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Rob Halford has announced a new book.

The follow-up to the Judas Priest frontman’s 2020 autobiography, Confess, is titled Biblical: Rob Halford’s Heavy Metal Scriptures, and will arrive November 1.

A press release describes Biblical as a “lively encyclopedia and manifesto in which Halford shares his opinions, memories, and anecdotes regarding every element of the rock and roll lifestyle: from tours to tattoos, riffs to riders, and drugs to devil horns.”

“After my penitence with Confess, it’s time for me to be Biblical and take our congregation through all the ins and out and ups and downs of what it takes to make the life of the Metal God,” Halford says. “So get comfy in your pew and prepare for the light of revelations by becoming Biblical!”

Biblical is available for pre-order now.

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Des Rocs and The Blue Stones are uniting for a U.S. tour this summer.

The joint outing, dubbed the Once in a Lifetime tour, launches June 10 in Milwaukee, and wraps up July 23 in Columbus, Ohio. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 22.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit DesRocs.com or TheBlueStonesMusic.com.

Des Rocs will be touring behind his debut full-length album, 2021’s A Real Good Person in a Real Bad Place, while The Blue Stones will be supporting their 2021 sophomore effort, Hidden Gems.

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Andy Grammer will serve as the keynote speaker and share his honest thoughts about mental health at Mental Health America’s annual conference this summer.

The “Honey I’m Good” singer shared his excitement about the upcoming venture on Tuesday, telling fans, “Mental health is an extremely important topic to me and it is an honor to speak at such an important event.” 

The event, titled “Forward Together: Recovery, Healing, Hope,” will take place in Washington, D.C. starting on June 9. Andy is set to speak the day after, taking stage on Friday, June 10, at 9:30 a.m. ET.

The organization shared more information about what to expect at their summertime event, adding in their own announcement, “After being forced by COVID-19 to slow down his busy and high-energy schedule, Andy had to come to terms with his mental health in a way that he hadn’t before. The mental health struggles that Andy faced have inspired his new music and added a new layer to the deep connection he has with his fans.”

There are several ways to watch Andy’s speech, which will be live-streamed.  Those interested in attending can register on MHA’s official website and can opt to attend in-person or virtually. 

Andy’s music has long embraced the themes of mental wellness, including his hits “Keep Your Head Up,” “The Best of Me,” “Don’t Give Up On Me,” and “Fresh Eyes.”

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Ahead of its long-awaited release on Friday, Pusha T finally let fans in on details about his highly anticipated upcoming album, It’s Almost Dry.

On social media Tuesday, the New York rapper shared the album’s cover art and 12-song track list, which boasts features from fellow artists Jay-Z, Pharrell, Ye and Kid Cudi. But, in tandem with the release of the song list, Cudi revealed some news of his own — his collaboration with Ye, aka Kanye West, on “Rock N Roll,” will be the last of its kind. 

In a Twitter post, Cudi alerted fans never to expect music from the two rappers again saying, “Hey! So I know some of you heard about the song I got w Pusha. I did this song a year ago when I was still cool w Kanye. I am not cool w that man. He’s not my friend and I only cleared the song for Pusha cuz thats my guy. This is the last song u will hear me on w Kanye -Scott”

The decision allegedly stems from Ye’s decision not to include Kid Cudi on Donda 2, due his friendship with “you know who.” In the now-deleted Instagram post, fans speculated Ye was referring to Cudi’s relationship with SNL star Pete Davidson, who has been dating his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian.

Ye and Cudi have a history of an on-and-off-again friendship, dating back to their 2013-14 social media argument which led to the first of a few public reunions. 

Whether or not Cudi and Ye will mend things this time around is unknown. What is certain is Pusha’s promise to deliver his fourth studio album, It’s Almost Dry, on Friday, April 22.

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In her decades in the music industry, it’s safe to say Dolly Parton has been dealt her fair share of advice, and the singer is opening up about the advice she’s grateful she didn’t follow. 

Dolly has long been vocal about the fact that she patterned her flashy look and costumes after the hooker who lived in her hometown of Sevierville, TN. And while she may have been met with resistance of her appearance over the years, the titan of industry stands firm in how she presents herself.

“The main advice that people wanted to give me was to change my look and to go simpler with my hair and the way that I dress, not to look so cheap, nobody was ever going to take me seriously they would say,” she explains to Adam Grant on his podcast, WorkLife. 

“The way I look and the way I looked then was a country girl’s idea of glam, just like I wrote in my ‘Backwoods Barbie’ song. But people wanted me to change…It was really like a look I was after. And I wasn’t a natural beauty, I just like to look the way I look,” she continues. “I’m so outgoing inside and my personality, and I need the way I look to match all of that.”

Dolly recently released a novel, Run, Rose, Run, that debuted at #1 on the New York Times’ best-selling fiction book list last month.   

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Jane’s Addiction will record new music this year, if frontman Perry Farrell has his way.

Speaking with Consequence about possible fresh tunes from the “Been Caught Stealing” outfit, Farrell shares, “I would love to see us record a couple of tracks this year.”

“Even if it’s two or three tracks,” he adds. “Two tracks, I feel two is nice. I think people can take two, like two aspirin.”

Jane’s Addiction’s most recent song is the 2013 one-off single “Another Soulmate,” which followed the band’s 2011 album, The Great Escape Artist.

In addition to potential new music, Farrell also hopes to add more Jane’s tour dates around their upcoming festival appearances, which include sets at Lollapalooza and Welcome to Rockville.

“We do have ambitions to hit the road this year,” Farrell says. “So it won’t be long before you’ll know if those ambitions have come to fruition.”

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Dustin Lynch has set a new chart record, as his and MacKenzie Porter‘s duet, “Thinking ‘Bout You,” is now the longest-running top-10 hit in the history of the Billboard Country Airplay chart. 

After parking at #1 on the chart for six weeks, the song has now spent 27 weeks inside the top 10; it currently sits at #8. “Thinking ‘Bout You” has surpassed the record previously set by Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood‘s hit duet, “If I Didn’t Love You,” that was in the top 10 for 26 weeks.

Rounding out the list of singles that have spent the most weeks in the top 10 of the chart since its inception in 1990 are “Famous Friends” by Chris Young and Kane Brown, which spent 23 weeks in the top 10; Lonestar‘s “Amazed” at 21 weeks; and, tied with a 20-week stay, “One of Them Girls” by Lee Brice and “Somebody Like You by Keith Urban.

“Y’all keep blowing us away with this song!” Dustin commented on Instagram.

“Thinking ‘Bout You” was originally recorded with Lauren Alaina as Dustin’s duet partner and was featured on his 2020 album, Tullahoma. But he re-recorded it in 2021 with MacKenzie and it became his longest-running #1 hit.

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Greta Van Fleet frontman Josh Kiszka has issued a statement addressing the #SpeakUpGVF social media movement.

Recent posts from the “Highway Tune” rockers have seen floods of replies with the hashtag, which began in an effort to get Kiszka to respond to and delete a series of 2017 photos that feature him wearing Native American clothing. Non-Indigenous people wearing traditional Native American attire, such as a headdress, is considered by some to be cultural appropriation.

In an Instagram post Monday, Kiszka posted an open letter addressed to “Our indigenous fans.”

“I see you. I’ve taken time to listen and gather my thoughts,” Kiszka wrote. “My appreciation for indigenous culture is bigger than myself. I recognize the harm that ignorance can have on marginalized communities, something I’d never want to perpetuate.”

“Hate, disrespect, and prejudice of any kind are not welcome in this community,” he continued. “As I’ve come into adulthood, I’ve been able to grow and learn. This growth has not stopped and will not stop here.”

Kiszka adds that the Chippewa tribe, an Indigenous people with populations in the northern Midwest and Canada, had a “particularly profound impact” on his early life growing up in Michigan.

“I have made a charitable donation [to] the First Nations Development Institute to help keep indigenous traditions like theirs alive and well,” he wrote.

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Jada Pinkett Smith, her mother Adrienne Banfield Norris and daughter Willow Smith all take a seat at the coveted “Red Table” for the long-awaited return of the Facebook Watch show, Red Table Talk. 

The multi-generational trio shared the announcement on the show’s Facebook page on Tuesday, along with the season-five trailer, which reveals the star-studded guest lineup. 

Among the visitors who will join the ladies for honest and intimate conversation is eight-time Grammy nominee and fashion icon Janelle Monae, who will open up about her coming out at the age of 32, while also sharing details about healing from the trauma caused by her father’s drug addiction. Monae will be joined by her mother who, in the trailer, expresses gratitude for being invited on the show. 

Future episodes will feature the heartbroken parents of Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, who tragically died by suicide earlier this year. Ireland Baldwin and her mother, Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger, will also appear and reveal how anxiety has impacted their lives. 

‘Tinder Swindler’ victim Ayleen Charlotte will also have a seat at the red table, as will Smith children Willow, Jaden and Trey, making their first solo appearance on the show. “The fact that we haven’t done this yet is ridiculous,” Willow says in the trailer. 

Last year’s Red Table Talk included candid discussion from guests including Alicia Keys, Kevin Hart, Snoop Dogg, Ciara and more. 

The Emmy-winning weekly series returns Wednesday, April 20 at 12 p.m. ET on the show’s Facebook Watch page.

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