Music Notes: Maino, Lil Baby, Lil Poppa and more

Music Notes: Maino, Lil Baby, Lil Poppa and more
Music Notes: Maino, Lil Baby, Lil Poppa and more

Maino has responded to jabs 50 Cent made on “No More Tricks, No More Tries” featuring Max B and its accompanying video. In the diss track “Bleed Like Us,” he mentions the domestic violence allegations against 50, suggests he’s working alongside authorities and claims he’s lying about having been shot nine times. There’s also some wordplay including the titles of 50’s “Wanksta” and Get Rich or Die Tryin’.

The music video for Lil Baby’s “Mrs. Trendsetter” has dropped. It finds a woman waking up at 5 a.m. and making her way to the gym, where she, Lil Baby and a group of other women are seen exercising. She then follows up her workout by texting a group chat titled “Trendsetters,” which includes several different women who are masters in their fields. The video gives fans a glimpse of each of their respective days at work, with Lil Baby featured in most of the scenes. They eventually come together for a night out at a club and let loose. 

Family, friends and supporters of Lil Poppa attended a Jacksonville City Council meeting Tuesday night to try to get a day declared in his honor. First Coast News reports they’re urging council members to create a remembrance day, Lil Poppa Day, on March 18, which was the rapper’s birthday. They note it could serve as inspiration for youth who watched Lil Poppa grow into national stardom while highlighting mental health awareness. Jacksonville City Council member Rahman Johnson said he’s been talking to the mayor’s administration about honoring Poppa with a remembrance day. A representative from the mayor’s office said they’re working on a proclamation to honor the late rapper.

Tyla’s “Chanel” leads Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart dated March 4. It’s now her second #1 on the list, following “Water.” 

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311 announces 2027 311 Day concert cruise

311 announces 2027 311 Day concert cruise
311 announces 2027 311 Day concert cruise
Nick Hexum of 311 performs in concert during Rocklahoma at Rockin’ Red Dirt Ranch on August 31, 2025 in Pryor, Oklahoma. (Gary Miller/Getty Images)

311 will return to the high seas in 2027 for the 311 Day concert cruise.

The seafaring celebration sets sail from Miami on March 10, and will make port in Jamaica and Grand Cayman before returning on March 15.

For ticket info, visit 311Cruise.com.

311 celebrated 311 Day 2026 with shows in Las Vegas, which included performances with the Blue Man Group.

In other 311 news, the band has unearthed their throwback 7-Eleven-inspired T-shirt, which features the 311 name stylized like the convenience store franchise’s logo. The shirt is now available for the first time in nearly 30 years as an official collaboration with 7-Eleven.

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Billy Idol documentary ‘Billy Idol Should Be Dead’ to stream on Hulu

Billy Idol documentary ‘Billy Idol Should Be Dead’ to stream on Hulu
Billy Idol documentary ‘Billy Idol Should Be Dead’ to stream on Hulu
Poster for ‘Billy Idol Should Be Dead’ (Live Nation Studios)

After being released in theaters earlier in March, the new Billy Idol documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead is coming to streaming.

The film, directed by three-time Grammy winner Jonas Åkerlund, is set to debut on Hulu March 26.

To coincide with the announcement, a new clip from the film has just been released to YouTube, in which Idol discusses his idea of meshing dance music and punk rock, which led to him working with producers Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey.

Billy Idol Should Be Dead explores the rock star’s career and personal life, and features never-before-seen archival and personal interviews with Idol. The film also features interviews with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan, The Who’s Pete Townshend, Miley Cyrus and others.

Idol was recently announced as one of the nominees for this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class. Voting is now open at RockHall.com.

(Video includes uncensored profanity.)

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Nashville notes: CMHoF welcomes Clint Black exhibit + Brandy Clark show

Nashville notes: CMHoF welcomes Clint Black exhibit + Brandy Clark show
Nashville notes: CMHoF welcomes Clint Black exhibit + Brandy Clark show

Conner Smith’s new album, Stories I’ve Never Told — Acoustic Tapes, will arrive on Friday, featuring six songs Conner wrote, as well as a cover of Zac Brown Band’s “Free.” He’s currently working on more new music to arrive later this year.

Clint Black’s new exhibit, The Hard Way on Purpose, is set to open at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on April 22. Scheduled to run through August 2027, it coincides with his autobiography, Killin’ Time: My Life and Music, which comes out May 19.

Brandy Clark will bring her Art of the Storyteller tour to the CMA Theater in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on April 21, with Walker Hayes set to open. Tickets go on sale Friday. 

 

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Jay Weinberg selling used drum kits, masks & outfits from time in Slipknot

Jay Weinberg selling used drum kits, masks & outfits from time in Slipknot
Jay Weinberg selling used drum kits, masks & outfits from time in Slipknot
Jay Weinberg attends the ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ red carpet during the 63rd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on September 28, 2025 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for FLC)

Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg is selling personally used items from his days with the masked metallers in his own shop on the online gear marketplace Reverb.

The shop will include drum kits and accessories, as well as stage-worn masks and outfits, plus signed memorabilia. 

Also available will be the kit that Jay played on Bruce Springsteen’s 2009 Working on a Dream tour, during which he filled in for his dad, usual E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg.

Jay’s Reverb shop will launch March 18. For more info, visit Reverb.com.

Jay parted ways with Slipknot in 2023. He released his debut solo single, “Sandstone,” in 2025.

Another new song, called “Drone Operator,” is due out Friday.

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Yes to release expanded edition of 2019 mini album ‘From a Page’

Yes to release expanded edition of 2019 mini album ‘From a Page’
Yes to release expanded edition of 2019 mini album ‘From a Page’
Cover of Yes’ ‘From A Page’/ (Yes Records)

Yes is set to release an expanded and remastered edition of their four-song mini album From a Page.

Originally released in 2019, From a Page featured previously unreleased tracks taken from 2010 Yes recording sessions for the album that would eventually become 2011’s Fly From Here.

The new reissue is now being expanded to 15 tracks, made up of the four original songs, plus alternative takes and demos of songs, some of which wound up on Fly From Here.

The new reissue was overseen by Oliver Wakeman, son of Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who produced the original From a Page release and also played in the band from 2009 to 2011.

From a Page (Deluxe Edition) will be released April 24 as a two-CD or two-LP box set. The CD set includes a booklet with expanded liner notes from Oliver Wakeman, a poster and five art cards.

From a Page (Deluxe Edition) is available for preorder now.

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Kix Brooks offers Hope on the Inside through writers round

Kix Brooks offers Hope on the Inside through writers round
Kix Brooks offers Hope on the Inside through writers round
Vince Gill & Kix Brooks (Rick Diamond/WireImage)

Country Music Hall of Famers Kix Brooks and Vince Gill are coming together for a writers round in Nashville to raise money for a nonprofit Kix co-founded. 

Kix started Hope on the Inside with fellow Louisiana native Briana Calhoun in 2023 to help people in correctional facilities.

“I can’t wait to share what is going to be a really special night with some of Nashville’s most prolific songwriters, great artists and inspiring stories,” Briana says. “Hope on the Inside’s mission and success in rehabilitation support programs is offering true second chances to those who might otherwise never get one.”

Kix and Vince will be joined by legendary songwriters Bob DiPiero and Tim Nichols. Bob wrote George Strait’s “Blue Clear Sky” and Faith Hill’s “Take Me As I Am,” while Tim is the force behind Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” and Jo Dee Messina’s “Head Carolina, Tails California.”

Tickets for the April 2 show at Nashville’s Listening Room are on sale now

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Melissa Auf der Maur to guest on Billy Corgan’s ’The Magnificent Others’ podcast

Melissa Auf der Maur to guest on Billy Corgan’s ’The Magnificent Others’ podcast
Melissa Auf der Maur to guest on Billy Corgan’s ’The Magnificent Others’ podcast
Melissa Auf der Maur performs at Highline Ballroom on March 3, 2011 in New York City. (Ben Hider/Getty Images)

Melissa Auf der Maur will be the next guest on Billy Corgan’s podcast, The Magnificent Others.

The episode will premiere on March 17, the same day the former Hole bassist, who also briefly played with Corgan in The Smashing Pumpkins, releases her memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry.

“The two revisit their time together in The Smashing Pumpkins, while reflecting on their origins in the alternative rock scene and the personal stories that inspired Auf der Maur’s memoir,” a press release says of the conversation.

Along with putting out a book, Auf der Maur will be playing shows with former bandmate Courtney Love. After teasing the shows as a “tour,” Love clarified a Hole reunion is still not happening.

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After calling out Timothée Chalamet, Doja Cat admits, ‘I’ve never been to a ballet. I’ve never seen an opera’

After calling out Timothée Chalamet, Doja Cat admits, ‘I’ve never been to a ballet. I’ve never seen an opera’
After calling out Timothée Chalamet, Doja Cat admits, ‘I’ve never been to a ballet. I’ve never seen an opera’
Doja Cat performs at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, November 8, 2025 (Disney/Frank Micelotta)

In response to Timothée Chalamet’s claim that “no one cares” about opera or ballet, Doja Cat posted and then deleted a TikTok calling out the actor for his comments. Now she’s coming clean about the fact that her Chalamet response was just “virtue signaling.”

In her deleted TikTok addressed to Timothée, Doja said, “Your industry has a tough time. My industry has a tough time. Doesn’t mean people don’t care about it. People care. … There’s still an audience. People give a f***.”

But Doja said in a follow-up TikTok, “I am gonna come out and just say that I know nothing about opera. I know nothing about ballet.” She added, “I’ve never been to a ballet. I’ve never seen an opera.”

“What I was doing yesterday was virtue signaling, because I wanted to connect, and I knew that Timothée’s goof-up was something that I could leverage in order for people to connect with me and f*** with me,” she said.

“And it’s easy,” she continued. “It’s a modern way to garner clicks, likes, approval and all kinds of things like that from people. And so I did that yesterday, and I didn’t really think about why I was doing it. … Am I proud of it? No.”

She concluded, “It just kind of furthers the fact that sometimes I think s*** and then I’m like, ‘Never mind.’ So never mind.”

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See what happens when Chris Janson teams up with David Lee Murphy for ‘Fun’

See what happens when Chris Janson teams up with David Lee Murphy for ‘Fun’
See what happens when Chris Janson teams up with David Lee Murphy for ‘Fun’
Chris Janson’s ‘Fun’ (Harpeth 60 Records/Warner Music Nashville)

The men behind “Buy Me a Boat” and “Dust on the Bottle” are getting together to have some “Fun.” 

Chris Janson teased his new collaboration with David Lee Murphy on his socials on Wednesday.

“They can’t say we didn’t have fun! New song and music video feat. @davidleemurphy out Friday,” he revealed, along with a snippet of the video.

“We had a truckload of it/ Fun/ Yeah, we couldn’t get enough of it/ Fun’s what you get when we all get together/ Say what you want, but you can’t say we didn’t have fun,” the two sing in a clip that shows them doing exactly that. 

“Fun” follows “Easy to Love, Harder to Hold,” which Chris put out at the end of January. 

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