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Yesterday (March 16), Taylor Swift surprised fans by announcing she was dropping four songs — all of which are now out on streaming platforms. One of which was the re-recorded version of “Safe And Sound (Taylor’s Version),” which originally appeared on the soundtrack for the Hunger Games and was a collab with The Civil Wars.

To many’s surprise, Swift brought both members Joy Williams and John Paul White back for her 2023 version of the song, long after they had broken up as a group. However, new fans or just those unaware with the Civil Wars’ lore might be wondering why they ended the band in the first place.

Williams was married to the band’s manager, Nate Yetton, and this caused a divide in her creative partnership with Paul White — leading many rumors to spread about potential infidelity. In 2015, she spoke about it on an episode of Death, Sex, & Money.

“I’m sad, because we don’t speak anymore. And, yeah, I feel like I’m looking at a ghost in a way,” Williams said. “And I think rumors, rumors, rumors, so many rumors were, you know, circulated …

“And I think that, a lot of times, that’s what people, I think, are gravitated to, on top of the music itself, was this sort of fascination of, ‘But they’re not married, but there’s this … there’s this creative connection that’s very strong,’” she added. “And it was very strong. Until it wasn’t.”

However, as time has gone on, both seem to have healed from the situation — enough to partially reunite for the pure power of Taylor Swift.

U2’s lead singer Bono and the band’s guitarist, The Edge, dropped by NPR’s offices for a special stripped-down Tiny Desk performance.

The duo kicked off the set by playing their 2000 hit, “Beautiful Day.” They also dedicated “Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of,” which was also from their album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind, to the late INXS singer, Michael Hutchence.

Bono and The Edge also brought the Duke Ellington School of the Arts choir along with them, adding an emotional backing layer to the songs with their harmonies. The camera frequently panned to the students who were in the studio crowd off to the side. After every song, the audience happily cheered — and it was just a great energy all around.

They also played “In A Little While” before introducing the Hutchence tribute.

“All of these years trying to avoid a desk job,” The Edge joked. “I’m getting into it.”

“This song’s actually a song about friendship sort of. Edge and myself were discussing earlier how we’ve gotten a little maybe more intolerant as we’ve gotten older of our friends. I’ve made the mistake of putting my friends into categories,” Bono added. “You should never do this. The really difficult ones, you have to be careful what you say around them kind of.”

Finally, U2 closed the set out with “Walk On.”

Check out U2’s Tiny Desk performance above.

Lady Gaga‘s performance of “Hold My Hand” at the Academy Awards last week was one of the most talked about of the night. On stage, she performed the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack anthem, which was nominated for Best Orignal Song.

“I wrote this song with my friend BloodPop for the film Top Gun: Maverick in my studio basement,” Gaga said on Oscars night, preceding her performance. “It’s deeply personal for me, and I think that we all need each other. We need a lot of love to walk through this life, and we all need a hero sometimes. There’s heroes all around us, in unassuming places, but you might find that you can be your own hero even if you feel broken inside.”

During her performance, she wore a black t-shirt, ripped jeans, and sneakers, while also going make-up free. Today (March 17) Gaga shared a clip on TikTok of herself rehearsing the song, while fully glammed out. In the clip, she is seen wearing a full face of makeup, and a lush, flowing, backless gown.

“The rehearsal no one saw,” she captioned the video. “Love you all, thanks for being so supportive of a song that means so much to me.”

Though she hasn’t said why she chose to make a last-minute switch, she doesn’t need to, especially as the music spoke for itself that night.

You can see Gaga’s rehearsal footage above.

Mamamoo are finally heading to North America for their first ever tour on the continent. On the heels of dates across Asia, the K-Pop band will be bringing the My Con World Tour to kick off in New York City in May.

“Wherever it is, it becomes yours, mine and our stage,” they shared in a statement.

Official venues have yet to be announced in each city, but per Billboard, they will be performing in arenas. The band previously released their mini album, Mic On, back in October. It also marked their return as a full and complete group.

“As indicated by the title, Mamamoo is back to create a sensation, so please look forward to our return,” a member of Mamamoo, Solar, previously shared during a press conference about the album, according to Yonhap News Agency. “Many songs are firmly retaining their posts on charts these days, but we want to become a chart sensation.”

Tickets go on sale on March 29 at 10 a.m. local time through Ticketmaster. More information will be made available here.

Continue scrolling for a complete list of Mamamoo’s newly-announced tour dates.

05/16 — New York, NY
05/18 — Baltimore, MD
05/20 — Atlanta, GA
05/22 — Nashville, TN
05/24 — Fort Worth, TX
05/27 — Chicago, IL
05/31 — Glendale, AZ
06/02 — Oakland, CA
06/04 — Los Angeles, CA

The nation’s shortest basketball team has knocked off the champions of the Big Ten. Fairleigh Dickinson, a member of the Northeast Conference that only made the NCAA Tournament because its conference champion was not eligible to head to the Big Dance, stunned the Purdue Boilermakers on Friday night in Columbus, 63-58.

While the Boilers entered the game with the presumed National Player of the Year in Zach Edey, the Knights entered the game with a sublime defensive gameplan that turned Purdue over, limited Edey’s ability to beat them, and challenged everyone else to come up big. Edey — who went the game’s final 9:25 without attempting a shot from the field — had 21 points and 15 rebounds on 7-for-11 shooting, but as a team, the Boilermakers went 19-for-53 from the field and only hit five threes.

All game long, they were sped up by FDU, which made them pay time and time again.

And by the time the final horn sounded, FDU put their collective names in the history books and made their head coach, Tobin Anderson, look awfully smart when he said after their First Four win that he thought they could pull the upset.

The Knights went 20-15 on the year and fell to Merrimack in the NEC championship game, but because the Warriors were not eligible to make the NCAA Tournament this year, Fairleigh Dickinson earned the conference’s automatic bid. FDU joins UMBC as the only schools to win a game in the NCAA Tournament as a 16-seed. Back in 2018, UMBC throttled Virginia, the No. 1 overall seed, 74-54. They would end up losing in the round of 32 to Kansas State. As for Purdue, this marks the third year in a row that they have fallen to a double-digit seed at the tournament. The 4-seed Boilermakers lost to 13-seed North Texas in 2021, and in 2022, they lost in the Sweet 16 as a 3-seed to a 15-seed, Saint Peter’s.

With the win, the Knights will move on to Sunday’s round of 32, where they will play either Memphis or Florida Atlantic with a spot in the Sweet 16 on the line.

Prolific hip-hop producer Hit-Boy is gearing up to drop his first-ever rap album. Today (March 17), he took to social media to share the cover art for his upcoming album, Surf Or Drown, which is set to arrive next week.

He revealed the album news yesterday during an interview with Home Grown Media Group.

“I’m literally dropping a whole album next week with me rapping,” he said. “I got features on it. It’s produced by me and a couple of the homies did some little pieces, but it’s a real good body of just what I’m on right now … It’s gonna be like 11 joints.”

The tracklist, which was revealed by Apple Music, boasts collaborations with Nas, Dom Kennedy, The Alchemist, Curren$y and more. Additionally, instrumental versions of the songs will also be included on the album.

You can see the cover art and tracklist below.

1. “Big Hit (Intro) [Live]”
2. “The Tide” Feat. Nas
3. “State Champ” Feat. Dom Kennedy and Jay 305
4. “CORSA” feat. Dom Kennedy
5. “Tony Fantana III” Feat. Curren$y
6. “Just Ask” Feat. Spank Nitti
7. “NU.WAV” Feat. Devin Morrison
8. “Slipping Into Darkness” Feat. The Alchemist
9. “2 Certified” Feat. Avelino
10. “MTR” feat. James Fauntleroy & C3
11. “Composure, Pt. 2”
12. “The Tide (Instrumental)”
13. “State Champ (Instrumental)”
14. “CORSA (Instrumental)”
15. “Tony Fontana III (Instrumental)”
16. “Just Ask (Instrumental)”
17. “NU.WAV (Instrumental)”
18. “Slipping Into Darkness (Instrumental)
19. “2 Certified (Instrumental)”
20. “MTR (Instrumental)”
21. “Composure, Pt. 2 (Instrumental)”

Surf Or Drown is out 3/24 via Surf Club.

The Minnesota Timberwolves’ push to avoid the Western Conference play-in tournament may have taken a major hit on Friday night. During the team’s game against the Chicago Bulls, All-Star guard Anthony Edwards rolled his ankle and was in considerable pain. Edwards needed to be helped into the locker room and was unable to put any weight on his leg.

Edwards had the ball at the top of the key late in the first quarter when he got picked up by Bulls guard Alex Caruso. He saw Mike Conley out on the wing, so he jumped in the air in an effort to throw him the ball. While it got there, Edwards landed and rolled his right ankle. He immediately screamed out in pain and began holding his leg, and after getting tended to by the team’s training staff was brought into the locker room.

It is a brutal turn of events for Minnesota, which sits at 35-35 at this point in the season and are in the 7th seed in the Western Conference. The team is one game out of the 6-seed in the West, but also only have a 1.5-game cushion on missing the postseason altogether. We’ll keep you updated as more information becomes available about Edwards’ status going forward.

After Courtney Love wrote an op-ed for The Guardian criticizing the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame for a lack of female representation, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders took to Facebook to share her thoughts.

Hynde had a similar stance, noting that she doesn’t want anything to do with the program or its induction.

If anyone wants my position in the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame they are welcome to it. I don’t even wanna be associated with it. It’s just more establishment backslapping. I got in a band so I didn’t have to be part of all that.
I was living a happy life in Rio when I got the call I was being inducted. My heart sank because I knew I’d have to go back for it as it would be too much of a kick in the teeth to my parents if I didn’t. I’d upset them enough by then, so it was one of those things that would bail me out from years of disappointing them. ( like moving out of the USA and being arrested at PETA protests and my general personality ).
Other than Neil Young’s participation in the induction process, the whole thing was, and is, total bollocks.
It’s absolutely nothing to do with rock ‘n’ roll and anyone who thinks it is is a fool.

Read Chrissie Hynde’s full statement about the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame above.

After Shawn Mendes and Sabrina Carpenter were spotted on several occasions, causing dating rumors to swirl, it seems the Canadian pop musician has finally set the record straight. In a new interview with RTL Boulevard, Mendes rejected the question about Carpenter.

“We are not dating but I think we should talk about Tommy Hilfiger probably more than Sabrina,” Mendes replied, referencing his collab with the fashion brand.

The two had first been linked in mid-February through none other than a blind item that was posted on DeuxMoi. Things have also recently heated up rumor-wise after Mendes and Carpenter were filmed leaving the release party for Miley Cyrus’ Endless Summer Vacation together.

Then, a few days later on March 12, they were once again spotted chatting at the Vanity Fair post-Oscars party. An anonymous source previously confirmed their relationship to Entertainment Tonight.

“Shawn and Sabrina are seeing each other. They have been hanging out a lot and trying to keep things low-key. They were at a birthday party together a couple weeks ago and were cute together. Shawn is happy,” they said.

Meanwhile, Carpenter, in the teaser for her new collaboration with Charlie Puth, winds up making out with him. He posted the preview to TikTok, causing fans to continue to freak out. She also dropped the deluxe version of her Emails I Can’t Send album today (March 17).

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Nearly a year after its release, Muna performed a special rendition of “Kind Of Girl” from their self-titled third album. During Lorde‘s Australian leg of her Solar Power tour, Muna has supported the New Zealand singer/songwriter as her opening act. On their final show as Lorde’s supporting act in Adelaide, Lorde brought them out, as she temporarily joined the band, singing a cover of “Kind Of Girl.”

She preceded the performance by telling the audience “It’s sort of a special night tonight. We are saying goodbye to our lovely Muna, who have been supporting us in Australia. So I thought I would bring them out to sing one of my favorite songs of theirs.”

She continued, revealing that she gets “choked up” at the song.

After the show in Adelaide, Muna took to social media to express their gratitude to Lorde and the fans.

“so thankful to @lorde and her wonderful band and team for bringing us on this aussie leg of tour,” said the trio in a tweet. “has been a pleasure to watch them perform and a total honor to sing kind of girl with her during her set last night. very grateful for this life as always.”

You can check out a clip of the performance above.