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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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Chase Rice has plans to bring a little bit of southern fun to Cleveland, Ohio this December. He just announced that he’s opening a venue there called Welcome to the Farm, which will provide drinks, bar food and — of course — live music.

Located on the Flats East Bank of the Cuyahoga River, Chase’s new hot spot will boast a 280-person capacity, garage doors that open on all sides and a waterfront patio. The centerpiece of the venue will be a center stage.

“We’ve been working on this for a while and I’m excited to finally let everyone in on the secret,” the singer shares. “I’ve had a blast learning about another side of the entertainment and hospitality industry and getting to put my stamp on things at Welcome to the Farm. I can’t wait to welcome y’all in December!”

Chase’s connection to Ohio is both personal and musical. His dad grew up near Columbus and played on the Ohio State Buckeyes football team. Plus, as the home of rock ‘n’ roll, Cleveland has always held a special place in the singer’s heart, he says.

“It’s awesome to know that we’ll be just a mile down the road from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which is home to people like the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana, Tom Petty and so many more who have all had a huge impact on my career.”

Chase tips his hat to those rock influences in his latest single, “If I Were Rock & Roll.”

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A few weeks ago, a new remix of Whitney Houston‘s classic “How Will I Know,” courtesy of British trio Clean Bandit, was released, and now we’ve got a video to go along with it.

The high-energy clip is set in a modern office building, and stars Heather Morris, who played cheerleader Brittany S. Pierce on Glee.  As she and her cubicle mate make eyes at each other and then use the dating app Hinge to connect, the entire office begins dancing like crazy. Then, other workers couple up: A male window-washer and the female boss connect, as do a worker and the painter who’s working on the walls of his office.

At the end of the clip, Heather and the object of her affection meet on a rooftop, but when she abruptly pushes him off the edge, he wakes up: Aww — it was all a dream.

November 22 marks the 26th anniversary of the release of “How Will I Know,” which became Whitney’s second number-one hit.  This is the second high-profile Whitney remix, following 2019’s “Higher Love,” which became a hit after being reworked by Kygo.

Clean Bandit are best known for their 2014 hit “Rather Be,” featuring Jess Glynne.

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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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