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It’s been a while since Madonna has performed live in the U.S., but since it’s Pride Month, the longtime ally hit the stage last night at New York City’s Terminal 5 for a special event.

The event was hosted by the NFT platform World of Women, with whom Madonna has collaborated before. According to Billboard, she performed a remix of her hit “Hung Up” with female Dominican rapper Tokischa, with whom she then made out. She also performed with LGBTQ rapper Saucy Santana on a mash-up of her classic “Material Girl” and his song of the same name.

Billboard also reports that Madonna appeared on stage with famous drag queens — including Bob the Drag Queen and Violet Chachki — and her son David Banda. During her big finale, she performed “Celebration,” the title track of her 2009 compilation.

But Madonna wasn’t just celebrating Pride — the event also doubled as a record release party for Finally Enough Love, her dance remix compilation. The 16-track version of the package is out today; the full 50-track version comes out August 19, a few days after Madonna’s birthday.

You can see footage of Madonna’s rehearsals for last night’s event on her Instagram Story.

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Fans likely know Jimmie Allen as a country musician, but soon they might know him for his skills at the bowling alley, too. The singer is currently working on becoming a professional bowler, and he plans to try out for the Professional Bowlers Association in January.

“I actually move my schedule around, like, move shows around and stuff like that, to get into bowling tournaments,” he reveals in a Billboard video as one item in a list of five little-known facts about himself.

“Being a professional bowler is on my bucket list and something I’m wanting to do,” he adds.

That’s not the only sport Jimmie says he’d like to take up. “I wanna be a WWE professional wrestler,” he says. “And, like, tour and do matches and stuff. I wanna do that. That’s in there, as well.”

Jimmie might encounter a conflict in achieving that dream, though, since he’s not a huge fan of going to the gym. Still, he says he’d be willing to do things he doesn’t necessarily love in the name of achieving his goals.

“I’m a competitive person. So whatever needs to be done to get that job done, that’s what I’ll do. So if I need to get a little stronger, put on a little size, look bigger for camera, I’ll do that. Because it’s required of the job,” he reasons.

In the more short-term future, though, Jimmie’s taking another step toward country superstardom with the release of his third album, Tulip Drive, on Friday.

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Kendrick Lamar made an appearance at Paris Fashion Week, performing at the Louis Vuitton Men’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection show, where he paid tribute to the late designer Virgil Abloh. 

During the show, which took place Thursday, Kendrick performed a number of songs, including hits from his new album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. It was the rapper’s outro to “Count Me Out” in which he paid tribute to Abloh, who was the artistic director for the fashion house before he died last November from cardiac angiosarcoma. “Long Live Virgil,” Kendrick said, before repeating Virgil’s name over and over.  

This isn’t the first time the “N95” rapper paid tribute to Abloh. During the Super Bowl halftime show, he wore LV by Abloh. 

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Chris Brown‘s tenth studio album Breezy is finally here.

After much anticipation, the R&B singer dropped the 24-track project Friday, which includes his previously released Normani-assisted song “WE (Warm Embrace),” as well as “Iffy,” which appears as a bonus track.

Brown’s new album is a star-studded affair, with features from some of the hottest names in R&B and hip-hop. Ella Mai contributes her vocals to the track “Sex Memories,” while Jack Harlow appears on “Psychic,” and both Lil Wayne and BLEU contribute to “Possessive.” The album also has features from Fivio Foreign, Lil Durk, Capella Grey, Lil Baby, H.E.R., Bryson Tiller, EST Gee, Blxst, and Tory Lanez. 

Breezy is Brown’s first album in three years. His last album, Indigo, was released in 2019. 

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Miranda Lambert is a passionate advocate for shelter pets and animal welfare, but she doesn’t just encourage her fans to adopt shelter pets — she adopts plenty of her own, too.

The most recent addition to Miranda’s “farmily” is Ravioli, a gray and white cat the singer adopted from Nashville-area shelter Metro Animal Care and Control. Ravioli makes an appearance in a new video that Miranda posted to her social media this week, reminding fans to consider adoption if they’re looking to add a furry companion to their household this summer.

“I guess I’m just having a summer reminder to visit your local shelters, especially your metro shelters that kind of take every single thing that comes in, daily,” Miranda says in the clip. “Summertime is a great time to add a new friend to your family, which I’m doing today. He’s coming home with me.”

Miranda added that Nashville MACC is “very full” right now, encouraging Nashville residents who are looking to adopt a new pet to come visit the shelter.

Ravioli is not the only animal to find a home at Miranda’s farm in recent days. She and her husband, Brendan McLoughlin, also adopted a horse named Cowboy last weekend.

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The new Disney+ film Rise, out Friday, tells the true story of the Antetokounmpo family, who, after years of hard work and struggle, found incredible success in the world of professional basketball.

Actor Dayo Okeniyi plays patriarch Charles Antetokounmpo in the film, and he shared with ABC Audio how much he admired his character’s strength.

“The great thing about Charles is he never wore that on his sleeves,” Okeniyi said. “He always remained, you know, a man of strong self-esteem … I think that’s a really great leadership quality he had.”

Not only did Okeniyi admire his character’s strength, he also related to his story.

“I’m also an immigrant from Nigeria, moved to America when I was 15,” Okeniyi said. “It’s constantly debating what is the best thing to do for our children, you know … Just imagine not being able to put food on the table for your family or not being able to give your sons the dream they want to become.”

Director Akin Omotoso says he took cues from Giannis Antetokounmpo’s speech at the 2019 NBA Awards where he was named the league’s Most Valuable Player. “He speaks about when you were a kid, you can’t see the future and your parents see the future for you,” Omotoso said.

“I hope that when people watch it, they follow that journey and recognize themselves in that journey.”

After the Antetokounmpo family watched the film for the first time, they told Omotoso it really “captured the essence” of what they went through.

“That’s what we really wanted to do,” Omotoso said. “When you’re making something about someone’s life, you want to be sure that they see things that trigger other things. It’s like, ‘Ah, we remember that.’”

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Ozzy Osbourne has premiered a new solo song called “Patient Number 9.”

The track, which features guitar icon Jeff Beck, is available now via digital outlets. An accompanying video, directed by famed comic book artist Todd McFarlane, is set to premiere Friday at 10 a.m. ET on YouTube.

“Patient Number 9” is the first preview off Ozzy’s next solo album, also titled Patient Number 9, the follow-up to 2020’s Ordinary Man. Beck is one of the many guests to be featured on the upcoming record, along with Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Eric Clapton, Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready, Black Label Society‘s Zakk Wylde and Metallica‘s Robert Trujillo.

Patient Number 9, the album, is due out September 9. 

The new song arrives amid a rough couple of health months for Ozzy, who tested positive for COVID-19 in April and underwent surgery earlier in June. The 73-year-old rocker has since returned home from the hospital and is “recuperating comfortably.”

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If you’ve been following Old Dominion on social media, you might have noticed that the band is trying something different this year. While on the road as openers for Kenny Chesney’s Here and Now Tour, they’ve been making some surprise stops at small venues.

Those pop-up shows were the result of a brainstorming session on how to make the summer even more fun, the group’s Matthew Ramsey explains.

“It’s actually kind of a lighter year for us, to be on the Kenny tour, because we just play on weekends,” Matthew says. “We’re used to playing a lot more. And we were just trying to figure out how to get the most out of it. So we thought, you know, maybe we should try and do some surprise shows here and there.”

That idea has led them to small stages in Nashville, Tampa, Atlanta and more. “And so far, it’s been really fun,” the singer adds.

It’s been fun for the fans, too, although the bandmates can’t resist making a crack at the running joke they have about being mistaken for duo Brothers Osborne on social media.

“They are a little let down when they get in there and realize that the Brothers Osborne aren’t playing,” band member Brad Tursi says dryly, leading the whole band to break into laughter.

But in all seriousness, it’s extra fun because the fans camp out before free pop-up shows, Matthew says. “They wait outside these clubs all day long. I mean, they show up at 10, 11 in the morning.”

Old Dominion aren’t slowing the pop-up shows down anytime soon. They’ve got one planned for Chicago this Friday night, before Kenny’s Here and Now tour stop in the city Saturday.

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