Music

The Oprah Winfrey Network is paying homage to the late Roberta Flack. It’s set to air a documentary about her life and legacy as part of its Women’s History Month celebration. 

OWN Spotlight: Roberta, a two-hour documentary directed written and produced by Antonino D’Ambrosio, chronicles Roberta’s rise from early piano lounge performances to global stardom, touches on her commitment to civil rights and social justice activism and features interviews from the late Reverend Jesse Jackson, Peabo Bryson and more. 

It marks the latest project about her life, following 2014’s Killing Me Softly: The Roberta Flack Story and the American Masters: Roberta Flack, which was also directed by D’Ambrosio.

OWN Spotlight: Roberta is scheduled to air March 12 at 9 p.m. ET on OWN.

Roberta, known for songs “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” died on Feb. 24, 2025, due to complications from ALS. 

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

British bookmakers like to give odds on things that don’t have to do with sports, like whether or not Taylor Swift would win a BRIT Award or which music act will headline the Glastonbury music festival. Who’ll record the next James Bond theme is also a popular bet, and now there’s a new frontrunner: Olivia Dean.

Fresh off her big win at the BRIT Awards, where she took home four trophies, Olivia is now the favorite to sing the theme song for the next film in the franchise, with major U.K. bookmaker William Hill offering money on her. RAYE is the second favorite at 7/2 odds, with Lana Del Rey at 4/1 odds. 

Meanwhile, Dua Lipa is 7/1, Harry Styles is 10/1 and Miley Cyrus and Oasis are both tied at 12 to 1.

William Hill spokesperson Lee Phelps said in a statement, “After a weekend where Dean was crowned the U.K.’s new queen of pop, it’s no surprise that she’s most-fancied to open the credits in the next Bond film.”

The next Bond film marks the 26th in the franchise; it’s now being steered by new producers. Denis Villeneuve is set to direct, but the movie won’t likely hit theaters until 2028. There’s no word on who’ll be playing James Bond, but if you want to bet on it, William Hill has you covered on that, too.

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Bowling for Soup has released a cover of the Simple Plan song “I’m Just a Kid” ahead of the two bands’ upcoming tour together.

“This cover is our love letter to a band and a song that means the world to us,” the “1985” rockers write in a Facebook post.

You can watch Bowling for Soup’s video for “I’m Just a Kid” streaming now on YouTube.

Bowling for Soup’s tour with Simple Plan, which also features 3OH!3, launches in July. The same bill also toured together in 2025.

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

It’s no conspiracy, a new Conspirators album is coming.

Slash’s solo band, which features Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy on lead vocals, has been working on their fifth studio effort, the follow-up to 2022’s 4.

“It’s all tracked, I finished the vocals I think in August if I’m not mistaken,” Kennedy tells ABC Audio. “It just needs to be mixed.”

While he may be biased, Kennedy has a good feeling about Conspirators’ LP5.

“I think we’re all real excited,” Kennedy says. “Once in a while a record will come along and I’ll be, like, ‘Yeah, this is my favorite one in a while,’ but this is one I can stand behind that. I’m really please with how it turned out.”

Kennedy adds that the upcoming album “was done quickly” and “wasn’t something that we kind of beat into the ground.”

“Sometimes when that’s the case, when you’re just kind of in the heat of the moment and you let the universe kind of have its way with you creatively, things can turn out for the best,” he says. “I’m pretty pumped about it.” 

Alter Bridge, meanwhile, just released a new, self-titled album in January. They’ll launch a U.S. tour in April.

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Twenty One Pilots are headlining the 2026 Oceans Calling festival, taking place Sept. 25-27 in Ocean City, Maryland.

The top of the lineup also features Mumford & Sons, Dave Matthews Band, Gwen Stefani, Matchbox Twenty and Hootie & the Blowfish.

Other artists on the bill include Yellowcard, My Morning Jacket, The Head and the Heart, All Time Low, Third Eye Blind, 311, Liz Phair, Goo Goo Dolls, Jet, OK Go, Violent Femmes, Everlast, Everclear and Dashboard Confessional.

You can sign up now for a presale happening Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. Any remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public on Thursday at 11 a.m. ET.

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit OceansCallingFestival.com.

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Keke Palmer is back with a third season of her podcast, Baby, this is Keke Palmer, and this go round, “she’s not afraid to dig into the hot takes and the topics that we’re all dying to understand,” a press release states.

“This season feels different, not because the conversations are louder but because they’re deeper. This show has never been about gotcha moments. This season we are choosing curiosity over certainty, context over chaos, conversation over combat,” Keke adds in a video shared to socials. “I’m not here to speak for my guests, and I’m not here to speak over them either. I’m here to ask the questions that let you see for yourself because culture isn’t a headline, it’s a reflection, and this show, it’s the mirror. So let’s get into it.”

The first episode, out now, features Demi Lovato, with future guests including Nia Long, Niecy Nash-Betts, Coi Leray, Ella Mai, Mya, Durand Bernarr and Robin Thede.

New episodes are set to drop every Thursday.

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Justin Moore, Gavin Adcock and The Red Clay Strays will headline the Born & Raised Music Festival Sept. 17-19 in Pryor, Oklahoma. Tickets go on sale Wednesday. 

Walker Montgomery has signed with Jay DeMarcus’ Red Street Records. The son of John Michael Montgomery and the nephew of Montgomery Gentry’s Eddie Montgomery, Walker’s debut single will be “Saving the Honky Tonks,” which comes out April 3. 

The Band Loula’s new song, “Mother’s Mother,” will drop March 20. 

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Ella Langley’s current victory lap will continue later this month as she headlines a special Spotify South by Southwest concert.

The “Choosin’ Texas” hitmaker’s currently enjoying a second week atop Billboard‘s all-genre Hot 100, as the song returns three weeks after it initially hit #1.

She’ll play Spotify 20: Live at Stubb’s Saturday, March 14, in Austin, co-headlining with ’90s icon Alanis Morissette, who is famous for Jagged Little Pill hits like “You Oughta Know” and “Ironic.”

The show will also feature a DJ set by St. Vincent and will be open to SXSW platinum and music badge holders.

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

After being forced to cancel their planned reunion tour due to frontman Dee Snider’s health, the remaining members of Twisted Sister have found someone else to front the band.

Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda announced on Instagram that former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach will be taking over lead singer duties for “a handful of select dates this fall.” The post features a clip of Twisted Sister’s “You Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll,” which appears to feature Bach on vocals. 

It also adds that the shows with Twisted Sister “do not affect or conflict with Sebastian’s current or future solo touring schedule, which remains fully intact.”

Dates for Twisted Sister with Sebastian Bach have not yet been announced.

The planned Twisted Sister reunion with Snider was supposed to kick off April 25 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. On Feb. 6, the band announced the tour cancelation “due to the sudden and unexpected resignation of Twisted Sister’s lead singer Dee Snider brought on by a series of health challenges.”

A statement released on behalf Snider said that a “lifetime of legendarily aggressive performing has taken its toll” on the singer, noting the 70-year-old suffered from degenerative arthritis and recently found out that “the level of intensity he has dedicated to his life’s work has taken its toll on his heart as well.”

Bach is currently on a solo tour and will play Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday. He has dates confirmed through Oct. 3 in Saint Charles, Missouri.

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

If you want to own a special Spice Girls collectible, the British Royal Mint is here to give you what you really, really, really want.

The Mint is issuing a £5 coin in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the iconic group’s debut album, Spice, and their hit “Wannabe.” One side shows all five members of the group in silhouette, along with their autographs; King Charles III is on the flip side.

The coins come in five limited-edition packaging designs, all of which are limited to 15,000 coins worldwide. Each one showcases a different member, allowing fans to choose between Baby Spice, Ginger Spice, Posh Spice, Scary Spice and Sporty Spice. 

You can buy a regular coin for about $25, a silver proof one for just under $1,020 and a gold one for just over $1,800.

On Instagram, Mel B, aka Scary Spice, writes, “Back then when we were just five misfit girls starting out We could never have imagined that this would happen to us – the FIRST female group to be given their very own coin…that really is GIRL POWER! My dad would be sooo proud!!!!”

In other Spice Girls news, Mel B will be one of the celebrities competing in the new Netflix series Squid Game: The VIP Challenge. As in the original Squid Game series, the VIPs are the ones who wear masks and watch as the contestants risk death to win millions.

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.