“What a way to cap off what has been an incredible year for us! Country radio friends and fam, thank YOU for another #1! Big shout-out to Josh Thompson, Thomas Rhett, and Zach Crowell for bringing this one into existence and their surrounding support systems,” Dustin shares.
“Speaking of support systems, I’ve got the best. Thank you to my team, band, crew, and the best damn radio folks in the biz – Broken Bow Records,” he adds. “If y’all need me, I’ll be gone huntin’.”
“Stars Like Confetti” is off Dustin’s Blue In The Sky. The 13-track album arrived in 2022 and spawned the earlier hits “Party Mode” and “Thinking ‘Bout You.”
Dustin’s saddling up for a busy 2024 on the road. He’ll open for Blake Shelton on the Back to the Honky Tonk tour in February, before kicking off his headlining Killed The Cowboy Tour in April.
For Dustin’s full tour schedule, visit his website.
Taylor Swift‘s good friend Gigi Hadid wants to make it very clear that Taylor’s girlfriends are happy about her romance with Travis Kelce.
Gigi responded to Perez Hilton‘s recent Instagram post featuring the headline, “Gigi Hadid doesn’t agree with the way Taylor Swift is handling Travis Kelce romance.” She wrote, “I’m a couple days late to this tag.. but didn’t the press try this last week w Selena? Let it be.. we are all over the moon for our girl. Period.”
Gigi was referring to previous reports that Selena Gomez was concerned Taylor and Travis were “moving too fast.”
According to Page Six, Taylor’s oldest BFF is also apparently gung-ho about her romance. Her high school friend Abigail Anderson, famously namechecked in Taylor’s song “Fifteen,” liked E! News‘ post about Taylor changing the lyrics of “Karma” at her show in Argentina to reference Travis.
Meanwhile, Taylor poked fun at allegations from earlier this year that the “Willow” section of the Eras Tour — which features her and her dancers wearing long cloaks and holding lighted orbs — was “witchcraft.” On November 13, she posted a video of herself performing “Labyrinth” at her show in Argentina. At the moment she sings, “I thought the plane was going down/How’d you turn it right around,” a plane flies over the stadium.
She captioned the video, “Never beating the sorcery allegations.”
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Ex-Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook will be revisiting his former bands on a 2024 tour.
The headlining outing will find Hook and his band The Light performing Joy Division and New Order’s Substance compilations in full.
“It still amazes me how enjoyable it is to play the Substance LPs,” says Hook. “The contrast between Joy Division and New Order is very apparent but both complement each other very well. My only frustration is not being able to play more of our records each night.”
“I am totally looking forward to the next phase,” he adds. “So, let’s enjoy some Substance and get ready for the future.”
The North American leg runs from August 31 in Toronto to September 28 in Denver. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 17, at 10 a.m. local time, with presales beginning Wednesday, November 15, at 10 a.m. local time.
The headlining outing, dubbed the Tailgate Tour, begins April 22 in Brandon, Mississippi, and concludes May 15 in Pelham, Alabama. Seether, Saint Asonia and “Devil You Know” artist Tim Montana will also be on the bill.
Tickets go on sale Friday, November 17, at noon local time, following a presale starting Wednesday, November 15, at 10 a.m. local time.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit StaindOfficial.com.
Staind will be supporting their new album, Confessions of the Fallen, which was released in September. It marks the band’s first record in over 10 years.
Here’s a tour Van Halen fans won’t want to miss. Sammy Hagar is set to front The Best of All Worlds Tour, where he’ll be joined by Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, drummer Jason Bonham and guitarist Joe Satriani.
Coming on the heels of the recent box set The Collection II, which highlighted the Hagar-era Van Halen albums, the 28-date tour will have the group playing Van Halen classics along with tunes from Hagar’s other bands The Circle and Chickenfoot.
“It’s crazy to think that it’ll be 20 years since Mikey and I played these songs with Van Halen on the 04’ Best of Both Worlds Tour,” Hagar shares. “With Joe on board, we can take a deeper dive into those years. We’re going to touch on some hits from my entire career but seeing fans old and new really embrace the new collection set off something in Mikey and I.”
He adds, “The music we created is going to outlive us all. They deserve to be heard so it’s time we go out and serve the fans that music, while we still can.”
The tour, featuring special guest Loverboy, kicks off July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida, and wraps August 31 in St. Louis, Missouri.
A ticket presale kicks off Wednesday, November 15, at 10 a.m., with the general onsale happening Friday, November 17, at 10 a.m. A complete list of dates can be found at redrocker.com.
Black Stone Cherry has shared a statement confirming that they’re OK after safely exiting a Kansas mall during a shooting.
According to ABC affiliate KMBC, the shooting took place on Sunday, November 12, at the Oak Park Mall outside of Kansas City. Two people are in custody, and no injuries were reported.
In a Facebook post that went up Sunday, Black Stone Cherry writes, “We are feeling incredibly extra THANKFUL and BLESSED tonight.”
“Our days off are always usually at a mall to decompress, walk, and check out the stores,” the post reads. “Today was different.”
“One minute you’re looking around a shop, the next you hear screaming, chaos, and what sounded like a stampede,” BSC continues. “There had been shots fired inside. People were running everywhere and you could hear and see panic on every innocent face. It was truly terrifying.”
While most of the band made it out and returned to their touring bus, drummer John Fred Young was stuck in a store that went into lockdown.
“We texted with JF back n fourth giving updates,” BSC explains. “Thankfully, the local PD did a great job and apprehended two suspects and thankfully, nobody was hurt.”
“This was the first time our group had been in a situation like this while on the road, doing something we do every single day off,” the band adds. “We embraced each other multiple times after this experience. If you’ve been involved in something similar, we completely sympathize with you.”
Black Stone Cherry is currently on tour supporting their new album, Screamin’ at the Sky.
“The rest of this tour will be even more special and even more thankful to be able to play,” BSC says.
Led Zeppelin and Rod Stewart were among the inductees who entered the U.K. Music Hall of Fame, which honored musicians of all nationalities for their lifetime contributions to music in the United Kingdom
The ceremony took place at Alexandria Palace in London, with Queen’s Roger Taylor inducting Zeppelin and guitarist Jimmy Page on hand to accept the award.
Stewart was inducted by U.K. artist James Morrison, who performed “The First Cut Is the Deepest” and “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy. He accepted his award via satellite from Los Angeles.
Other inductees that year included Bon Jovi, Prince,Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, James Brown and Dusty Springfield, with The Beatles producer George Martin receiving an honorary membership.
The most wonderful time of the year is almost here.
The Country Music Association has announced the star-studded lineup for its 14th annual CMA Country Christmas.
The festive special will feature performances by Lainey Wilson, Jon Pardi, Lady A, Ashley McBryde, Jordan Davis, The War and Treaty, Zach Williams, Lindsey Stirling and hosts Trisha Yearwood and Amy Grant.
CMA Country Christmas airs Thursday, December 14, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and will be available to stream the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
Outkast‘s André3000 has made his triumphant return to music with the upcoming release of his debut solo album, New Blue Sun.
A first-of-its-kind for the Grammy-winning rapper, the new LP is expected out on November 17.
For fans who’ve long loved and listened to the iconic hip-hop artist and are expecting a nostalgic collection of masterful, nuanced lyrics, André 3000 says sorry, this isn’t that.
New Blue Sun is an instrumental album centered around woodwind instruments — “a celebratory piece of work in the form of a living, breathing, aural organism,” per the album’s description.
It all stems from André’s love of flute playing — an interest that took shape roughly 20 years ago.
André delved into his unexpected musical passion with RodneyCarmichael of NPR Music: “I’ve been interested in winds for a long time, so it was just a natural progression for me to go into flutes,” he said. “I just like messing with instruments and I gravitated mostly toward wind.”
As for if he’ll ever release more rap music and the “misconception” that he “just won’t do it,” the Georgia native said it has to make sense at this point in his life.
“I think people feel like I’m sitting around on rap albums, or sitting around and I’m just not putting them out in that way. And no it’s not like that,” he said.
He added, “In my mind, I really would like to make a rap album. So maybe that happens one day, but I got to find a way to say what I want to say in an interesting way that’s appealing to me at this age.”
Check out the New Blue Sun track list:
1. I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A “Rap” Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time
2. The Slang Word P**** Rolls Off The Tongue With Far Better Ease Than The Proper Word Vagina . Do You Agree?
3. That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control … Sh¥t Was Wild
4. BuyPoloDisorder’s Daughter Wears A 3000™ Button Down Embroidered
5. Ninety Three ‘Til Infinity And Beyoncé
6. Ghandi, Dalai Lama, Your Lord & Savior J.C. / Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, And John Wayne Gacy
7. Ants To You, Gods To Who ?
8. Dreams Once Buried Beneath The Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens
Olivia Rodrigo dropped the video for “Can’t Catch Me Now,” her new song for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes on Monday, November, 13.
The video features the 20-year-old Grammy winner wandering around a cabin, interspersed with scenes from the movie, which hits theaters November 17. The song is included on The Hunger Games: The Ballad ofSongbirds& Snakes (Music From & Inspired By) album, also out November 17.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes takes place years before the trilogy that starred Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen. Here, Tom Blyth stars as an 18-year-old Cornelius Snow — the man who became Donald Sutherland‘s evil President Snow in the original films — and his mentoring of Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute played by West Side Story‘s Rachel Zegler.
Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman and Hunter Schafer also star.
