Conner Smith’s new album, Stories I’ve Never Told — Acoustic Tapes, will arrive on Friday, featuring six songs Conner wrote, as well as a cover of Zac Brown Band’s “Free.” He’s currently working on more new music to arrive later this year.
Clint Black’s new exhibit, The Hard Way on Purpose, is set to open at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on April 22. Scheduled to run through August 2027, it coincides with his autobiography, Killin’ Time: My Life and Music, which comes out May 19.
Brandy Clark will bring her Art of the Storyteller tour to the CMA Theater in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on April 21, with Walker Hayes set to open. Tickets go on sale Friday.
Jay Weinberg attends the ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ red carpet during the 63rd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on September 28, 2025 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for FLC)
Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg is selling personally used items from his days with the masked metallers in his own shop on the online gear marketplace Reverb.
The shop will include drum kits and accessories, as well as stage-worn masks and outfits, plus signed memorabilia.
Also available will be the kit that Jay played on Bruce Springsteen’s 2009 Working on a Dream tour, during which he filled in for his dad, usual E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg.
Jay’s Reverb shop will launch March 18. For more info, visit Reverb.com.
Jay parted ways with Slipknot in 2023. He released his debut solo single, “Sandstone,” in 2025.
Another new song, called “Drone Operator,” is due out Friday.
Yes is set to release an expanded and remastered edition of their four-song mini album From a Page.
Originally released in 2019, From a Page featured previously unreleased tracks taken from 2010 Yes recording sessions for the album that would eventually become 2011’s Fly From Here.
The new reissue is now being expanded to 15 tracks, made up of the four original songs, plus alternative takes and demos of songs, some of which wound up on Fly From Here.
The new reissue was overseen by Oliver Wakeman, son of Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who produced the original From a Page release and also played in the band from 2009 to 2011.
From a Page (Deluxe Edition) will be released April 24 as a two-CD or two-LP box set. The CD set includes a booklet with expanded liner notes from Oliver Wakeman, a poster and five art cards.
Country Music Hall of Famers Kix Brooks and Vince Gill are coming together for a writers round in Nashville to raise money for a nonprofit Kix co-founded.
Kix started Hope on the Inside with fellow Louisiana native Briana Calhoun in 2023 to help people in correctional facilities.
“I can’t wait to share what is going to be a really special night with some of Nashville’s most prolific songwriters, great artists and inspiring stories,” Briana says. “Hope on the Inside’s mission and success in rehabilitation support programs is offering true second chances to those who might otherwise never get one.”
Kix and Vince will be joined by legendary songwriters Bob DiPiero and Tim Nichols. Bob wrote George Strait’s “Blue Clear Sky” and Faith Hill’s “Take Me As I Am,” while Tim is the force behind Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” and Jo Dee Messina’s “Head Carolina, Tails California.”
Tickets for the April 2 show at Nashville’s Listening Room are on sale now.
Melissa Auf der Maur performs at Highline Ballroom on March 3, 2011 in New York City. (Ben Hider/Getty Images)
Melissa Auf der Maur will be the next guest on Billy Corgan’s podcast, The Magnificent Others.
The episode will premiere on March 17, the same day the former Hole bassist, who also briefly played with Corgan in The Smashing Pumpkins, releases her memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry.
“The two revisit their time together in The Smashing Pumpkins, while reflecting on their origins in the alternative rock scene and the personal stories that inspired Auf der Maur’s memoir,” a press release says of the conversation.
Along with putting out a book, Auf der Maur will be playing shows with former bandmate Courtney Love. After teasing the shows as a “tour,” Love clarified a Hole reunion is still not happening.
Doja Cat performs at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, November 8, 2025 (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
In response to Timothée Chalamet’s claim that “no one cares” about opera or ballet, Doja Cat posted and then deleted a TikTok calling out the actor for his comments. Now she’s coming clean about the fact that her Chalamet response was just “virtue signaling.”
In her deleted TikTok addressed to Timothée, Doja said, “Your industry has a tough time. My industry has a tough time. Doesn’t mean people don’t care about it. People care. … There’s still an audience. People give a f***.”
But Doja said in a follow-up TikTok, “I am gonna come out and just say that I know nothing about opera. I know nothing about ballet.” She added, “I’ve never been to a ballet. I’ve never seen an opera.”
“What I was doing yesterday was virtue signaling, because I wanted to connect, and I knew that Timothée’s goof-up was something that I could leverage in order for people to connect with me and f*** with me,” she said.
“And it’s easy,” she continued. “It’s a modern way to garner clicks, likes, approval and all kinds of things like that from people. And so I did that yesterday, and I didn’t really think about why I was doing it. … Am I proud of it? No.”
She concluded, “It just kind of furthers the fact that sometimes I think s*** and then I’m like, ‘Never mind.’ So never mind.”
Chris Janson’s ‘Fun’ (Harpeth 60 Records/Warner Music Nashville)
The men behind “Buy Me a Boat” and “Dust on the Bottle” are getting together to have some “Fun.”
Chris Janson teased his new collaboration with David Lee Murphy on his socials on Wednesday.
“They can’t say we didn’t have fun! New song and music video feat. @davidleemurphy out Friday,” he revealed, along with a snippet of the video.
“We had a truckload of it/ Fun/ Yeah, we couldn’t get enough of it/ Fun’s what you get when we all get together/ Say what you want, but you can’t say we didn’t have fun,” the two sing in a clip that shows them doing exactly that.
“Fun” follows “Easy to Love, Harder to Hold,” which Chris put out at the end of January.
Chris Janson’s ‘Fun’ (Harpeth 60 Records/Warner Music Nashville)
The men behind “Buy Me a Boat” and “Dust on the Bottle” are getting together to have some “Fun.”
Chris Janson teased his new collaboration with David Lee Murphy on his socials on Wednesday.
“They can’t say we didn’t have fun! New song and music video feat. @davidleemurphy out Friday,” he revealed, along with a snippet of the video.
“We had a truckload of it/ Fun/ Yeah, we couldn’t get enough of it/ Fun’s what you get when we all get together/ Say what you want, but you can’t say we didn’t have fun,” the two sing in a clip that shows them doing exactly that.
“Fun” follows “Easy to Love, Harder to Hold,” which Chris put out at the end of January.
American rapper Kid Cudi performs live on stage during Rock en Seine music festival at Domaine National de Saint-Cloud on August 21, 2025, in Paris, France. (Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images For ABA)
Kid Cudi is giving fans an inside look at his music-making process on his newly launched Twitch channel, Kid Cudi Presents: Someone Cooked Here. He had his first livestream on Tuesday, where he chopped it up, freestyled and worked in the studio alongside Dot Da Genius.
His goal is to allow fans to see what goes on behind the scenes, an experience he wishes he could have had with his favorite musicians.
“I started this because I’ve always dreamed of being a fly on the wall in some of my favorite artists sessions, and decided it would be cool to give u guys VIP access,” he wrote on Instagram ahead of the release. “Who knows what we’ll make, who knows who will show up, get ready. U just got a ticket into my world. Welcome.”
Following the nearly six-hour stream, Cudi took to Instagram to express his gratitude for those who tuned in.
“Thank You to everyone for the subs, the love, all the gifts u sent, the support was DEF felt and MUCH appreciated,” he wrote, alongside a video clip from the livestream. “Im so geeked I cant sleep! We had 12k people watching and over 600 subs.”
“The team was sayin these are strong numbers for a first stream,” he continued. “So guess what? ROUND 2 OF ‘SOMEONE COOKED HERE’ TOMORROW!!”
The livestream is set to begin Wednesday at 1 p.m. PT. Cudi says if he reaches 1,000 subs, fans can vote for the song they’d like for him to release. “The best thing about being independent is I can do what I want,” he concluded.
Neal Schon (R) and Aenel Pineda perform onstage during Journey Freedom Tour at Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall on October 21, 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. (Photo by Jun Sato/WireImage)
Journey has been forced to reschedule two shows on their Final Frontier tour due to weather.
In a post on Instagram, the “Don’t Stop Believin'” rockers announced that “severe weather” has prompted them to move their concert scheduled for Wednesday in Montreal to Friday. Their Hartford, Connecticut, concert, originally scheduled for Saturday, has now been moved to May 24.
“Stay safe and thank you for your understanding,” the post adds. “We can’t wait to see you and make these shows unforgettable.”
Journey launched their Final Frontier tour on Feb. 28 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The outing, which is being billed as their farewell tour, has dates confirmed through July 2 in Laredo, Texas. Journey is also scheduled to play the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, on Aug. 11.
