Shawn “Clown” Crahan of Slipknot speaks at Los Angeles Comic Con at Los Angeles Convention Center on December 01, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images)
Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan has shared in an interview with producer Rick Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast that he needs to undergo heart surgery.
“I have a skipping heart and I got to get a surgery,” Clown, 56, tells Rubin. “I found this out after my last tour.”
Clown says that when he went to see a doctor, “They thought I was having a heart attack right there.”
“I’ll go from ‘on’ to just straight up, I feel like I’m dying,” he says. “So I got to get a surgery.”
Clown adds that the operation is a “very easy surgery” and that “you’re usually out on the same day.” He also says that at first he thought he might have to get a pacemaker, which made him worried that he wouldn’t be able to continue to tour.
“[The doctor] goes, ‘Oh, no, you’re going to feel better,'” Clown says.
U2’s Bono and The Edge showed their support for Ukraine with a surprise acoustic performance in a subway station in Kyiv. The station was being used as a bomb shelter due to Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia.
The rockers were invited to perform in the city by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In a post on X, Bono and The Edge explained, “President [Zelenskyy] invited us to perform in Kyiv as a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people and so that’s what we’ve come to do.”
According to setlist.fm, their nine-song set featured performances of “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “With or Without You,” “Walk On,” “Pride (In the Name of Love),” “One” and more.
They also performed the Ben E. King classic “Stand By Me,” with Ukrainian band Antytila.
Muse has premiered the video for “Cryogen,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, The Wow! Signal.
The clip finds Matt Bellamy and company performing on ice in front of what appears to be a waterfall of blood. It’s a fitting setting for a song that mentions the icy Jupiter moon of Europa in between Bellamy declaring, “Cryogen, I’m freezing over.”
You can watch the “Cryogen” video streaming now on YouTube.
The Wow! Signal, the follow-up to 2022’s Will of the People, is due out June 26. It also includes the singles “Unravelling” and “Be with You.”
Ariana Grande, ‘hate that i made you love me’ (Katia Temkin)
Ariana Grande will be giving fans a first taste of her new era later this month.
She’ll release the first single from her new album, petal, on May 29. It’s called “hate that i made you love me” and it’s available to presave now. You can also preorder the song in two different 7-inch vinyl versions, plus CD and cassette versions, at Ari’s website.
On Instagram, Ariana writes that “hate that i made you love me” is “one of my favorite songs i’ll ever write, produced by my favorite collaborators and dearest human beings in the world, the brilliant @ilya_music, the one and only max martin (and me).”
“i simply cannot wait for it to be yours” she adds.
Petal will be out July 31. Meanwhile, Ariana’s Eternal Sunshine tour begins June 6 in Oakland, California.
NBA YoungBoy performs onstage during the MASA TOUR at State Farm Arena on October 15, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Julia Beverly/Getty Images)
Those traveling to see NBA Youngboy perform at Rolling Loud in Orlando will no longer see the rapper take the stage. NBA announced that he has dropped out of the lineup, citing his need for a break.
“To my Rolling Loud family, I won’t be making it this time. I just need some time away from traveling and performing right now,” he wrote on his Instagram Story Thursday. “Love to everybody supporting me, I’ll forever appreciate y’all!”
He was slated to headline the show on Sunday but following his announcement, has been replaced by Ken Carson.
“PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEW SUNDAY HEADLINER, @kencarson,” Rolling Loud wrote on Instagram, alongside an updated poster for the festival lineup.
The festival kicks off at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, marking its first time in the city and the only U.S. iteration of the event for 2026. Don Toliver is on headlining duties, while Playboi Carti will headline Saturday’s show.
Sexyy Red, Chief Keef, Bossman Dlow and more will also be taking the stage.
Fans unable to attend in person will be able to livestream the event via Amazon Music’s Twitch Channel, app and Prime Video. The stream will also feature backstage interviews with some of the artists, hosted by Speedy Morman, Lola Clark and Sadprt.
Taylor Swift ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott)
You don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe: That’s what Taylor Swift’s lawyers are saying to Maren Wade, a Las Vegas performer whose cabaret show is called Confessions of a Showgirl.
As previously reported, Maren had filed a complaint claiming that Taylor’s album The Life of a Showgirl infringes her trademark, which she filed in 2015. She’d requested an injunction barring Taylor from selling any merch while the lawsuit moves through the courts.
But in a filing on Wednesday, obtained by ABC News, Taylor’s legal team argues that before she filed her complaint, Maren “repeatedly” attempted to associate herself with Taylor and her album. They provided over 40 examples of Maren’s “deliberate attempts to cause association between herself and Ms. Swift and/or the Album … in a manner seemingly designed to create false association or confusion.”
In addition, the team argues that Taylor’s album and merch are “expressive works … protected by the First Amendment,” so they can’t violate a trademark.
The legal team says that the “likelihood of confusion” among consumers in the marketplace is unlikely, since Maren’s “cabaret productions” are “dissimilar” to “any future musical concerts where Ms. Swift may perform.” In other words, fans are unlikely to confuse Maren’s shows with a Taylor Swift tour.
The lawyers also argue that “music — and in particular Ms. Swift’s music” is subject to “a high degree of care,” making it so “confusion is unlikely.” That means that fans are deeply invested in Taylor’s music, so they wouldn’t confuse Maren’s output with Taylor’s.
So, the lawyers conclude, Maren has “failed to demonstrate a likelihood of confusion or irreparable harm” if Taylor continues to sell The Life of a Showgirl merch, and are asking for her motion to be denied. A judge will consider the matter at a hearing later this month.
The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood on ‘The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon,’ May 7, 2026. (Todd Owyoung/NBC)
The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night, where he talked about The Stones’ new album Foreign Tongues.
During the chat it was revealed that Wood recorded a nine-minute guitar solo for a song called “Back in Your Life,” although he said it was eventually cut down to four or five minutes.
“I’ll tell you what, I was so moved that day, and disappointed and sad and I had so much feeling because Brian Wilson died that day,” Wood said, referring to the late Beach Boys legend, who died in June 2025. “And that week Sly Stone died too and I thought, oh no, it’s so sad. It came out through my guitar, the feeling you know.”
Wood added that he did the solo in one take, but noted, “I didn’t do that, the guitar played itself.”
Another tidbit about the album: Fallon mentioned that it features a cover of the Amy Winehouse track “You Know I’m No Good,” which appeared on her 2006 Grammy-winning album Back to Black.
Foreign Tongues, The Stones’ first album since 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, will be released July 10. It is available for preorder now.
Charli XCX attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating ‘Costume Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026 in New York City. (Arturo Holmes/MG26/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
Charli XCX’s new era has begun with the release of her single and video “Rock Music” — except it’s not really “rock music,” despite the presence of some crunchy electric guitars.
In the mostly black-and-white video for the two-minute song, Charli pushes an amplifier out a window and struts around New York City in a bra and jeans. She also smokes a mountain of cigarettes and starts a mosh pit. The video ends with a freeze-frame of her face in close-up, which turns into a wall-size photo that a bunch of moshing guys bust through.
“I think the dance floor is dead/ So now we’re making rock music,” she jokingly sings, before making fun of the trappings of the genre.
“I’m really banging my head/ I’m really hurting my neck/ The nerve damage is real/ But it’s the only way to feel something,” she sings.
“Rock Music” is Charli’s first new song since she released the album she created for the movie Wuthering Heights in February.
As previously reported, after British Vogueclaimed in a recent article that she planned a “rock reinvention,” Charli clarified that that wasn’t exactly true by sharing a video of her in the studio making this new single. The caption read, “a video of me making a song called ‘rock music’ that is not actually rock music which is funny because i never said i was making a rock album.”
ADAM,arriving July 10, is the singer’s sixth full-length studio album. It features 12 tracks and is available to presave now. His last full-length release, High Drama, came out in 2023, though he did drop an EP in 2024 called Afters.
ADAM‘s first single, “EAT U ALIVE,” is out now. It’s described in a press release as having a “dark, industrial texture that will come to define much of the album.” Adam explains that the songs were inspired by “the music that made a formative impact on me in the 90s and early 00’s,” including Nine Inch Nails, Björk, Prince, Muse, Daft Punk, George Michael and Massive Attack.
“The album explores both the light and shade of life and the razor’s edge that separates a positive experience from a negative one,” he goes on to say. “I hope these songs connect with anyone who has been through the confusing but necessary process of self-acceptance”.
“There was a real liberation in acknowledging my own weaknesses and strengths,” he concludes. “Accepting the bad and the good all together. Revolutionary for someone who always thought of himself as a perfectionist and Idealist.”
In the last few years, Adam has been spending his time on stage, starring on Broadway in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club and then playing Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl, opposite Cynthia Erivo as Jesus.
Beastie Boys member Michael “Mike D” Diamond has released his debut solo single.
The track is called “Switch Up.” It’s available now via digital outlets, and you can watch its accompanying visualizer streaming now on YouTube.
“I know we are not putting anybody into space and there are a lot of huge problems in our world right now and I didn’t realize this was a big deal to me until I woke up today and was like ‘s***. Switch Up comes out tonight,'” Mike writes in an Instagram post. “Hoping it brings some happiness for all y’all.”
The song premiere follows Mike’s announcement of a run of four solo shows in Los Angeles and New York City, the first of which took place Thursday in LA. All of the dates are sold out.
Beastie Boys disbanded in 2012 following the death of Adam “MCA” Yauch.
