Megadeth has released a new song called “Tipping Point,” the first single off their upcoming self-titled farewell album.
“We all have different ‘tipping points’ and they may vary from day to day,” says frontman Dave Mustaine. “I think we’re all being pushed to the edge right now, and it’s easy to lean into that feeling. But it’s important not to let things get you down.”
You can watch the “Tipping Point” video on YouTube.
Megadeth the album is due out Jan. 23. The thrash metallers announced in August that they’d be releasing their last record and embarking on a farewell tour starting in 2026.
Leon Thomas has released “Just How You Are,” the lead single to his project Pholks. “If you know you had my heart/ Could never finish what you started/ You love to pick my world apart/ But that’s just how you are,” he sings. Pholks “isn’t just an EP, it’s a movement,” he says on Instagram. Pholks is due Oct. 10.
While on Adin Ross‘ livestream, Young Thug revealed how he’ll continue to roll out his Uy Scuti album. “I’m going on tour to begin the next year. I’ma take a few people,” he said, noting one of those people is Quavo. “That’s one person that’s going on it. It’s a lot more top tier s***,” he teased. Thug also announced the Uy Scuti deluxe is coming, which will include “a lot of old songs that the people always wanted. S*** that I already have leaked, put on the internet, like snippets.”
Bryson Tiller is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his debut album, Trapsoul. “Happy Anniversary to my day 1’s. Today, ‘Trapsoul’ turns 10, ‘Anniversary’ turns 5, and ‘Solace’ is born. Go for A long drive and spin all 3,” he wrote on Instagram Thursday. He also celebrated the RIAA certifications for some of his music, including now-Platinum songs “Next to You,” “Canceled” and “Self-Made.” “Don’t” is now 15-times Platinum.
“This s*** is so crazy I had to hit RIAA to make sure it was true but yes it’s TRUE. Highest certified solo R&B song in history WTF! This is the BEST anniversary gift ever,” Bryson said of “Don’t” before thanking a few people. “For those saying ‘I hope this makes you love music more’ i fell back in love with music in 2020 and haven’t fell out of it ever since.”
Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Allen White on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’/(ABC/Randy Holmes)
You’d think folks would be excited to see Bruce Springsteen taking part in some karaoke, but apparently that just wasn’t the case.
Springsteen appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday, where he shared the story of his first and only karaoke experience, noting it happened in a small bar in London.
“I decided I was going to do The Temptations‘ ‘Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,’” The Boss said. “And so I assume, I’m gonna get up there, I’m going to sing a few notes and this place is going to go wild. So I got up there, I started singing and they thought I was just another a****** who got up onstage and was trying to do karaoke.”
He added, “So it was really disappointing. I’ve never done it again.”
Springsteen was on Kimmel with Jeremy Allen White, who plays him in the upcoming movie Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. Springsteen was a constant presence on the film’s set and said he feels a little bad about.
“I felt a little guilty about that because I was on the set quite a bit,” Springsteen said. “And I’m going, here’s the guy, the guy’s not only trying, playing me, but he’s got to play me while my stupid a** is sitting in the chair next to him.”
Springsteen then apologized to White, adding, “You did a great job. He really tolerated me on the set.”
But Jeremy said that while he first felt nervous about Bruce being around, “I very quickly realized, like, his presence was permission. And, you know, it would have been strange if he was so close to us the whole time and he wasn’t with us while we were filming. So I’m very grateful for it.”
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere opens Oct. 24.
Taylor Swift at the 67th Grammys Awards, February, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Taylor Swift launched her new era with a round of interviews in the U.K., sharing her first public thoughts on her engagement to Travis Kelce.
Peoplereports that while appearing on Friday’s episode of the BBC’s The Graham Norton Show, Taylor raved about Travis’s proposal. “He really crushed it in surprising me. While we were talking on his podcast, he had a complete garden built out the back of his house to propose in,” she said, adding, “He went all out – 10 out of 10.”
But Taylor didn’t reveal a timeline for her and Travis’ nuptials, joking, “You’ll know.” She added, “I want to do the album stuff first, and the wedding is what happens after in terms of planning. I think it will be fun to plan.”
She also discussed her engagement ring, telling the U.K. radio station Heart that she’d shown Travis a video “a year-and-a-half ago” of Kindred Lubeck, a jeweler whose work she admired. “He was just paying attention to everything, it turns out. When I saw the ring, I was like, ‘(Gasp!) I know who made that!”
Asked by the U.K.’s Hits Radio if Ed Sheeran would sing at her wedding, Taylor said, “Oh it would be hard to keep him from it, I think,” adding, “We [both] love to get up onstage, it’s actually not that hard at talking either of us into performing at anything.”
In another interview on BBC Radio 1, Taylor spoke about a secret concern of hers.
“I used to have this dark fear that if I ever were truly happy and free, being myself and nurtured by a relationship, what happens if the writing just dries up?” she said, adding, “And it turns out, that’s not the case at all.”
The Police released their third studio album, Zenyattà Mondatta, which peaked at #5 on the U.S. charts, making it the band’s highest charting album in the U.S. at that time.
The album produced two hit singles, “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” and “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da,” which both peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the band’s first two top-10 hits.
Although not released as singles, two other tracks became popular with fans: “Driven to Tears,” which became a top-40 hit on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, and “When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around,” which hit #3 on the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart.
Zenyattà Mondatta, which was certified double Platinum by the RIAA, earned The Police two Grammy wins: best rock performance by a duo or group for “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” and best rock instrumental performance for the album track “Behind They Came.”
Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (ABC/Randy Holmes)
Foo Fighters have released a new live EP called Are Playing Where??? Vol. I.
The six-track set was recorded during Dave Grohl and company’s recent run of last-minute pop-up shows, which took place in San Luis Obispo and Santa Ana, California, Washington, D.C. and New Haven, Connecticut.
Those concerts marked the Foos’ first with new drummer Ilan Rubin, formerly of Nine Inch Nails. Rubin replaced drummer Josh Freese, who was let go from the band in May after joining in 2023 following the 2022 death of Taylor Hawkins.
Freese, incidentally, has returned to Nine Inch Nails, with whom he’d previously played from 2005 to 2008.
You can listen to Are Playing Where??? Vol. I now via Bandcamp.
Rascal Flatts’ Gary LeVox & Joe Don Rooney (Disney/Connie Chornuk)
When Rascal Flatts decided to make Life Is a Highway: Refueled Duets, an album that reimagined their past hits and songs from their catalog, recording a new song with the Jonas Brothers wasn’t part of the plan.
Still, when the siblings suggested “I Dare You,” Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney were all on board.
“We were going back through our catalog,” Gary explains. “And originally it was gonna be like 10 of our number ones or something like that. But then when this song came about, it gave us a chance to be back in the studio together and cuttin’ some new music.”
“Which we hadn’t done for, you know, since ‘How They Remember You,’ five years [ago],” Jay interjects.
“And that song, I just think it’s really special,” Joe Don adds.
Nick Jonas was one of the co-writers on “I Dare You” with Dan + Shay‘s Shay Mooney, which led him to suggest it as an alternative. It’s a move that’s certainly worked out, since the song’s now a top-20 hit.
Flatts resume their reunion tour Jan. 15 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Cover of ‘Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run’/(Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company)
Paul McCartney is set to revisit his post-Beatles career with the new book Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, and now fans have a chance to get their hands on a very special edition of the release.
The book’s publisher, Liveright, has announced that 175 numbered copies of the book signed by McCartney will be available throughout the U.S., although getting your hands on one may not be easy.
Liveright has released the list of stores that will carry copies of this rare signed book. Some stores will be auctioning it off, others are making it available for presale and at least one is asking those interested to register for a chance to buy it.
Each limited-edition copy will come in a cloth case with a screen print, and will include a booklet of Wings-era album and single artwork. There’s also an exclusive color vinyl of the upcoming Wings compilation LP, and a special enamel pin and embroidered patch.
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, out Nov. 4, is described as “a landmark account” of McCartney’s “triumphant musical reinvention in the 1970s and the subsequent rise of one of the decade’s most iconic bands.” It contains over 150 photographs, including some never-before-seen shots, as well as memorabilia, like handwritten lyrics and pages from Paul’s diary.
McCartney is also celebrating Wings with a new anthology album, simply titled Wings, that will be released Nov. 24 digitally and as a three-LP or two-CD set. There will also be a three-LP, limited-edition color vinyl version; a Blu-ray that will feature the first-ever Dolby Atmos mixes of the songs; and one-LP and one-CD versions of the album.
AJR will wrap up their Somewhere in the Sky tour Saturday with a big show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and the Met brothers plan to go out with, ahem, a “BANG!”
“We love doing weird stuff onstage that we’ve sort of become known for, like the magic illusions, and the shadows coming to life and a narrative that keeps poking back throughout,” band member Ryan Met tells ABC Audio. “We’re just really big fans of Broadway, and so we like kind of bringing that into the concert space.”
Ahead of the tour’s launch in June, AJR announced that Adam Met will be missing shows in order to focus on his climate advocacy work. Jack Met says that performing without one of his brothers has “been a weird transition.”
“It definitely feels like there’s something missing,” Jack says. “But we’re just super proud of all the work that [Adam has] been doing and that he’s taking the time to work on this stuff.”
“It’s definitely an adjustment,” he continues. “We’ve been working together onstage for, what, 20 years now, so it’s strange.”
As for whether Adam might show up for the Hollywood Bowl finale, Jack teases, “He might pop up.”
AJR released a new EP, What No One’s Thinking, in September. Their most recent album is 2023’s The Maybe Man.
J.I.D. performs during the 2025 Dreamville Music Festival at Dorothea Dix Park on April 06, 2025 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)
J.I.D has worked with several artists throughout the course of his career, but he specifically calls his collaboration with Eminem “a blessing.”
“It kind of lets me know that I’ve been going in the right direction because my whole career has been full circle moments like that,” he tells XXL of teaming with Em on “Fuel,” from Em’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) album. “Everyone that I like really grew up to or just loved and admired and looked to for something of depth or whatever I was looking for, most of those artists have circled back around and tapped in, you know what I’m saying?”
“It kind of blows my mind that I have certain relationships I’m able to text some of these people on my phone, literally,” he continues.
J.I.D has been grinding in the music game for eight years, preparing for opportunities and leaving the rest up to the “will of the gods.”
“I put my best foot forward, you know what I’m saying? I feel like that’s when you leave it up to the will of the gods. After you put your best foot forward, you put yourself out there and let the fans or let the people who listen to it do whatever they want with it because it’s out your hands,” he says.
He does, however, have a goal he wants to accomplish: “I want a BET nomination,” J.I.D says.
His latest album, God Does Like Ugly, dropped in August.
