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The New Rules of Comedy: Hannah Gadsby, Joel Kim Booster and More Talk Cancel Culture, Inclusivity and Mental Health

Julie Seabaugh Comedy constantly shifts and changes, and tenets that might have applied years ago are also on the move. Variety spoke to some comics about everything from social media to cancel culture to figure out the new rules of the comedy scene. Live wherever. New York too expensive? Los Angeles too soul-crushing? Austin … too Texas? Touring headliners now regularly hail from more efficient hubs in Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota or anywhere else with Wi-Fi.

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André 3000 joins the Big Ears festival line-up

André 3000 has been added to the lineup of this year’s Big Ears festival. He will perform five times across the festival's four days, with pass holders requiring additional tickets for each show.

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Lionel Richie announces 2024 US tour with Earth, Wind & Fire

Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire have extended their Sing A Song All Night Long Tour into the first half of 2024 – see the new dates below.The pair’s joint tour kicked off last year with a 20-date run around the United States, and they have now extended it for 13 more shows this spring.The new dates will begin on May 23 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and run through cities including Jacksonville, Memphis, Orlando, San Antonio and Louisville, before it ends on June 16 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Richie will then go straight into a Las Vegas residency that will take him through until the middle of November.Tickets for the new dates go on general sale here at 10am local time on Friday, January 19. See the full list of gigs below.Back by Popular Demand! Sing A Song All Night Long with me and Earth, Wind & Fire.

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‘Rich Men North Of Richmond’ singer Oliver Anthony announces 2024 UK and Ireland tour

Oliver Anthony has announced a run of UK and Ireland live dates for 2024.The ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ singer will make stops in Glasgow, Manchester, London, Belfast and Dublin between February 7 and 13 – see the full details below. Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT this Friday (November 17), and you can order them here.The dates will be part of the Virginia singer-songwriter’s first international headline tour, which is also set to take in Europe and Australia.‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ became a viral sensation in August, reaching Number One in the US Charts, making Anthony the first artist to debut at that spot without any previous chart entries.

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Oliver Anthony cancels show over ticket price, performs for free with Papa Roach instead

Oliver Anthony has cancelled his upcoming show in Knoxville, Tennessee over steep ticket prices.The singer took to his Instagram to share a video telling his fans to avoid buying tickets to his forthcoming show at a music bar called Cotton Eyed Joe. Tickets were priced at $99, with meet and greets costing $199 each.“I had to pull off on the side of the road and make this video. My adrenaline’s pumping, man,” Anthony said in the clip.

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Guns N Roses Postpone Concert In St. Louis Due To Unspecific Illness

An unspecific illness has caused legendary rock band Guns N’ Roses to postpone their September 9 show at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

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The Chicks Are Sick, Reschedule Shows Because Of Unspecified Illness

The Chicks are rescheduling some of their upcoming concerts, citing an unspecified illness, according a social media post the group shared Friday.

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The Chicks Postpone Nashville Concert Just Hours Before Showtime

Thania Garcia In the hours leading up to the Chicks’ headlining concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, the group has postponed the show citing illness. In a statement shared on the Chicks’ social media, the band stated they were working on rescheduling the show and advised Nashville fans to keep their tickets for a newly scheduled date.

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Brutal parody of ‘racist’ Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ goes viral

a pithy parody of country superstar Jason Aldean’s divisive ditty “Try That in A Small Town” — a song that has come under fire for so-called “pro-lynching” lyrics.The 35-year-old Knoxville, Tennessee, musician, whose real name is Adeem Maria, titled his takedown “Sundown Town.” He annihilates Aldean’s anthem with cutting lines such as: “We got no protests or civil unrest/Never took no goddamn COVID test and we can all read but we don’t do it/Driving trucks valued higher than a new Corvette/Yeah, we all wear boots and we love to shoot and we move for the cops to stop people like you.” Aldean’s original has taken a brutal beating from online critics for allegedly promoting racism and violence.The troublesome tune was released in May, but was thrust into the spotlight after the recent release of its music video. The “Small Town” video features footage from BLM demonstrations and other protests, and depicts Aldean posing in front of an American flag draped over the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee.

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Cormac McCarthy, Award-Winning Author Of ‘No Country For Old Men,’ Dies At 89

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89.

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Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men,' Dead at 89

and dark American Westerns such ashas died at 89, his publisher, Knopf, said. Knopf said in a statement that McCarthy's son confirmed that he died on Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Sante Fe, New Mexico. McCarthy gained prominence for his unflinching explorations of some of the darkest corners of the American landscape. He won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1992 novel McCarthy's 2006 novel about a father and son's journey of survival through an America decimated by an unspecified event, made readers confront extreme evil and resilient hope, and earned him the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, McCarthy was raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, and briefly attended the University of Tennessee, where he received the Ingram-Merrill Award for creative writing. McCarthy's decades-long career took off in 1965 with his first novel, a story of murder and isolation set in a small Appalachian community.

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Kelsea Ballerini Brings Boyfriend Chase Stokes to Her Hometown and High School on 'Heart Fillin' Trip

Kelsea Ballerini is bringing it on home with Chase Stokes. The "If You Go Down (I'm Goin' Down Too)" singer shared a glimpse into her recent hometown visit to Knoxville, Tennessee, with boyfriend Stokes joining her for the ride. In a series of photos posted to her Instagram Story, Ballerini shared images of a famed Dolly Parton mural, a menu from Litton's Market Restaurant and Bakery, and herself riding shotgun while putting on a pair of pink socks. «A heart fillin 24 hours at home,» she wrote over one image. Ballerini teased her beau with a selfie on the track at her alma mater, Central High School, with a reference to his viral -inspired meme.

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Orville Peck Was ‘Scared’ to Bring Out Drag Queens During Recent Concerts in the South, but It Was ‘Extremely Important’

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Orville Peck may be nervous about bringing drag queens onstage during his concerts in red states, but he refuses to let fear get in the way of fighting for LGBTQ rights. “We played Knoxville, and we did Memphis, and we played a few places in Tennessee and just the South in general. And I doubled down, and I had a drag queen come out in the middle of the show, and I would do a big speech,” Peck tells me. “To me, drag is extremely important not just because a lot of my lovely dear friends do it,” he continues. “It’s a cornerstone of not just gay culture but gay civil rights. It is literally why I have the ability to be an openly gay man in country music. Was I scared? Yes, but I did it anyway because sometimes you just have to do something no matter what.”

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Lizzo and a group of drag queens protested anti-drag laws on stage in Knoxville

Lizzo used her concert in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday (April 21) to speak out in protest of the state's recent legislation aimed at restricting drag performance in public. She was joined at the Thompson-Boling Arena by a large group of drag queens, including Drag Race alumni Kandy Muse, Aquaria, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, during her song "Everybody’s Gay." Read Next: Lizzo and SZA join forces for “Special” remix The bill, first passed in March, effectively bans drag performances in public places and in front of children, with first-time violators facing a misdemeanor charge.

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Lizzo brings drag performers on-stage to protest Tennessee drag ban

Lizzo brought out several drag performers, including Ru-Paul’s Drag Race alumni, on stage with her in Knoxville, Tennessee to protest the state’s ban on drag.The show was the first on the second US leg of the singer’s ‘Special’ tour and saw Lizzo invite drag stars such as Aquaria, Asia O’Hara, Kandy Muse and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo. She then spoke to the crowd about why she felt it important to take a stand against the drag ban.“In light of recent and tragic events and current events, I was told by people on the internet, ‘Cancel your shows in Tennessee,’ ‘Don’t go to Tennessee,’” Lizzo said, to which the audience booed.

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Kelsea Ballerini dances in protest with drag queens at 2023 CMT awards

slain at the Nashville Covenant School shooting last Monday and recounted her own experience of being in a school shooting in Knoxville, Tennessee.“The community of sorrow over this and the 130 mass shootings in the U.S. this year alone stretches from coast to coast,” the 29-year-old singer said.“I wanted to personally stand up here and share this moment because on Aug.

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How Latto Is Living Her ‘Best Life’ While on Tour With Lizzo (Exclusive)

Latto can describe this current phase of her life and career with one word: Surreal. Add a little champagne and a lot of Lizzo vibes into the mix and it's Latto's perfect recipe to living her best life.Speaking with ET's Deidre Behar on the red carpet for the 2023 Billboard Women In Music event, the «Lottery» rapper is ecstatic, to say the least, about joining the «About Damn Time» songstress' North American tour, which kicks off April 21 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Latto, who was bestowed with the Powerhouse Award at Wednesday night's event held at YouTube Theater in Los Angeles, can hardly believe all of her dreams have become a reality.«Surreal.

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The True Story Behind ‘Cocaine Bear’: A 175-Pound Beast, a Dead Drug Smuggler in Gucci Loafers and More

Zack Sharf Elizabeth Banks’ “Cocaine Bear” is now playing in theaters, bringing with it an onslaught of detached limbs, blood-soaked bodies and gory mayhem. But that’s not exactly how one would describe the real story of the Cocaine Bear, also known as Pablo Eskobear. Banks’ film, scripted by Jimmy Warden, is inspired by the 1985 discovery of a dead bear in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest. The true story behind “Cocaine Bear” started in September 1985, when convicted drug smuggler Andrew Thornton died after a parachuting accident. The working theory is that Thorton was traveling in a plane with 880 pounds of cocaine and thought the Feds were trailing him, so he decided to throw some of the stash out of the plane and take some more with him when he parachuted out. His plan went awry.

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Dolly Parton 'disappointed' she missed Tennessee's upset victory over Alabama

Dolly Parton expressed her disappointment on Sunday for not being "on old Rocky Top" for Tennessee’s upset victory over Alabama in what was the best college football game of the season so far. The legendary singer congratulated the Volunteers on the victory said she was not in the area for the game. Dolly Parton discusses their new book "Run, Rose, Run: A Novel" co-written with James Patterson at "Dollyverse Powered By Blockchain Creative Labs on Eluv.io" during the 2022 SXSW Conference And Festival at ACL Live at The Moody Theater on March 18, 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Rick Kern/FilmMagic) "I said it's great to be a Tennessee Vol! What a win last night.