While there may not be as many in-person parties as usual this Super Bowl Sunday, Verizon is still celebrating the Big Game, hosting “The Verizon Big Concert for Small Business,” a star-studded Super Bowl after-party.

The event, hosted by Tiffany Haddish, will feature performances from Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Brandi Carlile, as well as Alicia Keys, Miley Cyrus, Christina Aguilera, Jazmine Sullivan, H.E.R. and Brittany Howard.

The concert kicks off Sunday at 11 pm ET, and can be viewed in a variety of places, including YouTube, Twitter and TikTok, and will also be broadcast on BET, CBS Sports Network and more.

And Verizon will be helping small businesses as part of their Super Bowl festivities. They have pledge $10 million to help business owners in historically undeserved communities.

Source: MSN

Eric Church recently announced his a new project, “Heart & Soul,” a triple album, and now he’s giving fans another taste of what to expect.

Eric just dropped the new song “Heart On Fire,” which will be featured on the “Heart” album, which will be the first to be released on April 16th, followed by “&,” for his fan cub only on April 20th, and “Soul” on April 23rd.

“‘Heart On Fire’ is the first song on the ‘Heart’ album, and normally if we had four songs about heart, with the way we used to do this we would cut three of them out and we’d do one,” Eric shares. “It started to be cool that this time we could lean into that sameness and the themes where you can put the songs together and know we wrote these within this much time of each other.”

ONE MORE THING! Apparently Eric’s fans got a little anxious for informaton about his new albums, and actually went so far as to hack his website to get the info before the announcements. It seems before the official reveal, members of his Church Choir hacked the computer and found the plans about the albums. “We ended up getting hacked, which is pretty awesome when you think about it,” Church tells The Tennessean. “They ended up breaking the news, which is hilarious to me. It was one of those weird deals. But I love the passion.”

Source: Eric Church

Kris Kristofferson is giving up performing. The legendary singer quietly announced his retirement in a new press release regarding the management of his estate.

In announcing that the 84-year-old’s son John would be leading the family business, the press release read, “The legendary songwriter and actor officially retired in 2020, leaving his son John Kristofferson to lead the family’s businesses.”

While Kris didn’t make any other major comments about his retirement, his longtime manager Tamara Saviano did give some insight into the decision in an interview with Variety.

“It wasn’t any big stake in the ground, like ‘I’m retiring! I’m not doing this anymore!,” Tamara explains. “It was an evolution, and it just felt very organic,” noting, “There was no big change — it was this sort of slow ‘What should we do now? What’s next?’ And here we are in the middle of a pandemic… It was like, ‘Yeah, let’s retire.’”

She added, “Kris is 84. It didn’t feel like such big news to us. That’s why there was no announcement: It was just sort of a slow changing of the guard thing.”

As for whether this really is the last we’ll see of Kris, Tamara noted, “I’m not gonna say Kris will never record again, Kris will never take the stage again, because the moment I say that Kris will prove me wrong,” adding, “Never say never. He might wake up a month from now and go ‘I’m gonna go in the studio and make an album,’ and he will.”

Source: Rolling Stone

Rory Feek is making music again. The singer announced he’ll release his first solo album, “Gentle Man,” on June 18th. It will be Rory’s first album since his wife and singing partner Joey passed away from cancer in 2016.

“I’ve been in the studio making a new album for the last few months,” he shared on his blog. “And that’s a big, big change for me. To make a record without Joey isn’t something that I was sure I’d ever do.” Noting that he’s never made an album on his own, he adds, “I guess it was finally just time.”

Joey also shared the first single from the record, a cover of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A Changin’.”

Source: Rory Feek