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Luke Combs and Alex Warren put out a live duet of the pop star’s hit “Ordinary” last year, recorded at Lollapalooza. On Monday night, the two reunited onstage to perform the song again.

On Alex’s Instagram Story, footage shows the two singing the song during the encore of Alex’s show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, the first North American date of his current tour. Alex captioned the video, “HUGE thank you to Luke Combs for letting me sing your song.”

Of course, “Ordinary” is Alex’s song, but his comment likely referred to something Luke posted earlier this year.

In February, the “Fast Car” singer performed a solo version of “Ordinary” at a show in Athens, Georgia, and wrote, “Didn’t have @alexwarren with me this time but hopefully I did Ordinary justice.” Alex replied in the comments, “ITS YOUR SONG NOW LUKE.”

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Alex Warren and country superstar Luke Combs released a live duet version of Alex’s hit “Ordinary” last year, recorded at Lollapalooza. On Monday night, the two reunited onstage to perform the song again.

On Alex’s Instagram Story, footage shows the two singing the song during the encore of Alex’s show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, the first North American date of his current tour. Alex captioned the video, “HUGE thank you to Luke Combs for letting me sing your song :).”

Of course, “Ordinary” is Alex’s song, but his comment likely referred to something Luke posted earlier this year. In February, the “Fast Car” singer performed a solo version of “Ordinary” at a show in Athens, Georgia, and wrote, “Didn’t have @alexwarren with me this time but hopefully I did Ordinary justice.” Alex replied in the comments, “ITS YOUR SONG NOW LUKE.”

Alex’s show also featured two unreleased songs: “Passenger,” which he’s been teasing online, and “Same Stars.”

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DragonForce has announced a U.S. tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band’s album Inhuman Rampage, which includes their signature song, “Through the Fire and Flames.”

The trek launches Nov. 13 in San Diego and will conclude Dec. 13 in Los Angeles. It will mark DragonForce’s first full tour with new vocalist Alissa White-Gluz, formerly of the bands Arch Enemy and The Agonist.

“Alissa joining the band is an expansion of everything we’ve done up to this point,” says Herman Li in a statement. “Twenty years is a long time to do anything, let alone survive the music industry and still be so inspired to continue doing what we love.”

“Together we will honor what made Inhuman Rampage matter, while showing people exactly where we’re going next,” Li continues. “Having Alissa in the room changes everything. She doesn’t just sing, she makes all aspects of our music better. And she sounds incredible live! I can’t wait for the fans to see her and hear what we have been working on.”

Presales begin Tuesday at noon ET, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time. 

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit DragonForce.com.

Inhuman Rampage was first released in Japan in late 2005 before being released worldwide in 2006. “Through the Fire and Flames” became its breakout track thanks in part to its inclusion in the 2007 video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.

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We said, hey, what’s up with this Linda Perry/Billie Joe Armstrong feud?

The 4 Non Blondes frontwoman confirms in an interview with NME that Green Day had approached her to produce the follow-up to their massive 2004 album, American Idiot.

“I had a full calendar and cancelled six months of work to do it,” Perry says. “I met with Billie Joe and we talked for three hours, and he said: ‘I watched the documentary of you talking about Courtney [Love] and you’re so interesting and I was intrigued.'”

“He was having his own meltdown, and I think life was getting to him,” Perry adds of Armstrong. “Like every artist, I think he had got to a point where you feel like I have nothing to say and need help – there’s a therapy aspect to producing too.”

However, when word that she was producing a Green Day album got out, Perry says the band was met with backlash over her past projects working with pop acts like Pink and Christina Aguilera. Instead, the next Green Day record, 2009’s 21st Century Breakdown, was produced by Butch Vig.

“Then those guys just stopped calling me,” Perry says. “I would reach out to figure out what was going on. Nobody called. I lost six months of scheduled work. That was f*****-up – all because Billie Joe’s a little p**** and got all this backlash from his fans and didn’t like it.”

She adds, “Not returning my calls was such a p**** move, and I lost a lot of respect for Billie Joe.”

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Paul McCartney thinks Taylor Swift’s global fame is similar to the level of superstardom he once experienced with The Beatles — though he wouldn’t presume to give her any advice about it.

While appearing on BBC Radio 2, McCartney was asked how he perceives Taylor’s fame compared to that of his former group, and whether he’d offer advice to her or any other current pop superstars. “Absolutely, yeah,” the Beatles legend responded. “And you do see the parallel, y’know, like the fame and the amount of fame and the worldwide fame that Taylor Swift has and that we had. But I don’t think she needs any advice, [to] tell you the truth!”

“If she asked for it, I definitely would,” McCartney, 83, continued. “Because I’m like the older brother to that generation, y’know. Or, more like the grandad, actually.”

McCartney also shared that he recently met many of today’s female pop stars at a party thrown by his wife, Nancy Shevell, and daughter, designer Stella McCartney, whom he said are “very good at getting cool people to a party.” Guests included Taylor, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish.

“I ended up chatting to them all,” he said, adding, “They’re really cool people. They’re very good. So basically to answer your question, I like their voices. If they needed any advice, yeah, I would be happy to give it, but I don’t think they do.”

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Rivers Cuomo apparently used the Memorial Day holiday to revisit his personal archives.

The Weezer frontman took to his YouTube channel over the weekend to upload a collection of seemingly random covers, mostly dated back to 2018 and 2019.

The set, dubbed “randum cuverz,” features Cuomo’s solo demo recordings of songs including Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” Radiohead’s “Creep,” Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” Nirvana’s “Drain You” and “Lithium,” Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” and Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”

Weezer would go on to release official covers of “Billie Jean” and “Enter Sandman” for their 2019 Teal Album and in 2021 as part of the Metallica Blacklist compilation, respectively.

The Teal Album also includes Weezer’s hit version of Toto’s “Africa,” as well as covers of TLC’s “No Scrubs” and a-ha’s “Take on Me.”

As for original Weezer music, the band just put out a new single called “Shine Again” in April, which marks the first preview of their upcoming new album.

Weezer will launch a U.S. tour in September.

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With Memorial Day weekend marking the unofficial start of summer, Dave Grohl is here to help make sure you’ve got the right tunes to enjoy the sunshine.

The Foo Fighters frontman has contributed to Apple Music’s Summertime Sounds playlist series. Grohl’s mix is titled “Dave Grohl’s Summer Cookout Jams” and is inspired by one of his other passions: barbecuing.

“Any day spent at a barbecue with your friends is, indeed, a lovely day,” Grohl tells Apple Music, quoting the title from an included song, “Lovely Day” by Bill Withers.

The 45-track playlist also includes songs by Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Tom Petty, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Pretenders, Beastie Boys, Beck and The Breeders.

In addition to barbecuing, Grohl’s summer will include a North American stadium tour with the Foos launching in August. The trek will support the new Foo Fighters album, Your Favorite Toy.

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Even though Keith Urban’s a country star, in concert, he often seems like a rock star, typically grabbing his guitar and going all around arenas to get closer to his fans. 

While it might be easy to assume the Aussie superstar’s dynamic charisma was present from birth, he insists that’s not the case. 

“I had a bit of an epiphany,” he explains. “I was playing in a band, and the lead singer was an American guy from Florida. This is in Australia. And he was a great entertainer. He was excellent. And I learned so much from him. I was playing guitar and a bit of keyboards in this band and trying to learn a lot from him as a front man.”

“One night he said to me, ‘When you play a solo, how come you don’t like, go to the front of the stage, you know, and like lean into the audience and really play?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I couldn’t do that.’ And he goes, ‘Why not?’ I go, ‘’Cause they’ll think I’m like stuck up, like I’m full of myself.’ And he goes, ‘Well, are you?’ And I said, ‘No.’ He goes, ‘Then they won’t.’”

That quick, pointed conversation forever made a difference in Keith’s stage persona.  

“It was just like, boom! This whole light bulb went off,” he recalls. “If you are genuinely a down to earth, grounded, good tongue-in-cheek type person, you can do anything and the audience will love it because they know you’re not an arrogant, cocky person at all. You’re just puttin’ on a show.”

“And I did it the next night, and it worked amazing. So, it changed everything.”

Next up, Keith stretches a bit outside his home genre with Flow State, his yacht rock covers record.

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Twenty One Pilots performed on the 2026 American Music Awards, which took place Monday in Las Vegas.

Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun took the stage for the TV debut of “Drag Path,” which hit #1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart.

“Drag Path” was originally exclusive to the Digital Remains deluxe edition of Twenty One Pilots’ latest album, 2025’s Breach, but the response to the track was so big that it was officially released as a single in February.

Twenty One Pilots also went home with the prize for best rock/alternative artist.

Meanwhile, sombr won best rock/alternative song for “back to friends” and best rock/alternative album for I Barely Know Her, and performed his song “Homewrecker” during the show after being introduced by Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes.  

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