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Rising star Brittney Spencer takes another big career leap this winter, set to embark on her first ever headlining tour. Kicking off December 2 at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City, the run will feature 16 stops along the East Coast including dates in Washington, D.C., her native Baltimore and a Music City appearance

Tommy DeBarge — a member of the R&B/funk band Switch — and part of the music industry’s famed DeBarge family has died. A family member tells us Tommy has suffered from liver and kidney failure over the years, but recently took a turn for the worse. We’re told he was hospitalized a couple weeks ago,

With her latest studio album — the huge Revived Remixed Revisited — country icon Reba McEntire goes way beyond your average Greatest Hits project. And really, who could blame her? After more than 30 traditional album releases and a few standard hits packages, too — including one which has sold more than five million copies

Play video content Lil Nas X is getting his own special day in Atlanta … the city just declared a day in honor of the “Industry Baby” rapper. The Atlanta City Council is behind the move to proclaim Oct. 20 as “Lil Nas X Day” … and they just surprised Nas with a plaque commemorating

Kelleigh Bannen can still recall the moment she was arrested by music. Woken up one morning by her radio alarm clock, Bannen felt the song reach through the radio and grab her attention. It was a defining moment when she felt a divine connection to the craft that would later become her career. Since then,

Get ready for some history to be made on “The Masked Singer” … because there’s going to be two celebs in the same costume, and we’re told they have quite a history between them. For the first time on the FOX competition show, there will be a double-faced costume with two people inside the same

Jake Owen pops the top on an end-of-summer jam with the new “Drunk On a Boat,” offering up a feel-good reminder than happiness is in the eye of the beer-holder. Written by Rodney Clawson, Jake Mitchell and David Lee Murphy, the track finds Owen waving goodbye to the mainland and sailing off into an uncharted buzz, with

Dr. Dre‘s divorce has been extremely contentious, and something happened Monday that punctuates the bitterness … a process server for his ex-wife attempted to serve him with legal docs at the cemetery where he buried his grandmother. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Dre was at a Los Angeles cemetery Monday to put the

Lou Ridley is putting a new spin on songs about home with her latest single, “Hometown,” released in August. While most country songs about hometowns find artists romanticizing the place in which they grew up, the song by Ridley finds her confronting difficult things she experienced in her hometown of Southlake, TX, a suburb of

Ray J is starting a new battle — that’s actually an old one — even as he’s fighting off a nasty case of pneumonia … he’s filed to divorce Princess Love. Again. Ray’s divorce docs — filed Wednesday in L.A. County Superior Court — mark the third time the couple’s now walked down the divorce

Country icon Garth Brooks has announced a pair of intimate shows in the heart of Music City, adding back-to-back nights at Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium to his tour calendar. Set for November 19 and 20 at the famed Mother Church of Country Music, Brooks has dubbed the shows “Just Garth, The Ryman and You” — and

Harry Styles is lending his watermelon sugar to his neighbors in the industry — reportedly making an appearance in the new “Eternals” movie … as none other than Thanos’ brother. The singer is getting back to acting in a big way — getting on camera for Marvel, no less, in Chloe Zhao‘s forthcoming superhero offering

Some of country’s most promising young stars are taking part in a special Grand Ole Opry-style showcase, with Opry NextStage Live In Concert set for November 21 at the Grand Ole Opry House. The special event will feature Parker McCollum, Niko Moon, Hailey Whitters, Lainey Wilson and Priscilla Block — who are all part of the

Megan Thee Stallion and her BF are celebrating one year together by looking back, and it’s clear her guy is enjoying the rearview … a lot!!! MTS just dropped a photo dump on her Instagram to mark her one-year anniversary with rapper Pardi Fontaine — 10 glorious shots of them grabbing ass and having a

Country superstar Keith Urban has done it all. Multiple Entertainer of the Year awards, Number One songs, Platinum certifications and world tours — the list goes on. But at this point in his career, he’s adding “teacher and champion” to his resume. Speaking with Audacy’s Rob + Holly for a recent radio interview, Urban revealed his

Play video content TMZ.com Kourtney Kardashian is going to be walking down the aisle for the first time in her life — and she’ll be doing it with none other than Travis Barker … who just popped the big question. The Blink-182 drummer got on bended knee Sunday at a beachside hotel in Montecito —

How do we deal with 40+ years of shared trauma? That’s both the text and the meta-text for the new slasher Halloween Kills. The film from writer/director David Gordon Green and cowriters Danny McBride and Scott Teems sets out to explore the impact that the boogeyman known as Michael Meyers has had on the small peaceful town

Kanye West showed up for a super-fancy wedding Saturday night and performed, although it’s hard to know for sure because his face isn’t visible! Kanye was a guest at the wedding of D’Estree founder Geraldine Guiotte and Tiffany & Co EVP Alexander Arnault. The soiree went down in Venice, Italy. BTW … he wasn’t the

Miranda Lambert imagines herself as the queen of all outlaws in her brand new country-radio single, releasing the girl-power anthem, “If I Was a Cowboy,” today (October 15). Featuring a dreamy and bright country-roots sound, with windblown vocals and a galloping rhythm, the track casts Lambert in a role she’s always seemed destined to play.

Jay-Z and Beyonce are saying au revoir to New Orleans with a fire sale, of sorts — just months after their mansion there ignited, they’re selling it. The power couple is listing the 1925 pad, asking for $4,450,000. The 13,292 square foot pad has 7-bedrooms, 8-bathrooms and was originally a Presbyterian church. It’s since been