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Cody Johnson‘s partnering with Tractor Supply Company to mentor the next generation of country stars.

“I’m so proud to team up with Tractor Supply for their Emerging Artist Program, shining a spotlight on up-and-coming artists who have something real to share,” he says. “My high school FFA teacher was the first person to encourage me to perform.”

“I took the stage and that moment ended up changing the course of my life,” Cody continues. “He believed in me, and now it’s my turn to help give someone that same encouragement.”

Entries will be accepted online through Dec. 1. The winner will receive a trip to Nashville and the opportunity to play before a private Cody show, to record a song and to meet with a music industry exec.

Tractor Supply launched its Life Out Here Emerging Artist Program in partnership with Lainey Wilson in 2023.

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Solange Knowles is ready to share her knowledge with students at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she’s been named its first scholar in residence, Los Angeles Times reports. As part of her three-year residency, she will teach, curate workshops and help develop the first music curation programs for the school’s curriculum.

Solange’s music curation class, tentatively called Records of Discovery: Methodologies for Music and Cultural Curatorial Practices, will kick off in fall 2027 and “explore the process of constructing curatorial frameworks alongside the context, craft and creation of musical landscapes,” USC tells the LA Times.

Solange will also discuss women in classical work as part of USC’s forthcoming symposium.

“I am a GED graduate. teenage mom. I was pregnant with my son at 17, so I didn’t get to further my education in the classical sense. But I was really blessed and honored to have enriched these other parts of education through my art, through travel [and] through the globalization of my life,” she tells the LA Times. “So to be able to have access and broader tools as a scholar in residence, to enrich that and deepen that, is really so exciting for me.”

Solange adds she’s inspired by the idea of her 15-year-old self having someone walk her “through the footsteps of what I was about to embark on” and is touched by the opportunity to “be a vessel of guidance” to students trying to find their own.

She joins inaugural member Raphael Saadiq as part of USC’s Creative Vanguard Program, where distinguished music artists and creative leaders contribute to the school through masterclasses, workshops and more.

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Teddy Swims was on tour most of last year, thanks to the runaway success of his song “Lose Control,” which was Billboard‘s #1 song of 2024. Although he performed all over the world, Teddy claims he wasn’t exactly raking in the dough.

While appearing on the Australian radio show The Rush Hour Sydney, Teddy was asked if he’s making tons of money; the short answer, which may come as a surprise, was no. “The bigger these [shows] get, the more people you employ,” Teddy explained.

“Last year was the first time we had kind of broke the even margin on touring, so I actually made money for the first time last year,” he continued. “So this year, we’re finally in the black and making money, but it took five years of touring for us to really start seeing anything.”

“A lot of people think you’re doing great if you’re playing arenas and stuff, but a lot of times we were, like, barely breaking even, if that, ‘cause you’ve gotta go out to places and really build the audience.”

“I think we made, like, 20 grand last year,” he revealed. “But everybody’s paid and everybody’s fed, so I would say that’s successful, but now, we’re finally in the black. And the next couple years, I’ll be swimming.”

Good thing, too, now that he’s got a baby to support. He and his partner, Raiche Wright, welcomed a son in June.

Teddy recently teamed up with DJ David Guetta and Australian singer Tones & I for the new song “Gone Gone Gone.” He’s on tour in Australia through the end of October; on Nov. 8 he’s scheduled to appear at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which will stream live on Disney+.

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AVTT/PTTN, Faith No More frontman Mike Patton‘s collaborative project with folk band The Avett Brothers, has shared a new song called “Heaven’s Breath.”

Patton describes “Heaven’s Breath” as a “bit heavier taste” of the upcoming self-titled debut AVTT/PTTN album. It marks the second track to be released from the record, following the lead single “Eternal Love.”

The album AVTT/PTTN is due out Nov. 14.

Patton will hit the road with one of his many other bands, Mr. Bungle, in January for a Latin America tour with Avenged Sevenfold. Faith No More, meanwhile, remains inactive.

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No Doubt has added six more dates to their 2026 residency at the Las Vegas Sphere.

The newly announced shows will take place beginning May 21 and wrapping May 30. They follow the previously scheduled performances set for early May.

Presales are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. PT. For all ticket info, visit NoDoubt.com.

No Doubt had been on hiatus since 2015 before announcing a pair of reunion performances at Coachella 2024. Since then, their only other live performance took place at January’s FireAid benefit concert.

“The opportunity to create a show at Sphere excites me in a new way,” frontwoman Gwen Stefani previously said. “The venue is unique and modern and it opens up a whole new visual palette for us to be creative. Doing it with No Doubt feels like going back in time to relive our history, while also creating something new in a way we never could have imagined.”

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Cardi B is pleased with the performance of her Am I the Drama? album thus far. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 after earning 200,000 album equivalent units in its first week — a number she says she’s proud of, despite what others think.

“It’s been such a drama with the numbers. First of all, I’m very proud of my number. … We’re in a very different era when it comes to music,” she tells Paper. “There’s people that have never even seen 100,000 sales calling me a flop. … [B]ut clearly, they don’t discourage me.”

“That’s what people will try to do, but it fails,” she continues. “It fails when [thousands] of videos are being made to your music. And then there’s [thousands] of people doing memes to your songs.”

Beyond being proud of the album’s reception, Cardi notes she’s proud of all the work she put in.

“I have worked so hard these past two months, nonstop, and I’ve been doing it all while I’m carrying [a baby],” she says. “I just feel like nobody really understands when you say, you working your a** off, and you see the results. You see the love. You feeling the energy of your hard work.”

Cardi also praised her own strength in the interview, which she says was on display as she went to bat for her daughter Kulture Cephus after she was mentioned in a heated exchange with Nicki Minaj.

“My mother warrior came out,” she says, noting she “showed the world that I will get the most nasty about mine.”

“This has been one of the moments I got tested the most about being a parent. But it just goes to show me how strong I am,” adds Cardi, who is pregnant with her fourth child. “I will really take it to hell for mines: mentally, physically, anything.”

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Shaboozey‘s next album doesn’t sound like it will have anything to do with getting “Tipsy.”

Speaking to Billboard, ‘Boozey says his next album — the follow-up to 2024’s Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going — is “ready to go,” but he keeps on “changing the songs and the sequences and the track order and all that stuff.” Plus, he says, he keeps “making new songs.”

But when it does come out, the singer says, get ready for some serious listening.

“[It’s about] feminism, I’ll say that,” he tells Billboard. “Femininity is probably the best word I can use. There’s a story there. It’s a concept album, but y’all are the first to know that, to be honest.”

“It’s a Western concept album about femininity — I shouldn’t have told you that!” he adds.

Shaboozey will attend the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. He’ll be there because he helped come up with the tortoiseshell design that will grace two of the Visa Cash App Racing Bulls’ Formula 1 cars that are competing in the race.

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Hot on the heels of her surprise Am I Okay? Tour (Live) album, Megan Moroney‘s ready with a new song. 

“nashville heard it first… but my next single beautiful things is out next friday!” she revealed on Instagram. 

Ahead of the Oct. 24 release of “Beautiful Things,” there’s something else Megan hopes you’ll do. 

“in the meantime, make sure you go to [LaLa Land Kind Cafe] & order the Megan Moroney latte + grab a sleeve to write something kind & encouraging to a stranger,” she adds. “can’t wait for y’all to have this song that is sooo special to me.”

The accompanying photos and video show Megan hanging out in the coffee shop, which has locations in Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Austin and Nashville.

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Portugal. The Man has shared a new song called “Angoon,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, SHISH.

In the “Angoon” lyrics, the “Feel It Still” outfit declares, “No ICE/ No borders enforcers/ No owners/ Don’t need New World Order.”

SHISH, the follow-up to 2023’s Chris Black Changed My Life, drops Nov. 7. It also includes the previously released songs “Denali,” “Tanana” and “Mush.”

Portugal. The Man will launch their Denali tour in November.

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