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Britney Spears was arrested in California on Wednesday night, according to Ventura County Sheriff’s Office records.

Records indicate she was released early Thursday morning. The reason for the arrest was not immediately available.

The arresting agency was the California Highway Patrol, records state.

Britney is slated to appear in Ventura County Superior Court on May 4, 2026, according to the records.

A representative for Britney tells ABC News, “This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable. Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life. Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”

“Her boys are going to be spending time with her,” the rep added. “Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success for well being.”

ABC News has reached out to California Highway Patrol and Britney’s representative for more information.

Ventura County is a coastal region in Southern California, which shares a border with Los Angeles to the southwest. 

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Hozier made an appearance Wednesday  on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform the song “With a Little Help from My Friends.”

The “Take Me to Church” artist sang the Beatles classic, which has famously been covered by Joe Cocker, alongside the band Lake Street Dive. You can watch the performance streaming now on YouTube.

Hozier previously covered “With a Little Help from My Friends” at the 2017 Longitude Festival alongside Mumford & Sons.

Speaking of Mumford & Sons, Hozier just joined the “Little Lion Man” outfit over the weekend at Saturday Night Live to perform their collaborative single, “Rubber Band Man.”

“It’s such a privilege and a joy to experience moments like this, not to mention experiencing it with people and artists you love and admire,” Hozier wrote in reflecting on the SNL performance.

Up next, Hozier will be performing at the 2026 Love Rocks NYC benefit concert, taking place Thursday. Those not attending the show in person in New York City can stream it live online via Veeps.

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Sevendust has premiered a new song called “Unbreakable,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, One.

“‘Unbreakable’ showcases the band’s signature balance of thunderous riffs, soaring hooks, and deeply personal lyricism—elements that have defined their career and earned them one of the most loyal fanbases in heavy music,” a press release reads.

You can watch the “Unbreakable” video streaming now on YouTube.

“Unbreakable” is the second song to be released off One, following lead single “Is This the Real You.” The album will arrive in full on May 1.

Sevendust will launch a U.S. tour in April. The trek includes dates opening for Alter Bridge.

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The trailer for BTS’ THE COMEBACK LIVE has arrived, previewing the March 21 premiere of their live Netflix special.

“We promised our fans that we’d be back,” says group member RM in the trailer, which starts with fans expressing their dismay about the group going on hiatus. It shows all seven members of the group standing — individually and collectively — in front of the historic landmark in Seoul, South Korea, where they’ll be performing live.

Another member says in a voiceover, “Seven together, we can do anything. Keep swimming” — presumably in reference to “SWIM,” the first single from their new album, ARIRANG.

The Netflix special, which will document BTS’ first full concert as a group since 2022, will be directed by Hamish Hamilton, who directed Bad Bunny’s halftime show and the 2026 Grammys. You can watch it at 7 a.m. ET on March 21, the day after ARIRANG drops.

On March 27, Netflix will stream a documentary about the making of ARIRANG titled BTS: THE RETURN.

Meanwhile, Diplo, who executive-produced the album and personally produced five tracks, says in a statement that the album “takes Korean music into the future.”

The producer, who signed onto the project back in 2024, adds, “The early references were trip hop and old-school hip hop. … [T]he goal was to let BTS’ creativity shine and let them speak their stories as grown men — to show evolution, depth, and perspective.”

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When John Morgan wrote his latest hit, “Kid Myself,” he already had plenty of songs for his debut album, Carolina Blue. 

But thanks to an already-scheduled writing appointment with Tyler Hubbard, he was compelled to write one more. 

“When we were putting the album together, we had probably 12, 15 songs already kinda laid out for what I thought, you know, we were gonna choose from,” he tells ABC Audio. “And it was like the week of us putting all of ’em together and going through ’em. I had a write with Tyler Hubbard on the books and so I was like, ‘I can’t cancel that,’ you know?”

So John got busy getting prepared.

“I ended up the night before I went and wrote with him, I was going through titles and trying to tee up some kind of idea to have the next day,” he recalls. “And I came across this title, ‘Kid Myself,’ and didn’t really have anything with it. I just had written it down about a year before and I started playing this little guitar riff with it, [and I] wrote a scratch chorus just to get my point across.”

Tyler loved the idea, which turned into John’s latest top-40 hit. It follows his #1 “Friends Like That” with Jason Aldean. 

John also co-wrote Jason’s recent #1, “How Far Does a Goodbye Go,” and his new radio single, “Don’t Tell on Me.” 

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Don Toliver has topped a few Billboard charts, but there’s only one award he would like to receive someday.

Speaking to Billboard for a recent cover story, he revealed that he wants to get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Don has quite some time to wait before becoming eligible for a nomination; an artist can’t be nominated until 25 years after their first commercial release. Until then, Don said his goal is to spend more quality time with his son.

“I just want to be locked in me and my son just sitting back watching Winnie the Pooh,” he says. “Man, practicing whatever he wants to practice [and I’m] cooking up, sketching designs and setting up something even crazier one day.”

That and taking care of his loved ones, he said, are more important to him than chasing any other accolade.

“To provide for my family the way I’ve done is the greatest reward,” Don said. “My grandma called me the other day and asked me, ‘Yo, my refrigerator is broken. I need a new fridge.’ We brought her a fridge with a touch screen, just because she wanted it. At the end of the day, bro, that s*** warms my heart.”

“An award is cool, but I know for a fact I’m going to make that bread,” Don said. “Just like being able to sit here and say, ‘I can chill out and really just focus on my family and work on music whenever I really feel like I’m in a good mood or in a vibe to do so,’ makes me happy.” 

Don is set to headline the first night of Billboard Presents The Stage at SXSW 2026 on March 13. His tour supporting his album Octane kicks off in May.

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Warren Zevon’s final live performance is getting a special vinyl release.

Epilogue: Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival will be released on two-LP opaque metallic silver vinyl on April 17.

The album captures Zevon’s August 2002 performance at Canada’s Edmonton Folk Music Festival, which turned out to be his final live performance ever. The reissue includes an etched fourth side, along with liner notes from bandmate Matt Cartsonis, who played with Zevon during the show.

Originally released in November 2025 on black vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday, Epilogue features performances of such Zevon classics as “Werewolves of London,” “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” and “Lawyers, Guns And Money,” as well as the track “Dirty Life and Times,” which has only been played live twice.

Not long after playing the Edmonton Folk Festival, Zevon was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He passed away Sept. 7, 2003, at the age of 56. In November, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the musical influence category.

Epilogue: Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival on silver vinyl is available for preorder now.

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Wolfgang Van Halen takes his love of Foo Fighters to new heights on his latest Mammoth album, 2025’s The End.

Toward the end of the opening track, “One of a Kind,” Wolf starts screaming the line “We’re not coming home” in a way that’s very reminiscent of Dave Grohl’s vocals.

“I do think that’s probably my Grohl-iest I’ve ever sounded,” Wolf tells ABC Audio.

In general, Wolf found he was trying new things with his voice on The End.

“Through the vocal recording and everything, I was really uncomfortable most of the time,” Wolf says. “I thought that was cool because it meant I was doing something I wasn’t familiar or comfortable with.”

While “One of a Kind” might remind you of the Foos, the song “The End” will definitely remind you of Wolf’s late father, Eddie Van Halen, with its tapping guitar intro. Wolf says he long had that tapping part set aside, but didn’t know what to do with it until “The End” came along.

“I was like, ‘Wait, I have that tapping thing,’ what if it’s the centerpiece of this intro and it kinda has these epic stabs in between,” Wolf recalls. “It was almost a fun writing exercise to write a song around that idea.”

Also on “The End,” Wolf briefly turns into Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers with a slapping part that’s actually played on guitar instead of bass, which came along after a discussion with his producer.

“I only had a guitar on me, so I was like, ‘It goes like this, but pretend it’s a bass,'” Wolf says. “When I showed it to him he was like, ‘Dude, you should do that on guitar, that sounds really cool.'” 

Mammoth will launch a U.S. tour in support of The End Thursday in Buffalo, New York.

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Slightly Stoopid has announced a U.S. tour for the summer. 

The headlining outing launches July 23 in Cleveland and wraps up Aug. 23 in St. Augustine, Florida. Presales are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit SlightlyStoopid.com.

Slightly Stoopid’s 2026 live plans also include the band’s inaugural Field of Dreamz festival, taking place June 13 in their hometown of San Diego, and playing dates on Sublime’s Me Gusta Festival.

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Harry Styles is playing multiple shows in seven cities for his upcoming Together, Together tour. The singer is set to perform 30 nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden, for example, and 12 nights at London’s Wembley Stadium. While fans may be upset about having to travel farther to come see him, he insists both him and the show will be superior.

Asked to explain this mini-residency model, Harry tells Apple Music’s The Zane Lowe Show, “I think it makes the show better. I think you can build something that doesn’t have to travel every night. I think the show itself is better.”

He adds it will also be greater since longer stays in one location “allows me to stay in my life while I’m doing it.” “I think [it] allows me to take care of myself better, which I think makes me better at doing the thing,” he explains.

“It’s not like I’m saying I’ll never travel again, but I want to see what it looks like if you do it a different way,” he continues, noting it terrified him to think about returning and doing “the exact same thing.”

Harry reasons that touring this way also makes things easier for the people who go on the road with him.

“People in my band have families now and kids and some aspect of that too,” he notes. “It’s really important to me that they’re on the road, that I would love to have them. I don’t want to make it like near impossible for them to be able to come do that with me.”

The Together, Together tour starts in May in Amsterdam.

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