“To us, ‘Hole in the Ground’ is a song that was born out of our stream of consciousness,” says frontman Eli Hewson, who you may also know as the son of U2‘s Bono. “Some time away from writing allowed us to go into the studio with a sort of blank slate which felt inspiring.”
“It can be hard to talk about the meaning of your own songs sometimes but we see it as something fragile growing amongst a wreckage,” Hewson continues. “Or that last blurry memory you have of a person. It’s sort of a meditation on hope and keeping yourself awake to life.”
“Hole in the Ground” follows Inhaler’s February album, Open Wide, which includes the single “Your House.”
Caleb Shomo of Beartooth performs at Smoothie King Center on May 06, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Erika Goldring/Getty Images)
Beartooth is sinking metaphorical bear teeth into real new music.
Frontman Caleb Shomo has posted a photo to his Instagram Story captioned, “New Beartooth.” It also tags producer and former Bring Me the Horizon keyboardist Jordan Fish.
The most recent Beartooth album is 2023’s The Surface, which spawned #1 Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay hits in “I Was Alive” and “Might Love Myself.”
Beartooth has spent 2025 on the Dance, Kid, Dance tour with Shinedown and the Summer of Loud tour with Killswitch Engage, I Prevail and Parkway Drive. They’ll hit the road again in 2026 on a tour with Bad Omens.
Singer and Musician David Bowie attends the 2010 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on June 7, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Randy Brooke/WireImage)
David Bowie’s latter years are going to be the subject of a new U.K. documentary.
According to Deadline, U.K. Channel 4, Dogwoof and Rogan Productions are behind the film, tentatively titled David Bowie: The Final Act. Itwill be focused on the rock star’s creativity and artistry during the final decade of his life, including his final album, Blackstar, which was released on his 69th birthday, two days before he death in 2016.
The doc will be directed by Jonathan Stiasny, and will feature interviews with Bowie insiders who knew and worked with him, along with famous celebs who were fans and inspired by his work.
“The traditional music documentary celebrates triumph,” Stiasny says. “What fascinated me most when making this film was how Bowie’s final chapter wasn’t an ending, it was a resurrection. He transformed failure into triumph, silence into revelation, and ultimately, death into art.”
This isn’t the only Bowie doc in the works. BBC Two and BBC iPlayer are working on a new documentary, tentatively titled Bowie in Berlin. It will mark the 50th anniversary of Bowie’s arrival in Berlin, which resulted in three albums — Low, Heroes and Lodger — that he dubbed his Berlin trilogy.
Rick Savage of Def Leppard performs onstage during Radio 2 In The Park at Hylands Park on September 7, 2025 in Chelmsford, England. (Photo by Katja Ogrin/Getty Images)
Rick Savage is the final member of Def Leppard to share his most memorable moment with the band, and his involves cigarette lighters.
In a new post on Instagram, the bassist says that while their first show at Westfield School in Sheffield, England, and the Freddie Mercury tribute concert at Wembley Stadium in 1993 could qualify as memorable moments, he decided to pick a different one since the others had been “well documented.”
First he joked that one of the more “memorable in a strange way” moments happened with Bryan Adams.He described how he was caught “in a compromising position in the corridor of a tour bus, with Bryan Adams actually laying on top of me, trying to fix a very painful back ailment that I had.”
But then Savage got serious and explained why his most memorable moment was a 1980 concert at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon.
“It’s the very first time we’ve seen cigarette lighters aloft to such a degree,” he said, noting he was particularly amazed during the performance of their track “Rock Brigade.”
“There was 11,000 people in the [Coliseum],” he said. “It was just such a fantastic sight and I swear to God, at least 90% of them held their cigarette lighters up in the air and it’s the first time I’ve ever really experienced that. It was just incredible.”
Savage’s video is part of a series of posts Def Leppard has been sharing since receiving their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Oct. 10. Joe Elliott, Vivian Campbell, Rick Allen and Phil Collen previously shared their most memorable moments.
Russell Dickerson will release a new version of his chart-topping hit “Happen to Me” with Jonas Brothers on Friday.
Jeff Bates‘ first album in more than a decade, Don’t Hold Me To It, will arrive Nov. 14. He’s known for his top-10 hit “The Love Song” from his debut, 2003’s Rainbow Man.
Eric Church‘s Chief’s on Broadway has been named Nashville’s Best Bar in the Nashville Scene‘s Best of 2025 issue.
Jon Bon Jovi on ‘Good Morning America’/(ABC/Heidi Gutman)
Bon Jovi recently announced dates for the new Forever Tour, and while frontman Jon Bon Jovi has had vocal issues over the past few years, he seems confident that this won’t be the last time they’ll be performing live.
The rocker appeared on the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast, where he talked about his fears of not being able to sing again, as well as the future of the band.
Jon underwent vocal cord surgery in 2022. He said while he’s always been resilient, it was “disheartening” when he couldn’t physically go out there and perform.
As for the reason he’s going back out on tour now, he says, “I’m not doing this for the applause, I’m not doing it for the money, I’m not doing it for the fame. I’ve had enough of all of it. But I would like to feel that joy and the resonance, even if it were only one last time.”
But he says he’s doubtful this will actually be the last time.
“I don’t think this is anywhere near a farewell tour or anything like that,” he says, “but if it were, you could trust that these few shows that I’ve announced are going to be joy filled because this gratitude, humility, opportunity to go out there and do it again is all heartfelt.”
Bon Jovi’s Forever Tour kicks off with seven nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden, beginning July 7, 2026. It also includes stops in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Dublin, Ireland, before wrapping Sept. 4 at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Before Mumford & Sons released their latest album, Rushmere, in March, the band hadn’t put out a record since 2018’s Delta. As for a follow-up to Rushmere, you won’t have to wait nearly as long.
The “Little Lion Man” outfit has already announced the details of their next album. Their sixth studio effort is called Prizefighter and will be released Feb. 13, 2026.
“We think Prizefighter is the best music we’ve ever made, and we’ve never been happier doing it,” Mumford & Sons say. “With the help of our old friend [The National guitarist and producer] Aaron Dessner, we found this creative flow that brought out the best in us as artists, and made us feel comfortable in our skins, and confident in what we have to bring to this mad world of music.”
Prizefighter includes the new single “Rubber Band Man,” which features Hozier. Other guests on the record include Gigi Perez, country star Chris Stapleton and Gracie Abrams, who Mumford & Sons just covered.
Here’s the Prizefighter track list: “Here” feat. Chris Stapleton “Rubber Band Man” feat. Hozier “The Banjo Song” “Run Together” “Conversation with My Son” (Gangsters & Angels) “Alleycat” “Prizefighter” “Begin Again” “Icarus” feat. Gigi Perez “Stay” “Badlands” feat. Gracie Abrams “Shadow of a Man” “I’ll Tell You Everything” “Clover”
If you want to be among the first to stay at Dolly Parton‘s SongTeller Hotel in downtown Nashville, you can go ahead and book one of its 245 rooms and suites now.
“I am very excited about the opening of my Nashville hotel and museum next year!” the entertainment icon says. “Broadway has become such a hub of tourism, this felt like the right time to bring something special to all the wonderful activity in Nashville. I’ve always dreamed of being able to create something here in Music City and I know we’ve found the perfect addition to the city I call home.”
Reservations are available now, ahead of SongTeller’s June 2026 opening, which will also bring Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum.
It’ll be the largest display of Dolly memorabilia yet, taking up 20,000 square feet on the hotel’s third floor.
“This museum is a place where folks can see my journey through my own eyes—every color, every story, and every dream that brought me here,” Dolly says. “I can’t wait to welcome visitors from around the world to Nashville to share in my life of many colors.”
Drake performs onstage during “Lil Baby & Friends Birthday Celebration Concert” at State Farm Arena, Dec. 9, 2022, in Atlanta. (Prince Williams/WireImage/Getty Images)
Attorneys for Drake sent word Wednesday that the rapper intends to appeal a decision dismissing his lawsuit against Universal Music Group.
Earlier this month, a federal judge in New York dismissed the rapper’s defamation case against UMG, which stemmed from a rap battle with Kendrick Lamar.
At the time, Judge Jeannette Vargas determined the statements at issue in the case were “nonactionable opinion” and dismissed the lawsuit.
Drake alleged in the lawsuit that the record label intentionally published and promoted Lamar’s “Not Like Us” knowing it contained false and defamatory insinuations about the rapper having sexual relations with minors.
Vargas decided that the diss track was opinion that, in the broader context of a heated rap battle, “would not incline the reasonable listener to believe that ‘Not Like Us’ imparts verifiable facts about Plaintiff.”
The judge wrote that the case “arises from perhaps the most infamous rap battle in the genre’s history,” the vitriolic war of words between Drake and Lamar in 2024.
“‘Not Like Us’ is replete with profanity, trash-talking, threats of violence, and figurative and hyperbolic language, all of which are indicia of opinion,” Vargas wrote at the time. “A rap diss track would not create more of an expectation in the average listener that the lyrics state sober facts instead of opinion than the statements at issue in those cases.”
At the time of the song’s release in May 2024, Lamar and Drake had already released eight other diss tracks over the course of six weeks with heated rhetoric, loaded accusations and violent imagery.
Drake subsequently released the track “The Heart Part 6” in response to “Not Like Us” and Lamar’s song “Meet the Grahams,” which had been released one day prior to “Not Like Us.”
“Not Like Us” went on to win five Grammys — song of the year, record of the year, best rap song, best rap performance and best music video — at the 2025 Grammy Awards. He also performed the song during the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show.
In January, Drake filed his defamation lawsuit against UMG, with his lawyers saying in a statement at the time that the lawsuit was “not brought against Kendrick Lamar.”
“This lawsuit reveals the human and business consequences to UMG’s elevation of profits over the safety and well-being of its artists,” the statement read in part.
UMG responded to the lawsuit in January, saying Drake had “intentionally and successfully used UMG to distribute his music and poetry to engage in conventionally outrageous, back-and-forth rap battles to express his feelings about other artists. He now seeks to weaponize the legal process to silence an artist’s creative expression.”
Following the lawsuit’s dismissal on Oct. 9, UMG released a statement, saying, “From the outset, this suit was an affront to all artists and their creative expression and never should have seen the light of day. We’re pleased with the court’s dismissal and look forward to continuing our work successfully promoting Drake’s music and investing in his career.”
A spokesperson for Drake said at the time that his team planned to appeal the judge’s decision.
ABC News has reached out to representatives for Drake and UMG for comment on the rapper’s notice of appeal.
‘Selfish Machines’ album artwork. (Equal Vision Records)
Pierce the Veil‘s 2010 sophomore album, Selfish Machines, is being reissued on vinyl.
The band’s first label, Equal Vision Records, has announced a repress of the LP on two variants: dark opaque green with white splatter and white base with multicolor splatter. Each variant will be limited to 1,000 copies.
Pierce the Veil released Selfish Machines and their 2007 debut, A Flair for the Dramatic, on Equal Vision before switching over to Fearless Records, where they’ve remained. The band’s most recent album is 2023’s The Jaws of Life, which includes the singles “Emergency Contact” and “So Far So Fake.”
Pierce the Veil’s current U.S. tour concludes Thursday in West Palm Beach, Florida.
