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Rise Against has premiered the video for “Talking to Ourselves,” a track off the band’s latest album, Nowhere Generation.

The clip finds a group of people in an art gallery featuring canvases of QR codes instead of paintings.

“Talking To Ourselves is about watching yourself and the people around you fall into complacency,” Rise Against says. “Despite your best efforts to get people’s attention, it feels like no one is listening.” 

“Sometimes we feel the urge to do something crazy, to disturb the peace, to jostle the world around us awake,” the band adds. “Our actions might be seen as out of the ordinary, but they are acts of desperation when all else failed.”

You can watch the “Talking to Ourselves” video streaming now on YouTube.

Nowhere Generation, the ninth Rise Against album, was released last June. Its title track gave the Chicago punks their first-ever number-one Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay hit.

Rise Against is currently on tour in support of Nowhere Generation. The outing continues Wednesday in Toronto.

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Garth Brooks is headed down to Lonestar State for the next show to be announced on his Stadium Tour.

The singer just shared details about a show he’s planning in Arlington. Set to take place in the city’s AT&T Stadium, it’ll mark the first time he’s headlined the venue, as well as the first time in seven years he’s been to North Texas for a concert.

The show will take place July 30, sandwiched in between his recently-announced Alabama show and two sold-out makeup dates in Nashville, Tennessee. Those dates are replacing a 2021 Music City show that was canceled due to inclement weather; however, some of the other dates Garth has on the books this year are in cities that he was supposed to hit last year, until pandemic-related shutdowns forced him to halt his tour plans.

Tickets for the singer’s Arlington show go on sale April 15 at 10 a.m. CT. Home of the Dallas Cowboys, the stadium can seat a whopping 80,000 fans.

Still, fans hoping to grab tickets should hurry: Garth’s Stadium Tour so far has featured some record-breaking sell-outs. When his Fayetteville, Arkansas concert went on sale, fans snapped up 70,000 tickets in just 90 minutes.

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Rihanna says her pregnancy allowed her to see her mother in a new light and appreciate her like never before.

Taking to Instagram, the “Umbrella” singer shared a throwback photo of her and her mother, Monica Braithwaite, dressed in white at what appears to be a church. 

“Today is my Queen’s birthday,” Rihanna wrote in the caption. “Being on the verge of motherhood, unlocked new levels of love and respect I have for my mommy in a way that I could never explain!”

“She’s the true MVP and I wanna give her her flowers every second I can! Love you mumzzzz!!!,” Rihanna continued. “Happy Birthday! We gon celebrate on da link up!”

Rihanna is expecting her first child with boyfriend A$AP Rocky and recently revealed she is in her third trimester.  She has yet to reveal the due date, or the name or gender of her unborn child.

In other news, the Fenty Beauty mogul was just named on Forbes’ billionaires list for the first time, ranking 1,729 on the list with an estimated personal worth of $1.7 billion, thanks in large part to her cosmetics line.

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Killswitch Engage has announced a new live album titled Live at the Palladium.

The performance was recorded during the band’s streaming concert last summer at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts. For the set, KsE played both their 2019 album, Atonement, and their 2000 self-titled debut in full.

Live at the Palladium will be released June 3. For a preview, you can check out the album’s rendition of the Atonement song “Know Your Enemy” streaming now on YouTube.

Here’s the Live at the Palladium track list:

“Unleashed”
“The Signal Fire”
“Us Against the World”
“The Crownless King”
“I Am Broken Too”
“As Sure as the Sun Will Rise”
“Know Your Enemy”
“Take Control”
“Ravenous”
“I Can’t Be the Only One”
“Bite the Hand that Feeds”
“Temple From the Within”
“Vide Infra”
“Irreversal”
“Rusted Embrace”
“Prelude”
“Soilborn”
“Numb Sickened Eyes”
“In the Unblind”
“Just Barely Breathing”

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Demi Lovato unveiled their new arm tattoo last week in honor of the charity “Choose Love,” which assists refugees worldwide.  

The “Confident” singer revealed that the new ink was done by Ukrainian tattoo artist Gusak. “It was such an honor learning about your home country,” the singer remarked.

Demi has since partnered with Choose Love in a charitable outreach to assist the more than 10 million Ukrainians who fled their home because of the Russian invasion, which began February 24.  Fans can enter on Propeller to hang with Demi in the recording studio and be among the first to hear their new music.

“Propeller will fly the winner to Los Angeles for this once-in-a-lifetime experience, put them up in a 4-star hotel, give them rideshare credit to get around, and more. Every dollar counts and donations will be matched by an anonymous donor up to $50,000,” according to a contest announcement.

To enter, donate to Propeller.la/demi-choose-love by April 13.

Demi said in a statement they wanted to support Choose Love because they are “inspired” by their work to “support displaced people around the world including those fleeing Ukraine.”

This isn’t the first time Demi has teamed with Propeller.  The “Cool for the Summer” singer previously launched a campaign in support of Pride, with funds benefiting the Human Rights Campaign, The Trevor Project and The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness.

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Camila Cabello is ready to re-introduce herself to fans on Friday with her new album, Familia.  The “Bam Bam” singer revealed why this album feels like a fresh start for her.

“I feel like a lot of people have told me, ‘This feels different than your other albums,'” she told Entertainment Tonight in a new interview. “That it feels more grounded. It feels more honest.”

Familia is Camila’s first album since her breakup with Shawn Mendes, whom she dated for two years. To help her heal from the heartbreak, the Grammy winner said she turned to her music for comfort.

“For me, my process is really cathartic,” she said of recording Familia. “It’s me kind of singing anything that I think about and feel into a microphone. I do, like, seven takes of that. I do that for, like, 25 minutes, and then me and my collaborators talk about it. Then we are like, ‘Oh, you said this, that was really cool.’ We brainstorm, we fill it in and then that becomes a song.”

Camila said “there was no barrier of pressure, of anxiety” when making her new album. “It was very unfiltered,” she noted, adding, “[I]t was literally what I was feeling that day. And I think that comes through in the music.”

“Bam Bam,” she revealed, was inspired by the vicious “cycle” of being “on the ground crying on the bathroom floor and then you’ll have feelings for another person again, and you’ll be crying on the bathroom floor again.”

Familia drops Friday.

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Luke Bryan and his wife, Caroline, are using their platform for good. 

The country couple is leading a $50 million capital campaign to raise funds for the expansion of Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville. They appeared at the groundbreaking ceremony this week for the hospital’s $200 million expansion.

“We get to have a voice to make sure this is the best health care you could ever dream of,” Luke said, according to The Tennessean. 

“This is where our children were born. This is where their doctors are. This is where my doctors are,” added Caroline, who is co-chair of the capital campaign. “Anything from a routine visit to the ER visits, everybody is just fantastic, and watching this getting ready to expand is so needed. It’s time. It’s exciting.”

Luke and his wife live in Franklin with their two sons, Bo and Tate, and their adopted nieces and nephews, Til, Jordan and Kris. 

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Ed Sheeran and his collaborators have won their copyright case over Ed’s smash hit, “Shape of You.”

As Music Week reports, the judge ruled that Ed, Johnny McDaid and Steve Mac did not plagiarize the song “Oh Why,” by Sami Chokri, who records under the name Sami Switch, while writing their number-one hit.  Following an 11-day trial, Judge Antony Zacaroli ruled that Sheeran had “neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied” Chokri’s song.

Zacaroli added that any similarities between the two were “only a starting point for a possible infringement” of copyright. Ed told the court that he’d never heard “Oh Well” until the trial.

According to Music Week, Ed’s lawyers said in a statement, “The judgement is an emphatic vindication of the creative genius of Ed, Johnny and Steve.”

Ed, Johnny and Steve issued their own lengthy statement, in which they spoke of the “cost” of the lawsuits, noting, “There is a cost on creativity. When we are tangled up in lawsuits, we are not making music or playing shows. There is a cost on our mental health. The stress this causes on all sides is immense…It is so painful to hear someone publicly, and aggressively, challenge your integrity.”

They conclude, “Our message to songwriters everywhere is: Please support each other. Be kind to one another. Let’s continue to cultivate a spirit of community and creativity.”

Ed additionally posted a video statement online, pointing out in part that with only “12 notes available…and very few chords used in pop music, coincidence is bound to happen.”

He continued, “I hope with this ruling, it means in the future baseless claims like this can be avoided…Hopefully, we can all get back to writing songs rather than having to prove that we can write them.”

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Reba McEntire and her boyfriend, Rex Linn, are Hollywood royalty, but that doesn’t mean they’ve abandoned their country roots.

The country superstar recently took to Instagram to share the reality of what life is like when the couple isn’t strolling down a red carpet. Reba posted a photo of the couple looking dapper as they pose hand in hand backstage at the Oscars, followed by a humorous snap of the two dressed up in their finest chili cook-off attire.

In the latter pic, Reba is seen wearing a pair of overalls over a cheetah-print shirt with a purple scarf and a bright yellow “Hillbilly Chili Cook Off” ball cap, while Rex, who’s an actor, looks equally as attention-grabbing in a chef’s shirt and cowboy boots, with a chili pepper hat on his head. 

“Swipe right to see what a difference a week makes. From red carpets to red peppers, we have fun either way!!!” the country legend writes in the caption, along with the hashtags #Oscars #HillbillyChiliCookOff.

Reba and Rex began dating in 2020. They originally met in 1991 on the set of Kenny Rogers‘ made-for-TV film The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw.

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