Pop punk icon Avril Lavigne has announced two outdoor shows in the U.K. for the next summer. Simple Plan will be the special guest at both concerts.

Pop punk icon Avril Lavigne has announced two outdoor shows in the U.K. for the next summer.

The "Sk8er Boi" singer will perform at Cardiff Castle on Tuesday, July 2, and at Manchester Castlefield Bowl on Wednesday, July 3. Simple Plan will be the special guest at both concerts.

"UK!" says Avril. "I'm playing at Cardiff Castle and Castlefield Bowl with the one and only Simple Plan next July 2024. Come rock out with us!"

Tickets to the Cardiff and Manchester concerts go on sale from Kerrang! Radio Tickets at 9 am on Friday December 1.

Lavigne's most recent album was Love Sux, which was released on February 25, 2022, by DTA and Elektra Records.

Lavigne worked on Love Sux with various artists including Machine Gun Kelly, Blackbear and Mark Hoppus of Blink-182.

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Dolly Parton's Rockstar has debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts. Rockstar marks her ninth country topper and her debut on top of the Rock & Alternative Albums chart.

Dolly Parton's Rockstar has debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts.

Rockstar marks her ninth country topper and her debut on top of the Rock & Alternative Albums chart.

The legendary country singer-songwriter's latest album earned 128,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the November 17-23 tracking week, according to Luminate.

Rockstar also marks Parton's first No. 1 album on the all-genre Top Album Sales chart.

Parton also earned the No. 3 spot on the Billboard 200 for the first time with the album.

Rockstar is the 49th solo studio album by Parton, released on November 17 by Butterfly Records and Big Machine Records. The 30-track set, which is also her first rock album, is a collaborative project featuring a variety of rock musicians.

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Rock band Evanescence's Amy Lee says that rapper 50 Cent "hates her guts." "50 Cent hates my guts," Amy Lee said in a recent interview with The Daily Beast. "It's just one of those things. I mean, truthfully, we thought he was going to win, too. It was such a wild night.

Rock band Evanescence's Amy Lee says that rapper 50 Cent "hates her guts."

"50 Cent hates my guts," Amy Lee said in a recent interview with The Daily Beast. "It's just one of those things. I mean, truthfully, we thought he was going to win, too. It was such a wild night.

"People are like, 'What was it like to win a Grammy?' and I'm like, 'Stressful!' I mean, it's wonderful now to have them, but it was surreal. I just remember thinking, 'I don't even think anybody in this room knows who we are.'"

The beef between Amy and 50 started nearly 2 decades, ago when Evanescence won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2004 overthrowing the most popular pick for the award, 50 Cent.

Despite not being announced as the winner, 50 Cent still walked across the stage, making for an awkward moment during Evanescence's acceptance speech.

"You know when you're just in shock? He didn't do anything, he didn't grab the mic, it wasn't that bad," recalled Lee. "He just sort of like, made an appearance. It was like Zoolander when he thought he won."

"No, he never said anything to me, but he likes to talk about me and how he was robbed. I don't want to start a beef with him," she added. "Everything around me was chaos and I was like, I'm going to stand here and see if this is real later, if I wake up or not."

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