A special effects camera filter was used for this image.) Nas performs with Atlanta Pops Orchestra at Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park on July 5, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage)
While some people aspire to headline a Super Bowl halftime show, it’s not one of Nas‘ goals.
Asked when he will be hitting the Super Bowl stage, Nas tells Complex, “That’s that some super rockstar s***. Nah, I don’t want to do … I can’t say I don’t want to do the Super Bowl, but I don’t.”
“Why would I do that? Leave it to the professionals. Leave it to the pros. I’m a pro at what I do,” he continues. “It’s the biggest stage. I want to watch it. I want to watch dope halftime shows and that’s what has been happening lately so salute to all of them.”
Nas’ chat with Complex arrives amid his promo run for Mass Appeal’s Legend Has It series, which features a comic book and new album releases from some of New York’s hip-hop icons, including Slick Rick, Mobb Deep and Ghostface Killah.
Big L is next up on the list, with a posthumous project, Harlem’s Finest: Return Of The King, set to arrive on Oct. 31. The first single of the album, “u aint gotta chance,” is now available on streaming services, and it features a few bars from Nas.
“Even though Big L’s not here with us now, to get on the song with him is still pressure,” Nas shares with Rolling Stone. “He left an outstanding amount of serious rhymes. So just approaching it is like, ‘Damn, I wish we were doing this together, but it’s still an honor to do it.’”
Harlem’s Finest: Return Of The King is co-executive produced by Big L’s estate and Royce Da 5’9. It features a few freestyles and updated versions of tracks off his Return of The Devil’s Son album, which was previously taken off DSPs because of licensing issues.
Jon Pardi & Randy Houser will open for Cody Johnson at RODEOHOUSTON (Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo)
Jon Pardi and Randy Houser are headed to the rodeo with Cody Johnson.
Jon and Randy will open Cody’s March 22, 2026, show at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, which takes place on the 21st night of the annual event.
The Sunday concert at NRG Stadium will be only the fourth time in the institution’s history that a standalone show on a non-rodeo night has taken place. The last was in 2022 when George Strait wrapped up the season.
This will be Jon’s fourth time at RODEOHOUSTON and Randy’s first.
Tickets are on sale now, with the remainder of the 2026 lineup to be revealed on Jan. 8.
Jeremy Allen White and Bruce Springsteen on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’/((Disney/Randy Holmes)
Bruce Springsteen may make it look easy to sing “Born in the U.S.A.” in concert, but Jeremy Allen White learned that it’s anything but.
The Bear star, who plays Springsteen in the film Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, had to record the song for the movie. During an appearance on Hot Ones, he revealed that it had an adverse effect on his health.
“It’s a hard song to sing cause he’s not really singing it, you know. It’s shouting in key,” he said. “It’s like, you know, in order to get the sound that I was after, I was singing from my chest and I was singing from my throat. And I wasn’t breathing properly. I wasn’t singing from my stomach, which I should have been.”
“And I got knocked out. I got a migraine. I was on my back. I was sweating,” he added.
White says he saw Bruce at a party not long after recording the tune, and went up to him and said hello with barely any voice, which was apparently something Springsteen could relate to.
“He said, ‘What have you been doing?’ And I said, ‘I just recorded “Born in the U.S.A.”‘ And he said, ‘That sounds about right,'” White explained. “I couldn’t believe this man, even at the age of 75, 76 now, he’s performing this song for 90,000 people and then, you know, 19 other songs. It’s incredible.”
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere opens in theaters Oct. 24.
Larenz Tate and Nia Long attend the “Remembering Love Jones” during the 2025 American Black Film Festival at New World Center on June 14, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ABFF)
Love Jones‘ iconic duo Nia Long and Larenz Tate will work together again on an untitled romantic drama that has been greenlit by Netflix.
Though the logline hasn’t been disclosed, inspiration for the film came from Maxwell‘s debut album, Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite. Kay Oyegun penned the script; Eugene Ashe is signed on to direct.
The untitled drama will mark another collaboration for Long and Tate, who teamed on the ’90s cult classic Love Jones. Their next movie, Antoine Fuqua’s Michael, will arrive on April 24, 2026.
Long celebrated the news on Instagram, writing, “The timing is divine and working with @larenztate is my favorite thing to do. We’re doing this one for YOU!!!! Thank you for all the love from the bottom of my heart and soul. Let’s go.”
In his own post, Tate wrote, “REUNITED and it feels so good!!!! SUPER EXCITED to star along side the amazingly talented & phenomenal Nia Long! @iamnialong Devine timing indeed!”
“Maxwell my brotha you already know … it’s on!!! Netflix! We are making Sumthin’ special for YOU world!” he continued.
Luke Combs & Bailey Zimmerman (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach)
For country stars who are football fans, it’s probably one of the best gigs you can get: Bailey Zimmerman and Luke Combs will play ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday.
“WE’RE SO READY FOR THIS!” the show wrote on its socials. “Join us in Athens on Myers Quad.”
Luke and Bailey are set to perform before the Georgia Bulldogs take on the Ole Miss Rebels at Sanford Stadium.
While it’s a safe bet the two will perform their #1 hit “Backup Plan,” Bailey’s fans will get to see even more.
“Stick around after the show if you’re in Athens to hear @baileyzimmerman perform two additional songs,” the show added.
You can tune in to watch College GameDay Saturday at 9 a.m. ET on ESPN.
Artwork for Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ‘Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou’ playlist/(Concord Records)
Looking for some music to soundtrack your Halloween? A new playlist may just help set the mood.
Concord Records has released a digital collection of Creedence Clearwater Revival classics with titles that seem perfect for Halloween. Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou includes such songs as “Bad Moon Rising” and “Born on the Bayou,” as well as “Tombstone Shadow,” “Pagan Baby,” “Graveyard Train,” “Sinister Purpose” and more.
Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou is now available on all digital outlets and on YouTube.
In August, Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty released the album Legacy, featuring a track list made up of newly recorded versions of his classic CCR tunes. He returns to the road on Oct. 31 with a show in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A complete list of dates can be found at JohnFogerty.com.
Joe Jonas of DNCE performs at the Capital Pride concert and festival, Washington, D.C.; June, 2022 (Brian Stukes/Getty Images)
Jonas Brothers‘ current tour, Greetings From Your Hometown, is all about nostalgia. But if watching JoBros play a couple of songs by Joe Jonas‘ side project DNCE during their set isn’t enough for you, you’ll be happy to hear that the group is going to do an actual gig.
The “Cake by the Ocean” combo will be performing at a Halloween party on Oct. 31 at FPL Solar Amphitheater in Miami. The group, which also includes guitarist JinJoo Lee and drummer Jack Lawless, promises “a mischief-filled night of tricks, treats and their fan-favorite hits.”
“This is going to be the ultimate Halloween party,” Joe says in a statement. “We have a lot of tricks up our sleeve and can’t wait to see Miami all dressed up, dancing with us all night long.”
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. ET via Ticketmaster.com. A fan presale begins the same day, but one hour earlier.
DNCE is squeezing in the gig between Jonas Brothers tour dates: JoBros are performing Oct. 29 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Nov. 1 in Lexington, Kentucky.
The JoBros set list includes “Cake by the Ocean” as well as another DNCE song, “Toothbrush.”
Robert Smith and Simon Gallup of The Cure perform during Riot Fest 2023 at Douglass Park on September 17, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images)
The Cure has shared an update on the progress of their next album, the follow-up to 2024’s Songs of a Lost World.
In the newly updated “Bio” section of their website, the “Just Like Heaven” outfit reveals, “In March 2025 the band went back into Rockfield Studios to record 13 more songs for a follow up album.”
Frontman Robert Smith spoke about the status of new material in a December interview with the U.K.’s Absolute Radio, during which he said that a “companion piece” to Songs of a Lost World was “pretty much ready to go.” He also said there was another “completely different” Cure record in the works.
Whenever a new Cure album arrives, it appears we won’t have to wait as long this time around. Prior to Songs of a Lost World, Smith and company hadn’t released a new record since 2008.
“As the Sky Is Falling Down” single artwork. (Chloe Trujillo)
For the Trujillos, music continues to be a family affair.
Chloe Trujillo, wife of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, has released a new single called “As the Sky Is Falling Down.”
“The song is about spiritual transformation through chaos,” Chloe says. “It discusses the fall of material illusions and reveals a deeper truth. There’s a saying, ‘True liberation is not in escaping chaos, but in no longer being disturbed by it.’ I wasn’t allowing the craziness of the world to affect me. Instead, I was creating a lot of art and music.”
A video for “As the Sky Is Falling Down” will premiere Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. The track is also set to appear on an upcoming EP called Rebirth, due out in early 2026.
Along with Robert and Chloe, the couple’s son, Tye Trujillo, is a musician and plays in the band OTTTO.
