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Pusha T has some beef with McDonald’s.

The rapper just released a “diss track” against the fast food chain in collaboration with Arby’s. On the track, he touts Arby’s new spicy fish sandwich as being superior to McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish. If you’ll remember, Pusha originally helped launch the “I’m Lovin’ It” campaign for McDonald’s, which probably makes the diss sting just that much more.

“I’m the reason the whole world love it/Now I gotta crush it/Filet-O-Fish is s***/And you should be disgusted/How dare you sell a square fish asking us to trust it,” he raps.
 
“Arby’s crispy fish is simply it/With lines ‘round the corner we might need a guest list,” Pusha adds on the track.

“Just dropped a diss track with @Arbys. Grab some popcorn and a Spicy Fish Sandwich,” Pusha posted on social media, adding the hashtags, “#ArbysSpicyFishDissTrack #ArbysPaidMeButIWouldSayThisAnyway.”

Your move, McDonald’s.

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U.S. Måneskin fans: your “Beggin'” days are over.

The Italian rockers have announced their first ever full-length North American headlining trek as part of their Loud Kids world tour. The cross-country trek launches Halloween night in Seattle, and concludes December 16 in Las Vegas.

Måneskin previously made their U.S. concert debut last fall with intimate shows in New York City and Los Angeles.

“We’re so thrilled to be able to finally tell you that our Loud Kids tour just got sooooo much louder, worldwide — and will now see our very first headline tour in North America,” Måneskin says.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 25, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

The North American leg, which also includes two shows in Canada, will be followed by Måneskin’s rescheduled European tour, kicking off in February 2023. The trip no longer includes shows in Russia, which Måneskin has canceled due to the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

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Avril Lavigne hasn’t announced any solo U.S. dates — at least, not yet — but it turns out you’ll be able to see her on tour with her pal Machine Gun Kelly.

The trek has MGK as the headliner: It launches June 8 in Austin, Texas, and will wrap up with a hometown show in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 13.  Avril will be joining him as a special guest on select dates, including Milwaukee’s Summerfest and shows in North Carolina, LA, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Detroit, New York City and Washington, D.C.

Other dates will feature Avril’s pals Travis Barker, WILLOW and blackbear, plus iann dior, PVRIS and Trippie Redd.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 25, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit MachineGunKelly.com.

MGK, Barker and blackbear all appear on Avril’s latest album, Love Sux.

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Dierks Bentley keeps the beer flowing with the new leg of his Beers on Me Tour.

Throughout the summer, Dierks and tour mates Ashley McBryde and Travis Denning will visit more than 30 cities, beginning on May 27 in Minnesota and concluding on September 11 in Montana. Along the way, Dierks will perform at Cheyenne Frontier Days, Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, Blame My Roots Fest and more. 

“A bunch of friends, ice cold beer and good country music is just about all you need for a perfect summer,” Dierks shares in a statement. “Every year when we plan a tour, I think this summer is going to the best yet…and this year is no different! I’m excited to have Ashley and Travis jump on this leg of the Beers On Me Tour…now just counting the days ’til June!”

The hitmaker launched the Beers on Me Tour in August 2021 and added new dates in 2022 that ran from January through March. The tour is named after Dierks’ collaborative single with Hardy and Breland that’s currently in the top five on country radio.  

Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

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The critically acclaimed new HBO series The Gilded Age airs its season finale tonight, and the show that was originally created a few years ago was not the same as what you ended up seeing, at least when it comes to Denèe Benton‘s character in the series.

Benton plays Peggy Scott, an upper-middle-class African-American woman, and a character she had a lot of input in shaping. She tells ABC Audio she pushed really hard to make sure Peggy wasn’t the typical screen representation of Black America in the late 1800s, and that wasn’t easy.

“I was definitely in inboxes and asking for meetings and conversations,” she recalls. “And the thing that I will commend everyone on is that they kept showing up to the conversation. And so, yeah, it was terrifying. I was clenching my butt cheeks with the all-white male creative team being like, this thing needs to change.”

The 30-year-old actress believes we’ve been “bamboozled into thinking Black people and Black women didn’t exist,” when in fact they’ve “existed at every level of society for all time.

She adds, “I am so excited to be a part of continuing to shatter that delusion of white supremacy.”

Benton thinks the whole show has benefited from Peggy being a secretary for the New York Globe and “getting to have these scenes with her mom in a Black café.” She says it “adds nuance [and] specificity, [which] is what storytelling is about.”

“I’m happy that we all showed up to take in that opportunity,” she adds.

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Olivia Rodrigo has seven chances to win a Grammy next month, but she’s not taking anything for granted.

Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday, Olivia told ABC’s Juju Chang that she “hasn’t even begun to process” the fact that she’s nominated for Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year, plus a bunch of other categories.  “It’s that crazy?” she said of her nominations.

But when asked if there’s one thing in her career she’d like to accomplish, Olivia said, “Oh my Gosh…I mean, I would love to win a Grammy one day. We’ll see if it happens, fingers crossed.”

Olivia will find out April 3 if her dream of winning comes true. Meanwhile, Olivia also spoke on GMA about her frustration with those who’ve tried to compare her to other female artists, or put her down for allegedly “copying” other artists’ songs. 

“I think sometimes when you’re, especially, a young woman in the industry, I think people are so quick to compare you to people or be like, ‘Oh she’s the next this’ or ‘She’s this mixed with this,'” Olivia told Chang. “And I just kinda wanna be me and do my own thing and write songs that resonate with who I am as a person.”

Olivia’s Disney+ documentary Driving Home 2 U (A Sour Film) debuts on Friday.

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Forget “little sunshine,” call Ghost little chart-toppers.

The Swedish metal outfit’s latest album, Impera, has debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, a career-high for frontman Tobias Forge and his band of Nameless Ghouls. They had previously peaked on the chart at number three, with 2018’s Prequelle.

In its first week, Impera moved a total of 70,000 equivalent album units. In terms of traditional album sales, Impera’s 62,500 copies gives it the best-selling week of any album in 2022.

According to Billboard, Impera is the Billboard 200’s highest-charting rock album since John Mayer‘s Sob Rock also debuted at number two in July 2021, though we’d hazard to guess that Ghost fans may not consider the “Your Body Is a Wonderland” artist as “rock.” Billboard also says that Impera‘s chart performance is the best for any “hard rock” album since AC/DC‘s comeback effort, Power Up, debuted at number one in November 2020.

Impera, the fifth Ghost album, was released March 11. It includes the singles “Hunter’s Moon” and “Call Me Little Sunshine.”

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Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor is once again collaborating with fellow band frontman-turned-film composer Danny Elfman.

The two have released a reworked version of the song “Native Intelligence,” a cut from Elfman’s 2021 album, Big Mess. The joint recording had previously been exclusive the deluxe box set edition of Big Mess, but is now available as a standalone digital single.

Reznor and Elfman previously worked together on a new version of the Big Mess song “True,” which was released last August.

Meanwhile, you can catch Reznor and Nine Inch Nails on tour this spring beginning in April. The outing will mark the “Closer” outfit’s first live shows since 2018.

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Luke Combs is starting the week off right by dropping an unreleased song, “Tomorrow Me.” 

Sitting on a couch in his studio, the singer is accompanied by just his voice and his guitar, as the acoustic number finds him rejecting the advances of a former lover. Similar to “Hurricane,” the lead character is tempted to fall back into their arms, but this time, he’s summoned the will power to walk away, knowing it’s the right decision.

“‘Cause tomorrow me ain’t gonna like the way things go tonight/If I let you in and think that it’ll be different this time/So maybe we should let yesterday be/’Cause I gotta live with tomorrow me,” he sings with his rugged vocal chops.   

“Let me know what y’all think!” Luke beckoned in the caption of the video, and his fans didn’t hold back with their positive reviews. “Love this! You have an amazing way of telling stories through your music,” one wrote, while another shares, “Just like all the songs before, this one is just as amazing!” “Unreleased, but a hit. Throw it out there,” yet another fan encouraged. 

“Tomorrow Me” is the one of many unreleased songs the superstar has shared over the past year, including “See Me Now,” “The Kind of Love We Make” and the fan-favorite, “Five-Leaf Clover.”

Luke shares the new track as his single, “Doin’ This,” is climbing the charts, and is currently inside the top 10.

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