Month: October 2021

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Country Daypop

Dierks Bentley extends his ‘Beers On Me’ tour into 2022

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Dierks Bentley revealed details behind the second leg of his 2022 ‘Beers On Me’ tour. Following the first half of the tour, Bentley will embark on the winter run beginning Jan. 6th in London, ON. The 21-city tour will feature special guests including Jordan Davis, Tenille Arts and Lainey Wilson. Bentley also dropped the official video for the single Beers On Me featuring Bentley, Hardy and Breland.

Bentley shared in a press release: “People think we are crazy to go to Canada and the Northwest in January, but we’ve learned from previous tours that it’s a great time to bring a party up there. For me personally, I don’t mind that there is plenty of ice, snow, and mountains for some adventure between shows.”

Tickets for 2022 ‘Beers On Me’ Tour will be available to the general public starting Friday, Nov. 5, at 10:00 at www.dierks.com.

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Pop Daypop

2021 American Music Awards nominees are announced

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On Thursday (Oct. 28), the American Music Awards announced the nominees for all 32 categories for the 2021 awards ceremony. Leading the nominations this year is first-time nominee Olivia Rodrigo, who is nominated in seven categories including Artist of the Year and New Artist of the Year. Following closely behind is The Weeknd with six nominations, followed by Bad Bunny, Doja Cat and Giveon with five each.

New categories this year include Favorite Trending Song, to showcase viral TikTok hits, as well as Favorite Gospel Artist and Favorite Latin Duo/Group. Nominees are chosen by “key fan interactions” through the Billboard charts and take into account streaming, album sales, song sales and radio airplay. Winners are then chosen solely by the fans through various social media interactions and other AMAs website voting methods.

For the first time this year, fans can vote for the AMAs via TikTok by searching “AMAs” on the app. Voting is now open and fans can vote daily, once per method. Tickets to the awards show are now on sale now at axs.com. The ceremony will take place live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 21, at 8:00 p.m. EST/PST. The show will also air on ABC.

See the full list of 2021 AMAs nominations – here.

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JoJo announces 2022 Tour Dates

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Following the release of her latest EP, Trying Not to Think About It,  JoJo has announced a 45-date tour in 2022.

The first leg of the trek kicks off February 19, 2022, in Edmonton, AB, making stops in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, Detroit, and Chicago, before concluding in Ottawa, Ontario on April 16th.  JoJo will then kick off the second leg of the tour on May 3 in London, England, heading to Scotland, Germany, Italy, and Denmark, before wrapping on May 30 in Stockholm, Sweden.  Said JoJo: “Performing live is one of my favorite parts of being an artist. It felt so right being back onstage for those dates in October, and I can’t wait to do it on a bigger scale in more cities next year!”

Tickets go on sale to the general public starting Friday, October 29 at 10:00 AM local time. For all details, please visit www.iamjojoofficial.com.

JoJo announces 2022 tour

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Nashville notes

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George Strait has released a powerful new music video for his song, “The Weight of the Badge,” in tribute to first responders.

“Burning House” star Cam has released a new collaboration with hit producer and songwriter Ross Copperman, called “Everything Changes.” Ross also penned the track.

Trisha Yearwood has been inducted into the Nashville Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame. She was recently feted at a ceremony held at the city's Schermerhorn Symphony Center, in celebration of her dynamic entrepreneurial pursuits and commitment to fostering the Music City community.

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Luke Combs buys Grand Ole Opry tickets for an FFA chapter full of kids — then surprises them backstage

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Luke Combs treated a group of young agricultural students to the night of a lifetime earlier this week, when he scored them free tickets to his sold-out Grand Ole Opry show, and even invited them backstage for a meet-and-greet.

It all started on Twitter, where a teacher reached out to Luke ahead of his scheduled Opry show.

“I have my Willows CA FFA Chapter here in Nashville tonight, and they are DYING to see you at the Grand Ole Oprey!” the teacher said. “We tried to get tickets, but our kids can't afford it. I so wish I could give them this gift because they idolize you.”

Luke saw the message and replied, telling the kids that he'd be sure to get them into the show. “Tickets are on me! Y'all have fun tonight,” he wrote.

But that's not all: The “Forever After All” hitmaker dropped by before the show, surprising the crew of students with a meet-and-greet and a chance to take a picture. The Opry shared the special moment on its social media.

“I just wanted to come in and say thanks for being able to make it,” Luke told the students. “…I just wanted to come in and say that was actually me talking to y'all [on Twitter.]”

A current CMA Entertainer of the Year nominee, Luke has a long track record of using social media to interact with his fans and brighten their days. Recently, he surprised a North Carolina school teacher with free school supplies.

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Gabby Barrett readies a deluxe version of her hit debut 'Goldmine' album

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This November, Gabby Barrett will drop a deluxe version of Goldmine, the hit debut project that propelled Gabby from an up-and-comer to bonafide superstar.

The singer announced the news during a stop on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she was also performing her current single, “Footprints on the Moon.” That song — off the track list of the original Goldmine — follows back-to-back number-one hits “I Hope” and “The Good Ones.”

Gabby hasn't yet shared many details about her deluxe project, beyond the fact that it will feature an extended track list and a special new album cover. It's due out November 19, and is available to pre-save and pre-add now.

Next up, Gabby's headed to the 2021 CMA Awards show. She's up for four trophies, including Female Artist of the Year and New Artist of the Year.

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News Daypop

Authorities confirm the remains of 8-year-old boy found in Texas apartment was killed due to blunt force

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Authorities confirmed on Wednesday that the child whose skeletal remains were found in a Houston-area apartment Sunday along with three abandoned siblings died violently due to blunt force sometime around Thanksgiving last year. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said that the boy was 8 years old when he was killed via physical abuse allegedly by his mother’s boyfriend Brian Coulter, who has been charged with murder.

During a news conference Wednesday, Gonzalez said the apartment where the boy’s skeletal remains were found and where three siblings, ranging in ages from 7 to 15, lived was unfurnished and full of roaches, flies and soiled carpeting. The oldest boy contacted authorities, and Gonzalez said: “In the midst of the darkness and this horrific situation, I’m so glad that this 15-year-old finally reached out for help. I’m glad that he found assistance at the end of the other line with one of our call-takers. And I’m comforted to know that when he opened the door, and there was a Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy there, that they could finally receive the care and protection that they needed for so long.”

The Sheriff’s office said that the dead boy’s mother and her boyfriend were charged Tuesday in the child’s death. Coulter, 31, faces a murder charge, and the boy’s mother, Gloria Williams, 35, faces charges of injury to a child by omission and tampering with evidence.  Williams and Coulter moved out of the apartment and lived separately from the children, at least two of whom were believed to be on the autism spectrum and were described as “special needs,” officials said Wednesday. The boys appeared malnourished, showed signs of physical injury and were brought to a hospital, according to officials.

A judge granted the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services temporary custody of the three children. The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services said in a statement that the department “sought and received emergency custody” of the three boys found abandoned in the apartment and said that the children are safe in CPS custody.

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The Halloween prank that almost made Reba “fire” her boyfriend, and Matthew Ramsey's haunted cabin

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Reba McEntire‘s boyfriend, actor Rex Linn, may be her Young Sheldon co-star who plays the high school principal, but he’s also a huge cut-up who’s an enormous fan of Halloween.

“Last year, he ordered from Costco a seven foot werewolf, [with] a motion sensor in it, and he put it in my bathroom,” Reba recalls. “And then when I walked in there, it moved and growled at me and I was very upset.”

“I said, ‘Everybody who had anything to do with it, you’re all fired!'” she jokes. “Then I started giggling. Then I was pretty flattered that he’d went to all that trouble to scare me.”

“Then we took it to every place we could to scare everybody else,” she adds. “We had a blast with it.”

Old Dominion‘s Matthew Ramsey takes things even further for Halloween, though it was something of an accident.

“This happened probably four years ago, when I couldn’t take my kids on a fall break vacation,” OD’s lead singer explains. “So I took them to Home Depot and bought every Halloween decoration that I could possibly find, and we tricked out the woods… like a haunted woods. And so I set a tradition that I didn’t mean to set.”

“Now I spend about $1000 a year on new Halloween decorations,” Matthew continues. “And I don’t have the woods anymore because we moved, but now I told them… we have a little cabin — that I would make a whole haunted cabin for Halloween.”

“It’s like a whole art project,” he confesses. “I spend three days on decking out this whole house.”

All Hallows’ Eve is Sunday, so be sure to check out the socials of stars like Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean, who typically don’t disappoint when it comes to their costumes.

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Hundreds of thousand without power as severe Nor’easter hits New England and New York/Tri-State area

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A severe Nor’easter pummeled southern New England and the New York tri-state area, bringing flooding rains, a dangerous storm surge and destructive winds gusting between 60 and 100 mph. The nor’easter knocked out power to more than half a million customers and forced school cancellations in eastern Massachusetts. Due to the storm’s pace of intensification, it was qualified as a “bomb cyclone.”

High winds and swiftly strengthening ocean storm left more than a dozen counties in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island were 75 percent in the dark, with winds gusting to 94 mph on Martha’s Vineyard. Fierce winds resulted i a 3- to 4-foot ocean surge, which was considerably more than what was anticipated.

The bulk of the outages were focused in Massachusetts, with near half a million customers in the dark Wednesday. Hardest hit was Plymouth County, which was 90 percent in the dark. Around 85,000 were without electricity in Rhode Island and another 25,000 combined in Connecticut and Maine. As of Wednesday morning, conditions were beginning to ease. Still, bands of light to moderate rain were continuing to pinwheel ashore from the east-northeast in eastern Massachusetts, along the New Hampshire Seacoast and across parts of south coastal Maine on Wednesday morning. Winds were still gusting to around 60 mph in coastal areas.

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Country Daypop

Brandi Carlile announces 2022 ‘Beyond These Silent Days’ tour dates

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Brandi Carlile has announced her upcoming 2022 tour dates, taking to Twitter saying, “Hey friends! Don’t miss us on our ‘Beyond These Silent Days’ Tour! I NEED to be with my people again and absolutely throw down with y’all. Sign up for the BC newsletter before 5pm PST Tues. to receive a pre-sale code, which gives you FIRST ACCESS to tickets! Link in bio!”

.For fans, ticket pre-sale will commence on Thursday (Oct. 28) with general on-sale availability on Friday (Oct. 29). For more purchase information, visit Carlile’s website at the link – here.

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