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Amazon Music has announced that Garth Brooks will headline the first-ever Black Friday Amazon Music Live special on November 24. The AML special will be livestreamed from the grand opening of Brooks’ new Nashville bar, Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk. The sold-out concert in Nashville has already earned over three-million ticket requests from…

Global superstar Taylor Swift has added several Vancouver shows to the Canadian leg of her record-breaking “The Eras Tour.” Swift is set to perform for three nights next December. The concerts are slated for December 6, 7 and 8, 2024, at B.C. Place. The Vancouver shows are slated to follow six Eras Tour offerings at…

Cody Johnson and Turnpike Troubadours have been announced as headliners for the second annual Two Step Inn festival. Two Step Inn is scheduled to take place on April 20-21 at San Gabriel Park in Georgetown, Texas. Hank Williams Jr., Clint Black, Ryan Bingham with The Texas Gentleman, Colter Wall, Charley Crockett, Martina McBride, Lee Ann…

ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd have announced 36 additional dates for their joint co-headlining tour, “The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour” for 2024. The trek includes two legs in the spring and late summer of next year. The first leg will be supported by Black Stone Cherry and kicks off March 8th in Savannah, Georgia,…

Kelly Clarkson covered Olivia Rodrigo’s single “Vampire” for “Kellyoke” during the Halloween episode of the “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on Tuesday (October 31). “The way you sold me for parts as you sunk your teeth into me/Bloodsucker, dream crusher/ Bleeding me dry, like a damn vampire,” Clarkson, dressed as a blood-sucking vampire, sang with a…

Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” has retained its No. 1 rank on the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song, from Swift’s 2019 studio album Lover, topped the chart dated November 4. “Cruel Summer” marks Swift’s tenth leader on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. She had been performing “Cruel Summer” in the opening sets of…

Six-time Grammy Award winner Amy Grant has joined Cory Asbury for a new version of “These Are Days,” a song from Asbury’s fifth album, Pioneer. Asbury, Ethan Hulse and Paul Mabury co-wrote “These Are the Days.” The new version of the song finds Grant turning in a restrained performance, adding harmonies to Asbury’s vocals. Grant…

Wynonna Judd has been named Mega Mentor for Season 24 of NBC’s “The Voice.” Wynonna will join superstar coaches Niall Horan, John Legend, Reba McEntire and Gwen Stefani to mentor the artists who have made it through the Battle Rounds. McEntire has invited Wynonna to be this year’s Team Reba Mega Mentor during the Knockout…

Country superstars Eric Church, Hardy and Jelly Roll have been confirmed as headliners for Pepsi’s Rock The South 2024 music festival. The three-day event is scheduled to take place at York Farms in Cullman, Alabama, from July 18-20, 2024. Other artists announced for the event include Oliver Anthony, Parker McCollum, Warren Zeiders, Big & Rich…

Close on the heels of releasing the 1989 (Taylor’s Version) record, Taylor Swift dropped “Bad Blood (Taylor’s Version),” featuring a re-recorded Kendrick Lamar verse. “Bad Blood (Taylor’s Version)” features on the newly released deluxe edition of 1989. “Watching Kendrick Lamar create and record his verses on the ‘Bad Blood’ remix was one of the most…