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Courtney Love and Dave Grohl have certainly had their issues in the past, but the Hole frontwoman says that they’re now good. Still, she wishes Grohl would say that, too.

“Grohl, come out with it and just say we’re cool,” Love says on the latest episode of Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast. “Be man enough to man up.”

She continues, “We’re cool, but you won’t say it because you’re afraid you’ll lose your audience, you’re afraid it’ll affect your relationship with literal Paul McCartney?”

“Dave, it would really behoove me if the straight white males that are your base, if you will, stop picking on me,” Love adds.

Love, of course, was married to Grohl’s Nirvana bandmate, the late Kurt Cobain. Following Cobain’s death in 1994, Love was involved in a legal battle with Grohl and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic over plans to put out unreleased Nirvana music.

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If you’ve wondered what’s become of Dan + Shay since they were largely absent from the public eye in 2025, the answer will start to appear Thursday at 11 p.m. CT.

That’s when their new single, “Say So,” arrives. 

“We’ve been working on a lot of new music,” Shay Mooney tells ABC Audio. “This is the first time in our entire career that we haven’t done a full tour. You know, we did some private stuff and things like that, but for the most part, we got to spend all of our time in the studio, which is kinda why we forgot to post on social media. We were just kinda working.”

“It was never the intent to fully go away,” he continues. “People were like, ‘Did Dan + Shay, did they break up this time? What happened?’ But we’ve just been in the studio.”

“We’re having more fun than we ever have. And a lot of new music [is] coming out.”  

“Say So” is presumably the first taste of the duo’s sixth studio album, the follow-up to 2023’s Bigger Houses. Of course, Shay and Dan Smyers also put out their holiday collection, It’s Officially Christmas: The Double Album, in 2024.

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Fetty Wap is “back in the studio,” and he tells The Fader “it feels good” to return. He recently released his new album, Zavier, which finds him opening up in ways fans have never seen before. 

“The world really don’t know nothing about me. I don’t like to talk about myself,” he says. “I’ve never let people in my personal space.”

While he’s shared parts of himself through music, Fetty says he’s “more aggressive but also more approachable” on his new album.

“I’m down to sit down and talk about me now,” he tells Fader. “Like, you want to know something, I got you. That’s the whole Fetty Wap versus Zavier thing.”

“Fetty Wap was more young, reckless, wild — if the homies can’t get in with me, we not going,” he continues. “Zavier’s like, tell the homies if they can’t find their way there, they not going. He’s on a mature level. He’s a grown man. … He’s protecting everything around him this time, but also protecting himself first.”

One of the album’s most personal moments comes on the song “Remember,” where Fetty reflects on the lack of support he felt early in his career.

“I’m basically telling people the love that everybody showing me now when I was home, they didn’t show it like that,” Fetty says. “I appreciate all this love now, but it wasn’t there. This wasn’t that then. So I’m [letting] you guys know, this is how I was feeling.”

“[T]hat was probably the hardest thing to admit to the world,” he adds. “I felt like I was left out.”

On how he feels about his “underdog career,” Fetty says, “I love being challenged. … I’ma always find my way out of it. And I’ma come out winning.”

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The Temper Trap has announced the details of the band’s first album in 10 years.

The “Sweet Disposition” outfit’s long-awaited fourth studio effort, the follow-up to 2016’s Thick as Thieves, is called Sungazer and is due out July 10.

“With time apart and much personal growth from us all, Sungazer feels like it’s captured the most pure
collection of music we’ve ever made,” The Temper Trap says in a statement. “We had more fun making this record and in the writing room than on any of the previous records we’ve done.”

“We’re in a great place creatively and in our friendships, we’re closer than ever,” the band adds. “Being back into the studio together really felt like coming home.”

Sungazer includes the single “Giving Up Air,” which is currently charting on the Billboard Alternative Airplay tally, as well as the released songs “Into the Wild” and “Lucky Dimes.” The title track is also out now.

You can catch The Temper Trap live opening for Muse starting in July.

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Shinedown is teasing another new song from the band’s upcoming album, EI8HT.

In a video posted to Facebook, frontman Brent Smith mouths along to a track in which he sings, “Where is the outlaw in you?” Indeed, the EI8HT track list includes a song called “Outlaw.”

The post also includes Friday’s date, April 3.

EI8HT, the follow-up to 2022’s Planet Zero, is due out May 29. It also includes the singles “Dance, Kid, Dance,” “Three Six Five,” “Searchlight,” “Killing Fields,” and “Safe and Sound.”

Shinedown will launch a U.S. tour in May.

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Did you know that Harry Styles has helped send strangers to therapy? Well, sort of.

As People reports, a woman named Elena Kilgore started a line of charity merch in 2021 called Other People Fund, with the goal of using proceeds to pay for therapy sessions for those who can’t afford them. The name comes from the slogan printed on the t-shirts and totes: “I think we should see other people — and by other people, I mean therapists.”

So what does that have to do with Harry? Elena told People that when she was designing the merch with a graphic designer, she described her vision as, “I want it to be something Harry Styles would wear.” That led her to contact his stylist, Harry Lambert, to share the designs, noting the singer has always been pro-therapy.

Soon after, she heard back.

“I had a DM, a message on my website, an email, all of these message,” she said. “It was Harry Lambert and he said, ‘Do you ship to the U.K.? I want to buy a shirt. How do we get a shirt? This is awesome.'”

Elena sent him two shirts and a tote, which Harry was later spotted carrying, bringing attention to the brand. As a result, Elena said, sales went through the roof.

“We did around $40,000 in sales, so Harry like is singularly responsible for hundreds of people being able to go to therapy,” she explained.

According to Elena, all proceeds go toward funding therapy through her nonprofit, Support for the Psyche. Most applicants receive an average of three therapy sessions.

So far, she said the initiative has funded 1,300 sessions through merch sales.

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The Beaches will be honored with the Global Force Award at the 2026 Billboard Women in Music gala, taking place April 29 in Los Angeles.

The award recognizes the “Blame Brett” outfit, which hails from Canada, for their international success.

“The Beaches represent exactly the kind of Canadian talent that resonates far beyond our borders,” says Billboard Canada and Billboard UK President Mo Ghoneim. “At Billboard Canada, our role is not only to spotlight artists at home, but to help create meaningful pathways onto the global stage. Celebrating them at Billboard Women in Music in the U.S. reflects both their undeniable impact and the growing influence of Canadian artists worldwide.”

Other 2026 Billboard Women in Music honorees include Tate McRae, Teyana Taylor and Kehlani.

The Beaches are coming off winning two awards at the 2026 JUNOs, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys.

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