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Congratulations are in order for Meghan Markle's ex-boyfriend Cory Vitiello. The celebrity chef is reportedly expecting his first child with girlfriend and Dragonette singer Martina Sorbara. Sources shared the news with Us Weekly, which comes just a couple weeks after Meghan's royal wedding to Prince Harry. However, there are no hard feelings between the new Duchess of Sussex and her ex, who gushed about Meghan just a few days before she tied the knot. "I’m pleased for Meghan. She’s a great girl," he told the Daily Mail. "There is no bitterness. I respect people’s private and personal lives, and although she has put herself in the public spectrum, I still hold to that." (Photo Credit: Getty Images) The former couple reportedly dated between 2014 and 2016 after meeting in Toronto, where Cory is based and Meghan filmed Suits. It has been alleged that Meghan was still with Cory...

Ho Ho Ho! Welcome to the Holiday Edition of Afterelton's Music Roundup. This holiday season we've been blessed with fresh albums by artists who had yet to venture into the holiday album arena including Annie Lennox, Indigo Girls, and the B-52's Fred Schneider. Like a gift at a Pink Elephant party, we've also been given second attempt albums by those artists who should probably just stick to their original (I'm talking to you Mariah!).

With everyone from Train to The Killers to Coldplay churning out holiday hits at the last minute, there's much to discuss.On the flip side, we'll pick back up with new non-holiday material (Cee Lo Green, Adam Lambert, Joe McElderry and Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kandi Burrus) all worth a listen, so let's get started.

Holiday Highlights

Train has surely made a comeback this year. The San Francisco-based band took a three-year hiatus after their 2006 album For Me,...

House DJ Kaskade aka Ryan Raddon has made public a music video shot to promote his latest single called "Fire in Your Shoes". In this clip, Raddon is playing a photographer who takes pictures of a female model portrayed by his collaborator Martina Sorbara, the frontwoman of Canadian band Dragonette.

Ryan Raddon includes "Fire in Your New Shoes" in his sixth solo studio album "Dynasty". He has released the effort in May as a follow-up to his 2008 record "Strobelight Seduction" and reportedly plans to drop an extended version for the album later this year.

"Dynasty" is a shimmering collection of lush house tracks infused with vocal-laden melodies and addictive interludes. It delves into a new direction with acoustic elements, while still incorporating his trademark sultry sounds.

Kaskade's "Fire in Your New Shoes" music video...

'I wanted somebody who was on the pop-electro sound already,' Kaskade says of choosing Martina Sorbara as his collaborator.

By Akshay Bhansali

Kaskade

Photo: MTV News

Earlier this year, progressive house-music producer Ryan Raddon — known to his fans around the world as Kaskade — found himself body-checking pop-music goliaths when his album Dynasty debuted at #5 on the iTunes album download charts, knocking Justin Bieber out of the top 10 that week. The album spent three consecutive weeks in the top 10, an indicator of popular music's current appetite for faster beats per minute as well as a credit to Kaskade's own skills.

And while Dynasty features a mainstream dance collaboration with Dutch music titan Tiësto, fans of Kaskade will be pleased to know that for his first music video off the record, he's tackling one of the album's less progressive-house-sounding gems.

The song "Fire In Your New Shoes" is an atypically guitar-heavy...