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Carrie Underwood is going into the Denim & Rhinestones Tour with a new single: “Hate My Heart.” 

The singer announced the news by sharing a behind-the-scenes clip of her rehearsing the song for the tour, which launches on Saturday in South Carolina. 

Carrie co-wrote the song with Hardy, Hillary Lindsey and the album’s co-producer David Garcia. It’s about a woman who wants to hit the town after breakup but can’t help but be at home alone nursing her broken heart instead.

“‘Hate My Heart’ was definitely part of my desire to have fun on this album. I wanted songs that would be exciting to perform live and would fill up an arena, and that’s exactly what we’re about to do with The Denim & Rhinestones Tour. This one is definitely going to get everyone up on their feet and having a good time,” Carrie says in a statement, commenting that Hardy brought a “cool vibe” and “energy” to the track. 

“Hate My Heart” is the second single off of Denim & Rhinestones following the lead single and top 10 hit, “Ghost Story.” 

Carrie and opening act Jimmie Allen will embark on the Denim & Rhinestones Tour throughout October and November before taking a break through the end of the year. The tour resumes on February 2 in Miami. 

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Legendary actor Samuel L. Jackson made an appearance on Sesame Street Tuesday, and no, the segment wasn’t sponsored by the letters M and F.

Instead, the actor, along with his Muppet friend Abby, talked about the word of the day: “belonging.”

Jackson instructs, “Belonging is feeling like you’re an important member of a group, like your family.”

Dressed in a colorful sweater, “Mr. Sam” tells Abby, “We should all feel welcome and know there’s a place for us.”

The 73-year-old Marvel movie star then tells his fuzzy friend, “You know, I do belong to a special group” before dipping out of frame and emerging with a bell pepper eye patch. “Aveggies: Assemble!” he commands, and is joined by an Avengers-like Muppet team with vegetable-themed costumes. There’s an Onion Man, a guy dressed like Captain America with cauliflower insignia and a “Thor” with a hammer made of corn.

Abby is then asked to join the team, and she Hulks out as The Incredibroccoli.

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Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves” has tied the record for most weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.

The band’s breakout single just entered its 90th week on the all-genre singles chart, matching the high-water mark previously set by The Weeknd‘s “Blinding Lights” in 2021. Prior to “Blinding Lights,” the record belonged to Imagine Dragons‘ “Radioactive,” which spent 87 weeks on the Hot 100.

If “Heat Waves” appears on the Hot 100 next week, Glass Animals will officially take the record.

“Heat Waves” was originally released in 2020 as a single off Glass Animals’ album Dreamland. It hit #1 on the Hot 100 in March 2020, taking a record-breaking 59 weeks to reach the top spot.

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Roadrunner United is getting the reissue treatment.

Originally conceived in 2005 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of metal label Roadrunner Records, the Roadrunner United project spawned a compilation titled The All-Star Sessions, a collection of original music composed by four “captains” — then-Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, Trivium‘s Matt Heafy, Machine Head‘s Robb Flynn and Fear Factory‘s Dino Cazares — and featuring artists from 45 different Roadrunner bands.

Many of the participating artists then reunited for a live album recorded later that year in New York City, titled The Concert, featuring performances of songs from The All-Star Sessions and covers.

Both The All-Star Sessions and The Concert will be reissued on March 10, 2023.

“The Roadrunner United album was something I still have a hard time believing that it happened,” Heafy says. “A 19-year-old me being enlisted to be able to write anything I wanted…while picking a dream lineup of my favorite musicians every single every song? I am still honored and grateful to have been allowed this amazing experience.”

He adds, “All I can say is…I want to do Part II.”

You can watch a newly restored HD video of The Concert performance of the original song “The End” streaming now on YouTube.

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Justin Bieber appears to have lost his patience with Kanye West after the rapper slammed his wife, Hailey Bieber, for speaking out against the controversial “White Lives Matter” shirt.

Entertainment Tonight spoke to a source reportedly close the couple, and according to the spy, Justin is none too pleased by what happened. “Justin is very protective over Hailey. He is upset by Kanye’s attack on her where he said hurtful and untrue things,” the insider spilled.

Hailey was among the voices criticizing Kanye’s “White Lives Matter” shirt that he wore at Paris Fashion Week.  She landed in Kanye’s crosshairs when she defended a Vogue editor that had called the shirts “pure violence.”

Kanye responded by calling Hailey a “nose job Hailey Baldloose” in a since-deleted post. He also told Justin in the same post, “Get your girl before I get mad. You spose to be my friend right.”

While Justin and Kanye have been friendly in the past, the source hints their friendship might be over because of this. “He feels like he has been a true friend to Kanye, and tried to empathize with him in the past, but this crossed a line that he’s not OK with,” the insider told the outlet.

The spy added, “Being there for Hailey and supporting his wife is Justin’s main priority, and he’s doing that and distancing himself from Kanye.”

Justin has not publicly reacted to Kanye’s post about his wife.

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Elle King shares her story on her debut country album, Come Get Your Wife. 

Set for release on January 27, the album blends Elle’s passion for pop and rock with country music as she honors her family’s roots growing up in Ohio, the state name lending itself as the first track on the album.  

The track list also includes her record-breaking hit with Miranda Lambert, “Drunk (And I Don’t Want To Go Home),” and her current single with Dierks Bentley, “Worth a Shot.” 

The album title is inspired by a comment someone made to her partner, Dan Tooker, when they were out one night at a bar and the person told him to “come get your wife.” 

“All I can say is that this is what it is to me, this is what country is to me and this is what makes me feel a certain way,” Elle expresses in the album trailer. 

“There’s something about how you put the pieces together. This whole album is a crazy quilt of all sorts of moments and things that might not seem to go together, but because they’re me, they do,” she adds in a statement. “It’s very Southern Ohio, very who we are – and very much a lot of people who are just like me, because I know they’re out there.”

Elle broke into the country music scene in 2016 when she and Dierks teamed up on the #1 hit “Different For Girls,” which earned them a CMA Award for Musical Event of the Year. She’s also won an ACM Award for Music Event of the Year in 2020 as part of Miranda’s collaboration, “Fooled Around and Fell in Love.” 

She’s currently serving as a support act on Chris Stapleton‘s All American Roadshow Tour.

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Cyndi Lauper, one of the many singers to express shock and outrage over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, has launched the Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights fund to support reproductive rights.

Lauper said upon announcing her new initiative on Tuesday, “I never thought I would see the day that a fundamental civil right for half of the population would be taken away in this country. We must push back.”

“It is more important than ever that organizations advancing women’s rights and outreach programs ensuring access to safe and legal abortion, reproductive health, and prenatal care have the financial resources they need to do their life-saving work. We will do all that we can to support them,” her statement continued. “I believe in the United States and I believe that we will not only regain the right to choose, but one day actually secure full equality.”

The Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights fund — a play of words off her 1983 hit “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” — is a partnership with the Tides Foundation. The donor-advised fund will disburse grant money to organizations focused on ensuring abortion access and reproductive health services.

Lauper will continue to raise money via multiple fundraising opportunities that are set for this year. She invites fans to donate to the cause on the fund’s official website.

Cyndi has also re-released her abortion rights song “Sally’s Pigeons,” which is about a woman losing her life in a back-alley abortion at a time when the procedure was illegal. To coincide with her new fund, she shared a new lyric video for the song’s acoustic version. The release doubles as a fundraiser for her new initiative.

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Blink-182‘s day continues with news of an upcoming Mark Hoppus memoir.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, the bassist/vocalist reveals that he started writing the book “earlier this year.”

“I’m not that far into it yet,” Hoppus shares. “But I’m writing a book about my life and experience in Blink and what I’ve gone through over the past year or so.”

What Hoppus has gone through includes a battle with cancer. He announced that he was diagnosed in June 2021 and was declared “cancer free” a few months later in September.

“We’re finalizing the deal and I’m really happy with the way that’s coming together,” Hoppus says of the book. “I’m excited to tell my story.”

In addition to writing a memoir, Hoppus is preparing to hit the road again with Blink-182. As announced Tuesday, the “All the Small Things” outfit is reuniting with founding member Tom DeLonge for a 2023 world tour.

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A ROCK isn’t just the name of Hardy‘s debut album, it also connects to one of his favorite pastimes. 

When he’s not writing hit songs or performing for fans all over the country, Hardy can be found fishing for rocks in creeks and riverbeds. His passion for rock collecting goes back to his childhood growing up on his family’s hunting property in Mississippi where a friend introduced him to the hobby.

Hardy’s favorite rock is the arrowhead, which dates back 12,000 years and was used by Native Americans as a weapon and hunting tool. 

Hardy is clearly a natural rock hunter, as the first time he picked up a pile of gravel, he found an arrowhead immediately. “One scoop, first time I ever attempted to look for one and it was right on top and I was like ‘well, I’m hooked,'” Hardy recalls.  

The singer would also frequent the Tallahala Creek that runs through Mississippi in search of the rare ancient arrowheads. “Apparently, that’s the only place in the country that that rock exists. But you can find it all over the southeast, which is crazy,” he says.   

Hardy has such an affinity for the arrowhead that he has a tattoo of one on his back. 

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