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The fallout continues for Kevin Federline, who found himself in hot water for airing his alleged family troubles with Britney Spears. Now, Nicki Minaj is weighing in on the drama.

The rapper, who toured with Britney in 2011 and also hopped on a remix of her song “Till the World Ends,” openly condemned Federline on an Amp livestream Tuesday.  

“Do you understand what kind of a clown you have to be,” she lambasted, according to Twitter user @breatheonmiley, who captured the moment. “To be a whole, grown f***ing man. And as soon as you see somebody happy and getting married and moving on and being free and feeling good in their own skin — to do the very thing that you know is going to attempt to break them down?”

Minaj blasted Federline for “going to the media” with negative stories about his famous ex-wife and using their sons, 16-year-old Sean Preston and 15-year-old Jayden, against her. 

“Only cowards use the media against a famous person who they once loved, they procreated with,” said Nicki.  She then accused Federline of not only “being taken care of by” Britney, but that he’s using the pop star’s “fame as this constant ‘gotcha’ moment.”

“And you think you’re gonna f***ing have karma from it? You think it’s OK? You think that anybody is gonna feel sorry for you?” she continued. 

Nicki then turned her attention toward Britney and declared, “She loves her kids more than life itself.” She accused Federline of weaponizing that love. 

“How dare you encourage this woman’s children to be a part of your nonsense,” she blasted. “They’re kids!  They don’t know how detrimental this is. But you know!”

Nicki finished by warning Federline to “leave [Britney] the f*** alone!”

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Carrie Underwood‘s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is in good hands. 

When one fan took it upon himself to carefully tend to her marble star while paying it a visit in Los Angeles, the singer couldn’t help but extend her gratitude. 

“Cleaning the QUEEN’s [star],” the fan wrote alongside a series of photos that show him wiping off the block with a blue cloth, and flashing a smile and a peace sign at the camera. 

“Thanks for keeping her clean!” the superstar responded, along with a crying laughing emoji. “CARRIE OMG I LOVE YOU SO MUCH IM FREAKING OUT,” the fan replied with a series of crying face and heart emojis.

Carrie was awarded the 2,646th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2018. Her husband, Mike Fisher, and their eldest son, Isaiah, attended the ceremony where she was inducted by Brad Paisleyand former American Idol judge Simon Cowell.  

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Coldplay paid tribute to the late Olivia Newton-John Tuesday night during their show at London’s Wembley Stadium by collaborating with another famous Australian singer and actress: Natalie Imbruglia.

Billboard reports the band brought out the “Torn” singer during their show for an acoustic run through the Grease classic “Summer Nights,” with Natalie singing the parts that Olivia did in the movie and Coldplay’s Chris Martin doing the John Travolta parts. You can watch fan-shot video of the performance on YouTube.

Natalie then stuck around for a rendition of “Torn,” which turned into a massive singalong. Last month, Natalie also joined Olivia Rodrigo onstage in London for a version of the 1997 hit.

Olivia, who’d been living with cancer for years, died on August 8.

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If you can’t make it to London’s Wembley Stadium to see the star-studded Taylor Hawkins tribute concert, you’ll be able to watch the entire thing on Paramount+.

The September 3 show will stream live on Paramount+ starting 11:30am EDT and globally on MTV Brand YouTube Channels.  It’ll also be available on-demand that day on Paramount+. 

Don’t have that streaming service? CBS TV will air an hour-long version of the concert that night a 9 p.m EDT. MTV will then air the one-hour special internationally, and follow that up with an extended two-hour special in September.

The London tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer, who died earlier this year in Colombia, has added Travis Barker, The Pretenders‘ Martin Chambers, Josh Freese, Violet Grohl, AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, Justin Hawkins of The Darkness, Kesha, The Struts‘ Luke Spiller, Lars Ulrich and Taylor’s son, Shane, to a lineup that includes Chrissie Hynde, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Rush‘s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Queen‘s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Krist Novoselic, Josh Homme, Liam Gallagher, The Police‘s Stewart Copeland, Nile Rodgers of Chic, Wolfgang Van Halen, Hawkins’ side project Chevy Metal, Nandi Bushell, Chris Chaney, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and more.

Meanwhile, the U.S. tribute concert, scheduled for September 27 at the Kia Forum in LA, has added Sebastian Bach, Barker, Black Sabbath‘s Geezer Butler, Def Leppard‘s Phil Collen and Joe Elliott, Freese, Violet Grohl, Ulrich and Taylor’s son Shane to a bill that already included Miley Cyrus, Pink, Gene Simmons, Chad Smith, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Joan Jett, Alanis Morissette and many of the same guests as the London show.

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Garth Brooks is planning to incorporate first responders into his new bar in Nashville. 

Since purchasing the building at 411 Broadway, which will become his Friends in Low Places Bar and Honky-Tonk, Garth has been working with city officials on turning the alleyway next to the building into a substation for the Metro Nashville Police Department, the Tennessean reports.

The legendary singer plans to pay for the station in full as a way to provide police resources, security and traffic control on the busy Broadway street. Garth will need approval from the Metro Council to move the plans forward.  

“I commend Garth Brooks for stepping up to help make Lower Broadway safer and more enjoyable for everyone,” Nashville Mayor John Cooper says in a statement. “These additional resources will add new tools to reduce traffic and improve community safety downtown while continuing to prioritize other initiatives for neighborhoods and families throughout Davidson County.”

The honky-tonk gets its name from Garth’s classic 1990 hit. He’s one of many country stars with a bar on Broadway, including Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert.  

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Big Sean is returning to his hometown for the fourth iteration of his Detroit on Now, or DON, weekend. The rapper recently shared the schedule for the three-day event, which includes plenty for residents to do.

On Thursday, August 25, there’ll be a screening of God Said Give ’Em Drum Machines — a film about Detroit’s contribution to techno. The event will proceed on August 26 with the presentation of several DON Awards, as well as invite-only activities, including an industry club and time on the basketball court. The final day of the weekend — August 27 — will feature panels discussing everything from fashion to mental health. Residents will also be given an opportunity to convene at a Block Party that will have carnival games, derby races and photo stations, among other things.

“After playing one of my all-time favorite shows at Detroit’s Mo Pop Festival a couple weeks ago, I can’t wait to return to the city and feel its incredible energy,” Sean said of DON Weekend. “I’m constantly inspired by Detroit and the city’s beautiful people. It’s a blessing to be able to give back to the city that made me.”

Sean will throw the event alongside local individuals and organizations, including the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan, City Council President Mary Sheffield and Occupy The Corner Initiative. It’s expected that he will make an important announcement about the Sean Anderson Foundation Content & Production Music Studio, which he plans to build in the Boys & Girls Clubs.

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Among Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian‘s many projects is The Damned Things, a band also featuring Fall Out Boy‘s Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley, ex-Every Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley and Alkaline Trio bassist Dan Andriano. Speaking with ABC Audio, Ian shares that he would “love” to get The Damned Things back together for another album.

“That’s one of those things where it’s, you know, we’re all pretty busy,” Ian laughs.

The Damned Things released their debut album, Ironiclast, in 2010 and didn’t get around to putting out a sophomore follow-up until 2019 with High Crimes. Even given nine years, High Crimes still came together out of the blue.

“[Trohman] sent me over these demos; I was, like, ‘Dude! These are amazing!'” Ian recalls. “We never had a meeting or a plan to ‘Let’s start writing a record,’ he was just writing and was writing this great s***, and then that turned into the second album.”

As for album number three, Ian is keeping his hopes up.

“I love those dudes, we’re all friends and are some of my favorite people on this planet,” Ian says. “So any time I would get to be room with them, I’d be very happy about it … I would certainly hope that, at some point, we would get to do it again.”

In the meantime, we can hope that Ian’s 11-year-old son, Revel, keeps pestering him about it.

“My son’s been a big fan of that for years,” Ian says. “He’s constantly [asking], ‘When are you gonna make a Damned Things record?'” 

Anthrax is currently touring the U.S. while celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary. Black Label Society is also on the bill.

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Status Quo will release a new compilation titled Quo’ing In — The Best of the Noughties that focuses on the veteran English rock band’s career since 2000.

The retrospective, which will be released on November 25, will be available as a two-CD set, as a limited-edition three-CD deluxe package and via digital formats.

Quo’ing In features key tracks from most of the albums that Status Quo has released since 2000, including selections from 2002’s Heavy Traffic, 2005’s The Party Ain’t Over Yet, 2007’s In Search of the Fourth Chord, 2011’s Quid Pro Quo, 2013’s Bula Quo!, 2014’s Aquostic: Stripped Bare, 2016’s Aquostic II: That’s a Fact! and 2019’s Backbone.

The compilation also includes some non-album singles, new mixes of older tunes, collaborations and newly recorded versions of three of Status Quo’s major U.K. hits from the 1970s — “Caroline,” “Paper Plane” and the John Fogerty cover “Rockin’ All Over the World.”

The collaborations featured on the album are a rendition of Buddy Holly‘s “Raining in My Heart” featuring Queen‘s Brian May and a duet with The Beach Boys on that group’s classic “Fun Fun Fun.”

The new version of “Caroline” is available now as an advance digital track.

The three-CD version of Quo’ing In features a bonus disc that includes previously unreleased live performances that were recorded in June 2008 and mixed and mastered this year.

“This was a time of change and the band that recorded Heavy Traffic is different to the one that laid down Backbone,” notes frontman Francis Rossi about the period covered in the compilation, “but what did not change was the passion, energy, and desire to build on what had gone before.”

You can preorder Quo’ing In now. Here’s the track list:

CD 1: Quo’ing In

“Backbone” (Out Out Quoin’ Mix 2022)*
“Looking Out for Caroline”
“Two Way Traffic”
“In the Army Now” (Studio Version 2010)
“Beginning of the End”
“Round and Round”
“Rock ‘n’ Roll ‘n’ You”
“Raining in My Heart” (with Brian May)
“Liberty Lane”
“Jam Side Down”
“Running Inside My Head”
“Electric Arena”
“Twenty Wild Horses”
“Blues and Rhythm”
“Gotta Get Up and Go”
“The Way It Goes”
“Bula Bula Quo – Kua Ni Lega”

CD 2: Quo’ing Out
“Caroline” (2022 Studio Version)**
“Paper Plane” (2022 Studio Version)**
“Rockin’ All Over the World” (2022 Studio Version)**
“Face the Music”*** (7” Single A-Side)
“Cut Me Some Slack” (Out Out Quoin’ Mix 2022)*
“The Party Ain’t Over Yet” (Single Mix)***
“Fun Fun Fun” (with The Beach Boys)
“Pictures of Matchstick Men” (Aquostic Studio Version)
“That’s a Fact” (Aquostic Studio Version)
“I’m Not Ready”***
“Tilting at the Mill”***
“I’m Watching Over You”***
“Mortified”***
“Temporary Friend”***
“I’ll Never Get Over You”***
“Live Medley”***
“Down Down” (Aquostic Studio Version)
“It’s Christmas Time”***

CD 3: Quo’ing Live (previously unreleased; only available with deluxe digipak edition)

“The Wanderer”
“Rain”
“Don’t Waste My Time”
“Don’t Drive My Car”
“Hold You Back”
“Creeping Up on You”
“Paper Plane”
“Living on an Island”
“Roll Over Lay Down”
“Rock and Roll Music/Bye Bye Johnny”

* = new 2022 mix
** = new 2022 studio recording
*** = rare recording previously only available as single or on limited-edition release

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