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Niall Horan is gifting fans a deluxe edition of his most recent album, The Show.

Due out November 3, The Show: The Encore includes nine bonus tracks, including a single that’s coming out on October 27 — a new version of “You Could Start a Cult,” featuring Lizzy McAlpine. 

Another bonus song is a reworking of the title track with fellow Voice coach John Legend. Live recordings, covers and alternate versions of other songs on the album round out the package.

Only the digital version is coming out November 3, however. The vinyl and CD versions will be available on April 5, but the vinyl will be worth the wait. The two-LP vinyl edition comes in a version that includes a 72-page hardcover book with photos, handwritten lyrics and pinwheel patterned vinyl. There’s also a two-LP version on ruby and tan vinyl with a new cover. Those versions, plus the CD, are now available to preorder from Niall’s online store.

Meanwhile, Niall has added six additional 2024 North American dates to his headline tour, including a second show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Visit NiallHoran.com for tickets.

Here are the bonus tracks on The Show: The Encore:

“You Could Start a Cult” (with Lizzy McAlpine)
“The Show” (with John Legend)
“Heaven” (Live from Electric Picnic)
“If You Leave Me”/”Everybody Wants To Rule The World” (Live from Electric Picnic)
“Meltdown” (Vevo Extended Play)
“Save My Life” (Live from Electric Picnic)
“On a Night Like Tonight” (Vevo Extended Play)
“Science” (Live from Spotify Studios)
“Something in the Orange” (Live from Spotify Studios)

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System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian will tell his life story in a new book called Down with the System.

Subtitled A Memoir (Of Sorts), Down with the Sickness, it “retraces Serj’s remarkable and unlikely journey, and explores what it’s taught him — about music, about art, about activism, and about himself,” according to its description. 

“I had a blast working on this accidentally hatched philosophical memoir,” Tankian says. “It’s given me the unique opportunity to deep dive into my family history, my own motivations from a young age and lessons I didn’t know I had learned.”

Down with the System will be released May 14 and is available to preorder now.

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Justin Bieber‘s wife, Hailey, was recently the target of pregnancy rumors, and that, coupled with photos of Justin loving on other people’s babies, keeps fans speculating about when the two will have a child of their own. Hailey says when they do make the decision to expand their family, don’t expect to hear about it — at least not right away.

“That’s happened to me multiple times before,” says Hailey of the pregnancy rumors. Speaking to GQ Hype, she says, “There is something that’s disheartening about, ‘Damn, I can’t be bloated one time and not be pregnant?’ It would be a lie if I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, I don’t give a s***.’”

“When there comes a day that that is true, you, as in the internet, will be the last to know,” she promises.

Saying that motherhood is “something that I look forward to,” the model and beauty mogul adds, “It’s also such a private, intimate thing. It’s something that’s going to come when it comes.”

“And it’s just, honestly, at the end of the day, so hilarious how much people f****** care,” she states. “Let me do what I want to do with my body and you guys can do what you want to do with your body — and let’s just let it be that.”

Hailey does, however, love the idea of her and Justin’s kids wearing onesies that say “Nepo Baby,” just like the T-shirt she designed with Justin’s stylist and wore earlier this year.

“That would be genius!” she says.

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When Dierks Bentley is off the road, he’s carrying out duties as the head of the house. Sometimes, that includes driving his children to school, and other times, it’s teaching them how to drive.

Dierks shared an Instagram video on October 24 of him giving his 14-year-old daughter, Evie, driving lessons. “Driving lessons with @eviedayb8 begin [facepalm emoji],” he writes in the caption.

The clip opens with Evie remaking, “OK. Gas, break, gas, break, gas. OK,” to which he responds, “Where’s my break?” with a face-palm and a look of horror.

He then tells Evie to push the brake before shifting the gear to drive. She stumbles a little before finally driving the car forward.

“This is so cool, this is so cool!” Evie notes. Her dad then replies in slight trepidation and jest, “Yeah, so cool.”

The full video is up on Dierks’ Instagram.

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Hozier and Noah Kahan will headline the 2024 High Water Festival, taking place April 20-21 in North Charleston, South Carolina.

The bill also includes The Flaming Lips, who will be performing Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Fleet Foxes, The Linda Lindas, Grace Potter, Courtney Barnett, Houndmouth and The Wallflowers.

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit HighWaterFest.com.

Hozier and Kahan have previously shared the same stage on multiple occasions and have performed their respective tunes “Work Song” and “Northern Attitude” live together.

In other festival news, artists including Slightly Stoopid, Sublime with Rome, The Interrupters and Gwen Stefani will perform at the 2024 Cali Vibes Fest, taking place February 16-18 in Long Beach, California.

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Jason Aldean has notched his 28th #1 single with “Try That in a Small Town.”

The Kelley Lovelace, Kurt Allison, Neil Thrasher and Tully Kennedy-penned track sits atop the Mediabase Country chart after first topping the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year.

“To me, this song summarizes the way a lot of people feel about the world right now,” says Jason. “It seems like there are bad things happening on a daily basis, and that feels unfamiliar to a lot of us. This song sheds some light on that.”

“Try That in a Small Town” is the lead single off Jason’s forthcoming album, Highway Desperado. The 14-song project arrives November 3 and is available for preorder and presave now.

To see Jason on his ongoing Highway Desperado Tour, visit his website.

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The pandemic made strange bedfellows, some of which have inspired Rachel Platten‘s latest song, “Girls.”

As People reports, Rachel first met her neighbor Gloria Mikialian, then 97, when her dog pooped on Gloria’s lawn. She didn’t have a bag with her, so she knocked on the door and asked for one. The two started chatting and bonded over music. Turns out Gloria, like Rachel, is also a piano player.

“She reminded me of my Nana, and I felt this warm connection,” Rachel tells People.

Gloria asked Rachel if she would listen to her play, so she did. She also started featuring Gloria on her TikTok account, where she became a fan favorite. “Strangers from all over were asking if they could send her things, if they could shower her with love, which was so sweet,” says Rachel.

Rachel says Gloria, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, even encouraged her to have a second child when she thought that what she wanted to do was focus on writing a new album.

“And sure enough, she was right. A flood of emotions opened up. She had so much wisdom,” Rachel says. “I had the second baby, and the second half of the record came.” One of those songs turned out to be “Girls,” which Rachel will sing Thursday on ABC’s Good Morning America.

“I would not have that song in the world if Gloria hadn’t encouraged me to have a second baby,” Rachel says, referring to daughter Sophie, who arrived in 2021. “The thing I am most proud of right now wouldn’t exist without Gloria.”

Rachel advises fans to “be brave, be vulnerable and meet a neighbor or visit an elderly home” to find their own Gloria, noting that elderly people “have so much wisdom and beauty to share with us.”

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