2026 American Music Awards. (Courtesy of CBS and Dick Clark Productions)
Sombr will be performing at the 2026 American Music Awards.
The “back to friends” artist joins the lineup alongside the previously announced Twenty One Pilots, who’ve now been confirmed to be playing their single “Drag Path” during the show.
Other announced AMA performers include Hootie & the Blowfish, KATSEYE, Keith Urban, Maluma, Riley Green and Teddy Swims.
The 2026 AMAs will air May 25 on CBS and will stream on Paramount+. Sombr is nominated for seven awards, which is tied for second-most among all nominees.
Black Veil Brides have premiered a new song called “Cut,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, VINDICATE.
“Cut” features Lilith Czar, who’s married to BVB frontman Andy Biersack. Both are featured in the song’s accompanying video, which is described as a “live-action retelling” of the movie Corpse Bride.
“‘Cut’ is a song that for me, is one of those songs in your catalog that feels like you were able to achieve exactly what you wanted to achieve when making it,” Biersack says in a statement. “I feel like Lillith’s voice and presence on this song is absolutely perfect.”
He continues, “On the lyrical side, just knowing how much the concepts resonate with both me and Lilith makes it all the more special and then to get to shoot this incredible video together it just feels like a career highlight all around. It’s one of my favorite songs we’ve ever done.”
VINDICATE, the seventh Black Veil album and the follow-up to 2021’s The Phantom Tomorrow, drops Friday. It also includes the previously released songs “Certainty,” “Bleeders,” “Hallelujah,” “Revenger” and the title track.
Newcomer Stephen Wilson Jr. learned he’d picked up his first Academy of Country Music trophy for visual media of the year for “Cuckoo” on Wednesday.
It’s an impressive feat for the first-time nominee, as he beats out Megan Moroney’s “6 Months Later,” Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton’s “A Song to Sing,” Lainey Wilson’s “Somewhere Over Laredo” and Cody Johnson’s “The Fall.”
Stephen co-directed the video.
The recognition comes as his first radio single, “Gary,” has just cracked both the Mediabase and Billboard Country Airplay charts. The video for that song stars noted actor Gary Sinise.
Big Freedia performs during the 55th Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on May 02, 2026, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage)
Big Freedia has announced an EP with the late British producer, DJ, songwriter and trans rights activist SOPHIE. The untitled project will feature three songs created at SOPHIE’s home studio in LA, with Freedia writing the lyrics and SOPHIE handling production. The tracks were largely completed in one single afternoon back in 2016 and will be released to the world on June 19.
“Recording with SOPHIE is something I hold even closer to my heart now, especially after her passing,” Freedia said in a statement about the British star, who passed in January 2021 following an accidental fall in Athens. “She was an artist who showed the world that living boldly is your greatest power. With this EP, I want to show the world how loved she was and still is!”
The lead single, “Blaze That A**,” is set for release on May 22.
Big Freedia will then hit the road for her Big Freedom tour, which kicks off June 4 in Dallas and wraps on July 18 in St. Louis, Missouri. One dollar from every ticket sold will be donated to the Center for Working Families Fund.
Harry Styles, ‘Dance No More’ video still (Columbia Records)
Harry Styles leads a massive dance party in the new video for his song “Dance No More.”
The clip starts with Harry, who’s wearing red satin gym shorts, a shirt, tie, hoodie, blazer and sneakers, walking into a large empty space and starting to sing with his band in front of rows of empty chairs. Soon, a bunch of spectators appear and watch the performance.
Harry then starts thrusting, bumping, grinding and shaking his butt while shedding layers of clothing. The spectators start to mimic his movements, until they’re all magnetically pulled toward him, sliding and crawling on the floor just to get to him. From then on, everyone dances as one, with Harry, who eventually strips down to a tank top, seemingly controlling everyone’s movements.
And fun facts about the lyrics: When Harry sings “Keep your customer satisfied and live your life,” he’s quoting the 1970 song “Keep the Customer Satisfied” by Simon & Garfunkel. That song was the B-side to the duo’s classic tune “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” which inspired another track on Harry’s album, “Carla’s Song.”
Steve Cropper’s ‘Watching the Tide’ (Provogue/Artone Label Group)
Steve Cropper passed away in December, but fans will be getting new music from the late Booker T. and the M.G.’s guitarist this summer.
Watching the Tide, the album Cropper and his band The Midnight Hour were working on prior to his death, will be posthumously released on Aug. 28. It will feature guest appearances by Eric Clapton, Queen’s Brian May, ZZ Top’s Billy F Gibbons and The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood.
“Making music was Steve’s greatest joy,” says songwriter/producer Jon Tiven, a close friend of Cropper’s. He adds that Cropper was “so encouraged” by his 2024 album, Friendlytown, “He was adamant he wanted to do another record.”
Tiven says 10 of the 11 tracks on Watching the Tide were finished before Cropper’s death, and he got to hear them before he passed.
“I finished the mixes about a week-and-a-half before Steve passed and we brought a CD to him at the medical facility,” he says. “He called me the night before he passed to tell me how much he loved it. He was playing it for everyone who came to visit him, telling them it was the best record he’d ever made.”
Watching the Tide, the title a nod to the Otis Redding classic “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay,” which Cropper co-wrote, is available for preorder now.
Here is the track list: “Tandoori Chicken” “Ticket First” (feat. Eric Clapton) “My Angels Are Calling” (feat. Brian May & Billy F. Gibbons) “Until Now” (feat. Ronnie Wood) “Blood From A Stone” “Here & Gone” (feat. Ana Grosh) “It’s Gonna Get Worse” “Down & Out” “Stand Right Here” (feat. Billy F. Gibbons & Ana Grosh) “Tipoff To The Ripoff” “House Of Cards” “Tandoori Chicken Part 2”
Papa Roach has premiered a new song called “See U in Hell.”
The track features Indian rapper Hanumankind, and was recorded for the upcoming second season of the Netflix animated show Devil May Cry, which is based on the video game series of the same name.
You can watch the “See U in Hell” video, featuring Devil May Cry footage, on YouTube.
Devil May Cry season 2 premieres May 12. Its soundtrack also includes songs by Evanescence, Korn, Drowning Pool and Avril Lavigne.
A trailer for the first season of Devil May Cry was soundtracked by Papa Roach’s “Last Resort.” Season 1 also featured the Evanescence song “Afterlife,” which hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
Kenny Chesney was looking for a very specific kind of song to put out as his first new music in two years.
Then he realized he’d had it all along, though he was saving it for his “next songwriter-driven island project.”
“Once I realized what ‘Carry On’ could be, the song fell into place,” he explains. “Some songs are just fun to cut. As much as I loved what it was, when we started tracking, I realized this was the song I’d been looking for, the one that captures everything about how I try to live my life – and the way I think all the people who love these songs live their lives, too.”
“Carry On” drops Friday and is the first release on Kenny’s new HEY NOW Records partnership.
Miranda Lambert & Loretta Lynn at the 44th Annual CMA Awards at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on November 10, 2010 (Bryan Bedder/WireImage)
Miranda Lambert’s new single, “Crisco,” doesn’t officially drop for another week, but it’s already Loretta Lynn approved.
“You know the Lynn family loves some Crisco!” the late icon’s relatives wrote on her official account. “@mirandalambert we can’t wait to hear your new single when it comes out on May 15th. Mom would tell you that Crisco will do you right every time!”
Of course, the last line echoes Loretta’s tagline from her legendary commercials for the product during the ’80s. It’s also accompanied by a screen grab of her holding the Crisco can, alongside Miranda with a bedazzled version, since both the sound and the visuals of the new song play on the Crisco/disco rhyme.
Loretta presented Miranda with her first CMA female vocalist trophy in 2010, the same year the two collaborated on a new version of Loretta’s signature song with Sheryl Crow for the Coal Miner’s Daughter tribute album.
Olivia Rodrigo’s upcoming Unraveled Tour originally had 65 dates, but has now expanded quite a bit.
As Billboardnotes, Liv has added seven more shows in London, two more in Amsterdam and Barcelona, and one more in Paris. But she’s also added a bunch more shows in the U.S.
There’s one extra show in Boston in October, five new dates in L.A. in January and five additional shows in Brooklyn, New York, in February. The tour, with opening acts that include The Last Dinner Party, Wolf Alice and Grace Ives, has the same start date — Sept. 25 in Hartford, Connecticut — but it will now conclude May 10 in London.
All tickets go on sale to the general public Thursday at 12 p.m. local time on Olivia’s website.
The Unraveled Tour comes in support of Liv’s new album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, due out June 12.
