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On This Day, April 28, 1979… Blondie landed their first number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with “Heart of Glass,” which was also their first Hot 100 entry.  The song, written by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, was featured on the band’s third album, Parallel Lines. Blondie went on to have three more number one singles, the 1980 tracks “Call Me” and “The Tide Is High” and 1981’s “Rapture.” They've gone on to sell over […]

(NEW YORK) --The threat of a looming recession has heightened interest in the most commonly used measure of economic health: Gross domestic product, or GDP. The metric commands attention as an all-in-one report card that signals whether the economy is awash in prosperity, mired in disaster or shuffling forward somewhere between the two. While imperfect, GDP carries implications for real-world outcomes of everyday people, such as their risk of unemployment […]

Old Dominion is having a buy one, get one free sale on their online merchandise store. Eligible items include hoodies, T-shirts and hats. Check out shop.weareolddominion.com. Rising country artist Payton Smith has announced his new EP, What Colors You Wild. The seven-song set drops May 19 and is available for presave now. Neo-traditional country artist Chancey Williams made his Grand Ole Opry debut recently. While on the hallowed stage, he performed his songs "The Saint" and new single "One of These Days." Check out photos […]

Jason Kempin / Staff Garth Brooks is set to perform at Matthew McConaughey's 11th annual fundraising event, Mack, Jack & McConaughey, on Thursday, April 27. Led by Matthew, and co-organized by singer/songwriter Jack Ingram and ESPN analyst and Texas coaching legend Mack Brown, the joint nonprofit effort aims to raise funds to empower kids through various charity organizations. "They team up every year. They were sweet enough to ask me four years ago. And because we […]

Banded/AXS TV Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil and Kip Winger are among the rock stars taking part in AXS TV’s new music competition series Banded, which debuts May 13 at 9 p.m.  The show, hosted by Brandon Jenner, with American Idol finalist Didi Benami serving as co-host, will see 25 artists who can play, write and sing broken up into five new multiple-genre bands, giving fans a behind-the-scenes look into the art of creating music. The eight-episode show will see the […]

After his surprise ousting at Fox News, Tucker Carlson addressed his fans in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday night that has gone viral. Sitting at his home studio, wearing a suit and tie, Carlson opened by noting, "One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country...people who really care about […]

Dave J Hogan/Getty Images for ABA Some unique and original drawings by Bob Dylan will be on display in New York this week. Billboard reports that the drawings, which Dylan made during the 1967 recording sessions for The Basement Tapes, will be on display at the 63rd annual ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, taking place April 27 to 30 at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan.  The three captioned drawings all appear on […]

Mike Garten/Good Housekeeping When you're a kid and you're not allowed to listen to "forbidden" music, you get creative — which is how Pete Davidson says he inadvertently became a Rod Stewart fan. The comedian and Edie Falco, the co-star of his new Peacock series Bupkis, appear on the cover of a limited-edition Mother's Day issue of Good Housekeeping. Inside, Pete interviews Falco and his wisecracking mother, Amy, who jokes that what she does on Mother's Day is "usually, Pete's laundry." […]

Rhino Alice Cooper is getting ready to reissue two of his classic albums. Rhino will release new deluxe editions of 1971’s Killer and 1972’s School’s Out on June 9. Killer (Deluxe Edition) will feature a newly remastered version of the record, along with alternative takes of songs like “You Drive Me Nervous,” “Under My Wheels” and "Dead Babies." There will also be a previously unreleased live recording of an April 1972 show at the Mar Y […]