Cole Swindell and Josh Turner are two of the latest country acts to join the 2022 Amp at Dant Crossing concert series lineup.
The multi-month event, spanning from May through October, is a series of shows that take place at a 2,000-seat amphitheater in the hills of Kentucky’s bourbon country. Cole will kick off the event with a performance on May 6, while Josh is its final scheduled artist, with a show on October 7.
A host of other country stars will also appear on the stage in the dates in between. Tracy Lawrence, Lee Brice, Justin Moore and Sara Evans are all also slated to appear, along with rock, Americana and blues acts including Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Marshall Tucker Band and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Britney Spears previously told fans she’s “in the process of buying a new home.” Now it appears she may be settling on buying Drake‘s estate.
TMZ captured Britney checking out the “One Dance” rapper’s Hidden Hills property, dubbed the YOLO Estate, which hit the market on Monday. Interest in the sprawling estate has been hot, with TMZ reporting each showing has amassed somewhere between 20 to 30 guests.
Britney and fiancé Sam Asghari were among the many spectators, but not much else is known about their visit or what they think about Drake’s old stomping grounds.
The house is actually three houses combined into one package that’s selling for a cool $14.8 million. The estate has its own theater, swimming pool, waterfalls, tennis courts, bars and a recording studio.
Last month, Britney told fans via Instagram, “It’s time for change!!!!” She continued in the post about her current home, “I’ve lived in this house for 7 years…I’ve been pretty modest about the home I live in now !!!!”
Britney’s apparent house shopping comes in the wake of reports that she signed a tell-all book deal worth $15 million, which should help with a down payment on her future place.
Imagine Dragons has premiered a new song called “Bones.”
According to Rolling Stone, the track will appear on ID’s upcoming album Mercury — Act 2, the aptly titled follow-up to Dan Reynolds and company’s latest effort, 2021’s Mercury — Act 1. A release date for Act 2 has yet to be announced.
You can listen to “Bones” now via digital outlets.
Imagine Dragons’ ongoing Mercury U.S. tour continues Saturday in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, ID’s current single, “Enemy,” a collaboration with JID for the Netflix animated series Arcane, is the number-one song Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chat, and has been for the past five weeks.
Bryan Adams‘ new album So Happy It Hurts, released today, was created during the pandemic lockdown of 2020. But unlike some artists who made records during that time because they didn’t have anything else to do, Bryan says this particular album was always on his “to-do” list.
“I was going to make a record, but once the lockdown kicked in, I just completely immersed myself in it,” Bryan tells ABC Audio. “And it didn’t take very long ’cause I had a fair amount of ideas.”
“I finally got to clear all the pieces of paper out of my coat pockets that had all these things written on them, and put them all on a big board in the studio,” he adds. “And just one by one, [I] went through them to see which ones were working.”
But due to the pandemic, Bryan says he had to do all the recording himself.
“I decided to live my lifelong dream of being a drummer,” he explains. “Every day I would go in and mess around with the songs and put down rough drum tracks. And if in the next morning it didn’t sound great, I would just record it again.”
The album’s sole guest is Monty Python legend John Cleese, who delivers a dramatic yet comedic intro to the song “Kick A**.” Bryan first met Cleese when he photographed him for a charity project, and then unexpectedly ran into him again.
“We were [seated] together at a lunch and I had this song…,” Bryan recalls. “I’d put my voice at the beginning, and I didn’t really like it. So when I was talking to him, I was just noticing how well he spoke. And I said, ‘John, would you be interested in doing the narration for a song?’ And he went, ‘Well, of course!'”
After a week of teasing, Yungblud has premiered his new single, “The Funeral,” alongside a video starring Ozzy Osbourne.
The clip, which streaming now on YouTube, begins the Prince of Darkness peering over the “Fleabag” rocker lying down in a coffin in an otherwise empty room. “Hang on, is this a f***ing funeral?” Ozzy asks. “Where the f*** is everybody?”
Cut to Yungblud rocking out the Billy Idol-esque tune in front of a moshing audience. When he leaves the club at the end of the video, he’s immediately hit by a car driven by Sharon Osbourne.
“What the f*** was that?” Ozzy asks from the passenger seat, to which Sharon responds, “Just some f***ing poser.”
The metal legend then declares, “Ah, run him over again then.”
“The lyrics are literally me listing off everything I’m insecure about,” Yungblud says of “The Funeral,” which is available now via digital outlets. “If you identify with what you don’t like about yourself and own it, no one can say anything that you haven’t already said to yourself. You become bulletproof.”
“This song’s about owning those insecurities and just being f***ing fearless,” he adds. “It’s about ego, death, rebirth and f***ing dancing on your grave.”
“The Funeral” follows Yungblud’s 2021 single “Fleabag,” which currently sits in the top 10 on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart. Yungblud’s latest album is his 2020 sophomore effort, Weird!
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Lil Durk finally dropped his highly anticipated 7220 album on Friday, after postponing the release for nearly three weeks.
When the clock struck midnight, the 17-track album and all of its hard-hitting, fresh, personal, bar-heavy bangers were made available for listening and streaming.
Durk had originally planned to release the project on 2/22, the same day Kanye’s Donda 2 was expected and delayed, but the Chicago rapper instead dropped only a single — one that for sure got the people talking.
In the song “Ahhh Ha,” Durk seemingly responds to NBA YoungBoy’s “Bring the Hook,” which appeared to be a diss track about the late rapper King Von. Durk and King Von were not only lifelong close friends but also members of the Durk-lead record label, Only The Family (OTF).
The release of Von’s posthumous album, What It Means to Be King last Friday could have contributed to Durk’s new 3/11 release date. Durk took to his Instagram to post a photo of Von’s album cover, in support of the rapper who was shot and killed in Atlanta last year.
As part of Durk’s final effort to promote the new album before its Friday release, he shared the visual for the Jerry Production-directed “Golden Child” single on Thursday.
A notable line in the song goes, “I bought my Lamb’ with cash // That boy dead, I’m glad // I don’t speak tongues, period // I don’t f*** with (DJ) Vlad // In New York, I dress like Fab // Too rich to jump in cabs.”
Landing at number five on the track list, “Golden Child” falls in line with the other 16 explicit, yet powerful, poetic songs.
Here’s the full 7220 track list:
“Started From”
“Headtaps”
“Ahhh Ha”
“Shootout @ My Crib”
“Golden Child”
“No Interviews”
“Petty Too” ft. Future
“Barbarian”
“What Happened to Virgil” ft. Gunna
“Grow Up / Keep It on Speaker”
“Smoking & Thinking”
“Blocklist”
“Difference Is” ft. Summer Walker
“Federal Nightmares”
“Love Dior Banks”
“Pissed Me Off”
“Broadway Girls” ft. Morgan Wallen
Michael Bublé is ramping things up for the release of his new album, Higher, due out March 25.
The Canadian superstar has booked a series of TV appearances for later this month, including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on March 16, and both Good Morning America and The View on March 18. On March 29, he’ll appear on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
Michael then heads to Europe for a series of promotional appearances, and will then return to the U.S. for his previously announced Las Vegas residency at Resorts World, which runs April 27 to May 7.
Meanwhile, he’s just released the Latin-flavored title track of Higher, one of the original tracks on the new album.
As previously reported, Higher also features a duet with country legend Willie Nelson on Nelson’s song “Crazy,” a cover of Paul McCartney‘s song “My Valentine” that was produced by the Beatles legend himself, and Michael’s renditions of standards and pop classics like Bob Dylan‘s “Make You Feel My Love” and “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.”
After almost a week of teasing, Dua Lipa and Megan Thee Stallion treated fans to their new song “Sweetest Pie.”
The first-time collaborators released the track at midnight Friday, with a seductively, sweet music video to match, directed by Dave Meyers. Dua’s smooth vocals are a nice compliment to Megan’s flow as the two make use of the double entendre that is the song title.
“Uh, this the ride of your life / hold on ’cause, baby, I might / I might just give you a bite of the sweetest pie / Uh, baby, we can go fast / I’ll drive and you just lay back / I got the flavour that lasts / yeah, the sweetest pie,” the English singer-songwriter sings in the chorus.
Megan’s verses are just as suggestive and full of double meanings with lyrics like “I got cake and I know he want a slice.”
Both Dua and Megan first teased “Sweetest Pie” on their Instagrams last weekend. Dua’s post featured a tiny snippet of the song, while the “Savage” rapper showed photos of herself and Dua on a series of cakes.
In addition to the two now having a song together, fans attending Dua’s Future Nostalgia tour will possibly get the chance to see them perform together since Megan will be featured as the opening act starting March 15.
In the meantime, “Sweetest Pie” is available to stream now.
Hall & Oates member John Oates will launch a brief solo acoustic tour next Wednesday, March 16, in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, but fans can an advance online look at his show by checking out a livestream of a recent Nashville-area concert he played that will premiere this Sunday at Mandolin.com at 8 p.m. ET.
The streaming event and the upcoming concerts are dubbed “An Evening of Songs & Stories with John Oates featuring Guthrie Trapp,” and will feature John performing as a duo with acclaimed Nashville session guitarist Trapp, who also is a longtime member of John’s solo group The Good Road Band.
Oates tells ABC Audio that he’s “really excited” about the livestreamed show, which was filmed at the Franklin Theatre at the Nashville suburb of Franklin, Tennessee.
The concept behind the performance is John presenting his songs with Guthrie in an intimate way, playing and sharing anecdotes about the various tunes that have made an impact on his life and musical journey. Oates’ show features songs by other artists that influenced and inspired him, versions of tunes from his solo catalog and, of course, a few classic Hall & Oates hits.
John says of the recorded concert, “It’s actually the second show we ever played…and it was basically a work in progress. It was like, ‘Hey, let’s try this thing out and see if it works.’ And luckily…we did have a great night.”
Tickets for the virtual concert costs $18, and those who purchase one will be able to view the event on demand for 48 hours. VIP tickets also can be purchased for $55, and they include a virtual meet-and-greet with Oates that begins at 6 p.m. ET.
Visit JohnOates.com to check out the full list of John’s solo dates.
Here’s some exciting news for KISS fans: According to the promoter of the Creatures Fest event, taking place May 27-29 in Nashville, founding guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss will reunite to perform a few songs together during the first night of the festival.
Frehley and Criss, as well as two other surviving former KISS members — guitarists Vinnie Vincent and Bruce Kulick — already had been announced as part of the Creatures Fest lineup, but promoter Neil Davis announced in a video message posted on Facebook that Peter had just agreed to join Ace during the latter musician’s previously scheduled May 27 headlining performance.
“They both spoke, said they were excited about being at Creatures Fest, they were excited about seeing you, the fans,” Davis says in the clip. “And they just thought that what would be great for the fans, for all of us, is if they got together and played some songs during Ace’s set.”
Neil continued, “I don’t know about you, but I’m speechless about this…It’s gonna be very, very cool. I know talking to them that they are both really excited about doing this together, about playing some songs.
Davis added, “I don’t know what they’re gonna play. I don’t know if they’re going to let us know. It’ll probably a secret, but whatever it is. How cool!”
Creatures Fest also will feature performances by Vincent and Kulick on May 28 and May 29, respectively. Also performing at the festival will be Quiet Riot, Vixen, Enuff Z’Nuff, ex-Motley Crue singer John Corabi and others.
The event, which will be held at the Sonesta Nashville Airport Hotel, also will feature ticketed meet-and-greets with the various performers, a pool party, expos and more.
