In addition to circling the globe on his LOOP Tour, Ed Sheeran’s been writing songs for other artists. He co-wrote Shakira’s World Cup anthem “Dai Dai,” for example. Now he’s shared behind-the-scenes footage of his latest work: KATSEYE’s new single, “Animal.”
“I heard @katseyeworld’s song Gnarly last year when I was in Mexico and loved it,” Ed writes on Instagram. “Said I was a fan and reached out to them to see if I could write them a song. We’ve created Animal together, go check it out gang and hope you all love it.”
In the post, you can see Ed and his co-writers putting together the song, line by line: “Nobody knows you’re out of control/ But I see a side behind the closed doors/ They get a glimpse here on the dance floor/ You move like an animal.” “This is really good,” says one co-writer.
Then you see behind-the-scenes footage of KATSEYE recording the song in the studio. The song, which is out now, will appear on the group’s upcoming EP, WILD, due Aug. 14. As previously reported, Ed isn’t the only global star who’s involved in “Animal.” The video features Oscar-nominated actress Demi Moore.
As for why Ed documented the writing of “Animal” on video, he’s noted previously that he now films all his songwriting sessions to avoid any plagiarism accusations. He’s been accused of that in the past and has even been taken to court over it. P.S. He won.
Kenny Chesney’s ‘Silver Sands Marina’ (HEY NOW Records)
Eleven songs have pulled into port at Silver Sands Marina, and Kenny Chesney’s ready to give you a preview.
“Some of these songs are unlike anything people have heard, or haven’t heard in a long time,” he says. “Some of them go deep, some of them will make people turn it up, a few will make them laugh… But, together, I think they’ll remind them how great it is to be alive. Even on days where you need a song like ‘Carry On,’ we’re making the best of what we’ve got.”
With its debut single already a top-10 hit, Kenny’s 21st record is ready for arrival Sept. 25.
Here’s the complete track listing for Silver Sands Marina, with more details to come during Kenny’s July 30 appearance on TalkShopLive: “Burn My Boat” “Carry On” “Talkin’ Dirt” “Goldfish” (featuring Lily Meola) “Silver Sands Marina” “It Just Got Weird” (featuring Megan Moroney) “Sad Casino” “Shot A Car Into Space” “Remember Me That Way” “What We Got Going On” (featuring Colbie Caillat) “Shot Glass”
Brendan Angelides and Serj Tankian “I’m Afraid of Americans” single artwork. (Ancestor)
System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian has collaborated with electronic musician and producer Brendan Angelides on a cover of the David Bowie song “I’m Afraid of Americans.”
The joint rendition takes inspiration from Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor’s remix of the 1997 single.
“I always loved Trent Reznor’s remix of Bowie’s original,” Angelides says. “I’ve been working on a new album for the past year and as this particular beat came together, I unexpectedly started singing those words on top. The first person I thought to collab with was Serj. He has been an inspiration to me forever and I’m now lucky to call him a friend.”
The cover will appear on Angelides’ upcoming album, Can You Feel the End Begin?, which will be released Aug. 14.
Bret Michaels performs prior to Round Two of the 2026 NFL Draft at Acrisure Stadium on April 24, 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)
Poison frontman Bret Michaels has postponed dates on his Live & Amplified World Tour after undergoing surgery to remove a kidney stone.
According to a post on Facebook, Michaels was diagnosed “with a complicated obstructing kidney stone requiring immediate surgery” on July 19.
“Due to the nature of Michaels’ post-operative condition and underlying health factors (diabetes, lower back compression fracture), he is restricted from performing for the next 3 to 4 weeks and only prescribed light physical activity as part of his recovery,” the post continues. It notes he “must strictly refrain from all live performances” until he’s reevaluated by doctors to determine “when he can safely resume touring.”
“I’m forever grateful for the amazing medical treatment and ongoing medical attention throughout my personal life and career, and truly grateful for family, friends, fans, band, crew and promoters for their understanding,” Michaels writes in the post. “[A]nd, if all goes well, will hit the road late August back to delivering 1000% energy, intensity and truly nothing but a good time.”
Updates on Michaels’ tour, and any rescheduled dates, can be found at BretMichaels.com. According to the site, Michaels’ next show was supposed to take place July 30 in Interlochen, Michigan.
Arin Ray has given fans another preview of his upcoming album, Limbo, with the release of his new single, “Too Good.”
The song finds him “confronting the vulnerability that comes with finding a love that feels almost undeserved” and reflecting “on past mistakes while embracing the possibility of something lasting,” according to a press release.
“Too Good” follows lead single “Sweet Thang” as the latest track from the album, which is set to release on Aug. 11.
Arin will support Limbo with an eight-city tour starting Sept. 25 and running through Oct. 11. Cities on the schedule include New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Mesa, Los Angeles and Sacramento.
Alex Van Halen attends the 2015 MOCA Gala presented by Louis Vuitton on May 30, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)/David Lee Roth performs at BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on September 06, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
There’s going to be a mini Van Halen reunion at the upcoming TEDxFargo conference in Fargo, North Dakota.
Van Halen drummer Alex Van Halen was previously announced for a virtual talk with artist Alex Vargas, happening on Thursday. Now it’s been announced that original Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth will be joining the conversation, as well.
The Instagram post announcing Roth’s addition bills it as “Three icons. One stage. One conversation you won’t want to miss.”
Vargas noted in the comments of the post that the trio’s conversation will be conducted remotely, but live “with the three of us in the same room.”
And folks who are not participating in the TedxFargo event will eventually get a chance to hear what the former bandmates have to say. According to the post, the conversation will be posted to YouTube “in a few weeks for the public to view for all time.”
Vargas is known for painting a 17-foot-tall mural of Eddie Van Halen on a wall of the Guitar Center in Hollywood, California.
Roth’s addition to the talk comes just days after he canceled all but one of the remaining dates on his summer tour. He is still scheduled to perform at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, on Aug. 7.
Over his more than five decades of writing songs with Elton John, Bernie Taupin has only occasionally stepped into the spotlight. But he’s about to do it again with his new solo album, The Sea Has No Mercy.
Due Oct. 23, the album is the first Taupin has written entirely on his own. He describes it as a “late-life manifesto,” inspired by his 2023 autobiography, Scattershot, and an upcoming documentary about his life.
“I couldn’t have made this album as a younger man. I couldn’t have written any of these songs. They’re all completely indicative of Bernie Taupin at 76-years-old,” he says in a statement. “They need the life behind them.”
“Everything on this record is hugely personal,” he adds. “Every single line, every word, means something to me, whether from a past, present or storytelling perspective.”
Among the guests on the album are country star Lee Ann Womack, Brandi Carlile — who worked with Taupin on her and Elton’s joint album Who Believes In Angels? — and Taupin’s younger daughter, Georgey Devon Taupin.
The title track is out now. Taupin says, “The sea is the most intimidating, frightening element on earth. … But it fascinates me. … In the song, I use the sea as a metaphor for too many past experiences that weren’t particularly positive.”
As for his day job, Taupin tells Rolling Stone that Elton has “got a record coming out, I think, at the beginning of next year that I contributed to.” He explained that because Elton could no longer read Taupin’s lyrics at the piano because of his vision problems, he wrote the instrumental tracks first and then asked Taupin to write lyrics for them, reversing their usual creative process.
“It’s a whole different ballgame for him,” notes Taupin.
Ariana Grande performs on the 97th Academy Awards, March 2, 2025 (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
Ariana Grande has filed a lawsuit against unidentified individuals she alleges were involved in hacking digital accounts and devices belonging to photographers and producers she has worked with and stealing unreleased music, photos and other private material.
The lawsuit obtained by ABC News and filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, names John Doe 1 and John Does 2 through 100 as defendants and accuses them of invasion of privacy, violating California’s Comprehensive Data Access and Fraud Act and conversion.
According to the complaint, the alleged hacking involved digital accounts and devices belonging to Grande’s collaborators, which the lawsuit claims were accessed through phishing scams and other computer or account intrusions.
The lawsuit alleges the stolen material includes unreleased masters and demos, footage from recording sessions, music videos, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, and album and photoshoot outtakes.
“In 2023 alone, 45 unreleased songs belonging to Ms. Grande were hacked, stolen, and leaked by Defendants,” the complaint alleges. “Since her music debut in 2011, hundreds of similar leaks have taken place.”
Grande alleges that in 2019, the defendants obtained login credentials for the Dropbox account of a photographer she had previously worked with and downloaded unreleased photos.
The following year, the lawsuit alleges, the defendants hacked the mobile device of a producer who had worked with Grande and obtained still-in-production, unreleased masters and demos, as well as footage from recording sessions.
The complaint also details two alleged phishing incidents in January and February 2024. Grande alleges the defendants created a Gmail account and domain name impersonating a photographer and sent a request to the photographer’s digital technician to send them Grande’s private content. According to the lawsuit, the defendants obtained unreleased photos belonging to Grande as a result.
After allegedly obtaining Grande’s content, the defendants sold and continue to sell the material in batches using third-party payment services, including PayPal and Cash App, according to the lawsuit.
The complaint alleges defendants who purchased the stolen material have published and continue to publish Grande’s private content across several online platforms.
Grande claims the unauthorized distribution of unfinished work has disrupted her “business relationships, creative process, and her peace of mind that her livelihood is safe and secure.”
The singer also alleges she has suffered economic and reputational harm and has spent significant resources investigating the alleged activity and attempting to remove material published without her consent.
According to the complaint, the alleged leaks have led to instances in which Grande was “forced to re-record materials and modify the release dates of her upcoming projects and releases” in an effort to protect her work and her personal and professional integrity.
Grande is seeking a court order requiring the defendants to turn over her private materials and preventing them from further violating her privacy rights.
The lawsuit says Grande is also seeking to uncover the identities of those allegedly responsible and “hold them accountable for their invasive and reprehensible conduct.”
Grande is demanding a jury trial, according to the complaint.
ABC News has reached out to Grande’s representative for comment.
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco at the 2025 Oscars (Disney/Gavin Bond)
Selena Gomez and her husband, Benny Blanco, have worked together on multiple songs and last year they released an entire joint album, I Said I Love You First. Well, they’ve got another song dropping on Friday.
On Monday, Benny teased the track on social media by writing, “POV: ur new song with wifey and becky” — referring to Latin star Becky G — “drops in a few days but ur the only one in the world who has the mp3.”
He included a clip of the song, which is called “Te Olivado (La La),” and revealed that it’s coming July 31. The song title literally means “I forget you,” but it’s generally used to mean something like, “I’m over you.”
Benny is releasing a Spanish-language album called Hermoso on Aug. 14. The title means “handsome.”
Meanwhile, Selena has something new coming out on her own: Rare Beginnings, a new fragrance from her cosmetics line, Rare Beauty. She wrote on Instagram, “To me, it captures the feeling of possibility and the beauty of what’s ahead. It’s been with me through some really special new chapters, and I hope it becomes your scent for new moments, new memories, and everything in between.”
The fragrance will be available on the Sephora app on Aug. 6 and in-store on Aug. 7.
d4vd looks on from behind his defense attorney Marilyn Bednarski (R) during his arraignment for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on April 20, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ted Soqui – Pool/Getty Images)
A judge ruled that the murder case against the singer D4vd will head to trial, following at-times graphic testimony from investigators during a dayslong preliminary hearing in Los Angeles.
D4vd — whose legal name is David Burke — was arrested and charged in April with the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez following a monthslong investigation. He has pleaded not guilty to charges that include first-degree murder, sexual abuse of a child and unlawful mutilation of human remains.
Prosecutors allege that D4vd and Rivas Hernandez began a sexual relationship in 2023, when he was 18 and she was 13, and that she was threatening to expose their illegal relationship and ruin his career if he would not be exclusive to her.
Just as tickets for his world tour were set to go on sale, it is alleged that the “Romantic Homicide” singer ordered an Uber that brought Rivas Hernandez to his Hollywood Hills home on April 23, 2025, prosecutors said. That was the last time she was seen alive, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors allege that D4vd stabbed the teen multiple times, watching her bleed out, and then undertook a series of events to dismember her body and get rid of evidence. Her badly decomposed remains were found in two body bags in the front trunk of D4vd’s impounded Tesla in September 2025, according to prosecutors. Her passport was found on the side of a rural road in Santa Barbara County in January, authorities said.
Over the course of five days, prosecutors called a dozen witnesses as they set out to establish probable cause that D4vd committed the criminal offenses to move forward with a trial.
The hearing saw graphic testimony from police personnel as they described the scene after responding to the Hollywood tow yard where Rivas Hernandez’s decomposing, dismembered body was found in D4vd’s impounded vehicle. Throughout the Tesla, which had a strong odor emanating from it, were at least 11 air fresheners, a Los Angeles Police Department criminologist testified.
After seeing news coverage of the unidentified body in D4vd’s vehicle, the teen’s father called the LAPD concerned that it was his daughter who was in the trunk, an LAPD detective said. Dental records were provided, and the medical examiner identified the remains on Sept. 16, 2025. The following day, a search warrant was served at D4vd’s residence, according to the detective.
The detective said multiple items — including chainsaws, a mop system, cadaver bags and a blue inflatable pool — were ordered to D4vd’s home under the alias “Travion Davis” days after Rivas Hernandez was last seen alive. Two of the chainsaws were found in D4vd’s garage and tested negative for blood, while a third was not found, the detective said.
A rubber mat on the floor of the garage had multiple cuts and red marks that tested positive for blood, according to a criminalist with the LAPD’s forensic science division who worked on the scene. The DNA profile of the blood matched that of Rivas Hernandez, according to a DNA analyst for the city.
The inflatable pool was found in the garage damaged, with cuts from a blade and pieces missing, according to the criminalist. Blue plastic fragments that were found embedded in Rivas Hernandez’s right knee were determined to be a physical fit with the pool, a criminalist assigned to the LAPD’s trace analysis unit testified.
D4vd’s phone and Tesla traveled to and from Santa Barbara County, to the desolate road where evidence in the case was found, three times — first on the night of April 23, 2025, when prosecutors say Rivas Hernandez was last seen alive, and then two separate times in May, an LAPD detective who specializes in cellphone records testified.
Following D4vd’s arrest in April, the detective said he observed a “Shhh…” tattoo on the singer’s right index finger and a “Celeste” tattoo on his left ring finger. Rivas Hernandez also had a “Shhh…” tattoo on her right index finger and a tattoo of D4vd’s name on her left ring finger, which was missing from her remains, prosecutors said. The Los Angeles County deputy medical examiner testified that the ring and pinky fingers on her left hand had been amputated.
Her body was discovered a day after her 15th birthday, though the teen had been dead for “at least weeks,” possibly since April 2025, the deputy medical examiner testified. The dismemberment was “potentially” consistent with the use of a power tool such as a chainsaw, he said.
Witnesses during the preliminary hearing also included D4vd’s financial manager and a finance employee at Interscope Records, his former record label, who testified about how much the singer was making from his career. His financial manager said Burke generated about $11 million between 2023 and 2025 through merchandise and music publishing advances that came in and he was set to make much more.
An LAPD detective also testified on text messages he said showed a sexual relationship between a then-18-year-old D4vd and then-13-year-old Rivas Hernandez and described a series of explicit photographs recovered from D4vd’s iCloud account and cellphone. A photo shown in court showed Rivas Hernandez with a “David” tattoo on her left ring finger.
The court also saw her last text messages, sent as the teen was in an Uber headed toward D4vd’s home on April 23, 2025, according to the detective. Rivas Hernandez texted that she was “almost there open ur door if u are home,” according to the messages shown in court.
“got uuu,” D4vd reportedly responded.
Rivas Hernandez did not send any messages after that night, according to the detective. D4vd continued to text her, asking where she was, in what prosecutors alleged was part of a plot to cover up her murder. His last message to her was sent on April 26, 2025, according to the detective.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman expressed confidence at the start of the hearing that the office will meet the evidentiary burden of probable cause on the three felony charges.
D4vd has been held on no bail since his arrest. His attorneys have said they plan to “vigorously defend” his innocence.
“The actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death,” his attorneys — Berk, as well as Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter — said in a statement following D4vd’s arrest.
ABC News’ Vanessa Navarrete, TristanMaglunog and Alex Evans contributed to this report.
