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Three of country music’s biggest names are among the performers at the 2021 American Music Awards. Carrie Underwood and Jason Aldean are slated to perform their duet, “If I Didn’t Love You,” which recently went number one at country radio.

Meanwhile, Kane Brown will take the stage for a rendition of “One Mississippi,” which he’s delivering from the campus of Tennessee State University, which is an HBCU, or historically black college and university.

Both performances are part of the “My Hometown” featured segment on this year’s AMAs, which focuses on the influence artists take from their hometowns. For Kane, that means charting his Tennessee and Georgia roots and his journey toward becoming one of the most successful artists in country music.

Jason and Carrie’s performance will also spotlight their Southern roots. Carrie is an Oklahoma native, while Jason hails from Georgia.

The 2021 AMAs airs on November 21 at 8 p.m. EST on ABC. The fan-voted ceremony will take place at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, and will be hosted by rapper Cardi B.

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Halestorm members Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger are performing during Thursday night’s Rock to Remember, a streaming charity concert in honor of Veterans Day.

The online event is being put on by Gibson guitars and Guitars for Vets, an organization that provides guitars and music lessons to military veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.

Other artists taking part in Rock to Remember include Daughtry, Theory of a Deadman‘s Tyler Connolly, and Anthrax vocalist Joey Belladonna. Additionally, several participants in the Guitars for Vets program will be performing their own original music.

You can tune in to watch starting at 8 p.m. ET via Guitars4Vets.org.

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If you got the chance to sing with the two biggest female stars in pop music, you’d want to tell everyone about the experience, right?  Not if you’re country superstar Chris Stapleton.

Chris is the duet partner of choice for Taylor Swift and Adele: He sings with Taylor on “I Bet You Think About Me,” a “From the Vault” track on Red (Taylor’s Version), which comes out Friday; and with Adele on a bonus track on her album, 30, which comes out later this month.  But backstage at the CMA Awards Wednesday night, when asked to reveal what that was like, Chris was a gentleman and kept his lips zipped.

“I can tell you very simply, they called and I answered,” Chris told reporters. “Y’know, those are calls that you, when you pick up, you’re like, ‘What do you want me to do? O.K. cool.’ Y’know, that’s how that goes.”

“So that’s what I can tell you about it,” he added, maddeningly. “The rest of it, they’ll have to tell you on their own time.”

Sure, Chris — because Taylor and Adele just love talking to the press.

By the way, Chris is also the duet partner of choice for another big female pop star: He sings with Kelly Clarkson on her new holiday album …When Christmas Comes Around.  And Wednesday night, he sang with another American Idol alum, Jennifer Hudson.

And he doesn’t limit himself to female pop stars, either: Chris also sang with Justin Timberlake on JT’s most recent album, 2018’s Man of the Woods.  That came after the two brought down the house at the CMA Awards back in 2015.

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After previously announcing he will pay for funeral costs, on Thursday, Travis Scott provided an email address for victims of the Astroworld tragedy to reach out to him for assistance.

The statement, obtained by ABC News, reads:

“Over the last week, Travis Scott and his team have been actively exploring routes of connection with each and every family affected by the tragedy through the appropriate liaisons. He is distraught by the situation and desperately wishes to share his condolences and provide aid to them as soon as possible, but wants to remain respectful of each family’s wishes on how they’d best like to be connected.

“To those families who would like to reach out directly to his team, please send an email to the below address where we will have a team on hand to assist: AW21information@gmail.com“

As previously reported, the “Highest in the Room” MC announced Monday that he will pay all funeral costs for those who died during the Astroworld festival last Friday in Houston, Texas. Full refunds will also be issued to all attendees who bought tickets to the event.

Scott, who organized and headlined the festival, is also providing free one-on-one online therapy for those in need. BetterHelp is offering free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist for those who sign up on its website.

The National Alliance on Mental Health, NAMI, has also established a hotline, available Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET. This hotline can be reached at 1-844-CJ NAMI 1, 844-256-2641.

Nine people died and hundreds were injured when the crowd of 50,000 rushed the stage during Scott’s performance. The ninth victim died Wednesday night, according to a statement from the victim’s family attorney, obtained by ABC News.

At least 46 people have filed lawsuits accusing Scott and promoter Live Nation of negligence in operating the Astroworld festival, according to Billboard.

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Last year, Lindsey Stirling couldn’t do her annual Christmas tour so instead, she did a special livestream performance called Lindsey Stirling: Home for the Holidays.  This year, you will be able to see her live in concert — but you can also catch her in a movie theater near you throughout this holiday season.

Home for the Holidays, now featuring exclusive bonus content, will be shown as a theatrical presentation in cinemas nationwide starting Sunday, November 28, and running through December.  You can visit LindseyStirlinginTheaters.com to find out where it’s playing near you, and buy tickets.

Home for the Holidays features Lindsey performing Christmas songs from her album Warmer in the Winter — like “Angels We Have Heard on High” and “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” — as well as her hits, in a variety of stylized settings, with costumes, dancers and choreography. At one point, Lindsey even plays while hanging by her hair.

In a statement, Lindsey says she’s “thrilled” that her extravaganza is heading to theaters, adding, “Honestly, I’d love to see the show become part of an annual tradition – experiencing an old favorite while making new memories – which is part of what the holidays are all about. Music is such an important part of the holidays and so is gathering with friends and family.”

If you want to see Lindsey in person, her 2021 holiday tour, The Lindsey Stirling Christmas Program, kicks off November 26 in Memphis, TN and wraps up December 23. Visit Lindseystirling.com/tour for tickets.

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Two OGs of the boy-band genre, New Kids on the Block and New Edition, will face off against each other on the American Music Awards later this month.

The AMAs is introducing a series of segments called “My Hometown,” which will feature the places and people that helped shaped music’s biggest names.  For both New Kids and New Edition, that place is Boston, so the two will share the stage for the first time in what the show has dubbed the “Battle of Boston.”  The last time New Kids performed on the show was 2010; New Edition was last featured in 1997.

Another performance will feature Kane Brown, the country/pop star who’s recorded hits like “Be Like That,” “Memory” and “One Thing Right.”  He’ll perform at Tennessee State University, and talk about his roots in that state and in Georgia.

Hosted by Cardi B, the 2021 American Music Awards will air on November 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.  Previously announced performers include Olivia Rodrigo, BTS with Megan Thee Stallion, and Bad Bunny.

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Rise Against has released a cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival classic “Fortunate Son.”

“We actually used to cover ‘Fortunate Son’ in our early basement days,” the Chicago punks say. “To me, the song represents one of the best examples of mixing music and politics together so seamlessly that nobody questions it.”

“Fortunate Son” has a long history of being misunderstood as a patriotic, flag-waving anthem. It was originally written amid the Vietnam War as protest song about wealthy people avoiding the draft at the expense of the poor. Perhaps not coincidentally, the cover arrives on Veterans Day. 

Rise Against’s “Fortunate Son” will appear on their upcoming EP, Nowhere Sessions, which drops Friday. The collection also includes live-in-studio recordings of tracks off the band’s new album, Nowhere Generation.

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Adam Levine and his wife, Behati Prinsloo, already have two daughters — but if it was up to Behati, she’d have three more…at minimum.

The Maroon 5 frontman and the model already share Dusty Rose, 5, and Gio, 3, but Behati tells Entertainment Tonight, “I do also want five kids…we want a big family, who knows, we’re leaving it up to fate and just what happens. What will happen, will happen. So there’s no limits to it.”

Behati says that during lockdown, she started thinking that perhaps she and Adam should start expanding their family.  “With COVID too, I was just seeing them together, I’m like, ‘Maybe we should have a third just to have more kids,’ because it was so sweet to see [them together],” she explains. “But then, I don’t know. Never say never.”

Back in 2018, Adam told Ellen DeGeneres, “[Behati] was an only child, so she wants, like, 100 babies. I don’t know if I can do that. That’s a lot of babies.”  However, last year in an interview, Adam joked that his wife would “punch me in the f***ing face” if he asked her for another child, “because she’s not ready.”

In addition to parenting their kids, Behati and Adam are also working together on their new tequila brand, Calirosa Tequila.  “It’s honestly been really fun for us,” she says. “I think at the core of it, we’re truly best friends…we have so much fun together that we always want to be together. So we make that happen…we’re just a good team.”  Aww.

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