In what’s become a CMA Fest tradition, MCA will take over Nashville’s Skydeck on Broadway for two days during the annual country music extravaganza.
Performances kick off Friday, June 5, with Saturday, June 6, starting with Miranda Lambert’s Crisco Disco Brunch.
Little Big Town, Wyatt Flores, Dalton Davis, Deanna Carter, Lamont Landers, Landon Smith, Jacob Hackworth, Travis Denning and more are set to play.
Admission for MCA Presents: Live from Sky Deck is free, you just need to register online. If you can’t make it in person, you can check out the performances on Universal Music Live’s Twitch channel.
The Little Big Town set will be the band’s only performance during CMA Fest 2026.
As a vegetarian, Paul McCartney doesn’t eat chicken, but that isn’t stopping him from appearing on the popular YouTube series Chicken Shop Date on Friday.
The show features host Amelia Dimoldenberg meeting a celebrity guest at a local fried chicken restaurant, and then asking them quirky questions while they eat. Each episode is only about eight minutes long.
In an Instagram post promoting the appearance, Amelia wrote, “Money can’t buy me love…but it can buy me vegan nuggets and chips ! my date with @paulmccartney is out FRIDAY.”
On an Instagram Reel featuring her and Paul acting goofy in the chicken shop, she wrote, “HELP! My biggest date yet.”
Amelia has welcomed everyone from Cher, Ryan Reynolds and Sabrina Carpenter to Cynthia Erivo, Conan O’Brien and Ben Stiller to the show.
‘Gravest Gravy’ album artwork. (Vengeance Records)
A never-before-released lost album from the influential band The Cramps is being released as part of a project spearheaded by punk legends Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye.
The record is called Gravest Gravy and will be released Aug. 21. It was originally recorded in 1977 and was produced by Alex Chilton of Big Star.
“What you have in Gravest Gravy, is sheer brilliance committed to tape by a band that was plugged in directly to the Rock ‘n Roll mainline, produced by a visionary maniac named Alex Chilton,” Rollins says in a statement.
A number of Cramps titles are also set to be reissued.
Beyond originating the influential psychobilly sound, which combined elements of punk rock and rockabilly, The Cramps are also known for the song “Goo Goo Muck,” which soundtracked the famous dance scene in the show Wednesday.
Pitbull performs on ABC’s ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,’ Dec. 31, 2025 (Disney/Christopher Willard)
Pitbull announced in February that he’s going to try to set a Guinness World Record during his July 10 show at London’s Hyde Park for the most people wearing bald caps in one place. But now, he’s asking for fans to help him pull off the singular feat.
Pitbull’s Instagram page and the page for the festival at which he’ll be performing, BST Hyde Park, posted a request for volunteers on Wednesday. “In case you missed it, we’re going for a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title with Mr Worldwide, @pitbull and we need a squad of legendary volunteers to help make it official,” reads the post.
“Your mission (should you choose to accept it): Count the shiny-headed Bald-es in the crowd and help us make history. Ticket holders and non-ticket holders are welcome to sign up.”
“What are we looking for: Legends who can count. That’s literally it,” the post continues. “What’s in it for you? Witness a sea of bald caps in Hyde Park. Once the counting is complete, stay and enjoy Pitbull’s headline show. Be part of history.”
As for why he’s doing this, Pitbull noticed in recent years that people of both sexes have been dressing up like him at his concerts, wearing suits and bald caps. After a U.K. radio station proposed that he try to go for the record, Pitbull and his team signed off on the attempt.
Speaking to TheNew York Timeslast June about why they were wearing bald caps, one fan said, “We have adult money, and this is what this generation is choosing to spend it on.”
Taking the Long Way 20th Anniversary Tour (Live Nation)
The Chicks will celebrate the anniversary of a pivotal album this fall with the Taking the Long Way 20th Anniversary Tour.
The 16-show run kicks off Sept. 30 at Detroit’s Fox Theatre, with stops in Chicago, New York City, Nashville, San Antonio, Austin, Seattle and San Francisco. It will wrap with two nights at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre Nov. 1 and 2.
Presales start June 3, before tickets become available to the public June 4.
2006’s Taking the Long Way topped the Billboard 200 album chart and won five Grammys, including album, record and song of the year.
A$AP Rocky attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating “Costume Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
A$AP Rocky is set to receive the inaugural Tribeca X Filmmaker of the Year Award at Tribeca X. The flagship event of the Tribeca Festival is focused on storytelling and features conversations, screenings and networking with entertainment and marketing leaders.
The honor recognizes Rocky’s work across music, fashion, film, and design and brand collaborations.
“Tribeca X was built to celebrate the creators reshaping modern storytelling,” Tribeca Enterprises CEO Rebecca Glashow said in a statement. “Today’s cultural landscape is being defined by artists and entrepreneurs who push creative boundaries across mediums and industries. A$AP Rocky represents the kind of genre-defying visionary the inaugural Tribeca X Filmmaker of the Year Award was created to honor.”
Tribeca X is set for June 8-9 at the Spring Studio in New York, and will display how brands and entertainment leaders are shaping new forms of storytelling.
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues’ (Capitol Records)
Andrew Watt produced The Rolling Stones’ well-received 2023 album Hackney Diamonds and the band’s upcoming release, Foreign Tongues. But Watt says he prefers latter, out July 10, because the Stones “never play the same f****** thing the same way twice.”
Watt tells the U.K. paper The Telegraph that for Foreign Tongues, he had the band play live in the studio. “It’s always changing, and then there’s moments where they blow your brains out with how unbelievable and tight it is, and they’re all on it,” he explains. “But part of their magic is that it’s always changing. … [S]o the recording process had to be something where we were going for keeps at all times, so you could capture those moments, moving with the heartbeats of the guys in the room.”
As a result, Watt tells the paper, “I like this one even more [than Hackney Diamonds]. It’s rawer and liver and jammier and wait till you hear the s*** Keith [Richards is] playing. It’s unbelievable.”
Describing the dynamic between Richards and Mick Jagger, Watt says, “You would think two people that have been with each other for as long as they have could read each other’s minds, and there’s times where they do and there’s other times where they go exactly opposite, and it’s those moments where some of the greatest s*** comes out.”
“When they’re recording, they’re almost like fencing a little bit,” he adds. “You know, it’s like this eloquent kind of battle that is occurring.”
“Balancing that whole act and keeping it moving along so you’ve got the take when the magic happens, that is really the main part of the job,” Watt notes. “Really, it’s the most fun thing in the world.”
Watt also produced Paul McCartney’s The Boys of Dungeon Lane.
The classic Four Tops lineup performs on the British television show ‘Ready Steady Go,’ Nov. 17, 1966 (BIPS/Getty Images)
The group that performs as The Four Tops no longer includes any original members, but they — and their team — are working to keep the legendary Motown act’s legacy alive.
Billboardreports that plans for a stage musical inspired by the group is in the works, as well as a documentary; potential producers for the film are being considered now. While there’s no time frame for either of those projects, there is a planned release coming in July: a 60th anniversary deluxe reissue of 1966’s Four Tops Live!, which was originally recorded during three 1966 shows the group played at Detroit’s Roostertail venue.
The 22-track reissue includes new mixes, four previously unreleased songs and a bonus instrumental, as well as onstage comments from late Tops singer Levi Stubbs. Among the hits included are “It’s the Same Old Song,” “Baby I Need Your Loving,” “Reach Out I’ll Be There” and “I Can’t Help Myself.” The album is out July 25, and The Four Tops will play a special show at the Roostertail on July 27 to celebrate.
According to Billboard, a new greatest hits compilation is also in the works, which will include Four Tops recordings from before and after their time at Motown. Plus, the current incarnation of the group — which includes the son of founder Lawrence Payton and former Temptations member Theo Peoples — is getting ready to “make new music.”
Keith Hagen, part of the group’s management team, tells Billboard, “Our goal here is to re-introduce and then introduce [the Tops] to a younger generation who maybe aren’t as familiar with the Tops’ monster hits as they should be. I feel very bullish that we can start to expand the Tops’ music and audience to a younger audience.”
‘Chin Up, Beautiful’ album artwork. (Position Music)
Jutes has announced a new album called Chin Up, Beautiful.
The record is due out Aug. 5. It includes the previously released tracks “Disassociate” and “Icarus.”
“The world feels really cooked right now and it’s impossible to feel everything all at once, so we just go numb and fake smiles because we’re helpless,” Jutes says in a statement. “That’s how I was feeling when I made this. It pulls from elements of my music when I first started singing and incorporates them with everything I’ve learned about my voice and songwriting since then.”
Ronnie James Dio performs at Challenge Stadium August 2, 2007 in Perth, Australia. (Paul Kane/Getty Images)
The Rock for Ronnie benefit concert, which pays tribute to the late metal icon Ronnie James Dio, has announced a trio of signed instruments going up for auction as part of the event.
Attendees will be able to bid on a Lakland bass signed by Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler and an Epiphone Les Paul signed by George Thorogood. Additionally, Lita Ford, who’s headlining Rock for Ronnie, will contribute a custom-made guitar featuring the artwork from the Dio album Holy Diver, which she will sign and then play during her set.
Additionally, the auction includes a violin from Metallica’s 2019 S&M2 concert.
Rock for Ronnie takes place Sunday in Los Angeles. It raises money for the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund in support of cancer research.
