Reba McEntire runs Happy’s Place tavern in her NBC sitcom, but in real life, she has her own drinking and dining establishment as well. In 2023, she opened Reba’s Place near where she grew up, in partnership with the Choctaw Nation.
Even if you can’t make it to Atoka, Oklahoma, you can sample some of Reba’s culinary offerings, thanks to the food delivery site Goldbelly.
There are Chicken Fried Chicken and Chicken Fried Steak Dinner Kits, as well as a Cherry Coke BBQ Burger + Fries Kit. You’ll also find Chicken & Bacon Jalapeño Poppers, Biscuits & Gravy and desserts like Strawberry Shortcake, Banana Bread and Banana Pudding.
The food starts at about $30 and goes up to about $120 for some of the meal kits that feed four. You can also order Reba’s Place merch.
Travis Kelce revealed on his New Heights podcast Wednesday that Taylor Swift’s surprise performance at his Tight Ends & Friends event had indeed been in the works for a while.
“We’re in Nashville. She grew up in Nashville,” he said. “She moved there when she was younger. And, yeah, we had this plan for a while that we were gonna have some fun with the tight ends, and especially Tight Ends & Friends, all the evening events.”
He said she approached Kane Brown, who was scheduled to perform that night, to make sure he was OK with her joining him onstage.
“Tay just kinda went up to him and the band and just was like, ‘Hey, if you guys are down, like, I’ll go up there, play a song, and see if we can, you know, pop the roof off this place,’” Travis explained. “Sure enough, she’s so good with just everybody, just people and making people feel comfortable in it.”
He said she was in the back writing out sheet music for the band to make sure they felt prepared. “Then just went out there without practicing, and it was pitch perfect and just killed it,” he said.
Taylor performed “Shake It Off” during the event, which raised money for Tight End University, the annual summit for NFL tight ends that is spearheaded by Travis and others.
After headlining 65 North American tour dates in 2024, former King Crimson members Adrian Belew and Tony Levin, guitar great Steve Vai and Tool drummer Danny Carey are set to release a live album of their Beat tour.
The tour, which also hit Mexico and South America in 2025, had the four artists celebrating the ’80s-era music of King Crimson, reinterpreting three of the band’s albums – 1981’s Discipline, 1982’s Beat and 1984’s Three of a Perfect Pair – which were also the first three to feature Belew and Levin.
The live album captures the Beat performance at the United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles. You can watch video of the performance of the song “Neal and Jack and Me” streaming on YouTube.
Beat Live will be released Sept. 26 as a three-LP set, a two-CD/Blu-ray set, and a limited collector’s edition that adds a bonus CD and 36-page art book to the two-CD/Blu-ray edition.
The next live Beat concert will be a record release show, Sept. 1 at Tokyo’s famed Budokan venue.
Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx marked his 24th year of sobriety on Wednesday, sharing a post on social media in which he reflected on how sobriety has “completely transformed” his life.
“Sobriety isn’t just about eliminating substances; it’s about the ability to be honest with yourself and those around you,” he wrote. “Over the past 24 years of sobriety, I’ve experienced profound joy, but not without significant challenges. Through this journey, I’ve learned how to navigate adversity with grace and how to be truly selfless.”
He added, “We’re not here solely for ourselves; we’re here to serve those who are still struggling.”
Sixx writes that when people are unable to be honest with themselves “more often than not, they fail and end up hurting those around them. Honesty can be frightening, but it’s also liberating.”
He then recalled a lesson he learned from a sponsor after a fellow addict had died.
“He said, ‘Some people have to die to teach the rest of us how to live.’ That broke my heart—and reminded me just how important this journey really is,” he shared. “A friend recently gave me a copy of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. One quote that struck me deeply was: ‘Practice what seems impossible.’ I like that. I accept that challenge.”
Mötley Crüe recently released a new take on their classic track “Home Sweet Home” featuring Dolly Parton. It will appear on their upcoming compilation album, From the Beginning, dropping Sept. 12.
On the same day they’ll kick off a new Las Vegas residency at the Dolby Live theater, with dates confirmed through Oct. 3. A complete schedule can be found at MotleyCrue.com.
Even though CMT didn’t put on a new CMT Music Awards for 2025, the network is producing a special to mark the show’s 20th anniversary.
CMT Music Awards: Ultimate Party Edition will premiere Thursday, July 17, at 9 p.m. ET.
The 90-minute show will feature two decades’ worth of highlights from Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Cody Johnson, Cole Swindell, Darius Rucker, Jason Aldean, Jelly Roll, Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson, Little Big Town and Luke Bryan.
You’ll also have the chance to vote on the Ultimate Fan Favorite Performance July 11-14 via CMT’s socials. The winner will be revealed on the show, which will air again on Saturday, July 19, at 12 p.m. ET.
Queen’s performance at Live Aid in 1985 is often considered one of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest live performances, but it turns out they could have missed out on the gig had Brian May not talked frontman Freddie Mercury into it.
In a new interview with the U.K.’s Radio Times, May shares that they were hesitant to sign on since at the time they weren’t on tour. He notes, “It seemed like a crazy idea, this talk of having 50 bands on the same bill.”
He says while Roger Taylor was on board, he, Mercury and John Deacon weren’t so sure, but May quickly changed his mind after tickets went on sale.
“I said to Freddie: ‘If we wake up on the day after this Live Aid show and we haven’t been there, we’re going to be pretty sad,” May says. “He said: ‘Oh, f*** it, we’ll do it.'”
But the band didn’t take the stage without first getting advice from Live Aid founder Bob Geldof.
According to May andTaylor, Geldof told them, “Don’t get clever. Just play the hits – you have 17 minutes.”
Queen wound up wowing fans with a set filled with hits, as well as an infamous “Ay-Oh” call and response with the audience. Taylor says he knew they did a good job during “Radio Ga Ga,” noting, “It did seem that the whole stadium was in unison.”
He adds, “But then I looked up during ‘We Are the Champions,’ and the crowd looked like a whole field of wheat swaying.”
Queen is set to mark the 40th anniversary of Live Aid on July 13: they’ll show their set on their YouTube channel for 24 hours starting at 6:41 p.m. BST, the same time Queen took the stage at Wembley Stadium.
Foreigner is revisiting their multi-Platinum album 4 with a new super deluxe edition.
Foreigner 4 Deluxe, dropping Sept. 12, is a five-disc CD/Blu-Ray package that includes newly remastered stereo and Atmos remixes of the album. There’s also a whole host of extras, including five previously unreleased songs, early and alternative versions of tracks, instrumentals, and live performances recorded on tour between 1981 and 1982.
Foreigner founder Mick Jones shares that recording 4 “took the better part of two years,” noting the band and producer Mutt Lange felt it “was something that just had to be right.” He adds, “This package, and particularly the stunning Atmos mixes present a spectacular culmination of one of the most exciting periods of my life.”
The deluxe edition will also be released digitally, while the remastered and remixed album will get a vinyl release. All versions are available for preorder now.
Released in 1981, as the album’s title suggests, 4 was Foreigner’s fourth studio album. The title also refers to the band now being a foursome following the departure of Ian McDonald and Al Greenwood.
The album spent four weeks at #1, thanks to top-five hits “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and “Urgent,” as well as the classic tune “Jukebox Hero.” The album has gone on to sell over 10 million copies worldwide and has been certified six-times Platinum in the U.S.
To celebrate the release, Foreigner has announced dates for the Foreigner 4 Deluxe Tour, which will feature original lead singer Lou Gramm joining the band for some songs. The tour kicks off with two nights, Dec. 3 and Dec. 4, in Port Chester, New York, and runs through Dec. 13 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
This is a great week to be part of the BTS ARMY. First, the K-pop superstars announced they’ll be returning with new music and a world tour in spring 2026. Now, a new trailer has been released for the upcoming BTS fan documentary.
In the trailer for BTS ARMY: FOREVER WE ARE YOUNG, we see various talking heads discussing the group’s rabid fanbase and how they helped the group reach global stardom.
“The power of ARMY could explode historical barriers,” one person interviewed for the doc says in the trailer. “It’s a social movement.”
The documentary hits theaters worldwide on July 30. Tickets are on sale now at btsarmymovie.com.
“There is no BTS without ARMY and no ARMY without BTS,” co-directors Grace Lee and Patty Ahn said in a statement. “We’re excited for audiences to go on an emotional journey and meet a fandom that made us laugh, cry, and think. We were constantly moved by the fans’ power, resilience, creativity and humor and hope audiences will be too.”
Richard Ashcroft has announced a new album called Lovin’ You.
The latest solo effort from The Verve frontman will arrive Oct. 3. It includes the previously released single “Lover,” which interpolates the Joan Armatrading song “Love and Affection.”
Lovin’ You marks the follow-up to 2018’s Natural Rebel. Ashcroft also put out a compilations in 2021 called Acoustic Hymns, Vol. 1, featuring rerecorded versions of songs from throughout his solo career and The Verve’s discography, including “Bitter Sweet Symphony.”
Ashcroft will be opening for the first leg of Oasis‘ reunion tour, which kicks off in the U.K. on Friday.
Chase Rice co-wrote one of the most successful “truck” songs in country music history, “Cruise,” and now he’s back with another.
“Two Tone Trippin'” features singer/songwriter Wyatt McCubbin and was inspired by a trip to Rollinsville, Colorado.
“We kept noticing two-tone trucks everywhere,” Chase remembers. “[Co-writer] Oscar [Charles] finally said, ‘Man, this must be where two-tones go to die.’ Then out of nowhere, he goes, ‘We should write a song called ‘Two Tone Trippin’.’”
“I had just bought a ‘72 two-tone Chevy, so I was all about it,” Chase continues. “I think we wrote the whole thing in about 45 minutes — no rules, not even a chorus. We just straight up had fun on this one. And everything you hear in the recording — the playing and the singing — was all one take.”
“Two Tone Trippin'” is the first taste of new music from Chase coming later this year and the follow-up to 2024’s Go Down Singin‘.
