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Thomas Rhett just sold out Boston’s Fenway Park with Teddy Swims, who also duets with him on a version of “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Woman.” 

In the past, TR’s also collaborated with Katy Perry, Riley Green and Jon Pardi. But the country star is still dreaming of another bucket list duet partner.

“I would say out of this genre, Bruno Mars has kinda always been my one,” TR reveals. “You know, we just gotta like hang out one time and write a song, and I feel like something could happen. But yeah, Bruno would be a lot of fun to duet with.”

It turns out TR’s also a little envious of Bruno’s fancy footwork.

“If I could just get a little bit of his swagger, like even just a third, and be able to dance similarly, you know, I feel like we could record something really neat,” he says. 

Thomas Rhett’s still doing just fine on his own, however, as “After All the Bars Are Closed” is top five and climbing at country radio. 

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Halestorm will be celebrating the release of their new album, Everest, with an art gallery event and a Q&A session in Philadelphia.

The gallery features paintings by frontwoman Lzzy Hale and photography by guitarist Joe Hottinger, though the band members won’t be in attendance. It will be free and open to the public on Aug. 7 at the Old City Jewish Arts Center.

The live Halestorm Q&A will take place on Aug. 8, but you’ll need to RSVP for a chance to attend. Winners will be alerted by Aug. 5, upon which the exact location of the event will be revealed.

Everest, the follow-up to 2022’s Back from the Dead, is due out Aug. 8. It also includes the lead single “Darkness Always Wins.”

Halestorm is currently on tour with Volbeat.

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Jessie Murph‘s music may be inspired by her real life and experiences, but that doesn’t mean everything she sings is true. For example, despite what she says in her hit “Blue Strips,” she didn’t, in fact, just buy “a mansion in Malibu.”

“Not yet,” she tells the Los Angeles Times. “That line was just the first thing that came out of my mouth when I was writing the song. It feels so glittery, the thought of living in Malibu. It’s always been something I’ve wanted to do.”

Asked how she learned about Malibu growing up in a small town in Alabama, she says, “I’m a really big fan of Property Brothers — I’m sure I saw it on there.”

In the interview, Jessie also addresses the backlash she’s received for “1965,” a tongue-in-cheek song in which she sings about wanting to be wooed in the way they did it back in the day. The backlash came from the line “I might get a little slap-slap” and from the extremely NSFW video, which has domestic violence overtones. Fans interpreted it as Jessie advocating the oppression of women by men, similar to the criticism Sabrina Carpenter got for her album cover.

Jessie posted a TikTok in response, writing, “This entire song is satire r yall stupid.” Regarding the criticism, she tells the paper, “The weirdest part about it is that it’s a lot of women who are hating. But I think some people are weirded out by my age.”

Jessie, who’s 20, continues, “A lot of people met me when I was 16 or 17 and a much different person — which, thank God I’m a different person. I don’t know. When people find you at a certain age, it’s like you need to be frozen in time. Let me live.”

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The Doobie Brothers — featuring founding members Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Pat Simmons — are set to kick off the North American leg of their Walk This Road tour on Monday, their first time touring the States since releasing their new studio album, Walk This Road, in June.

Johnston tells ABC Audio fans can expect to hear new songs from the album at their shows, but they likely won’t play “more than two or three, maximum.”

“Because you still got this backlog of catalog that everybody wants to hear … which is great because people love it,” Johnston says. “And so the new songs are an adventure.”

Of course, fitting in all the songs fans want to hear isn’t easy.

“Our problem is, there’s just so many songs to do in a certain amount of time that we always have to make these hard choices,” McDonald explains. “I think if it was up to all of us, we’d do them all, but we’d probably be up there for four hours trying to play them all.”

He adds, “They’d probably have to send an ambulance for us after that, but yeah, we try to cover it all as much as we can, the important stuff.”

And pleasing the audience is something that’s important to Johnston, who says that “interacting with the crowd” is his favorite part of playing live.

“I mean, they’re the ones that, to me, make it worthwhile to do this,” he says. “The crowd has just been phenomenal, have been for years. And that’s not something I take for granted. … That’s what it’s all about.” 

The Doobie Brothers’ U.S. tour begins Monday in Detroit. A complete list of dates can be found at The DoobieBrothers.com.

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Rob Thomas launches his All Night Days tour in support of his upcoming solo album of the same name on Friday, and his new touring guitarist is none other than his 27-year-old son, Maison Thomas-Eudy. It wasn’t Rob’s idea to hire his son, but he’s happy he did — partly because he’ll get to boss him around.

In addition to playing with his dad, Maison’s band The Lucky will open some shows. “He’ll be doing double duty there,” Rob says of Maison. “So I’m excited about the whole process.”

He laughs, “But I do like that at some points along the way, he literally has to do what I tell him to do. Like, he has to, you know? I’m paying him.”

Rob says Maison got the gig after his longtime guitarist decided to retire from the road. “His first thing, when he told me, was that he’s been watching Maison’s Instagram and he’s like, ‘I think you should maybe tap him for that seat,'” says Rob. 

While Rob knew that Maison was “phenomenal,” he wasn’t sure if he’d want to. However, Maison “jumped at it,” Rob says. 

“I think the sweetest thing ever was, he said, ‘Oh, Dad, we’ll get to spend more time together than ever.’ And I thought that was awesome.”

The All Night Days tour is Rob’s first solo outing since 2019. While promoting the new album, he’s also marking the 20th anniversary of his solo debut, …Something to Be. That means mixing what he calls his “tentpole” songs — hits like “Lonely No More” — with Matchbox Twenty material, plus brand-new tracks.

He says, “I think I just need to go out there and try and get as many songs in a two-hour period as they’ll let me do, you know?” 

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Almost monday has announced a new single called “enjoy the ride.”

The track is set to premiere on Aug. 8, and you can hear a preview now via the band’s Instagram. 

Almost monday’s current single, “jupiter” featuring Jordana, is charting in the top 15 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay ranking. It’s included on the deluxe version of almost monday’s debut album, DIVE, which dropped in January.

DIVE also includes the single “can’t slow down,” which hit #1 on Alternative Airplay.

Almost monday is playing the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco on Aug. 8 and will be touring throughout the U.S. starting in October.

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PartyNextDoor is teaming with Fortnite to launch a playable concert experience in the video game. The interactive concert, a partnership between Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Immersive Music Studios and Drake’s OVO Sound, will take place Friday at 1 p.m. ET.

Players will virtually get the private jet experience as they travel from the CN Tower in PND’s hometown of Toronto “to the sands of South Beach” and onto a “custom island designed to match [PartyNextDoor’s] creative vision,” according to a press release. There, they’ll enjoy a performance from PND, who will take the stage with “visually dynamic, stylized versions” of some of his songs as well as an afterparty at LIV nightclub.

Players will also be able to participate in quests, scavenger hunts, mini-games and parkour levels, and purchase “Break From Toronto” via the Fortnite Shop.

PND says in a statement the opportunity to “create our world” with Fortnite just seemed like “a natural fit.” The code for his custom experience is 7024-5026-8823.

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The Struts launch a North American tour Thursday in Toronto to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band’s debut album, Everybody Wants. Ahead of the first show, frontman Luke Spiller has shared a statement reflecting on the group’s journey so far.

“When I really think about it I’m overwhelmed with a sense of pride on what myself and @thestruts have managed to achieve in these past ten years,” Spiller writes in an Instagram post. “We came at a time in music where guitars were seen but never heard and to be androgynous was highly unfashionable. Being myself certainly did not make life easier for us nor the climb to success faster but we certainly kicked the doors down for so many bands to come.”

He adds, “I hope you will join me [in] celebrating not only the glittering past but the bright future of this band.”

The Struts put out their latest album, Pretty Vicious, in 2023. Their most recent release is a cover of the Bad Company song “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy.”

Spiller dropped his debut solo album, Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes and Wine, in April.

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Erykah Badu and The Alchemist are going out on a limb and switching some things up.

The two have ditched the conventional method of following their album with a tour and will instead use the tour to debut their project. Their Abi & Alan tour will feature a listening party in every city, giving fans a first listen of Abi & Alan ahead of its Aug. 29 release.

The Cannabinoids will join Erykah and Al onstage, as well as producers RC Williams, A1, Rob Free, S1 and Jah Born, who will use Badu’s signature digital-analog fusion to bring Abi & Alan to life for attendees, according to a release.

Tickets for the Abi & Alan tour, kicking off Aug. 8, are now available at baduworldmarket.com, as well as venue box offices. The press release describes this trek as the first time in music history that an artist has made the decision to debut their album live.

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Lollapalooza has announced its 2025 livestream lineup. You’ll be able to watch sets by artists including Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams, Doechii and Ravyn Lenae via Hulu. For more info, visit Hulu.com/lollapalooza-2025. Lolla 2025 takes place Thursday through Sunday at Chicago’s Grant Park.

Meanwhile, Olivia is teasing something ahead of her Lollapalooza performance. Posters of the singer holding a book with a QR code have been popping up around Chicago. The QR code leads to a website where you can sign up to receive updates. 

Sam Smith is expanding their Brooklyn, New York, residency. The singer announced on Instagram that they’ve added 12 dates in November and December, in addition to the 12 October shows. “Playing intimate shows in a city that I love is a real dream come true, so I’m truly so excited I can share this with even more of you,” Sam wrote. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. ET.

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