The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues’ (Capitol Records)
The Rolling Stones have another U.S. hit on their hands.
The band’s latest album, Foreign Tongues, debuts at #7 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart this week, moving the equivalent of 53,000 album units. Of that number, 48,500 were in total album sales, putting the album at #1 on the Top Album Sales chart.
Foreign Tongues is now the band’s 39th top-10 hit in the U.S., which extends their record for the most top 10s on the Billboard Albums chart. Barbra Streisand is in second with 34.
The Stones’ last top-10 album in the U.S. was 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, which debuted at #3.
On Friday, Foreign Tongues debuted at #1 in the U.K., making it their 15th #1 album on the U.K. Official Albums Chart. It also debuted at #1 in Germany, France, Netherlands, Austria and Belgium.
Garth Brooks’ Blame It All on My Roots Tour (Courtesy Garth Brooks/Ticketmaster)
When tickets went on sale Friday for Garth Brooks’ August return to arenas, response was so great he doubled his run in Indianapolis.
Originally set to play only Aug. 21-22, he’ll now kick off the Blame It All on My Roots Tour on Thursday, Aug. 20, and play a Sunday matinee at Gainbridge Fieldhouse as well.
Garth is just as excited as the fans.
“It’s like a baseballer or a fireman,” he says. “You know, they don’t miss the game or the fires, they miss the fire hall. They miss the dugout. Same with me, man. I’m so excited to get back just to see the band and crew and hang out with them.”
“And then, of course, the people, just to hopefully hear their voices. I can’t tell you how excited I am. I just hope that those people that show up have the best time of their lives. I know I’m going to,” he adds.
Remaining tickets are on sale now.
The Blame It All on My Roots concerts serve as the foundation for something he’s calling Killer Live and touting as “a groundbreaking new approach to live recording.”
Cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ (Sony Music)
Pink Floyd is being celebrated with a new limited-edition cassette player from the company We Are Rewind.
The We Are Rewind x Pink Floyd Collector’s Box Set comes with a Bluetooth cassette player featuring artwork from the band’s iconic album The Dark Side of the Moon. It also includes the only cassette edition of 2023’s 50th anniversary remastered edition of the album.
The cassette player features both a stereo playback and recording function, as well as Bluetooth capabilities that allow fans to listen to the music on wireless headphones. It also has a rechargeable battery, good for 12 hours of playback, and comes with a pencil and a numbered authenticity card.
Only 3,000 sets are available. More info can be found at WeAreRewind.com.
In other Pink Floyd news … the band recently posted an archival live performance to YouTube. The clip features a 1989 performance of the A Momentary Lapse of Reason track “On the Turning Away,” with the band performing on a floating stage in Venice, Italy.
“How Do You Sleep?” single artwork. (Judge and Jury Records)
A perfect band may not take nearly a decade to release a new song, but then again, Hoobastank never claimed to be perfect.
“The Reason” outfit has returned with “How Do You Sleep?,” marking their first fresh material in eight years. As frontman Doug Robb tells ABC Audio, the band members had continued to write following the release of their last album, 2018’s Push Pull, but nothing really seemed to jump out at them. Then recently they sent a batch of songs to their former producer, Howard Benson, which included “How Do You Sleep?”
“[Benson] heard it, and he was like, ‘Dude, this, this sounds like a modern version of you guys from the early 2000s. … It’s awesome,'” Robb says. “He’s like, ‘I haven’t heard this type of, like, conviction in you guys in years.'”
Robb feels that the energy of the song stems from Hoobastank’s approach of writing music for themselves first and foremost.
“We consciously just said, like, ‘Dude, can we just write and do stuff that we really enjoy?'” Robb says. “Like, stuff that I would actually want to listen to and get pumped up listening to, even if nobody ever heard it.”
Now that “How Do You Sleep?” is out and people have heard it, though, Robb has been avoiding looking up people’s reactions to the song.
“If people love it, fantastic,” Robb says. “If they think it’s the worst song they’ve heard in their life, fantastic! … But I don’t want it to affect how I feel about what I’ve done.”
He adds, “Nobody’s been throwing tomatoes at us when we play the song, so that’s good.”
Hoobastank will be playing the Vans Warped Tour in Long Beach, California, on Saturday.
Charlie Puth performs on ABC’s ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026′ (Disney/Christopher Willard)
Charlie Puth and his wife welcomed their first child, Jude Crawford Puth, in March, and while he was no slouch in the music department, he says Jude’s existence has made him a better musician.
Speaking GQ Hong Kong, Charlie explains, “I realized that everything else is secondary except for my child’s happiness. Now it’s no longer always ‘about me’ — my entire life is about ensuring little Jude is incredibly happy every single day. This mindset has changed everything.”
“It has actually allowed me to write better music because I no longer care so much about whether others will like it,” he adds. “Even my most die-hard fans won’t love every song I share with the world forever. … [A]ll I can do is tell the truth, set it to melody, and hope that someone in the world can feel what I felt when I wrote that song.”
As for how little Jude responds to dad’s music, Charlie says, “He has very deep eyes, and when I sing, he stares straight at me without any hesitation. It’s really magical to look at him — you can really feel him absorbing all of this.”
“Who knows if he’ll go down the music path in the future?” he continues. “We’ll support him no matter what. I just hope that one day he can listen to James Taylor’s songs with me in the car.”
Zara Larsson performs on ABC’s ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,’ Dec. 31, 2025 (Disney/Christopher Willard)
You can own a piece of Zara Larsson’s “Lush Life” starting July 21 at 3 p.m. ET.
The Swedish star has set up her own shop on Depop, a global resale marketplace for secondhand fashion, with all proceeds going to charity. While the shop isn’t open yet, you can sign up now to be the first to get your hands on what she’s offering. Zara is also starring in an ad campaign for the platform.
“Fashion has always been one of the ways I express myself,” says Zara in a statement. “I love mixing vintage with newer pieces and finding things that feel unexpected. That’s why I’ve always loved Depop. There’s something really exciting about discovering an item that nobody else has.”
The Zara Larsson Edit shop will feature 20 to 30 pieces curated from Zara’s personal wardrobe, along with designer items, upcycled merchandise and “one-of-a-kind fashion finds,” according to a press release.
Depop’s brand and creative director adds, “Zara has an incredible eye for style because she approaches fashion with curiosity rather than rules.”
But, he notes, “This campaign isn’t just about people mimicking what Zara wears. It’s a celebration of the creativity and individuality that comes from discovering fashion that’s uniquely your own, and having a little fun with it.”
Zara showcased her onstage style Saturday at Lollapalooza Berlin. Next, she’ll head to North America for Lollapalooza Chicago and the Osheaga Festival in Montreal, Canada.
A view of the performance during FIFA World Cup 2026 Topps Final Halftime Show at New York New Jersey Stadium on July 19, 2026 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Global Citizen)
Music makes the people come together, and the entire world came together on Sunday afternoon for the first-ever FIFA World Cup™ Final Halftime Show.
The 11-minute spectacular started with Madonna singing her hit “Music,” mashed up with one of her new songs, “Danceteria.” She started singing in the tunnels underneath New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, and then continued while riding in the back of a dune buggy driven by Brazilian football legends Ronaldo and Ronaldinho. Madonna and the two players then walked out onto the field as she finished the song.
The Muppets’ band, Electric Mayhem, came next, performing the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” alongside dozens of dancers, plus musicians from the New York Philharmonic and Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. That segued into BTS performing their hit “Dynamite.”
Next up, Ted Lasso stars Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt reprised their roles as Ted Lasso and Coach Beard. As Ted, Sudeikis said that the next part of the show needed “heart, y’know? Someone that has some soul. Someone who can bring the love.” He and Hunt then called Justin Bieber out onto the field, with Sudeikis as Ted saying, “All right, young man, let’s go! It’s your big shot! Go on out there, don’t be nervous, make us proud.”
Justin, accompanied only by an acoustic guitar, walked onto the field and sang “Everything Hallelujah” while Hunt held up a sign that read “BELIEBE.” “It’s the World Cup, Hallelujah!” he concluded. Shakira and Burna Boy then took the stage to sing the official song of the World Cup, “Dai Dai.”
The big finale featured the PS22 Chorus, Chris Martin of Coldplay, the Muppets, Justin, BTS, Shakira and more, all singing “We Dance,” an original song written by Coldplay for the occasion. The finale also introduced a new Global Citizen initiative called believeinlove.org, which hopes to inspire people all over the world to participate in small acts of love. Fireworks capped off the whole performance, which you can watch now on YouTube.
Post Malone performed during the closing ceremony ahead of the game, Jennifer Hudson sang the national anthem, and British pop star Robbie Williams, Nicole Scherzinger and Italian star Laura Pausini joined together to sing another FIFA song, “Desire.”
Jennifer Finch of music group L7 performs onstage at Hollywood Palladium on January 04, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Rich Polk/Getty Images for The Art of Elysium)
L7 bassist and founding member Jennifer Finch has died. She was 59.
The news comes less than a week after the “Pretend We’re Dead” rockers announced that Finch had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.
“We are shattered by the loss of our beloved bandmate, sister and friend Jennifer Finch, whose fierce spirit, humor and boundless creativity helped shape L7 and changed all of our lives forever,” L7 said in a statement. “Jennifer was a true original who lived entirely on her own terms, and the impact she made on music, art and everyone lucky enough to know her cannot be measured.”
The band added, “We love her beyond words and will carry her with us always. Rest in power our dear friend.”
Finch formed L7 with guitarists and vocalists Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner and drummer Roy Koutsky in 1985. In 1989, Koutsky was replaced by Demetra Plakas, solidifying the classic L7 lineup.
Primarily influenced by punk and hailing from Los Angeles, L7 brought their own spin to the grunge sound, which exploded in Seattle in the early ’90s. Their breakout album was 1992’s Bricks Are Heavy, recorded with Nirvana’s Nevermind producer, Butch Vig.
L7 followed Bricks Are Heavy with 1994’s Hungry for Stink; Finch left the band in 1996. They put out two more albums before going on hiatus in 2001.
The lineup of Finch, Sparks, Gardner and and Plakas then reunited in 2014 and premiered a documentary, Pretend We’re Dead, in 2016. They released the album Scatter the Rats in 2019.
L7 announced in May that they were embarking on a farewell tour, dubbed the Last Hurrah, starting in October. When announcing Finch’s diagnosis, the band said that Finch would not be joining the tour.
“The Last Hurrah Tour was planned along with Jennifer when all four of us were in good health and spirits,” L7 said. “Although she will not be able to join us for the upcoming U.S. dates, Jennifer has asked us to continue with the tour as planned. We will honor her request while making her care and well-being our immediate priority.”
Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide Tour (Courtesy Live Nation)
In the Big Apple, it’s the season of the storms, which is why Noah Kahan had to scrap his show at New York City’s Citi Field on Saturday night.
According to a post on Noah’s Instagram Story, initially, the plan was to open the doors at 7:30 p.m., cancel the opening acts and proceed with the show. But a few hours later, a message went out announcing that the show had been canceled due to “inclement weather.”
“This was a very difficult decision to make, but the first priority is always to keep everyone safe,” the message continued, noting that fans will receive refunds.
“Exhausted every option to make this happen.. love you guys,” Noah wrote over the announcement.
“The Great Divide” singer is set to take the stage on Sunday night at Citi Field, as well. Merchandise stands will be open at 9 a.m. ET ahead of that night’s show.
Poppy attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
While Poppy’s band took the stage for their set at the Upheaval Festival in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Friday as scheduled, the “new way out” singer herself did not.
Instead, the band played an instrumental set without Poppy, who later posted in an Instagram Story that she was unable to perform due to the poor air quality conditions caused by wildfires in Canada.
“Due to ‘hazardous’ AQI reaching 350+ around our set time I was unable to join my band on stage,” Poppy wrote. “I was unable to breathe in those conditions. You might’ve noticed our set was instrumental only.”
She added, “For those who braved the conditions – I applaud you.”
“AQI” stands for “air quality index.” A level of 350+ signals a health emergency.
As previously reported, on Thursday, air quality issues forced bands including The Black Keys and Creed to postpone their outdoor concerts.
