Summer Walker attends the 2024 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 30, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Broccoli City has created an experience for the R&B lovers around the world. The organization has unveiled the Holding Hands R&B experience, with Summer Walker at the top of the bill.
Other performers include Elmiene, Destin Conrad and kwn, with J Rich & Jabari of R&B Only and Smacks the DJ representing organizer Club 1BD also having their own sets.
Attendees can even expect art, activations, food and more.
“Bring your bae, your day ones, your family, or just yourself. Pull up under the pavilion or find your spot on the lawn with the people you love. The music is going to do the rest,” a post on Broccoli City’s Instagram reads.
A presale for tickets is currently underway.
Holding Hands is set to take place Sept. 19 at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia. According to the caption, it “is going to be a movie.”
Gorillaz performs on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
The immersive Gorillaz exhibition House of Kong is coming to New York City.
The exhibit will be open at the Agger Fish Building in Brooklyn from Sept. 1 to Sept. 28. Presales begin June 29 at 10 a.m. ET, and tickets go on sale to the general public on June 30 at 10 a.m. ET.
“House of Kong is not a retrospective, it’s an audio-visual artwork; an installation that takes a glance backwards in order to identify the path ahead,” says creative director Stephen Gallagher says in a statement.
Drummer John Boecklin of Bad Wolves performs at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on November 1, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
It appears that Bad Wolves are gearing up to howl once more.
The band has shared a teaser of a new song apparently called “Paint It Red.” The track is set to premiere on June 29, and you can check out the preview via the Bad Wolves Instagram.
When “Paint It Red” drops, we will presumably learn more about who’s still in Bad Wolves alongside drummer John Boecklin following a number of departures and lineup changes in recent years. Guitarist Doc Coyle and bassist Kyle Konkiel left the band in 2025. Vocalist Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz, who replaced original frontman Tommy Vext in 2021, has been playing bass in Falling in Reverse.
The most recent Bad Wolves album is 2023’s Die About It.
If you like what Miranda Lambert’s been cooking up with “Crisco,” you’ll be glad to know the song is also the title track of her new record arriving Oct. 2.
The 12-song collection also includes “A Song to Sing” with Chris Stapleton, her cover of Jim Croce’s “I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song” and “Till the Going’s Gone,” which drops Friday.
“I’ve always loved every corner of country music,” Miranda says. “The heartbreak songs, the honky-tonk songs, the songs that make you think and the songs that make you dance. Making this record reminded me that those things don’t have to be separated. We followed the songs wherever they wanted to go, trusted our instincts and ended up with something that feels really fun and really honest to who I am.”
Here’s the complete track list for Miranda Lambert’s Crisco, which she produced with songwriter Jesse Frasure:
“Snakeskin Boots” “Crisco” “Cowgirl Curtsy” “Two Things Can Be True” “Cuttin’ Onions” “Till The Going’s Gone” “To Everything” “Whiskey Business” “Right Where We Left It” “A Song To Sing” (with Chris Stapleton) “I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song” “Sunset Marquis”
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kiss during Game Three between the New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals on May 23, 2026 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Jason Miller/Getty Images)
The New York Times is on full Taylor Swift wedding watch, with even more details to share about the reported upcoming nuptials, which are rumored to be taking place at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
The paper reported Thursday that an entertainment industry executive said that Taylor has indeed rented out the arena. That same executive and one other person “with knowledge of the matter” offered more details on how the celebration would reportedly progress: On July 2, an “intimate gathering” of about 100 people is expected at the Garden, followed by a July 3 celebration with “about 1,000” guests and “possible stage appearances.”
The paper reported Wednesday that the police officers who patrol the Amtrak train station beneath the arena have been told that Taylor and Travis Kelce will get married that weekend. It also reported that several members of the Kansas City Chiefs had booked rooms around those dates at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square.
Meanwhile, ABC News has confirmed that an event company has filed a permit requesting the closure of West 31st Street near the Garden from July 2 through July 4. In addition, city officials told ABC News that the company has also requested permission for an “exterior canopy” to be set up outside the arena to conceal the comings and goings for the event.
Paul McCartney headlined the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, performing a 38-song set on the Pyramid Stage.
The concert took place one week after McCartney turned 80, making him the oldest solo headliner ever to play the festival.
McCartney’s set opened with The Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love” and was filled with Beatles and Wings tracks, as well as solo material.
It also included a special guest appearance by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, who joined him on “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Band on the Run.”
Bruce Springsteen also made a surprise appearance, performing his Born in the U.S.A. hit “Glory Days” with McCartney. They also teamed up for The Beatles’ “I Wanna Be Your Man.”
Both Springsteen and Grohl came out at the end of the set to help McCartney close the show with The Beatles’ “The End.”
The reunited ’90s alt rock band Sugar has released a new song called “Keep Looping.”
“Living in [San Francisco], I have a love/hate relationship with AI,” frontman Bob Mould says of the inspiration behind “Keep Looping.” “It’s bringing my City back to life, but at what cost to society and the environment? And do we trust the current regime to do the right thing with this new tech?”
He adds, “The new song has more snarl, and the lyrics say it all: A touch of dopamine. The steady beat of the drum. Get used to the constant hum of the Lie.”
“Keep Looping” marks the third new track from Sugar since they announced their return in October. It follows “House of Dead Memories” and “Long Live Love.”
Sugar played their first live shows in over 30 years in May in New York City. They’ll kick off a full U.S. reunion tour in August.
A new Joy Division box set, described as the band’s “first-ever official collection of live concert recordings,” has been announced.
The compilation, titled Eternal, is due out Sept. 25. It consists of 192 tracks sourced from 16 live performances, including the final Joy Division concert in 1980, spread over 14 CDs. The package also includes two DVDs featuring two-and-a-half hours of live footage.
You can listen to a rendition of the song “Transmission,” recorded in Paris in December 1979, out now.
Joy Division was active from 1976 to 1980 and released just two albums during their brief but incredibly influential run. Beyond their significant musical impact, the cover artwork for their 1979 album, Unknown Pleasures, has become an iconic image in alternative music.
Joy Division disbanded in 1980 following the death of frontman Ian Curtis, who was 23. The rest of the band — guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris — then founded New Order alongside keyboardist Gillian Gilbert.
Joy Division and New Order will be inducted together into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of its 2026 class.
Danny Nozell, Dolly Parton & Gregory H. Sachs (Courtesy Dolly Parton)
Dolly Parton made a surprise appearance Wednesday at the grand opening of her new venture, a gas station and restaurant called Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop.
The legendary singer-songwriter, author and businesswoman, now 80, cut the ribbon in a grand opening ceremony for the travel stop and welcomed guests in a pink-and-blue fringe outfit, complete with a “Dolly” name tag and stiletto heels.
“I’m sure some of you are wondering why I wanted a truck stop. Well, I couldn’t leave it to beavers,” the “9 to 5” singer said in remarks at the ceremony, referring to popular gas station chain Buc-ee’s, whose mascot is a bucktoothed beaver named Buc-ee.
The new one-stop travel center is located off exit 22 on I-65 in Cornersville, Tennessee, about an hour south of Nashville, Tennessee, and an hour northwest of Huntsville, Alabama.
In addition to the usual fuel station, general store, coffee shop and restaurant, Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop also features a tour bus, mural, lounge, dog park, electric vehicle charging stations and event space.
Parton’s appearance on Wednesday comes almost two months after she canceled her Las Vegas residency amid ongoing health issues. The singer had previously postponed her Vegas shows back in September citing “health challenges” before announcing their cancellation in May this year.
In a May 4 Instagram post, Parton said she was responding well to medications but needed more time to get better and “up to stage performance level.”
“My immune system and my digestive system got all out of whack over the past couple, three years, and they’re working real hard on rebuilding [and] strengthening those, and hopefully I’ll be up to snuff again soon,” Parton said in part in a video at the time.
Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, David Clayton-Thomas of jazz-rock group, Blood Sweat and Tears, 17th March 1975. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer and songwriter of the jazz rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears, died Wednesday at 84, the singer’s publicist confirms to ABC News.
According to the publicist, Clayton-Thomas “died peacefully” at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.
Born David Henry Thomsett in Surrey, England, on September 13, 1941, Clayton-Thomas joined Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968, following the departure of the band’s original frontman Al Kooper. He landed the gig after folk singer Judy Collins heard him performing and told Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer Bobby Colomby about him.
With Clayton-Thomas singing lead, Blood, Sweat & Tears’ 1968 self-titled sophomore album became a huge hit, spending seven weeks on top of the Billboard Albums chart and winning the Grammy for album of the year in 1970, beating The Beatles’ Abbey Road.
In 1970, following the album’s success, the band went on the State Department-sponsored Iron Curtain tour visiting countries Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland, which drew criticism from fans. The tour was the subject of a 2023 documentary, What The Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
The band continued to release hit albums, including 1970’s Blood, Sweat & Tears 3, which spent two weeks on top of the Billboard 200, and 1971’s Blood, Sweat & Tears 4, which was a top-10 hit.
Clayton-Thomas left the group in 1972 to pursue a solo career, releasing his self-titled solo debut that year. He went on to release nearly a dozen solo albums over the course of his career, his last being 2020’s Say Somethin’.
Clayton-Thomas was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996, and Blood, Sweat & Tears’ iconic track “Spinning Wheel” was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007. Clayton-Thomas also received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2010.
Clayton-Thomas’ life and music will be celebrated with a memorial concert at a later date. Proceeds will benefit Peacebuilders Canada.
