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Meghan Patrick may currently be off the road as she awaits the birth of their first child, but she’s making good on her promise to keep working as much as she can. 

She’s just put out her first new music since the release of the deluxe Golden Child (The Final Chapter), named for her top-20 hit.  

“‘I Sure Hope So’ is about that moment of karmic deliverance where a happy and healed version of you runs into the person who nearly destroyed you,” Meghan says. “The one who broke your heart more than once but you still went back for more just to be hurt again, all because you didn’t love yourself enough to know you deserved better.”

“But that was the old you,” she continues, “and it’s clear the new version of you has changed, and they’ve noticed too. As they study your face searching for any sign of the ‘old you,’ they tease, ‘You’ve changed’… you smile triumphantly and say, ‘I sure hope so,’ because you know that insecure girl they’re looking for is long gone, and never coming back.”

Of course, the long-awaited baby is also the first child for Mitchell Tenpenny, who tied the knot with Meghan in October 2022. 

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Alice Cooper has announced dates for a fall leg of his Alice’s Attic tour.

The new leg kicks off Sept. 17 in Louisville, Kentucky, and hits cities in Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and more. It also includes three Canadian dates before wrapping Nov. 21 in Reno, Nevada.

A presale for tickets begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

The first leg of the Alice’s Attic tour launched in April and wrapped in May. Cooper will next head overseas for a U.K. tour with The Hollywood Vampires, starting Aug. 12 in London.

Outside of touring, Cooper has several projects set for release in 2026.

The Studio Albums 1975-1978, a new box set featuring Cooper’s first four solo albums, plus a selection of bonus rarities, is due to drop July 31. He’s also releasing the memoir Devil on My Shoulder on Oct. 6, and will head out on a U.K. book tour starting Oct. 11 in Cardiff, Wales.

A complete list of tour dates can be found at AliceCooper.com.

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The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers is teasing a new song called “Paradise,” a track off his upcoming solo album, Thrasher.

“Back in October ’89, Phil Collins took ‘Another Day In Paradise’ from the working man,” Flowers writes in a Facebook post. “This Friday the 17th, I’ll be returning it to its rightful owner.”

It’s unclear what Flowers means exactly in referencing Collins’ “Another Day in Paradise,” though the song was criticized when it was originally released for its depiction of people experiencing homelessness.

Perhaps we’ll find out when Flowers’ “Paradise” seemingly drops on Friday.

Thrasher, Flowers’ third solo effort and his first in 11 years, drops Aug. 21. It also includes the previously released single “Plans.”

Flowers will launch a U.S. solo tour in September.

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Olivia Rodrigo is returning to the Austin City Limits stage.

Five years after her ACL debut, the singer is coming back to deliver the first full-set performance of her new album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.

The performance will tape on July 29 and will stream this fall on PBS as part of Austin City Limits season 52.

Information on how to get free passes to be in the audience will be posted in the week prior to the taping on ACLTV’s socials.

Sienna Spiro will also be featured on the new season of Austin City Limits, with a live taping taking place on Wednesday. The full season 52 line-up will be announced shortly.

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SeaWorld told E-40 when to go the park, and he did just that on Saturday. He performed at the San Diego park as part of its 2026 Summer Spectacular concert series.

The rapper took the stage with performances of “My S*** Bang,” “Choices (Yup),” “Sliding Down the Pole,” “Tell Me When to G” and more. “Sea world was lit!” he wrote alongside a video of himself entering and leaving the venue. He also posted footage of himself performing.

E-40 is the latest artist tapped to entertain fans during the summer concert series, which kicked off June 13 with Ginuwine. The lineup continues with Ashanti on Saturday, followed by Soulja Boy and Paul Wall on July 25, Jordin Sparks on Aug. 1 and Too $hort and Warren G on Aug. 8.

The concerts are included with park admission.

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Jason Aldean is sticking around at the top, as “Don’t Tell on Me” notches a second week at #1 on Billboard‘s Country Airplay ranking. 

It’s his first multiweek #1 since “Trouble with a Heartbreak” stayed at the top for three weeks in May 2022. Overall, it’s his 13th chart-topper to stay for two weeks or more. 

The Georgia native now has 27 number ones, giving him the fourth most trips to the pinnacle in the chart’s history. He’d previously been tied with Luke Bryan, Alan Jackson and George Strait for the honor. 

Kenny Chesney has the most with 33, while Blake Shelton’s 30 puts him at #2. Tim McGraw’s at #3 with 29 chart-toppers.  

Overall, this is Jason’s 50th Country Airplay entry.

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Brantley Gilbert’s extending his Real American Tour further into the fall, adding 14 new dates that’ll keep him on the road through November. 

The new dates start Sept. 24 in Boston, with stops in Savannah, Cincinnati, Biloxi and beyond, before he wraps Nov. 7 in Corinth, Mississippi. 

John Morgan, Jay Webb and Atlus will join him along the way. 

Presales start Tuesday, before tickets become available to the public on Friday. 

Brantley’s eighth studio album, Sins of the Father, comes out July 24. 

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A Jay-Z concert at Yankee Stadium erupted in chaos Sunday night after large groups of people rushed the gates. The New York Police Department placed the venue on lockdown, which delayed the show for hours.

The security breach occurred before the final concert of Jay-Z’s three-night stand at the iconic baseball stadium in New York’s Bronx borough, authorities said.

Disorder broke out when large groups of people pushed and shoved their way through lines of fans waiting to get in and charged through security checkpoints and entrances, a law enforcement source told ABC New York station WABC.

In a joint statement released on Monday morning, concert promoter Roc Nation and Yankee Stadium said “hundreds of individuals in large groups” who did not have tickets to the performance “stormed over peaceful ticket holders, and in some cases, breached security.”

“As a result, gates at all entrances of the Stadium were closed for an extended period of time,” the joint statement said. “With the thoughtful guidance of the NYPD, gates were reopened cautiously and carefully to ensure the safety of those inside and outside.”

The concert was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET, but thousands of fans waiting outside weren’t allowed to enter Yankee Stadium until around 10 p.m. ET, under tight security and with police officers patrolling the entrances.

Jay-Z didn’t take the stage until around 12:20 a.m. ET Monday, WABC reported.

According to numerous videos posted by fans from inside the stadium, the Brooklyn-born rapper apologized to the crowd for the delay.

“Outside, it’s 10,000 people outside. I don’t want to start music and people be trampled,” Jay-Z told the audience, the online videos show. “I’m really sorry for the inconvenience but I had to be sure everybody is OK.”

The concert didn’t end until around 3 a.m. ET.

The show included surprise guest performers including Rihanna, Usher, Fat Joe, Jeezy, Pusha T, Pharrell, Jadakiss and Jay-Z’s wife, Beyoncé.

The NYPD did not announce any arrests connected to the security breach.

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L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of brain cancer, the band announced Monday.

“Following multiple surgeries and serious complications, Jennifer now requires extensive medical care, rehabilitation and professional in-home support,” L7 writes in an Instagram post. “Friends, family and L7 have launched a GoFundMe to help cover these urgent expenses and allow her to remain safely at home with the care, dignity and support she needs.”

L7 announced in May that Finch, 59, would not be joining the band on their upcoming Last Hurrah farewell tour launching in October, citing unspecified health concerns at the time.

“The Last Hurrah Tour was planned along with Jennifer when all four of us were in good health and spirits,” L7 now says. “Although she will not be able to join us for the upcoming U.S. dates, Jennifer has asked us to continue with the tour as planned. We will honor her request while making her care and well-being our immediate priority.”

“Jennifer is part of our family,” the post concludes. “We love her, and we want her to feel the full strength of the community that has loved and supported her for so many years.”

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Brandy is urging her fans to be “gentler with one another” after being a victim of body-shaming.

Taking to Instagram Saturday, she posted a message suggesting that people may be looking for beauty in the wrong places.

The post comes on the heels of people commenting and speculating about her well-being and health following her visit to McComb, Mississippi, where she was recently honored.

“But life was never meant to leave us untouched. It shapes us. It humbles us. It refines us,” the singer wrote. “Every season leaves its signature upon us. And maybe that’s where beauty has been all along. Not in escaping change, but in becoming through it.”

“I’ve learned that it takes only a moment to form an opinion about someone’s appearance, and a lifetime to understand what they’ve lived through,” she continued. “So may we become gentler with one another. Not because everyone is fragile, but because everyone is carrying a story we cannot see.” 

Brandy concluded by offering advice on how people can approach situations like these with greater compassion and empathy.

“Before you speak about someone’s body, before you speak about someone’s face, before you decide who they are by what you see, remember, you are looking at someone’s child. Someone’s friend. Someone’s dream. Someone’s life. A soul. And souls have always been more beautiful than surfaces,” she wrote.

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