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Beyoncé reveals ‘Cowboy Carter’ artwork, shares statement on album

Beyoncé revealed the cover art for her forthcoming album, Cowboy Carter, and posted a statement on social media, detailing how the country album came about. Beyoncé shared the cover art on Instagram, featuring her sitting sideways on a galloping white horse holding an American flag while dressed in a red, white and blue leather suit adorned by a sash that reads “COWBOY CARTER.”

Accompanied with the photo was a lengthy caption: “Today marks the 10-day countdown until the release of act ii. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of the supporters of TEXAS HOLD ‘EM and 16 CARRIAGES. I feel honored to be the first Black woman with the number one single on the Hot Country Songs chart. That would not have happened without the outpouring of support from each and every one of you. My hope is that years from now, the mention of an artist’s race, as it relates to releasing genres of music, will be irrelevant.”

“This album has been over five years in the making. It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed…and it was very clear that I wasn’t. But, because of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the history of Country music and studied our rich musical archive. It feels good to see how music can unite so many people around the world, while also amplifying the voices of some of the people who have dedicated so much of their lives educating on our musical history .. The criticisms I faced when I first entered this genre forced me to propel past the limitations that were put on me. act ii is a result of challenging myself, and taking my time to bend and blend genres together to create this body of work .. I have a few surprises on the album, and have collaborated with some brilliant artists who I deeply respect. I hope that you can hear my heart and soul, and all the love and passion that I poured into every detail and every sound.”

Beyoncé concluded: “I focused on this album as a continuation of RENAISSANCE…I hope this music is an experience, creating another journey where you can close your eyes, start from the beginning and never stop. This ain’t a Country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album. This is act ii COWBOY CARTER, and I am proud to share it with y’all!”

Beyoncé announced that a new album was on its way during the Super Bowl in February, releasing the first two songs off the album at the time: “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages.” “Texas Hold ‘Em” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.

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Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival reveals lineup: David Matthews Band, Noah Kahan and more

Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival is returning to The Park at Harlinsdale Farm in Franklin, Tennessee on Sept. 28-29 for its milestone 10th anniversary, and festival organizers have revealed the 2024 lineup, posting on social media: “Dave Matthews Band, Noah Kahan, Hozier, NEEDTOBREATHE, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave, COIN, Stephen Sanchez, Lukas Nelson..holy cats! 😇 🙀 Get your tix tomorrow 10am! 🎸🤘🎶🥳🎉 #PilgrimageFestival #MakeThePilgrimage #MusicFestival”

The 2024 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival lineup will feature Hozier, Noah Kahan, Dave Matthews Band, and NEEDTOBREATHE as headliners. This year’s lineup also boasts acts in pop, bluegrass, and jazz, many of whom are local or native to the Nashville area.  Also on this year’s lineup are Lukas Nelson, COIN, Charlie Worsham, Stephen Sanchez, The Cadillac Three, Cassandra Lewis, Sierra Hull, Charles Peña, and Celisse.

Tickets go on sale to the public at 10AM CT on Thursday, March 21st. For information, ticket sales and other details surrounding the special 2024 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival, click here.

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Kelly Clarkson, Peyton Manning, Jimmy Fallon to host Olympics ceremonies

Singer Kelly Clarkson and retired professional football player Peyton Manning announced on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon that they will host the opening ceremony at the Paris Summer Olympics with ‘Sunday Night Football’ announcer Mike Tirico. The opening ceremony will take place July 26 along the Seine river, with the Olympic games to run through Aug. 11.

Clarkson, 41, and Manning, 47, will  launch of NBC‘s 17 days of Olympics coverage alongside Tirico, with NBC ‘Today’ co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb reporting along the route of the parade of boats on the River Seine.   Clarkson also said of teaming up with Manning and Tirico: “Together, we are hosting the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games. You will never see these three individuals do anything else together. This is the most random thing that they’ve done and I am down for the ride.”

Fallon will also be heading to Paris to host the 2024 Olympics Closing Ceremony. Fallon himself broke the news on his podcast channel in a YouTube clip: “It’s real, It’s happening, I’m gonna do it. I am heading to Paris. I am going to co-host the Olympics closing ceremony this summer. I had no idea that’s gonna happen…I am beyond excited, I am beyond honored!”

NBC’s live coverage of the ceremony kicks off July 26 on NBC and Peacock at noon ET.

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Tomorrow X Together to embark on U.S. leg of 2024 world tour

Tomorrow X Together will embark on the U.S. leg of their third world tour, Act: Promise, this May. 11 shows have been announced so far in eight cities, including Tacoma, Oakland, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, New York City, Rosemont, and Washington DC. The Act: Promise tour will kick off in Korea with three shows at the KSPO Dome in Seoul from May 3rd through 5th. Additional tour dates and cities will be announced later.

Tickets to the U.S. leg of TXT’s 2024 ‘Act: Promise’ world tour will be available on pre-sale for MOA members on March 17, from 4pm to 10pm local time via either Ticketmaster or AXS. General onsale will start on March 28 at 4pm local time.

Tomorrow X Together will be dropping their sixth mini album Minisode 3: Tomorrow via the group’s label, BigHit Music, on April 1st. Big Hit Music made the announcement though its social media channels, alongside a brief animated clip showcasing the group’s refreshed logo for the comeback. Big Hit Music also posted to fan community Weverse that ‘minisode 3: Tomorrow’, the group’s mark the sixth mini-album so far, will be released on April 1 at 6pm KST / 5am ET.

‘minisode 3: Tomorrow’ will mark TXT’s first music in five months and the third installation in the boyband’s ongoing ‘minisode’ series of mini-albums. The series began with the release of ‘minisode 1: Blue Hour’ in 2020 and was continued with ‘minisode 2: Thursday’s Child’ in 2022.

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2024 Glastonbury Festival headlined by Dua Lipa, Coldplay, SZA, and Shania Twain

The 2024 Glastonbury Festival has unveiled its 2024 lineup, featuring headliners Dua Lipa, Coldplay, SZA, and Shania Twain. The event returns to Worthy Farm in Pilton, United Kingdom from June 26-30.

Glastonbury posted on social media: “Here is the first Glastonbury Festival 2024 line-up poster. Many more acts and attractions still to be announced. Tickets for this year’s Festival are sold out, but our prize draw for 20 pairs is raising emergency funds to support people affected by conflict, via link in bio”

Dua Lipa headlines the Pyramid Stage for the first time on Friday night. Coldplay will make their Pyramid Stage debut since 2016 on Saturday. Sza will headline on Sunday, and Shania Twain makes her Glastonbury debut in the legend’s slot. Also performing are Camila Cabello, James Blake, LCD Soundsystem, Burna Boy, Janelle Monáe, Disclosure, Idles, The National, Jessie Ware, and many others, with more artists expected to be announced.

Tickets sold out after going on sale last November; however, organizers say that canceled and returned tickets will be available in April. They will also have a “prize draw” for 20 pairs to raise emergency funds to support people affected by conflict. The prize draw is open to UK residents, until noon GMT on Thursday, March 28th.

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See Jennifer Lopez in the video for ‘Rebound’

Jennifer Lopez has shared her video for the song “Rebound”, which depicts Lopez in an abusive relationship with a partner, played by dancer Gilbert Saldivar.

The footage shown in the video originally appeared in This is Me…Now: A Love Story, the narrative film Lopez released alongside her album This is Me…Now . The projects are inspired by Lopez’s past relationships and her love story with her husband, actor Ben Affleck.

In a recent interview with Variety, Lopez said the video for ‘Rebound’ was inspired by her own experience, though she did not name who the abusive partner was: “the idea of the glass house was about how we get into these toxic relationships. You have trauma from your past. You have these patterns you haven’t figured out yet. And you get into these relationships where you compromise yourself in ways you never thought you would. Or you allow people to treat you in ways that you never thought you would. And that certainly has happened to me.”

In support of all her recent projects, Lopez will launch the This is Me…Now tour on June 26 in Orlando, Fla. Take a look at the video for ‘Rebound’ – here.

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Take a look at Ariana Grande’s video for ‘We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)’

Ariana Grande is sharing the official music video for “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” directed by Christian Breslauer. The song is taken from Grande’s seventh full-length album, Eternal Sunshine, available now.

The video finds Grande wearing a furry grey coat over a mini dress and knee-high boots and sporting some dramatic, tribal-like makeup around her left eye — sitting in the drab, wood-paneled lobby of the Brighter Days Inc. clinic awaiting an appointment with a doctor. While waiting, Grande grabs a white box filled with memories and enters a surgery arena, where she lays back on a chair as she begins to sing the ballad’s introspective lyrics.

Eternal Sunshine features the chart-topping single “Yes, And?”, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and marked Ariana Grande’s eighth No. 1 and 21st Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

Watch the video for “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)” – here.

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Slash to release sixth solo album featuring Demi Lovato, Chris Stapleton and more

Guitarist Slash will release his sixth solo album, titled Orgy of the Damned on May 17 , featuring a wide-array of special artists including Demi Lovato, Brian Johnson, Chris Stapleton, Beth Hart, Iggy Pop, Paul Rodgers, Gary Clark Jr., Billy F. Gibbons, Chris Robinson, Dorothy and Tash Neal.

Slash released the first track, a cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor,” on his YouTube channel.  The song features AC/DC’s Johnson singing the lyrics, and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler plays harmonica; you can check out the video: here.  Slash said in a statement of the song: “‘Killing Floor’ is one of my favorite Howlin’ Wolf songs, but also one of the iconic blues riffs that turned me on as a young guitar player. I’ve always wanted to cover it in some capacity and this record was the perfect vehicle.”

For this album, Slash has assembled a blues band which includes Johnny Griparic on bass, Teddy Andreadis on keyboard, Michael Jerome on drums and Tash Neal on guitar/vocals. The 12-track LP includes Robert Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues,” Willie Dixon’s “Hoochie Coochie Man” (first recorded by Muddy Waters) and T-Bone Walker’s “Stormy Monday.” Demi Lovato joins him on”Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” and Iggy Pop appears on “Awful Dream.”

Orgy of the Damned is available for pre-order now.

Slash announces all-star ‘Orgy of the Damned’ album

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Twenty One Pilots share video for ‘Overcompensate’

Twenty One Pilots have announced a new album ‘Clancy’ and shared the video for its lead single, ‘Overcompensate’. Clancy marks the Columbus, Ohio natives’ sixth LP – the follow-up to 2021’s ‘Scaled and Icy’ – will drop on May 17.

The musical duo, compromised of Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun, have been teasing new music recently weeks, with all of the artwork across Twenty One Pilots’ digital platforms for their previous albums featuring strips of red tape covering the eyes on each cover on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. The and then released a trailer foreshadowing what’s to come, seemingly teasing a new character and location with Joseph narrating: “I am trapped, stuck in a cycle I have never been able to break. I want to believe this is the last time, but I don’t know for sure.”

Twenty One Pilots’s trailer saw Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun portrayed as escapees washed up on a new island called Voldsøy. A mysterious creature has also granted Joseph a “miraculous power”, where Joseph is seen reanimating a dead body back in the continent of Trench. Towards the end, Joseph dons a brand-new balaclava, announcing: “I am returning to Trench. I am Clancy”.

Check out the video for ‘Overcompensate’ – here.

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Justin Timberlake’s tracklist for ‘Everything I Thought It Was’ LP includes new NSYNC song

Justin Timberlake’s new album “Everything I Thought It Was” includes collaborations with Nigerian singer Fireboy DML, rapper and singer Tobe Nwigwe and his former NSYNC bandmates. Timberlake teased the tracklist along with Spotify, featuring 18 songs total.

The song with NSYNC, titled “Paradise”, will mark the boy band’s second new song following their reunion for the single “Better Place” — their first song together in over two decades — for the film Trolls Band Together. The group — Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick and Timberlake — announced their reunion just last year while on stage at the MTV VMAs, where they presented the award for best pop to Taylor Swift.

“Everything I Thought It Was” opens with a track called “Memphis,” in homage to the singer’s hometown, and another called “F**kin’ Up the Disco.” The album was preceded by its first single, “Selfish,” which premiered at a special concert in Timberlake’s hometown of Memphis.

Timberlake will also be embarking on his Forget Tomorrow tour, which kicks off on April 29 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

To purchase Everything I Thought It Was, head to Timberlake’s website.

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