Brent Smith of Shinedown performs in concert during Rocklahoma at Rockin’ Red Dirt Ranch on August 31, 2025 in Pryor, Oklahoma. (Gary Miller/Getty Images)
Shinedown has added four dates to their upcoming Dance, Kid, Dance Act II U.S. tour.
The newly announced shows take place July 26 in Charlotte, North Carolina; July 28 in Camdenton, Missouri; Sept. 5 in Grand Island, Nebraska; and Sept. 7 in St. Louis.
The bill will also include Skillet and From Ashes to New in Charlotte; From Ashes to New in Camdenton; Dexter and the Moonrocks in Grand Island; and Winona Fighter in St. Louis.
Presales begin Wednesday, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For all ticket info, visit Shinedown.com.
The Dance, Kid, Dance Act II tour, the sequel to 2025’s Dance, Kid, Dance tour, launches in May. It supports the upcoming new Shinedown album, EI8HT, due out May 29.
Kehlani is set to perform as the latest guest on Amazon Music Presents: In the Paint, “which brings basketball and music together by reimagining artists’ most essential songs in a cinematic, courtside setting,” as per a press release. Her episode premieres Thursday and will air during the NBA on Prime Video postgame show, NBA Nightcap, after its New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics livestream. It arrives ahead of her self-titled album, due out April 24.
It’s Been Awful for Isaiah Rashad, and he’s planning to explain how. His new album, his first in five years, is set to release May 1. He announced the news via a cinematic trailer, which shows the rapper with open, bloody wounds as he limps across a field after seemingly being beaten. It ends with him lying on the ground as two people stand over him. It’s Been Awful will serve as the follow-up to 2021’s The House is Burning. Its single, Same Sh!T, is now available for presave. A snippet of an instrumental can be heard on the website.
Al Green, Patti LaBelle and Public Enemy are on the lineup for the Stern Grove Festival, a set of free concerts taking place in San Francisco this summer. Patti is scheduled to play on Aug. 9, and Public Enemy will take the stage on Aug. 15. Al’s performance will follow on Aug. 16.
Beyoncé’s Lemonade is the latest album to get the Rockabye Baby treatment. The songs have been reimagined as instrumental lullabies and compiled on an album titled Lullaby Renditions of Beyoncé’s Lemonade. It arrives on Friday and follows the 2017 release Lullaby Renditions of Beyoncé. The animation for “Hold Up” is available to watch on YouTube.
BTS has dropped the third visual from their new album, ARIRANG. This one is for “Hooligan,” and it’s a futuristic scenario where the guys perform with a crew of masked dancers, attend what looks like a goth cocktail party, dance on a red platform and sing in dark room as people fly above them. There’s also a black-and-white sequence where a masked woman twirls swords around, and a scene where RM raps into a microphone that looks like it was made out of human bones and power cables. “Hooligan” follows the videos for “SWIM” and “2.0.”
Teddy Swims has revealed when we can hear his new song: “Mr. Know-It-All” arrives Thursday at 6 p.m. ET. It’s not clear if it’s a standalone single, or the first taste of a new album.
Want to live in the mansion that Sabrina Carpenter robbed in her video for “House Tour”? According to Wallpaper, the 13,000-square-foot home in the Hollywood Hills is on the market for $36.8 million. If you’d prefer to rent, it’s just $165,000 per month. That does get you an infinity pool, a basement nightclub, a firepit, an outdoor kitchen, six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms.
Starting Wednesday on YouTube, you can watch a video series documenting the recent concerts that Freya Skye played in London. Called Freya Skye Stars Align Tour: Live from London, it premieres at 4 p.m. ET on Freya’s YouTube channel. Meanwhile, Freya’s hit “silent treatment” just became her first to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Peter Frampton is releasing a brand-new album, Carry the Light, on May 15, and the release will be celebrated with a unique piece of memorabilia.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer announced that a limited-edition turntable will be released alongside the album. The hand-decoupaged item will feature the Carry the Light album cover artwork, will be hand autographed by Frampton and will be covered in a gloss finish.
In addition to vinyl, the turntable has the ability to stream smartphone audio through built-in Bluetooth speakers. It also features a headphone jack for personal listening.
Only 100 turntables are available for purchase and can be preordered now.
Carry the Light will be Frampton’s first album of all-new material in 16 years. The album features guest appearances by such artists as Sheryl Crow, Graham Nash, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ keyboardist Benmont Tench, Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, H.E.R. and saxophonist Bill Evans.
Madonna leaves the Hotel Amen on her way to the Hotel Gritti in Venice, Italy, where season 2 of ‘The Studio’ is filming, March 16, 2026. (Stefano Mazzola/Getty Images)
All those photos and videos from the set of The Studio season 2 showing Madonna and Julia Garner together? It turns out there’s a definite method behind their madness, and it has to do with Madonna’s now-abandoned biopic.
You may recall that Madonna was going to direct a movie about her life, with Julia starring as the Material Girl. The project was shelved in 2023, and Madonna subsequently launched her Celebration Tour. But Variety, citing sources, reports that a major plot point in The Studio season 2 will involve the nonexistent film.
The show’s Continental Studios, the fictional company run by Seth Rogen’s character, will be portrayed as the producer of the project. In that capacity, it will bring the Madonna biopic to the Venice Film Festival. Madonna and Julia also attend in order to promote the film and drum up Oscar buzz. Madonna won’t be the film’s director in the fictional world of the show, however. The whole thing will play out over two episodes, Variety reports.
Meanwhile, Netflix is reportedly developing a TV series about Madonna’s life that’s unrelated to the movie; Julia isn’t part of that project.
Country Music Hall of Famer Ray Stevens is recovering at home from a March 29 fall that left him with a broken neck. According to a news release, he’s “fully mobile and in good spirits,” though he has to wear a neck brace for a month. His latest album, Favorites Old & New, comes out Friday.
Jamey Johnson remembered Merle Haggard with his cover of 2010’s “Pretty When It’s New” on Monday, the anniversary of the Hag’s birth and death.
Craig Campbell’s 12th annual Celebrity Cornhole Challenge will take place Tuesday, June 2, at Nashville’s 6th & Peabody in the days leading up to CMA Fest. He’ll announce the stars set to play on May 1. All proceeds go to the Kenny Campbell Foundation, named for Craig’s father, who died of colorectal cancer at age 36.
With just six words, Marshmello solved the mystery that Thomas Rhett started last week with a “teaser” that was simply a video of him eating marshmallows out of the bag with an instrumental music bed behind it.
“Where We Go available everywhere Friday,” the DJ/producer said in a joint post on both artists’ accounts.
The update was accompanied by a photo of the two leaning against a truck bed, with Thomas in camo and jeans, while Marshmello sported his signature marshmallow-esque headpiece.
There’s also a video preview of the song, with TR and ‘Mello bopping along as Thomas Rhett sings: “Gonna drive all night, say goodbye to the city, hit the dashboard with a little Conway Twitty/ Get your blue eyes shinin’ on the moonlight pretty/ I don’t care where we go as long as you’re here with me.”
It’s not clear whether “Where We Go” could be the beginning of Thomas’ next record or not. In October 2025, he released the deluxe version of About a Woman, the expansion of his seventh studio album that originally came out in August 2024.
Taylor Swift performs at Optus Stadium on Oct. 19, 2018 in Perth, Australia. (Don Arnold/TAS18/Getty Images)
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour was such a juggernaut that it’s easy to forget she had several impactful tours prior to that, and one of them helped inspire Anne Hathaway’s new movie. No, not The Devil Wears Prada 2, a different one.
The movie Mother Marycasts the actress as a major pop star known as Mother Mary, who’s seen performing songs that were written by Charli XCX, producer Jack Antonoff and others. But to stage the concert sequences, director David Lowery tells Empire magazine that his touchstone was the concert film that captured Taylor’s 2018 tour.
“Her Reputation concert film is one of the best concert films ever. It’s truly phenomenal. And for our concert sequences we looked at that repeatedly,” he tells Empire. “You would not believe the amount of time we were talking about Taylor.”
Lowery notes that he and his team specifically looked at three songs and broke them down shot by shot.
“[We] looked at them like, ‘Okay, if we were doing these, how much would these shots cost to do in visual effects?’” he explains. “We used that as a budgeting tool, because we didn’t know how to wrap our heads around actually pulling off a stadium concert-show on a minimal budget. We were literally using Reputation as a guide. I can go on about Reputation all day.”
And in terms of Hathaway’s character, Lowery said, “I definitely brought a lot of Taylor Swift to the table in terms of who Mother Mary was. I would often would be like, ‘Imagine Taylor Swift in ten or 15 years – that’s sort of who this character could be.’”
Robert Plant performs with his band Saving Grace at Harrah’s Resort Southern California on November 23, 2025 in Valley Center, California. (Photo by K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune via Getty Images)
Robert Plant is headed to late-night TV.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and his band Saving Grace are set to perform on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday.
Plant previously appeared on The Late Show back in November, sitting down for an interview with Colbert in which they nerded out over The Lord of the Rings and author J.R.R. Tolkien.
Robert Plant and Saving Grace with Suzi Dian are set wrap a U.S. tour on Tuesday at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. They then bring their tour to Argentina and Brazil starting May 10 in Buenos Aires, followed by dates in Croatia, Greece and more in June and July. A complete list of dates can be found at RobertPlant.com.
Robert Plant and Saving Grace released their self-titled debut album in September. The album, which was recorded between April 2019 and January 2025, has them covering songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley of Moby Grape, Blind Willie Johnson and more.
