Britney Spears Cancels Shows Due To Injury From Onstage Fall

In a press release, a representative said, "Britney injured her ankle during her performance Wednesday evening and her doctor has advised her not to perform Friday and Saturday evening so that she may heal." Those two shows, May 1 and May 2, are to be rescheduled, with ticket holders being offered either refunds or exchanges.

Spears acknowledged the fall with a thankful tweet to all her supporters, saying "Thank you for all of the sweet wishes! Had a little scare on stage tonight with my ankle but I'm ok!"

As of now, all other future performances at Caesars Palace are scheduled to go on as planned. Spears is reportedly banking 15 million dollars a year with the residency. Read more here.

Suge Knight Pleads Not Guilty To Murder Charge

CNN reports Knight pleaded not guilty to all charges Thursday (April 30) in a Los Angeles court room after a hit-and-run incident in January that left one dead.

Knight, piloting an SUV, allegedly hit two men--Terry Carter and Cle "Bone" Sloan--at a Tam's Burgers parking lot in Compton, Calif., in an incident caught on a security camera. Carter later died of his injuries.

Knight's defense attorney claims Knight was protecting himself because Sloan had a gun. Sloan, however, has refused to testify in the case because he doesn't want to be considered a "snitch." Read more here.

Tech N9ne Recruits Corey Taylor for New Song 'Wither'

"All my life I lived with people, so passive back then/ I thought I'd be above this evil," he spits. "My tolerance level then was up with doves and eagles/ currently I've hit ground zero under bugs and beetles."

In an interview with Loudwire, Tech N9ne provided some explanation for where he's at with this record. 'When you're a natural nice guy, people around you pick at you with so much with bulls- that you start getting tired," he said. "The good guy starts withering away. So when I was explaining it to Corey, I was like, 'I'm slowly turning into an a-hole and I like it." Listen to the track here.

Hootie and the Blowfish Reunite On 'Letterman'

Naturally, the band performed "Hold My Hand," Hootie's debut single from 1994 and the first song released off Cracked Rear View. There were the occasional instances where Rucker's newfound country twang peeked out, but otherwise, the performance was vintage Hootie, guitarist Mark Bryan still sounding particularly stout on the track's guitar solo-and looking beautifully '90s in dress, too.

Of course, 1994 marked the television debut of Hootie and the Blowfish, performing on-where else?-Letterman. Hootie and the Blowfish last released an album, Looking for Lucky, in 2005. Rucker has released five solo records, four of which have been country albums, most recently Southern Style last month.

Check out the Letterman performance here.

Taylor Swift Explains What Fans Can Expect On 1989 World Tour

"My hope is that the fans don't feel similar watching this tour in any way then they felt watching the last tour, the same way I came at the album from a different perspective and wanted to make it different than anything I'd done before, it's the same way I approached the tour� Thinking outside the box is more difficult than doing the same thing over and over again but I think it has results."

Taylor admitted she feels the need to top herself, "I need my tour to be better than my last tour, I need my album to be better than my last album." Swift enlisted the help of Vance Joy, Shawn Mendes, James Bay and even HAIM to open some of her shows, "They're so incredible and its such good vibes, when they walk into a room it changes the entire dynamic, they're just like loud in the best way and so energetic and that energy is going to be great to have on the road."

The superstar singer also working on getting some of her other famous friends to take the stage as surprise guests, calling herself a booking agent, "I've started picking up the phone, I started sending out the emails, and the interesting thing is when you're asking people to come and play for free, that's something you have to ask them yourself, you can't have your management go do it� So I end up assuming the role of booking agent essentially when I'm on tour and just being like so, can we check her schedule, the routing, and she may be able to make it to in between that date and that date� 'Hey its Taylor, will you please come out, it's going to be a stadium show, it's going to be incredible, the crowd will love it.'"

Swift said it's fun to have friends that show up for you and then you show up for them. Read more here.

Mumford & Sons Stream New Song 'Hot Gates'

"Hot Gates" may be the closest to the band's earlier sound so far, though make no mistake: it's still all-electric. It tends more toward the slower tracks of their earlier discography, beginning with the delicately picked electric guitar, piano and percussion akin to their old kick drum patterns.

But the song doesn't really stray from that. There's a bridge that adds a shaky, echoing guitar line, but otherwise, "Hot Gates" doesn't bring the heat--instead, it simmers for awhile. Stream the new song here.

Kenny Chesney Working On New David Lee Murphy Album

"There's a real aggression to this," Chesney said. "But it's also core country like it's not being done. Not retro, but the way Alabama or the Dirt Band might sound today. . . This is about being raised on the right influences, and hitting it straight on."

The 10-track album is produced by Buddy Cannon, as well as by Chesney and Murphy. Chesney is featured on the title track, while Dan Tyminski (Alison Krauss and Union Station, Avicii's "Hey Brother") assists on "As a Crow Flies." Read more here.

Florida Georgia Line, Kid Rock Lead National Concert Day

To celebrate, a whole day of sets will take place in New York City for the 2015 Summer Spotlight presented by Hilton at Irving Plaza. Florida Georgia Line and Kid Rock are the headliners.

Other artists making what are billed as special appearances are Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Kip Moore, Metric, Rae Sremmurd, Tinashe, Wiz Khalifa, Foreigner's Mick Jones, Lifehouse's Jason Wade and Bryce Soderberg, plus Brandon Boyd and Mike Einziger of Incubus. Read more here.

'Fifty Shades' Sequel To Be 'More of a Thriller'

Now, Universal Pictures' Chairman Donna Langley has revealed a preview of the movie, as well as dispelling some myths about what went down on the set of Fifty Shades of Grey.

In conversation with THR, Langley said the second film will be "more of a thriller" than the first. She also voiced her support of scriptwriter Niall Leonard, saying, "He actually did a draft that wasn't credited on the first movie, and he did a really good job."

As for the rumors of tension on the set between James, director Sam Taylor-Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel, Langley dismissed talk that the film was anything other than under the studio's control. Read more here.

Diddy Plans Final World Tour

In between pounding tequila shots, the rapper told Ellen that he has plans for one more major, globe-spanning tour before he calls it quits for good, at least on a touring level.

'I'm gonna go and do a world tour," he explained. 'I'm not gonna hit a lot of places, but the places that I am gonna hit, it's important for me because it's probably my last time touring."

Diddy, 45, plans to spend his golden years with his children. 'I'm gonna get to see the world and know that it's my last time touring," he said. "I wanna be here to raise my girls." Read more here.

Bono Still Can't Play Guitar After Bike Accident

Bono told the Times on the topic of his accident, "I really used to think that my head was harder than any surface it came in contact with, and I don't anymore. I didn't come off a Harley-Davidson. I came off a push bike and smashed myself to bits. There is no glory here."

The article notes that Bono can use his left hand to hold a microphone, but not to play guitar. "It feels like I have somebody else's hand," the frontman said, noting that he can't bend his fourth finger or his pinky, and that part of his hand also doesn't move yet. "But they say that nerves heal about a millimeter a week, so in about 13 months I should know if it's coming back�The shoulder's better, the face is better."

He won't be able to play guitar on the band's upcoming Innocence + Experience tour, but thinks it'll be OK. "They don't seem to mind," he said, referring to his bandmates. Read more here.

Josh Turner Promises His 'Best Songs' On New Album Contains

Which, based on his enthusiasm, he did. "I'm not going to go so far to say this is my best record ever, it may be it may not be," he humbly admits to Radio.com. "But I know for this record specifically, the songs are the best ones we could find in a two-year span, whether I wrote them or not."

Turner said he's satisfied with the music he has found and there is "a big variety of songs" that will be heard on the upcoming album. "It keeps with the Josh Turner tradition," he says, "but there's still some freshness and some newness on here that I think the non-Josh Turner fans will gravitate towards and appreciate, too."

"Lay Low" is the first single off his upcoming project and was written by Tony Martin, Mark Nesler and Ross Copperman. Turner says what first attracted him to the song is how it talks about the world around us.

"We live in such a technological age where everybody's got a phone, everybody's got a computer, there's TVs everywhere you go," he says with a pause, getting reflective. "It's information overload. It can become an addiction easily to be on your phone all the time. You lose sight of what's around you. You lose sight of the ones you love." Read more here.

Amy Schumer Parodies One Direction

In the clip from a recent episode of Inside Amy Schumer, the comedian teams up with a boy band who sings a song quite similar to 1D's "What Makes You Beautiful" to ask the question, "What makes women beautiful?" So many men say they prefer a woman without makeup, but Schumer has her doubts.

In the clip, these boys swear that Amy looks better without anything on her face telling her to wash it off in the sink and that she has an "inner, natural glow" that she needs to show off without all that gunk on her face.

But after taking their sweet advice, the boys look at Amy's fresh face and seem to change their mind about the whole no-makeup look. Soon, those loving words of how beautiful she is change drastically with the guys singing things like, 'You're great except your face, girl, so don't take off your makeup!"

One member even lists his regrets: missing his father's funeral, being high when his niece was born, but telling her to take off her makeup was his biggest. 'Please listen girl," one of the members says, 'what we're trying to say, just get up an hour earlier and you can make yourself much girlier."

Joking or not, Schumer later asked fans to tweet their no-makeup selfies using the hashtag #girlyoudontneedmakeup, even posting her very own pic. Read more here.

5th Grader Gives Willie Nelson An 82nd Birthday Present On Kimmel

Standing in back of a cardboard cutout dressed as Nelson complete with braids and an acoustic guitar, a young boy named Luke walked on the stage with pink cue-cards.

"Howdy, everybody. I'm Willie Nelson and today is my 82nd birthday," Luke said while reading his cue-cards as if he was giving a class presentation.

"I'm a country music legend and an outlaw," he continued. "I spent half my life making music with my friends. And the other half working in my garden where I grow special magical plants."

To a room of laughter, Luke added that it was time for him to leave as he had a few things left to do to celebrate his 82nd birthday. "Well, I have to go now because I'm really, really hungry. Thanks, everybody! Especially all the girls I loved before."

Luke then blew a kiss before he headed off the stage. "Let's hope he gets on the school bus instead of Willie's bus," Kimmel added. Watch it here.

Pharrell Williams Posts 'Dope' Movie Poster Online

For example, Williams recently the movie poster on Instagram the movie poster, despite the release coming in about six weeks, much like a musician might tweet out an album cover.

The poster offers the tagline, "It's hard out here for a geek," playing on the the Hustle & Flow line, "it's hard out here for a pimp," and features a number of connections to the music community, including stars Shameik Moore, Zoe Kravitz, A$AP Rocky, Tyga, and Vince Staples. Diddy served as a co-executive producer on the project.

Dope will hit theaters on June 19, while the Pharrell Williams-produced Snoop Dogg album, Bush, will be out on May 12. Looks like this summer will be a wild one for Pharrell. See the poster here.

Kristen Wiig Plays Khaleesi From 'Game of Thrones' on 'Fallon'

She didn't exactly have the backstory down. When asked about her real name, she said it was Karen and she came from the woods, where she lived in a dome house she built. Oh, and she named her dragon Carl.

Wiig also seemed very amused by the peep hole on her dress, including the contoured body parts it exposed. The Khaleesi bravely played a game of rapid-fire questions with Fallon, hilariously revealing that "hieeeeeee" is her favorite greeting and one of her hobbies includes doing "spells on people." Read more and watch here.

'21 Jump Street' Female Spinoff May Be in the Works

While none of the news is confirmed by Sony or the writers just yet, Sony did release the news that the all-female Ghostbusters reboot will come to theaters on July 22, 2016, with Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones to star and Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) directing.

With Sony's eye drifting toward the female, many are keen to give credence to the female Jump Street talks. EW does confirm that if a lady Jump Street were to come to fruition, producer Neal Moritz and writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller would oversee the project. Read more here.

Taylor Swift Makes Young Cancer Patient's Dream Come True

Recently, after years of chemotherapy, her doctors told her family that her cancer remains aggressive and that there is nothing more they can do. One of Beazley's greatest wishes though, was to talk to Swift, telling reporters earlier this week, "We would be here all day if I told you why I liked her." Knowing this, Beazley's family and friends started reaching out to the 1989 singer on social media, urging her to make the call.

Swift, being the social media savvy star she is, saw the notes and did just that. "The smile on my daughter [is one] I have not seen in a very, very long time," her mother said of the sweet gesture. "I could cry."

Beazley's mom said Swift did most of the talking during their 10-minute call on Tuesday (April 29), telling little Emily how much it meant to her that her music was helping her get through her chemo treatments. Read more here.

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