T.I. has announced the release date for his final album, Kill the King. “The wait is over!!!! 6-26-26 ‘Kill The King’ It’s TIME!!!” he wrote on X. The album is now available for presave.
Fivio Foreign wants to perform at the New York Knicks championship parade on Thursday. “Idk who need to hear this but I better b performing in that parade in NY on Thursday!!” he wrote on X Tuesday. This post comes days after he released the “GCB Freestyle (Game 4).” “The Knicks made Fivio Foreign drop!” he wrote. “OMG We needed this.”
Common, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Marsai Martin, Stevie Wonder, The Roots and Tems are all set to perform at the grand opening ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center. The event will be livestreamed globally at 11 a.m. CT on Thursday. Barack Obama and Michelle Obama will be giving speeches.
: Walter Parazaider of Chicago performs at the 31st Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on April 8, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
Walter Parazaider, founding member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band Chicago, died Wednesday at the age of 81.
His death was confirmed by his daughter Felicia Parazaider on Facebook, who wrote, “My father, my hero, is gone. He went peacefully about 20 minutes ago. There’s no more pain. No more struggle.”
Parazaider was part of the original lineup of Chicago, which was formed in its namesake city in 1967. Other original members included Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, Robert Lamm, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow and Danny Seraphine. He, Loughnane and Pankow made up the band’s brass/woodwind section, while Parazaider played a variety of instruments, including saxophone, flute and clarinet.
Chicago — best known for such hits as “Saturday In The Park,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “If You Leave Me Now,” “25 or 6 to 4,” “You’re The Inspiration” and more — sold over 40 million units in the U.S. and had five consecutive #1 albums on the Billboard 200 between 1972 and 1975.
They were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2014 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.
Parazaider retired from Chicago in 2017 and announced in 2021 he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
“This was the worst six years. The hardest season of my life,” Felicia wrote in her post on Facebook. “And I’m so grateful that my dad is not suffering anymore.”
Faith No More performs on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ at Rockefeller Center on May 13, 2015 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/NBC/Getty Images for ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’)
Faith No More bassist Bill Gould has confirmed the band’s reunion.
“We’re gonna do it,” Gould tells the Rock Talk podcast. “We’re gonna play.”
Gould’s comments come after the Faith No More Instagram posted an image Tuesday of the band’s logo alongside the year 2027.
“Our music is very physical, and a big concern is, like, pretty soon we’re not gonna be able to do this the way we wrote it,” Gould says. “We wrote it as 20-year-olds, and it’s always been very physical it has to be that way.”
“We all kind of decided, like, we think we can do it,” he continues. “We could do for a few more years, and we can do it the right way, so we’re gonna give it a go.”
Faith No More hasn’t performed live since 2016. They were set to return to the live stage in 2021, but their dates were canceled due to frontman Mike Patton’s mental health. Patton later shared that he’d been diagnosed with the anxiety disorder agoraphobia.
Since then, the band members have made comments suggesting that Faith No More was done for good. Drummer Mike Bordin said in a 2025 interview that he felt Patton, who’d returned to touring with the band Mr. Bungle after the Faith No More cancelation, demonstrated he was “unwilling to do shows with us.” Meanwhile, keyboardist Roddy Bottum responded to a question about a potential FNM reunion in a separate 2025 interview, saying, “I don’t think anyone’s sort of up for it at this point.”
While we wait for Faith No More to announce the dates of their live return, you can catch Patton performing select FNM songs on tour with AVTT/PTTN, his collaboration with the folk band The Avett Brothers.
Pink Floyd wrapped the 31-date The Wall Tour at London’s Earl’s Court, the final show of a five-night stand at the venue. It was Roger Waters’ last full concert with the band.
The tour launched in February 1980 in support of Pink Floyd’s concept album, The Wall, visiting the U.S., the U.K. and Germany. It featured pyrotechnics and elaborate staging, including an airplane that flew over the audience and crashed into a giant wall onstage. The wall also got torn down at the end of each show.
Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985, two years before their next tour, 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour. He later reunited with his bandmates to perform at Live 8 in July 2005.
Pink Floyd wrapped the 31-date The Wall Tour at London’s Earl’s Court, the final show of a five-night stand at the venue. It was Roger Waters’ last full concert with the band.
The tour launched in February 1980 in support of Pink Floyd’s concept album, The Wall, visiting the U.S., the U.K. and Germany. It featured pyrotechnics and elaborate staging, including an airplane that flew over the audience and crashed into a giant wall onstage. The wall also got torn down at the end of each show.
Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985, two years before their next tour, 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour. He later reunited with his bandmates to perform at Live 8 in July 2005.
Cody Johnson’s “Horseback” (COJO Music/Warner Records Nashville)
Newly crowned ACM entertainer of the year Cody Johnson laid the foundation for his win with life-affirming songs like “‘Til You Can’t,” “The Painter,” “Dirt Cheap” and “The Fall.”
Now that he’s clinched the coveted title, the Texas cowboy is ready to have some fun with his next album — and especially his new radio single.
“‘Horseback’ was probably one of the most fun songs to cut on Banks of the Trinity, and it’s actually not about the horse,” Cody says. “When I figured out that this is just about an old country boy that went through a divorce and she took his horse and he went and stole his horse back, I laughed until I cried, and it was so fun.”
“[One of the song’s writers] Wyatt McCubbin sang the demo and I fell in love with it,” he adds.
Once his most recent hit peaked at #1, choosing “Horseback” to lead the way was a no-brainer.
“It was an easy choice for me as the flagship single from Banks of the Trinity because we had just come out of ‘The Fall,’ and it was such a serious song that I kind of wanted to change the channel a little bit and show you guys a little bit of my humorous side,” Cody says. “And it’s really freaking fun to sing.”
He’s set to perform “Horseback” June 24 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, before the arrival of the 16-song album on June 26.
Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery (Courtesy Chipster P.R.)
Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett has teamed with Steve Rothery, the original guitarist for progressive rock band Marillion, for a brand-new instrumental album, The Roaring Waves.
The album, being released Aug. 28, is made up of seven songs that are described in a statement as ranging “from the dexterously ridiculous to the brilliantly sublime, though with one common theme: the profundity of the sea.”
Hackett and Rothery first had the idea of making an album together about 11 years ago, although they’ve been working on it for the past eight, getting together for months at a time when their schedules allowed.
“It was a bit old school our approach, like the idea of mates getting together in the garage and playing and hanging out,” says Hackett.
They plan to release the first single from the record on June 26, which is also when the album will be available for preorder.
Hackett toured Europe in May and June, and has U.K. dates booked in October. A complete list of dates can be found at HackettSongs.com.
Brontë Fall, ‘Invited to the Party’ (Photo: Sammy Hearn/Single Art Design: Anna Torres)
The first thing you should know about Brontë Fall’s hit song “Invited to the Party” is that Brontë Fall isn’t an actual person — it’s the musical project of singer/songwriter Teri Bracken O’Brien.
Teri came up with the name by combining the surname of England’s famous literary Brontë sisters with the title of an Emily Brontë poem called “Fall, leaves, fall.”
“It started as a band with my really good friend from music school. And so I was like, ‘Oh, I’m just part of the band. I write, I play violin, but I’m not the center,'” she tells ABC Audio, adding that she likes to “hide behind a band.”
But after her friend dropped out, Teri says, “I was so in love with what we had started and the songs we started writing and the whole vibe of it that I was like, ‘I can’t let this go by the wayside. I’m gonna be the front person.'”
She became an independent artist and, following the release of her 2024 album, Not Done Yet, reached a personal milestone that inspired her breakthrough hit.
“I was nominated for a Hollywood Independent Music Award last year,” she says. “And I know awards are, like, ‘Oh, giving awards for art is dumb,’ like, ‘everybody’s a winner’ — but the recognition honestly felt so good. I felt like I was finally an actual player in the music industry.”
“I didn’t win, but I was just talking to my guitar teacher about how great it felt. And she’s like, ‘Teri, you were invited to the party,'” she adds. “And I was like, ‘Yes, I was.’ You know? And I just felt like I had to celebrate it.”
Celebrating that kind of success also inspired Teri’s new Brontë Fall single, “Main Character Energy,” out now.
While Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind, not everyone will get to attend Eddie Vedder’s 2026 Ohana Festival — three-day tickets are already sold out. However, here’s your chance to win a VIP experience to the festival.
Pearl Jam has announced a raffle offering two three-day VIP Ohana 2026 passes, along with round-trip travel to Los Angeles and four-night hotel stay. The winner will also receive a limited-edition poster signed by the PJ members, artist lounge passes, a backstage tour and even surfing lessons.
The raffle is being hosted by the platform Fandiem, and you can enter by donating to Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy Foundation. It’ll be open through Sept. 4.
Ohana 2026 takes place Sept. 25-27 in Dana Point, California. Along with headlining sets from Pearl Jam and Vedder, the bill includes Bad Religion, Fontaines D.C., Alabama Shakes, Rilo Kiley, The Format and Billy Idol.
Pearl Jam’s performance is set to mark the debut of their new drummer. Matt Cameron, who manned the PJ kit for 27 years, announced his departure from the band in 2025.
Akon and Ne-Yo have been on the road together as part of their Nights Like This tour, a collaboration Akon says has been a long time coming.
“Meand Ne-Yo go back 20 years,” he tells ABC Audio. “We always wanted to do something together eventually … but our careers always took us in two different directions.”
This time, however, their schedules and goals aligned, allowing them to finally bring the idea to life. “It just so happened that we were in a cycle to both go out on our own tour. And we just had so much in common as to what we wanted to do, all the way down to the timeline,” Akon says. “So it was like, yo, this could be the perfect time for us to come together and really do this big tour.”
He adds that if they had gone on separate tours first, their schedules wouldn’t have allowed for them to collaborate in this way, which is why they decided to put things in motion.
“This is our moment, you know what I mean? So we was like, let’s do it, man, share the same stage, go back and forth with our hit records and just throw the biggest party everybody’s ever seen for our culture around the time that we was coming up and doing music,” Akon explains.
After performing in Europe and the U.K., the North American leg of the Nights Like This tour begins Wednesday in Vancouver. Asked what fans can expect from the show, which supports his latest album, Beautiful Day, Akon kept the details under wraps.
“You gotta … buy the ticket and find out,” he teases.
