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JID has a lot to celebrate, so he’s doing it on the road. The rapper kicked of the European/U.K. leg of his God Does Like World Tours on March 2, which he confirmed will be a little different from the shows on his U.S. run.

“We always tailor or make sure each show is kind of like a fingerprint, like all different,” he told ABC Audio ahead of its start. “We have some things that we’re planning for this tour and it’s definitely going to be different. And it’s going to be great.”

“[We’re] just celebrating the album, celebrating the nominations, celebrating seeing my fans on this side of the water,” he continued. “It’s all a blessing to be able to do that … So I just take it in stride and make sure I put on the best show that I can for my fans and just celebrate it all. ‘Cause it’s going to be a celebratory event.”

The album JID is celebrating is his latest, God Does Like Ugly. It earned a best rap album nomination while its single “Wholeheartedly” featuring Ty Dolla $ign and 6lack was nominated for best melodic rap performance at the 2026 Grammys — an experience he generally enjoyed.

“It was amazing. It’s just cool being around like your peers and other amazing artists and creatives just in the field and being celebrated,” he said. “Whether it’s like a nomination or whether you just there just to be around the moment. That was cool for sure. I had a great time.” 

He said it gave him momentum to continue working hard in his career.

“The Grammys…leaves you inspired and it kinda makes you wanna go again,” he said. “So [I’ll] just keep on making the music that I love and be truthful, making sure everything I do is true.” 

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Nick Jonas knows a thing or two about weddings: When he married Priyanka Chopra Jonas in 2018, the festivities lasted three days. That’s why you should trust him when it comes to picking the perfect wedding song, right?

In his new movie Power Ballad, Nick plays a fading boy band star who steals a song from a wedding singer, played by Paul Rudd, and uses it to revive his career. Asked by Entertainment Weekly to name the ultimate wedding song at the movie’s premiere at the South by Southwest Festival on Saturday, Nick said, “There are so many. One that I go to all the time is probably Bryan Adams’ ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It for You,'” before singing a bit of the #1 hit.

Notably, Nick’s actual wedding song — at one of the two ceremonies he and Priyanka had — was Roberta Flack’s version of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.”

Meanwhile, Paul Rudd told EW that he likes to “go against the wedding grain,” adding, “I think, like, a great wedding song would be, you know, some kind of punk song or something that is incongruous to what you would think a wedding song would be.”

Paul wed wife Julie Yaeger in 2003, but their actual wedding song is unknown. 

Power Ballad, due out June 5, got an amazing reception at the festival, according to Vulture.  “It’s the biggest crowd-pleaser of the fest so far — I’m talking loud laughter, tears, cheers erupting throughout, and nary a soul leaving before the Q&A,” the publication wrote on Monday.

During that Q&A, Nick got laughs by joking that of course he said “yes” to a movie about “a former boy band member turned solo artist trying to find himself.”

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Animals of different eras will team up when Band of Horses hits the road with Dinosaur Jr.

The joint outing runs from July 10 in Kingston, New York, to Aug. 1 in Omaha, Nebraska. For each show, Band of Horses and Dinosaur Jr. will be performing their respective 2006 and 1993 albums, Everything All the Time and Where You Been.

Band of Horses will also be playing four additional shows without Dinosaur Jr, wrapping up Aug. 9 in Waukegan, Illinois.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit BandofHorses.com or DinosaurJr.com.

Band of Horses will launch a previously announced spring tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of Everything All the Time on Thursday in Seattle. A 20th anniversary reissue of the album drops Friday.

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Lamb of God has premiered the video for “St. Catherine’s Wheel,” a track off the band’s new album, Into Oblivion.

“St. Catherine’s Wheel” refers to the medieval torture device, joining Iron Maiden in the storied tradition of combining metal music with images of old elaborate execution methods.

Indeed, a St. Catherine’s Wheel shows up in the “St. Catherine’s Wheel” video, which you can watch streaming now on YouTube.

Into Oblivion, the follow-up to 2022’s Omens, dropped Friday. Lamb of God played an album release show on Sunday in Philadelphia and will launch a full U.S. tour Tuesday in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.) 

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Lizzo has turned her love for playing the flute into a children’s book.

Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’ arrives Sept. 8, with illustrations by Mark Pett. It tells the story about a little girl who meets a “smart and brassy flute who can’t find her tune.” Together, they go on an adventure that takes them to the jungle, the ocean and outer space. The book will include a QR code that will lead readers to an original song that Lizzo wrote exclusively for the book.

On Instagram, Lizzo wrote, “Everyone always asks me how I started playing flute… well I didn’t choose flute, Floot chose me!”

And in a statement, the singer said, “When I was young, I struggled to fit in but playing the flute helped me find my voice. I want this book to teach every young person out there that your passion can give you purpose, belonging, and lead you on a journey to fulfill your wildest dreams.”

You can preorder Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’ now.

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Former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent has a new album, but if you want it you’ll have to shell out a whole lot of money.

The rocker revealed on the website for his band Vinnie Vincent Invasion that his new album, Guitarmageddon, is finished, and he’s selling it for a whopping $2 million.

“It’s been a long time in the making,” reads a post on the site. “I am very proud of this very special album.”

Now while the price is high, that’s not just for a CD or vinyl copy of the album. The $2 million price tag is for the master of the recording.

“This includes 10 songs mixed in master, final product format, all the master files of the artwork, related posters, and 10 separate vinyl and CD packaging art for each individual song, should the buyer choose to release the album on a per-song basis,” reads the post, which suggests the buyer can make back the money by releasing the album.

“The buyer can choose to release the entire album in any format they desire…vinyl, CD, or any other configuration, in whole or in part, at their discretion,” the post continues, although any marketing of the album must be approved by Vincent.

The post also says that the purchase price doesn’t include “any right, title, or interest in the copyrights and/or trademarks related to Vinnie Vincent or the product itself.”

And if $2 million is a bit too steep, Vincent is also offering up another option, each song separately at a cost of $200,000 apiece.

More info can be found at VinnieVincentInvasion.com.

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The KPop Demon Hunters song “Golden” was named best original song at the Oscars Sunday night, but the bad news about the historic win was that the songwriters were played off before they could finish their speeches. That’s why backstage EJAE was quick to thank her fellow HUNTR/X members, who joined her for the performance of the song on the telecast.

“I needed to thank them onstage,” EJAE told reporters backstage. “I didn’t get to because they just cut us off, but [I] wanted to thank Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna. They killed it with their singing and they’re just incredible people and I love, love them so much.”

“Golden” is the first K-pop song ever to be nominated for an Oscar, and six of the song’s seven cowriters are the first South Koreans to win in the best original song category.

“This is crazy. We all worked so, so hard and it was such a collaborative effort,” EJAE said of the win, noting that she considers the film’s now Oscar-winning directors, Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, to have been part of that effort.

“We’re all just so, so happy that the hard work paid off,” she added.

You can find hints of that collaborative spirit in the lyrics of “Golden,” said co-writer Mark Sonnenblick.

“It’s not ‘I’m going up up up,’ it’s ‘we’re going up, up, up,'” he noted, adding that he felt the “fans who have loved this movie” are also part of that “deep collaboration,” along with “everyone else who sang on the soundtrack.”

“A movie is like a village. … [T]here’s so many people who have made this what it is. So thank you everyone.”

Meanwhile, KPop Demon Hunters 2 has been confirmed, but there’s no scheduled release date.

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Parker McCollum will perform his latest hit, “Killin’ Me,” Friday on FOX & Friends, coinciding with the release of Parker McCollum: The Deluxe Edition. 

Actor Gary Sinise stars in Stephen Wilson Jr.’s new music video for “Gary.” You can check it out now on YouTube.

April 23’s Opry show will pay tribute to bluegrass, with appearances by Rhonda Vincent, Dailey & Vincent, The Gatlin Brothers and more. 

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Fetty Wap is ready for fans to hear what he’s been working on. He’s set to release new music via his studio album, Zavier, arriving on March 27.

“When you lose the money everybody think that’s the worst part,” Fetty said in a video trailer announcing the news. “When you lose them shows and calls stop coming through, the room start to get smaller, the noise fade away, and when it get real quiet that’s when it hit different.”

“You see, I got so used to hearing Fetty everywhere I go, before I even knew who Zavier was,” he continued. “Somewhere in all that, I became a character in my own life. People really loved what I could provide for real, not who I really was.”

“Then the chains come on, stage disappear, the applause stop, Fetty start sounding real different when it ain’t attached to nothing. No money, no lights, no attention, it’s just you,” Fetty went on. “Gotta ask yourself, do you even know who that is anymore?”

“Cuz when they take everything away, all you got left is a person your mama named you,” he said. “People call me Fetty. But the people who know me call me Zavier.”

Zavier is comprised of 18 tracks, according to Apple Music. It comes months after Fetty, born Willie Junior Maxwell II, was released early from prison in January after serving time for conspiracy to distribute drugs.

While Fetty represents the younger version of him, Zavier is his older alter ego who is no longer trying to rush through life, he explained in a recent episode of the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast.

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