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Heavy metal legends Megadeth and Lamb of God are joining forces for a massive North American co-headlining tour. Presented by SiriusXM, the tour will also feature special guests Trivium and In Flames.The summer tour will launch in Bristow, VA.

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As production began Thursday night in Stamford, Conn., on the new HBO Max ballroom voguing competition series “Legendary,” producers confirmed the role of “The Good Place” star Jameela Jamil on the show.

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The inaugural Born & Raised Music Festival will be held June 6-7 in Pryor, Oklahoma, and include notable artists from the outlaw, Texas and Red Dirt country music scene. Willie Nelson and Hank Williams Jr. are scheduled as headliners for the music and camping experience, which will be held at the Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds.

Willie Nelson and Hank Williams Jr. will headline the inaugural Born & Raised Music Festival, which promoter AEG Presents describes as a “new outlaw, Texas and Red Dirt country music and camping experience” taking place at the Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds in Pryor, Oklahoma over the weekend of June 6-7, with a pre-festival party happening on June 5.

Slipknot are taking their Knotfest Roadshow out again.After a succesful first run in 2019, the masked metal marauders will hit the road this summer for the second edition of their traveling festival, kicking off with a May 30 show at St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview in Syracuse, New York, and running through a June 25 gig at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, Texas.Coming along for the ride will be support acts A Day to Remember, Underoath and Code Orange.

RodeoHouston just got a little more "Juice!" On Tuesday morning (Feb. 4), the Texas-based livestock show announced that Lizzo will be hitting the stage as a performer at the star-studded rodeo next month.

Every summer, more than 1,000 teens swarm the Texas capitol building to attend Boys State, the annual American Legion-sponsored leadership conference where these incipient politicians divide into rival parties, the Nationalists and the Federalists, and attempt to build a mock government from the ground up.

The best political documentary at Sundance this year does not star Hillary Clinton or AOC, but a bunch of 17-year-old dudes.

Dave Chappelle won the best comedy album award for the third year in a row at the 2020 Grammys on Sunday.Tanya Tucker and Brandi Carlile, who presented the honor, accepted on Chappelle's behalf as he wasn't present at the ceremony, which was held at Staples Center in Los Angeles.The comedian's reign over the category began in 2017, when he won for the album version of his two Netflix comeback specials, The Age of Spin and Deep in the Heart of Texas.Last year's winning album,Equanimity & The

Rosario Dawson has been cast as the lead in the upcoming HBO Max pilot “DMZ,” which has Ava DuVernay on board as a director and Roberto Patino in place as writer-showrunner.

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Getting the cast all together again hasn't been easy. 

UPDATE: January 18, 2020, 11:39 a.m.: Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but sounds like there's been a snag in entire production of that highly-anticipated Friends reunion. The holdup? Pay negotiations for the original cast.

Texas’ Fortress Festival has announced the full lineup for its 2020 edition with headliners Diplo and Miguel. The three-day festival will also feature appearances from Cuco, Big K.R.I.T., Sharon Van Etten and Snow tha Product.

Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island, starring Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live, will make its premiere as the opening night film at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival.The Austin, Texas, festival on Wednesday announced that “The King of Staten Island” will kick off SXSW on March 13. The movie, Apatow’s first fiction film as director since 2015′s Trainwreck, is Davidson’s highest profile project yet.Universal Pictures will release The King of Staten Island in June.

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