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.”
Harry Styles attends The BRIT Awards on Feb. 28, 2026 in Manchester, England. (Karwai Tang/WireImage)
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.
The Beaches at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on September 03, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Monica Schipper/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
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.
Nickelback got in on the April Fools’ Day fun with fake album news.
In a social media post, the Canadian rockers announced they’d be putting out a new record called San Quentin, featuring 15 versions of their single “San Quentin.”
Sample track names include “San Quentin (Live from Someone’s iPhone),” “San Quentin (And It’s the Same But There Are Three More Guitar Solos So It’s Not)” and “San Quentin (Taylor’s Version) (10 Minute Version).”
Also on the track list is a song called “The Betrayal (Act II)” — a reference to Nickelback previously releasing songs called “The Betrayal (Act I)” and “The Betrayal (Act III).”
The real “San Quentin” appears on Nickelback’s latest album, 2022’s Get Rollin’.
As for actual new Nickelback music, the band put out a single called “Bones for the Crows” in March. They also appear in a new commercial with rapper Megan Thee Stallion for Cheetos, which definitely sounds like an April Fools’ Day joke but is in fact very real.
Jethro Tull Under Wraps: The Unwrapped Edition (Rhino/Warner Music)
Jethro Tull is set to release a new box set highlighting their 15th studio album, Under Wraps.
Jethro Tull Under Wraps: The Unwrapped Edition is a five-CD + Blu-ray set that will feature a newly remixed version of the album, along with a newly remixed version of frontman Ian Anderson’s 1983 solo release, Walk Into Light.
While they are two separate albums, both represent a change in direction for Anderson, as they relied more on technology, including synthesizers and drum machines. The remixes, by musician Bruce Soord, include both the original drum sounds and 2026 traditional drum recordings.
The set also includes unreleased recordings from 1983, as well as a CD of a live show captured in 1984 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London for BBC Radio 1. In addition, the set includes a Blu-ray with stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes of the albums, plus promotional videos.
Jethro Tull Under Wraps: The Unwrapped Edition will be released May 15 and is available for preorder now.
Ashley Cooke’s music video for her new track, “xs,” finds the singer on the beach as it’s getting dark. You can check out the clip on YouTube.
The Band Perry has signed with Borchetta Entertainment Group’s management division, which is owned by Scott Borchetta, who helped build the band’s career on Big Machine.
“Farm Truck,” the new single from Love and Theft, is set to arrive May 15. The duo of Stephen Barker Liles and Eric Gunderson hit #1 with “Angel Eyes” in 2011.
Brandy recently added author to her resume, as she released her memoir, Phrases. Speaking to Robin Roberts on Good Morning America, she spoke about why she chose to open up about her life.
“To give my younger self a voice. To give my inner child a process to heal from the things that I went through with all of the scrutiny and pressures on my life growing up as a child star,” she says. “It was a … difficult time and I wanted to bring light to the stories that shaped me.”
Part of Brandy’s life story includes recently being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as well as the Boy is Mine tour with Monica.
“I hadn’t been onstage in such a long time. I hadn’t been in connection with my fans the way I should,” Brandy says, noting that the love and support from fans “reignited my whole life.”
With that renewed energy, she adds that she’s going to continue making music and is even open to a reboot of Moesha.
Whether through the book, music or television, Brandy wants her fans to know one thing.
“I’m a pure person, and I love what I do,” she says. “I’m so blessed to be able to do music and create at a high level and I’m just excited for my future.”
Flea at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Ser Baffo)
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has shared his thoughts on the new documentary The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel.
The Netflix film focuses on the early days of the Peppers, specifically the artistic vision of original guitarist Hillel Slovak, who died in 1988.
“I’m so grateful [the doc] exists, and that more people will know how much [Slovak] meant and continues to mean to us as a friend and bandmate,” Flea writes on his Instagram Story. “It is a beautifully made film and filled my heart up right to the top, not without a good dose of lifelong melancholy.”
Both Flea and RHCP frontman Anthony Kiedis were interviewed for the film, though when it was first announced they clarified their involvement in the project, saying they “had nothing to with it creatively.”
Flea, meanwhile, released his debut solo album, Honora, on Friday.
“The young kids would call this a teaser,” he wrote in a social media post about — well, it’s hard to tell.
The post’s visual is a video of TR eating marshmallows straight from the bag, as an instrumental groove plays.
If you glance at the comments, a potential theory starts to emerge. DJ/producer Marshmello weighed in, simply leaving three pairs of eyes to indicate he’s watching.
A collab with Thomas Rhett seems even more likely when you consider Marshmello already has considerable country cred, having done “One Thing Right” and “Miles on It” with Kane Brown and “Holy Water” with Jelly Roll.
Both of the Kane/Marshmello tunes made it all the way to #1.
Backstreet Boys in 1996 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Paul Bergen/Redferns)
The “Iris” meme, which has people sharing “what you were like in the ’90s” videos and photos to the soundtrack of the classic Goo Goo Dolls hit, has been used by multiple celebrities, but on Wednesday Backstreet Boys decided to use it for an April Fools’ Day joke.
The group posted video of themselves in the present day with the text, “Dad(s), what were you like in the 90s?” At this point, you’d expect videos and photos to follow showing Backstreet around 1996, when they started having their first success. But instead, the rest of the post is made up of photos of *NSYNC from around the same time period.
“Ain’t no lie,” they captioned the post. That, of course, is a line from *NSYNC’s song “Bye Bye Bye.”
Fans thought it was hysterical, jumping into the comments to write, “Genius,” “Diabolical” and “Oh, I needed that laugh.” Another wrote, “LOL I nearly sprayed my Red Bull through my nose.”
Of course, the members of *NSYNC and Backstreet are friends; any reports of their “feud” back in the day were exaggerated for press purposes.
