Several of country music’s biggest stars are taking the stage at 2022 CMA Fest. 

Luke Combs, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Kane Brown and Thomas Rhett will all be performing on the main stage at Nissan Stadium throughout the four-day festival June 9-12, along with Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Carly Pearce, Parker McCollum, Darius Ruckerand more. 

Stages will be set up all across downtown Nashville, with performances at the riverfront, Ascend Park, Walk of Fame Park and Bridgestone Arena Plaza. 

The Chevy Riverfront stage will feature a variety of artists all day long including Jimmie Allen, Lainey Wilson, Callista Clark, Breland, Ryan Hurd, Hardy, Scotty McCreery and several others, while the remaining stages will give a platform to Runaway June, Brittney Spencer, This Is Us star Chrissy Metz, The Voice winner Jake Hoot, and many more. 

This marks the first CMA Fest since 2019, as both the 2020 and 2021 festivals were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tickets are available as four-day packages or can be purchased for a single day, with the proceeds benefiting the CMA Foundation. Performances at the outdoor daytime stages are free to attend. 

Visit the CMA Fest website for the full lineup.

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If you’re the parent of a young kid, chances are you’ve heard “Baby Shark” on repeat ad nauseum.  Katy Perry and Jimmy Kimmel are now giving you its spiritual successor: “Yum Yum Nom Nom Toot Toot Poop.”

Katy, who’s the mom of one-year-old Daisy Dove, appeared Monday on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and was drafted into Kimmel’s war against Pinkfong, the creator of “Baby Shark.”  It should be noted that “Baby Shark” has amassed over 10 billion views on YouTube, to which Katy remarked, “I think that’s more than my songs.”

“It’s more than all of the songs, really, combined,” Jimmy retorted. 

The two got down to business and crafted a song that could rival “Baby Shark.”  The critical components needed were capturing “the imagination of children” and using “a total of five or six notes” that are “repetitive.”

Katy felt the song needed to be about a subject “that two-year-olds would really find interesting” and the two brainstormed a few possible themes such as dinosaurs, puppies and low-interest mortgages before arriving at “eating.”

From there, they arrived at using “yum yums.” “It causes all the hair on my body to stand up when I say the word ‘yum yum’,” Jimmy quipped, “but I think that’s good because the parents have to hate the song.” 

After adding other phrases they despise — “nom nom” and “toot toot” — the song was born about what happens when one eats food.  “This is an educational song!” Katy raved.

There was a small snag when composing the melody because the “Roar” singer admitted she doesn’t play the piano, but the two found their stride and performed their masterpiece on air — and even roped in LeVar Burton to help them sing the deliberately annoying song.

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The Interrupters have announced a new album called In the Wild.

The follow-up to 2018’s Fight the Good Fight, which spawned the single “She’s Kerosene,” will be released August 5. You can listen to its first single, “In the Mirror,” now via digital outlets.

Describing the inspiration behind “In the Mirror,” frontwoman Aimee Interrupter says, “I fell into so many self-destructive patterns trying to come to terms with my childhood.”

“I spent so long trying to run from the pain,” she continues. “No matter how far I ran, there I was…I realized I needed to make peace with who I saw in the mirror.”

As previously reported, The Interrupters will launch a co-headlining tour with Flogging Molly beginning in June. The outing follows their opening gig on Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer‘s Hella Mega tour last year.

Here’s the In the Wild track list:

“Anything Was Better”
“As We Live” feat. Tim Armstrong & Rhoda Dakar
“Raised By Wolves”
“In the Mirror”
“Kiss the Ground”
“Jailbird”
“The Hard Way”
“My Heart”
“Let ‘Em Go”
“Worst for Me”
“Burdens” feat. Alex Désert & Greg Lee of Hepcat
“Love Never Dies” feat. The Skints
“Afterthought”
“Alien”

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Trisha Yearwood‘s love for animals shines through in her #EveryDogCampaign. 

In honor of National Pet Day, the country legend is launching the campaign through the Trisha Yearwood Pet Collection as a way to bring awareness to shelter pets. The singer is partnering with animal shelters across the country to showcase one dog each week who is available for adoption via social media. 

The shelters chosen all align with the mission of Trisha’s nonprofit, Dottie’s Yard Fund, named after her and husband Garth Brooks‘ beloved dog, Dottie, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 14. 

“I’m so excited because I think this is just the very beginning of what we can do, and this was my dream all along for the whole pet line,” Trisha says. “You want to rescue every dog. That’s our goal. We’re going to work on it!”

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Five Finger Death Punch has unleashed a new song called “AfterLife.”

The tune is the first preview and title track off the upcoming ninth Death Punch album, set to arrive later this year. You can listen to “AfterLife” now via digital outlets.

Along with the new song, FFDP has announced a U.S. headlining tour set to kick off this summer. The outing, which will also feature Megadeth, The Hu and Fire from the Gods on the bill, launches August 19 in Portland, Oregon, and will wrap up October 15 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 15, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit FiveFingerDeathPunch.com.

The most recent Five Finger Death Punch album is 2020’s F8.

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Camila Cabello seems to be off men following her breakup with Shawn Mendes.

The “Bam Bam” singer, in a Vogue Beauty Secrets video posted on Monday, joked that she “wears a lot more lipstick…and gloss” now that she’s single because “I don’t like the feeling of kissing someone with gloss on.”

“It’s like, a lot. So now that I’m not kissing anybody, it’s gloss time baby!”

The 25-year-old singer says she’s focusing more on “taking care of myself” and putting her happiness before everything else.

“I feel like women, more and more, are kinda claiming these things like fashion and makeup in a way that’s not really for guys,” she explains.

Lately, Camila has drawn a lot of inspiration from another fashion icon.

“Rihanna‘s like, somebody that has really inspired me in terms of fashion and makeup,” she shares. “Like even just the way that she is the fashion mom now and she steps out with her like, belly, and she just looks so cool.”

Cabello adds, “She’s somebody that I looked at the way they were doing their thing and I was like, you know what? I wanna be more open like that. I wanna try more things.”

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How’s this for a grunge supergroup?

Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil and Pearl Jam/Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron have released a new album together as the new band 3rd Secret. The group’s self-titled debut record is out now via select digital outlets, including Spotify.

Cameron previously hinted at the existence of 3rd Secret in an Instagram post late last year featuring a photo of Novoselic at the Avast! Recording Studio in Seattle. “Tracking with Krist,” the caption read.

Along with the grunge trio, 3rd Secret includes Bubba Dupree of the hardcore band Void, and vocalists Jillian Raye and Jennifer Johnson. Raye also played with Novoselic in the band Giants in the Trees.

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The late actor Chadwick Boseman is remembered as a prolific performer who took on roles that highlight the Black experience. He’s widely recognized as T’Challa in Marvel’s Black Panther, but before his reign as the King of Wakanda, Boseman delivered a moving performance honoring iconic baseball player Jackie Robinson in the biopic, 42.

The film, which tells the story of Robinson’s historical achievements as the first Black MLB player, was released on April 12, 2013. It garnered positive reviews and great success, grossing $97 million worldwide against a reported budget of $40 million.

The film’s title is a reference to Robinson’s jersey number, which was retired from the MLB in 1997 and that he wore with the Brooklyn Dodgers, the team that drafted him in 1947. Boseman spoke in past interviews about the first time he put on the symbolic jersey, saying he thought it was “unbelievable.”

“The time that was actually the most amazing was during filming,” he explained to Entertainment Tonight Canada. “There’s a moment, that’s actually not in the film but in the trailer, where I basically looked at myself in the mirror and saw my face change,” he said with a laugh, adding the note that he wasn’t going crazy experiencing the “amazing” moment.

Because of 42’s critical lens on Robinson’s life, including but not limited to the racism he experienced as a baseball player, producers called upon his widow, Rachel Robinson, to ensure storytelling accuracy. Boseman once spoke with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos about the pressure that came with the role, including the fact that he reassured Mrs. Robinson that he’ll do everything in his power to “honor” her husband.

While we celebrate Jackie Robinson Day on April 15, the day he made his Major League Baseball debut with the Dodgers, may we also remember the late, great Chadwick Boseman.

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