Old Dominion‘s getting ready for one of the busiest nights ever at their Midtown Nashville bar, Odie’s, as the band treats fans to an unexpected concert.
“Surprise! We couldn’t let Barbara week go by without throwing a party,” they announced on their socials. “Pop-up show this Wednesday (8/27) at @odiesbar! Doors at 5pm, music at 7pm. 21+ only, first come first serve.”
If you’d like to skip the line, the bar’s official Instagram account is running a contest that ends Tuesday at 7 p.m. CT that could put you at the very front.
OD’s sixth studio album, Barbara, arrived Aug. 22. It features 13 tracks, including their new single, “Making Good Time.”
After their Odie’s pop-up, the CMA and ACM group of the year will continue their How Good Is That World Tour Friday at The Colosseum at Caesars in Windsor, Canada.
The Rolling Stones played the final night of a three-night stand at London’s O2 Arena to wrap their A Bigger Bang World Tour.
The tour, in support of their album A Bigger Bang, launched in Toronto in August 2005. But like most of their tours, they played a surprise club show ahead of the tour in the same city.
The tour consisted of 147 shows, and when it wrapped it became the highest-grossing tour of all time, although that record was later surpassed by U2’s 2009 to 2011 360 Tour and then Taylor Swift’s 2023 to 2024 Eras Tour.
The tour had the band playing arenas and stadiums, but it also included two nights at New York’s Beacon Theatre. Those performances were filmed for the movie Shine A Light, directed by Martin Scorsese.
Billie Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus perform at the Glastonbury Festival, June, 2019 (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
Miley Cyrus‘ father, Billy Ray Cyrus, celebrated his birthday on Monday, and she gave him a very special gift.
Billy Ray wrote on Instagram, “For my birthday, Miley gave me the gift of music and wrote me a song called Secrets and got my favorite musicians Fleetwood Mac to play on it! I love you Mile.”
You can hear a snippet of the song on Billy Ray’s post. Miley sings, “Secrets, I want to keep your secrets/ Like sunlight in the shadows/ Like footsteps in the grass/ I won’t ever break my promise/ Like a songbird in the silence/ Like stones against the glass.”
According to People, former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and drummer Mick Fleetwood are credited on the track.
While appearing on Monica Lewinsky‘s podcast in June, Miley spoke about the song, which she said was part of a new album she’s working on. She said she wanted her father to share family secrets with her, “even though I didn’t really want to know.”
“I wanted to be the one he felt safe enough to tell me the things that were damning and damaging to the family,” she added. “I wanted him to think that as a middle child, I’m old enough that I could take some of that. And I always wanted my family to feel like I was the safe place — that I had the white flag when they came to talk to me.”
Lauren Akins & Thomas Rhett (Taylor Hill/WireImage)
Thomas Rhett and his wife, Lauren Akins, are writing the remix of his 2018 hit “Life Changes” — quite literally.
The two used the chart-topping single to announce they’re expecting their fifth child in a new Instagram video.
“Well, I was wrapping my head around being a dad,” TR sings as he plays guitar beside Lauren, who’s holding pictures of her sonogram. “Big wrench got thrown in the plans that we thought we had.”
“Now Lauren’s showing, got one on the way,” he paused, altering the original lyric to match his life. “That’s five under 10. Hey what can I say? Yeah life changes. You wake up ain’t nothing the same. Yeah life changes.”
While the two didn’t reveal the due date or gender of their baby, one thing’s for certain: “We’ve got some really excited big sisters in our house,” TR added. “God is so good.”
Willa Gray Akins is 9, followed by 8-year-old Ada James Akins, 5-year-old Lennon Love Akins and 3-year-old Lillie Carolina Akins.
It’s a good time careerwise for Thomas, as well. This week “After All the Bars Are Closed” tops both the Mediabase and Billboard Country Airplay charts.
Rapper Ice Cube performs onstage during night 2 of the 2023 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture™ at Caesars Superdome on July 01, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
It’s the partnership you’ve all been waiting for: Ice Cube and Goodyear Blimp.
The rapper is marking his new headlining tour, as well as the Goodyear Blimp’s 100th anniversary, by having blimp flyovers at select tour dates on his Truth to Power: 4 Decades of Attitude trek.
Of course, Ice Cube’s connection to Goodyear goes way back. In a lyric from his 1993 single “It Was a Good Day,” he rhymes, “Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp and it read, ‘Ice Cube’s a Pimp.'”
The partnership kicked off Sunday in Orlando at the BIG3 Championship, a basketball league founded by Cube.
“From the beginning, I always thought you had to dream big if you really wanted to make it big,” Cube says in a statement. “The idea of the Goodyear Blimp championing my name was a metaphor for the sky being the limit, yet here we are with Goodyear as a partner and the blimp flying in the Orlando skies, saying, ‘Ice Cube’s a Pimp!’”
The animated Netflix hit KPop Demon Hunters topped the box office over the weekend, and now the soundtrack has officially made history on the Billboard Hot 100.
Four songs from the movie’s soundtrack are now sitting in the top 10, making it the first-ever soundtrack in the 67-year history of the chart to have four simultaneous top 10 songs. “Golden” by HUNTER/X is back at #1, and they’re also at #10 with “How It’s Done.” Meanwhile, Saja Boys‘ “Your Idol” is #4, while their song “Soda Pop” is #5.
Plus, it’s now the first soundtrack to have at least four top-10 hits since 1995’s Waiting to Exhale, which had five in all, but those weren’t all at the same time. The only other soundtracks that have ever had four top-10 hits are Saturday Night Fever,Grease and Purple Rain, but again, they weren’t simultaneous.
Tate McRae, Doja Cat and Post Malone are the latest additions to the MTV VMA performers lineup.
Posty’s tourmate Jelly Roll and Conan Gray will also be taking the stage when the 2025 VMAs air Sept. 7.
Conan, making his debut on the main stage, will perform “Vodka Cranberry” from his new album, Wishbone. Doja, who last performed in 2023, will give her new single “Jealous Type” its TV debut. Tate will make her debut on the VMA main stage, and is also up for four Moon Persons, including song of the year for “Sports Car” and best pop artist.
Posty, nominated for best collaboration this year, will perform on the show for the first time since 2018. Jelly will be performing for the second straight year; he was part of the 2024 show open with Eminem. Jelly’s up for four Moon Persons, including best alternative, best country and best hip hop.
Those artists will join previously announced performers Sabrina Carpenter, Alex Warren, sombr, Ricky Martin, Busta Rhymes and J Balvin.
Lady Gaga is the leading nominee with 12 nods, thanks to her visuals for her Bruno Mars collaboration “Die With a Smile” and her own “Abracadabra.” Fan voting is now open in 19 categories at vote.mtv.com.
LL COOL J will host the VMAs, which will air live coast-to-coast Sept. 7 on CBS and MTV at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. It will also stream on Paramount+.
Jon Bon Jovi and Matthew McConaughey at National Conference for Service and Volunteering, June, 2009 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images For Entertainment Industry Foundation)
Matthew McConaughey is launching a book tour in September, and he’s taking some big-name musicians along for the ride.
To promote the book, Poems & Prayers, the actor is visiting a variety of cities, and for select stops he’ll have a special guest with him. He’ll appear at King’s Theatre in Brooklyn on Sept. 16, where he’ll be joined by Jon Bon Jovi. He’ll appear at the Saban Theater in LA on Sept. 20 with special guestJohn Mayer.
According to the event website, McConaughey’s Poems & Prayers Revival Tour will “blend heartfelt dialogue, spoken word performances, music, and unexpected moments of connection.” In addition, there will be “intimate, spontaneous and honest conversation” between the actor and his special guest, designed to “put a mirror to our souls to see if we recognize each other again.”
McConaughey’s other guests include Zach Bryan, Jon Batiste and Lukas Nelson. Poems & Prayers, due Sept. 16, is described as “an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief.”
Keith Urban‘s 2024 album, HIGH, starts with a short tidbit titled “Blue Sky,” which finds the Aussie superstar seeming to wake up and utter the phrase, “Just give me some blue sky, please.”
From there, the record launches into his latest hit, “Straight Line,” chosen very intentionally as the first song.
“It’s really because I love the spirit, I love the energy, the atmosphere, just the joy, the positivity of it,” he says. “And I think it’s the closest thing on the record to what it hopefully feels like coming to see us play live, that feeling of just forgetting about everything outside of the venue for two hours and losing yourself in the music and getting to another place, a higher place where everything feels good and there’s no worries, no cares.”
Appropriately, there’s also a new concert version of “Straight Line” from Keith’s current High and Alive World Tour on his upcoming live album.
Keith continues winding down his run of shows Down Under with a concert in Melbourne on Tuesday before he plays his last show Thursday in Adelaide. He picks back up Sept. 10 by heading to Canada.
Jason Bonham performs at Budweiser Stage on July 31, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Jeremychanphotography/Getty Images)
Jason Bonham recently added more dates to his tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, and he’s bound to have fans of all ages coming out to his shows.
The rocker tells ABC Audio he’s seen “three generations of people” at his concerts, some of whom have personal connections to the original band.
“I had people that were in line … in 1980 on the day before my dad passed away,” he says, referring to his late father, Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. “They’ll come and see me and they’re in tears.”
Jason was behind the drum kit the last time the surviving members of Led Zeppelin — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones — played together in December 2007 at London’s O2 Arena for the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert. Jason says the show was a fitting end for the iconic rockers.
“They walked away with that knowing of, ‘It’s not that we can’t do it anymore, it’s just that we choose not to,’” he says. “And they left it in such a high standard.”
While Zeppelin fans would love to see them reunite again one day, Jason doesn’t expect that will happen. But he says his predictions aren’t always right.
“If you’d have asked me in 2007, in January, would it have happened again, I’d have said no then. And then later that year, I ended up playing drums with them,” he says. “So whenever I’ve said maybe, it never happened. Whenever I’ve said no, it always happened.”
Bonham’s An Evening with JBLZE Celebrating 50 Years of Physical Graffiti hits Jacksonville, Oregon, on Tuesday, with shows booked until Nov. 26 in Hollywood, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at JasonBonham.net.
