Kelsey Hart‘s follow-up to his first hit, “Life with You,” is his new radio single, “Fireworks.”
Kip Moore kicks off his Solitary Tracks Fall Tour Oct. 17 in Pueblo, Colorado. Presales start Wednesday before tickets become available to the public on Friday.
Dwight Yoakam and Chris Hillman will take part in an in-depth interview Aug. 23 in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Ford Theater. The talk supports the museum’s Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock exhibit.
Coi Leray takes fans into the labor and delivery room in her latest blog, which details how things went down the day she gave birth to her daughter, Miyoco. The 15-minute clip shows her bouncing on a pregnancy ball and deciding to get an epidural before she’s advised to have a C-section.
Coi later reveals her newborn daughter.
“It was not easy, but we did it,” she says of the experience.
“She’s so beautiful. Like, I’m obsessed with her. I love her so much. She’s so sweet, y’all,” Coi later adds.
Elsewhere in the video, Coi speaks in detail about the contractions, epidural and more. She then shares that her daughter has given her the “motivation to want to go hard.”
“I took a break from the music and just the artist mode for almost like a year and so many things happened within this year. And now I have this beautiful blessing,” she said.
If you missed Rascal Flatts‘ Life Is a Highway Tour, you have at least one more chance to check it out.
You’ll be able to watch the trio’s previously recorded hometown show in Columbus, Ohio, via Veeps on July 27 at 8 p.m. ET.
Lauren Alaina and Chris Lane joined the band for the 21-stop trek that celebrated their 25th anniversary. On this particular night, Carly Pearce surprised the audience, showing up to perform “My Wish” from the Life Is a Highway: Refueled Duets album in a set that also included hits like “Me and My Gang,” “Fast Cars and Freedom” and “Bless the Broken Road.”
Next up, Rascal Flatts play Pennsylvania’s York State Fair on July 18.
Kesha’s song “Tik Tok” may be a party anthem, but the singer says she’s not actually the party girl people think she is.
“I love ‘Tik Tok’ and I love that first album [2010’s Animal], like, these are my babies,” she said on Tuesday’s episode of Monica Lewinsky’s Reclaiming podcast. “But I will say, to be put into a particular box was challenging. I felt like, ‘Oh, people aren’t seeing me.’”
While she admits she definitely had her “wild child” phase, she said she never drinks before a performance and has found it hurtful when tabloids have reported that she’s performed under the influence. She recounted a moment when she performed in Dubai with a torn ACL and TMZ reported that she was drunk onstage.
“Contrary to my entire public image, I’m actually quite terrified of substances,” she told Lewinsky. “Like, I had my whiskey moment in my 20s, for sure, but anything else is pretty scary to me.”
Still, she understands why “Tik Tok” was a hit and will be forever grateful to it.
“But I’m also very lucky that [‘Tik Tok’] hit, and I think I tapped into a part of people’s brains that they needed,” she said. “It was a recession, I was giving them unadulterated joy and silliness and goofiness and ‘F*** it, we’re having fun, I don’t care what anybody thinks.’ I do stand by it. That’s an important thing to feel.”
The 18th ACM Honors will take place Aug. 20 at The Pinnacle at Nashville Yards.
The annual ceremony is set to recognize the industry and studio recording winners from the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards. As previously announced, ACM entertainer of the year Lainey Wilson is also the artist-songwriter of the year, and Jessie Jo Dillon will be honored as songwriter of the year.
Look for more winners to be revealed on Wednesday, before presales for the event start on Thursday. Tickets will be available to the public on Friday.
Back in June, Paul Stanley revealed there were going to be some changes to the announced KISS Army Storms Vegas event — and apparently that includes the name.
The band just updated fans on the experience, which is now named KISS Kruise: Landlocked in Vegas.
The event is still taking place Nov. 14-16 at Virgin Hotels, but now, in addition to the previously announced KISS unmasked performance, a second acoustic unmasked performance has been added on opening night.
The event will also include performances from former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick; Stephen Pearcy performing the music of Ratt; former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach; Quiet Riot; Black N’ Blue; and several KISS cover bands.
In addition to the music, Stanley, Gene Simmons and Tommy Thayer will take part in Q&A sessions, as will the band’s manager, Doc McGhee. There will also be several panels, including one called The Future of Kiss, focused on what’s ahead for the band.
Paramore drummer Zac Farro has released a new solo track called “1.”
“‘1’ is a song about someone being completely and utterly unique,” Farro says. “One of one, no carbon copy. When you’re truly yourself it inspires others to be more themselves.”
“1” will appear on Farro’s upcoming debut solo album, Operator. Though he’s released music with his side project HalfNoise, Operator marks the first record he’s putting out under his own name.
Operator is due out July 18. It also includes the previously released track “My My.”
Raphael Saadiq has added 22 new dates to the tour for his one-man show, No Bandwidth: One Man, One Night, Three Decades of Hits. He will kick off his fall run on Sept. 7, starting with a show at Channel 24 in Sacramento. He’ll move on to cities like LA, Vegas, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago and Detroit before wrapping up on Oct. 14 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville.
“I’ve always wanted to do a one-man show. I want to challenge myself,” Raphael said in a statement. “My one-person show has three acts; I will be talking about my career, bringing a couple of instruments to express myself, singing my original music as well as covers of songs I wish I had written, and more. I want it to feel magical and like a Broadway show.”
Presale tickets for the tour are currently on sale; tickets for the general public go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Raphael’s newly announced run follows the tour’s first three sold-out nights at New York City’s Apollo Theater, LA’s United Theater and Detroit’s Fox Theater.
I Didn’t Come Here to Leave: that’s the statement Chris Young is making as he reveals the title and release date for his upcoming 10th album.
It’ll arrive Oct. 17, the eighth anniversary of his induction into the Grand Ole Opry.
“At this point in my career, I hope someone listens to this album and says ‘Wow, he dug deep,’” Chris says. “The funny thing is, I’m here saying ‘Yeah, it’s one of the best things I’ve ever made,’ and I believe it wholeheartedly.”
“It’s wild to step back and see a really long list of things I’ve gotten to do already,” he adds. “But I didn’t come here to leave.”
Chris co-wrote 11 of the album’s 14 songs, including the title track, which is out now. It also features his current single, “Til the Last One Dies.”
The record, which was two years in the making, is his first for Black River Entertainment after spending the entirety of his career on RCA. Stay tuned for the full track listing to be revealed.
Ringo Starr celebrated his 85th birthday in Beverly Hills Monday with his annual Peace & Love event, but the big day was also marked in a very special way in his home city of Liverpool, England.
According to the U.K.’s The Independent, the city where The Beatles were founded unveiled the “Peace and Love Sculpture” in honor of Ringo. The silver statue, revealed by the city’s Beatles Story museum, features a hand making the peace sign and was created using a casting of Starr’s right hand. A similar statue is currently on display in Beverly Hills.
The unveiling was attended by locals, as well as students from Ringo’s primary school, St. Silas CE.
Ringo is known for spreading peace and love. In fact, on every birthday he asks fans to spread the message at 12 p.m. PT. This year the message was shared in over 38 countries and was also beamed from mission control in Houston to the International Space Station.
