Clint Black & Midland Live in Concert (Blue Highway Records)
Not only do Midland and Clint Black have a song together on the trio’s new album, they’re also going on tour.
The “Killin’ Time” hitmaker and the “Drinkin’ Problem” boys will do eight shows together starting Oct. 8 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The trek wraps Oct. 24 in Glen Allen, Virginia.
Presales start Wednesday, before tickets become available to the public on Friday.
Jess Carson and Cameron Duddy helped co-write their collab “Up in Texas.” “Drunk Enough” is lead singer Mark Wystrach’s sole co-writing credit on Midland’s Stages album, which drops June 12.
Clint’s autobiography, also titled Killin’ Time, came out May 19.
Natalie Stewart aka The Floacist attends the Pre-MOBO Awards Show at Boisdale of Canary Wharf on November 20, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)/Marsha Ambrosius attends Interscope x Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace celebrating Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic” with a star-studded party hosted by Usher and held in partnership with Meta and ORBIT Gum on February 04, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Interscope)
June marks Black Music Month, and NPR is celebrating it with a lineup showcasing Black talent across various genres.
Set to perform on the platform’s Tiny Desk are Floetry, GENA, Ayra Starr, Joe, The Paradox, Shaboozey, Fred Hammond, Eve, 8Ball & MJG and Bow Wow, who made the announcement on Instagram.
The video begins much like the original theme for the music video countdown show 106 & Park, but with the words “Black Music Tiny Desk Month.”
“Aye, yo, what up? It’s Bow Weezy, Mr. 106 & Park. Ya’ll see where I’m at? I ain’t just taking over 106 & Park, we taking over Tiny Desk, and I’m live in the office right now,” Bow says. “Coming to y’all with something special. All through June, NPR is celebrating Black Music Month and honoring BET’s impact on the culture. And of course the lineup here is crazy. Ten dope performances.”
Bow Wow will host and close out the event, giving fans a glimpse of what to expect from his performance. “We gon stand on some desks, we gone break a couple rules,” he says. “The glass might shatter when we put on ‘Fresh Azizmiz’, but look, I’m gon’ pay for it, it’s nothing.”
“Tiny Desk I can’t wait,” he says, before he contemplates, “Am I Mr. Tiny Desk too now? Should I change my name now? I don’t know. I like this.”
Floetry kicks off the series with a performance featuring songs “Big Ben,” “SupaStar,” “Butterflies,” “Say Yes,” “Getting Late” and “Floetic.” It is available to watch on YouTube.
Björk performs on stage during The BRIT Awards 2026 at Co-op Live on February 28, 2026 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
Björk has given fans a preview of her new music.
A new song, “Never Bloom,” is part of echolalia, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland that opened on Saturday.
Björk shared a clip of the song and visuals on Instagram, giving fans some insight into how the work came to be.
In the post, she writes that the visuals were done with painter Natalia Kleszczewska and computer graphics director Natalie Liu, noting Kleszczewska “painted the creatures and the backgrounds” and Liu “shaped the digital dimension of the work.”
In her role as creative director, Björk says she brought in the “singer-songwriter tradition” in which “emotionally precise things happen inside the structure of a song.” She says she guided the color palettes, textures and the “environments the music happens in.”
Björk says creating the visuals for the song took seven months, although she adds that she doesn’t think of herself as a “visual artist,” noting, “because my heart is in music.”
echolalia runs until Sept. 9 at the National Gallery of Iceland. When the exhibition was announced in December it was revealed that the new song was from Björk’s “forthcoming album, currently in development.”
Paul McCartney performs onstage during the 36th Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 30, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame )
At 83, Paul McCartney doesn’t seem ready to slow down.
The former member of The Beatles, who actually turns 84 on June 18, is still making music, having just released the new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane, and continues to tour, with his last trek wrapping in November. And in a new interview with NME, McCartney reveals whether he’ll ever considering hanging it all up.
“I don’t know. I never know, y’know?” he says,. “I remember when I was 50 years old, my manager at the time said, ‘Well, are you thinking of retiring?’ I went, ‘Uh, I don’t think so.’”
“But he obviously thought, 50 … which, I get it, because we thought 30 was really old [when] we were 20,” he continues. “So 30 was like that’d be unseemly, but it came, and it went, and people were still playing, and audiences like the music.”
McCartney notes that he still gets “creative satisfaction” from songwriting. “There’s something magical about it.”
“It’s still a great achievement to sit down with, let’s say, my guitar and there’s nothing there, and I’m just noodling around, and suddenly, maybe after three or four hours, I’ve got a song. I know how it goes, and I’ve written the lyrics down, and it’s a real achievement,” he says. “That still is a magic feeling for me. I think that’s the creative buzz still, and hopefully always will be.”
Lady Gaga speaks onstage during Pride Live’s 2019 Stonewall Day on June 28, 2019 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Pride Live)
Happy Pride Month! In honor of the occasion, Billboardhas put together a list of the 100 Greatest LGBTQ Anthems of All Time, with Lady Gaga topping the list.
Mother Monster’s 2011 song “Born This Way” is #1 on the list, which is a mixture of songs by queer artists, songs by gay icons, songs that are popular with the gay community and songs by allies that, as Billboard puts it, “mirror our struggles with self-acceptance and social rejection.”
The top 10 also includes Diana Ross’ 1980 hit “I’m Coming Out,” which was specifically written by Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for Ross’ gay fans. Madonna’s “Vogue,” Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” and Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” are in the top 10, as well.
Lee Brice’s new track recounts the roots of his raising in Sumter, South Carolina.
“This song’s got dirty boots and gasoline veins. ‘What You Know About That’ is all about where I come from, the kinda life we lived and the kinda times we had,” he says. “You work hard, love hard, and make memories that stay with you forever.”
“Whether it’s fishin’ on the riverbank, ridin’ around in your daddy’s old square body, or hearin’ Alan Jackson on a back road… if you know, you know,” he adds.
“What You Know About That” is the latest release from Lee’s new album, Sunriser, which drops Oct. 2. The new song and its music video will arrive on Friday.
Drake speaks onstage during Drake’s Till Death Do Us Part rap battle on October 30, 2021, in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Drake’s “Janice STFU” has topped another Billboard chart. In addition to spending its second week at #1 on the Hot 100, Streaming Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop and Hot Rap Songs charts, the track has now claimed the top spot on Billboard‘s returning Songs of the Summer chart.
The list features seven entries from Iceman, with “Shabang,” “Ran to Atlanta” featuring Future and Molly Santana, “Whisper My Name,” “National Treasures,” “2 Hard 4 the Radio” and “Plot Twist” joining “Janice STFU.”
Drake previously topped Billboard‘s season-end Songs of the Summer chart with “In My Feelings” in 2018, and “One Dance” featuring WizKid and Kyla in 2016.
This year’s Song of the Summer list tracks the most popular songs based on cumulative streaming, airplay and sales performance between June 6 and Sept. 12, 2026, according to Billboard. Songs that appeared on the 2025 list or peaked on the Hot 100 during or before 2025 are ineligible.
Mastodon, ‘Your Ghost Again’ cover art by Paul Romano @workhardened
Mastodon has released a song inspired by the losses they’ve experienced recently: the deaths of former bandmate Brent Hinds and the mother of drummer Brann Dailor.
“Your Ghost Again” is about “those moments when you’re in those familiar places that you’ve always been with that person, and then, after they’re gone, you see them out of the corner of your eye, and it makes you sad because they’re not there,” says Dailor. “When we were in the studio recording, I kept seeing Brent. I’d see him on my right holding the guitar because that’s where he’d usually be.”
Hinds was a founding member of Mastodon alongside Dailor, bassist Troy Sanders and guitarist Bill Kelliher; he left in March 2025. He died in a motorcycle crash on Aug. 20, 2025.
Dailor continues, “It’s the same with my mom; I keep seeing her. And you get a little jolt of excitement because you think you’re actually seeing them, but then you remember they’re not here and it takes you down a notch.”
“So, it’s these big relationships for me that became the subject matter of the song. I was just singing about what I was seeing, and I was seeing ghosts.”
“Your Ghost Again” previews the band’s upcoming new full-length album, the follow-up to 2021’s Hushed and Grim.
Mastodon has also announced The Poisonous Weapons Tour, launching Sept. 16 in Orlando, Florida, with support from Deafhaven and Alcest. The tour wraps Oct. 22 in Atlanta, Georgia; the band then plays the Sick New World Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, on Oct. 24. Tickets are available now via MastodonRocks.com.
Elvis Costello Radio Soul!: The Songs of Elvis Costello From The Early Days to the Late Hours tour admat (Courtesy of Elvis Costello)
Elvis Costello is returning to North America for a handful of shows this fall.
The rocker has booked six new dates of his Radio Soul!: The Songs of Elvis Costello From The Early Days to the Late Hours tour, starting Sept. 10 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and wrapping Sept. 18 in Muskegon, Michigan.
Costello will be backed by his band The Imposters, made up of Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher, with the addition of guitarist Charlie Sexton.
Registration is now open for an artist presale that begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Costello launched the tour, originally called Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello, in the summer of 2025. He performed songs from 1977’s My Aim is True to 1986’s Blood & Chocolate, as well as some “other surprises.” The addition of “to the Late Hours” in the title suggests he may be expanding the set list.
Costello is set to kick off a European/U.K. leg of Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello in Lund, Sweden, on Friday. A complete list of dates can be found at ElvisCostello.com.
Drummer Charlie Watts was born in London, England.
After getting his start playing blues and jazz, Watts joined The Rolling Stones in 1963, and remained with the group for 58 years until his death.
Watts, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are the only three members of the band who appear on every Stones album. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 1989.
Watts played his final show with the Stones on August 30, 2019. It was announced in August 2021 that he was going to sit out of the Stones’ No Filter tour due to heart surgery. He passed away on August 24, 2021, at the age of 80.
Watts posthumously appeared on The Rolling Stones’ 2023 album Hackney Diamonds. His drumming was featured on two songs, “Mess It Up” and “Live by the Sword,” which were recorded in 2019. He is also expected to posthumously appear on the band’s upcoming album, Foreign Tongues, which will be released July 10.
