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Post Malone’s Big A** Stadium Tour gets bigger with new LA date

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation With only one show already under its belt, Post Malone‘s Big A** Stadium Tour is already expanding.  Posty’s adding a Thursday, June 19, date at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, with tickets going on sale Friday.  The trek kicked off Tuesday with a sold-out show in Salt Lake City …

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The 60th ACMs promise 12 minutes of music to start + superstar collabs

Academy of Country Music The 60th Academy of Country Music Awards will start with 12 nonstop minutes of music, as the show pays tribute to six decades of ACM songs of the year.  Clint Black, Dan + Shay, Wynonna Judd, host Reba McEntire, LeAnn Rimes and Sugarland are all set to take part in the …

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Trisha Yearwood looks in ‘The Mirror’ for first new album in six years

Gwendolyn Records/Virgin Music Group Trisha Yearwood‘s first new album in six years, The Mirror, will arrive July 18. In more than three decades of making music, it’s the first one she’s co-produced and had a hand in writing every song.  “Creating this music has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life,” she …

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‘Same Moon’ bridges the distance for Mitchell Tenpenny + Meghan Patrick

Sony Music Nashville For Mitchell Tenpenny, “Same Moon” is more than just his new single. It’s an autobiographical reflection on how he and his wife, Canadian country star Meghan Patrick, often feel. “I had that title I wrote down because I was, like, out somewhere (on the) West Coast, and she was somewhere else,” he …

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Nashville notes: Red Clays Strays win ACM + Kelsea Ballerini’s live ‘Baggage’

Miranda Lambert phoned The Red Clays Strays Monday afternoon to let them know they’d just won this year’s ACM for new duo or group of the year. They were in Savannah, Georgia, recording with Dave Cobb at the time. “Worth the Trouble,” the new song from Chandler Walters, is out now. You can find it …

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Lainey Wilson books her first big screen role in Colleen Hoover movie

Disney/Tanner Yeager Lainey Wilson will make her feature film debut in the adaptation of Colleen Hoover‘s 2022 bestseller, Reminders of Him, according to Variety. Of course, Hoover also wrote It Ends with Us, which inspired the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni hit.  Gilmore Girls‘ Lauren Graham and The West Wing‘s Bradley Whitford are also attached to the …

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‘You Had To Be There’: Megan Moroney preps Kenny Chesney duet

ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua Last year, Kenny Chesney took Megan Moroney on tour with him. Now they’re collaborating on a new song, a post on Megan’s Instagram reveals.   The collection of photos accompanying the post starts with a cartoon version of Megan and Kenny looking out at an arena crowd, along with the song’s title at …

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‘I Love Us’: Tim McGraw duets with Barbra Streisand on ‘Partners’

ABC If you’ve seen Tim McGraw in concert, you know he’s often self-deprecating about his own vocal ability. He may have to rethink that, however, since he’s now holding his own with one of pop music’s biggest powerhouses: Barbra Streisand.  She and Tim duet on “I Love Us” on her new star-studded collection, The Secret of …

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Darius & Friends concert returns to the Ryman for 16th St. Jude benefit

Scott Kowalchyk/CBS For the 16th year in a row, Darius Rucker will kick off the week of CMA Fest with his annual fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.  This year’s Darius & Friends benefit will take place Monday, June 2, at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium.  A 2008 visit to St. Jude inspired the …

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Eric Church will Free the Machine in arenas this fall

ABC Eric Church will set out on a 22-city arena this fall to promote his new album, Evangeline vs. The Machine, which drops May 2. The Free the Machine Tour kicks off Sept. 12 in Pittsburgh and wraps Nov. 15 in Inglewood, California. “From front to back, these shows will be different than anything you’ve …

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