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It certainly sounds like Jack White felt “Closer” to some religious force upon seeing Nine Inch Nails live.

The “Seven Nation Army” rocker caught Trent Reznor and company’s ongoing Peel It Back tour when it stopped in Nashville on Saturday.

“I was enthralled to attend the NIN show in Nashville … with family and friends, not only for the intense and beautiful music but the best lighting that I’ve ever seen in a show,” White writes in an Instagram post. “Very inspiring.”

“Folks should look closely for the copy of a copy of a copy projection work when you attend,” White continues, referencing the NIN song “Copy of A.” “Respect to Reznor.”

The post also includes a photo of White alongside Reznor and a shot of him in the crowd with his wife, Olivia Jean, and The Kills and The Dead Weather‘s Alison Mosshart.

The Peel It Back tour concludes Sept. 19 in Los Angeles.

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For the first time in his career, Cody Johnson could take home the entertainer of the year title at the CMA Awards.

He’s also up for male vocalist, as well as music event and video of the year for “I’m Gonna Love You” with Carrie Underwood. 

“What a great honor it is to be recognized for simply loving country music so much,” Cody says. “I’m grateful for the liberty I have in this business to create the music I want to make. And grateful to the fans who have stood by me for many years to get us to this point. I’m having the time of my life!”

We’ll find out who takes home the trophies Nov. 19 when the 59th annual CMA Awards air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on ABC.

In the meantime, Cody continues on the Leather Deluxe Tour, which wraps Dec. 5 in Las Vegas. Up next, he plays Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Friday and Saturday.

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The music of Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles band Wings is being explored in a new collection.

Simply titled Wings, the anthology, personally overseen by McCartney, will be released digitally and as a three-LP or two-CD set. It features remastered versions of such Wings classics as “Band on the Run, “Live and Let Die,” “Jet, “Silly Love Songs,”  “Let ‘Em In” and more.

There will also be a three-LP, limited edition color vinyl version; a Blu-ray that will feature the first ever Dolby Atmos mixes of the songs; a one-LP and a one-CD version.

In addition to the music, the physical releases will feature a 32-page booklet with trivia, photos and paintings, as well as original artwork created by Humphrey Ocean, the artist in residence for Wings’ 1976 tour. There are also extensive notes on the artwork, written by Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell of Hipgnosis, the design studio responsible for the covers of seven Wings albums.

Wings will be released Nov. 7 and is available for preorder now.

The anthology will come out just days after McCartney releases a new book about his Wings era: Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run will be released Nov. 4.

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AFI has released a new song called “Holy Visions,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… 

Like the record’s previously released lead single, “Behind the Clock,” “Holy Visions” explores the ’80s goth side of the “Miss Murder” outfit’s sound. You can watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.

“Getting to work with Gilbert on two videos was a joy,” frontman Davey Havok says of director Gilbert Trejo, who also directed the “Behind the Clock” video. “‘Holy Visions’ is the perfect visual sublimation of the song.”

Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… is due out Oct. 3. It’s the follow-up to 2021’s Bodies.

AFI will launch a U.S. headlining tour Sept. 30 in Madison, Wisconsin.

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In addition to taking home her first Moon Person for best country for “Am I Okay?” at Sunday’s VMAs, Megan Moroney treated the New York audience to a performance of her latest radio single, “6 Months Later.”

“It makes me realize that we all have bad taste in men and women,” she jokes. “I think it’s a funny song and it was, like, very therapeutic to write. It’s so fun to sing live, so I love that my fans love it, too.”

Even though it has just started its climb up the chart, Megan says it’s already a concert favorite.

“That is like a peak in the Am I Okay? Tour show,” she tells ABC Audio. “I don’t announce it. And I’m just like, ‘So let’s play this next one.’ And then they lose it when they hear like the drum hits, so it’s very fun.”  

Megan’s tour continues through mid-October, with “6 Months Later” expected to be on her follow-up to 2024’s Am I Okay? album.

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Lorde is still on a journey when it comes to her gender expression.

The singer previously said in an interview for Rolling Stone that she feels “in the middle gender-wise,” and in a new interview with DAZED magazine she talks more about what that means for her.

“[S]ome days, I can’t wear women’s clothes,” she says. “I’ve had to figure out how to have my make-up done in a way that doesn’t make me feel trapped or tight or like the wrong thing. Now I just tell people, ‘Treat it like male grooming.’”

Lorde says she came into an understanding of herself after she taped her chest for the first time in 2023 while envisioning how she would perform the song “Man of the Year.” In doing so, she “felt a very pure version of myself present.” But she explains she’s not changing her pronouns right now.

“It’s all a journey,” she says. “I have no idea where it’s gonna go; it doesn’t feel like I’ve arrived anywhere permanent at all. I’m sure it’ll keep unfurling, the way these things do. It really took me by surprise how much shame I felt – feeling all that come up wasn’t easy.”

“I just think it takes time to metabolize and find itself. I’m excited to find out where that lands, if it ever does land,” she adds. “Your whole life it keeps unfurling.”

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Scott Hoying of Pentatonix has got a lot going on at the moment: He was just announced as a contestant on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, and he and his husband Mark Hoying just released their second children’s book, Fa La La Family — and a whole children’s holiday album to go with it.

Scott tells ABC Audio that he and Mark wrote Fa La La Family over a year ago, but about a month ago, Mark suggested they do an album. The couple turned the book’s text into a song, and then wrote and recorded the album, M.Y. F.A.M.I.L.Y., which features their pal Meghan Trainor.

“It came together quickly … in, like, a magical way,” Scott says — and this is just the beginning.

“Every picture book we ever write will probably have a song that goes with it … especially since picture books are so song-like,” he says, comparing it to “like building our own little Marvel universe.”

Fa La La Family shows families of all kinds and nationalities celebrating Christmas.

“You always hear people be like, ‘Christmas isn’t my favorite time of year because I don’t get to go home to family,’ or ‘I was kicked out of the house’ or ‘I’m not close to my family,'” Scott says. “And we think … the definition of family is just love.” In fact, Scott and Mark are in the process of becoming parents themselves.

Meanwhile, Scott’s getting ready to hit the ballroom Sept. 16. He says his Dancing with the Stars costumes are better than the giant sushi roll costume he wore when Pentatonix competed on The Masked Singer.

“I had to have two people help me walk if I ever had to go to the bathroom,” he laughs. “…But now I get to wear a glittery, form-fitting suit, which is what I would wear every day!” 

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Halestorm will launch their U.S. nEVEREST tour in support of their new album, Everest, Thursday in Salem, Virginia. As frontwoman Lzzy Hale tells ABC Audio, the band plans on “upping the ante with our production” for the trek.

“[We’re] having a lot of fun with it and really kind of digging into the visuals and the fantasy aspect of the artwork and how the songs coincide with that,” Hale says.

Notably, Everest is the first Halestorm record not to feature an image of Hale or her bandmates on the cover. Instead, the “I Miss the Misery” rockers channel a more ’80s metal vibe with an image of a demon looming over a naked woman lying on the ground.

As for what that all means, well, that’s the point.

“We have this … looming darkness in the background and then we have the mountain, and there’s a staircase, which, where does that lead?” Hale asks. “I don’t know.”

“Why is there a woman on the slab, and why is she cold?” she continues. “Why is she naked? We don’t know!”

While the artwork and production may be more fantastical, on the music side, Halestorm promises a classic rock ‘n’ roll experience.

“We’re still a bare-bones band,” Hale says. “We don’t play with a click or with backing tracks or anything, and we switch up the set every night because we have some crazy superfans that come and see every single show.”

“We’re looking forward to just kind of raising the bar a little bit with everything that we do and giving the people that come and see us a real show,” she continues. “I’m very much looking forward to it.” 

Halestorm’s tour will also feature violinist Lindsey Stirling and cello metallers Apocalyptica on the bill.

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