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My Chemical Romance has announced the openers for the band’s 2026 European tour.

Each show will feature a different supporting act, depending on the night. For example, Joan Jett will be on the bill for MCR’s July 10 performance at London’s Wembley Stadium.

Other openers include Interpol, Sunny Day Real Estate, Echo and the Bunnymen, Mogwai, Idlewild and Skunk Anansie.

MCR’s 2026 tour, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of their 2006 album, The Black Parade, will come to the U.S. starting in August. The openers for the U.S. leg include Franz Ferdinand, Pierce the Veil, Modest Mouse, Iggy Pop, Sleater-Kinney, The Breeders, BABYMETAL, Jimmy Eat World, The Mars Volta, The Used and Thrice.

My Chem will also launch a tour of South America in January with support from The Hives.

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After scoring the entertainer of the year trophy at the Country Music Association Awards, Lainey Wilson is ready to entertain the entire country Thursday at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

On Wednesday she shared footage on her Instagram Story of her parade rehearsals. She sang “Somewhere Over Laredo” while holding an umbrella and wearing a festive red coat with a fur collar. She captioned it, “You can’t rain on this parade!” Unlike most of the other performers, Lainey isn’t riding on a float — she’ll be performing on a stage in front of Macy’s store entrance. 

And if you want more Lainey holiday viewing, she appears as an animated version of herself in Disney’s Hulu’s Family Guy’s Hallmark Channel’s Lifetime’s Familiar Holiday Movie, which begins streaming on Hulu Friday. She also sings the theme song, which includes fitting the special’s very long title into the lyrics.

Speaking of “Somewhere Over Laredo,” it just became her ninth top-10 hit on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.

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Sombr is one of 2025’s biggest breakout alternative artists, but he’s also become a giant pop act — his single “back to friends” reached the top 10 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. Speaking with Vanity Fair, sombr shares that he hopes to follow in the footsteps of other musicians he feels has bridged the gap between alternative and pop.

“I feel like Hozier is a great example of being alternative and sustaining it. He still has such a successful business,” sombr says. “The 1975, same thing. Billie Eilish, when I first heard her music, I considered it to be alternative pop, and I relate.”

“I feel like I make alternative music now,” he continues. “I’m a pop star, apparently. That’s kind of how I feel.”

Asked what “alternative” means to him, sombr replies, “Alternative music is just music that is not pop.”

“It’s not made to be a pop song, but it can become a pop song, because it may be a good song that people gravitate toward,” he says. “When I made ‘back to friends,’ that is an indie-rock song.”

Sombr adds that he always felt “alternative” while in school.

“I painted my nails. I wore all black in high school,” sombr says. “I listened to alternative music, so I make alternative music.”

“I feel like some people are just born alternative,” he continues. “I remember being in high school and thinking, Am I going to be emo forever? And I think I am.”

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Thomas Rhett and his family are mourning the loss of another beloved pet, after losing their dog Cash in October.

On Wednesday he posted a photo of his dog Kona and wrote, “It’s been a tough dog month for our family. We lost our little Kona girl. I think after cash passed she just wanted to go be with him.”

“It’s weird losing a dog, cause whether you know it or not they are just always there, always by your side at the dinner table,” he continued. “They are truly a part of your family. Got the courage last night to listen to @hardy song ‘Dog years’ I cried like a child, but dang that song is so spot on about the life of a dog if they could talk.”

“Kona and Cash yall will be missed a lot. I know yall are having a blast up in heaven together.”

When Cash passed, TR paid tribute by writing, “He was the most loyal, kind dog that I have ever known. He was [my wife] Lauren’s best friend. He was there when every single baby came home for the first time.”

Thomas and Lauren share four children and are expecting their fifth in 2026.

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There’s so much AI content floating around online these days that you never know what’s real. Maybe that’s why we can forgive sombr for thinking that a quote from Taylor Swift praising him was fake.

Taylor did an interview in October in which she said, “Tate McRae is amazing. Sombr is amazing. There are so many incredible artists that I love listening to … I’m supporting them by streaming their music constantly in my house.”

Speaking to Vanity Fair, sombr said, “[E]very time anything cool happens to me, I’m sleeping. And I sleep really late, so I always wake up and already have a bunch of texts about it, spoiling it. … I just woke up and I opened my texts: ‘Taylor Swift mentioned you!’ I was like, No, no way. This is AI. But it wasn’t!”

“I was … six years old listening to pop radio, and it was Taylor Swift. Now I’m on pop radio with Taylor Swift, and she says she listens to my music,” he continued. “Life doesn’t feel real. And what do you mean, I’m a pop star? I’m still trying to process it all.”

The best new artist Grammy nominee had a similarly suspicious reaction to hearing his song on the radio for the first time. “I remember, when it first started picking up, I was going to meet my friends, and I got into an Uber and ‘Undressed’ was just on, and I had never experienced something like that, so I got really scared,” he told Vanity Fair.

“I was like, Am I getting kidnapped? Then I looked at the screen on the car and it was just on a radio station. Ever since then, it’s gotten to be more normal.”

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Juelz Santana doesn’t believe it’s necessary for kids to learn how to read. He contends in a recent episode of the No Funny S*** show that it’s not as important as learning about financial literacy.

“By the time they get to ninth grade they should be learning how to start businesses, but they don’t really need to learn how to read,” he said. 

Though he clarified that people are not “supposed to be illiterate,” he doubled down on his argument that reading comes second to learning math, as there are ways to survive without knowing how to read.

“You could listen to a book on YouTube. You can still obtain the information. You don’t have to know how to read. … I believe common sense is better than everything,” Juelz said, noting he recently listened to Robert Greene‘s The 48 Laws of Power.

He even pushed back on host Kenny “KP” Supreme, who argued that reading is essential to reviewing and understanding contracts.

“Reading is just when people want to embarrass you and try to play you … or, ‘You can’t read your contract.’ Anybody who said you can’t read your contract, they didn’t read their contract,” Juelz said. “They had a lawyer read their contract. They just saying it to be funny.”

The full episode is now available to watch on YouTube.

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You can work off the calories after your Thanksgiving meal Thursday by walking around your local independent record store and picking up exclusive vinyls released for the 2025 Record Store Day Black Friday event. Here’s a roundup of just some of the items you can score this year.

Benson Boone‘s 2023 EP, Pulse, is coming to vinyl for the first time. It’s pressed on electric yellow and bright blue splatter vinyl, and it comes with a 12×24 poster.

Bruno Mars‘ debut EP, It’s Better If You Don’t Understand, is on vinyl for the first time. It features “Count On Me,” “Talking to the Moon” and two other tracks.

Billie Eilish is putting out live recordings from Amazon’s Songline series, which have never before had a physical release. The four-track LP includes live versions of “Birds of a Feather,” “Wildflower” and more.

Chappell Roan is releasing a 7″ vinyl with “The Subway” on one side and “The Giver” on the other.

Kesha has a 7″ vinyl version of her 2024 Spotify Singles cover of Lindsey Buckingham‘s “Holiday Road”; the B-side is Kesha’s unreleased version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” which dates from 2010.

The deluxe version of Role Model‘s Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye) is available as a 2-LP set on colored. It includes a few live performances, including one of “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” plus a collaboration with Laufey.

James Bay is releasing his debut album, Chaos and the Calm, featuring “Let It Go” on ruby/black marble vinyl with alternative cover art.

Matchbox Twenty is releasing Mad Season (Live 2001), a 2-LP set on truffle color vinyl documenting concert recordings from their tour promoting their second album, Mad Season. It includes hits like “If You’re Gone” and “Bent.”

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You can work off the calories after your Thanksgiving meal Thursday by walking around your local independent record store and picking up exclusive vinyls released for the 2025 Record Store Day Black Friday event. Here’s a roundup of just some of the items you can score this year.

Billy Joel is releasing his Live From Long Island concert as a three-LP standalone set. The 1982 show, recorded at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum in December 1982, features most of Billy’s hits, including, “Allentown,” “Piano Man,” “Pressure,” “Big Shot,” “You May Be Right” and “Just the Way You Are.”

Who Believes In Angels? Live At The London Palladium documents the March 25 concert Elton John and Brandi Carlile did at the London Palladium. It features a concert poster and live versions of songs from the duo’s Grammy-nominated album, as well as Elton hits like “Your Song,” “I’m Still Standing” and “Tiny Dancer.”

Phil Collins is releasing 12″ers, a six-track EP of extended mixes of songs from his album No Jacket Required.

Benson Boone‘s 2023 EP, Pulse, is coming to vinyl for the first time on electric yellow and bright blue splatter vinyl and includes a 12×24 poster.

Bruno Mars‘ debut EP, It’s Better If You Don’t Understand, is on vinyl for the first time. It features “Count On Me,” “Talking to the Moon” and two other tracks.

Billie Eilish is putting out live recordings from Amazon’s Songline series, which have never before had a physical release. The four-track LP includes live versions of “Birds of a Feather” and more.

Matchbox Twenty is releasing Mad Season (Live 2001),a 2-LP set on truffle color vinyl documenting concert recordings from their tour promoting their second album, Mad Season. It includes hits like “If You’re Gone.”

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Travis Scott has a new album that he hopes will drop soon. A clip said to be filmed in Europe while he was on his Circus Maximus tour has surfaced on the web and sees him responding to whether he has recorded new music. “Oh yeah, like a whole album,” he said. As for when fans will be able to hear it, he added: “Soon, hopefully. Yeah, I made a whole album on tour.” The Circus Maximus tour, according to a Live Nation press release, has the most tickets sold on a solo rap tour and is the highest-grossing solo rap tour in history.

De La Soul stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night to perform a pair of songs from their new album, Cabin in the Sky. Posdnuos and Maseo took the stage with “Run it Back” before going into “The Package.” The performance is now available to stream on YouTube.

Nas and DJ Premier‘s collaborative album, Light-Years, is dropping on Dec. 12. The album will close out Mass Appeal’s Legend Has It series, which saw the release of seven new albums from iconic hip-hop artists, including Slick Rick and Mobb Deep. Light-Years is now available to presave, with limited physical products currently on sale.

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