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This year’s Super Bowl won’t happen until February 13, but you can get ready for the star-studded halftime show right now, thanks to a cinematic trailer that Pepsi just dropped on Thursday.

Directed by Straight Outta Compton and Friday director F. Gary Gray, the trailer is titled The Call, and it features four of this year’s halftime headliners — Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar — all receiving a mysterious call that makes them rush off by plane, car and bicycle to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the site of the big game.

As each performer appears in the trailer, we hear one of their hits: “Rap God,” “The Next Episode,” “Family Affair” and “HUMBLE.”

The call comes from the fifth headliner, Dr. Dre, introduced by his hit “Still D.R.E.” He meets up with the other four outside the stadium. As they walk towards it, “California Love” begins to play.

“Each time I collaborate with Dre, it seems to mark an important moment in entertainment history, from projects like Friday, Set It Off, Straight Outta Compton, to now the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show,” Gray said in a statement. “As a super fan, I consider it an honor and privilege to authentically build and create this moment with five of the most legendary artists in music history. It’s been a blast!”

In the coming days, look for information on giveaways, including limited-edition Super Bowl LVI footballs signed by Dr. Dre, plus news on how you can win some of the props from the trailer shoot.

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Ghost has announced a new album called Impera.

The fifth studio effort from the Swedish metallers will arrive March 11. It includes the previously released single “Hunter’s Moon,” as well as the just-dropped new track “Call Me Little Sunshine,” which is available now for digital download.

“Over the course of Impera‘s 12-song cycle, empires rise and fall, would-be messiahs ply their hype (financial and spiritual alike), prophecies are foretold as the skies fill with celestial bodies divine and man-made,” a press release declares, adding that the record covers “the most current and topical Ghost subject matter to date.”

Impera is the follow-up to 2018’s Grammy-nominated Prequelle, which spawned the singles “Rats,” “Dance Macabre” and “Faith.”

Ghost will celebrate the new album announcement with a performance on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, airing at 11:35 p.m. ET on ABC.

Here’s the Impera track list:

“Imperium”
“Kaisarion”
“Spillways”
“Call Me Little Sunshine”
“Hunter’s Moon”
“Watcher in the Sky”
“Dominion”
“Twenties”
“Darkness at the Heart of My Love”
“Grift Wood”
“Bite of Passage”
“Respite on the Spital Fields”

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24 years ago today, *NSYNC‘s debut single “I Want You Back” was released in the U.S., so let’s check in and find out the status of that movie Lance Bass announced he was making based on the true story of two girls who won a Winnebago on The Price Is Right in 1999 and used it to follow *NSYNC on tour that year. Well, it’s definitely happening.

“It is finally being written right now,” Lance told ABC Audio a few months ago. “I wanted to make sure that this movie was written by, one, females, and people that knew that fandom and appreciated that fandom. And this writing team knows that.”

Lance added that Rachel Bloom –best known for co-creating and starring in the musical comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend — is involved.

“We’re toying with how much of a musical we’re doing,” he explained. “There’s going to be tons of music in it, y’know, the way Pitch Perfect does it, where they break into song and dance, but it makes sense.”

The movie’s set 20 years after the original 1999 road trip, Lance said, adding, “We just want it to be kind of fun, over-the-top…I want that R-rated road trip comedy that you just have a lot of fun with.”

Meanwhile, *NSYNC’s Joey Fatone told ABC Audio that Lance has wanted to make this movie since the original 1999 road trip.

“From day one, when these girls won The Price Is Right, and they were following us, we started giving them tickets…we kinda sponsored them a little bit,” he noted. “And [Lance] even said, ‘One day, I want to do a film about this’…so it was really cool to hear that he’s going to be doing this, [with] a couple of really, really, really great writers.” 

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Twenty One Pilots have earned a new chart milestone thanks to “The Outside.”

The track, the current single off the duo’s new album, Scaled and Icy, has hit number one on the Billboard Alternative Airplay ranking, making it the 10th Twenty One Pilots tune to achieve that feat.

The “Stressed Out” outfit is now just the sixth act to rack up at least 10 Alternative Airplay leaders since the chart first began in 1988. The other five are Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Linkin Park, Foo Fighters and Cage the Elephant.

The Chili Peppers have the most number-ones, with 13.

Scaled and Icy also produced chart-toppers in “Shy Away” and “Saturday.” Twenty One Pilots will launch a U.S. tour in support of the record in August.

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After releasing his first album in five years, Love Is the New Black, in September, Anthony Hamilton is celebrating receiving three NAACP Image Awards nominations on Tuesday. The Grammy winner is up for Outstanding Male Artist,and has two nods for Outstanding Duo or Group Collaboration: “Superstar” featuring Jennifer Hudson from the album is nominated, as well the “Complicated” remix with Leela James.

Growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a teenager Anthony chose to be adopted by another family after his mother struggled with substance abuse. He became a father right out of high school and supported his son working as a barber and as a cook. Eventually, at 21 he moved to New York City to pursue a music career, then returned home where his career took off. Last year, Hamilton celebrated his 25th anniversary as a recording artist.

His life has been a struggle, and he believes his journey can inspire others.

“I’m at an age where I’m not ashamed by it,” the 50-year-old singer tells Shadow and Act. “If it can be used to tell the story of Anthony Hamilton, maybe some young kid or one of my own kids can see something in that to push them through to their next level of greatness.”

Now the “Charlene” singer is diversifying and owns the Hamilton Corner Store in Pineville, NC where he sells the southern foods he grew up on.

“I want my own grocery stores in the urban communities like Whole Foods and Publix for my people,” Anthony says. “We deserve the best of the best.”

Hamilton will join Joe on Maxwell‘s NIGHT tour kicking off March 2 in Dallas. They will perform 25 shows, and cities will include New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, and Oakland. The tour wraps in Miami on May 8.

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The deluxe version of Brothers Osborne’s Skeletons arrives on Friday, bumping up the original track list to 15 with three new songs.

Fans have already heard one of those, “Younger Me,” and the other two are called “Headstone” and “Midnight Rider’s Prayer.” The latter is a tip-of-the-hat to Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again,” which it even samples.

The idea came after band mate John Osborne was looking for a chorus with the same feel and style as “On the Road Again,” and his brother TJ Osborne suggested simply using it.

“TJ just goes, ‘Well, why don’t we use that chorus?’ I’m like, ‘Because it’s already been written,’” John remembers. “He’s like, no, no, no…they do that a lot in pop songs and stuff.’ This has never really been done in country before.”

They sent the demo to the legend himself, and got a response that was even better than they could have dreamed.

“He liked it enough that he played it for Kris Kristofferson,” John continues.

But while the song pays homage — literally — to “On the Road Again,” “Midnight Rider’s Prayer” isn’t quite as carefree as the original. “At the time when we wrote that song, John and I were still in the phase of riding around in 12-passenger vans and getting beat up by the road,” TJ remembers.

“There’s a spot in the song John and I both really love,” he continues. “‘When your night is ending, ours is just beginning, on the road again.’ And that’s how it is.”

Look for Brothers Osborne on an upcoming episode of ABC’s Nightline. The show airs weeknights at 12:35AM ET.

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In 2019, Mastodon released a cover of the Led Zeppelin classic “Stairway to Heaven” as a tribute to their late manager, Nick John. The band continued to honor John with their new album, Hushed and Grim, which is dedicated to his memory.

In listening to both the “Stairway” cover and Hushed and Grim, you may find that both have a similar, well, hushed quality. When asked whether he thinks any of “Stairway to Heaven” made its way into Hushed and Grim, drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor tells ABC Audio, “I hope it found its way into something.”

“I’d never claim that,” Dailor laughs.

Covering “Stairway” in the first place, was, of course, a daunting task for Mastodon. After all, “No ‘Stairway'” is, as Wayne’s World taught us, one of the few rules of rock n’ roll.

“When you do a cover, especially something so iconic like that, like, who’s covering ‘Stairway to Heaven?'” Dailor says. “It’s, like, a big no-no, you know what I mean?”

Mastodon eventually decided to go through with it as a special tribute to John by performing “Stairway” at his funeral. They later recorded the cover and released it to raise money for cancer research.

In addition to honoring Mastodon’s beloved manager, covering “Stairway” allowed Dailor to dig deeper into the epic rock classic. That exploration of its iconic slow build and massive crescendo, Dailor thinks, may have influenced Hushed and Grim.

“I guess that I would say that there’s some stuff on the record that’s more in-line with something like that than anything we’ve really done previously,” Dailor says. “So maybe it subconsciously made its way into [us thinking], ‘Let’s try to have a vibe like that.'”

Hushed and Grim is out now. It includes the single “Teardrinker.”

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Last November, fans were shocked to hear that 25-year-old Hannah Price — daughter of Chris Daughtry and his wife Deanna — had died.  Now, the couple has issued a statement revealing that she died by suicide while under the influence of narcotics.

The statement explains that Hannah had always “struggled with mental illness and was in and out of therapy and treatment centers.”  She also “began using drugs and often found herself abusive relationships.” Then, just months after she lost her biological father to suicide, Hannah was the victim of a crime and was shot in the face.

“We did everything we could to support her and get her the help she needed to recover from these tragedies and get her life back on track,” Chris and Deanna say. “We had just recently made plans with Hannah for her to seek further treatment and move closer to the family.”

On the morning of November 12, the couple says Hannah told them she feared for her life because her boyfriend had allegedly physically abused her and taken her car.  Chris and Deanna asked the local police department to perform a wellness check; they found she was O.K.  But later that afternoon, Hannah was found hanging by her boyfriend, who called 911. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

“After a thorough investigation…they have determined her official cause of death as suicide by hanging while under the influence of narcotics,” the statement concludes. “It has been determined that there is no evidence of foul play.”

The couple adds that Hannah “was a generous and loving person who wanted more for herself and others. She will forever be in the hearts and minds of those of us who love her.”

Daughtry’s tour resumes February 9.

If you are in crisis or know someone in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860 (U.S.) or 877-330-6366 (Canada) and The Trevor Project at 866-488-7386. 

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