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Zach Top just can’t get enough Cold Beer & Country Music. He’s extending his tour of the same name into the fall, playing some of his biggest venues so far. 

The “South of Sanity” hitmaker will make his headlining debut at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, as well as his first top-of-the-bill stop at San Diego’s Pechanga Arena, San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center, Jacksonville’s VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena and Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum. 

Lukas Nelson, Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives and Wyatt McCubbin will join him on the run, which kicks off Sept. 11 in Lake Tahoe and wraps Oct. 30 in Music City. 

Presales start June 10, before tickets become available to the public June 12. 

Zach takes the main stage at CMA Fest at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium on Saturday night. 

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Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has shared his thoughts about the Red Hot Chili Peppers rarely playing songs from the albums he appeared on.

Klinghoffer joined the Peppers in 2011, replacing John Frusciante, who took over on guitar in 1988 following the death of founding guitarist Hillel Slovak. Frusciante appeared on many of their hit albums, including 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik and 1999’s Californication.

Klinghoffer was with the group until 2019, when Frusciante returned, and appeared on 2011’s I’m With You and 2016’s The Getaway. In an interview with Guitar World, he was asked whether it bothered him that those albums are “ignored by the band.”

“Not really,” he replied. “It’s a funny thing. I guess it’s particular to the way John views the band when he’s not in it, and it makes sense to me. They have enough music that they don’t need to look to some of the other records.”

“I guess it’s just something unique to that band, you know? Having such a revolving door there, and such a strong presence in John,” he added. “He’s kind of the preeminent guitar player, you know? He’s the one who made the work with them where they experienced their global fame.”

Frusciante acknowledged that there seems to be “a little bit of a slight disrespect to the records that aren’t the John records. Once John’s back in the picture, it’s like the other records don’t exist.”

“That’s the only weird thing to me, because those records were important at the time, you know?” he said. “They were important enough to go and play them around the world.”

Klinghoffer’s solo project, Pluralone, will release the new album A Drop in the Ocean on June 12. 

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If you want to know what Olivia Rodrigo’s gone through romantically, just listen to her new album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.

Speaking to Dazed magazine, Olivia says, “This album is about my first time being in an adult relationship; it’s me discovering what romantic love looks like in real time. I’ve been in relationships before that were really exciting and tumultuous in a teenage way, but this was my first time being in a real, ‘big girl’ relationship.”

She adds, “When you’re in an intimate relationship, it holds up a mirror and shows you parts of yourself that you would never normally see. That was an endless source of inspiration – something that I’m still mining.”

When asked whether fans will find clues about her current relationship status in the album, Olivia says, “There’s a song for someone who’s going through any stage of a relationship. I mean, I never talk about my personal life in interviews or on any public forum, so I guess the music is where people would go to deduce things. But, you know, it’s just a song at the end of the day.”

There has been speculation that some of the album was inspired by Olivia’s rumored breakup with actor Louis Partridge, but it doesn’t seem to have destroyed her emotionally. She tells Dazed, “I just feel like heartbreak will never be as bad as it was when you were 17 years old. That breakup that I went through when I was 17… oh my God, nothing will ever be that tough ever again.”

She adds, “I also think going through a breakup can be a really awesome opportunity to redirect your life in a [way] that feels more aligned with who you are.”

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Lainey Wilson’s new radio single, “Phone, Keys, Wallet,” is a collab with John Mayer.

Mayer plays guitar on the track, which was recorded at his Chaplin Studios in Los Angeles. 

The new song was written during the final leg of Lainey’s Whirlwind World Tour. 

“I feel like a tornado with boots on half the time,” she says, “and this song is really about finding somebody who’s okay with that chaos and chooses to love you through it anyway.” 

Of course, Lainey tied the knot with longtime boyfriend Devlin “Duck” Hodges on May 10 in Tennessee.

“Phone, Keys, Wallet” follows Lainey’s recent releases, “Younger You” with Miley Cyrus and “Can’t Sit Still.”

She’s set to headline CMA Fest Saturday at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium. 

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Welcome to the three-comma club, Beyoncé.

She’s one of the new additions to Forbes’ 2026 America’s Richest Self-Made Women list. What put her over the top? According to the publication, it was her 2025 Cowboy Carter tour, which grossed more than $450 million in ticket sales and merchandise. Beyoncé is tied at #39 on the list with several other women, including fellow musician Rihanna.

With an estimated net worth of $1 billion, much of Rih’s wealth comes from her non-music ventures: Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty. The mother of three is reportedly working on a new album, which would be her first since 2016’s Anti.

The only other musician on the list is Taylor Swift, who ranks at #23 with a net worth of $2 billion.

Forbes also named Oprah Winfrey one of America’s richest self-made women; she lands at #16. She built a media and business empire from her hit talk show, has real estate in California and Hawaii, and in 2020 sold most of her stake in the OWN channel to owner Warner Bros. Discovery in exchange for company shares. Forbes estimates her worth at $2.8 million.

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Many rockers have had their instruments stolen, but few can say that their ordeal ended as happily as that of Korn bass player Ra Diaz.

According to the police department in Henderson, Nevada, several weeks ago Diaz’s entire bass collection was stolen from a storage unit — a collection he’d spent years building. But when a local saw one of the stolen basses being sold at a store, they called the Property Crimes Unit; an officer went on to recover every one of Diaz’s stolen instruments.

One of the recovered instruments is decorated with the Chilean flag, which Diaz had planned to play in his home country during the band’s concert there in May. In a new video posted by the department, Diaz, speaking from Chile, offered his thanks.

“Honestly, getting this Chilean flag bass [back] was pretty emotional. It means a lot to me personally … so having it again in my hands, it’s huge,” Diaz said. He added that he dedicated the band’s show to “not only all my Chilean friends and family and people” but also to “the men and women of the Henderson Police Department.”

He added, “We really appreciate everything you do for us, so thank you so much.”

In April, Korn premiered their first new music in four years with the single “Reward the Scars,” which they recorded for the Diablo IV video game.

Following a series of shows in South America and Mexico, Korn will start a run of European and U.K. dates in October.

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Carly Pearce is joining the lineup for Thursday’s free Billboard Country Live concert at Category 10 in Nashville. 

She’ll take the stage alongside previously announced acts The Red Clay Strays, Chase Rice, Corey Kent, Drew Baldridge, Hunter Hayes, Lanie Gardner, The Band Perry, The Grimm and Ty Myers.

Tucker Wetmore is Friday’s headliner, with Alana Springsteen, Alexandra Kay, Ashley Cooke, Braxton Keith, Kaitlin Butts, Priscilla Block, Something Out West and Stella Lefty all set to play as well.

Billboard kicked off its three-day takeover at Category 10 with Wednesday’s Country Power Players gathering. 

“The House That Built Me” co-writer Tom Douglas gave Miranda Lambert the Icon Award, while HARDY officially named Tucker Billboard‘s Rising Star.

Comedian Matt Rife presented the Strays the Groundbreaker honor, while Clint Black gave Riley Green the Hitmaker Award.

You can RSVP for the free shows at live.billboard.com/country. 

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