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Metric has released a new song called “Time Is a Bomb,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Romanticize the Dive.

“Say what you want about the wellness boom, I think it’s a natural response to the unrelenting awareness we have of our mortality,” frontwoman Emily Haines says in a statement. “The powerless feeling of wanting to hold on and make time stop while simultaneously doing everything you can to max out your fleeting vitality – this song expresses that inner tension.”

“I love my life and I’m truly amazed that I made it to my happily ever after, but I don’t want to spend the time I have left obsessing over personal consequences, being boring and hiding from fun,” she continues. “I don’t expect to be jumping off speaker stacks or crowd surfing like I used to, but it’s still too soon to say never.”

Romanticize the Dive, the follow-up to 2023’s Formentera II, is due out April 24. It also includes the single “Victim of Luck.”

Metric will launch a U.S. tour in June. 

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Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison has announced a new solo album featuring a whole bunch of guests.

The record, titled Hollow, is due out in August and includes contributions from Godsmack frontman Sully Erna, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Marilyn Manson, Dexter Holland of The Offspring, Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, Billy Idol’s Steve Stevens and rappers Chuck D, B-Real and DMC. 

The first single is called “Becoming” and will feature Erna and Bettencourt. It’ll premiere on March 27.

“The guests on this record are at the core of the collaborative spirit that I try to put in the center of these records,” Morrison says in a statement. “Every single person I worked with stepped up, brought their A game and helped me produce an album that crosses genres, features some really diverse songwriting, and yet has a truly cohesive, and powerful sound.”

He adds, “Ultimately, I am just grateful to everyone involved for allowing me to do this again.”

Hollow follows Morrison’s 2024 effort, The Morrison Project, which includes the Ozzy Osbourne collaboration “Crack Cocaine.”

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We now have details on the pop-up shops Harry Styles is opening worldwide to promote his new album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.

The New York and LA stores will be open on March 6, the day the album arrives, from midnight to 2 a.m. local time and then from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. local time. American Express® Card Members have access from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. local time and will get a complimentary gift with any purchase, plus exclusive merch and a dedicated checkout line.

The stores will then open on March 7, 9 and 12 at various times, with Amex members getting an hour’s worth of early access each day.  All other locations will be open March 6, 7 and 8 at different times. You can get full details at Harry’s website.

Crewnecks, tees, hoodies, towels, hats, polos, baby tees, slipmats, clocks, socks, mugs, totes and more are among the specially-designed items available at the stores.

Here are the North American addresses for the pop-up shops:

Arizona: Mini Social 7116 E 5th Ave, Scottsdale, AZ
Atlanta: Cam Kirk Studio 112 Krog St NE D125, Atlanta, GA
Chicago: 1731 North Damen Ave, Chicago, IL
Houston: 2415 Taft Street, Houston, TX
Los Angeles: 8483 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA
Miami: 2300 North Miami Ave, Miami, FL
New York: 106 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 
Seattle: 501 E Pine Street, Seattle, WA 
Toronto: 938 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON

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Newcomer Shane Profitt’s already scored a top-20 hit with 2022’s “How It Oughta Be.” Now he’s on track to repeat that success with his latest single, “Long Live Country,” which just cracked country’s top-40. 

“I always say before I’m an artist, I’m a songwriter,” he tells ABC Audio. “And I take pride in writing my songs, and at the end of the day, I just want to make people feel something.”

If his songs spur you on to call an ex or drink some beer, Shane says he’s happy with that.

With “Long Live Country,” he crafted a “feel-good anthem” that pays tribute to one of his heroes.

“In the second verse, it says, ‘Every boy’s got a story of a John Deere Green.’ And we wrote that song on the two-year anniversary of Joe Diffie’s passing,” he recalls. “So I wanted to pay a tribute to that. And I grew up on Joe Diffie, so you can’t go wrong with it.”  

“Long Live Country” is from Shane’s Population Me EP, which came out in October. 

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The Oprah Winfrey Network is paying homage to the late Roberta Flack. It’s set to air a documentary about her life and legacy as part of its Women’s History Month celebration. 

OWN Spotlight: Roberta, a two-hour documentary directed written and produced by Antonino D’Ambrosio, chronicles Roberta’s rise from early piano lounge performances to global stardom, touches on her commitment to civil rights and social justice activism and features interviews from the late Reverend Jesse Jackson, Peabo Bryson and more. 

It marks the latest project about her life, following 2014’s Killing Me Softly: The Roberta Flack Story and the American Masters: Roberta Flack, which was also directed by D’Ambrosio.

OWN Spotlight: Roberta is scheduled to air March 12 at 9 p.m. ET on OWN.

Roberta, known for songs “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” died on Feb. 24, 2025, due to complications from ALS. 

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British bookmakers like to give odds on things that don’t have to do with sports, like whether or not Taylor Swift would win a BRIT Award or which music act will headline the Glastonbury music festival. Who’ll record the next James Bond theme is also a popular bet, and now there’s a new frontrunner: Olivia Dean.

Fresh off her big win at the BRIT Awards, where she took home four trophies, Olivia is now the favorite to sing the theme song for the next film in the franchise, with major U.K. bookmaker William Hill offering money on her. RAYE is the second favorite at 7/2 odds, with Lana Del Rey at 4/1 odds. 

Meanwhile, Dua Lipa is 7/1, Harry Styles is 10/1 and Miley Cyrus and Oasis are both tied at 12 to 1.

William Hill spokesperson Lee Phelps said in a statement, “After a weekend where Dean was crowned the U.K.’s new queen of pop, it’s no surprise that she’s most-fancied to open the credits in the next Bond film.”

The next Bond film marks the 26th in the franchise; it’s now being steered by new producers. Denis Villeneuve is set to direct, but the movie won’t likely hit theaters until 2028. There’s no word on who’ll be playing James Bond, but if you want to bet on it, William Hill has you covered on that, too.

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Bowling for Soup has released a cover of the Simple Plan song “I’m Just a Kid” ahead of the two bands’ upcoming tour together.

“This cover is our love letter to a band and a song that means the world to us,” the “1985” rockers write in a Facebook post.

You can watch Bowling for Soup’s video for “I’m Just a Kid” streaming now on YouTube.

Bowling for Soup’s tour with Simple Plan, which also features 3OH!3, launches in July. The same bill also toured together in 2025.

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It’s no conspiracy, a new Conspirators album is coming.

Slash’s solo band, which features Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy on lead vocals, has been working on their fifth studio effort, the follow-up to 2022’s 4.

“It’s all tracked, I finished the vocals I think in August if I’m not mistaken,” Kennedy tells ABC Audio. “It just needs to be mixed.”

While he may be biased, Kennedy has a good feeling about Conspirators’ LP5.

“I think we’re all real excited,” Kennedy says. “Once in a while a record will come along and I’ll be, like, ‘Yeah, this is my favorite one in a while,’ but this is one I can stand behind that. I’m really please with how it turned out.”

Kennedy adds that the upcoming album “was done quickly” and “wasn’t something that we kind of beat into the ground.”

“Sometimes when that’s the case, when you’re just kind of in the heat of the moment and you let the universe kind of have its way with you creatively, things can turn out for the best,” he says. “I’m pretty pumped about it.” 

Alter Bridge, meanwhile, just released a new, self-titled album in January. They’ll launch a U.S. tour in April.

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Twenty One Pilots are headlining the 2026 Oceans Calling festival, taking place Sept. 25-27 in Ocean City, Maryland.

The top of the lineup also features Mumford & Sons, Dave Matthews Band, Gwen Stefani, Matchbox Twenty and Hootie & the Blowfish.

Other artists on the bill include Yellowcard, My Morning Jacket, The Head and the Heart, All Time Low, Third Eye Blind, 311, Liz Phair, Goo Goo Dolls, Jet, OK Go, Violent Femmes, Everlast, Everclear and Dashboard Confessional.

You can sign up now for a presale happening Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. Any remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public on Thursday at 11 a.m. ET.

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit OceansCallingFestival.com.

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Keke Palmer is back with a third season of her podcast, Baby, this is Keke Palmer, and this go round, “she’s not afraid to dig into the hot takes and the topics that we’re all dying to understand,” a press release states.

“This season feels different, not because the conversations are louder but because they’re deeper. This show has never been about gotcha moments. This season we are choosing curiosity over certainty, context over chaos, conversation over combat,” Keke adds in a video shared to socials. “I’m not here to speak for my guests, and I’m not here to speak over them either. I’m here to ask the questions that let you see for yourself because culture isn’t a headline, it’s a reflection, and this show, it’s the mirror. So let’s get into it.”

The first episode, out now, features Demi Lovato, with future guests including Nia Long, Niecy Nash-Betts, Coi Leray, Ella Mai, Mya, Durand Bernarr and Robin Thede.

New episodes are set to drop every Thursday.

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