The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s newest major exhibit, Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising, will open Nov. 14 for a nearly three-year run. The 5,000-square-foot display will showcase the piano Aretha Franklin played at FAME Studio in 1967, Duane Allman‘s guitar and Mac Davis‘ early draft of “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” among other artifacts.
Caylee Hammack will launch her five-show Bed of Roses Acoustic Tour Nov. 13 at Carol’s Pub in Chicago.
Ty Herndon‘s memoir, What Mattered Most, is set to arrive on March 31, 2026, via Dey Street Books.
‘The View’ hosts Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Whoopi Goldberg. (ABC/Jeff Lipsky)
The View came back for season 29 this week, and with its return came a brand-new bunch of hot topics.
Many pop culture moments happened over the show’s summer hiatus, but there was one in particular that swiftly took the world by storm — and had hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sara Haines wishing they could talk about it on air. It was, of course, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s engagement.
“I was mad Taylor and Travis was not topic #1, but there is time. There is more, more days in this week to cover the important news of today,” Griffin told ABC Audio. “But listen, it’s so great to be back and 29 seasons is incredible.”
Haines said she looked at Swift and Kelce’s engagement photos “over and over again, just thinking, ‘Oh my gosh!'”
“My daughter loves listening to her, so as she listened to, ‘Romeo, take me…’ on repeat, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this happened!’ Just sweet. Yeah, it’s a unifying moment,” Haines said.
Griffin says the celebrity engagement is exciting, especially because she is around the same age as Swift.
“You feel like you’ve grown up with her,” Griffin said. “I feel like people feel so invested in her life, so it’s like, yes, [in] this next phase people just want great things for her.”
The cohost said that after she watched the New Heights podcast episode Swift filmed with her fiancé and his brother, Jason Kelce, she saw that “these are two peas in a pod.”
“You just see why it works so well,” Griffin said. “I’m just rooting for the gym teacher and the English teacher to have a lovely marriage together and our royal wedding that we all want to watch.”
Everclear 30th anniversary edition of ‘Sparkle and Fade’ (Universal Music Group)
Everclear is currently on a tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their album Sparkle and Fade — and now the album is getting an anniversary edition.
The 30th anniversary remastered deluxe edition is due Oct. 31, and will be available digitally and pressed on two translucent, kelly green vinyl LPs. The expanded release features remastered versions of all 14 original tracks, plus alternate versions, fan favorites and original demos. It also includes cover songs that were recorded around the same time as the album, including Tom Petty‘s “American Girl” and INXS‘ “Don’t Change.” You can preorder the album now.
Sparkle and Fade, released in 1995, was Everclear’s first album, and it featured one of the band’s signature hits, “Santa Monica,” as well as “Heroin Girl.” The cover features childhood photos of the three members of the band, and the songs were loosely inspired by frontman Art Alexakis‘ troubled youth.
Here’s the Sparkle and Fade 30th anniversary version track listing:
Disc 1 – Side 1 “Electra Made Me Blind” “Heroin Girl” “You Make Me Feel Like A Whore” “Santa Monica” “Summerland” “Strawberry” “Heartspark Dollarsign”
Disc 1 – Side 2 “The Twistinside” “Her Brand New Skin” “Nehalem” “Queen Of The Air” “Pale Green Stars” “Chemical Smile” “My Sexual Life”
Taylor Swift, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ cover image (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot)
Taylor Swift is offering a special incentive to preorder her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, on iTunes.
If you do, you’ll get to watch something called “A Look Behind the Curtain” on release day. It’s not clear what it is, only that it’s some sort of visual content.
Taylor has already given fans multiple reasons to preorder physical copies of the album: She’s offered limited-edition vinyl variants with different cover art, unique poems and posters.
In other Taylor news, it turns out that the CW series The Vampire Diaries could have had a Taylor cameo, but the show’s co-creator and showrunner, Julie Plec, decided against it.
According toPeople, in the new book I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries, Plec says, “The CW did ask us if we wanted to do a Taylor Swift cameo, and we said no.” She said it didn’t feel appropriate for the world building they were doing in the show’s first season, which aired in 2009.
“This isn’t 7th Heaven where Taylor can show up and do a free concert at the high school and make it feel somehow real,” she explained of the supernatural teen drama. “It will take us all out of it, it will take this very sort of timeless little community and make it feel too contemporary.”
In 2009, Taylor was still straddling the line between pop and country with hits like “You Belong With Me.”
A 60th Anniversary Doors Celebration tour artwork/Courtesy of Robby Krieger
The Doors’ Robby Krieger has revealed the special guests joining him for his upcoming show celebrating 60 years of the band’s legacy.
Artists confirmed for A 60th Anniversary Doors Celebration on Oct. 30 at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre include Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell, former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler, Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert DeLeo, Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley, Candlebox’s Kevin Martin and Adam Kury, Vanilla Fudge’s Carmine Appice, X’s John Doe and Orianthi. More artists are still to be announced.
The guest performers will join Krieger for a night of Doors’ music, with the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer planning to highlight the band’s 1970 album, Morrison Hotel, as well as other Doors hits.
“Sixty years or so ago when The Doors were happening, I had no idea that in the next century, we would still be talking about and playing The Doors records,” Krieger says. “I feel so blessed that just about every day someone stops me and recognizes me and wants to talk about The Doors and to thank me for making the music that they love still today.”
He adds, “The people that recognize me seem to be getting nicer all the time … I like to say that it’s a good problem to have.”
Opening for Krieger at the show will be the band Tripform, whose members include Pablo Manzarek, son of the late Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek.
Tickets for A 60th Anniversary Doors Celebration are on sale now.
Linsey Davis and Derek Dixon discuss his allegations against Tyler Perry in an interview for ABC News Live Prime. Heidi Gutman/ABC.
Actor Derek Dixon spoke out Tuesday in his first television interview since filing a lawsuit against Tyler Perry, accusing him of sexual harassment and assault.
Dixon sat down with ABC News Live anchor Linsey Davis to discuss his allegedly complicated history with the media mogul, saying he did not “want to stay silent about it anymore.”
Dixon says he met Perry at a studio opening party in 2019 while he was working at an events company. According to Dixon, Perry asked him if he was an actor, gave him his number and said “we’ll talk about this.”
In early 2020, Dixon landed the role of Dale in Perry’s BET series The Oval. According to the civil complaint, when Dixon was working on the show, Perry began sending text messages to him, with some being sexual in nature.
“One of them says, ‘What’s it going to take for you to have guiltless sex? Have y’all found that in therapy yet? I would hope that you would let someone hold and make love to you,'” Dixon said.
Dixon claims that in January 2020 Perry’s physical behavior started resembling the tone of his text messages, with Dixon saying one alleged incident occurred when he was having drinks at the mogul’s guest house.
Instead of driving home that night, Dixon said Perry told him to stay in the guest quarters, where he allegedly climbed into Dixon’s bed and started rubbing his leg, causing Dixon to jump out of the bed.
“I thought after that instance, it was pretty clear that I was not interested in that type of a relationship,” Dixon told ABC News.
Then, at the end of the second season of The Oval, Dixon’s character was shot four times in the chest, which he said made him realize “if I don’t make him happy, I could stay dead on the show.”
The actor said he ended communication with Perry in the spring of 2024 and decided to leave The Oval in September 2024. He also said Losing It, a show he had been writing that the mogul owns the rights to, was never developed beyond the pilot.
Then in January, Dixon filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency responsible for protecting workers from discrimination.
Dixon said he came up with the amount of $260 million in damages for his subsequent lawsuit for two reasons: “Part of that number is my lost job, my lost income, the loss of a show. The other part of that is a deterrent for how do you stop a billionaire who won’t stop themselves from doing this.”
Dixon said he hopes Perry takes “accountability for what happened” and learns to “not treat your employees this way and to never use someone’s dream to coerce them into a relationship that’s not professional.”
When asked about justice, Dixon said it would look like he “made a change and that something like this won’t happen to another actor that works for him or another actor in the industry.”
A 60th Anniversary Doors Celebration tour artwork/Courtesy of Robby Krieger
Jane’s Addiction‘s Perry Farrell, Stone Temple Pilots‘ Robert DeLeo and Sum 41‘s Deryck Whibley are among the guests set to join The Doors‘ Robby Krieger at his upcoming show celebrating 60 years of The Doors’ legacy.
A 60th Anniversary Doors Celebration will be held Oct. 30 at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre. Other guests on the bill include former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler, Candlebox’s Kevin Martin and Adam Kury, Vanilla Fudge’s Carmine Appice, X’s John Doe and Orianthi.
The guest performers will join Krieger for a night of Doors’ music, with the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer planning to highlight the band’s 1970 album, Morrison Hotel, as well as other Doors hits.
“Sixty years or so ago when The Doors were happening, I had no idea that in the next century, we would still be talking about and playing The Doors records,” Krieger says. “I feel so blessed that just about every day someone stops me and recognizes me and wants to talk about The Doors and to thank me for making the music that they love still today.”
He adds, “The people that recognize me seem to be getting nicer all the time … I like to say that it’s a good problem to have.”
Opening for Krieger at the show will be the band Tripform, whose members include Pablo Manzarek, son of the late Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek.
Tickets for A 60th Anniversary Doors Celebration are on sale now.
Dee Snider of Twisted Sister is inducted into the Metal Hall of Fame at the 6th Annual Metal Hall Of Fame Charity Gala at The Canyon on January 26, 2023 in Agoura Hills, California. (Photo by Elyse Jankowski/Getty Images)
The members of Twisted Sister are reuniting to celebrate their 50th anniversary.
The “We’re Not Gonna Take It” rockers — Dee Snider, Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda —have announced they’re hitting the road in 2026 in celebration of their milestone, although details about the tour have yet to be announced.
“If you’re lucky enough to be in a band that people still want to see after fifty years, how can you not answer the call?” Snider says. “In 2026, Twisted F***** Sister will hit stages around the world because WE STILL WANNA ROCK!!”
“We are proud to celebrate a milestone that once felt unthinkable: a 50-year anniversary!!” French says. “We have created a music and performance legacy that has and will continue to inspire millions of fans around the world. Twisted Forever, Forever Twisted!”
Finally, Ojeda notes, “Fifty years on, and Twisted Sister is still the soundtrack for every rebel with a reason and a reason to turn it up.”
The 2026 tour will feature former Twisted Sister drummer Joe “Seven” Franco, who last recorded and performed with the band in 1987. Russell Pzütto,who has previously performed with the band, will play bass.
This will mark the first Twisted Sister tour since 2016. For that tour the band was joined by drummer Mike Portnoy, filling the spot left vacant by the death of drummer A.J. Pero in 2015. The band last reunited in 2023 for induction into the Metal Hall of Fame, although Ojeda missed the performance after getting COVID-19.
Grand Ole Opry: Live in London (Courtesy Grand Ole Opry)
Mumford & Sons and Scottish folk band Breabach have been added the lineup for the historic Grand Ole Opry: Live in London show on Sept. 26.
Luke Combs, Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Darius Rucker and Marty Stuart were already on board for the night, which will be the Opry’s first-ever live international broadcast. BBC Two and BBC Radio 2 are now set to carry the program from London’s Royal Albert Hall, as well.
A limited number of tickets will go on sale Friday through the Royal Albert Hall box office and website.
Sabrina Carpenter, ‘Man’s Best Friend’ (Island Records)
Sabrina Carpenter took to Instagram on Wednesday to thank fans for sending her new album, Man’s Best Friend, straight to #1 on the Billboard 200.
“you guys have made Man’s Best Friend my second #1 album and my highest debut ever. that is very surreal!!!” she wrote, alongside a collection of behind-the-scenes photos and video of the making of the LP.
“i feel so lucky to have such beautiful love and support all around me. making this album with Jack [Antonoff], Amy [Allen] and John [Ryan] was one of the most pure wholesome electric times in my life and to see the way you are all resonating with it just makes me feel like the luckiest girl in the world,” she continued.
“Thank you for listening (top to bottom!!!) and thank you for bringing this album into your lives and having such a damn good time with it, I’m having fun too :’),” she concluded. “i love you i love you i love you.”
On her Instagram Story, Sabrina also marked the anniversary of the release of her single “Skinny Dipping,” which came out Sept. 9, 2021 — several years before she became a global pop superstar. “4 years since skinny dipping making me emotional!” she noted, along with a still from the song’s video.
In addition, Sabrina reposted TikToks from fellow musicians who are having fun with some of the songs on the new album: Joe Jonas made one set to her song “Nobody’s Son,” while the group HAIM used “House Tour” for a video set on their tour bus. Alex Warren‘s wife, Kouvr, used “When Did You Get Hot?” to show her and Alex’s glow-up for the MTV VMAs.
