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Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are inviting you over for a bite on the Fourth of July. 

You read that right: While you won’t exactly get to go to their house, they do hope you’ll stop by their Friends in Low Places bar on Nashville’s Lower Broadway and have a hot dog — on them.

“Free hotdogs on the rooftop? You bet,” the country super couple announced on their socials, along with a video of Garth grilling while Trisha lounges and has a drink. 

“Starting at 2PM on the 4th of July, @friendsbarnash is giving out FREE hotdogs UNTIL WE RUN OUT — and yes, we mean it,” the post continues. “No rules. Just buns, dogs, and the grill.” 

Of course, the only downside may be that there’s a bit of a crowd. The city’s expecting a quarter of a million people to show up for the annual Let Freedom Sing! celebration, which includes performances by Dierks Bentley, Russell Dickerson, Niko Moon and the Nashville Symphony.

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In the middle of the biggest success he’s ever had, Alex Warren is also celebrating one year of marriage to his wife, Kouvr Annon, who inspired his song “Ordinary.” And while most people would think writing a #1 hit about your spouse would earn you Best Husband Ever points, Alex says he’s not so sure.

Speaking to People on Saturday, the day before their June 22 anniversary, Alex said his tour schedule makes marriage tough. 

“You know, I don’t think I’ve been the best husband. I’m trying my best. It’s hard on the road,” he said. “Seriously, I don’t know how glamorous in the middle of Portland it could be, but we’re trying our best here. We bring our dog and everything is awesome.”

But Alex said that he’d like to have a break so the two could actual travel for non-work purposes. “I would love to take her to somewhere … Tahiti or something,” he told People.

While Alex may not think he’s a great husband, Kouvr begs to differ. She shared photos of their wedding on Instagram and wrote, “My first year being married has taught me so many things but the most important one is that life would be so colorless and boring without you in it.”

She continued, “You truly make a year feel like a single day and I’m the luckiest girl in the world to have found my forever partner. I’ll love you forever darlin.”

Alex, meanwhile, shared a photo of the two together early in their relationship — they met in 2018 — and then a more recent one. “Happy Anniversary to my bestie for the restie,” he wrote.

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Reneé Rapp is taking a bite out of concert stages this fall.

The singer and actress will launch her Bite Me tour, in support of her new album of the same name, Sept. 23 at Colorado’s iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre. After stops at major venues like Boston’s TD Gardens, New York’s Madison Square Garden and LA’s Kia Forum, it’ll wrap up Oct. 29 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ravyn Lenae and Syd will open on select dates.

You can sign up for the artist presale now at livemu.sc/reneerapp; it starts Thursday. A presale for Mastercard and Gap Inc. cardholders starts Tuesday morning via us-music.priceless.com/gap. The general sale begins Friday morning at ReneeRapp.com.

The tour includes VIP Soundcheck Q&A Experiences, which will give fans access to preshow soundcheck with Reneé and a live Q&A session with her. Those go on sale Wednesday at Reneerapp.com.

Reneé will be teaming with REVERB to make the tour more sustainable; she’s also partnering with Save the Children, which provides health, education and other necessities to children worldwide.

BITE ME, Reneé’s sophomore album, is out Aug. 1.

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The Lemonheads have announced the details of their new album, Love Chant.

The record, which marks the first collection of original material from the “Into Your Arms” outfit in nearly 20 years, is due out Oct. 24.

Love Chant includes the previously released track “Deep End.” A second cut, titled “In the Margin,” is out now via digital outlets.

Along with the album news, The Lemonheads have announced a U.S. headlining tour, running from Nov. 11 in Birmingham, Alabama, to Dec. 20 in Nashville.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit TheLemonheads.net.

Here’s the Love Chant track list:
“58 Second Song”
“Deep End”
“In the Margin”
“Wild Thing”
“Be-In”
“Cell Phone Blues”
“Togetherness Is All I’m After”
“Marauders”
“Love Chant”
“The Key of Victory”
“Roky”

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Ariana Grande is one of the many stars who join Barbra Streisand on her new duets album, The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two, out on Friday. But the two have something else in common: Both are now part of the Meet the Parents film franchise.

Streisand played Roz Focker, mother of Ben Stiller‘s character, Greg Focker, in the 2004 sequel Meet the Fockers and the 2010 follow-up, Little Fockers. Ariana, meanwhile, has been announced as a cast member in the fourth installment of the franchise, which came as a surprise to Streisand.

Informed by Variety that Ariana will be in the upcoming film, Streisand said, “You’re kidding.” When Variety asked Streisand, “Will see Roz Focker again?” a confused Streisand replied, “She’s going to play Roz Focker?”

Once the casting was explained to her, Streisand said that if she were to reprise her role as Roz, “They’d have to pay me a lot of money because I didn’t get paid what the other people got paid and so I’m p***** off.”

As for why she tapped Ariana and Mariah Carey to sing together with her on a song on the new album, Streisand said, “They’re the hottest, biggest, most wonderful voices. And they both said yes to join me.” 

So, did Streisand enjoy Ariana’s film Wicked?

“I showed it to my grandchildren,” Streisand said. “They loved Wicked.”

When Variety pressed, “Did you?” she again evaded the question.

“I was just watching their reaction and they were totally fine with the witches. I was surprised,” she said. “A four- and a six-year-old, you know?”

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Kenny Chesney has wrapped his 15 nights as the first country artist to headline Sphere Las Vegas, but he’ll be back next year. 

Near the end of his Saturday night show, he revealed that “a couple days ago, they asked us to come back next year,” before a visual appeared with #IGoBack26 and #Summertime26.

“I got a little carried away,” Kenny said afterward. “But after all the guests, all the songs we hadn’t planned on, all the people who came from all over, I just didn’t want to keep it a secret. I knew we were coming back, and if No Shoes Nation had half as much fun as we did, I wanted them to know we’d see them right here next summer. What could be better?” 

Songwriter Mac McAnally joined him for the last two shows, with Kenny finishing the final song drumming alongside Nick Buda on “Don’t Happen Twice.”

Look for details about Kenny’s 2026 Sphere run to be revealed in the next several weeks.

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Former Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler no longer talks with his brother and former bandmate, guitarist Willie Adler.

“I guess the best way to put it is that I was sideswiped with the whole thing,” Chris tells Blabbermouth.net of his departure from Lamb of God. “I wish [Willie] all the best; I’m wishing them all the best, and I think about him all the time, but I would say we are estranged.”

Chris adds, “Since that e-mail that I got, where he was not even willing to talk to me about it, we haven’t spoken.”

Chris was injured in a motorcycle accident in 2017, which forced him to miss tour dates in 2018. In 2019, Lamb of God announced Chris was no longer in the band. They replaced him with Art Cruz, who had filled in for him during the dates that he missed.

Several months later, Chris issued a statement saying that his departure was not his decision.

Cruz remains Lamb of God’s drummer and played on their two most recent albums, 2020’s self-titled release and 2022’s Omens.

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