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Steven Tyler has unveiled details of the 2022 edition of his annual Janie’s Fund Grammy Awards Viewing Party, set for April 3 at the Hollywood Palladium, which will feature a special headlining performance by Miley Cyrus.

In a press release, the Aerosmith frontman officially announced Miley as the entertainer for the fourth annual installment of gala, which benefits his Janie’s Fund charity. Tyler chose Cyrus because of her support for Janie’s Fund, which aims to help female victims of abuse and neglect.

“The support that this GRAMMY Awards Viewing Party has received is incredibly moving, and we can’t wait to continue the tradition this year,” Steven says in a statement. “Miley joined me in this important work when we launched Janie’s Fund in 2015 and is a powerful voice and advocate for women. I can’t think of another artist that better aligns with our mission…It’s going to be an incredible night.”

Aside from a special performance, the festivities will include an auction, a red carpet, a cocktail hour and more. Among those serving as event chairs are Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson,  Jim Carrey, Sharon Stone, John Stamos, Kelsey Grammer and Terry Crews.  Elton John, Lionel Richie, Andrea Bocelli, Tiffany Haddish and Bill Maher are among the honorary chairs for the event.

Tyler’s first viewing party was held in 2018 and, since then, the event has raised more than $7.6 million for Janie’s Fund.

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Interpol has announced a U.S. tour for this spring.

The headlining outing kicks off April 25 in Dallas, and will wrap up with a two-night hometown stand in New York City on May 14 and 15. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit InterpolNYC.com.

Following the headlining dates, Interpol will play the previously announced 2022 Just Like Heaven festival, taking place May 21 in Pasadena, California. The bill also includes many other bands from the 2000s indie scene, including The Shins, Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party.

Along with the tour announcement, Interpol has released a video showing the group working on new music at Battery Studio in London. Their most recent record is 2018’s Marauder.

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Mudvayne‘s Chad Gray has revealed that he was experiencing COVID-19 symptoms during the band’s first comeback show at the Inkcarceration festival last September.

In an interview with Danny Wimmer Presents, Gray shares that he didn’t know he had COVID during the festival, only that he “couldn’t figure out what the f*** was going on with my body.”

“That day, [I was] super short of breath,” Gray says. “My voice didn’t seem to wanna warm up. My throat was f***ing super dry all day.”

Gray later tested positive after the performance, which forced Mudvayne to cancel their set at the Louder than Life festival in late September.

“It f***ing wiped me out,” Gray says of the virus.

“That’s one thing, too, about COVID,” he adds. “One day you might have this sinus thing going on, the next day it’s in your chest. The next day it’s in your throat, the next day you’re really lethargic and tired, and then it’s back in your chest. You can’t f***ing wrap your head around it.”

The Inkcarceration set marked Mudvayne’s first live performance together since 2009. They also played last fall’s Aftershock and Welcome to Rockville festivals.

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Former One Direction singer Liam Payne is recovering from COVID-19 and, in a message to fans Wednesday, he revealed that means he needs to postpone an upcoming performance.

“I’m so sorry to announce that I’m having to push back next Here’s To The Future show… Unfortunately I had COVID and will not be ready in time to give you the show you all deserve,” the singer announced via Instagram. 

Liam knew fans would be disappointed, so he decided to more than make it up to those who were hoping to see him perform. “We’ve decided to now do something extra special,” he teased, “and move the show back a few weeks to Saturday 12th February, just in time for Valentine’s Day!!”

The “Strip That Down” artist vowed tickets for his original date will be good for his new show and he told fans he will “see you soon.”

Liam’s Here’s To The Future virtual showcase is meant to highlight new and emerging acts that have his seal of approval.  The upcoming date will feature artists Madilyn Bailey, Just Stef, Lyn Lapid and iamnotshane.  Tickets for the 3 p.m. EST show are on sale now for $15 on his website.

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Dolly Parton fans can have their cake and eat it, too. The singer just launched a partnership with baked-goods line Duncan Hines, offering two cake mix flavors and buttercream icing to match.

The mixes, Southern Style Coconut Flavored Cake Mix and Southern Style Banana Flavored Cake Mix, will hit shelves this March. Plus, Dolly has assembled special baking collection boxes, including both flavors of cake mix, plus buttercream and chocolate buttercream icings, a custom spatula and a tea towel. Those boxes went on sale Wednesday morning, and by 10:30 a.m. ET, they had sold out.

Dolly, who also recently announced the second round of her Jeni’s Splendid custom Strawberry Pretzel Pie ice cream flavor, tells People that sweets were a rare treat in her home growing up.

“Growing up poor, we didn’t have a lot of sugar, so we didn’t have cakes all the time,” she remembers. “So when Mama made special cakes, we loved being in the kitchen.”

The singer still loves cake, but she admits that her biggest culinary weakness isn’t necessarily a dessert.

“If I’ve been on a low-carb diet or something for a while, the first thing I want to do when I break it is have some cake — or potatoes. That’s my weakness,” she admits. “Usually that’s why I fall off any diet, is for the love of some sort of a potato.”

Dolly’s also got a new book coming out. Her first novel, Run Rose Run — which she co-wrote with James Patterson — will be published in March. She’s also releasing a companion album of the same name.

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Megan Thee Stallion joins Jennifer Lopez in the new Coach spring 2022 “That’s My Ride” fashion campaign which was unveiled Tuesday.

The “Hot Girl Summer” stars in a 30-second commercial modeling Coach designs as she has fun riding bumper cars at a seaside amusement park to the music of Patrice Rushen‘s 1982 Grammy nominated track, “Forget Me Nots.”

“THEE main attraction. Riding with @coach’s iconic Horse and Carriage print for Spring 2022,” Megan commented on Instagram. “What’s your ride hotties?”

Coach is one of several endorsements for the three-time Grammy winner. She will also appear in a Super Bowl commercial for Frito-Lay. In a comical teaser she posted this week, as Meg walks toward her trailer and attempts to enter, she is shocked to see the long arm of an animal reach out the door, knock her name plate on the ground, and lock the door from inside.

Last year, the Glamour Woman of the Year honoree became a partner with the Popeye’s chicken franchise, and signed a production deal with Netflix. In 2020, the “Body” rapper was named a Revlon global ambassador.

In March, Thee Stallion will join the Dupa Lipa “Future Nostalgia” tour, and in April, she will perform at the Coachella Festival.

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Mutton chops, “mad farmers who can’t get to their fields” and “me trying to be GQ”: Tim McGraw takes a walk down music video memory lane in a new reaction video the singer posted to his YouTube channel.

The singer looks back at three videos — 1994’s “Down on the Farm,” 2003’s “She’s My Kind of Rain” and 2016’s “Humble and Kind” — in the clip. He takes plenty of cracks at his fashion sense and youthful sensibilities throughout the video, but Tim has some sentimental stories to share, too, like how Oprah Winfrey helped inspire the music video for “Humble and Kind.”

“I knew that when we did the video, we had to figure out some way to make it special,” he remembers.

He got inspired after watching the trailer for Oprah’s Belief documentary series, which featured footage of people across the world, from a variety of different cultures.

“I thought, ‘Boy, that’s the way I want this video to look,’” Tim explains. So he sent the song to [producer, director and actor] Tyler Perry, a partner in Oprah’s OWN network, asking if it would be possible to use some of the footage from Belief for his video.

“I sent him the song, and he called me back, and he was crying on the phone about how wonderful the song is,” the singer recounts. “And he said, ‘I just sent it to Oprah, I hope you don’t mind, and she said you can have any of the footage that you want.’”

Tim concludes, “I just think it’s one of the most beautiful videos that we’ve ever shot.”

“Humble and Kind” won several awards, including Video of the Year at the 2016 CMT Music Awards.

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Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is a big fan of his band’s “My Universe” collaboration with BTS and, in a new interview, he joked the stylish septet has a “bizarre” effect on his group.  According to the British singer, BTS makes Coldplay look like a gang of awkward older men.

“It’s quite a bizarre,” he laughed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday as he pointed to a photo of them all posing together. “We look like their gym teachers.”  Still, Chris has nothing but nice things to say about the Grammy nominees.

“I genuinely love these people,” he stated. “It was cool to see how their life is.  It’s a very different kind of band to us.  And it’s much more disciplined in a certain way.”  Chris added that Coldplay might not adapt very well to their strict schedule, but said he enjoyed being a part of their world when they spent time in Korea to work on “My Universe.”

He revealed how Coldplay and BTS’ worlds collided, saying the septet “asked [us] to do a song with them,” and Chris wondered, given their different sounds and styles, “How are we going to fit these two things together?”

“Then the idea started to seem really attractive in its weirdness, and then one day the right song arrived,” he continued. “It felt really natural.”

“My Universe” went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the British group’s first chart topper since 2008’s “Viva La Vida.”

Looking ahead to Coldplay’s future, Chris confirmed the band has three more albums in them — and one will be a musical — and they’ll all be out by 2025. “I think that’s what feels right, to us,” he clarified, adding they’ll still go on tours together, but, “the story of our albums ends then.”

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Billie Eilish is giving her artsy fans something to talk about — she’s hosting an art contest where one lucky winner will have their artwork predominantly displayed during her tour.

Taking to her Instagram stories on Wednesday, the “bad guy” hitmaker announced, “I’m going on tour this year and designing merch right now and I know how creative all of you guys are, so I wanted to see if you guys would like to be involved!”

The Grammy winner excitedly continued, “I am going to pick out my favorite piece of fanart to be on one piece of official merch on my tour.”  She added she “cannot wait” to start judging submissions because “I know it’s gonna be amazing.”

Billie has teamed with the art program, Adobe, for her ongoing contest that aims to find the perfect design for her tour t-shirt.  “Your creativity could be on display in the merch booth and onstage before her show,” the Billie Eilish X Adobe disclaimer adds.

In addition, the grand prize winner will be hooked up with $10,000 and will be flown to one of Billie’s shows, where they can bring a friend to enjoy the concert.  Plus, for all you artsy folk, the big winner will also cash in on a full-year free subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, which grants full access to their numerous apps.

There will be 10 runners-up, who will be awarded $1,000 each and also be able to fly to one of Billie’s upcoming tour dates with a friend.  Those who make the cut will also be able to see their artwork up on the stage.

To enter, designs must be made using an Adobe app and be posted to Instagram using the two hashtags “#BillieXAdobe” and “#Contest.” The deadline is February 15.

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After Kanye West said that he personally delivered a second sex tape to his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, Kim claims that the video does not contains any sexual content.

The first video, titled Kim Kardashian, Superstar, featuring Ray J, was recorded in 2002 while Ray and Kim were celebrating her 23rd birthday in Mexico. It was released in 2007 by Vivid Entertainment. Kardashian filed a lawsuit against the company, then later dropped the suit and settled for a reported $5 million. Last year, Ray’s former manager, Wack 100, claimed in September he had possession of a second sex video that “was more graphic and better than the first one.”

Kanye said in an interview with Hollywood Unlocked with Jason Lee Uncensored that he retrieved a second sex tape and gave it to Kim. “I went and got the laptop from Ray J myself,” West said. “Got on the red-eye and met this man at the airport, then got on the red-eye, came back, delivered it to her at 8 a.m. in the morning.”

“She cried when she saw it,” Yeezy continued. “You know why she cried when she seen the laptop? It represents how much she’s been used. It represents how much people didn’t love her and they just saw her as a commodity.”

“After review, there was nothing sexual unseen, only footage on the plane on the way to Mexico and footage at a club and restaurant on the same trip,” Kardashian’s representative tells Entertainment Tonight. “Kim remains firm in her belief that there is no new second tape that exists. After 20 years, she truly wishes to move on from this chapter with focus instead on the positive things she continues to do as a mother, entrepreneur and advocate for justice reform.”

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