The Masked Singer is going heavy metal in honor of Ozzy Osbourne.
The singing competition show has announced its upcoming 14th season will include an episode titled “Ozzfest” paying tribute to the late Prince of Darkness.
The episode will feature Ozzy’s daughter and past The Masked Singer contestant Kelly Osbourne, who “joins the show to pay heartfelt homage to her father and his iconic career and long lasting impact on the history of music,” a press release says.
The Masked Singer season 14 premieres Jan. 7 on Fox. Participants will be wearing costumes including Eggplant, Queen Corgi and The Croissants.
Pharrell Williams attends the 2025 Footwear News Achievement Awards at Cipriani 25 Broadway on December 03, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)
Pharrell received the Shoe of the Year award at the 2025 Footwear News Achievement Awards in NYC on Wednesday, an honor presented to him by Pusha T. During his acceptance speech, he reflected on his humble upbringing in Virginia and the instability of his childhood.
“You don’t know what I know. You ain’t seen what I saw. No, you ain’t been where I go. I’m from the mud,” he said. “As a child, nobody’s been evicted more times than me. Lights turned off, water turned off, and at times, had to pump the water. And I didn’t have a name-brand sneaker until I was 16, when I could afford them for my first paycheck from McDonald’s.”
Pharrell then connected his journey and the collective experiences of Black and brown people in America, explaining that the history inspired his Black Ambition initiative, which has now awarded $85 million to start-ups launched by Black and brown entrepreneurs.
“I’m proletariat,” he said. “In fact, I’m lumpenproletariat,” a reference to the Marxist theory of societal classes.
He continued, “I had to stay on my feet. … But I could never walk in the shoes of my parents’ parents’ parents … all they had to endure while staying on their feet. Or my ancestors, who arrived as captives, enslaved, who had no shoes, yet had to stay on their feet as they landed on the shores of Virginia.”
Pharrell also addressed past headlines about his frustration with politics, clarifying that his remarks were a reaction to DEI backlash. “Yes, I got frustrated, and the sound biters, they caught me lacking,” he said. “I will never stop fighting. I will never stop raising money to help level the playing field. Never.”
Lainey Wilson Hosts ‘The 59th Annual CMA Awards’ live from Nashville airing November 19 on ABC; streaming next day on Hulu. (Disney/Robbie Klein)
After several very, very obvious hints, it’s now been confirmed that Lainey Wilson is the “cowgirl” who’ll be joining Rock & Roll Hall of Famers’ Aerosmith and British singer Yungblud on a new version of their song “Wild Woman.”
On Instagram, all three acts posted video of Yungblud FaceTiming Lainey and chatting about how she’s going to approach her part of the song. At one point Yungblud, who has a thick British accent, told Lainey, “I love your accent, man, it’s epic.”
Lainey, who has an extremely thick accent herself, replied, “Back atcha.” “I’m telling you, man, battle of the accents,” Yungblud added.
“Wild Woman” will be released Friday. The original version appears on Aerosmith and Yungblud’s top-10 EP One More Time.
Cover of Yes’ ‘Tales from Topographic Oceans’ (Rhino)
Yes has released a new track from their upcoming super-deluxe reissue of 1973’s Tales from Topographic Oceans.
The latest is a newly remastered single version of “The Remembering (High the Memory),” which cuts down the album’s 20-minute song to just under three minutes.
Tales from Topographic Oceans (Super Deluxe Edition), dropping Feb. 6, will be released as a package of 12 CDs, two LPs and a Blu-ray. It includes a newly remastered version of the album, along with several new mixes by producer Steven Wilson, including a Dolby Atmos mix. It will also include rarities, and previously unreleased studio and live recordings.
Tales from Topographic Oceans, Yes’ sixth studio album, was the first to feature drummer Alan White, who had replaced Bill Bruford. Frontman Jon Anderson came up with the idea for the album after reading a footnote in Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. The album featured four songs, all of which were at least 18 minutes in length, taking fans on a “four-part musical journey through ancient Hindu scriptures.”
The album went on to hit #1 in the U.K. and was a top-10 hit in the U.S.
Poppy on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Poppy has shared a new song called “Guardian,” a track off her upcoming album, Empty Hands.
“Urgent guitar riffs marry with thunderous percussion against euphonious, infectious vocals from Poppy,” a press release says of “Guardian.” “She continues to evade the boundaries of genre to create her own vision of what metal can and should be.”
You can watch a visualizer for “Guardian” on YouTube.
Empty Hands, the follow-up to 2024’s Negative Spaces, drops Jan. 23. It also includes the previously released songs “Unravel” and “Bruised Sky.”
Poppy will be opening for Evanescence‘s 2026 European tour. She previously teamed up with Amy Lee and Spiritbox‘s Courtney LaPlante on the single “End of You.”
James Murphy performs with LCD Soundsystem at the 2025 Sea.Hear.Now Music Festival on September 13, 2025 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. (Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)
LCD Soundsystem has announced a 2026 residency in Chicago.
The “Dance Yrself Clean” outfit will perform at the Windy City’s Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom on March 5, 6, 7 and 8. Presales begin Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Dec. 12 at 10 a.m. local time.
Boots Riley‘s latest project, I Love Boosters, will kick off the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival. The movie starring Keke Palmer, Lakeith Stanfield, Don Cheadle and more will make its world premiere on opening night of the annual event, which will run March 12-18 in Austin, Texas. The movie tells the story of a crew of professional shoplifters called the Velvet Gang who choose a cutthroat fashion maven as their next target.
“The Velvet Gang has officially cased Austin and decided Opening Night at SXSW 2026 will be the start of their global takeover! We are beyond thrilled to kick off the festival with the World Premiere of Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters,” Claudette Godfrey, vice president of film & TV at SXSW, said in a statement, noting the film is a “wildly original and boundary-pushing vision that’s deliciously unpredictable.”
“I Love Boosters is audacious, entertaining, and guaranteed to get our festival off to an unforgettable start,” she continued. “Trust us, you’ll want to be there when The Velvet Gang bursts onto the scene!”
The film, which also stars Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonzalez and Demi Moore, will be Boots’ third project to premiere at the SXSW festival. His first, Sorry to Bother You, debuted in 2018, and I Am A Virgo premiered in 2023.
Dustin Lynch attends the ‘The 59th Annual CMA Awards’ (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)
Dustin Lynch went back to his old school on Tuesday night to help out the folks in his hometown of Tullahoma, Tennessee.
The 10th edition of his annual Dustin Lynch and Friends Benefit Concert, held at Tullahoma High School, raised over $32,000 for local kids and families. Specifically, the money will be used to build an inclusive playground for special needs children and support Isaiah 117 House, where kids awaiting foster placement can feel safe and at home. Donations were also collected for Toys for Tots during the show.
Dustin wraps up his stint on the Two for the Road tour with Scotty McCreery on Saturday; he’ll be finished with touring for the year on Dec. 13. In January, he’ll return to Luke Bryan‘s Crash My Playa destination festival in Cancun. As the unofficial “mayor” of Crash My Playa, he’ll host his now-legendary Pool Situation pool party.
Kelsea Ballerini performs on the ‘The 59th Annual CMA Awards’ (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
If you saw Kelsea Ballerini perform her song “I Sit in Parks” during November’s CMA Awards and thought, “That’s one of the best songs I’ve heard all year” — well, you weren’t alone.
The song has been chosen as one of Rolling Stone‘s 100 Best Songs of 2025, and it’s one of the very few country tracks on the list; it comes in at #90. The publication notes, “Kelsea Ballerini dropped the most honest country song of the year with this just over two-minute diary entry about all that she’s sacrificed in pursuit of her career. … [H]er bare emotion makes the song a must-hear for anyone who’s set aside life in favor of work.”
Coincidentally, or perhaps not, Kelsea actually mentions Rolling Stone in the lyrics of “I Sit in Parks.”
HARDY also has a song on the list: “Luckiest Man Alive,” from his Country! Country! album, comes in at #87. While Rolling Stone notes that the song isn’t a single, it adds, “That doesn’t mean it wasn’t one of the most feel-good sing-along pop country songs of the year.”
Calling it a “three-minute earworm,” the publication writes, “It may contain just about all the Music Row tropes the genre gets ridiculed for (jacked-up truck, SEC football, and a Hank [Williams] Jr. quote? Check, check, and check), but it sure works.”
Much higher up on the list is Hailey Whitters‘ “High on the Hog,” coming in at #64. Rolling Stone describes it as a “whip-smart, fiddle-heavy travelogue about the trials and travails of being an aspiring heartland country star” and praises its “throwback earworm arrangement that conjures everyone from Miranda Lambert to Alan Jackson.”
By the way, Rolling Stone‘s #1 song of 2025 is Lady Gaga‘s “Abracadabra.”
An attendee wears a GOLF le FLEUR tote bag during Camp Flog Gnaw music festival on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Los Angeles , CA. (Ronaldo Bolaños / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The next clothing drop from Tyler, The Creator‘s le FLEUR* label will be his last. In an Instagram post announcing the final collection, Tyler shared that making clothes is his “second passion” and that the clothing line, created in 2019, was his way to “mirror things that matched my personal style.”
“this has taken me to places ive dreamed of,” he wrote, thanking Virgil Abloh, Pharrell Williams and “every helping hand that understood the language.”
Le FLEUR*, he adds, “was a language i wanted to create, but now its time to slow down on communicating. thank you to everyone who supported the idea.”
He clarifies in the post that the clothing will be the only part of the line to come to an end, as “fragrances, accessories and specific collaborations will still continue on.”
Select items from the final le FLEUR* clothing collection will drop Saturday, with a look at the last seven years of the collection now available online. “i never wanted to be in the lookbooks or campaigns but for this last one it felt right ( i was the fit model afterall),” he wrote.
