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Eddie Vedder, Paul McCartney and Michael Stipe are among the artists contributing original pieces of art to an upcoming benefit for Housing Works NYC.

The Turn it Up art benefit will take place at Housing Works’ Crosby Street location on Oct. 9, with donated artwork auctioned off to benefit the organization’s mission to provide housing, health care, and other services to people living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions.

Other musicians contributing to the benefit include Patti Smith, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Interpol’s Paul Banks, Sean Lennon and Chappell Roan, with more artists expected to join.

Information on tickets can be found at housingworks.org/events.

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Mariah Carey has a house full of pets, but it’s her son’s newest furry friend that is “flipping her out.”

While appearing on Live with Kelly & Mark, Mariah was asked what her kids, Moroccan Cannon and Monroe Cannon aka Roc and Roe, are into now that they’re 14. “Well, Rocky’s into his gaming and his friends and stuff of that nature,” said Mariah.

“And now, he has gotten a new pet. He already has two cats. … And now, he has beat me down.“

Kelly Ripa cut her off, saying, “Not a snake. Don’t say it.”

“A tarantula,” Mariah finished. When Mark Consuelos asked if Mariah had “taken possession of said tarantula yet,” Mariah said, “I will never take possession over that thing, no offense to all the people that love bugs.”

“It’s flipping me out, but he really wanted it,” Mariah added. “And I do always get Monroe what she wants, she got a new golden retriever.” However, she hinted that she has to keep Monroe’s new pup away from her two dogs, Cha-Cha and Mutley.

Mariah was on the show to promote her new album, Here For It All, which is her first new release in seven years. She’s also working on her upcoming holiday show, Mariah Carey’s Christmastime in Las Vegas, which starts Nov. 28.

“I am preparing. … And we have some ideas,” she teased. “‘Cause it’s almost time.”

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You can check out Lainey Wilson‘s Wednesday night appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on YouTube now. 

Five albums by Grand Ole Opry star and Country Music Hall of Famer Bill Anderson are available on streaming services for the first time ever. Wild Weekend, If It’s All the Same to You (with Jan Howard), Always Remember, Ladies Choice and Nashville Mirrors were recorded between 1968 and 1980.

Longtime Oak Ridge Boys bass singer Richard Sterban has revealed he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March. While he’s been off the road since mid-May, he says he hopes to return in several months. Meanwhile, The Oak Ridge Boys continue to tour, booking dates into next year.  

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Megadeth is getting ready to release new music, and they’re giving fans a tease of what to expect.

The thrash metal rockers have posted a short clip on Instagram of the video for their new single, “Tipping Point,” which is set to drop Oct. 3.

In August, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine announced that the band’s next album, due out in early 2026, will be their last. He also shared that their next tour, also launching in 2026, will be their last, suggesting that it will likely last a long time.

“Don’t be mad, don’t be sad, be happy for us all, come celebrate with me these next few years,” Mustaine said. “We have done something together that’s truly wonderful and will probably never happen again.”

He added, “We started a musical style, we started a revolution, we changed the guitar world and how it’s played, and we changed the world. The bands I played in have influenced the world. I love you all for it. Thank you for everything.”

So far there’s no other information about Megadeth’s new album. It will be the first studio album from the band since 2022’s The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!

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The B-52s have been eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame since 2004, but so far they’ve never even been nominated — something vocalist Fred Schneider has strong feelings about.

“I don’t care anymore,” he tells Vulture. “We should have been in 20 years ago because if it’s about influencing other bands, I can’t tell you how many bands said they were influenced by us.”

Schneider says his bandmate Kate Pierson “is really champing at the bit to get in,” but he isn’t.

“It just doesn’t make any sense that we’re not in,” he says. “Other bands have gotten in who aren’t even rock and roll. I could care less about being in there with John Cougar Mellencamp.”

The B-52s kicked off a new tour with Devo, another band that isn’t in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, on Wednesday in Toronto. The Cosmic De-evolution Tour hits Clarkston, Michigan, on Thursday. A full list of dates can be found at TheB52s.com. 

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The much-anticipated Bruce Springsteen film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere opens Oct. 24, and while some folks may have been surprised The Boss gave his OK to the project, he tells Time magazine there was a simple reason why he finally said yes.

“I’m old. I don’t give a f*** what I do anymore!” he says. “As you get older, you feel a lot freer.”

But getting older is not slowing the 76-year-old Springsteen down. Asked whether he plans to continue touring with the E Street Band, he says, “Of course!”

“I just want to keep going,” he tells Time. “I want to make records that deal with subjects people haven’t heard me deal with yet.”

Springsteen also opens up to Time about his decision to call out President Donald Trump while onstage during his 2025 European tour.

“If I’m going to stay true to who I’ve tried to be, I can’t give these guys a free pass,” he says. “A lot of people bought into his lies. He doesn’t care about the forgotten anybody but himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on inauguration day.”

“You have to face the fact that a good number of Americans are simply comfortable with his politics of power and dominance,” he adds.

Asked how he felt about being called “highly overrated” by Trump, Bruce notes, “I absolutely couldn’t care less what he thinks about me.”

“He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for,” he argues. “If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

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Sleep Token brought their sold-out arena tour to Philadelphia’s Xfinity Mobile Arena Wednesday night, and being one state over from New Jersey apparently gave them some inspiration for their set list.

Fan-shot footage posted to YouTube shows the U.K. metal band’s anonymous masked frontman Vessel behind the keyboards as he treats the crowd to a cover of New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 hit “Dancing in the Dark.” According to setlist.fm, the performance served as an intro to their song “Rain.”

“Dancing in the Dark,” from Springsteen’s #1 album Born in the U.S.A., peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The video for the song is notable for the appearance of a pre-Friends fame Courteney Cox. 

Sleep Token kicked off their U.S. arena tour in Duluth, Georgia, on Sept. 16. The shows are in support of their #1 album Even in Arcadia, which was released in May.

The tour hits Detroit, Michigan, on Friday. A complete list of dates can be found at Sleep-Token.com.

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Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Post Malone will headline the 2026 edition of Stagecoach, set to take place April 24-26 at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.

“I’ll never forget the first time I got the call to play Stagecoach,” Cody says. “We were on one of the smaller stages and I remember wondering if anyone would even know our songs. Now here we are invited back to headline the Mane Stage. What a ride. I hope y’all bring the energy … because it’s gonna get Western.” 

Bailey Zimmerman, Ella Langley, Nate Smith, Chase Rice, Wynonna Judd, BigXthaPlug, Josh Ross and Counting Crows all join Cody as part of the Friday night lineup.

Riley Green, Journey, Little Big Town, Bush, Teddy Swims, Corey Kent, Billy Bob Thornton and Chase Matthew will play Saturday night before Lainey takes the stage. 

“My first Stagecoach was in 2022 … at 2:30 p.m. in the afternoon,” Lainey recalls. “Look how far we’ve come y’all! I’m honored to headline this year. This is a career highlight and I can’t wait to see everyone there.”

Brooks & Dunn, Hootie & the Blowfish, Warren Zeiders, Brett Young, Max McNown, Hudson Westbrook, Eli Young Band and Jake Worthington will all play before Posty wraps things up on Sunday. 

Tickets go on sale Thursday, Oct. 2, at 11 a.m. PT.

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Major League Baseball has joined forces with Pharrell to launch the 2025 MLB postseason with October Hits Different, a brand campaign bringing music and baseball together. He stars in the spot with a 25-piece live orchestra comprised of students from the University of Miami and the Voices of Fire choir, whose song “Are You Ready?” soundtracks the video.

Also featured in the campaign are clips of MLB stars Aaron Judge, Kyle Schwarber, Cal Raleigh and more.

“Virginia taught me the power of music and community,” Pharrell said in a statement. “Bringing Voices of Fire to the Postseason stage shows how those same forces of unity can come alive through sport.”

October Hits Different will appear across MLB media outlets, other paid digital media sites and MLB social media platforms throughout the postseason, which starts on Sept. 30.

The announcement follows Pharrell’s performance at the Vatican alongside Voices of Fire, who recently released a new album, Ophanium. A Pharrell production, the album features “Are You Ready?” the official anthem of the 2025 MLB Postseason.

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