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"The song 'Victim Of Luck' and really the entire album is about the romance of a less than perfect life. It's about dropping the mask of self-consciousness and vanity. It was a long journey for me to get out of my own way and I wanted this song to be a rallying cry for that, better late than never. You can be as much a victim of good luck as bad."

Tim McGraw has announced the "Pawn Shop Guitar Tour," a 33-date outing across North America this summer. The tour includes a trio of stadium dates at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, PA; Fenway Park in Boston, MA; and Target Field in Minneapolis, MA, with very special guests The Chicks and Lady A. 49 Winchester and Timothy Wayne will also join McGraw for select dates over the course of the run.

American Football are definitely up to something. They changed their profile picture on all social media platforms to the red-hued photo that you can see above, they posted an online teaser, and fans noticed that the inside of the American Football house was lit up red recently too. Now, they announced a lengthy spring/summer tour, and the last sentence of their new press release reads, "As spring approaches in 2026, so does new growth...&"

"I hear it and I go, 'Okay this is a Dave solo record.' This is Dave and his new band, Dave and his new guys," Ellefson said (as transcribed by The PRP). "It says Megadeth, so obviously it gets all the attention, but realistically I hear it, and to me it just doesn't sound like Megadeth. And that's just me, period. You know? It's like Dave, doing what Dave does, but with a different set of guys in a new day. And this is Dave's retirement, you know? So that's my view on it."

At the turn of the 1960s, when free jazz was making its initial seismic impact, multi-instrumentalist Phil Cohran-he later added the name Kelan-was living in Chicago and playing trumpet for Sun Ra's Arkestra. He contributed to crucial recordings by the band during his tenure, including We Travel the Space Ways, but Cohran was a restless autodidact who never stuck with any one project for long.

The Spanish figure skater Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate faces a last-minute scramble to redesign his Olympic short program after a copyright dispute blocked him from using music from the Minions franchise just days before competition begins at the Milano Cortina Winter Games. The six-time Spanish national champion from Barcelona, who is set to make his Olympic debut in the men's singles event, said he learned late last week that the routine he has performed throughout the 2025-26 season would not be cleared for Olympic use.

For 18 years, Ben Cook has been making head-over-heels pop songs under a handful of similar names: Young Governor, Young Guv and the Scuzz, Young Guv. The project, recently rechristened as GUV, has outlasted Cook's time playing guitar on Fucked Up's punk operas and his stint as the frontman of Toronto hardcore band No Warning. But where other pop formalists write from a narrow frame of reference-'60s sunshine pop, , "Ticket to Ride"-Cook is a sonic mercenary, arriving at whatever genre he's into.

Jelly Roll has won the inaugural award for Best Contemporary Country Album at the 2026 Grammys. His album Beautifully Broken beat out records by Eric Church ( Evangeline vs. the Machine), Kelsea Ballerini ( Patterns), Miranda Lambert ( Postcards From Texas), and Tyler Childers ( Snipe Hunter). This is Jelly Roll's third win of the night out of three nominations. He's also taking home Best Country Duo/Group Performance for the Shaboozey duet "Amen" and Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for "Hard Fought Hallelujah" with Brandon Lake.

The 68th Grammy Awards aren't just a night of music industry awards, but a rock star celebration of music itself. There was a slew of showstopping performances at this year's awards ceremony, hosted at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, one of which featured all seven nominees for the best new artist category inlcuding Olivia Dean, Lola Young, and Sombr. Other performances included the in memoriam segment of the show, which featured country superstar Reba McEntire performing at the Grammys for the first time.

"Thank you so much. I can't believe this. Everyone else in this category, you're so amazing, I love you so much, and I feel so honored every time I get to be in this room," she said during her speech. "I don't feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land. Yeah, it's really hard to know what to say and what to do right now."