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Listen up, jazz fans, the lineup for New Orleans’ annual Jazz & Heritage Festival has been unveiled and this year is offering a pretty impressive roster.

The talent who will be taking the stage during the week-long event, which runs April 29 to May 8 at the city’s Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, include big names such as Lionel Richie, Stevie Nicks, Melissa Etheridge, Jimmy Buffett and Kool & The Gang. 

Also heading to New Orleans this spring will be Boz Scaggs, Norah Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, Lauren Daigle, Randy Newman and Chris Isaak.

The full lineup was unveiled on the festival’s official website, where you can also scoop up your tickets for the spring concert series.  Three day passes that are good for April 29, April 30 and May 1 will run you between $210 to $225 bucks while the four-day weekend pass, for the dates between May 5 and 8, is priced between $260 and $275.

At this time, single-day ticket sales are not being offered but will be announced in the future.

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Luke Combs, Willie Nelson and Jimmy Buffett are among the long list of acts headed down to Louisiana for the multi-genre New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival this spring.

All three acts will perform during the second weekend of the event, which takes place May 5-8. The first half of the festival will take place April 29-May 1.

Also part of the lineup are acts like Lukas Nelson — Willie’s son — as well as Grammy-winning bluegrass upstart Billy Strings, and Americana act The War and Treaty, who performed with Dierks Bentley at last year’s ACM Awards show.

Non-country leaning acts on the bill include The Who, The Black Crowes, Lionel Richie and Foo Fighters.

The New Orleans Jazz Fest was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For a full lineup and ticketing information, visit the event’s website.

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Soon after the death of their friend Bob Saget, John Mayer and comedian Jeff Ross posted a lengthy video in which they discussed the fact that they’d just retrieved Saget’s car from Los Angeles International Airport. During that chat, Ross also thanked John for bringing Saget “home,” but he wasn’t clear what he meant by that.

Now, E! News has learned that, in fact, John paid for a private plane to transport Saget’s body back to California after his January death in an Orlando, Florida hotel room. Page Six has also confirmed the story.

John had been a friend of Saget’s for 15 years, and in his Instagram Live with Ross, he joked that he was still “the new guy.”

The singer and guitarist said of the Full House star, “I’ve never known a human being on this Earth who could give that much love, individually and completely, to that many people, in a way that made each person feel like he was a main character in their life and they were a main character in his life.”

As previously reported, John also helped design a hoodie that’s now being sold to raise money for Saget’s favorite charity, Scleroderma Research Foundation.

The cause of Saget’s death has not yet been released. At the funeral, both John and Ross were pallbearers, as were Saget’s Full House co-stars John Stamos and Dave Coulier.

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Jennifer Lopez is counting down the days until her new movie, Marry Me, arrives in theaters next month, and ahead of the rom-com’s February release, she let fans in on a big secret — her workout routine.

Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, J-Lo promoted “On My Way,” the song she recorded for the Marry Me soundtrack,  by sharing a video of herself working up a sweat.  “#OnMyWay to a better me,” she captioned the post, which celebrated Instagram’s #WorkoutWednesday.  She then included a remix of “On My Way” for her behind-the-scenes video.

So, how does Jennifer keep herself in such excellent shape?  She does curls with a pair of dumbbells, tones with what appears to be a Bowflex machine and challenges herself with leg lifts and crunches.  Despite doing numerous reps and pushing herself hard, Jennifer is still smiling at the end of her routine.

She also gave fans a look at her bedazzled water bottle, which resembles a glittering disco ball.  

Marry Me arrives in theaters just in time for Valentine’s Day —  February 11.  It also stars Owen Wilson and Latin superstar Maluma.

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Blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus guests on a new version of the A Day to Remember song “Re-Entry.”

The updated recording features a reworked second verse with new lyrics and vocals from Hoppus. You can download it now via digital outlets.

“When this song originally took shape it was without a doubt massively influenced by Blink-182,” says ADtR frontman Jeremy McKinnon. “So when the idea came up to do a remix of sorts for it, Mark was immediately who we pictured.”

McKinnon adds, “We sent [Hoppus] the track with no second verse and said to do whatever he was inspired to do and what he sent back genuinely makes the song for me. My younger self still can’t believe it exists.”

The original “Re-Entry” appears on A Day to Remember’s 2021 album You’re Welcome.

In other Blink-182 collaboration news, drummer Travis Barker adds to his ever-growing list of projects by producing a new song from the punk rap group Ho99o9 [pr. Horror]. The track, called “Battery Not Included,” is available now for digital download, and is accompanied by a video streaming now on YouTube.

Ho99o9 will be opening for Slipknot‘s Knotfest Roadshow tour beginning in May.

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After releasing his second solo album, From a Bird’s Eye View, last week, Cordae has dropped the video for his track “Chronicles,” featuring H.E.R. and Lil Durk.

In the clip, H.E.R. and Lil Durk join the Raleigh, North Carolina, MC in the parking lot of a diner where he’s working as a short order cook. His girlfriend is a waitress, and he raps that he wants to maintain their relationship.

“I’m on this road, and I’m not sure where my heart is headed/ And if you left me now, I know how far I’d regret it/ Told you once, tell you twice that I’m indebted, huh/ But I can’t waste no time, you know my time is precious.”

As Cordae expresses his love to his girl, H.E.R. is feeling different emotions, as she walks out on her boyfriend who met her at the diner.

Cordae is preparing for his From His Bird’s Eye View tour, which kicks off February 3 in Dallas. The two-time Grammy nominee will perform in 28 cities. Other tour stops include New Orleans, Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and his hometown, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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On Thursday, Maddie & Tae’s Taylor Kerr announced the birth of her daughter, Leighton Grace.

The baby girl is Taylor’s first child with her husband, Josh Kerr, and she arrived significantly early, but fortunately, Leighton is doing well. “She’s beautiful, strong and everything we have ever dreamed of,” Taylor wrote on Maddie & Tae’s socials. “She decided to be a Capricorn like her daddy. Already can’t wait for the day we get to finally take her home.”

The singer also shared a few pictures of the new arrival. Though her face doesn’t make an appearance, fans can see a closeup snapshot of Leighton’s tiny foot, plus her name on the side of her isolette, along with her weight at birth: two pounds, five ounces.

When she announced her pregnancy, Taylor said her due date was in spring 2022, but the universe had other plans. She was hospitalized in mid-December, 24 weeks into her pregnancy, and remained on bedrest until Leighton was born.

Taylor’s pregnancy complications caused Maddie & Tae to postpone their 2022 tour plans. However, there’s no shortage of new music from the duo. Their next EP, Through the Madness Vol. 1, arrives January 28.

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Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks and The Who will headline the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, taking place April 29 to May 8.

The long and varied bill also includes The Black Crowes, The Avett Brothers, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Death Cab for Cutie, The Revivalists, Melissa Etheridge, Boz Scaggs and Buddy Guy, as well as a Bob Marley set from Ziggy Marley and a tribute to the late Dr. John.

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit NOJazzFest.com.

Jazz Fest 2022 will mark the first time the storied festival has taken place since 2019; events in 2020 and 2021 were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several of the artists on the 2022 bill had been scheduled to play the ’20 and ’21 fests, including the Foos, Nicks and The Who.

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