Latto attends the NikeSKIMS Launch Event at Nike House of Innovation on September 24, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for SKIMS)
With a new album arriving Friday, Latto has announced pop-up shows featuring exclusive merch, CDs and vinyl.
The Big Mama Pop-Up, named after her upcoming album, Big Mama, is a three-day event, kicking off with a hometown stop in Atlanta on release day. It will then stop in LA on June 1 before making its way to New York on June 3. Items will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Latto has been teasing her album on social media, recently releasing a series of images on her Instagram, alongside posts tagging artists Doja Cat, Jelly Roll, Sexyy Red, Teyana Taylor, Wizkid, Mariah the Scientist and 21 Savage, who will seemingly feature on the project.
Big Mama is Latto’s fourth studio album. It arrives shortly after she appeared to confirm the arrival of her first child, officially stepping into her Big Mama era.
Elvis Costello performs at the Tenth Annual LOVE ROCKS NYC Benefit Concert for God’s Love We Deliver on March 5, 2026 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for LOVE ROCKS NYC/God’s Love We Deliver )
There’s gonna be a riot in Chicago in September and you’re invited.
The Windy City’s 2026 Riot Fest takes place Sept. 18-20 and features an eclectic lineup of artists, including three Rock & Roll Hall of Famers: Elvis Costello & the Impostors, Patti Smith and Iggy Pop.
Also on the bill are Alanis Morissette, Morrissey, Social Distortion, Sugar, the reformed Sex Pistols — now featuring Frank Carter on vocals — and former Sex Pistols frontman John Lyndon’s band, Public Image Ltd.
Tickets are on sale now. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit RiotFest.org.
Patti Smith, Morrissey and the Sex Pistols are also playing the 2026 CBGB Festival, taking place Sept. 26 in Brooklyn, New York.
At the end of Olivia Rodrigo’s video for “the cure,” we see that the operating room Olivia ends up in is actually a diorama made of cardboard and string, which the “real” Olivia crushes with her foot. If you want to reenact that scene in real life, now you can — thanks to Etsy.
Olivia has teamed with an Etsy creator called Macy Mae Designs, who has created a diorama of the operating room. It comes unassembled with all the pieces you need to recreate it, including the wallpaper, checkered flooring, two tiny shelving units with bottles, a hospital bed and an itty-bitty heart made of felt resting on a medical tray.
The project, described as “part collectible, part craft project, and part display piece,” is perfect for that Livvie in your life, or, as the maker’s webpage notes, “anyone who appreciates a tiny world with a little heartbreak, healing, and imagination woven in.” Each room costs $149.
In the video, Olivia is a nurse in the cardboard hospital who tries to cure her heart by injecting it with various antidotes, but she ends up on the operating table, hooked up to multiple hearts.
Barry Manilow, ‘What A Time.’ (STILETTO Entertainment)
Barry Manilow will be 83 in June, and he still looks pretty good, but he admits that he’s had some help in that department — sort of.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times to promote his new album, What a Time, Barry says, “I look fantastic, but I’m a hundred years old, right? I don’t know how that happened, by the way — I don’t get Botox or anything.”
When the interviewer asks him directly, “You’ve had no work done?” Barry responds, “No!” but then continues, “I must say: There was one time when we lived in LA that I did do a facelift. But after that it’s just been a little here, a little there.”
When the interviewer protests that that’s not exactly having “no work done,” Barry argues, “‘Work’ is like a facelift, and I only had one of those. The rest of it — I see something falling down, sure, I’ll do that. I’m as vain as anybody else.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Barry, who’s had to postpone a number of concerts while he recovers from lung cancer surgery, says it’s been “agony” being off the road.
“Make an album, go on the road, come back, make an album, go on the road — that’s what my life’s been for years,” he says. “And I like it. Now I just have to get better and do what the doctors are telling me. It’s the only way out.”
Heart’s Ann Wilson performs onstage during the GRAMMY Hall of Fame Gala 2026 on May 8, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Heart’s Ann Wilson is currently promoting her new documentary, In My Voice,by traveling to different cities with director Barbara Hall. On Wednesday night they hosted a screening at New York’s City Winery, followed by a Q&A with fans.
In the documentary, Ann tells her story “in my own voice,” hence the film’s title. “It’s about time people understood who I am,” she says in the movie, which features contributions from some of her former Heart bandmates, KISS’ Paul Stanley, Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell, pop star Chappell Roan, Paul Shaffer, Ann’s husband, Dean Wetter, and her son, Dustin Wilson.
One person who’s absent from the film, though, is Ann’s sister and bandmate Nancy Wilson. “Nancy declined to participate in this film, and I’m OK with that,” Ann says in the movie. “She’s a full-fledged person, and so am I.”
Using archival footage, home movies and new interviews, the movie follows Ann from her childhood to her stardom in Heart, her solo career, her experiences as a single mom, her role as a den mother to the Seattle grunge rockers of the ’90s, her “miraculous” recovery from cancer and her life today, recording and touring with her band Tripsitter. As she notes in the movie, “Being successful means that I love what I do.”
During the Q&A, Ann shared her favorite Heart song to perform — “Mistral Wind” — and her least, “All I Want to Do Is Make Love to You,” which she says “kinda grosses me out.” She confirmed that the script for a Heart biopic is being written and that she’d love for Florence Pugh to play her.
Asked to name the greatest sacrifice she’s made for her art, Ann said, “Everything.”
There’s no word yet on when the movie will be widely available.
Ravyn Lenae’s ‘Blue Island’ album artwork (Atlantic Records)
Ravyn Lenae is welcoming fans into Blue Island with her new album, set to arrive on Aug. 7.
The project marks her third studio album, one that finds her exploring “the full scope of her identity: the quirks, flirty energy, ‘teenage angst’ that often bleeds well into years outside its allotted window, as well as the quiet, lonely, ‘off-beat’ moments that happen when you are in the midst of a transformation,” according to a press release.
The album follows a year filled with both highs — including new opportunities — and lows, such as questions surrounding her Blackness and place within music spaces. It’s a project inspired by the desire to move forward and express herself, as did Black female artists like Santigold, Janet Jackson and Tracy Chapman, according to the release.
“‘Blue Island’ is a point of arrival, and feeling set in my ways and in who I am, and feeling free of any of those preconceived notions about Blackness or what I had to be in the past,” Ravyn said in a statement. “So I think now it’s fun to challenge the idea of what R&B is supposed to sound like, what pop is supposed to sound like … and really say ‘f*** all of that’ and do my own thing.”
As a result, the album finds Ravyn incorporating influences from The Sundays, Blondie, The Cranberries and Martin Rev, as well as the “dramatic chorus structures and high vocal tones of Bollywood soundtracks,” into her signature sound.
Ravyn kicks off Blue Island with the release of “Handle,” out now with an accompanying music video featuring choreography from New York-based movement director Akira Uchida. The visual marks the first time many fans will see Ravyn incorporate choreography into her artistry.
Blue Island is now available for presave and preorder.
Rock ‘N Jock Celebrity Softball Game (Folds of Honor)
The teammates have been chosen for Monday’s Rock ‘N Jock Celebrity Softball Game at Nashville’s First Horizon Park.
Riley Green will be team captain for Team Military, playing alongside Gavin Adcock, RaeLynn, Jordan Davis, Warren Zeiders, Jessie James Decker, Eric Decker and more.
Team First Responders will be led by Zach Top, with Roger Clemens, Jay Cutler, HARDY, Ashley Cooke, Priscilla Block, Zach John King, Parker McCollum, Chris Lane, Waka Flocka Flame and more filling out the roster.
You’ll be able to livestream the game at 6:30 p.m. CT on FOX Nation. Riley and sponsor Black Rifle Coffee have agreed to match donations during the event up to $50,000.
Lee Greenwood’s set to sing “God Bless the U.S.A.” during the seventh-inning stretch.
Proceeds go to Folds of Honor, which provides scholarships to spouses and children of fallen or disabled military service members and first responders.
Jonathan Cain of Journey performs during the band’s residency at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on May 3, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Journey is currently out on their Final Frontier Tour, which is scheduled through the end of November, and keyboardist Jonathan Cain says the band’s retirement is coming at the right time.
Describing the tour as “a grind,” Cain tells the Rock & Roll High School podcast, “I think the only reason I’m still out here is the fans, you know? It’s time for me to close the chapter. It’s a beautiful time to say goodbye, for me.”
Cain notes, “After playing the stadium tour with Def Leppard last year, I just felt like we’d done it. And we’re just repeating ourselves. The new albums don’t seem to move the needle. That’s why I’ve gotten into Christian music, because I can still sing a melody there and praise the Lord, and it still, you know, gets received.”
Elsewhere in the podcast, Cain talks about Journey’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. Former lead singer Steve Perry did join them onstage for the honor, but he didn’t sing with them, which Cain says he’s still surprised about.
“I was certain — I would have bet money he would’ve changed his mind and come and sang ‘Lights’ with us or something, but he didn’t, which was weird,” Cain says. “I would have bet money that he was gonna come to soundcheck the day before and show up. I kept looking in the wings and he never came.”
Cain also owns up to starting a rumor that Perry might pop up at some point during the farewell tour. “He got wind of it and immediately shot it down,” Cain said. “I always had said that he’s welcome on our stage any time. And he knows that that’s an open invitation. And he might still change his mind, we never know.”
Rapper DMX attends the 2009 VH1 Hip Hop Honors at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on September 23, 2009, ccin the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)
Another posthumous release from DMX is on the way — this time in the form of a book. The Gospel According to DMX, authorized by the rapper’s estate and curated by co-administrators Desiree Lindstrom and Sasha Simmons, will be released Nov. 17 via Simon & Schuster.
The book is a “collection of Earl Simmons’ spiritual writings, prayers, sermons, and select lyrics” that “offer an intimate window into the private devotions of a man whose faith was as fierce as his artistry.” Readers should not expect a traditional religious or doctrinal text, however, as the book also includes profanity, mature themes and explicit language.
The book also features a foreword by fellow hip-hop artist Rakim, along with never-before-seen archival material presented in its original form.
The Gospel According to DMX, now available for preorder, appears to take its name from audio featured in the announcement on the late rapper’s Instagram.
“I came here to meet somebody and tell them about the glory of God. Before you know it, I’ll be back doing what I’m supposed to be doing. The gospel according to X,” DMX says in the clip.
His legacy will also continue through the upcoming Becoming DMX podcast, hosted by Jadakiss, produced by 50 Cent and set to debut this summer.
Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) in ‘Toy Story 5.’ (Pixar)
The filmmakers behind Toy Story 5 are shooting down rumors that Taylor Swift has written the movie’s end title song.
On April 30, Taylor posted — and then removed — a countdown on her website that seemed to be Toy Story-coded. It featured blue skies, white clouds and the same shade of yellow used in the franchise’s branding.
When fans noticed that Toy Story 5‘s release date, June 19, also marks the 20th anniversary of her debut single, rumors flew that Taylor was somehow involved in the franchise’s latest installment.
But in a new interview, Toy Story 5 director Andrew Stanton says of the rumors, “It surprised us. We’d be frickin’ honored.” Producer Lindsey Collins adds that having Taylor involved would “be pretty amazing.”
“The sad truth is, we watched the movie being mixed last week, done, and the song on the end of that was not Taylor Swift’s song,” Stanton clarifies.
Of course, that doesn’t preclude the movie from featuring a Taylor tune somewhere, since he specifically said “the song on the end.” Guess we’ll have to wait until June 19 to find out.
The mystery of the disappearing countdown, however, has yet to be explained.
