Justin Moore, Gavin Adcock and The Red Clay Strays will headline the Born & Raised Music Festival Sept. 17-19 in Pryor, Oklahoma. Tickets go on sale Wednesday.
Walker Montgomery has signed with Jay DeMarcus’ Red Street Records. The son of John Michael Montgomery and the nephew of Montgomery Gentry’s Eddie Montgomery, Walker’s debut single will be “Saving the Honky Tonks,” which comes out April 3.
The Band Loula’s new song, “Mother’s Mother,” will drop March 20.
Ella Langley’s current victory lap will continue later this month as she headlines a special Spotify South by Southwest concert.
The “Choosin’ Texas” hitmaker’s currently enjoying a second week atop Billboard‘s all-genre Hot 100, as the song returns three weeks after it initially hit #1.
She’ll play Spotify 20: Live at Stubb’s Saturday, March 14, in Austin, co-headlining with ’90s icon Alanis Morissette, who is famous for Jagged Little Pill hits like “You Oughta Know” and “Ironic.”
The show will also feature a DJ set by St. Vincent and will be open to SXSW platinum and music badge holders.
Rock singer Sebastian Bach performs at The Fonda Theatre on December 16, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
After being forced to cancel their planned reunion tour due to frontman Dee Snider’s health, the remaining members of Twisted Sister have found someone else to front the band.
Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda announced on Instagram that former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach will be taking over lead singer duties for “a handful of select dates this fall.” The post features a clip of Twisted Sister’s “You Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll,” which appears to feature Bach on vocals.
It also adds that the shows with Twisted Sister “do not affect or conflict with Sebastian’s current or future solo touring schedule, which remains fully intact.”
Dates for Twisted Sister with Sebastian Bach have not yet been announced.
The planned Twisted Sister reunion with Snider was supposed to kick off April 25 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. On Feb. 6, the band announced the tour cancelation “due to the sudden and unexpected resignation of Twisted Sister’s lead singer Dee Snider brought on by a series of health challenges.”
A statement released on behalf Snider said that a “lifetime of legendarily aggressive performing has taken its toll” on the singer, noting the 70-year-old suffered from degenerative arthritis and recently found out that “the level of intensity he has dedicated to his life’s work has taken its toll on his heart as well.”
Bach is currently on a solo tour and will play Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday. He has dates confirmed through Oct. 3 in Saint Charles, Missouri.
The Royal Mint’s 2026 Spice Girls £5 Commemorative Coin celebrating 30 years of Girl Power (Courtesy The Royal Mint)
If you want to own a special Spice Girls collectible, the British Royal Mint is here to give you what you really, really, really want.
The Mint is issuing a £5 coin in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the iconic group’s debut album, Spice, and their hit “Wannabe.” One side shows all five members of the group in silhouette, along with their autographs; King Charles III is on the flip side.
The coins come in five limited-edition packaging designs, all of which are limited to 15,000 coins worldwide. Each one showcases a different member, allowing fans to choose between Baby Spice, Ginger Spice, Posh Spice, Scary Spice and Sporty Spice.
On Instagram, Mel B, aka Scary Spice, writes, “Back then when we were just five misfit girls starting out We could never have imagined that this would happen to us – the FIRST female group to be given their very own coin…that really is GIRL POWER! My dad would be sooo proud!!!!”
In other Spice Girls news, Mel B will be one of the celebrities competing in the new Netflix seriesSquid Game: The VIP Challenge. As in the original Squid Game series, the VIPs are the ones who wear masks and watch as the contestants risk death to win millions.
Keke Palmer and Demi Lovato attend TikTok LIVE Fest 2026 on Feb. 12, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Denise Truscello/Getty Images for TikTok)
Demi Lovato and Keke Palmer were both child stars, and on the new episode of Keke’s podcast Baby, this is Keke Palmer, she opens up about a past relationship that she felt was inappropriate due to the age difference between her and her boyfriend. Unfortunately, that’s something Keke had experience with, too.
Demi said being a child star was “challenging,” adding, “There wasn’t a lot of time for play, but when there was, I played pretty hard.” Keke nodded, and said, “I feel like people don’t understand, like, that’s what we was dealing with. You know, I found myself dating … I’m 15. Why is my boyfriend 20?”
To which Demi replied, “Um, why was my boyfriend 30?” To which a shocked Keke could only respond, “GIRL!!!!”
Both women agreed that at the time they felt, “Nobody our age could understand,” but Demi continued, “Then you look back in hindsight, when I turned 30, I was like, ‘That’s not okay.'”
“You realize you were taken advantage of: ‘Oh, I was being exploited,'” Keke said. “Yes!” agreed Demi.
“At 15, I’m thinking, like, my boyfriend’s older because I’m doing an older job … and this is the way that it is and it seemed normal in my mind,” Keke continued, with Demi agreeing. Demi then added, “Especially if you’re an older soul, too. Especially if you’re mature for your age.”
The two then talked about loving the song “Mature” by fellow former child star Hilary Duff. “We all had the same damn life!” said Keke.
Demi also shared that she wrote a song about the experience, called “29.” She didn’t say who it was about, but Demi, 33, dated Wilmer Valderrama, 46, for six years before their 2016 breakup.
Admat for The Mountain Festival (Courtesy of The Mountain Music Festival)
Bret Michaels, Rick Springfield and Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini are among the acts booked for The Mountain Music Festival, happening Aug. 21-23 at the Gatlinburg Convention Center in the Great Smokey Mountains of Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
The three-day classic rock festival features over 25 artists on three stages, with the lineup that also includes 38 Special, Night Ranger, Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach, Warrant, John Waite, Lita Ford, Jackyl and more.
Three-day and two-day passes for the festival are on sale now, with single day general admission passes going on sale this spring/summer. A complete lineup can be found at TheMountainUSA.com.
The Mountain Music Festival debuted in October 2021 in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Rapper E-40 attends the 2025 ForbesBLK Summit at Ray Charles Performing Arts Center Morehouse College on October 10, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)/Rapper and singer Tech N9ne arrives at the Sports Illustrated’s SI The Party at Mardi Gras World on February 8, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Skip Bolen/Getty Images)
“Clydesdale” and “No K.” collaborators Tech N9ne and E-40 are coming together for a co-headlining trek.
Their Strange Wid’ It Tour is set to kick off on April 12 in La Vista, Nebraska, with following shows set in Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Little Rock, Birmingham and more, with a final stop in Tech’s hometown of Kansas City on May 24.
“ME AND MY RELATIVE HITTIN THE ROAD AND WE HELLA LIT, WE NEVER EMBELLISH IT HOW WE COOK AND THEN SELL THE SH!+,” Tech wrote on Instagram, alongside a poster displaying the tour dates.
Donna Summer performs onstage at the Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, July 12, 1983. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
Donna Summer’s classic track “MacArthur Park” has returned to the Billboard charts thanks to the winter Olympics.
The song was used by American figure skater Alysa Liu for her long program when she won the gold medal. Thanks to the exposure, the song has landed at #1 on the Dance Digital Song Sales chart, up 575% in sales, with 2,000 downloads sold between Feb. 20-26.
The original 1978 track, which appeared on Summer’s album Live and More, spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA.
In 2013, following Summer’s 2012 death, a remix of the song retuned to the chart, hitting #1 on the former Dance Club Songs chart.
Another song getting a boost from the Olympics is Lynyrd Skynyrd’s classic “Free Bird.”
After the song became the unofficial anthem for the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams, it has hit #15 on the Rock & Alternative Songs chart, #1 on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart and #6 on the Digital Song Sales chart.
Rapper Baby Keem performs onstage during day three of Rolling Loud Miami 2022 at Hard Rock Stadium on July 24, 2022, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images)
The 2026 lineup for Outside Lands festival has been announced, and Baby Keem, Mariah the Scientist and Clipse are a few of the stars representing the genres of hip-hop and R&B.
GloRilla, Durand Bernarr and Destin Conrad have also been tapped to perform. Charli XCX, Rüfüs Du Sol and The Strokes are this year’s headliners.
The festival is slated to take place Aug. 7 to 9 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, where it returns for an eighth year. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, following a few presales.
The Song Suffragettes will give Carly Pearce their Yellow Rose of Inspiration Award March 30 at their 12th Anniversary Show.
Carly will deliver an intimate performance and participate in a question and answer session as well.
There’ll also be two writers’ rounds that night at The Listening Room, with Elizabeth Nichols, Belle Frantz, Abby Anderson, Chanel Yates, Abbie Callahan, Nanseera, Ashley Anne, Abbey Rowe and Alison Nichols all set to play.
Since its beginning in 2014, more than 500 female singer/songwriters have participated in Nashville’s only weekly all-female singer/songwriter showcase.
