wearing Chiefs colors and cheering enthusiastically. ...

Country singer Adam Mac has pulled out of a planned headlining appearance at a festival in his native Kentucky, citing local concerns over his performance because he is openly gay.Mac was slated to headline the Grand Finale Concert at the Logan County KY Tobacco & Heritage Festival, which was slated to take place on Oct. 14 as the three-week festival reached its conclusion. Mac is a native of Russellville, Ky., according to the Advocate, and in a post to social media, he says the local Chamber of Commerce had announced...

Jung Kook made his Global Citizen Festival solo debut on Saturday at the Great Lawn in New York’s Central Park where he unveiled a few surprises for Army, including performing “Seven” with unannounced guest Latto who sang her feature on their collab. His headlining set marked the first time a South Korean solo artist headlined the festival. As fan footage from the event showcased, Jung Kook performed his summer hit, naming off the days of the week on the catchy chorus, flanked by a bevy of dancers. Towards the end...

Luke Bryan turned to social media on Saturday (Sept. 23) to reveal that he is forced to cancel his scheduled gig in Minnesota for Saturday night, due to "impending weather" that is slated to impact the area.Bryan and his band were set to perform in Eyota, Minn., as part of his 2023 Farm Tour on Saturday night. In a message he posted on X (formerly Twitter), the country superstar says he and his team have been working to try to make the concert happen, but they have decided to cancel...

Nearly two weeks after Virginia’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival was abruptly canceled, attendees are still plagued by the ill-fated event in the form of a widespread gastrointestinal illness. The Virginia Department of Health has opened an investigation into how and why festivalgoers are still dealing with the ailments weeks after the fest was canceled mid-weekend due to severe weather concerns. According to 10 News, some of those affected by the illness cited “unsanitary conditions” largely related to the portable toilets at the festival. The Virginia Department of Health confirmed that...

Choosing the right playlist is essential to a successful road trip, but fortunately, you can't really go wrong with country music.This genre offers tons of options, whether you're driving through the West Virginia mountains or down Texas back roads. Whether it's a carefree adventure or you've got something on your mind, country music has the perfect song for you.In this list, Taste of Country has compiled the perfect soundtrack for any trip. Here, you'll find windows-down, uptempo tracks by the likes of Keith Urban, who's perfect the art of the...

Mike Henderson, a founding member of the bluegrass band the SteelDrivers and a frequent co-writer of Chris Stapleton’s, died Friday. He was 70. Henderson’s former bandmates in the SteelDrivers confirmed his death in a Facebook post. “All the SteelDrivers, past and present, are in shock today as we have lost our original architect,” they wrote. Henderson, a Missouri native, won a Grammy for Best Country Song for co-writing “Broken Halos” with Stapleton, his onetime bandmate in the SteelDrivers. In 2017, “Broken Halos” became Stapleton’s first Number One country hit, and...

Kane Brown is gearing up for his next musical chapter, and there seems to be a theme: Phil Collins.More specifically, Phil Collins' 1981 hit "In the Air Tonight."Not only has the country singer named his 2024 trek the In the Air Tour, he has also released a new single titled "I Can Feel It." The song pulls heavily from Collins' track sonically, but it is drastically more uptempo. It's as if Brown took "In the Air Tonight," threw it into a shaker glass with some country twang, and shook it...

Billie Eilish, Peter Gabriel, Bootsy Collins, Sheryl Crow, and many other musicians have united to raise awareness of gun control via a new initiative called Artist for Action to Prevent Gun Violence. The goal, in Eilish’s words, is to “end the gun violence epidemic.” Those artists — as well as Nile Rodgers, Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, Rufus Wainwright, Pixies’ Joey Santiago, Soffi Tukker, LP, and Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor — ask people to volunteer, donate, and vote to raise awareness around the issue. In a video for...

Gwen Stefani says that filming The Voice without Blake Shelton by her side has been a major change. After all, Shelton's been on all 23 of the show's seasons so far, so anytime she's been a coach, he's been one, too."It's really different being on the show without him," the singer acknowledges in an interview with Today ahead of the Season 24 premiere, where she'll be a coach alongside John Legend, Niall Horan and Shelton's country replacement Reba McEntire."I miss him so bad on the show," Stefani continues, but also points...

Lizzo was honored with the Black Music Action Coalition’s Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award on Thursday night. The singer, who is facing a series of accusations and lawsuits about her off-stage behavior, was pointedly joined by Lizzo’s Big Grrls onstage as she accepted the award. “Black Music Action Coalition, y’all really are about that action. Thank you so much for this, because I needed this right now,” Lizzo said during her speech, according to Variety. “God’s timing is always on time! I didn’t write a speech because I don’t know what to...

Tim McGraw had nothing but love to share for his fellow country star wife Faith Hill as the two celebrated her birthday on Thursday (Sept. 21)."Happy birthday to the love of my life, my partner and my best friend," McGraw wrote on social media, alongside a picture of Hill. "You light up every room you walk into. And you light up my heart and soul. I love you more than I could ever express in a million years. This is your day my love!!!!"Hill turns 56 this year, and she and...

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are ending their marriage — and the divorce proceedings are starting to get messy. In September, the Jonas Brother star officially filed for divorce from Turner after four years of marriage, with the filing saying their relationship was “irretrievably broken.” What ensued from there was tabloid back-and-forth with different, often conflicting, reasons for their sudden split. Before getting into their separation, first a recap of their seven-year love story: Jonas and Turner first met in 2016 after Jonas slid into Turner’s DMs. The couple made...