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Following the surprise announcement of her 13th album, 'The Tortured Poets Department,' at last month's Grammy Awards, Swift has decided to give us not one but four versions of said album -- or variants, as the official lingo would have it -- all of which will be released on April 19

The all-female trio, made up of Anita Gabrielle Tedder, Penny Griffiths and Ruth Elder, have been signed to an Amsterdam record label nearly 40 years after releasing their sole recording – and the only single they released together is proving a smash in clubs across Europe. Zenana, whose name is Persian for "of the women", formed in 1983 and after building a cult local following around Milton Keynes, signed with the independent record label PRM and in 1986 recorded their sole single, "Witches", a synth-heavy number that drew on the emerging Chicago House sounds while keeping a firmly poppy sensibility (imagine Bananarama after a visit to the Hacienda). Abbot began playing the song at his own DJ nights, before sharing the single with other DJs, where it picked up a following in clubs in Los Angeles, Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam… and has now led to the Dutch label Rush Hour signing Zenana on a fresh deal.

The twosome last worked together in 2014 on "Come Get It Bae," a song from Pharrell's 2014 album, G I R L. but both artists have been teasing this new collaboration for a bit now, with Pharrell playing a bit of the track during a Louis Vuitton show in late January and both he and Miley posting snippets on Instagram earlier this week

Adele cancelled ten upcoming shows on her ongoing Las Vegas residency on February 27, citing strain from a recent illness. The Weekends With Adele residency at the Caesars Palace was scheduled to run through June; it is not yet clear when or if the shows will be rescheduled. In a message posted to Instagram, the British singer said that she had been sick during the last leg of her residency, and hasn't yet had a chance to fully recover. "I hadn't quite gotten the chance to get back to full health before shows resumed and now I'm sick again, and unfortunately it's all taken a toll on my voice." At the height of her initial fame following the blockbuster 21 album, Adele was forced to cancel substantial tour dates due to a vocal cord hemorrhage in 2011, later undergoing surgery. Adele's Vegas residency kicked off in November of 2022, after being postponed for nearly a year due to the Covid pandemic. She has since extended the show's run twice, with the current spate of dates initially scheduled to wrap on June 15. It's unclear how the postponements will affect Adele's plans to stage a ten-date series of "one-off" shows in a specially-constructed venue in Munich, Germany next August. Adele announced the Munich shows in January, writing: "So a few months ago I got a call about a summer run of shows. I've been content as anything with my shows in London's Hyde Park and my residency in Vegas, so I hadn't had any other plans."

Unsurprisingly, Luke Bryan was the first to ask the identity of Russell's grandmother, a revelation which takes place at the 0:44 mark of the below YouTube clip and is worth watching not only because it subsequently includes Russell's performance but also because you can literally see Katy Perry's eyes bug out of her head when she hears the name "Loretta Lynn." After viewers got a quick tour of Lynn's house, with Russell revealing that she basically grew up on her grandmother's tour bus, Russell explained, "I think there's a reason why I think I am a little timid, and I think it's because I want to own my voice.

The first surge of albums include Back In Black, Highway To Hell, The Razors Edge, Powerage, For Those About To Rock (We Salute You), High Voltage, Dirty Deeds Done Cheap, Who Made Who and Live, 1991's double live album recorded at Donnington Park & Birmingham in the UK, Edmonton in Canada and Moscow. The group then played a one-off gig in October 2023 at the Power Trip Festival in Indio, Calif. With Johnson's hearing loss now under control, the band will start their tour on May 17 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany at Veltins Arena and continue with stops in Italy, Spain, France and Slovakia, concluding on August 17 in Dublin.

With two major music films already in production – the Amy Winehouse film Back To Black (directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, who piloted the John Lennon drama Nowhere Boy in 2009), and Antoine Fuqua turning Michael Jackson's storied career into Michael – there is also Ridley Scott's just-announced development of a Bee Gees movie on the horizon.

There's no thought of taking 13 years if we're gonna do it," Chancellor said. If it gets by the four of us in the band, then we figure it's going to work," he said.

After a long career in the music industry we have decided to announce that… we are going to continue to have a long career in the music industry (sorry for any inconvenience)," Paramore said in the Saturday, February 10 note.

It's become public knowledge now, but I've had major reconstructive surgery in my vocal cords, and I never had anything like this, ever," the singer said during a question and answer session earlier this month. During the procedure, Bon Jovi's doctor moved a paralyzed vocal fold so the ones that are still working can function properly. Bon Jovi performed its first live show since 2022 last week at the MusiCares award ceremony where they debuted a new single called "Legendary," which will be on an upcoming album.

As a kid who grew up in Chicago watching the (NFL) Super Bowl every year with my family this chance to actually be part of it is absolutely mind blowing," Kaskade said in a tweet later that night. To be able to be the first Electronic Musician to be part of the full game experience of the Super Bowl held in Las Vegas seems like coming home, and I'm beyond excited to represent my community." "For everybody that heard about my show in Las Vegas, you're not going to get a chance to see some of what I did here but you're going to see the best of it because it's in front of 60,000 people in this room and hopefully another 180 million people for the world to see," he said.

He will celebrate the 30th anniversary of his self-titled studio debut with a headlining slot at the Super Bowl halftime show and his new album Coming Home, which is due out on Sunday, February 11 – the same day as the big game.

Billy Joel's first new single in nearly two decades came out last week, and fans were thrilled to see the Piano Man perform "Turn the Lights Back On" live for the first time at the 2024 Grammys.

His post 9/11 song song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)," made him a household name and he went on to perform hundreds of shows for members of the U.S. armed forces in conflict zones including Afghanistan and Iraq, though denied that politics played a part in those gigs, telling CNN in 2010: "There's not one single thing political about supporting the troops."

And to show the power behind the almighty Swift dollar, the U.S. version of the Collector's Edition Deluxe CD (at first announced available to order until February 7), which not only has the essentials but includes a patch, a magnet, a brass bookmark in an envelope and four photo cards, is now somehow already out of stock in the store.

Justin Timberlake was not feeling very contrite during his intimate show at New York City's Irving Plaza on Wednesday, January 31. "I also wanted to say I am in love with Justin Timberlake's new song 'Selfish,'" Spears wrote. "Looks like your new single is flopping," said the person who uploaded a video of Timberlake's statement to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, who - as his second wife - brought Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson out of his creative doldrums and helped him to escape from the clutches of psychologist Eugene Landy, has died at the age of 77. "It is with a heavy heart that we let everyone know that our mom, Melinda Kay Ledbetter Wilson passed away peacefully this morning at home," her children wrote within Brian's Instagram post. Their romance was dramatized in the 2014 film Love & Mercy, which - by using two timelines - also told the story of Brian's romance with his first wife, Marilyn.

Considering it was barely a month ago that Manchester heavyweights Liam Gallagher and John Squire first announced their surprise collaboration, the two have wasted little time spreading the love, releasing the second single from their upcoming collaborative album, "Mars to Liverpool," on January 26. As the two biggest rock bands to emerge out of Manchester in the late 1980s and early '90s, Gallagher's Oasis and Squire's the Stone Roses frequently crossed paths, and Squire memorably performed with Oasis during the band's now-legendary Knebworth concerts in 1996. Following that gig, as Gallagher remembered: "I got a call from John saying that he was writing songs again and would I like to get involved," Gallagher said in a promo video for the duo's first single.

Mary J. Blige to Perform at Las Vegas' Lovers & Friends Festival After All

The Grammys' MusiCares Person of the Year tribute to Jon Bon Jovi released the lineup for next week's gala on January 26, with Bruce Springsteen, Jelly Roll, Shania Twain, Jason Isbell, Brandy Clark and Melissa Etheridge among the notables who will line up to tackle the New Jersey native's songs onstage at the LA Convention Center on February 2.