Born Dieuson Octave, the rapper was released from jail and put on probation earlier this year on separate charges.
He was originally arrested in November 2016 for the assault on a woman at a Comfort Inn and Suites in Florence County, South Carolina earlier that year in February. Read more
here.
On Sunday (Oct. 8), Aldean's wife, Brittany, shared a photo of her and her husband arm in arm as their plane landed on the Vegas strip. "Feels surreal being back in Vegas today," she wrote. "Visiting some of the strongest people we have ever met� fighting the toughest battle of them all� for their lives. You have helped us try to begin the healing process by seeing the strength each one of you have. Thank you for today. We will never forget."
While the Aldeans were in Vegas, they visited UMC Hospital, the state's only Level I Trauma Center. The hospital shared their thanks to Aldean for his visit on social media. Read more
here.
The daughter-dad pair teamed up to perform a cover of Tom Petty's "Wildflowers." The fiddle and family harmonies gave the folk-rock tune more of a country feel.
Dressed in a light pink feminine strapless dress, Miley sang with passion and sensitivity, leaving a lump in the throats of Petty's fans, who lost the legendary rocker October 2 after he suffered a heart attack. Watch the performance
here.
"We got a lot of records. We got records with Ty Dolla $ign, records with Big Sean, records with Drake, records with Travis--we gon' keep it going," Quavo said.
While Culture 2 gets the finishing touches, Quavo said in a recent Beats 1 interview that he's working on some movie scripts for the Migos crew, in the tradition of great '90s hip-hop movies. Read more
here.
Brooks and his team were on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Backyard, the name of the new play area. "It's how thankful you are that your children are healthy, but if your children face that challenge, how thankful we are to have someone like Riley here for your children. We're all very lucky," Brooks said at the ceremony.
"My promise to you, if they wear it out, we'll get you another one," he added about the new outdoor play area. "It's this community," said Brooks' wife, fellow country music star Trisha Yearwood. "This is a community that loves and wants this program." Read more
here.
"To me, Tom Petty represented a kind of songwriting I idolized: complex simplicity," she revealed. "It said so much in the lyrics, the concepts, the stories, the message, the nuances � but always brought you back to a hook that got stuck in everyone's head. He motivated thousands of guitarists to learn to play just because they wanted to be able to play 'Free Fallin." Count me as one of them."
Swift famously covered Petty's timeless 1977 single, "American Girl," releasing it as a single and performing it on her Fearless tour in 2009. Check it out
here.
While he never explicitly mentions it, it's easy to read the affecting cover as a heartfelt response to the tragedy at the Route 91 festival in Las Vegas. "Love yall, hang in there," Eldredge says as the short clip ends.
Eldredge's famous dog, Edgar, is seen resting his head on the singer's leg while he plays. See the tweet and watch the video of the cover performance
here.
"The Weeknd and Marvel presents: STARBOY� comic book coming soon," he shared. "I'll be signing autographs in the Marvel Booth, he added in regards to the New York Comic Con.
It was at the NYCC signing where The Weeknd was snapped sharing a moment with comic book legend (and fellow Canadian) Todd McFarlane. See both posts
here.
Pride and Whoopi Goldberg ran into each other at the Recording Academy� Special Merit Awards when Pride received the Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this year. The honor comes after Pride's recent celebration of his 50th year in country music.
"Whoopi and I spent some time together in New York at the Special Merit Awards where she was also accepting an award. We had a nice conversation and I'm looking forward to seeing her again and performing on 'The View' October 12," Pride said. See his upcoming tour dates
here.
"A musical celebrating her life and music is being talked about for the near future," the elder Winehouse told The Sun at the Amy Winehouse Foundation Gala last week. "It is something I'd really like to happen and I've said I'm happy for it to go ahead."
"We want to do something that remembers Amy for what she was, there's so much more to her than just the drugs and the alcohol," he added. "We want to do something positive about how she developed her music. What we don't hear is that she was clean of drugs for three years when she died." Read more
here.
"Where does someone go in their mind to do these unthinkable things? I don't understand it," Stapleton asked during a radio interview earlier this week (via CMT News). "You want to look for reasons or some explanation even, and I don't know that there is one. There's a certain amount of innocence that gets lost from it when these things happen."
The singer went on to echo the sentiments of many other country artists in saying that he's not going to let the tragedy stop him from enjoying his life and his music.
"I'm not saying not to be afraid and not be terrified of things like that, but' I want to step out there with a certain degree of defiance against things like that and not let fear and hate and just evil run my decisions and how I carry myself," he said. "If we do that, then we're letting that win and rule us and that's exactly what people who would commit heinous acts like that would want. Personally, I can't give in to that. I can't do it." Read more
here.
"I loved making this album, I've never felt so free creatively," Platten revealed in a press statement. "I wrote all of these songs without getting in the way, and I just let whatever needed to come through me just come.
"I worked out a lot of heavy stuff on some of the songs and cried on my piano at 3 a.m. some nights, but I also woke up some days and jumped into the ocean and felt amazing and just wanted to write songs I could dance to. This album is raw and it's emotional, but it's also fun and sweet and it's real. It's honestly just all of me and I am so damn proud of it." Check out the full tracklist
here.
Timberlake posted, 'For the 50th bday of the trucker jacket, @Levis asked me to redesign one. I did and ever since, it's been my favorite drinking buddy. #Denim #Flannel #LiveInLevis."
The jacket features a Hank Williams patch that says, "Why don't you mind your own business." Timberlake has some experience as a clothing designer, having launched the William Rast brand with Trace Ayala in 2005. Check out the Timberlake-redesigned Levis trucker jacket
here.
The country music power couple have also shared the album's lead single and title track, which was co-written by Ed Sheeran. "It made it us a little nervous, to be honest, Hill said. "When you get songs from other artists it kinda makes you a little nervous because�," "You don't want to ruin it," McGraw said with a smile.
Turns out there was no need to be nervous. "This was a no-brainer," said Hill. "Such a beautiful song," added McGraw "the melody in it was just incredible."
"Both Tim and I agreed the first time we heard that song, it reminded me of us, and the feeling that we had the first time that we admitted and decided that we were gonna be married," Faith revealed.
"There was a comfort and a security about that moment that resonates in this song," she continued. "It's got such an intimacy to it, I think that's what really attracted us as well," McGraw added. Read more
here.
"Happy Birthday to my late best friend @sonjad7777 Sonja Durham Dubois. #breastcancerawareness month is so important. Share your stories of survival and treatment plans with each other. Everyone's cancer is different. But the More we talk and share the more we learn. I have no words for you girl, just tears and dreams. & I know you're running Haus of Gaga from Heaven," Gaga captioned an illustration of her best friend.
October is breast cancer awareness month and Gaga doing her part. Understandably upset about her friend's death, Gaga said she struggled to get off the couch on Saturday. Regardless, she forced herself to get dressed and post about it, knowing all too well the importance of raising awareness for the disease. Read more
here.
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