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Go Country 105

Carly Pearce gets sassy in “Truck on Fire”

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It’s album release week for Carly Pearce, and she’s giving fans more sneak peeks of hummingbird before it’s out.

Carly took to social platform X recently to share a snippet of “Truck on Fire,” a song about a cheating old flame.

“Liar liar, truck on fire/ Flames rolling off your Goodyear tires/ Burn burn, you’re gonna learn/ Never should have put your lips on her,” Carly sings in the sassy track. 

Hummingbird arrives Friday and is available for preorder and presave now. Its Chris Stapleton-assisted lead single, “We Don’t Fight Anymore,” is currently #13 and ascending the country charts.

If you’re going to be in Nashville for CMA Fest, you can catch her live at the CMA Close Up Stage and Nissan Stadium on Sunday. For more information, visit cmafest.com.

Here’s the full track list for hummingbird:

“Country Music Made Me Do It”
“Truck on Fire”
“Still Blue”
“Heels Over Head”
“We Don't Fight Anymore” featuring Chris Stapleton
“Rock Paper Scissors”
“Oklahoma”
“My Place”
“Things I Don’t Chase”
“Woman to Woman”
“Fault Line”
“Pretty Please”
“Trust Issues”
“Hummingbird”

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Go Country 105

Jelly Roll + Ashley McBryde are your 2024 'CMA Fest' hosts

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Can’t make it to Nashville for this year’s CMA Fest? Fret not, ABC is bringing it to you with its annual CMA Fest television special.

Airing June 25 at 8 p.m. ET, the three-hour concert event will be hosted by first-time hosting pair Jelly Roll and Ashley McBryde.

A press release teases that viewers can expect “never-before-seen performances and surprise collaborations from Country Music's most exciting acts.” 

The full performance lineup will be revealed soon.

In the meantime, for more information on the upcoming CMA Fest happening in Nashville June 6-9, head to cmafest.com.

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2 dead, 7 injured after shooting at suburban Pittsburgh bar

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Police said on Sunday that a shooting at a bar in suburban Pittsburg left two people dead and seven others injured. The Allegheny County Police Department said the early morning Sunday shooting occurred at the Ballers Hookah Lounge and Cigar Bar in Penn Hills, with its homicide unit responding to a request for help by Penn Hills Police Department after the early morning shooting.

First responders discovered the bodies of an adult male and adult female inside the bar around 3 a.m. Sunday, with seven additional victims also found. Some of those victims were transported from the scene and others showing up at hospitals, police said in a statement posted on social media. The statement said that one of the victims is in critical condition, while the remaining victims all had injuries that were not life-threatening.

Preliminary information shows “an altercation took place inside the bar and multiple individuals opened fire;” and no arrests were immediately reported. Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked to call the County Police Tip Line 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.

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Mass shooting in Akron, Ohio leaves 1 dead, 24 injured

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Police report that one person was killed and 24 others were wounded in a mass shooting early Sunday morning in Akron, Ohio. According to a statement from the city’s mayor and police chief, police officers responded to 911 calls shortly after midnight, reporting shots fired and multiple victims struck in the area of Kelly Ave. and 8th Ave., about 40 miles south of Cleveland, just after midnight. It’s not clear what happened in the lead-up to the shooting.

The Akron Police Department said in a news release: “Officers were immediately dispatched and responded to the area. hortly after those calls came in, the call center received notifications from local hospitals that multiple persons were arriving in the emergency departments with gunshot wounds.”

At least 25 victims were shot, including the 27-year-old man who has since died. A weapon and “several dozen casings” were recovered from the scene. The investigation is ongoing, and no further suspect information is available, city officials said, calling on residents who may have information about the shooting to come forward.

A joint statement from Akron Mayor Shammas Malik and Police Chief Brian Harding read: “We will bring those responsible to justice, and we need the help of our community to do that. For those who have information about this horrific shooting – we need you to speak up in order to prevent further violence and retaliation. This can be done anonymously.”

Malik and Harding added: “This morning, our city is reeling after the devastation of senseless violence. With more than two dozen victims, the pain and trauma reverberates across all of Akron today as we search for answers. As with all acts of violence in our city, our hearts are with the victims and their loved ones.”

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Go Country 105

Chris Young reflects on his set list's evolution through the years

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With nine albums and 13 #1 hits notched, Chris Young knows he can’t please fans with an all-encompassing set list at shows.

But he’s thankful for how far he’s come, especially when the days of not having enough songs to fill a set are still vivid in his mind.

“I remember, you know, when I started and I was playing like my very first single at the beginning, middle and end of the show it felt like,” Chris recalls to ABC Audio with a laugh. “I’ve been very lucky to have been around long enough where this is my ninth studio release, then lucky enough where a lot of them have been very, very successful and people want to hear a lot of stuff.”

However, Chris knows he has to strike a balance between the old, new and big-time hits at shows. 

“Even when we were in Australia leading up to the album launch for Young Love & Saturday Nights – I don’t want to put too much new stuff in and there’s 18 songs on this record, but it’s like, people leave after 90 minutes or two hours and they’re still like, ‘Well, you didn’t play this,'” shares Chris.

“And I’m like, ‘I can’t play them all,'” he laughs. “So it’s fun for me to change the set list up a little bit every now and then.” 

Chris’ current single, “Young Love & Saturday Nights,” is approaching the top 10 of the country charts.
 

 

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Country Daypop

Latest round of performers added to CMA Fest 2024 lineup

Kelsea Ballerini performs at the 2018 CMA Fest at Nissan Stadium on June 9^ 2018 in Nashville^ Tennessee.

The Country Music Association shared a slew of performers and artists appearing at CMA Fest, taking place across multiple stages June 6-9 in downtown Nashville, adding to the hundreds of artists previously announced for the four-day festival lineup.

Kicking-off the run of nightly shows at Nissan Stadium will be Reyna Roberts, who has been tapped to perform the national anthem on Thursday, June 6, while Terri Clark, Craig Morgan, Josh Turner and Gretchen Wilson will open the shows throughout the weekend.

Old Dominion has also been added to the main stage lineup alongside previously announced acts including Kelsea Ballerini, Brothers Osborne, Luke Bryan, Jordan Davis, HARDY, Jelly Roll, Cody Johnson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ashley McBryde, Parker McCollum, Megan Moroney, Jon Pardi, Carly Pearce, The War and Treaty, Thomas Rhett, Keith Urban, Lainey Wilson, and Bailey Zimmerman.

The Tennessee State University marching band, The Aristocrat of Bands, returns for a second year on Thursday morning as they march across the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge. Reyna Roberts will kick off Thursday night at Nissan Stadium performing the national anthem. Additional acts taking the stages include Sophia Scott performing the national anthem at the Chevy Riverfront Stage, as well as sets by Julia Cole, Allie Colleen, Shelby Darrall, Exile, Chris Housman, Willie Jones, Tiera Kennedy, Love and Theft, Dylan Marlowe, Matt Schuster, Sister Hazel, The Chattahoochies and Louie TheSinger.

Head to CMAfest.com/tickets for available ticket information.

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Country Daypop

Take a listen to Thomas Rhett’s latest single ‘Beautiful as You’

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Thomas Rhett has dropped his latest single, “Beautiful As You”, the first music off his upcoming seventh studio album set for release on August 23rd.

Rhett, 34, and wife and Lauren, 34, are parents to daughters Willa Gray, 8½, Ada James, 6½, Lennon Love, 4, and Lillie Carolina, 2½. Shared Rhett (per Taste of Country): “I feel like in the last four or five years, ‘drowning’ is not the word. For the first time in eight years I feel like Lauren and I — like our kids are doing things for themselves. They’re waking up for school, they’re bathing alone … I feel like Lauren and I are in this freedom phase of life… a different phase of life than we have been for a while. Now it’s a little easier to go on date nights, do stuff with friends, stay up a little bit later – I don’t know, maybe even sleep in a little bit! So much of my music is a reflection of the stage of life we are in – we’re in a very joyful season – and this song is just the tip of the iceberg to the rest of this next album.”

Rhett adds in a statement: “This is an anthem for everybody who feels like they out-kicked their coverage. There was one day a couple years back when I was looking at my wife, and I was like, ‘Why in the world did you choose me?’ I get to be with someone who could easily be on the cover of a magazine, and I get to see her in all her forms — a partner, a mother, a friend, even a philanthropist. I just feel like I’ve got a first row seat at almost-perfection, if you will. And like the song says, ‘Seriously, what is somebody as amazing as you doing with somebody like me?’”

Take a listen to ‘Beautiful as You’ via the lyric video – here.

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Pop Daypop

Jennifer Lopez cancels her summer ‘This Is Me…Now The Tour’

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Jennifer Lopez has canceled her This Is Me…Now The Tour, which was set to kick off next month.

Rumors had been circulating in recent months that many shows were set to be canceled due to poor ticket sales; however, Lopez shared that the tour cancellation was done so to take time off to spend with her ‘children, family, and close friends,’ which was announced directly to fans via her ‘OntheJLo’ Newsletter. Lopez, 54, wrote: “I am completely heartsick and devastated about letting you down. Please know that I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t feel that it was absolutely necessary. I promise I will make it up to you and we will all be together again. I love you all so much. Until next time…”  The news also comes amid rumors that Lopez and her husband, Ben Affleck, have separated.

The 30+ city tour was set to begin on June 26th in Orlando with stops across North America in Miami, Los Angeles, Toronto, her hometown of New York City, and more before wrapping up in Houston on August 31st. The tour was intended to support the release of Lopez’s first studio album in nearly a decade, ‘This Is Me…Now’, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart.

Live Nation said fans who purchased tickets through Ticketmaster will automatically be refunded. Lopez is currently promoting the release of her Netflix movie “Atlas,” which debuted on the streaming platform on May 24.

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Eminem drops video for new single ‘Houdini’

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Less than a month after announcing his next album “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce),” Eminem has dropped its first single, “Houdini.”  Em, 51, announced The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) with a Detroit Murder Files crime show teaser that aired during the NFL Draft; and earlier this month, he placed a fake obituary in the Detroit Free Press to say ‘goodbye’ to Slim Shady, his alter ego.  The rapper has yet to share a release date for the album, but it is expected to debut this summer.

Eminem had announced the arrival of ‘Houdini’ in a video clip on Instagram last week, captioned “Please do not try this at home. Or anywhere else. 🐰🎩🪄” Eminem was shown FaceTiming with magician David Blaine and asks him for help, saying “I was wondering, how far can we go with this magic? Like, can we do like a stunt or something?” After Blaine drinks a glass of wine and proceeds to bite off the rim of the glass, Em ends the FaceTime with: “Well for my last trick, I’m going to make my career disappear.”

‘Houdini’ arrived alongside an accompanying music video, which sees Eminem receiving a call from Dr. Dre who shows him that a portal from 2002 has opened in the city. Eminem takes on his younger self as he raps about “the days of old me” and what his 20-something self would think of the present day. The video also features cameos by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Snoop Dogg, Shane Gillis, Pete Davidson and more.

Check out the video for ‘Houdini’ – here.
To stream ‘Houdini’, head HERE.

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