Tori Kelly appears on ABC’s ‘Celebrity Wheel of Fortune’ (Disney/Eric McCandless)
Tori Kelly is a mom.
The singer announced the birth of her first child, a baby boy, with husband André Murillo. In an Instagram post, she shared a photo of the newborn’s tiny feet as well as one partially showing the baby lying next to her two pups.
“Zayden Michael Murillo 11.11.25,” she captioned the post. “we love you so much, sweet boy.”
Tori announced her pregnancy in July in a video posted to social media and YouTube. In the video, soundtracked to a new Tori song, Tori and André dance around a house and embrace on the beach. At the end of the clip, Tori sings, “I’m ready for what comes next/ Let’s make a baby,” as she reveals her baby bump.
Tori and André began dating in 2016 and married in a private ceremony in 2018.
The Last Dinner Party has premiered the video for “Sail Away,” a track off the band’s new album, From the Pyre.
The clip cuts between two people dancing in front of a projection of the moon and a close-up profile shot on frontwoman Abigail Morris. It is now streaming on YouTube.
From the Pyre, the sophomore follow-up to The Last Dinner Party’s 2024 breakout debut, Prelude to Ecstasy, dropped in October. It also includes the lead single “This Is the Killer Speaking.”
The Last Dinner Party is currently on tour in the U.K. They’ll launch a 2026 U.S. tour in March.
(L-R) Gene Simmons, Eric Singer, Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer of KISS pose as they light the Empire State Building in celebration of the band’s final show at The Empire State Building on November 30, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust)
KISS returned to the stage for the first time since their final End of the Road World Tour concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden in December 2023. They performed Friday to Sunday at their KISS Kruise: Landlocked convention in Las Vegas.
The performances were the band’s first since the death of founding member Ace Frehley, who they paid tribute to at their first unmasked performance Friday, fan-shot footage posted to YouTube shows.
“Obviously, before we get going, and we’re going to have an awesome time … we just wanted to take a moment to think about somebody who was at the foundation of this band, and we’re talking about Ace,” Paul Stanley said. “We certainly had differences, but that’s what family is about.”
He then asked fans to take a moment of silence to honor Ace and “think about him looking down on us,” which was followed by chants of “Ace, Ace” from the crowd.
The KISS Kruise featured a reunion of the final KISS lineup: Paul, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer.
They played the tracks “Hard Luck Woman” and “Hide Your Heart” at their Friday acoustic performance for the first time since 2019, according to setlist.fm. The set also featured their classic ballad “Beth” and a cover of The Beatles’ “I’ll Be Back.”
The band broke out more KISS classics at their Saturday electric show, including “Detroit Rock City” and “Black Diamond,” as well as “Lick It Up” and “Rock and Roll All Nite” featuring former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick.
Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 performs onstage during the 2025 JUNO Awards at Rogers Arena on March 30, 2025 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
The sun may have set on Sum 41, but frontman Deryck Whibley isn’t letting go of his old band entirely.
Whibley tells Rock Sound that he’s recorded an album of acoustic Sum 41 songs.
“I’d like to do an acoustic tour of Sum 41 songs,” Whibley shares. “I have an acoustic record that I recorded, and it is done, of Sum 41 songs. That may come out sometime soon.”
Whibley cautions, however, that there aren’t currently any concrete plans for such a tour.
Sum 41 played their last concert in January before officially hanging it up for good after a performance at the 2025 Juno Awards in March, during which they were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Whibley, meanwhile, released a memoir called Walking Disaster in 2024. He’s also just launched a clothing line also called Walking Disaster.
Artwork for ‘The Beatles Anthology’/ (courtesy of Disney+)
Disney+ is bringing back The Beatles’ Anthology series in November, and now, they are giving fans a look at the project.
The streaming service has released a trailer for The Beatles Anthology, a restored and remastered version of ABC’s 1995 documentary that featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr telling stories of their life and career as The Beatles. The original series was made up of eight parts, but the new version has been expanded to include a ninth installment that features previously unseen footage of McCartney, Harrison and Starr in the ’90s as they created the original Anthology series and albums.
Episodes 1-2 of The Beatles Anthology will debut Nov. 27, with episodes 7-9 debuting Nov. 28.
The Beatles are also revisiting The Beatles Anthology music with the Nov. 21 release of the Anthology Collection, featuring the original three Anthology albums plus a new fourth installment, Anthology 4. It will be released digitally and as a 12-LP or eight-CD collection.
The collection includes “Free as a Bird,” which was part of Anthology 1, and “Real Love,” which was part of Anthology 2. Both tracks, which at the time were the first new songs from The Beatles in 25 years, have been remixed by original producer Jeff Lynne. The new set also includes the band’s 2023 release, “Now and Then.”
Anthology 4 will also be released on its own as a three-LP or two-CD set featuring 36 tracks, including 13 previously unreleased demos and session recordings, and other rare recordings.
59th CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson (ABC/Country Music Association)
The CMA Awards has added more performers and presenters to its already stacked bill.
Keith Urban and Little Big Town have joined the lineup of artists who’ll take the stage at Country Music’s Biggest Night, airing Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC, live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. They join previously announced performers Kenny Chesney, Riley Green, Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley, Kelsea Ballerini, Megan Moroney, Old Dominion, Shaboozey, Chris Stapleton, Zach Top, Lainey Wilson and Tucker Wetmore.
Meanwhile, presenters and special guests for the event include Lady A, Billy Ray Cyrus, Brandon Lake, Cody Johnson, Jordan Davis, LeAnn Rimes and Bailey Zimmerman, and actors Jessica Capshaw, Chris O’Donnell, Alan Ritchson, Billy Bob Thornton and Steve Martin.
Lainey Wilson hosts the 59th CMA Awards, which will stream on Hulu the next day. She, along with Ella and Megan, are this year’s leading nominees, with six nods apiece.
Cody Johnson will be vying for four trophies at Wednesday’s CMA Awards, competing for entertainer and male vocalist of the year, plus musical event and music video for “I’m Gonna Love You” with Carrie Underwood.
Should Cody add to his collection, he has quite an impressive place to display his new accolades — thanks to an extensive home renovation and the fact that his wife asked him to keep his hunting trophies elsewhere.
“I redid my rodeo arena at my house,” he explains. “At the end of the arena, there’s a 4,000-square-foot trophy lodge and it has given me a place to put all my stuff.”
“Because I’ve been in athletes’ houses before where it looks like a shrine to them,” Cody continues. “It’s like, ‘There’s not even a damn family photo in here.’ And with this forever home, I want [my kids] to have a place where it feels like home. It is this big, nice, beautiful home that dad went to work and provided for, and I want family pictures, and I want it to be about them.”
Cody confesses there’s obviously an upside for “dad” as well.
“If I condense all these trophies, when you walk into the trophy lodge, then you think, ‘Wow, this is all really cool,'” he says.
Tune in to the 59th CMA Awards Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC to see how Cody fares.
Robbie Robertson‘s final solo album, 2019’s Sinematic, features “Beautiful Madness,” a song inspired by the two years he and Martin Scorsese lived together after their respective marriages collapsed. That “madness” is now detailed in The Band guitarist’s brutally honest new bookInsomnia, the sequel to his memoir, Testimony.
In Insomnia, Robertson and Scorsese are creatively on fire. As The Band dissolves, they work on The Last Waltz and Raging Bull; hang with Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Warren Beatty; travel the world; bed beautiful women and do ridiculous amounts of drugs, stopping only after Scorsese nearly dies. Their creative partnership, though, continued for decades.
“I think they both admired each other greatly … Robbie thought Marty was a genius filmmaker, and I think Marty thought Robbie was an amazing writer and an amazing storyteller,” Robertson’s longtime manager, Jared Levine, says of their relationship.
Levine says Robertson had wanted to tell the “origin story” of his friendship with Scorsese for years, but in the form of a movie, which David Fincher planned to direct. Dissatisfied with the screenplay, Levine says, “Robbie was like, ‘You know what? I need to write the story for this to be done properly.'”
While Robertson completed Insomnia’s first draft prior to his unexpected 2023 death, Levine says, “We didn’t rush to release it” — in part because Robertson’s family was “ambivalent” about it. “They weren’t prepared for what this book was,” Levine notes.
“It’s so irreverent and so much about being a bad boy,” Levine says, noting the guitarist’s descriptions of his affairs with actresses and models “aren’t things that Robbie ever talked to his kids about.” He continues, “To read it after he had passed, it was even more so a difficult thing.”
Consequently, Insomnia includes an afterward by Robertson’s ex-wife and lifelong friend, Dominique Robertson, providing context for that period.
Filmworks: Insomnia, an LP collecting Robertson’s music for The Last Waltz,Raging Bull andhis acting debut, Carny, arrives on Record Store Day Black Friday, happening Nov. 28.
Soundgarden at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Cristian Lopez)
Soundgarden has been working on a new album featuring frontman Chris Cornell‘s final recordings since his death in 2017. Speaking with ABC Audio on the red carpet of the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, guitarist Kim Thayil shared an update on the record’s progress.
“We’re missing a member in making these judgements,” Thayil said, referring to Cornell. “We need to spend time to learn the material, reacquaint with it and think about the direction in which the material can go in order to make it the best that it can possibly be.”
Thayil is making those decisions alongside drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd, as well as in collaboration with the producers the three are working with.
“We always think, ‘What would Chris like, what would he do, what do we like?'” Thayil said. “The producers’ input on that regard, ’cause they all have worked with Chris before, is very helpful.”
Thayil, Cameron and Shepherd performed together at the Rock Hall ceremony in honor of Soundgarden’s induction. They were joined by Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready, Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless, Americana artist Brandi Carlile and original Soundgarden bassist Hiro Yamamoto.
Highlights from the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will air as an ABC primetime special on Jan. 1.
Teddy Swims and Raiche Wright attend the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, November 8, 2025 (Disney/Cristian Lopez)
Teddy Swims‘ son is only 5 months old, but he’s already teaching his old man a thing or two.
Teddy and his partner, Raiche Wright, welcomed their first child on June 23, although they have not yet revealed his name. On the red carpet at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Teddy told ABC Audio the biggest lesson he’s learned now that he’s a dad.
“I think for me, the biggest thing would be presence,” he said. “So many times in my life, I was always like, ‘I gotta go get it … somebody else’s gettin’ it, I gotta be working all the time.'”
“And nowadays … even yesterday, I’m sitting on the couch doing absolutely nothing, watching TV with him and knowing that this is the most productive thing I could do is just nothing with him, and just being present. And I think it’s changed my life a lot on just being present with things.”
Days where Teddy can sit on the couch with the baby and do nothing are becoming few and far between: After going to LA for the Rock Hall induction, he’s now in Asia. He’ll perform in South Korea and Singapore before heading to Dubai, and then coming back to the U.S. for some holiday shows. But he’ll be slowing down a bit and focusing on new music in 2026.
“We’re getting ready to write. We’re taking a little bit less of touring next year, and writing and writing and writing. And I’m writing now, so we’re going to see where it goes, you know?”
