Wale performs onstage during the One Musicfest 2025 day 1 at Piedmont Park on October 25, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Marcus Ingram/Getty Images)
Wale has released the music video for “Watching Us” featuring Grammy winner Leon Thomas.
Directed by Hidji, the visual contrasts Wale’s quiet, intimate moments at home with his partner against scenes of them — as well as Leon — navigating the busy nightlife scenes. The video is now available to watch on YouTube.
“Watching Us,” which samples Goapele’s classic “Closer,” appears on Wale’s eighth studio album, everything is a lot.
In other Wale news, he’s set to perform at Coachella as part of the Heineken House lineup. Other artists on the bill include Sean Paul, Big Boi and Coi Leray.
Jon Bon Jovi on ‘Good Morning America’/(ABC/Heidi Gutman)
Jon Bon Jovi is set to take part in Sunday’s Super Bowl, although he won’t be performing.
The NFL just announced that the New Jersey rocker will introduce the players on the New England Patriots ahead of them taking the field, while actor Chris Pratt will do the honors for the Seattle Seahawks.
The “Livin’ On A Prayer” singer is a well-known New England Patriots fan and is a longtime friend of the team’s owner, Robert Kraft. He is also a good friend of their former coach Bill Belichick. When he parted ways with the team in 2024, Bon Jovi paid tribute to Belichick by on social media, calling him “the G.O.A.T on and off the field.”
Super Bowl 60 will air on NBC and stream on Peacock.
Bon Jovi has a busy 2026 ahead of them. The band will kick off their Forever tour on July 7 at New York’s Madison Square Garden, with dates confirmed for Sept. 9 at Wembley Stadium in London. It is the band’s first tour since Jon underwent vocal cord surgery in 2022.
A complete list of dates can be found at BonJovi.com.
Eric Church will play Trombone Shorty‘s birthday celebration April 25 at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans. Grace Potter, Joan Jett, Branford Marsalis, Ivan Neville, Jill Scott, Mavis Staples, Irma Thomas and more will also take the stage for the Shorty Turns 40 show.
Vince Gill, Suzy Bogguss, John Oates and more are set to play the For Pete’s Sake benefit Feb. 15 at Nashville’s City Winery. Proceeds go to The Pete Huttlinger Fund for Adult Congenital Cardiac Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The acclaimed guitarist passed away in 2016 at age 54.
Dylan Scott is booked to play the Great Darke County Fair Aug. 23 in Greenville, Ohio. Tickets go on sale Friday.
Paul Simon is bringing his A Quiet Celebration Tour back to the U.S.
The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has announced a new set of North American tour dates that kick off June 4 in Palo Alto, California, and wrap with two shows at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, July 17 and 18.
The trek includes shows in Forest Hills, New York, near where Simon grew up in Queens, as well as stops at such iconic venues as the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, and Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts.
The tour, which Simon launched in April 2025, opens with him playing his 2023 album Seven Psalms in its entirety, followed by a set featuring a collection of greatest hits and deep cuts from his catalog.
Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday.
But before the U.S. dates, Simon will bring the A Quiet Celebration Tour to Europe, with a trek kicking off Aug. 9 in Prague. A complete list of dates can be found at PaulSimon.com.
25 Years of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ (Grand Ole Opry/Lost Highway)
The Grand Ole Opry will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack with a special show on Feb. 28.
Many of the original artists will appear on the historic stage, along with others, including: Alaskan SunnysideSisters, Alison Krauss, Billy Strings, Chris Thomas King, Colin Linden, Dan Tyminski, Del McCoury Band, Emmylou Harris, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Jerry Douglas, Molly Tuttle, Old Crow Medicine Show, Sarah Jarosz, The Fairfield Four, The Whites and Tim Blake Nelson.
The music from the 2000 film from brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, starring George Clooney, renewed interest in roots music, went eight-times Platinum, and won CMA and ACM album of the year.
Tickets are on sale now, with a commemorative Hatch Show Print also set to be on sale in The Opry Shop the night of the show.
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne at Ozzfest 2007 press conference at the Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles, California on February 6, 2007. Jason Merritt/FilmMagic
All aboard … for the return of Ozzfest?
After Sharon Osbourne said that she was looking into bringing back her late husband Ozzy Osbourne‘s namesake festival, the official Ozzfest Instagram published a post reading, “Will Ozzfest return in 2027??”
The post is accompanied by an image that similarly teases, “Ozzfest could return — 2027?”
In an interview with Billboard published Jan. 28, Sharon, who founded Ozzfest in 1996, said, “I’ve been talking to Live Nation about bringing [Ozzfest] back recently. It was something Ozzy was very passionate about: giving young talent a stage in front of a lot of people.”
In its heyday in the ’90s and 2000s, Ozzfest was a staple of the hard rock and metal scene, helping propel the careers of bands including Linkin Park, Slipknot and Deftones.
The last Ozzfest was held on New Year’s Eve 2018 in Los Angeles. It marked Ozzy’s final full-length live performance before the 2025 Back to the Beginning concert, during which he played a solo set and with the reunited Black Sabbath. Ozzy died just over two weeks later on July 22.
Van Halen is celebrating the 40th anniversary of 5150, their first album featuring new frontman Sammy Hagar.
On March 27, just three days after the album’s actual 40th anniversary, the band will release an expanded edition of the album as a three-CD/LP/Blu-ray set.
The set features a remastered version of the 1986 release, as well as bonus 7-inch single edits and extended 12-inch tracks. There’s also a CD featuring unreleased live recordings from Van Halen’s Aug. 27, 1986, concert at New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Blu-ray features the band’s 1986 concert video Live Without A Net, recorded during the same New Haven show, upgraded to HD for the first time. There are also promotional videos for singles “Dreams” and “Why Can’t This Be Love.”
As a preview of the set, the live New Haven performance of the track “Summer Nights” has just been released to digital outlets.
Van Halen will also reissue 5150 in two-LP and three-CD formats, which include the remastered album, along with single edits and live recordings.
Following the departure of original frontman David Lee Roth, Van Halen regrouped and recruitedHagar as their new frontman. Released March 24, 1986, 5150, named after guitarist Eddie Van Halen‘s home studio, is a reference to the California law that allows a mentally disturbed person to be placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold.
The album went on to become the band’s first #1 album and contained three pop hits: “Dreams,” “Why Can’t This Be Love” and “Love Walks In.”
Matthew Tuck of Bullet For My Valentine performs during Download Festival at Donington Park on June 15, 2025 in Castle Donington, England. (Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
Bullet for My Valentine has announced a reissue of the band’s 2005 EP, Hand of Blood.
The package will arrive on vinyl and CD on March 13. You can preorder your copy now.
“We’ve started 2026 incredibly strong, working away in the studio,” Bullet says in a Facebook post. “We can’t wait to share with you all that we’ve been working on. In the meantime, after meeting so many of you life long fans out on the road last year, we realised that we never really got to take you back to where it all started.”
The Welsh metallers add, “So with that in mind, we’re incredibly happy to be able to share our reissue of the Hand Of Blood EP.”
Hand of Blood was released ahead of Bullet’s 2005 debut album, The Poison, and includes the song “4 Words (To Choke Upon).”
Bullet for My Valentine’s most recent album is their 2021 self-titled effort.
The Heart Wranglers are the latest Nashville songwriters to find themselves in Apple Music’s Lost & Found program.
The trio composed of Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson and Dallas Wilson are the tunesmiths behind the Lost track “Time Will Tell,” which dates back to March 2022. You can hear Trannie’s demo on Apple Music now.
Lee Brice steps up to the mic for the Found version of the song.
“It came from the first retreat we ever did together in Wickenburg, Arizona,” Trannie says. “We wrote this song in such a special place that bonded us and our writing combo so much, so to get to share some of those songs with a voice like Lee Brice is incredible.”
“That retreat, I think we wrote three songs on Bell Bottom Country and one song on the recent record [for Lainey Wilson],” Dallas adds. “This one has always had a special place. I’m so glad it finally found a home, and Lee Brice is just incredible. It’s so cool to hear him on it.”
You’ll be able to hear Lee’s version of “Time Will Tell” on Friday.
