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Base-editing corrects metabolic abnormalities in a humanized mouse model for glycogen storage disease type-Ia - Nature Communications

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By Thomas C. Leete, Jeffrey Quinn, Giuseppe Ciaramella, Brian Mansfield , Lo-I Cheng
| Nature
Abstract Glycogen storage disease type-Ia patients, deficient in the G6PC1 gene encoding glucose-6-phosphatase-α, lack blood glucose control, resulting in life-threatening hypoglycemia. Here we show our humanized mouse model, huR83C, carrying the pathogenic G6PC1-R83C variant displays the phenotype of glycogen storage disease type-Ia and dies prematurely.
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Jerry Lee Lewis, rock 'n' roll pioneer and perpetual ball of fire, dies at 87 Original

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Play Pause ClosedCaption Open Share Enter Full Screen Exit Full Screen For the longest time, it seemed that if Jerry Lee Lewis wasn’t dead already, then obviously nothing could kill him. But what alcohol, painkillers, a perforated stomach ulcer, angry fathers and general recklessness couldn’t do, advancing age finally did. The seemingly indestructible rock ‘n’ roll wild man died Friday at 87 at his home in Desoto County, Mississippi, near Memphis.
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The 10 best (and the absolute worst) Elvis movies, ranked

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Play Pause ClosedCaption Open Share Enter Full Screen Exit Full Screen The story of Elvis Presley's film career is one of wasted potential. Too many of the 31 movies he shot from 1956 to 1969 were money-making hack jobs, their scripts existing to do little more than fill time between musical numbers. Indeed, in Baz Luhrmann's new "Elvis" biopic, the King of Rock 'n' Roll's entire Hollywood career is reduced to a flashy montage.
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Robin Thicke suffers iHeartRadio wardrobe malfunction

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Robin Thicke showed some skin %28unintentionally%29 during %27Blurred Lines%27 Miguel and TLC joined J. Cole onstage%2C Juicy J performed with Katy Perry and fun. sat in with Queen iHeartRadio Music Festival continues Saturday with sets by Bruno Mars and Paul McCartney LAS VEGAS — Perhaps Robin Thicke has been hanging out with Miley Cyrus too much lately.
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Tony Rice: 1951 - 2020

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By Brian Mansfield 
| Tidal Magazine
Béla Fleck on the influence and inspiration of the bluegrass legend and guitar giant. December 29, 2020 by Brian Mansfield Tony Rice c. 2000. Credit: Stephen A. Ide/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. The bluegrass community lost one of its giants on Christmas Day with the passing of flatpick guitarist Tony Rice at age 69. Rice recorded dozens of albums as a bandleader and collaborator with the likes of J.D. Crowe & the New South, Ricky Skaggs, David Grisman, Jerry Garcia and Norman Blake.
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Luke Bryan's 'Born Here Live Here Die Here': Album Review

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By Brian Mansfield 
| Variety
Want to get a fresh perspective on a Luke Bryan album? Play the second half first. As much as any artist in mainstream country, the affable superstar and “American Idol” judge sequences like a man with the vinyl format foremost in his mind.
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Chris Sligh, Christian Singer and ‘American Idol’ Finalist, Battling COVID-19-Related Pneumonia

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By Brian Mansfield 
| Yahoo Entertainment
Click here to read the full article. “American Idol” finalist and contemporary Christian singer Chris Sligh has COVID-19 and has developed pneumonia. Sligh, who finished tenth on the 2007 season of “Idol,” shared a picture of himself in a Nashville-area healthcare facility on Instagram late Monday, but was back at home Tuesday night. Sligh began exhibiting symptoms in late June that worsened over the weekend. “I have Covid that has developed into pneumonia,” he wrote on Instagram.
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Chris Sligh, Christian Singer and ‘American Idol’ Finalist, Battling COVID-19-Related Pneumonia

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By Brian Mansfield 
| Variety
“American Idol” finalist and contemporary Christian singer Chris Sligh has COVID-19 and has developed pneumonia. Sligh, who finished tenth on the 2007 season of “Idol,” shared a picture of himself in a Nashville-area healthcare facility on Instagram late Monday, but was back at home Tuesday night. Sligh began exhibiting symptoms in late June that worsened over the weekend. “I have Covid that has developed into pneumonia,” he wrote on Instagram.
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Grand Ole Opry Finds New Purpose Amid Pandemic, Playing to an Empty House and a New TV Audience

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By Brian Mansfield 
| Variety
Brad Paisley knows the Grand Ole Opry has its ghosts, but March 21 felt downright eerie. There was no anticipatory murmur of excitement from fans filing into the Grand Ole Opry House that night. No curtain going up. No applause marking the moment the show began. Instead, Paisley and fellow Opry members Vince Gill and Marty Stuart sat on stools six feet apart and looked out at nearly 4,400 dark seats, a few cameras and fewer than 30 crew members, only a handful visible at any given time.
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Grand Ole Opry Finds New Purpose Amid Pandemic, Playing to Empty Houses and a New TV Audience

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By Brian Mansfield 
| Connecticut Post
Photo: Mark Mosrie Photo: Mark Mosrie Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Photo: Mark Mosrie Click here to read the full article. Brad Paisley knows the Grand Ole Opry has its ghosts, but March 21 felt downright eerie. There was no anticipatory murmur of excitement from fans filing into the Grand Ole Opry House that night. No curtain going up. No applause marking the moment the show began.
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Gabby Barrett’s ‘Goldmine’: Album Review Original

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By Brian Mansfield 
| Variety
Carrie Underwood aside, country radio has embraced former “American Idol” contestants only reluctantly, as if they were averse to sharing the credit for launching an act. A few have managed to last, though: Underwood’s an arena headliner and a radio mainstay for 15 years now, and Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina, who finished 1-2 on “Idol” in 2011, also seem to have won over programmers. Gabby Barrett can go on that list, too.
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Kenny Chesney’s ‘Here and Now’: Album Review

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By Brian Mansfield , Andrew Wallenstein 
| Variety
Kenny Chesney can’t possibly have imagined the world in which we’d be listening to “Here and Now.” The country superstar’s 19th studio album was supposed to arrive two weeks into a stadium-and-amphitheater “Chillaxification Tour 2020” that would have kept parking lot parties going well into college football season.
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Investing Outlook

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By Brian Mansfield 
| investingoutlook.co
Something strange is going on in the financial system. And according to The Financial Times, it's about to send a massive flood of cash into the pockets of the most prepared Americans. What exactly is going on and what does it mean for your money? I recently met up with former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud — one of the most widely-followed financial analysts in the world. Today, he shuns the spotlight and lives on a remote island off the Florida coast. And he's built a new life...
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Investing Outlook

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By Brian Mansfield 
| investingoutlook.co
Something strange is going on in the financial system. And according to The Financial Times, it's about to send a massive flood of cash into the pockets of the most prepared Americans. What exactly is going on and what does it mean for your money? I recently met up with former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud — one of the most widely-followed financial analysts in the world. Today, he shuns the spotlight and lives on a remote island off the Florida coast. And he's built a new life...
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Investing Outlook

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By Brian Mansfield 
| investingoutlook.co
Something strange is going on in the financial system. And according to The Financial Times, it's about to send a massive flood of cash into the pockets of the most prepared Americans. What exactly is going on and what does it mean for your money? I recently met up with former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud — one of the most widely-followed financial analysts in the world. Today, he shuns the spotlight and lives on a remote island off the Florida coast. And he's built a new life...
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Premiere: Aoife O'Donovan's 'Fire Engine'

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
The Crooked Still frontwoman's solo "Fossils" is a highly anticipated summer album. Learning that Aoife O'Donovan had an album coming out next month made us happy. Apparently, a lot of other people felt the same way. Rolling Stone named O'Donovan's Fossils, due June 11, one of the summer's most-anticipated album. Nashville's Grand Ole Opry booked her to play there this past Tuesday. Her summer schedule includes shows at Bonaroo, A Prairie Home Companion and Ottawa Jazz Fest.
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On the Road Again: A revival for The Church

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
On the Road Again, USA TODAY's spotlight on artists on tour, this week looks at Australian alternative rockers The Church. Get ready for The Church. "Some people say we're the best guitar band on earth," says Steve Kilbey, bassist and singer for Australian rock bandThe Church. And Kilbey isn't one to argue with those people.
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Garth Brooks comes to Orlando this October

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By Brian Mansfield 
| WTSP-TV (St Petersburg, FL)
Garth Brooks comes to Orlando this October Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY , WTSP 8:56 AM. EST August 17, 2016 Garth Brooks Garth Brooks is coming to Orlando this October as part of his World Tour with Trisha Yearwood. On October 8, Garth Brooks will perform at the Amway Center in Orlando at 7 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 26, for $75. Brooks had to cancel a show in Tampa last May due to the Stanley Cup Finals. Click here to buy tickets.
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USA Today: Lubbock native Joe B. Mauldin, Crickets bassist, dies in Nashville at 74

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By Brian Mansfield , - -, Sameer Islam, Carol Morgan
| Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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Merle Haggard, country music legend, dies at 79

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By Brian Mansfield 
| The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
In his 1968 song Mama Tried, Merle Haggard sang of turning 21 in prison. Haggard, who died Wednesday in California at age 79, had done just that, though not, as he sang in the song, “doing life without parole.” Haggard’s youth of petty crime, financial insecurity and freight-car hopping eventually informed songs that spoke plainly but not predictably of social outcasts, blue-collar concerns and persistent restlessness.
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Appreciation: Merle Haggard left rich country legacy

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
In his 1968 song Mama Tried, Merle Haggard sang of turning 21 in prison. Haggard, who died Wednesday in California at age 79, had done just that, though not, as he sang in the song, “doing life without parole.” Haggard’s youth of petty crime, financial insecurity and freight-car hopping eventually informed songs that spoke plainly but not predictably of social outcasts, blue-collar concerns and persistent restlessness.
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On the Road Again: Trans Siberian Orchestra

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
On the Road Again, USA TODAY's spotlight on artists on tour, looks at the prog-rock holiday sounds of Trans Siberian Orchestra. Who needs a Yule log? "When we have pyro hits, you feel the heat roll across the arena," says Trans Siberian Orchestra founder Paul O'Neill. Over the past 16 years, TSO concerts have become an annual tradition for Christmas buffs who like their holiday tunes delivered with arena-sized grandeur. TSO's 2014 tour grossed $51 million in 52 days.
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On the Road Again: Meat Loaf

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
On the Road Again, USA TODAY's spotlight on artists on tour, looks at Meat Loaf this week. The last Meat Loaf show. "I already kind of know how I'm going to die," says Meat Loaf. "Of an aneurysm.
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Third time's the charm for the Dead Weather

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Sometimes, the Dead Weather's Alison Mosshart wishes she could be four people. If she was, she might be able to tour in support of the group's third album, Dodge and Burn, which comes out Friday. She'd also have time to finish her next album with her primary band, The Kills, and tour that record, too. Plus, she'd have a couple of people left over to do things like the other clones' tour laundry.
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On the Verge: Nathaniel Rateliff

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
This week in On the Verge, USA TODAY's spotlight on breakthrough artists, Brian Mansfield talks to Nathaniel Rateliff, frontman of the retro-soul outfit Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats. Son of a ...
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Don Henley: Music 'keeps me from going nuts'

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
NASHVILLE — In No, Thank You, a song from his new Cass County album, Don Henley offers his perspective on days gone by: "Though nostalgia is fine, I respectfully decline to spend my future in the past." Henley's been telling people this, in one way or another, since at least The Boys of Summer in 1984 — "Don't look back, you can never look back." "The point is that it's okay to look back, you just don't want to live back there," Henley, 68, says.
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Strait announces surprise album, Vegas shows

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
The cowboy's ready to ride again. George Strait will drop a new album, Cold Beer Conversation, on Friday, with the title track going to radio tomorrow. The album will be available exclusively through WalMart and Apple Music. And even though he has stopped touring, the Country Music Hall of Famer plans four 2016 shows at the new Las Vegas Arena — April 22-23 and Sept. 9-10. First tickets for those shows, which will feature Kacey Musgraves as support, will go on sale Friday.
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Q&A: George Strait on 'Cold Beer,' Vegas

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Maybe George Strait got rid of a little too much stress. When he came off the road in June 2014, having played the final show of his two-year The Cowboy Rides Away Tour at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, "the stress level totally dropped." A little more than a year later, though, Strait has announced a new album, Cold Beer Conversation, out Friday, as well as at least four concerts at the new Las Vegas Arena.
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Three weeks at No. 1 for The Weeknd album

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
The Weeknd's Beauty Behind the Madness stays at No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart this week, only the second time this year an album has had a three-week run at the top spot. According to Billboard, Taylor Swift's 1989 had 11 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 during 2014 and 2015, putting three weeks together between Jan. 10 and Jan. 24.
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How Ryan Adams wound up covering Taylor Swift's '1989'

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Before Ryan Adams considered covering a Taylor Swift album, he wrote a song with her. Adams, who released a track-by-track remake of Swift's blockbuster 1989 Monday, got a call from Swift while she was writing songs for her 2012 album Red, asking if they could work on a song together. "She basically already had this thing done," says Adams, a prolific singer-songwriter and five-time Grammy nominee whose music Swift has said helped shape her songwriting.
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The Weeknd stays at No. 1 for second week

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Once again, The Weeknd has the most popular album in the land. Beauty Behind the Madnessremains atop the Billboard albums chart this week. Beauty Behind the Madness wasn't the week's top seller, but when Billboard factored in on-demand streaming and individual track sales, it ranked higher than the latest from Five Finger Death Punch. The heavy-metal band's Got Your Six sold 114,000 copies, according to Nielsen Music, making it the strongest start of the group's career.
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Of Mice & Men debuts 'Never Giving Up' video

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Of Mice and Men premieres its video for Never Giving Up today at USA TODAY. In a second clip, singer Austin Carlile talks about the health issues that forced the group to cancel some dates on its summer tour. Carlile suffers from Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the body's connective tissue. He had surgery at California's Stanford Hospital in June. In the video titled A Message from Of Mice & Men, Carlile says he had been suffering from a broken rib throughout the tour.
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Brett Eldredge ups his game with 'Illinois'

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Almost as along as he'd been a country singer, Brett Eldredge had heard the adage: "You've got your whole life to make your first album and six months to make your second." So almost as soon as he released his 2013 debut Bring You Back, he was writing songs for a follow-up. "I've always dreamed of doing this for 40 years, so you've got to plan as if you're going to the moon," says Eldredge, 29. "I probably wrote a hundred songs for this album." He needed them.
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New CMT doc shows many sides of Johnny Cash

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
In the first scene of CMT's Johnny Cash: American Rebel, the country-music great shoots a crow. Then, seeing that he has only clipped the bird, he picks it up, soothes it, jokes with it, lets it nibble on his hand for a bit, then walks off with the bird nestled in his arm, ready to nurse it back to health.
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Vance Joy talks Taylor Swift, headline tour

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy, who's currently Taylor Swift's direct support on the 1989 World Tour, has just announced his own headlining tour. He'll play theaters and large clubs in the U.S. and Canada starting Jan. 13 in Vancouver and ending April 1 in Boston. The Riptide singer spoke with USA TODAY Wednesday about what he's learned from touring with Swift, what his fans can should anticipate once he's the star of the show — and which of Swift's celebrity friends impressed him most.
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First-timers dominate CMA nominations

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Every once in a while, the Country Music Association members bring some new blood into the nominations. But never like this year. While Eric Church and Little Big Town lead all acts with five nominations each, the big news comes from the new-artist category. Four of that category's acts — Kelsea Ballerini, Sam Hunt, Maddie & Tae and Chris Stapleton — received nominations in other categories, as well. Ballerini also picked up a female-vocalist nomination.
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The Weeknd snags No. 1 album spot

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
What a big Weeknd: The Can't Feel My Face singer debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart this week, with the second highest weekly sales of 2015. Beauty Behind the Madness moved 326,000 copies last week, according to Nielsen Music, second only to the 495,000 Drake sold of If You're Reading This, It's Too Lateback in February. According to Billboard, it's The Weeknd's best sales week ever.
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At 50, Scorpions still rock like a hurricane

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
On the Road Again, USA TODAY's spotlight on artists on tour, this week looks at heavy metal band The Scorpions. Still packing a sting. German metal band The Scorpions bring their 50th-anniversary world tour to North America for 16 dates starting Sept. 10 at Boston's Blue Hills Bank Pavilion. Though best known for such '80s and '90s hits as Rock You Like a Hurricane and Wind of Change, sets on the current tour pull from every era.
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Justin Bieber sets Spotify streaming record

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Share This Story!Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutJustin Bieber sets Spotify streaming record'What Do You Mean?' breaks a record set recently by One Direction's 'Drag Me Down.'Sent!A link has been sent to your friend's email address.Posted!A link has been posted to your Facebook feed.
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Brooks recuts 'Friends' with Strait, others

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Twenty-five years after Friends in Low Places sent Garth Brooks' career into overdrive, the country superstar has recorded a new version, with some friends in higher places. George Strait, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean and Keith Urban have recorded a silver-anniversary rendition of the song with Brooks. Brooks' publicist confirmed the new recording, first reported in Billboard, on Thursday.
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Song of the Week: Justin Bieber's back

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Are we sensing a pattern here? First Justin Bieber asks Where Are Ü Now with Skrillex and Diplo, now he wants to know What Do You Mean? Three years since Believe and with enough personal baggage and bad behavior during that time to derail a lower-level career, maybe the 21-year-old singer wonders where he stands with his audience. With its tropical-house groove and earnestly subdued vocals, What Do You Mean? comes across confident but never arrogant, low-key but full of intensity.
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Chris Isaak cut new album in Nashville

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
NASHVILLE — The first time Chris Isaak came to Nashville, he sang with his brother at an empty Ryman Auditorium. There, on a stage that had been frequented by the likes of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, the Isaak brothers sang Stonewall Jackson's country hit Don't Be Angry. "The next day, I got to meet Stonewall Jackson," Isaak says, "and he said, 'I heard you sang my song.'" That sort of chance encounter continued while Isaak, 59, was in Nashville recording First Comes the Night, out Nov.
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Chris Young's comin' over with November album

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Funny thing: Country singer Chris Young got his latest single, I'm Comin' Over, because he and another songwriter couldn't make time to write. Young says he and Josh Hoge talked and talked about writing together but never did until Hoge suggested Young sit in on a writing session with another writer, Corey Crowder. "We enjoyed it so much we were like, let's book three or four more of these," says Young, 30.
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Hollywood Undead premiere 'Gravity' video

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
The memories never end when gravity pulls you in. And Hollywood Undead is ready to pull you in with the video for new single Gravity, premiering at USA TODAY. Gravity is the latest single from the rap-rock group's fourth album, Day of the Dead, released in March. "We wanted to write a rock song, and there was this concept of gravity," the group's J-Dog said in a news release. "It's something that holds you down. We talked about reminiscing on the past and how people can get stuck on that.
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'Immortalized' gives Disturbed fifth No. 1

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
The members of Disturbed find themselves in the elite company of Madonna, Beyoncé, Eminem, Dave Matthews Band, U2 and Metallica this week. With the hard-rock group's Immortalized debuting atop the Billboard albums chart, the group becomes one of the few acts to have five albums enter the chart No. 1. Disturbed first hit No. 1 in 2002 with the its second album, Believe, following with a string of chart-toppers — 2005's Ten Thousand Fists, 2008's Indestructible and 2010's Asylum.
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Home Free mashes up 'Fishin' in the Dark'

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Home Free goes down home on their forthcoming Country Evolution album with a medley blending country hits from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Little Big Town. The Sing-Off winners' a cappella rendition of the Dirt Band's 1987 smash Fishin' in the Dark and Little Big Town's 2005 hit Boondocks premieres at USA TODAY.
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Jarre's new album unites electronic greats

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
On one track on Jean Michel Jarre's forthcoming Electronica 1: The Time Machine album, the French musician uses almost a century's worth of electronic instruments. The first sounds on Close Your Eyes, a collaboration with French duo Air, emanate from a bank of oscillators, the kind used by electronic music pioneers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Schaeffer during the '50s.
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New Avicii double-sided single is two kinds of awesome

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
(PRMD Music) Here’s something to get you through the Friday grind: Two brand-new tracks from EDM superstar Avicii. Avicii teams up with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ Alex Ebert on For a Better Day, an uplifting, piano-based track. The more rhythmic Pure Grinding brings in hip-hop and soul influences, along with vocals from Swedish songwriter/producer Kristoffer Fogelmark and Earl St. Clair. Both tracks will appear on Avicii’s next album, Stories, due this fall.
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Lemmy says Motörhead’s Stones cover beats original

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister isn’t shy when its comes to assessing the version of the Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil Motorhead included on the group’s new album Bad Magic. “I thought we beat them,” the hard-rock trio’s frontman says. “I thought we beat it to death. I mean, I like the Stones’ version, but I like ours better.” Motörhead’s brutal version of Sympathy for the Devil appears on the group’s 22nd studio album, Bad Magic, out today.
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Virginia shootings: ad for The Vengeful One clip by metal band Disturbed pulled

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By Brian Mansfield 
| Sydney Morning Herald
Still from Disturbed's 2015 song The Vengeful One. Photo: Disturbed / YouTube Warner Brothers has pulled a video ad for heavy metal band Disturbed in the wake of Wednesday's fatal on-air shooting of a TV reporter and her cameraman. The ad for the band's new album Immortalized contained footage from a music video for latest single The Vengeful One, in which a monstrous creature shoots several people at a television station.
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