Brent Smith and Zach Myers of Shinedown perform at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on July 23, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Timothy Norris/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Shinedown frontman Brent Smith and guitarist Zach Myers will perform together for an upcoming benefit concert.
The show takes place Nov. 20 at the Parx Casino in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and will raise money for the cancer research and treatment organization City of Hope.
In addition to performing together, Smith and Myers release music as a duo. They put out two albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2, in 2020, featuring a mix of covers and originals.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. Visit Shinedown.com for more info.
Shinedown is currently on a U.S. tour. They’ve released three new songs in 2025: “Dance, Kid, Dance,” “Three Six Five” and “Killing Fields.”
Tico Torres attends the UK Premiere of ‘Thank You and Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story’ on April 17, 2024 in London, England. Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for Disney+
Tommy used to work on the docks, but Tico Torres is still drumming in Bon Jovi.
Torres has taken to Bon Jovi’s Instagram to deny apparent reports that claimed he’d retired from the “Livin’ on a Prayer” band.
“I’m here to dispel a lot of rumors that I’ve read,” Torres says. “People [are] calling me up, saying, ‘Did you retire from music, from the band?'”
“Well, no,” the drummer continues. “I have no idea how this stuff starts. Musicians don’t retire, especially me.”
Torres adds, “Me and the boys, Johnny [Jon Bon Jovi] and everybody, we’re still making music, [we’re] the best we’ve ever been.”
Bon Jovi writes in the post’s caption, “Heard it here first.”
Torres is one of the three remaining original members still in Bon Jovi, alongside Jon and keyboardist David Bryan. The band put out their latest album, Forever, in 2024.
Pink has taken to Instagram to correct “fake stories about me” that have been circulating online. “I do not have a song coming out called ‘Gorilla,'” she says. “I mean, I wish I did. I’m so curious.” She goes on to say, “I’m not singing for football games … it’s not happening. These are fake stories. I’m hearing from my mom, my stepmom, [my husband] Carey just asked me if this is true.” She said all she’s doing is “getting ready for back to school.” She wrote in the caption, “If you don’t hear it from me and my big mouth it ain’t true.”
A trailer has dropped for 100 Nights of Hero, one of the many new films that feature an appearance by Charli XCX. She’s in the trailer for about one second, along with co-stars Richard E. Grant, Felicity Jones, Emma Corrin and Nicholas Galitzine. Charli wrote on Instagram, “i’m in a film called 100 nights of hero. this is the teaser <3 very enchanted to be a part of this. directed by julia jackman. in theatres dec 5.”
Justin Bieber was the supportive husband on Instagram, putting up a post showing wife Hailey Bieber posing for a publication called Byrdie. “Love this picture of you baby gurrllll,” he captioned it. But he drew criticism for his next post: He shared a photo of himself shirtless and captioned it, “thirstrap fa u h***.” The comments were later turned off.
Conan Gray has scored his highest debut on the Billboard 200 and the biggest sales week of his career with his new release, Wishbone. It debuted at #1 on Billboard‘s Album Sales chart with first-week sales of 53,000 copies and debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. His Wishbone Pajama Show tour begins Sept. 11.
Cardi B attends Paris Fashion Week, July, 2025 (Marc Piasecki/WireImage)
Cardi B says her split from husband Offset feels like a “reset” — but not in a good way.
Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Cardi says being single at this point in her life feels like being a high school graduate who suddenly has to be “in the real world.” She notes, “I feel like I’m getting that reset again, but it doesn’t feel as good because I’m in my 30s and I shouldn’t be having a reset at my 30s.”
“Sometimes I feel like I’m in my 20s and I don’t really want to feel like I’m in my 20s. I want to feel like I’m in my grown 30s ’cause I got three kids,” she says.
Cardi also shares, “Going through a divorce is very, very tough because you marry somebody and the person that you divorcing is not that person that you married at all. It’s like, you really ask yourself, like, ‘Who the f*** did I marry?’ Like, there is no love there. There is no love.”
“I get along with all my exes. Even if we don’t talk, we never ended it on some nasty, nasty stuff,” she continues. “So I never wished them bad. I don’t wish them bad or nothing like that. [But] it has gotten to the point [here] that it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I feel like I really hate you. I think I hate you.’ And I never wanted that.”
Cardi notes, “We should be able to co-parent. We should be able to have a conversation, we should be able to ask each other advice and just become friends, but it’s not like that. I’m going through something that’s, like, ‘Wow, this is very dark.'”
While Cardi filed for divorce in July 2024, their divorce is not yet final.
112 perform in Atlanta, George in February, 2024 ( Prince Williams/WireImage)
Nineties group 112 will be celebrating 30 years of music with their Room 112 Tour, which will begin this winter and stretch into 2026.
The tour, featuring support from girl group Total and singer/songwriter/producer Case, will launch Nov. 5 in Akron, Ohio, and is set to wrap up Feb. 6 in Atlanta, Georgia. Presale tickets are available starting Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time with the password “Room112.” The general sale begins Friday at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.com.
The Grammy-winning group was featured on the iconic hit “I’ll Be Missing You” with Puff Daddy and Faith Evans. Their other hits include “Cupid,” “Peaches & Cream,” “It’s Over Now” and “Only You.”
Taylor Swift, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ cover image (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot)
For all you Swifties who absolutely, positively must have every iteration of every Taylor Swift album, you’ll be happy to know that she’s released a new vinyl variant of The Life of a Showgirl.
Following the Shiny Bug and the Baby, That’s Show Business collections, Taylor posted another countdown on her website on Monday, which has now been revealed as an announcement of two limited-edition vinyls called the Tiny Bubbles In Champagne collection.
Both variants come with unique cover art, a photo strip of four photos and a Tiny Bubbles in Champagne edition poem written by Taylor. Both are available while supplies last until Wednesday at 3:59 p.m. ET.
The cover art shows Taylor surrounded by an array of deep orange-colored feathers, wearing a bejeweled headdress.
The Life of a Showgirl is out Oct. 3. So far there’s been no word about any singles.
Despite not releasing any solo music since 2016, Bruno Mars has had an amazingly successful year, and now he plans to close it out with a performance in his favorite haunt: Las Vegas.
Bruno will perform at Dolby Live at Park MGM on Dec. 30 and Dec. 31. Presales start Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. PT via Ticketmaster.
Bruno performed his 100th show at Park MGM on Aug. 22. He started his extended residency back on New Year’s weekend 2016. Those 100 shows don’t include the 34 he did as Silk Sonic, co-headlining with Anderson .Paak.
This year, Bruno topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks with his Lady Gaga collab, “Die With a Smile,” and hit the top five with “APT.,” a collaboration with ROSÉ from BLACKPINK. He and Gaga also shared the best pop duo/group performance Grammy for “Die With a Smile” this year. Plus, in 2025 Bruno became the first artist to surpass 150 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Following the debut of her new album, Escape Room, and the short film that goes with it, she’s now featured in the September issue of Vogue as part of a fashion spread called A Sense of Occasion. “What does dressing for evening look like now? Here, a group of topflight actors raise a curtain on the new formalwear,” reads the caption of the spread.
Teyana, who co-stars with Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn and more in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s new action film One Battle After Another, is seen wearing a Givenchy by Sarah Burton dress and a Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello gown. The film is out Sept. 26.
Meanwhile, the Escape Room short film has racked more than 1 million views on YouTube, after it first premiered on Prime Video. Of the film she says in a statement, “It’s the visual representation of my scars, the picture of my healing, and a mirror for anyone ready to face their own truth.”
She wrote on Instagram, “THE ESCAPE ROOM SHORT FILM HAS HIT A MILLIIIIII ON YESTERDAY’S DEBUT @youtube LETS KEEP RUNNING IT UPPPPPPPPP!!!!! YALL DA BEST!!! IM SO THANKFUL. CHECK OUT THE ER SHORT FILM IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY.. IT TAKES THE ALBUM TO ANOTHER LEVEL!”
Ryan Hurd will unleash the first piece of his upcoming COVER TOWN record with his version of Dashboard Confessional‘s “Vindicated,” which drops Friday.
Although Ashley McBryde‘s previously put out both “Acoustic” and “From the Pulpit” visual versions of “Rattlesnake Preacher,” the song’s full-fledged music video is out now. You can check it out on YouTube.
Carter Faith‘s debut album will be the first release on songwriter Jessie Jo Dillon‘s new MCA imprint, Gatsby Records. Cherry Valley is set to arrive Oct. 3.
Lil Nas X attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
(This is an updated version of a story previously published at 2:59 p.m. on Aug. 25)
Lil Nas X appeared in a Van Nuys, California, courtroom on Monday to enter a not guilty plea to four felony charges, which were filed against him following his arrest in Los Angeles on Aug. 21.
The “Old Town Road” singer, born Montero Lamar Hill, appeared in-person at the Van Nuys Courthouse in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon to enter his not guilty plea, according to Los Angeles ABC station KABC.
The 26-year-old rapper was charged earlier in the day with three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer. All four counts are felony charges, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.
ABC News has reached out to reps for Lil Nas X for comment.
Lil Nas X was arrested and taken to a hospital on Aug. 21 after he was seen roaming down a street in Los Angeles, nearly naked, sources told ABC News at the time.
Video shared by TMZ Hip Hop on the day of his arrest shows Lil Nas X walking in nothing but white cowboy boots and his underwear.
In the video, he sings and interacts with the person filming, saying, “Didn’t I tell you to put the phone down? Uh oh, someone’s gonna have to pay for that.”
The “Montero” artist can also be heard in the video making comments about being at a party as he struts down the street and strikes a pose.
Lil Nas X has not commented publicly on his arrest.
