Barns Courtney “Green Door” single artwork. (Avenue A/Virgin Records)
Barns Courtney has released a cover of the song “Green Door,” originally recorded by Jim Lowe in 1956.
As a press release puts it, “Courtney completely transforms the old crooner pop staple into a swaggering modern rock spectacle with wailing vocals and inspired production that makes the new version unmistakably his own.”
A preview of the cover was used in the trailer for the 2025 Netflix miniseries Wayward. The full version is out now on digital outlets.
Courtney’s most recent album is 2024’s Supernatural, which spawned singles in the title track and “Young in America.”
You can catch Courtney live on a solo acoustic tour launching in April.
SZA attends the Louis Vuitton Menswear Fall/Winter 2026-2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 20, 2026, in Paris, France. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images for Louis Vuitton)
SZA’s been working on her third studio album and says she’s motivated by her desire to preserve humanity.
Speaking to i-D, she explains that desire comes from the proliferation of AI.
“I feel like I’m at war because of AI,” she says, reflecting on the rise of AI-generated songs and artists.
“It’s happening disproportionately with Black music. Why am I hearing AI covers of Olivia Dean, when Olivia Dean just came the f*** out? She can’t even collect the streams,” she says. “I’m also really offended by the type of Black music that’s coming out of AI. Weird, stereotypical struggle music.”
While there are many other women in the music industry, SZA says she feels like she’s competing against “anti-intellectualism and doing things easy,” rather than fellow pop and R&B stars.
“The type of blend of information my human experience provides, AI can’t even be prompted to f*** with,” she says. “I want to just let this angst drive me into bizarre directions.”
SZA adds she’s “been dabbling [in] a little bit in everything,” working with Steve Lacy and a live band.
“I’m trying to just open my brain and open my heart, channelling awesome humanity s*** right now,” SZA explains. “Humanity is my ‘why’—preservation of what’s left, extreme expression of what is, and a desperate plea.”
SZA has always had a driving factor for her albums. “With Ctrl, I wanted to set myself apart,” she says. “I wanted people to know that I can write.”
Her intention with SOS was to prove she had more to show the world. “I could bang in a mainstream space if I wanted to,” she says. “I could do my little angry rap, and I didn’t have to keep it just for me. I could let other people hear it.”
Cover art for Eve’s 25th anniversary ‘Scorpion’ vinyl (Courtesy of Interscope)
Eve released her sophomore album, Scorpion, 25 years ago. In honor of the milestone, she’s released a 25th anniversary limited-edition vinyl.
The two-LP red-and-black vinyl is now available for purchase and includes an insert signed by Eve. Eve also posted a photo of herself posing with the special release and a video of herself playing it on a record player.
“I haven’t, honestly, heard that years. … But immediately I’m like, it’s so Ruff Ryders. Like, that is that Ruff Ryder, Harlem, New York flow,” she says when listening to her song “Cowboy.” She then reacted to album cut “You Had Me, You Lost Me.”
Scorpion also included songs “Who’s That Girl” and “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” featuring Gwen Stefani, which she and Gwen looked back on in a new episode of Vevo’s Footnotes.
“I remember being so excited about where my career was headed and the music I was making,” Eve says. “The record is meant to be fun and cocky and celebratory.”
She adds she “had always been a fan of No Doubt and just had this gut feeling that Gwen and I would sound great on the track, vibe-wise.”
Though there was initially pushback about the pairing, Gwen says they had chemistry “because we came from completely different worlds, but we had similar tastes, interests, and creativity. We appreciated each other’s worlds and coming together we knew we were going to create something new and have this fresh energy.”
Eve says they “had a great time on set,” while Gwen says feeling “like a fish out water” was part of what made the video so cool.
“Let Me Blow Ya Mind” went on to win the 2001 MTV VMA for best female video and the 2002 Grammy for best rap/sung collaboration.
Lola Young is ready to get back onstage, but she’s taking things slow. She announced on Instagram that instead of jumping back into a big tour, she’s doing “a small run of shows” in the U.K. in June. She’ll play London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow, and tells fans, “I’d love you to come.”
Winners for the GLAAD Media Awards, which honor LGBTQ+ representation in media, were revealed on Thursday night. KATSEYE won outstanding breakthrough music artist, while Chappell Roan’s episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast tied with an episode of the I’ve Had It podcast for outstanding podcast episode.
Selena Gomez shouted out her bestie Taylor Swift with an Instagram Story visible to her “secret friends” list. In the clip, she sings along to Taylor’s “Father Figure” and captions it, “Does anyone else love a profoundly clever and smart lyricist or is it just me???”
Riley Green isn’t the only country artist on the set of the Yellowstone spinoff Marshals.
Sunday’s episode of the series features a cameo appearance from Ashley Cooke. The “Your Place” singer will be seen in a bar performing her track “Next To You” from her 2023 debut album, Shot In the Dark.
Marshals airs Sunday nights on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT and streams on Paramount+.
In other Ashley Cooke news, she just released Ace Sessions, a collection of acoustic versions of songs from her 2025 project, Ace,which you can now watch on YouTube. Her version of the late Glen Campbell classic “Southern Nights” — which will appear on Gavin Adcock’s upcoming project Country Never Dies — is also out now.
Next, Ashley heads to the U.K. for C2C: Country to Country 2026, where she’ll perform in London, England; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Glasgow, Scotland. Later this month, she’ll join John Pardi on his Honkytonk Hollywood Tour.
Justin Timberlake’s 2024 mug shot (Sag Harbor Village Police Department)
A judge has granted Justin Timberlake a temporary restraining order blocking the release of bodycam footage from his 2024 arrest in Sag Harbor, New York.
According to the order, obtained by ABC News, the Village of Sag Harbor now has until April 9 to submit documentation explaining why the release of the footage — requested under the Freedom of Information Law — should be allowed.
As previously reported, Justin’s attorneys argued that the footage shows the singer “in an acutely vulnerable state,” noting if it were to be released, it “would cause severe and irreparable harm to [his] personal and professional reputation” and “subject [him] to public ridicule and harassment.” They also argued that releasing the footage would be an invasion of Justin’s privacy.
In addition to blocking the release of the footage, the judge’s order grants the attorneys’ request to review it and “assess the privacy interests at stake.” The order will be permanent for any “records that constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
Justin was arrested on June 18, 2024, in Sag Harbor after running a stop sign and subsequently “performed poorly” on field sobriety tests. He pled guilty to driving while ability impaired by alcohol and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and fined $500.
David Gilmour joins Richard Thompson on stage at his 70th Birthday Celebration show at the Royal Albert Hall on September 30, 2019 in London, England. (photo by Gus Stewart/Redferns)
An archival performance from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour has been released to mark two special occasions.
The performance is of the Gilmour solo track “On an Island,” recorded in April 2006 in New York as part of an AOL Session. It features Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright on keyboards.
The upgraded video was released to coincide with Gilmour’s 80th birthday on Friday, as well as the 20th anniversary of his third solo album, On an Island. An Instagram post announcing the video noted that more performances from the 2006 AOL Session will be released “over the next few days.”
Released on March 6, 2006, On an Island was the rocker’s first solo album in 22 years, and the follow-up to 1984’s About Face. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200.
In between About Face and On an Island, Pink Floyd released their 14th studio album, The Division Bell, in 1994, marking their second without Roger Waters.
Gabby Barry won’t come in out of the rain in her new video for “The Easy Part.”
In the clip for the breakup song, which she co-wrote with HARDY and others, Gabby stands in the street singing about the end of a relationship while we see a couple break up, then flash back to their happier times. As the video reaches its emotional climax, it starts raining, and Gabby continues to sing while getting drenched. At the end of the video, the female half of the couple goes for a drive and passes by her ex, who’s in his truck with another woman. She smiles to herself, while he looks upset.
Gabby says in a statement, “‘The Easy Part’ plays with the idea that sometimes the dramatic moment in a relationship feels like the hardest part, but often it’s what comes after that really stays with you.”
“The song reflects on those memories; the good and the complicated, and realizing what they meant over time. In the video, you see those moments play out as she looks back on the relationship and ultimately chooses peace and keeps moving forward.”
Gabby celebrated her 26th birthday on Thursday. This summer she’ll be opening for Parker McCollum on his tour.
Harry Styles isn’t the only one out with new music this week. Here are some of Friday’s other new releases:
Jennifer Lopez and David Guetta have teamed up for the dance-pop song “Save Me Tonight.” JLo is set to debut the song live during The JLo Show Las Vegas residency Friday night. The performance will be simulcast across her TikTok Live, Instagram Live and YouTube Live.
“Lil Boo Thang” singer Paul Russell has released his seven-song EP, Miracle Mile. It’s a love letter to Paul’s Los Angeles community, inspired by a period of time last year that he spent with family. “For me, being home felt like it really was a miracle, so I wanted to put together a project that reminds people of all the things there are to appreciate about the miracle of their own communities,” he says in a statement. Paul also released the video for one of the EP’s tracks, “400 Cities.”
Bebe Rexha has released the song “New Religion,” along with its accompanying music video. The song, which Bebe says is “about letting go and getting lost in the music,” is the focus track off her upcoming album, DIRTY BLONDE.
Stephen Sanchez has released the title track off his upcoming sophomore album, Love, Love, Love. The “Until I Found You” singer says the record “is inspired by the love I’ve been lucky enough to receive, the love I sometimes struggle to give to others, and my desire to see people come together.” The new album will be out May 8.
BLACKPINK’s JENNIE is celebrating the one-year anniversary of her debut solo album, Ruby, by releasing an expanded edition. Ruby (The Complete Collection) features two “like JENNIE” remixes and four JENNIE Only Audio tracks that were previously only available on physical versions of the album.
“Jump” cover single artwork. (Real Thing Records/Capitol Records)
A new cover of Van Halen’s “Jump,” put together by Coca-Cola as the anthem for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, has just been released.
The cover features blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, guitar virtuoso Steve Vai, Colombian reggaeton artist J Balvin and singer-songwriter Amber Mark.
Coca-Cola previously teased the cover in an ad that premiered in January. The full song is accompanied by a video in which animated versions of Barker, Vai, Balvin and Mark “bring together fans around the world through soccer and music, culminating in an epic space stadium celebration of joy and celebration,” according to the video’s caption.
“Van Halen’s ‘Jump’ is one of those rare songs that transcends generations, so approaching it came with a lot of respect,” Mark says in a statement. “Being able to honor the original while bringing a modern perspective was incredibly special. I’m excited to be part of a track that connects past and present in such an uplifting, powerful way, and I hope fans feel that energy for years to come.”
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be jointly hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico, takes place from June 11 to July 19.
