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Late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the artists featured in an upcoming documentary titled Let There Be Drums!, according to Deadline.

Hawkins’ appearance in the film marks, as Deadline puts it, “what may have been the final filmed interview” he gave prior to his unexpected death earlier this year in March.

Let There Be Drums! — which aims to “examine the essential role drumming plays in great bands and how music passes from generation to generation” — will also feature interviews with The Beatles‘ Ringo Starr, The Police‘s Stewart Copeland, Jane’s Addiction‘s Stephen Perkins, ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum and the Grateful Dead‘s Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann.

Justin Kreutzmann, Bill’s son, is directing the doc in an effort to “talk to the world’s most influential drummers in hopes of better understanding his father and the instrument that defined his life.”

Let There Be Drums! is set to premiere in theaters October 28.

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Luke Combs is celebrating a big milestone today: It’s his wife Nicole‘s 30th birthday.

To celebrate, Luke posted a carousel of photos of Nicole, many of which were taken with pets or on hiking and fishing trips. “Welcome to the dirty 30 club,” he wrote in the caption. “You have amazed me more times than I thought was humanly possible.”

He also included a recent snapshot of Nicole at home with the couple’s infant son, Tex, who was born last month. Tex is their first child, and Luke has kept pretty quiet on social media since he was born, but he posted a sweet photo of Nicole cradling baby Tex in their bedroom, as their dog curled up on the bed behind her.

“Watching you become a mother, your positive outlook on life, your love for others, your honesty, your fierce loyalty and 1000 other traits that make you so perfect,” Luke continues. “I love you so much and I’m thankful for you Every. Single. Day.”

Luke and Nicole got married in August 2020. She’s been the inspiration behind several of his songs, and the music video for his “Forever After All” features footage of their wedding day.

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If you use Rihanna‘s Fenty Beauty products, chances are you are head over heels in love with the ultra-inclusive makeup line. Now, the “Umbrella” singer is expanding her network to cover hair.

Billboard reports Rihanna’s company Roraj Trade, LLC, recently filed two applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark “Fenty Hair.” Products include brushes, combs, wigs, curlers, scrunchies, hair bands, clips, bows, pins and more.

It is unknown if the Grammy winner will unleash her own hair care line of shampoos and oils, but considering her Fenty umbrella covers skin care, shapewear and makeup, it’s quite possible this is where she’s heading next.

Fans are already going wild about Fenty Hair on social media. Some have pointed out that Rihanna’s hairstyles are always iconic, so they’re excited they may soon have the right tools to replicate them.

Rihanna’s decision to create inclusive lines has paid off; Forbes crowned her America’s Richest Self-Made Women after she amassed a net worth of $1.4 billion thanks to Fenty Beauty. This also makes her the first billionaire to come from Barbados, said Forbes.

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It’s a special moment when you’re handed the keys to your first car, which is why many people never forget the memory. That goes for both Jewel and Train frontman Pat Monahan, who spoke openly about their first cars.

“I think my first vehicle was a 1978 Chevrolet Chevette,” Pat revealed in a statement. “It was my mom’s car and she let me drive it. It was pretty sweet!”

He continued, “My finest memory of that Chevette was that I was allowed to do it all by myself. I was a 16 year old kid and being able to drive around and pick up [my] friends in Erie, Pennsylvania was a pretty big deal. I can’t say I loved anything most about the actual vehicle, [but] the freedom of the vehicle was what I loved most.”

As for Jewel, her first car was a little bit bigger than Pat’s Chevette. “My first car was a 1969 VW bus,” she disclosed in a statement. 

“It was my first real ride and it also became my home so it was a pretty big deal,” she continued. “I was homeless at the time [and] this van represented safety and shelter.”

Jewel’s van was also responsible for starting her career as she revealed, “I wrote a lot of songs in that van and it’s amazing to think that those songs became my first album. Those songs ended up changing the entire trajectory of my life.”

“I will always think of a lot of music when I think about [that] van,” she added.

Jewel and Train’s recollections are a part of their collaboration with Mercury Insurance for its “My First Car” series, which encourages artists to share their best memories of their first vehicle. 

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Thomas Rhett’s newest out-of-the-box collaborator is Nashville-based singer-songwriter Ben Rector. The two singers are teaming up for Ben’s next single, “What Makes a Man,” which will be out August 5.

“I’ve always been a fan of Ben’s, so when he reached out wanting to collaborate, I jumped at the opportunity to work with him,” says Thomas. “He’s an incredible artist, writer and performer and this song hit me as something I could immediately connect to.”

Ben’s foray into the country genre doesn’t stop there: He’s also gearing up to make his Grand Ole Opry debut on August 9, just days after the release of “What Makes a Man.”

TR’s new duet with Ben is available to pre-save now. Meanwhile, the country singer is currently making waves on the charts with another duet: “Half of Me,” his current single with Riley Green.

Thomas’ Bring the Bar to You Tour kicked off last month.

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If you’ve got tickets to see My Chemical Romance on their upcoming U.S. reunion tour, guitarist Ray Toro is providing a preview of what you can expect.

In a tweet Wednesday night, Toro shared a clip of MCR rocking their early cut “Our Lady of Sorrows” during the European leg of their tour, which just wrapped in June.

The video shows the live music playing from an audio program on Toro’s computer, leading fans to speculate that My Chem might’ve recorded the European shows for a possible live album.

My Chemical Romance launched their European tour in May, marking the official beginning of the “Helena” outfit’s reunion run, which was postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ahead of the tour, MCR premiered their first new song in eight years, “The Foundations of Decay.”

The U.S. leg kicks off August 20 in Oklahoma City.

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Garth Brooks has been teasing the release of the second part of Anthology for a while now, and he’s finally ready to share some concrete details about the project. Anthology Part II, The Next Five Years is coming out on November 15.

Part II picks up where the first Anthology installment left off in 1996 and follows Garth through the releases of projects such as Fresh Horses, Sevens, The Limited Series, Double Live and Scarecrow.

It also recounts career milestones between ‘96 and 2001, such as his famed 24-hour autographing session in ’96 at Fan Fair (now known as CMA Fest) in Nashville.

“I learned a lot,” Garth says, according to People, who exclusively premiered the cover art for Anthology Part II.

That artwork features a close-up, black-and-white shot of a young Garth with the American flag cast across his face, set against a dramatic black backdrop.

Part II of the Anthology series follows the already-released parts I and III, which detail Garth’s early years in the country genre and his more recent presence live on tour. The forthcoming Anthology is now available for pre-order as a six-part CD collection.

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James Blunt is the latest celebrity to get his very own documentary and even he’s unsure why this is happening.

Variety reports this new documentary, directed by Chris Atkins, will follow the “You’re Beautiful” singer on his 2022 Greatest Hits tour across Europe. The project teases in the tagline that it’s “the story of an ageing, British pop star, still fighting for relevance some 17 years after his star momentarily twinkled.”

Despite the tongue-in-cheek descriptor, Atkins will also have James open up about the darkest moments of his life, like when he witnessed genocide during the Kosovo War while serving for the British Army. In addition, the documentary will look into the recording of his best-selling album Back to Bedlam as well as the criticism he faced after he was catapulted into the limelight. 

The documentary, billed as a mesh of Spinal Tap and Alan Partridge, is ultimately a “behind the scenes, brutally honest story of a painfully self-aware, endlessly touring musician, for whom persistence eventually prevails.”

It will give viewers a clear picture of who James is as a person and prove he is more than the man who sang “You’re Beautiful.” Still, Blunt is confused about why this documentary is happening in the first place.

“In hindsight, I’m not sure letting them film this was a good idea,” he jokingly said in a statement.

The film is currently untitled, and a release date has not been announced. It is being produced by Lorton Entertainment, the same company behind the Oasis documentary Supersonic and George Ezra‘s End-to-End.

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