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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 what’s available:

Jelly Roll is releasing Beautifully Broken (Pickin’ Up The Pieces) in a physical format for the first time. The LP is pressed on “tequila sunrise”-colored vinyl and collects the 13 tracks from the digital deluxe version of Beautifully Broken, including collaborations with Keith Urban, ERNEST and pop star Halsey.

Post Malone is releasing Long Bed, the nine tracks from the digital deluxe version of his album F-1 Trillion, physically for the first time. It’s pressed on neon orange vinyl.

Morgan Wade‘s putting out a limited-edition purple vinyl pressing of the five new songs from the deluxe edition of her 2025 album, The Party is Over (recovered). It includes “Hardwood Floor (String Session).”

Fans of ’90s country will want to get Dwight Yoakam‘s And Then I Wrote… The First Three Albums Of The ’90s, available as a four-LP boxed set. It collects If There Was a Way, This Time and Gone, and throws in a full side of rarities from the era. Those albums include hits like “Turn It On, Turn It Up Turn Me Loose,” “You’re The One,” “Nothing’s Changed Here,” “Ain’t That Lonely Yet,” “A Thousand Miles from Nowhere,” “Fast as You,” “Try Not to Look So Pretty” and “It Only Hurts Me When I Cry.”

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Twenty One Pilots‘ Josh Dun has shared a drum cover of the Turnstile song “T.L.C. (TURNSTILE LOVE CONNECTION).”

The performance is featured on Dun’s YouTube channel, where he’s also posted drum covers of Metallica‘s “Master of Puppets” and Rage Against the Machine‘s “Bulls on Parade.”

“Posting songs that inspire me in some way or another. Whether that’s just a feeling or a desire to get better,” Dun says. “[Turnstile’s] Daniel Fang is a drummer worth watching to get inspired, and this song is rad.”

Dun just paid tribute to another drummer, Meg White, when Twenty One Pilots covered “Seven Nation Army” in honor of The White Stripes getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. 

Turnstile, meanwhile, released a new album, NEVER ENOUGH, in June. It was accompanied by a visual album that premiered at the Tribeca Festival.

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With a busy 2025 behind him, Dylan Scott doesn’t have a date on the books until April 2026, though that’s certain to change once he announces his new tour. 

With “What He’ll Never Have” continuing its climb in country’s top 20, it’s a good time for Dylan to enjoy the fruits of his labor. 

So what are his plans for the holidays?

“Whatever my wife tells me we’re doin’, that’s what we’re doin’,” Dylan quips.

At least for turkey day, that means he and Blair Robinson will head for his hometown, before leaving 8-year-old Beckett Robinson, 6-year-old Finley Robinson and 2-year-old Barron Robinson behind. 

“This year, Thanksgiving, we’re taking the kids to Louisiana,” he tells ABC Audio, “and then the grandparents are gonna watch the kids while my wife and I go to New York City right after Thanksgiving.” 

“So I’m thankful this year for grandparents,” he adds.  

Dylan just released “Two Christmas Trees” for the 2025 holiday, a cover of a song his father wrote in the ’80s. If you’re looking for more familiar yuletide tunes from Dylan, you can check out his Merry Christmas album from 2019.

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The Pretty Reckless‘ Taylor Momsen has a lot to be thankful for this holiday season.

For one, her band’s latest single, “For I Am Death,” hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, giving The Pretty Reckless their eighth leader on the ranking.

“It’s very cool!” Momsen tells ABC Audio of the “For I Am Death” success. “It’s kind of surreal, we haven’t even played it live yet.”

“For I Am Death” premiered in August and marked the first new, original Pretty Reckless material in four years.

“It’s kind of blowing my mind a little bit, but in the best way possible,” Momsen says. “I love that song so much, so I’m proud it’s the first thing we’ve put out in awhile, and I’m so thankful that people like it.”

Meanwhile, Momsen performed at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Nov. 8 in honor of Soundgarden, and The Pretty Reckless put out a holiday EP featuring a rocking version of Momsen’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas song “Where Are You Christmas?” And if that weren’t enough, Momsen is performing during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday.

“The universe is aligned or something, I don’t know,” Momsen laughs. 

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Kevin Jonas fears telling his brothers he wants to sing lead in A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, but in real life, he he recently released his first solo single, “Changing.” That, however, doesn’t mean an album is the next step.

Speaking to Billboard‘s Pop Shop podcast, Kevin says he’s been “recording more music.” However, since he’s an independent artist, he can “do kind of whatever I want, so I don’t have to follow specific rules” regarding releases.

“I don’t know if an album’s in the works. Maybe an EP, maybe just a collection of some music that I like over the course of the year,” he adds. “I really don’t have exact plans. I know the next song I want to release, but as of right now, I’m gonna get through this one first.”

Kevin also says in the interview that a Christmas movie was a “bucket-list item” for Jonas Brothers, who wanted to make one from back in their early days on the Disney Channel. However, he notes, “It really happened at the right time. Our families are involved. I think we can speak to the adult nature of things now, at the same time of allowing it to be just enough fun so kids will love it.”

Kevin also explains how he got through the film, as he isn’t an experienced like brothers Nick and Joe Jonas.

“I leaned on [Joe and Nick] a lot. I worked with an amazing acting coach … I really called him every day,” he says.

He continues, “Playing yourself to start is a weird challenge… I just kind of had to do the best version.”

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During Foo Fighters‘ performance on Amazon Music Live in October, Dave Grohl and company performed in the round on the floor without any elevation. Now the Foos are giving an inside look at how the show came together.

The “Everlong” rockers have shared hand-drawn pictures of the stage design, presumably created by Grohl. A drawing of the overhead view shows where each of the members would stand around drummer Ilan Rubin.

You can check out the drawings via the Foo Fighters Facebook.

Grohl previously took to pen and paper to bring his stage ideas to life when he created a hand-drawn image of the elaborate throne that he sat in during the Foos’ 2015 tour after breaking his leg at a show earlier that year.

Perhaps Grohl is currently drawing the stage setup for Foo Fighters’ 2026 stadium tour, which launches in the U.S. in August.

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One Direction member Liam Payne died in October 2024 after falling from the balcony of his hotel in Argentina; toxicology reports revealed he had a number of substances in his system at the time of his death. Simon Cowell, who helped launch One Direction to stardom on the U.K. version of The X Factor, tells the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that the news “really hit me.” Simon says the last time he saw Liam, he thought he was “in a really good place.”

“I saw him a year before this happened. He came over to my house. We talked about his son and being a dad. I remember saying, ‘Music is not everything. Don’t let it run your life anymore. Find something else that you are passionate about,’” Simon recalls. 

“You ask yourself that question: ‘Could I have done anything more?  What would’ve happened to Liam if he hadn’t been in the band?’” Simon continued. “Having spoken to his mom and dad recently, all they kept telling me was he was so proud of what he had achieved.”

“I wish I could turn back the clock, of course. When I spoke to him that day, I felt really good about him. I thought, ‘Wow, you seem in a really good place.’”

Asked about the blame he received in the media after Liam’s death, Simon says, “The idea that you are essentially responsible for somebody’s life, 10 years after you’ve signed someone? You can’t do that.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Simon says that he wished the finale of the first season of America Idol had been a choice between Kelly Clarkson and Tamyra Grey, not Justin Guarini. He claimed Justin “would be the first to admit [to] himself” that he wasn’t good enough to go up against Kelly.

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Riley Green has just been announced as a co-founder of Duck Club bourbon, and it might be the perfect thing for you to drink if your Thanksgiving weekend plans include hunting.

As Southern Living reports, Riley says the bourbon is “made for the people who feel at home in the wild—and for anyone who appreciates quality built on authenticity, tradition, and respect for the land.” That’s not just lip service: The brand is actively supporting the conservation of North America’s wetlands.

“I spend as much time as I can outdoors; the sport and the lifestyle around it are a big part of who I am,” Riley said in his statement to Southern Living. He added, “I’m proud to be a part of a brand that honors the lifestyle I love.”

You can purchase the bourbon in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, though not in Riley’s home state of Alabama. You can also buy it in online in 42 states via Duck Club’s website.

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Ciara got “Low” in the New York City streets for her very own flash mob. In a newly released video, she joins a group of 40 dancers, who kick off the clip showing off their moves to her song “BRB” right in the middle of Times Square. She dances with them to “Low” featuring Diamond Platnumz and “Nice n’ Sweet” before posing for pictures and hopping into her ride.

“I just knew being in the streets of New York dancing to ‘Low’ and ‘Nice n’ Sweet,’ which are very New York-ish, there’s an Afro-Caribbean influence in it — we know New York breeds that kind of energy throughout the streets,” Ciara told Billboard’s Delisa Shannon. “So it just felt like the perfect place to have this moment and another ‘this place feels like home’ moment for me, which I loved.”

Though she’s from Atlanta, she says she has a second home in New York, where her family moved after husband Russell Wilson was drafted to the New York Giants. 

“New York is showing our family tremendous love,” Ciara says. “And as an artist, I feel like New York has put their arms around me too. And so this is another place that I call home.”

“There’s just something so magical about being in the streets of New York,” she continues, noting this is the first time she had a flash mob where she just went “out in the middle of the streets and start dancing.”

You can watch Ciara’s New York City flash mob on YouTube.

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