#WhatsHappening for October 17, 2016

Hi there, kids. Welcome to another week. Don't forget- the Seventh Annual Costumes & Karaoke party is just 12 days away. Join us for all the fun at the Iron Horse Tavern on October 29th. We'll have prizes for best costume, sexiest costume, best karaoke based on your costume and so much fun I can even remember what the hell it is we do!

The Swedish Academy says they're "doing nothing" further to attempt to contact this year's Nobel Laureate in Literature. 

Sara Danius, the Academy’s permanent secretary told a Swedish radio station that she had "called and sent emails to (Bob Dylan's) closest collaborator and received very friendly replies" but had heard nothing from Dylan himself. "For now, that (response is) certainly enough."

It's currently unknown whether Dylan will travel to Stockholm to officially receive his award, presented by King Carl XVI Gustaf.

“If he doesn’t want to come, he won’t come," Danius said. "It will be a big party in any case, and the honor belongs to him."

If you're going to be in Vegas for New Year's, Sting and The Weeknd will be on hand to help you ring in the New Year.

Sting will play The Cosmopolitan on the 30th, while The Weeknd will be on stage at The Chelsea. On New Year's Eve, the two will swap stages. 

Tickets for the shows at the Chelsea go on sale this Friday at 1 pm. No on sale date for the Cosmopolitan shows yet.

Today's puzzling Billboard headline: "Lady Gaga, T.I. & Metallica Help Launch SiriusXM All Music Talk Channel 'Volume'"

Music talk channel? So... all talk, no music?

Randy Travis, who suffered a stroke in July of 2013, was on stage last night in Nashville to accept his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. After his wife, Mary, told the story of Travis' rise to stardom in the 1980s, she handed the mic off to her husband, who began singing "Amazing Grace."

The ceremony also included producer Fred Foster and Charlie Daniels being officially inducted as part of the Hall’s Class of 2016.

Dolly Parton, who Foster signed to her first professional contract and produced her first chart single- "Dumb Blonde"- said Foster "saw something in me no one else did…..You started my life."

After Vince Gill inducted Foster, he said he could not "come up with the words to describe how I feel...I want to thank the musicians, songwriters, and engineers that made me look like a producer."

Charlie Daniels, the second inductee, said " the faces on the wall laid the foundation for all of us," referring to the Hall's wall of fame. Trisha Yearwood, Jamey Johnson, and Trace Adkins performed selections from Daniels’ catalogue.

For the final presentation of the evening- Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, and Garth Brooks took to the stage, with Brooks saying he was "going to do my best not to ‘fan girl’ right now." Brooks, who famously said his own 2011 induction to the Hall didn't "feel right" without Travis there, said "Today the world is spinning right. Never will you have to say ‘Randy Travis isn’t in the Hall of Fame ever again. It’s long overdue and well-deserved. I would not be standing her...I would not be married to Miss Yearwood….I would not be in this town if it weren’t for Randy Travis….Tell me some other artist in some other genre ever in the history of mankind who has taken a format, turned it around back to where it was coming from, and made it bigger than it was. It’s never happened. It will never happen again."

Birthdays today include: Wyclef Jean of Fugees; Eminem; Christopher Kirkpatrick of 'N Sync; Ziggy Marley; Rene Dif of Aqua; Alan Jackson; and Jim Seal of Seals & Crofts. #MusicalBirthdays