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During his tour stop in Atlanta earlier this week, Drake paid tribute to late Migos rapper Takeoff.

“One of the first things I ever did in Atlanta was I hopped on the remix to this song called ‘Versace,’ right?” Drake said in fan-captured footage from Monday night’s show. “I just wanted to say while I’m in here, rest in peace to our brother Takeoff. That’s one of my first brothers in Atlanta. That’s one of my first memories of Atlanta, is hopping on that song and Atlanta showing me love.”

Back in 2013, Drake contributed a verse to the remix of Migos’ “Versace.” He went on to collaborate with the group a few more times, on the 2018 track “Walk It Talk It” and on a joint tour that same year. Takeoff was killed in Houston on November 1, 2022, at age 28.

Also during Drake’s Atlanta show, the rapper promised two fans a trip to Turks and Caicos after he spotted them holding a sign that revealed they skipped their honeymoon to be at the show.  

“She brought a sign to the show that says we canceled our honeymoon for this,” Drake said onstage. “Since we in Atlanta tonight and I’m feeling all the love from everybody…One of my favorite places in the world, you know what it is? It’s a place called Turks and Caicos. I’ma send y’all to Turks and Caicos on a little honeymoon.”

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Evanescence has announced a reissue of the band’s 2003 debut album, Fallen, in honor of its 20th anniversary.

The upcoming package is due out November 17. It includes remastered audio of the original album plus bonus tracks including previously unreleased demos and live recordings.

You can listen to one such track, a demo of Fallen‘s signature hit “Bring Me to Life,” now via digital outlets. Notably, the recording doesn’t feature the rapping backing vocals that were famously imposed on “Bring Me to Life” by Evanescence’s record label.

“20 years later, this album has never meant more,” frontwoman Amy Lee writes in a foreword for the reissue. “Fallen has been the soundtrack to first loves, epic heartbreak, self-realization, wedding days, last goodbyes, friendships, and countless other moments in so many lives…not to mention my own. I am forever humbled and grateful to be a part of it.”

The Fallen reissue will also be available as a super deluxe box set exclusive to Evanescence’s web store, which comes with an exclusive cassette featuring more previously unheard demos and voice notes.

Fallen was originally released March 4, 2003. Along with “Bring Me to Life,” which hit 1 billion YouTube views in 2022, it spawned the singles “My Immortal,” “Going Under” and “Everybody’s Fool.” The album’s also been certified Diamond by the RIAA.

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Dylan Scott and his wife, Blair, have welcomed their third child, a boy.

Barron arrived Tuesday, September 26, at 7:19 p.m., joining 5-year-old Beckett and 4-year-old Finley in the Scott family.

“Blair is a ROCKSTAR! She did awesome! Beckett and Finley are in love, as well as Momma and myself!” Dylan writes in the caption of an Instagram reel capturing the family surrounding baby Barron.

“Thank you Jesus for blessing me with three healthy beautiful kids and a smoking hot rockstar wife! Life is good!” he shares, adding the name Barron means “Warrior” and “Noble Man.”

Coming up, Dylan will kick off his headlining This Town’s Been Too Good To Us Tour in Knoxville, Tennessee, on October 12. For a full list of dates, visit dylanscottcountry.com.

Dylan’s currently in the top 10 of the country charts with “Can’t Have Mine.”

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Blink-182‘s new single “ONE MORE TIME” has got the band members and their fans pretty emotional.

The title track to Blink’s upcoming comeback album premiered on September 21 alongside a video featuring Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker taking a journey through a collage of the band’s past clips. Meanwhile, the song details the trio’s personal hardships with lyrics such as, “Do I have to die to hear you miss me,” a possible reference to Hoppus’ 2021 cancer battle, which led to DeLonge’s return to Blink after a seven-year absence.

In an Instagram post reacting to the response to “ONE MORE TIME,” Blink writes, “We just wanted to thank each and every one of you for all the love and support over the past week, months, years.”

“Seeing you at the shows, reading all of your amazing comments and having you on this journey with us gives this band life,” the post continues. “We cannot wait for you to hear the rest of this album! So from the 3 of us…WE LOVE YOU & THANK YOU.”

The album ONE MORE TIME…will be released on October 20. It marks the first Blink record featuring DeLonge, Hoppus and Barker in over 10 years.

Blink-182’s currently in the middle of the European leg of their reunion tour. They’ll be back in the U.S. in October to headline the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas.

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More country stars have been announced as presenters at the upcoming People’s Choice Country Awards. 

Brothers Osborne will present Wynonna Judd with the Country Champion award and Blake Shelton the Country Icon award to Toby Keith.

Carly Pearce, Chris Young, Dustin Lynch, Gabby Barrett, Hunter Hayes, Kameron Marlowe, Lady A, Lauren Alaina, Mickey Guyton, Scotty McCreery, The War And Treaty and more will also join as presenters.

For a full list of nominees, performers and presenters, visit nbc.com.

The People’s Choice Country Awards, hosted by Little Big Town, air live from Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry Thursday, September 28, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

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The late Tina Turner’s legendary solo career is being celebrated with a new box set.

Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, dropping November 24, will feature 55 Turner songs, including such classics as “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” “Private Dancer,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome),” “The Best” and more.

It will also feature Tina’s collaborations with such artists as David Bowie, Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart, along with the 2020 Kygo remix of her signature tune “What’s Love Got To Do With It.” Additionally, the set will include a new version of the 1996 track “Something Beautiful Remains,” which has been reworked by her longtime collaborator Terry Britten and renamed “Something Beautiful.”

The set will mark the first time all of Turner’s singles have been compiled in one collection. It’s being released digitally and as a three-CD or five-LP set. There will also be a 12-track vinyl version, with all versions featuring a foreword by Adams.  

Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll is available for preorder now.

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For the first time, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will stream live coast to coast on Disney+.

In past years, the ceremony was recorded and aired at a later date on HBO. Now, the ceremony will stream live starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Friday, November 3 from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. ABC will then air a highlights special on Monday, January 1, 2024.

In addition, the first batch of presenters and performers for this year’s ceremony have been announced. They include inductees Missy Elliott and Chaka Khan, who is being inducted in the category of Musical Excellence.  H.E.R. and New Edition will also be on hand, as will inductees Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson, plus Elton John, rocker Dave Matthews, country star Chris Stapleton, singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile and more.

In addition to Crow, Nelson, Elliott and Khan, this year’s inductees include the late George Michael, British artist Kate Bush, rockers Rage Against the Machine and The Spinners.   

Hip hop icon DJ Kool Herc is being inducted in the category of Musical Influence, while Soul Train creator and host Don Cornelius will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

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We’ve been hearing about it for years, but now we’ve got our first look at Dua Lipa in the new movie Argylle, directed by Matthew Vaughn, the man who brought us the Kingsman movies.

The new trailer opens with a glamorous, blonde Dua in a slinky gold dress, dancing with Henry Cavill, who she then outs as “Agent Argylle.” Espionage-related hijinks follow, including Dua firing a gun while riding a motorcycle, and then getting yanked off said motorcycle by Argylle’s helper, played by John Cena. Then, everything stops.

Turns out what we’ve just witnessed is the action in a new spy thriller written by author Elly Conway, played by Bryce Dallas Howard. She’s written a whole series of books about Agent Argylle, but she soon finds herself embroiled in a real-life web of espionage: An actual spy, played by Sam Rockwell, saves her from assassins and takes her on a roller-coaster ride of adventure. 

It seems the government and the bad guys both want to get their hands on Elly because everything she wrote in her new book actually happened. “You kicked a hornet’s nest you didn’t even know existed,” says Rockwell’s character.

Throughout the movie, Conway keeps her cat close to her in an argyle-patterned carrier — and said feline appears to figure heavily in the plot.

Argylle, which also stars Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson and Catherine O’Hara, arrives in theaters February 2.

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