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Break Every Rule, Tina Turner‘s 1986 follow-up to her career-reviving Private Dancer album, will be reissued as a three-CD/two-DVD package on November 25. It will also be available as a double CD and a single vinyl LP.

The three-CD/two-DVD package includes the original remastered album, a collection of remixes, B-sides and live performances. The first DVD also includes Tina’s 1988 Rio de Janeiro concert, which set a new Guinness World Record for concert attendance, attracting 180,000 fans. The second DVD has all the videos Tina made for the album, plus video of an intimate London gig in 1986.

Break Every Rule featured the top-10 hit “Typical Male,” as well as “Back Where You Started,” which won Tina her third straight Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female. It also included, on various tracks, songwriting and production by David Bowie, Bryan Adams and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, plus Phil Collins on drums, Eric Clapton on guitar and Steve Winwood on keyboards.

The live CD and DVD features in-concert renditions of “Better Be Good to Me,” “Private Dancer,” “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero” and “Proud Mary,” and includes Tina’s hit versions of Al Green‘s “Let’s Stay Together,” Ann Peebles‘ “I Can’t Stand the Rain” and her live covers of The Beatles‘ “Help,” Robert Palmer‘s “Addicted to Love” and Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour.”

You can preorder the reissue now.

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Paramore is in the business of rumors, which apparently are true.

Ever since they started teasing new music, Hayley Williams and company have kept a mysterious calendar going on their website with cryptic phrases accompanying specific dates. The latest update to the calendar features a new entry for this Friday, October 21, reading “rumors are true.”

Given that Fridays are the international release days for new music, fans are speculating that Paramore may be dropping another preview of their upcoming album, This Is Why, on October 21. The group released the This Is Why title track in September.

This Is Why, the follow-up to 2017’s After Laughter, will be released February 10, 2023.

Paramore is currently on a U.S. tour, marking the band’s first live shows in four years. The tour was supposed to make a stop in Los Angeles on Thursday, but the show has been postponed to October 31 due to a positive COVID-19 case within the touring party. Paramore plans to return to the stage for the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas this weekend.

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A few days after sparking dating rumors, Billie Eilish was seen locking lips with The Neighbourhood singer Jesse Rutherford.

The two had previously been spotted at Universal Studios, where they checked out the Halloween attractions and left a haunted house while holding hands.

Page Six reports the two added more fuel to the rumor mill when they were spotted having a steamy make-out session outside a California restaurant.

Billie took her rumored new beau to Studio City’s Lal Mirch. The 20-year-old singer was photographed grabbing Rutherford, 31, by the face and kissing him several times.

Fans are not entirely loving this rumored relationship because of the 11-year age difference. Others also pointed out Rutherford has known Billie since she was 15 after a photo surfaced of them posing at a Halloween party back in 2017.

But some Eilish fans have argued that since Billie is an adult she is capable of making her own decisions about who she dates.

Neither singer has made a public statement about their rumored relationship, but fans are taking this latest PDA session as confirmation that they’re an item.

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John Legend is busy juggling his music and television obligations — and he said he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Appearing on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, John spoke about the gratification he gets from making music. A favorite aspect of the job, he revealed, is when he walks “into a room and nothing exists except loose ideas in your head — and then a few hours later, you walk out with this new thing that exists.”

“That song could be the one that changes your life,” he continued, noting how his music has positively impacted other people.

“One of the weddings I went to this weekend, some guy said, ‘I went to your show and it actually saved my marriage,'” Legend recalled. “I could be writing that song and save someone’s marriage tomorrow.”

“The fact that I get to go to work and create something brand new that didn’t exist before is such a joy,” he smiled, adding this is something he wants to do “all the time.”

When asked who he would collaborate with if he could choose anyone, John selected Nina Simone and revealed he named his daughter, Luna Simone, in honor of his idol. “I’ve always loved her artistry … I would just love to jam with her,” he said of the late jazz legend. 

As for a living artist, he’d have to go with Kendrick Lamar; Legend noted it’s weird they haven’t collaborated yet, since he’s worked with “almost every rapper in history.”

Legend also revealed the best advice he was ever given, which was from record producer Quincy Jones. “He says steal from the best … that means be open to being influenced and take some of that,” he remarked.

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Ashley McBryde’s songwriting process has produced some serious country music magic in her years in the industry, from her breakout hit “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” to her latest release, a character-focused collaborative album called Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville.

But they can’t all be winners, and fans aren’t ever going to hear the songs Ashley writes that don’t make the cut — because she trashes them right away.

“There have been times with co-writers like Nicolette Hayford where we’ll get a verse and chorus and we’ll hit a snag,” the singer tells Rolling Stone Country. “And we’ll literally rip it out from the notebook, not save it in the computer, and just trash it.”

She adds, “It feels good to know you have the option.”

So, what kind of song would make Ashley want to hit the delete button? “When we’re writing, the only criteria we have is, ‘Do we like it?’ And, ‘Do I believe what’s coming out of my mouth right now?’” She continues, “Like, if I sang about vodka, I wouldn’t believe it.”

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If you’ve been to a stop on Carrie Underwood’s Denim & Rhinestones Tour, you’ll notice that the trek features one dazzling cover performance of Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle.”

That’s a tough song to sing, and Carrie tells Rolling Stone Country that part of her love for the rock band came from growing up idolizing Axl Rose’s vocal prowess.

“The way I learned to sing was I would pick really hard vocalists to try to emulate, and his voice always mesmerized me,” she explains.

Now in her current set list, it’s Carrie who’s doing the mesmerizing — and she’s gotten to turn her former singing idol into a collaborator, recently inviting Axl to duet with her at Stagecoach, then joining the full band at a Guns N’ Roses show in London.

Axl is an example of a singer whose live presence stands up to his recorded work, and Carrie appreciates that. She admits she’s disappointed when she sees an artist whose live set doesn’t hold up to their records.

“Growing up and going to concerts or seeing my favorite artists on TV, if they didn’t sound like they were supposed to sound, it was always so deflating,” she continues. “I’d lose respect for them. Or when I’d go to a concert and hear them drop keys, I was like, ‘You can’t hit the notes! Why’d you record them if you can’t sing them?’”

She adds, “That stuff is important to me.”

Carrie’s Denim & Rhinestones Tour will continue through next March.

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Sara Bareilles is not a fan of banning books and hopes these efforts fail in stopping people from learning about the LGBTQ+ community and anti-racism.

Speaking with Lost Coast Outpost, the singer opened up about her partnership with the Humboldt Literacy Project, which aims to promote literacy in her hometown of Eureka, California. Sara also urged the nonprofit to include books that addressed anti-racism and celebrated the LGBTQ+ community.

She explained why it’s important for people to be exposed to such topics. “It is essential. This is just trying to make sure that the information is diversified and inclusive and equitable,” she expressed.

Sarah continued, “To me that’s just like a no brainer. This is the information that is out there in the world, and we should trust our readers to be discerning and make choices for themselves.”

On the topic of banning books, the singer made it clear that she views this practice as harmful. “For me it’s not an option to be erasing or limiting what you have access to. I think that’s small minded, which we all know I’m not into,” Sara said and added, “I feel like we can trust people to make choices for themselves, and I think it’s essential. It’s just truth telling as far as I’m concerned.”

Sara has donated 5,000 books to the Humboldt Literacy Project so far. The organization estimates that 13,800 adults within Humboldt County read below a fifth grade level, so its initiative focuses on raising the literacy rate for those aged 18 and older.

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Iggy Pop has signed with producer Andrew Watt‘s Gold Tooth Records as part of its newly announced partnership with Atlantic Records.

The Godfather of Punk will make his official debut on the joint label with the new single “Frenzy.” The track, which is set to premiere on October 28 and is available to pre-save now, is the first preview of an upcoming new Iggy Pop record, his first since 2019’s Free.

“I’m the guy with no shirt who rocks,” Pop says. “Andrew and Gold Tooth get that, and we made a record together the old-fashioned way. The players are guys I’ve known since they were kids and the music will beat the s*** out of you.”

Watt adds that Iggy is a “f***ing icon” and a “true original.”

“I still can’t believe he let me make a record with him,” Watt says. “I am honored. It doesn’t get cooler. This album was created to be played as loud as your stereo will go…turn it up and hold on.”

Watt produced Ozzy Osbourne‘s last two albums, 2020’s Ordinary Man and this year’s Patient Number 9, as well as Eddie Vedder‘s new solo effort, Earthling. He also played in the Pearl Jam frontman’s live solo band.

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