Music

Monday night in Denver, Colorado, Em Beihold kicked off her biggest tour yet, opening for singer/songwriter King Princess. When it comes to performing live, the “Numb Little Bug” singer has come quite a long way since being rejected by a major singing competition show because of her lack of stage presence.

“I feel like I just have more fun [onstage] because the more you do it, the less nervous you get, obviously,” Em told ABC Audio about doing concerts these days. 

She laughs, “I used to have extreme stage fright. I remember I got a callback from The Voice once, and the reason they didn’t take me, they said, was because I stood like a stick onstage the whole time.”

“I’d say there’s more going on now,” she adds of her performance abilities.

Em’s run with King Princess goes through November 5. If you can’t get tickets to see her this time around, or you want a preview of upcoming shows, you can watch one of her full concerts on the music website The Circle Sessions.

Meanwhile, Em recently celebrated “Numb Little Bug,” off new EP Egg in the Backseat, being RIAA-certified Platinum for sales of 1 million units. She wrote on Instagram, “i never would’ve imagined this in my wildest dreams” and thanked her fans for “streaming and creating a community around this song.”

She added, “You’ve changed my life and I love you all so much.”

Fellow breakout stars Lauren Spencer-Smith and GAYLE responded in the comments, writing, “PROUD OF U” and “YES BABE,” respectively.

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Judas Priest will be welcomed into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on November 5, and two of the band’s surviving former members — guitarist Ken “KK” Downing and drummer Les Binks — will be inducted alongside most of the group’s current lineup and late drummer Dave Holland.

While Downing has been at odds with his former bandmates since leaving Judas Priest in 2011, frontman Rob Halford confirms both KK and Binks will perform at the Rock Hall ceremony.

“It’s the right thing to do,” Halford tells ABC Audio about having Downing and Binks playing with the band. “And that was never a real issue. We felt that this is what the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame represents in terms of showing the talent, showing these are the guys that are receiving this accolade and there they are playing, you know.”

Halford also shares some details about the band’s performance, noting with a chuckle, “We’ve got, like, 8 minutes and 32-and-a-half seconds … Everything’s on the clock, which is the way it is in these kinds of events. So, we’re gonna try and cram as much as we can in that space.”

He adds, “And we got a few other things that we’re gonna do, which we won’t let out until the actual night, because that’s part of the magic of Priest. We’ve always got a little something up the metal Houdini sleeve.”

Judas Priest will be inducted into the Rock Hall in conjunction with receiving the Musical Excellence Award. The ceremony will take place at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, and the event will air on HBO at a later date.

Meanwhile, Priest launched the fall 2023 U.S. leg of its 50 Heavy Metal Years tour last week. Check out all the upcoming dates at JudasPriest.com.

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Artists including Tom Morello and Billie Eilish have joined the lineup for the upcoming virtual #iVoted Festival.

The Rage Against the Machine guitarist will be taking part in a conversation with comedian W. Kamau Bell, while the “bad guy” artist will be making an appearance on the webcast alongside her brother and collaborator, FINNEAS.

As previously reported, the #iVoted Festival takes place on Election Day, November 8. You can RSVP to watch by sending in a selfie from outside your polling location or with a blank, mail-in ballot. People who aren’t yet of voting age can also take part in the #iVoted Festival by RSVPing with their first voting-eligible election year and sharing why they’re “excited to vote.”

The announced performers include Rise Against, Halestorm, The Revivalists, Black Stone Cherry and Run the Jewels. Bands including Filter, Dead Sara and Local H have also since joined the lineup.

For more info, visit iVotedFestival.org.

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Raise your devil horns this Halloween with AXS TV’s “Heavy Metal Halloween” event.

On Saturday, October 29, the channel will be running an all-day marathon of documentaries and concert films dedicated to the biggest names in hard rock and metal, including Guns N’ Roses, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe, KISS, Ozzy Osbourne and Alice Cooper.

Among the films shown will be Sabbath’s The End of the End doc, which captures the “Iron Man” legends’ 2017 farewell concert.

You can tune into “Heavy Metal Halloween” starting at noon ET.

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Lil Uzi‘s keeping the music coming with their latest single, “Just Wanna Rock.”

After amassing over 500 million views on TikTok, the new song serves as the official follow-up to their Red & White EP, which dropped earlier this summer — the rapper’s first full-length project since Pluto x Baby Pluto with Future.

Upon its release Monday, Lil Uzi promoted the track on Instagram by sharing a snippet of the audio and the single’s cover art.  

“OUT NOW !!!!! 🕺🏾🛸 👽 JUST WANNA ROCK🙊♥️ LETS GOOOO!!!!!” he captioned the post.

“Just Wanna Rock” is also one of the first projects to drop since the artist updated the pronouns on their Instagram profile to “they/them.”

“Just Wanna Rock” is available for streaming now. 

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Fans think Taylor Swift will soon release the music video for her track “Vigilante S***.” She is set to release the “Anti-Hero” music video a few hours after she releases Midnights and fans think “Vigilante” will drop on October 25 because of how she held the phone upside down when announcing both the track titles on TikTok.

Doja Cat‘s “Vegas” — from the Elvis movie — entered the Billboard Hot 100’s top 10.  The song rose to tenth place.  Another song of hers is in the top five, “I Like You (A Happier Song)” with Post Malone in fourth.  Doja has the most top 10 songs out of all female artists this decade — six overall — which bests Taylor, who previously led with five entries since 2020.

It’s rumored Dua Lipa is working on her new album with Mark Ronson, whom she worked with before on the Silk City hit “Electricity.” The Sun reports she hit up the recording studio with him in New York.

Lady Gaga helped West Side Story actress Rachel Zegler when her dress ripped at the Critics Choice Awards earlier this year. Zegler told Vanity Fair Gaga tapped her “on the shoulder” and told her, “I can’t let you leave like that.” So she worked with two others on “MacGyvering a safety pin to save my dress.”

Lin-Manuel Miranda says he wrote “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Disney’s Encanto in one night. He told Variety, “The gossip number was the pitch, and then the other idea became that they’ll all tell a kind of ghost story about [Bruno]… The [song’s] name got me halfway there, and then I actually pulled an all-nighter, figuring it all out.”

The music video for Katy Perry and Thomas Rhett‘s “Where We Started” premieres Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET.

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Shania Twain will play Mrs. Potts in the upcoming anniversary celebration of Beauty and the Beast. The television special, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, airs December 15 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

Jewel shared her trip to Pompeii on TikTok and fans are begging her to become a narrator. Jewel showed off the historical site, from ancient pedestrian walkways to frescos to how to spot the old brothel.  

Fans think Taylor Swift will soon release the music video for her track “Vigilante S***.”  She is set to release the “Anti-Hero” music video a few hours after she releases Midnights and fans think “Vigilante” will drop on October 25 because of how she held the phone upside down when announcing both track titles on TikTok.

Lin-Manuel Miranda says he wrote “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Disney’s Encanto in one night. He told Variety, “The gossip number was the pitch, and then the other idea became that they’ll all tell a kind of ghost story about [Bruno] … The [song’s] name got me halfway there, and then I actually pulled an all-nighter, figuring it all out.”

It’s rumored Dua Lipa is working on her new album with Mark Ronson, whom she worked with on the Silk City hit “Electricity.” The Sun reports she hit up the recording studio with him in New York.

Lady Gaga helped West Side Story actress Rachel Zegler when her dress ripped at the Critics Choice Awards earlier this year. Zegler told Vanity Fair Gaga tapped her “on the shoulder” and told her, “I can’t let you leave like that.” So she worked with two others on “MacGyvering a safety pin to save my dress.”

The music video for Katy Perry and Thomas Rhett‘s “Where We Started” premieres Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET.

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Jack Harlow just wrapped his North American arena tour, but he isn’t ready to go into hibernation just yet.

The day after closing out his jaunt at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, Harlow released a new music video for “Like a Blade of Grass” off his Come Home the Kids Miss You album.

The video shows Jack, who is bathed in pink and blue lights, performing in front of a massive crowd that sings along with him. It appears the footage has been stitched together from previous tour performances, as he’s wearing multiple outfits. Some clips show him interacting with the audience.

Not all clips are of his tour, however. There are some scenes of him hanging out backstage and grooving in a party bus with his pals.

Harlow is set to take over Saturday Night Live as both its host and musical performer on October 29. This marks the second time he’ll sing on the show, but his first time as host. It’s unknown at this time what songs he’ll perform.

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Michael Bublé is making sure his pal Derek Hough has the wedding of his dreams — and in order to achieve that, he has to sing.

Michael sat down on LIVE with Kelly and Ryan Monday, where the hosts asked him about Hough’s upcoming nuptials. “I will do anything for Derek Hough,” the Canadian crooner said, adding, “I just think he is one of the few people who are who you want them to be.”

Michael described the Dancing with the Stars judge as “beautiful, kind, incredibly talented” and “a monster” — as in, Hough is “our generation’s [Fred] Astaire.”

Noting Derek is a dancer, choreographer and director, Michael said, “He is a bad, bad man! Ambitious [and] smart.”

When host Kelly Ripa pointed out Bublé was dancing around their initial question, Michael confirmed with a blunt, “Damn straight I’m gonna sing at his wedding.”

Michael also extended the goodwill to co-host Ryan Seacrest, saying he’ll sing at his wedding should he ever get hitched.

Hough previously told Access that he wanted Michael to perform at his nuptials. “[Michael] said he would perform,” the dancer revealed. “He’s doing it … It might be a Zoom call, but it’s gonna be [great].” The judge added he “expects a full performance from all my friends and family and Michael Bublé.”

Keep your eyes peeled on Dancing with the Stars next Monday, where Michael will serve as a guest judge and perform on the dancing show. 

“It’s gonna be a lot of fun but we’re gonna get into trouble, though, because we’re kind of the same person and we’re just gonna be talking nonstop,” Hough teased.

DWTS airs Monday at 8 p.m. ET on Disney+.

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