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Turnstile is the face of a new Fender product campaign.

The guitar company’s American Professional Classic line features new editions of some of its most famous models, including the Stratocaster, Telecaster and Jaguar, updated with an enhanced neck profile, new Coastline pickups and upgraded hardware.

All that adds up to instruments that are “engineered to support creative expression, inspire performance and deliver consistency on every stage,” Fender says in a press release.

“When you’re in a different place constantly, sometimes the most familiar thing is the guitar that you bring every single night,” says Turnstile guitarist Pat McCrory. “We look for something that sounds the same every time, sounds exactly how you want it, but also has versatility because spaces change. Sometimes you play outside, sometimes it sounds different, sometimes you play inside or there’s noise lighting. Having some durability but flexibility is very important.”

For more info, visit Fender.com.

Turnstile released their latest album, NEVER ENOUGH, in June.

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Playboi Carti surprised fans at his tour stop in Los Angeles with an appearance by Kendrick Lamar. K. Dot joined him at the Crypto.com Arena Tuesday night for a performance of their song “Good Credit.” The song is part of Playboi’s latest album, Music; his Antagonist 2.0 tour continues Friday in Phoenix.

To express his gratitude for the continued love his song “Maui Wowie” has received, Kid Cudi participated in the TikTok trend for the 2008 track. The trend finds people hanging off crosswalk signs while mouthing the song’s lyrics, which Kid Cudi does in a video shared to his TikTok account. He captioned the post, “Thank u to everyone for posting my song and havin fun and showing love!!! 17 years old and timeless.”

Crime Mob is coming together to headline the 2025 Aces Championship Celebration presented by Ally. The performance will take place Friday at Toshiba Plaza in Sin City in honor of the Las Vegas Aces, who won the WNBA Finals after completing a four-game sweep over the Phoenix Mercury.

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Brad Paisley invites you into his Snow Globe Town this holiday season. 

Brad’s new 16-track Christmas album includes “Counting Down the Days,” the theme for Hallmark Channel’s 16th Countdown to Christmas, as well as two new songs he wrote for the Opry’s upcoming film.  

“I had so much inspiration writing songs for Hallmark’s A Grand Ole Opry Christmas movie,” he says. “It sparked a real creative energy that was honestly hard to stop so we made an entire album.”

Half of the songs on the new record are originals, including “Leave the Christmas Lights On for Me,” which is out now. 

Snow Globe Town arrives Nov. 7, ahead of the premiere of A Grand Ole Opry Christmas over the Thanksgiving weekend. Brad’s first holiday album, Brad Paisley Christmas, came out in 2006.

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Continuing their tradition of bringing out special guests during their current Greetings from Your Hometown tour, Jonas Brothers chose a famous local artist to join them onstage Tuesday night in Nashville.

Maren Morris came out to sing “The Middle,” the Grammy-nominated hit she released in 2018 with Zedd and Grey.  Jonas Brothers posted footage of the moment on Instagram and wrote, “So special to have @marenmorris pop up with us tonight in Nashville.” 

Maren replied in the comments, “my babiesssssss  thanks for the reunion.”

Jonas Brothers’ next concert is Oct. 16 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Just some of the special guests they’ve brought out during the tour include Demi Lovato, Jordin Sparks, Hanson, Alessia Cara, Fifth Harmony, Kelsea Ballerini, Plain White T’s, Jason Mraz, John Legend and Natasha Bedingfield.

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Actor Ansel Elgort is set to make his professional dancing debut in New York in November.

The West Side Story actor is set to play The Godfather in Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet, inspired by The Who’s 1973 rock opera, which will run at New York City Center from Nov. 14-16.

“Rock n’ Roll is not dead. I think it’s having a rebirth right now, downtown NYC you can hear electric guitars squealing through bar doors as people are hungry for live music. Even better, a rock ballet!,” Elgort says in a statement. “My roots are in ballet and theatre and to be able to return to the stage in The Who’s Quadrophenia rock ballet feels like a gift from the rock gods. Well, one of them himself, Pete Townshend already wrote me a note welcoming me on board, and I’m framing it.”

Townshend adds, “I’m thrilled to welcome Ansel to Quadrophenia. The spirit of Rock n’ Roll was not just my generation. It’s every generation.”

Directed by Rob Ashford, Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet debuted in the U.K. in May. It features an orchestral version of the album by Townshend’s wife, Rachel Fuller, recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

The ballet is choreographed by Paul Roberts, with rising star Paris Fitzpatrick playing the central character, Jimmy.

The story, set in Brighton, England, in 1965, follows a young working-class mod named Jimmy on a journey of self-discovery. The album’s title was inspired by Jimmy’s four-way “split personality,” with each member of the band representing a different facet of that personality.

Tickets for Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet are on sale now. More info can be found at nycitycenter.org.

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Highly Suspect has announced a run of shows celebrating the 10th anniversary of the band’s 2015 debut album, Mister Asylum.

The outing kicks off Dec. 2 in Silver Spring, Maryland, and will conclude Dec. 14 in Nashville.

“We are just thrilled to celebrate this album with you, in its entirety, from front to back,” Highly Suspect writes in an Instagram post.

“While it’s not mandatory, we very much encourage you to dress up!” the group adds. “We will. Let’s consider this a regal event. Let’s all be elegant and wear some semi-formal attire and pop champagne.”

Tickets go on sale Friday. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit HighlySuspect.net.

Mister Asylum spawned the singles “Lydia” and “Bloodfeather.” Highly Suspect has since released four more albums, the most recent of which being 2024’s As Above, So Below.

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Britney Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline is promoting his new memoir You Thought You Knew, and in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, he reveals a surprising detail about what happened the night before he and Britney got married in 2004.

That night, according to Kevin, he noticed Britney seemed upset. “I was like, ‘What’s wrong?’ I thought she was talking to her mom on the phone or something and maybe she was, like, having doubts,” Kevin said. “And she told me that she was on the phone with Justin [Timberlake].”

“And I just kind of stepped back, like, ‘Did I just hear you right?’ Like, what the hell is going on, you know? And I was immediately, you know, was, ‘Okay, we don’t have to do this.’ I didn’t care if we got married or not.”

Kevin said Britney explained, “I just wanted to make sure that everything is done. I want to make sure that I say my final piece.”  

“I’m like, ‘Damn. On the night before our wedding, this is what you decide to do?'” Kevin continued. “You know, I kind of at the time took it with a grain of salt and took her explanation as, okay, maybe she is closing a chapter of her life.”

Kevin also told ET that he’s worried about Britney for the sake of their two sons, Sean Preston Federline and Jayden James Federline.

“I’m absolutely, as a father, terrified that one day I might wake up and my sons are going to have to deal with the unimaginable,” he said.

A rep for Britney, reacting to earlier reports of what Kevin had written about her in his book, told People, “Once again [Kevin] and others are profiting off her and sadly it comes after child support has ended with Kevin. All she cares about are her kids … and their well-being during this sensationalism.”

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If you look at the cover of Morgan Wallen‘s hugely successful I’m the Problem album, you might see a well-drawn picture of a country singer at the top of his game. 

But that’s not what Morgan had in mind. Instead, the artwork was his way of addressing the troubles he was going through at the time. 

“I was in my lawyer’s office and I just saw some like court sketches,” he explains. “And I thought it looked cool, and I thought it felt appropriate for the album title and just with everything that’s been going on in my life. I’ve never really been one to shy away from everything going on, so I thought it was a unique perspective.”

“I hadn’t seen that in an album cover before,” he continues. “And I looked it up, I couldn’t find anything on it. And I’m like, ‘Well, this is cool.’ You know, ‘This is different.’ I’m pleased with how it came about.”

The drawing let Morgan address the issues while still showing some restraint. 

“You know, I didn’t use an actual picture of me in the courtroom. I didn’t want to be like completely on the nose of that, but I wanted it to kind of give a hint of that and those troubles and just things that have been going on,” he adds. 

Morgan spent time at a DUI education center, paid a fine and agreed to two years of probation as part of a plea deal after he was arrested for throwing a chair from the roof of Eric Church‘s bar in April 2024. 

Musically, “I Got Better” is currently at #2, as Morgan prepares to release “20 Cigarettes” as his next radio single. 

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They say parenthood changes you in more ways than you can expect. For Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez, those changes included doing something he’d never done before as a professional musician and hasn’t done again since.

Following the birth of his son, Sanchez decided the next Coheed record would be their first non-concept album and would exist outside of the band’s long-running sci-fi storyline, the Amory Wars. That album, The Color Before the Sun, was released Oct. 16, 2015 — 10 years ago Thursday.

“That was an important record because of the experiences of that time in my life, you know, my son was being born,” Sanchez tells ABC Audio. “I mean, ‘the colors before the sun’ just means the feelings before birth.”

Throughout Coheed’s discography, Sanchez would insert details about his personal life into the lyrics, so in that sense the birth of his son “could’ve easily been in the concept to some degree,” Sanchez says. Still, he wanted to tell this story straight without shrouding it amid an ongoing sci-fi epic.

“I also in a weird way wanted my son to think later in life, like, ‘Oh wow, this moment in their discography is this way because my dad wanted to share with me how important that experience was to his life,'” Sanchez says.

The Color Before the Sun remains the only Coheed album not a part of the Amory Wars concept — the band has since released three more records that continue the storyline. While it may seem like an outlier on the surface, Sanchez feels it still fits within the larger themes of Coheed’s music.

“It doesn’t feel foreign in terms of the overall architecture of what we do,” Sanchez says. “It’s totally at home.” 

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