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YoungBoy Never Broke Again‘s request to be released from prison has been granted, and now he is serving his sentence under house arrest.

The rapper, born Kentrell Gaulden, was released from the St. Martin Parish jail in Louisiana Tuesday afternoon, according to ABC Baton Rouge affiliate WBRZ-TV. Federal prosecutors agreed to allow Gaulden out of jail on a $1.5 million bond for a California charge of a felon in possession of a firearm. Home detention was ordered for separate gun and drug possession charges in Baton Rouge, and he is now being monitored at his home in Utah.

Over 150,000 people signed a Change.org petition asking President Joe Biden to release YoungBoy.

The 21-year-old rapper has been in custody since March after he was arrested in Los Angeles. He was previously arrested in September 2020 during a video shoot in Baton Rouge, which is his home town. Three weeks ago, YoungBoy’s latest album, Sincerely, Kentrell, replaced Drake‘s Certified Lover Boy at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart. This week it ranks number four. He recorded the album over the phone while incarcerated.
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Gaulden is the first hip hop artist to have a number-one album in each of the last three years: 2021, 2020 and 2019. His previous studio album, 2020’s Top, and his respective 2020 and 2019 mixtapes, 38 Baby 2 and Al YoungBoy 2, each reached the top of the Billboard 200.

Gaulden has kicked off the Sincerely, Kentrell freestyle competition by inviting fans to rap over album instrumental tracks on a special YouTube channel. The grand prize winner will receive a free recording session with his studio engineer, Jason “Cheese” Goldberg. 

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All That Remains has announced a U.S. tour celebrating the 15th anniversary of the band’s 2006 album, The Fall of Ideals.

The 2022 outing is set to kick off March 12 with a home-state show in Worcester, Massachusetts, and will make its way throughout the country before wrapping up back on the East Coast on May 20 in Hartford, Connecticut.

“We have some really cool things planned,” frontman Phil Labonte says of the tour. “We hope you’ll come out and celebrate with us.”

Tickets go on sale this Friday, October 29, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit AllThatRemainsOnline.com.

The Fall of Ideals, All That Remains’ third album, was produced by Killswitch Engage‘s Adam Dutkiewicz. The record saw the group continue to shift from their early death metal sound to more of a metalcore style.

As previously reported, a 15th anniversary vinyl reissue of The Fall of Ideals is due out November 12.

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Billie Eilish and Rainn Wilson are reuniting in an effort for climate change action.

The “bad guy” star and The Office actor have each recorded a video message addressing world leaders ahead of the upcoming 2021 UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, aka COP26.

“We must stand together and speak up to save our planet, not just for us, but for our future generations,” Eilish says. “We need urgent, urgent action now and to work together as one.”

Wilson adds, “The decisions that [world leaders] make about the climate crisis in the next decade are the most important decisions in our planet’s history.”

COP26 takes place from October 31 to November 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Eilish, of course, is a giant fan of The Office, and even sampled dialogue from the show on her song “my strange addiction.” In 2019, Wilson surprised her with an Office trivia contest.

“We must stand together and speak up to save our planet, not just for us, but for our future generations and we need urgent, urgent action now and to work together as one”- the amazing @billieeilish gives an important message to world leaders ahead of #COP26 @ArcticBasecamp pic.twitter.com/sK1T1l8NUM

— University of Exeter (@UniofExeter) October 26, 2021

Actor @rainnwilson says the world’s leaders need courage more than anything and their decisions that they make about the #climatecrisis in the next decade are the most important in our planet’s history. @ArcticBasecamp pic.twitter.com/rpSOsrdSyw

— University of Exeter (@UniofExeter) October 26, 2021

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Olivia Rodrigo is dishing on the behind-the-scenes of her White House visit earlier this year.

During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night, the 18-year-old revealed that she left the visit with some pretty unusual gifts from President Joe Biden himself, including a pair of aviator sunglasses that they both wore in a photo op together.

“He gave me those, he gave me some M&Ms and he also gave me a shoehorn, which was strange…it had the presidential emblem on it, I’m serious,” she said. “It’s in my house.”

Kimmel laughed and joked, “Well if you ever thought Joe Biden was too old to be president, now we know he is. He’s giving out shoehorns.”

Olivia had been invited to the White House back in July to meet with President Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci to support the administration’s COVID-19 vaccine initiative.

“The White House is just the coolest place,” she told Kimmel. “I was so nervous to go, but I walked in here and there were all these plates that George Washington used to eat his dinner on. All of this crazy stuff, and I was scared I was going to sneeze and break such a priceless artifact, but I walked out and didn’t break anything.”

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Alicia Keys has a double treat for her fans.

The 15-time Grammy winner announced Tuesday she is dropping a two-album set which she says is “coming soon.” 

“My new album, Keys, will have two types of songs,” she commented with an Instagram video. The first album named, Originals, which Alicia produced, features “laid back piano vibes.’ The second disc, named Unlocked, which she produced with Mike WiLL Made-it, is described as “upbeat, drums, level up vibes.”

In September, the former Voice coach released “LALA” featuring Swae Lee from Rae Sremmurd, which is the first single from Unlocked. They performed the song for the first time last month at the MTV VMAs.

Alicia recently posted a video from their recording session and wrote, “The writing process….It’s always so different. Sometimes it’s instant. Sometimes it takes days, weeks, even months. This was such an easy vibe tho. It just flowed @swaelee @mikewillmadeit.”

“My favorite line is ‘love out of this world, out of this nebula,'” she continued. “I’ve never used nebula in a song before. But I have used Medulla oblongata. I’m that fresh!!”

Last week, the 40-year-old singer performed at the Robin Hood Foundation’s annual charity gala in New York City which raises funds for poverty-fighting programs in the New York area.

Her Noted: Alicia Keys The Untold Stories docu-series, which premiered September 30, is currently available on her YouTube Channel. Keys has also written a young adult graphic novel named after her 2012, five-times platinum hit, Girl on Fire, which will be published March 1, 2022.

 

 

 

 

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Dierks Bentley’s been out on the road for his 2021 Beers on Me Tour for the past few months, and he’s having too much fun to quit now. The singer just announced a winter leg of the tour, set to kick off in January.

The fun will start with a string of dates in Canada, before Dierks and the gang head south for a batch of shows in the U.S. Among them is a marquee show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena in late February. The tour is now set to wrap in early March in Toledo, Ohio.

This time around, Dierks’ opening acts will be Jordan Davis, Tenille Arts and Lainey Wilson.

Dierks’ new tour plans arrive on the same day he’s dropping his new music video for “Beers on Me,” the song that lends its name to the tour. The clip — featuring collaborators Hardy and Breland, the latter of whom joined Dierks for the last leg of the Beers on Me tour — follows the singer and his pals as they pass out free beer to random passersby in Nashville.

Tickets for the next stretch of Dierks’ tour go on sale on Friday, Nov. 5 at 10AM local time.

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Miranda Lambert has a new accolade under her belt: She was recently inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Houston, Texas.

The country star was among a class of 2021 inductees that also includes Lavonna “Shorty” Koger, a former rodeo contestant and leading industry cowboy hat-maker, Olympic equestrian Kathryn Kusner and more.

The National Cowgirl Hall of Fame recognizes women who exemplify the Western spirit of resilience and independence. Though it focuses on women pursuing cowboy-centric careers, the Hall recognizes a wide variety of women who bring the cowgirl spirit to whatever it is they do.

It’s a timely honor for Miranda, as she just released her newest single, “If I Was a Cowboy.”

You can also catch her performing at the upcoming 2021 CMA Awards show, which airs on ABC on Wednesday, November 10.

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One very specific person has now heard a new Rammstein song.

Drummer Chris Schneider premiered the track for Thomas Pesquet, an astronaut and current commander of the International Space Station. In an Instagram post, Schneider shares that speaking with Pesquet felt like a “child’s dream coming true.”

“Talking to a person living in the sky, sharing a glimpse of his view, realizing again how small we all are compared to the depth of the universe…” Schneider writes.

“[Pesquet] was the first to listen to one of our new songs from the upcoming album,” the drummer adds. “It premiered in the sky, which is an honor for us.”

Rammstein recorded a new album while in lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s the follow-up to 2019’s untitled effort.

There’s no word yet on when all of us Earth-bound people will get to hear new Rammstein music. Hopefully it will arrive in time for the German metal titans’ first-ever North American stadium tour, which finally kicks off in August 2022 after several COVID-related delays.

Pesquet, meanwhile, seems to be the go-to person for music premieres lately — he also debuted Coldplay‘s “Higher Power” single aboard the ISS.

 

 

 

 

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So far this year, Adele’s put out exactly one single, but that hasn’t stopped her from getting a bunch of nominations for the 2021 People’s Choice Awards.

The “Easy On Me” singer is up for Female Artist of 2021, Song of 2021 and Video of 2021 at the annual ceremony,  which will air simultaneously on NBC and E! on December 7 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

BTS and Justin Bieber are also up for multiple awards: BTS is up for Group, as well as Song and Video for “Butter” and “My Universe.”  Justin is up for Male Artist, plus Song, Collaboration and Video for “Stay” and “Peaches” and Album for Justice.  Lil Nas X is nominated in those same categories.

Olivia Rodrigo is up for Female Artist, Song and Video for “good 4 u,” New Artist and album for SOUR. Other artists with multiple nominations include Billie Eilish, Doja Cat and The Kid LAROI.

A new category this year is Pop Special of 2021, where nominees include Pink‘s documentary All I Know So Far, Billie’s The World’s A Little Blurry, Justin’s Our World and Demi Lovato‘s Dancing with the Devil.

You can vote now online at VotePCA.com or on Twitter with the category hashtag and nominee hashtag.

THE MALE ARTIST OF 2021
Bad Bunny
Drake
Ed Sheeran
Justin Bieber
Lil Nas X
Luke Combs
Shawn Mendes
The Weeknd

THE FEMALE ARTIST OF 2021
Adele
Billie Eilish
Cardi B
Doja Cat
Halsey
Megan Thee Stallion
Olivia Rodrigo
Saweetie

THE GROUP OF 2021
BTS
Coldplay
Dan + Shay
Imagine Dragons
Jonas Brothers
Maroon 5
Migos
twenty one pilots

THE SONG OF 2021
“Butter,”  BTS
“Bad Habits,” Ed Sheeran
“Easy On Me,” Adele
“good 4 u,” Olivia Rodrigo
“MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name),” Lil Nas X
“Peaches,” Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon
“STAY,” The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
“Up,” Cardi B

THE ALBUM OF 2021
Certified Lover Boy, Drake
Culture III, Migos
Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish
Justice, Justin Bieber
MONTERO, Lil Nas X
Planet Her, Doja Cat
Sour, Olivia Rodrigo
star-crossed, Kacey Musgraves

THE NEW ARTIST OF 2021
24kGoldn
Bella Poarch
Giveon
Olivia Rodrigo
Rauw Alejandro
Tate McRae
The Kid LAROI
TOMORROW X TOGETHER

THE MUSIC VIDEO OF 2021
“Butter”, BTS
“Easy On Me,” Adele
“good 4 u,” Olivia Rodrigo
“LOCATION,” KAROL G, Anuel AA, J Balvin
“MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name),” Lil Nas X
“My Universe,” Coldplay X BTS
“Peaches,” Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon
“STAY,” The Kid LAROI, Justin Bieber

THE COLLABORATION SONG OF 2021
“Best Friend,” Saweetie feat. Doja Cat
“INDUSTRY BABY,”  Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow
“Kiss Me More,” Doja Cat feat. SZA
“Leave The Door Open,” Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak)
“Peaches,” Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon
“STAY,” The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
“Way 2 Sexy,” Drake feat. Future & Young Thug
“You Right,” Doja Cat, The Weeknd

THE POP SPECIAL OF 2021
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry
Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil
Friends: The Reunion
Justin Bieber: Our World
Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg
Oprah with Meghan and Harry
P!nk: All I Know So Far
Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 3
 

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