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Sharon Osbourne hopes to keep the legacy of Ozzfest alive following Ozzy Osbourne‘s passing.

“I’ve been talking to Live Nation about bringing [Ozzfest] back recently,” Sharon tells Billboard. “It was something Ozzy was very passionate about: giving young talent a stage in front of a lot of people.”

Sharon first launched Ozzfest in 1996 as a two-day festival before turning it into a full-scale touring event. It became a staple of the hard rock and metal scene, helping propel the careers of bands including Linkin Park, Slipknot and Deftones.

“We really started metal festivals in this country,” Sharon says. “It was [replicated but] never done with the spirit of what ours was, because ours was a place for new talent. It was like summer camp for kids.”

The last Ozzfest was held on New Year’s Eve 2018 in Los Angeles. It marked Ozzy’s final full-length live performance before the 2025 Back to the Beginning concert, during which he played a solo set with the reunited Black Sabbath. Ozzy died just over two weeks later on July 22.

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Lady Gaga paused her concert in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 29 to speak out about recent events in Minneapolis and in the U.S.

During the portion of her Mayhem Ball show where she performs solo on piano, Gaga told the crowd, “I want to take a second to talk about something that’s extremely important to me. Something important to people all over the world and especially in America right now.”

As documented in fan-shot video, Gaga continued, “In a couple of days, I’m gonna be heading home and my heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families, all over America, who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE.”

“I’m thinking about all of their pain and how their lives are being destroyed right in front of us,” she went on. “I’m also thinking about Minnesota and everyone back at home who is living in so much fear and searching for answers on what we all should do.”

Gaga then said she wanted to dedicate a song that has “some hope” to “everyone who is suffering, to everyone who’s feeling alone and helpless, anyone who’s lost a loved one and is it having a difficult time, an impossible time, seeing when the end will be near.”

Becoming emotional, she added, “I hope our leaders are listening. I hope you’re listening to us ask you to change your course of action swiftly and have mercy on everyone in our country.”

She then performed “Come to Mama” from her album Joanne.

The Japanese leg of Gaga’s tour ends Jan. 30.  She’s nominated for seven awards at Sunday night’s Grammys, including album of the year for Mayhem and song and record of the year for “Abracadabra.”

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Dylan Scott‘s latest hit, “What He’ll Never Have,” is a family affair.

“It’s a special song to me,” he tells ABC Audio. “One, I’ve got my little brother, he’s a co-writer on the song. He’s my lead guitar player. It’s his first-ever song that’s being recorded. Top 40, top 20 now. So it’s fun watching him get excited about all this stuff, you know. It makes me happy.”

Dylan’s brother, Logan Robinson, can be even more excited now, since “What He’ll Never Have” just broke into the top 15.

What mystifies Dylan about his hit, however, is how his muse, wife Blair Robinson, feels about the tune.

“Here’s what I don’t understand about the song,” he reveals. “I’ve written all these love songs, right? ‘My Girl,’ ‘Nobody,’ ‘Can’t Have Mine,’ all these brownie-point songs for my wife. And then I write this song and it’s her favorite one, the one about me dying. Can you explain that to me?”

“She said, ‘What female [doesn’t] want to hear that? “If I was to die, just know that whoever you find, the love I have for you, he’ll never have.”‘ Like, what?” he asks. “I don’t know. She was right, though. It’s a big hit for us.”  

Dylan sets his Till I Can’t I Will Tour in motion March 12 in Syracuse, New York. 

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Following the release of The Last Dance (Part 1), Jason Derulo has dropped a new video for one of its songs, “Sexy For Me.” He says the clip — along with his new tour, which kicks off Thursday — will give fans a look at his “next chapter.”

Of the clip, which features Jason and a group of scantily clad women, he tells ABC Audio, “There’s a ton of dance in it. My fans love when I’m really, really dancing in videos. And it’s been a while since I’ve danced quite like this. … This is some next-level dancing and vibes.”

As for the tour, which is currently limited to the U.K. and Europe, he says, “What’s interesting is you’ll see the new version of me on tour” — even if he doesn’t make its way to North America.

“I feel like with social media, you’re able to see somebody’s show without even going,” he laughs. “So I think people will get a glimpse of what is to come.”

He adds that the video also offers a peek at his new era.

“While the audio feels nostalgic, the look and feel of the [tour] performance and music video” is “of the next chapter,” he notes.

That “next chapter” means he’s closing the book on what’s come before, but looking back, Jason says he has plenty to be proud of.

“I think it’s incredible to be part of people’s lives when people are coming to me and saying, ‘Marry Me’ is the song that I used to propose to my wife, or ‘Ridin’ Solo’ helped me through a breakup or ‘Savage Love’ got me through the pandemic, or ‘Swalla’ [and] ‘Talk Dirty’ are my club anthems,” he told ABC Audio.

“Being a part of people’s lives, I think is pretty crazy.” 

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After spending years portraying Glinda in the Wicked films, Ariana Grande will get to show off her comedic chops in the upcoming movie Focker-In-Law — and Ben Stiller says he’s glad she’s shaking the franchise up.

“It was great to have her energy coming into this franchise that has been around a long time, and we hadn’t done for a very long time,” Stiller tells Entertainment Weekly. “She’s incredibly professional, and watching her on SNL, she knows comedy, and she was just a joy to work with.”

“I had a blast working with her, and I think what she brought to the movie is just a very, very new sensibility that also felt very much like it worked within the tone of the movie,” he added.

In the film, Ariana plays the partner of Henry, the adult son of Stiller’s Greg Focker. According to the actor, Ariana’s character has a “fun relationship” with Robert De Niro‘s character, Jack Byrnes, Greg Focker’s intimidating father-in-law.

“Watching him and her together — I can’t really give away too much, but the connection between them in the film is pretty fun,” he noted. “And it plays into the dynamic of Greg Focker always kind of being stuck on the outside.”

Stiller also has high praise for Benson Boone, his co-star in a new Super Bowl commercial for Instacart. Even though Benson has never acted before, Stiller said, “He just has this incredible ability to put himself out there.”

“What I was most excited about is that this guy’s really an actor, and it was cool to see that, ‘Oh, he could do this if he wanted to do it,'” Stiller added.

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Spiritbox is headed back to the Grammys for the third straight year.

After being previously nominated in 2024 and 2025, the Canadian metallers are once again up for best metal performance for the 2026 ceremony with their song “Soft Spine.” For guitarist Mike Stringer, getting nominated for a Grammy feels like being “invited to the big kids table.”

“It’s a huge honor,” Stringer tells ABC Audio. “It’s something that you think about your entire life, and then when it happens, you’re like, ‘Holy s***.’ It’s very unbelievable.”

That feeling is only amplified once you actually arrive at the Grammys.

“It’s just a whole thing, it’s crazy,” Stringer says. “It’s something that you never think that you’re gonna be involved in, and then you get there, and it’s just, like, go go go. There’s all these people you never thought in a million years you’d be in the same room with, all these cameras, everyone’s dressed to the nines.”

We’ll see if the third time is the charm for Spiritbox, but Stringer says he’ll be happy either way.

“Honestly, if we’re invited, that’s incredible,” Stringer says. “If we win, that’s also incredible, but just being asked to go and being recognized by that whole board is just nuts.” 

The 2026 Grammys will air Sunday starting at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Spiritbox will be performing during the Grammy Premiere Ceremony, which streams on YouTube Sunday beginning at 3:30 p.m. ET.

The Grammys will air on ABC in 2027. 

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