Koe Wetzel’s ready to bring The Night Champion to Wranger National Finals Rodeo week in Las Vegas.
The “High Road” hitmaker will celebrate his latest album with a special show Friday, Dec. 11, at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
Presales kick off Tuesday, before tickets become available to the public on Friday.
Koe just released his new radio single, “Jaded” with Ella Langley, which is not part of The Night Champion.
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Despite what Marcus Mumford may sing, Mumford & Sons definitely didn’t eff it up this time with “Little Lion Man.”
The band’s breakout single, which introduced the world to their banjo-driven folk sound, has officially passed 1 billion streams on Spotify, making it the first Mumford & Sons song to join the streaming service’s Billions Club.
“Little Lion Man” was first released in 2009 as Mumford & Sons’ debut single and appeared on the band’s 2009 debut album, Sigh No More. It hit #1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart and was nominated for a Grammy.
Mumford & Sons have since released five more albums, the most recent of which being Prizefighter, which dropped in February.
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50 Cent is cashing in on Payday.
The rapper/producer has boarded the TV adaptation of the popular first-person shooter video game series. He’ll executive produce under his G-Unit Film & Television production company, alongside Vice Studios and Starbreeze Entertainment.
“G-Unit Film & TV has built cinematic crime stories that connect with audiences around the world,” 50 said in a statement. “Teaming up with Vice Studios and bringing the world of ‘Payday’ to the screen gives us the chance to build something big, a high-energy franchise that pushes the heist genre forward.”
50 posted about his involvement on the project on social media, writing, “I’m leaving no room for errors, When ever they go against me, you should run to poly market and bet on 50. PAYDAY is gonna be BIG I’m working.”
50 is currently executive producing Fightland on Starz. He also EPs the Power franchise at the network.
No word yet on when or where Payday will air.
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Backstreet Boys were supposed to be wrapping up their residency at Sphere Las Vegas in August, but the fans just won’t let them leave.
The group has announced three new dates for their Into the Millennium residency, taking place over New Year’s Eve weekend: Dec. 31, Jan. 1 and 2. Tickets for the new dates will be available via a Backstreet Boys Fan Club presale beginning Aug. 18 at 10 a.m. PT. You can sign up for the artist presale, which starts Aug. 19 at 10 a.m. PT, via LiveNation.com. The general sale starts Aug. 21 at 10 a.m. PT via BackstreetBoys.com.
Since the group launched their residency in July 2025, they’ve performed for more than 750,000 fans over 47 sold-out shows.
Backstreet’s current run of shows is set to wrap Aug. 29. On Sept. 25, they’ll launch a European residency in Düsseldorf, Germany, that is set to run through Oct. 7.
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In a quote posted to Instagram, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has described the track “Mr. Charm,” from the band’s latest album, Foreign Tongues, as “4 on the floor, it’s danceable,” and he is now proving it.
The rocker, whose dance moves inspired a Maroon 5 song, shared a video on Instagram of him dancing at a club to “Mr. Charm.” In the clip, the 83-year-old Jagger is shimmying his hips to the song, with his hands waving above him.
He captioned the post, “Enjoying the summer, hope you are too.”
The Rolling Stones released Foreign Tongues, their 25th studio album, in July. Produced by Andrew Watt, who also produced The Stones’ 2023’s Grammy-winning Hackney Diamonds, the album debuted at #1 in the U.K. and several other countries. In the U.S., it debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200.
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Two decades after the release of their fourth studio album, The Chicks are still Taking the Long Way, both on tour and via vinyl.
Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer will kick off their Taking the Long Way 20th Anniversary Tour Sept. 30 in Detroit, followed by the Oct. 2 rerelease of their album of the same name.
“It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Taking the Long Way,” the three say in a news release. “These songs take us right back to one of the most defining times in our lives, and it’s incredible how much they still resonate today.”
“We’re so excited to finally share some unreleased tracks and to perform the entire album on this tour,” they continue. “It feels like the perfect way to celebrate this journey with the fans who have been with us every step of the way.”
The Chicks have just added new stops in Philadelphia and Boston to the tour, where they’re set to perform the record in its entirety for the first time, followed by fan favorites. They’ve also tacked on a third show in L.A.
Taking the Long Way: 20th Anniversary Edition adds three unreleased demos and two rarities, “Thin Line” and “Live Wire,” which will be available to stream for the first time. You’ll also be able to hear the earliest versions of “So Hard,” “Flowers” and the album’s breakout track, “Not Ready to Make Nice.”
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He’s been a dominant persona in the world of hip-hop for more than three decades. He also remains the only living eyewitness to the drive-by assassination of Tupac Shakur.
And from prison, Marion “Suge” Knight said he still refuses to cooperate with law enforcement as prosecutors try to convict the only man ever charged in connection with the 1996 shooting of the legendary rapper.
“This trial has nothing to do with me and if somebody brings me there, it’s gonna hurt whoever brings me there. I promise you that,” Knight said in an interview last week with ABC News.
The 61-year-old Knight, now serving an unrelated 28-year sentence in California for voluntary manslaughter stemming from a 2015 fatal hit-and-run in Los Angeles, is well aware that jury selection starts Monday in Las Vegas in the trial of onetime Crips gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis. Nearly 30 years to the day that Shakur was gunned down in the passenger seat of a BMW Knight was driving, Davis is accused of murder for allegedly giving his crew the order to open fire on Shakur in retaliation for a fight.
In the months after Shakur succumbed to his injuries, Knight told ABC News he wouldn’t cooperate with law enforcement in their investigation because “I don’t get paid to solve homicides.”
Now locked up in a state penitentiary near San Diego, Knight hasn’t changed his tune.
“They make me come there against my will, if Keffe D’s lawyers bring me there, it don’t look good for him. If the prosecution brings me there, it don’t look good for them,” Knight said. “Leave me out of it.”
It was the night of Sept. 7, 1996, and Knight and Shakur were in Sin City to see Mike Tyson fight Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand. The bout was a big draw for glitterati, gangs and their entourages — particularly from Southern California.
Also in Vegas that night, according to prosecutors, was Davis, allegedly traveling with his nephew and several others.
When the action in the ring ended, another fight broke out in the casino lobby: Shakur and Knight encountered Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, Davis’ nephew. They were told Anderson had allegedly been involved in trying to steal a Death Row Records pendant months earlier — a major infraction in the hip-hop world.
Knight led Death Row. He and Shakur confronted Anderson and jumped him in a beatdown that was caught on hotel security cameras.
After it was over, detectives have said, Davis and his companions went searching for Shakur, allegedly to exact revenge. Authorities claim they waited at the Las Vegas night spot run at the time by Knight, but he and Shakur didn’t show. Soon after they left, the car in which Davis was allegedly riding wound up alongside the red BMW Knight was driving, according to Davis’ past accounts and prosecutors.
Shakur was hanging out of the car’s sunroof. Screaming fans were trailing them.
At a stoplight at the intersection of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, Shakur and Knight were shot. Knight was injured in the hail of bullets. Shakur, in grave condition, was rushed to the hospital. He died six days later.
“You have people who wasn’t there, wasn’t in the car, but they’re telling the story,” Knight told ABC News last week.
As years turned to decades with no charges filed in Shakur’s death, many observers thought the case would remain unsolved forever. But then, in September 2023, authorities arrested Davis, a self-confessed longtime leader of the Southside Crips from the Los Angeles community of Compton. He had retired to the Las Vegas suburbs.
Davis was charged with murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. He has been in custody ever since.
Through the course of public interviews, statements to law enforcement and even his own memoir, Davis has repeatedly admitted to his alleged role in Shakur’s death. He has pleaded not guilty since being arrested and, in a March 2025 jailhouse interview, told ABC News that his prior confessions were lies and that he is “innocent.” If convicted, the now-63-year-old will likely never walk out of prison a free man.
Once a jury is chosen, the trial is expected to last about four weeks. Knight is listed as a possible witness who prosecutors could call to testify.
In the interview last week, Knight continued to make no effort to hide his disdain for Davis. And still, with his own longstanding ties to the Bloods street gang in Compton, Knight insisted that he’s no rat.
“My loyalty to Tupac can never be compromised. Me as a man, what I believe in, can’t be compromised. I’m not there to help [Davis], and I’m damn not there to hurt him,” Knight said.
“To actually get on the stand, and point somebody out, it’s worse than taking a gun and shooting that man in the head. Because if you shoot a person in the head, they die once. If you get on the stand and you snitch on that person, they die a million times,” Knight continued. “I am not going to be responsible for sending another man to prison for the rest of his life. If God’s forgiving, who am I to think I’m bigger than God and don’t forgive? Because I’m not.”
Davis’ attorney did not respond to an ABC News request for comment on Knight’s statements. The Clark County District Attorney’s Office, prosecuting Davis, also declined to comment for this report.
Noting how many times Davis has admitted to his alleged role in Shakur’s death, Knight said he was amused at the idea Davis’ lawyers would plan to argue he wasn’t even in Las Vegas the night of the drive-by shooting.
“If that’s his defense, he might as well go out with a bang, and walking in, sock his lawyer right in the face because you already put yourself there,” Knight said of Davis’ alibi. “If somebody’s falling off the cliff, and you know this little twig, this little bitty flowers and daisies or whatever is not going to hold you up — but they’re still grabbing and trying. Knowing it’s not gonna hold them up, and that’s what he’s doing.”
Davis’ attorneys have tried — so far unsuccessfully — to keep Davis’ alleged public admissions out of trial. He has argued that he only confessed for profit and because he thought he had immunity from prosecution, stemming from a 2008 interview with a joint LA-federal task force.
“He felt he was untouchable,” Knight mused of Davis. “He wanted to just talk, talk, talk, talk. He kept talking until they put handcuffs on him.”
Knight told ABC News he doesn’t think it matters whether he testifies in Vegas.
“Everything he said and talked about, he already told on himself. So what are you going to do? Erase all the recordings of the interviews he did?” Knight said.
Thirty years after witnessing the killing of the rap star he helped create, Knight said he still misses Shakur.
“There’s not a day that goes by that me, personally, doesn’t think about Tupac, or I miss Tupac,” Knight said. “That’s my brother.”
While Shakur’s mark on music and culture is likely to come up during jury selection this week, it is also a feature in Knight’s own family, the hip-hop impresario said.
“My youngest son, his name is Legend. He plays basketball. He’s great at it. Sports, he’s smart in school, but on his own, he’s an artist. He’s a rapper. He’s only 16, and his favorite rapper is Tupac. His friends’ favorite rapper is Tupac. So this younger generation still believes and loves Tupac, my own son,” Knight said.
“Tupac is not here. Well, I wouldn’t say he’s not here because he’s in everybody’s mind, and the people who knew him, he’s in their heart,” Knight added.
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Soon you won’t have to watch Hey Jonas!, the new Jonas Brothers podcast, on your phone.
The podcast, featuring Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas and Joe Jonas and their guests discussing a wide variety of topics, is coming to Disney+. It’ll debut on the streaming platform and Hulu on Friday with a new episode focusing on Camp Rock 3, in which the group appears. That’s the same day Camp Rock 3 hits Disney+; it premieres on the Disney Channel on Thursday.
Additional episodes will follow, featuring the brothers’ appearance at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, which takes place Friday through Sunday in Anaheim, California.
In other Jonas news, they’ll bring their Burning Up Tour All Over Again to Madison Square Garden for three nights starting Aug. 20.
Disney is the parent company of ABC News and Hulu.
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Miranda Lambert’s taking her country disco album to the dance floor of the world’s largest honky-tonk.
“When I was in the studio recording Crisco, I kept picturing the rhinestone saddle at Billy Bob’s,” Miranda says. “It’s the perfect visual for a country disco album: honky tonk with some extra rhinestones and shine.”
“I’ve played some of my all-time favorite shows at Billy Bob’s and it felt like the best place to bring everyone together to have fun and live out the feeling of this album,” she adds.
The single show will take place Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Billy Bob’s Texas in Ft. Worth, just days after Crisco‘s Oct. 2 release.
Tickets go on sale Friday.
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KISS founding members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are ready to show off their athletic skills.
The rockers are set to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, on Saturday, when the Los Angeles Angels take on the Kansas City Royals.
“ready to Rock And Roll All Nite at the Big A?” read the post announcing their appearance. “Be sure to stay after the game for a KISS-themed postgame fireworks show!”
Tickets for the game are on sale now.
Simmons and Stanley are set to reunite again this November for the KISS fan convention, KISS Kruise: Land-locked in Vegas, happening Nov. 13-15 at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. In addition to two unmasked KISS performances, the event will include a tribute to their late bandmate Ace Frehley, who died in October 2025 at age 74.
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