Apple's new Crossbody Strap is a convenient way to go hands free but the strap can rub uncomfortably at times, and the phone looks silly when the strap is removed.

As it turns out, there will be a country music act at the Super Bowl. No, that petition for George Strait to replace Bad Bunny hasn’t led to a complete overhaul of the Super Bowl Halftime show. The global superstar and Puerto Rican rapper, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is still set to headline the Big Game’s biggest stage on February 8. However, there is going to be some country music injected into the event. Super Bowl LX is being held in San Francisco, California this year, and the NFL has announced some musical events that will lead up to the clash between two teams competing for the Lombardi Trophy. For people that have been clamoring for country music to return to the grand stage of the Super Bowl, the genre will at least be represented during the Super Bowl week festivities. The Bay Area Host Committee has set up a three-night concert series at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, running February 5 through the 7. Acts for the first two nights have not been announced, but the finale of that series will belong to a couple of Grammy award winners in the country music space: Chris Stapleton and Sierra Ferrell. If you ask me, Stapleton will always be synonymous with the Super Bowl after he blew the roof off the place with his National Anthem performance prior to the Big Game in 2023. So it makes sense to have him involved in some way for the Super Bowl. Sierra Ferrell is a great addition as well, and the two should pair up incredibly well at the concert that will take place one day before the Super Bowl. NFL hospitality partner On Location is also putting on a concert series of it’s own, only this one will stretch just two nights (February 6 and 7). The second night’s headliner has yet to be revealed, but the first night will feature Rock and Roll icon Sting. Would be quite the get (and make a lot of fans happy) if they could also get the King of Country – George Strait – to handle that first night. Front Office Sports first reported the news of the added concert series: “The NFL is leaning heavily into music for Super Bowl week as the league cements itself as a cultural powerhouse. Chris Stapleton, Sting, and Sierra Farrell are among several artists who’ll perform in the days leading up to the NFL’s Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny.” The NFL is leaning heavily into music for Super Bowl week as the league cements itself as a cultural powerhouse. Chris Stapleton, Sting, and Sierra Farrell are among several artists who’ll perform in the days leading up to the NFL’s Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny. — Front Office Sports (@FOS) November 7, 2025 So this might be a small consolation for country music fans who are eager for the genre to be involved with the Super Bowl once more. It’s been a long time since a country music artist was the headliner for the Super Bowl halftime show… over 20 years to be more specific. Shania Twain was the halftime show in 2003, and before that, it was the iconic 1994 show that featured the likes of Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt, and The Judds at the Georgia Dome. There’s an undoubtable yearning for country music to take the Super Bowl’s biggest stage again. And now does seem like a great time, since country music seems to have more global reach than it ever has. Artists like Luke Combs, Zach Bryan and Morgan Wallen have been selling out football stadiums all around the world… particularly in Europe, where the NFL has been hosting a ton of games in the past few years. Guess there’s always next year?The post NFL Taps Chris Stapleton, Sierra Ferrell To Play In Concert Series Leading Up To Super Bowl LX first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

I shouldn’t enjoy this as much as I do. I’ve got a confession: I actually like Nickelback. I know it’s fun and cool to hate on them, but you can’t deny that they have some bangers in their catalog. Songs like “How You Remind Me,” “Animals,” “Photograph,” and of course, “Rockstar.” Of course Nickelback isn’t exactly a country band, but they’ve definitely been dipping their toe into the country world here lately. This past summer they headlined the Rock the Country festival series alongside Kid Rock, and last year they released a Live From Nashville album that featured guest appearances from several country artists, including a live duet with Ernest of his stone-cold country hit “Flower Shops.” Nickelback also teamed up with HARDY for a CMT Crossroads (which was an awesome show, by the way), and that one makes a lot of sense because HARDY is one of the more rock-leaning country artists out there right now. But you probably wouldn’t expect them to collab with…Shenandoah, the ’90s country hitmakers behind songs like “Two Dozen Roses,” “Moon Over Georgia” and “Sundays In The South.” It was definitely a little surprising to see that Shenandoah had teamed up with Nickelback for a new version of their 1989 hit “The Church on Cumberland Road,” the second single from their album The Road Not Taken and the band’s first #1 hit. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I hit play, but honestly…it kind of rips. Speaking on the opportunity to collaborate with Nickelback, Shenandoah lead singer Marty Raybon (one of the greatest voices in country music, by the way) admitted that it might seem like an odd pairing, but he called it one of the coolest things the band has ever done: “First, let me say that it’s always a great opportunity to befriend those in the music industry, regardless of the genre. Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger and I had the chance to talk about their music and ours and the parallels of some of the tunes that could be swapped out on the setlists. The idea came up, and after a few text messages, we were off and running with what is one of the coolest things we’ve ever done. Shenandoah and Nickelback. Who would have thunk it.” Kroeger, meanwhile, had high praise for Shenandoah and the legacy that they’ve created over their iconic career: “We’ve always had a deep respect for the artists who came before us, and Shenandoah is one of those bands that helped define an era. Getting the chance to collaborate with them on ‘The Church On Cumberland Road’ was an absolute blast. It’s a song that feels as vibrant today as it did when it first came out.” The new version stays pretty true to the original, which no doubt helps with fans who have been spinning the song for over 30 years now. But the addition of Kroeger’s vocals adds a new grittiness to the barnburner that somehow just drives up the energy and gives the classic song a new life. I was skeptical at first but after listening to it…I’m all in. Hey, if it works it works. And this one works. The post Shenandoah Teams Up With Nickelback For New Version Of “The Church On Cumberland Road” – And It Kind Of Rips first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

President Trump spoke about the government shutdown and stood solid on the idea that Republicans have voted to open the government 14 times and that Democrats have gone crazy. Here’s what he . . .

The United States is reportedly planning to station troops at an airbase in Damascus as part of a security arrangement it is mediating between Syria and Israel, according to six sources cited in a Thursday Reuters report. “The base sits at the gateway to parts of southern Syria that are expected to make up a demilitarised zone as part of a non-aggression pact between Israel and Syria,” the report states. Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is set to meet with Trump at the White House on Monday, the first such visit by a Syrian head of state. The plan would mark Syria’s shift towards Washington after the fall of the Iran-aligned Bashar al-Assad in December of 2024. According to the report, the U.S. administration official who spoke about the plans said the U.S. was, “constantly evaluating our necessary posture in Syria to effectively combat ISIS (Islamic State) and (we) do not comment on locations or possible locations of (where) forces operate.” The name and location of the base were not included in the article. The U.S. lifted sanctions on Syria in June, and the Pentagon announced earlier this year it would reduce the American military presence in the country to about 1,000 troops. Syria’s state news agency SANA denied the report, quoting an official at the Foreign Ministry who called the Reuters story “untrue.” The post Report: U.S. Plans to Station Troops at Syrian Airbase appeared first on The American Conservative.

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Although the October jobs report will not be released Friday, private sector data indicates the United States is on track to lose more jobs this year than at the start of the pandemic.

The ongoing government shutdown has disrupted the flow of economic data from federal agencies and the October jobs report is the latest closely watched report to be delayed due to the impasse.