Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Zacky Vengeance has launched a new solo project under his birth name, Zachary Baker.
The debut Zachary Baker song is a country rocker called “Dark Horse.” You can watch its accompanying lyric video on YouTube.
“This is for the ones who never give up no matter what your story is,” Baker says in an Instagram post.
Avenged Sevenfold has previously showcased Baker’s singing on their annual Halloween Misfits covers, which feature his lead vocals.
Baker will be back to shredding with A7X on their 2026 tour with Good Charlotte, which kicks off in July. The band also released a new song, “Magic,” earlier in December.
‘One Battle After Another’ soundtrack artwork. (Nonesuch Records)
Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood is among the nominees for the Society of Composers & Lyricists’ 2026 SCL Awards.
The guitarist’s soundtrack to the Paul Thomas Anderson movie One Battle After Another is up for the outstanding original score for a studio film prize.
The 2026 SCL Awards take place Feb. 6 in Los Angeles.
Greenwood’s One Battle After Another score is also nominated for the 2026 Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, and is included on the 2026 Oscars short list.
After teasing Tuesday that a film documenting Lady Gaga‘s “secret” show in 2024 to promote Harlequin was “coming soon,” a date and theater have been announced.
The Grammy Museum in LA will host the premiere screening of LADY GAGA IN HARLEQUIN LIVE — ONE NIGHT ONLY on Thursday night, with Gaga in attendance to take part in a discussion about it. As previously reported, the show that the film captures took place in September 2024 and features Gaga performing the album in its entirety.
According to the museum, Harlequin was Gaga’s “first jazz-inspired album since the passing of her longtime collaborator Tony Bennett.” It — and the film — feature her performing original arrangements of standards like “I’ve Got the World on a String,” “That’s Entertainment,” “Oh, When the Saints” and more. It’s currently nominated for the Grammy for best traditional pop album.
Donovan Mitchell and Coco Jones attend day six of the 2025 US Open Tennis Championships at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 29, 2025, in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City. (Photo by Jean Catuffe/GC Images)
Coco Jones‘ fiancé, Donovan Mitchell, was interested in her long before they met. She tells Complex’s Tiffany Hunt that he’d actually slid into her DMs years back.
“He had known of me years before [we met] because Bel-Air had done a collab with his shoe line, so he’d kind of seen the show before it came out, and he was like, ‘Who that?’ And he said he hit me up on Instagram,” Coco recalled. “I ain’t see it though.”
The message he sent, according to Coco, was “something with a red heart.”
“I’m like, ‘Oh, good, that wouldn’t have worked anyway. I don’t want no heart, I don’t know you,’” Coco said of her reaction, adding that they were destined to be together.
“That’s how you know it’s above us. It’s God,” she said. “We’re meant to be.”
Coco and Donovan met at a “celebrity type of event,” started dating in 2023 and announced their engagement in July 2025. She clarified that she never tried to “hide” him, though she was intentional about keeping their relationship private.
Coco also shared that Donovan inspired her Why Not More? track “You” and appeared on the intro of her song “Thang 4 U.”
“He’s the voice on there, talking,” Coco said. “I don’t know if people can clock that, but I feel like Why Not More? is kind of the Coco leading up to being in love. … My next project will be just me in love.”
Dua Lipa performs in Belgium during her Radical Optimism tour, June, 2025 (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Getty Images for ABA)
Which pop star made the most money on the road in 2025? The same guy who made the most money on the road in 2018, 2019 and 2022.
Billboard has released its year-end Boxscore charts, ranking which tours were the most successful between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025. Among pop tours, Ed Sheeran‘s The Mathematics Tour was tops. Playing stadiums in Asia and Europe, the tour sold 1.9 million tickets and grossed nearly $215 million. His tours had earned him the #1 spot in three previous years.
Lady Gaga‘s Mayhem Ball tour was #2, grossing $166.2 million from shows in North America, Singapore and London, and selling 722,000 tickets. Dua Lipa‘s Radical Optimism tour, meanwhile, took in just over $141 million in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, selling 1.2 million tickets for the #3 spot.
Bruno Mars, who only performed in Las Vegas and Brazil during the eligible time period, still ended up at #4 on the list with $137 million. Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue came in at #5, marking her first appearance in the chart’s top 10 since 2011.
Sabrina Carpenter makes her first appearance in Billboard‘s year-end top 10, grossing just over $77 million on her Short n’ Sweet tour of Europe and North America — good enough for #6.
Here are the rest of Billboard‘s top 10 pop tours of the year:
7. Justin Timberlake, Forget Tomorrow World Tour of North America and Dublin, $76.2 million
8. Pink, Summer Carnival and Trustfall Tours of the U.S., $75.9 million
9. Tate McRae, Miss Possessive World Tour of Australia, North America and Europe, $75.8 million
10. Backstreet Boys, Into the Millennium residency in Las Vegas, $55.1 million
Keith Urban kicked off the week spreading some Christmas cheer to the patients and their families at Nashville’s Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
During his two-hour visit Monday afternoon, the Aussie superstar answered questions, took photos and gave an acoustic performance complete with a sing-along. He also donated guitars to the hospital’s music therapy program.
“We are truly grateful to Keith Urban for sharing his time to visit with children and families inside Seacrest Studios at Monroe Carell,” the hospital’s president, Meg Rush, said. “Keith is a wonderful friend to our hospital with several visits over the years. His thoughtful and generous gift of guitars to our Music Therapy Program will help us continue using music as added therapy to bring comfort and healing to children during their hospital stay.”
Keith seems to have a bit of time off from now through the beginning of 2026, as he doesn’t hit the road until March.
Young Thug proposes to Mariah The Scientist onstage during Young Thug & Friends: A Benefit Concert at State Farm Arena on December 16, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage)
Just days after appearing on Fridayy‘s “Death Do Us Part,” Mariah the Scientist has agreed to walk down the aisle and commit to vows of her own.
The singer said yes to longtime boyfriend Young Thug when he proposed Tuesday during his Hometown Hero: Young Thug & Friends — A Benefit Concert at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Footage from the moment shows Thug getting down on one knee with an engagement ring as the words “Will You Marry Me” appeared on the arena’s big screen.
The couple embraced before Mariah told him, “Put it on,” prompting Thug to slide the ring onto her finger. When he asked for her answer, she turned to the crowd and said, “I guess I’m getting married.”
The proposal came just days after Mariah shared her hopes for marriage during an interview with Angie Martinez, saying she envisioned getting married within the next five years.
“I want to be married,” she said. “I can’t speak for everybody, but that’s what I’m doing.”
Mariah the Scientist and Young Thug were first romantically linked in 2021. She stood by the rapper during his time behind bars on RICO charges, publicly supporting him throughout the legal battle. The couple briefly split in late September following the leak of audio in which Thug admitted to cheating, but they reconciled not long afterward.
Marilyn Manson performs at Pine Knob Music Theatre on August 07, 2024 in Clarkston, Michigan. (Scott Legato/Getty Images)
The sexual assault lawsuit that Marilyn Manson‘s former assistant Ashley Walters filed against the shock rocker has been dismissed, according to documents viewed by ABC Audio.
Walters first filed the lawsuit against Manson, born Brian Warner, in May 2021, months after his ex Evan Rachel Wood alleged that he’d abused her in a February 2021 Instagram post.
Walters’ suit was initially dismissed in 2022, with a judge ruling at the time that that statute of limitations on her claims had expired. Her case was revived in 2023 after an appeal, in which Walters’ lawyers argued that she’d repressed memories of Warner’s alleged assaults, and thus her claims could extend past that usual statue of limitations due to the delayed discovery rule.
However, in now dismissing Walters’ case once more, the judge ruled, “There is no triable issue of material fact.”
“Plaintiff’s claims are time barred,” the dismissal ruling reads.
“The fight is not over. This ruling only highlights the reason we stand with survivors and victims of abuse,” says James Vagnini of Walters’ law firm, Valli Kane & Vagnini LLP. “This is not a finding that Mr. Warner did not commit the heinous acts he’s been accused of. Rather, the court did not accept the reasons Ms. Walters set forth for coming forward with her claims when she did. We will continue our fierce support for Ms. Walters to ensure that perpetrators of physical, sexual and psychological abuse are not given a free pass by the legal system.”
“We are disappointed in this decision, but the fight is not over,” says Walters’ legal team with Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai, LLP. “The delayed discovery rule exists specifically to address situations like Ms. Walters’, where the abuser’s actions have prevented the victim from coming forward sooner. Abusers should not be able to benefit as a result of their abuse. Mr. Warner did not argue that he never committed these horrific acts against Ms. Walters, because he can’t. He hung his hat solely on the argument that it is too late to hold him accountable.”
“Victims deserve the ability to seek justice when their abuser has used tactics to prevent them from coming forward,” the statement continues. “This is a situation we see time and time again, and it seems the law hasn’t caught up to the science on what’s right for victims. But this is not the end of the road.”
Warner’s attorney, Howard King, says, “It’s gratifying, after all these years, to have a judge who carefully looked at the actual facts and concluded that, once again, Brian Warner was wrongfully accused. Justice delayed is still justice and is much appreciated even though it came with great personal cost. Now Brian can move on.”
Walters was one of several women to publicly accuse Warner of abuse following Wood’s initial post, along with actress Esmé Bianco and model Ashley Morgan Smithline. Bianco’s case was settled, while Smithline later recanted her allegations.
Warner denied all allegations and relaunched his career in 2024 with the album One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1. He’s also returned to touring.
If you are affected by abuse and needing support, or know someone who is, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). You can also chat online at thehotline.org or online.rainn.org, respectively.
Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox is the latest artist to record the theme song for the opening sequence of the Starz series Outlander.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer performs “The Skye Boat Song” for the show’s eighth and final season. It’s a 19th century Scottish song, with the show’s version using the text of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem “Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone,” although the lyrics have been changed to “sing me a song of a lass that is gone.”
“I’ve loved and sung ‘The Skye Boat Song’ since I was a young girl growing up in Aberdeen,” says Lennox, referring to her Scottish hometown. “It represents such an iconic part of Scottish culture and history and it’s a real honor to have been asked to record it for Outlander’s final season.”
Outlander has used “The Skye Boat Song” in the show’s opening since its debut in 2014, although it has featured a new performer and arrangement each season. The song was recorded by Sinéad O’Connor for season 7.
The eighth and final season of Outlander premieres March 6 on Starz.
Ed Sheeran just can’t stop performing. When he’s not doing his own concerts, he’s singing at bars or joining other artists onstage. On Wednesday he announced in an Instagram Story that he’s doing a holiday benefit show at an intimate venue in New York City on Thursday.
The show is calledChristmas Carols with Ed and Wheatus, Wheatus being the band best known for their song “Teenage Dirtbag.” It’s taking place at the chapel at The Bowery Mission, the beneficiary of the event. The Bowery Mission has been providing meals to the homeless and needy since the 1870s, according to the event information. This holiday season it will serve over 70,000 meals.
The wait list for tickets, which cost $115, is now open. The show is Thursday at 7 p.m. ET.
