Parmalee is taking it to the top.

The group is back at #1 on the country charts with their latest single, “Take My Name,” marking their second consecutive #1 hit following “Just the Way” featuring Blanco Brown. Parmalee frontman, Matt Thomas, co-wrote “Take My Name” with Ashley Gorley, Ben Johnson and David Fanning after his brother and bandmate, Scott Thomas, got married. It’s the third single off their 2021 album, For You.

“It’s OFFICIAL! YOU the fans have taken Take My Name up to #1 on Country Radio!!! Thank you to Country Radio, our label, our team, family, friends, and our fans!!” the North Carolina natives write on Instagram alongside a series of photos posing with members of their team as they each hold up one finger in the air. “We can’t thank you enough for making this happen!” 

Parmalee also topped the charts in 2013 with their first #1 song, “Carolina.”

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Attendees of France’s Hellfest this past weekend were greeted by a new statue of the late Motörhead frontman, Lemmy Kilmister.

The giant, silver monument, which has a portion of Lemmy’s ashes enshrined in it, will be officially memorialized during a ceremony taking place at Hellfest on June 23.

Following a headlining set by Scorpions, Motörhead members Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee, who also plays drums in Scorpions, will take the stage to deliver a speech and a toast to Lemmy. A video tribute will also be shown.

Lemmy died December 2015 at age 70. He and Motörhead played Hellfest four times throughout his life, including its inaugural edition in 2006.

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Ari Lennox is taking a stand for her health. 

On Sunday, the R&B singer opened up to fans about her future performances, announcing in an Instagram Story captured by The Shade Room, “For my mental health and my sanity I will not be doing any shows that require me to fly.”

“I can not keep torturing myself with this huge fear of mine. It is literally destroying my health. Enough is enough,” she expressed. “I’m so sorry to all that are inconvenienced by this. Don’t know what this will mean for my career but I just can’t do it.”

Ari, who was scheduled to perform at Minneapolis’ AFROPUNK the same day, added that she was currently en route to fulfill her obligation before reaching out for help. 

“If there’s any peers or anyone out there who knows of a great hynotherapist, therapist and or fear of flying solutions I would be so grateful. I want to beat this,” she concluded.

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Kenny Chesney sustained an injury during a show, but he didn’t let that stop the music. 

Over the weekend, Kenny was entertaining a crowd of more than 55,000 fans at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia when he cut his finger on stage during a performance of “American Kids.” But the multi-time CMA Entertainer of the Year continued to play even as his finger was being treated by one of his crew members.

Fan footage of the incident shows the crew member putting a bandage around the singer’s pinky finger, his hand covered in blood from the cut. Despite the chaos, Kenny continues to sing and doesn’t miss a word of the hit song, one hand on the mic while the other is being tended to.  

In a statement shared after the show, Kenny says it was only a matter of getting the right tape on his finger to stop the bleeding. 

“There was no way I was breaking the momentum of that song. We were in it, and I wasn’t going to stop,” he expresses. “We know how to roll with whatever happens.” 

The superstar continues on his stadium-headlining Here and Now Tour through the end of August. 

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Beyoncé‘s newest single, “Break My Heart,” is expected to drop at midnight ET, per the singer’s updated social media accounts. 

News of the release comes after the Grammy-winning artist changed her Instagram and Twitter bios to read, “6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET,” and only a few days after she announced her forthcoming seventh studio album, Renaissance. The long-awaited projected, which is expected July 29, will feature both dance and country tracks, according to Variety, with contributions from Raphael Saadiq, who executive-produced Beyoncé’s sister Solange Knowles‘ 2016 album, A Seat at the Table, as well as Ryan Tedder who co-wrote Beyoncé’s 2008 hit, “Halo.”

Renaissance will be Beyoncé’s first solo studio album since her 2016 award-winning project, Lemonade. It also follows the critically acclaimed Homecoming, the live album of her 2018 Coachella headlining performance. 

Upon the Renaissance announcement last Thursday, fans immediately speculated it would be a multi-part album, considering the information shown on her official website and merchandise which reads “act i.”

Bey also covers British Vogue, which got an early listen to the album. While there are no quotes from the star in the article posted online, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful, writes of Beyoncé, “The creation [of the album] has been a long process, she explains, with the pandemic giving her far longer to spend thinking and rethinking every decision. Just the way she likes it.”

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Steve Albini just added to his lifetime poker winnings in a big way.

The acclaimed producer and engineer, perhaps best known for his work on Nirvana‘s 1993 album, In Utero, won the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event at the 2022 World Series of Poker over the weekend.

The win, which as all WSoP events do, comes with a gold bracelet as well as a prize of roughly $196,000.

Albini now has two WSoP bracelets to his name following his win at the $1,500 Seven Card Stud tournament in 2018.

“The first one felt like a fluke,” Albini tells WSoP.com. “This one also felt like a fluke. I was all-in a million times in this tournament.”

“In the Stud tournament, the bracelet that I won in 2018, I was never all-in in that tournament,” he adds. “I was never short of chips. But it still felt like I kind of fluked it because I beat a table full of really great players that I didn’t expect to beat. This time it felt like a fluke because I was so short on chips so often, and I kept getting all in, and I kept surviving.”

Perhaps Albini will use his new earnings to produce that Dolly Parton rock album.

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Could Taylor Swift be readying the “Taylor’s Version” release of 1989? 

The Grammy winner raised some eyebrows at the Las Culturistas Culture Awards on Saturday. The award show is hosted by comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers and based on their comedy podcast of the same name.

Taylor made a surprise appearance at the ceremony when receiving the awards for “Best Taylor Swift” and “Best Tayla Swiff,” which Rogers explained is the terminology the podcast uses for her “vixen” alter ego. Taylor’s cookie baking won the first award, while her mashup of her songs “Wildest Dreams” and “Enchanted” during the 1989 Tour took home the second honor.

Pop Crave reports fans took notice of a peculiar message written on a chalkboard in Taylor’s first acceptance speech, which reads “1989 secret session Nashville” with four stars drawn on it. There were other Easter eggs hidden in the speech, with one fan pointing out on Twitter, “Blue vest, 1989 era bangs, obvious shorter hair (despite it being tied back), 1989 SS wall thing, lifting the tray out of the oven in the same way/filmed on the same angle as in the 1989 SS video, Wildest Dreams mention… 1989 TV is coming.”

Also during the pre-recorded speech, Taylor walks toward her oven to show off her latest batch of cookies.  Noting she “worked hard on” them, she pulls out a glass of white wine and says she is “going to enjoy it now.”

In her second pre-recorded message, the “Willow” singer jokes, “Finally! Somebody spelled my name right, which is T-A-Y-L-A, S-W-I-F-F.”

It is unknown when or if 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is coming. Details about the Nashville secret session are also unknown at this time.

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