Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine tour image (Katia Temkin)
Ariana Grande doesn’t seem like she’s boiling over with anger, but when it came to making her new album, petal, she just let it all out.
As part of an interview that will air Thursday at 5 p.m. PT on Apple Music, Ariana explains that when her fans hear the new album, “They’ll feel familiarity and comfort in it, because it just feels like it pulls from many different parts of myself.”
“And yet, at the same time, it is very experimental and different for me,” she adds. That’s because, she says, “I wrote from a place that I don’t usually, I feel like. Which was, like, an unfiltered rage, that I think we all feel sometimes.”
“I usually am too shy to tap into that, and I think this time, I kind of just didn’t filter as much as I usually do,” she explains. “I usually do a lot of rewrites and make things a little kinder, a little less — whatever — direct. But this time I didn’t. And I think they’ll be excited by that.”
Maxx Morando and Miley Cyrus attend the premiere of ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash,’ December 1, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Kevin Winter/WireImage)
Miley Cyrus covers the new issue of Wonderland magazine. She also guest-edited the issue, which includes features on people she admires, is friends with or is related to, as well as an interview with someone very special: her fiancé, Maxx Morando of the band Liily.
Maxx says he met Miley the old fashioned way: through a friend of a friend. One of his bandmates, Sam, has a sister whose friend knew Miley. “They just put us on a blind date,” he explains. Since Maxx wasn’t interested in pop culture and was barely on social media, he says, “It felt like if there was a way to have a blind date for her, this might be the most blind date that she could do.”
They hit it off, he says, and “just never stopped hanging out.” However, he did have to get used to her extreme fame.
“When I first met her, that part of it was strange,” he says. “I’ve never experienced people waiting outside places for you and things like that.”
Maxx proposed to Miley in Kyoto, Japan, after he convinced her to walk into a hotel garden that was supposed to be off limits.
“[W]e walked in and it was a little dead end, this beautiful Japanese forest-y situation. She was taking videos, and was turned away,” he recalls. “That’s when I got on one knee and tapped her on the shoulder.”
Being with Miley, Maxx says, “has given me a whole new outlook and perspective on life and art and music.”
He adds, “She’s such a workhorse, a go-getter, and when she sets her mind on something … it always gets done.”
The Offspring performs during Lollapalooza 2024 at Parque Cerrillos on March 16, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)
The Offspring is bringing their ‘Just the Punk Stuff’ show to the U.S.
As previously reported, the “Come Out and Play” rockers announced a pair of concerts in Quebec, Canada, for August focused on older material and deep cuts. They’ve now added a third ‘Just the Punk Stuff’ show taking place Sept. 18 in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
“We’re going to play only the punk stuff, the old stuff, the songs dear to us—our roots, the place we came from,” The Offspring said.
Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. For more info, visit Offspring.com.
Cover art for ‘Overcomers’ by Cheryl ‘Salt’ James featuring Erica Campbell (Salt Songs, Inc.)
Cheryl “Salt” James of Salt-N-Pepa has dropped the music video for “Overcomers” featuring Erica Campbell.
It features the two performing in front of a church, on a set of stairs and gathering with other woman over a meal, among other scenes. A press release describes it as a “celebration of women who have done the work, know their worth, and have the elegance to show for it.”
“Overcomers” follows Salt’s “Diamond in the Light,” “Kings & Queens” and “Chosen,” continuing her solo rollout.
Her duties with the rap group have not ceased; she’s set to hit the road with Pepa, TLC and En Vogue starting Aug. 15 as part of their It’s Iconic tour.
Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, Brian May and John Deacon of Queen (Photo by Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)
Queen has had another video reach 1 billion views on YouTube.
The latest is the performance video for the track “Don’t Stop Me Now,” from their 1978 album Jazz. The song, written by frontman Freddie Mercury, also appeared on the band’s 1981 Greatest Hits compilation.
The clip is Queen’s second video to join the Billion Views Club. The first was 1975’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which went on to reach 2 billion views back in December 2025, making it the oldest song to ever reach such a milestone.
In other Queen news … The new Freddy Mercury book A Life in Lyrics: The Official Creative Legacy of Freddy Mercury is now available for preorder. The book is described as “the definitive creative record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.”
A Life in Lyrics features material from Mercury’s notebooks, some of which has never been published before. It will be released Sept. 1, four days ahead of what would have been the late Queen frontman’s 80th birthday.
LEGO® Editions Olivia Rodrigo collection (Courtesy The LEGO Group)
Olivia Rodrigo is the first musician ever to have multiple Lego sets dedicated to her. Launching Aug. 1, there are five of them, all reflecting different moments in her career. There are also five different minifigures, each with a different look. But Olivia wishes that she could buy a Lego set featuring another famous female musician.
Asked by NYLON magazine, “Which musician’s Lego set would you immediately ‘add to cart’ if they made one?” Olivia chose Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Debbie Harry, the lead singer of the iconic new wave band Blondie.
“I’m really into Debbie Harry’s outfits right now. So if I had a Debbie Harry look in a mini-fig, that’d be really cool,” Olivia tells NYLON. “I just love her in her little T-shirts and leather shorts. I have a photo of her in my house of her in a pink cardigan and tight pink pants, and she’s just the coolest girl ever. I don’t know how one person is that cool.”
And now after helping to design her own Legos, Olivia says she may want to do more designing along those same lines.
“I mean, I love little crafty things and I think that’s why Lego is so fun because it’s really great for people to do things with their hands,” she says. “We’re all on our phones so much and it’s really nice to just have something that’s relaxing and creative that is tactile. So I don’t know, maybe more stuff like that would be interesting.”
“I was really obsessed with dolls when I was younger, and so maybe something like that,” she adds.
But if you want to buy crafty things from Liv, you can start with her new Etsy collection, which she helped create to promote her upcoming Daisy Chain Fields festival.
Michael B. Jordan appears on the poster for ‘The Thomas Crown Affair.’ (Amazon MGM Studios)
The official teaser trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair has arrived.
Amazon MGM Studios has released the first trailer for the upcoming take on the heist thriller story.
Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan directs, stars in and produces the film, “where the most dangerous man in the room is the one nobody’s watching,” according to an official description.
The movie follows an art thief, played by Jordan, who goes head to head with an insurance investigator who may be smart enough to catch him, played by Adria Arjona.
The trailer finds Jordan going through the necessary steps to steal a famous work of art.
“I’ve been taking risks my entire life. But last night it was different. I felt alive,” Jordan’s Thomas Crown says. “My heart was racing. Every step was part of a plan. Things slowed down. It was silent. And I was surprised how easy it was. But I’m not finished yet. That’s what excites me.”
Kenneth Branagh, Lily Gladstone, Danai Gurira and Pilou Asbæk also star in the film, which is based on a screenplay by Alan R. Trustman with a story by Trustman and Drew Pearce. This screenplay was written by Pearce and Jason Hall.
The original 1968 movie starred Steve McQueen as the self-made millionaire who masterminds a heist. Faye Dunaway costars in it as an investigator hired to find out exactly what happened. Another film version of the story released in 1999, and starred Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.
The Thomas Crown Affair will release in theaters on March 5, 2027.
Ariana Grande’s petal will be opened in a new way, thanks to a special digital version of the album.
There are already multiple variants of petal, due out on Friday, but there’s a unique twist to what Ari is calling petal process is fun, voice notesdigital album, which you can buy exclusively through her online store.
In addition to the songs on the standard petal album, the $9.99 collection features seven tracks that Ari recorded as notes while she was making the record. Among them are “petal – conception,” “kiss me – first sketch” and “freak – lyric offering first pass.” If you order it now, you’ll get the MP3 files delivered to you via email on July 31.
Meanwhile, Ariana has posted more images from the set of the upcoming video for the album’s title track, which arrives on Friday as well. She’s captioned it with what might be lyrics from the song: “Just as long as she keeps getting it right/ heartbreak won’t bite/ this is paradise.”
She also gave “petal” its live debut during her concert Tuesday night in Montreal.
Ozzy Osbourne performs during the Sunset Strip Music Festival at Sunset Boulevard on September 12, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Angela Weiss/Getty Images)
Ozzy Osbourne will be haunting Universal Studios this spooky season.
The theme park has announced an attraction inspired by the late Prince of Darkness as part of the 2026 edition of its annual Halloween Horror Nights program.
“It’s not just Ozzy’s heavy metal hits that will haunt you,” a description reads. “Bow at the throne of the Prince of Darkness in this haunted house inspired by the twisted mind of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest legends.”
“[Ozzy’s] music throughout every room is at the heart of it all,” Sharon Osbourne tells EW of the attraction. “Fans will also see scenes inspired by Ozzy’s journey, from his early days as a little boy growing up in Birmingham, England, riding the train to and from London, to the iconic imagery and characters from across his career.”
Halloween Horror Nights will be open Aug. 28 to Nov. 1 at Universal’s Orlando location and Sept. 3 to Nov. 1 at Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles.
Bono and Bruce Springsteen are among the artists paying tribute to Oscar-winning Irish singer Glen Hansard, who died Wednesday in a motorcycle accident in Dublin. He was 56.
Bono would often take part in Hansard’s Christmas Eve Busk in Dublin, which raised money for the homeless community. He shared his thoughts on Instagram Wednesday, alongside a video of him performing “Invisible” with Hansard.
“Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed,” Bono wrote. “Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence… A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces.”
Bono ended his lengthy post with, “[A]nd I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case. May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.”
“Here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Glen Hansard,” Springsteen wrote in his tribute on Instagram. “We met in Ireland many years ago and he was always nothing but a great musician, a good friend and a generous and gracious man. Always positive, smiling and ready to sing. God bless him and his loved ones.”
The day before his death, Hansard’s social media posted a video of him performing “Drive All Night” with Springsteen in Ireland.
“This week in 2013 Glen had the honor of joining Bruce @springsteen & the E Street Band on stage in Kilkenny for ‘Drive All Night’, which Glen released his own version of later that year,” the post read. “Were you there?”
Hansard’s version, which featured backing vocals by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and saxophone from The E Street Band’s Jake Clemons, appeared on Hansard’s 2013 EP, also titled Drive All Night.
