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Queen is celebrating the 50th anniversary of their fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera, with vinyl reissues.

The album will be reissued on crystal-clear vinyl with gold labels on Oct. 17 in the U.S., with the release coming out in the U.K. on Oct. 18 for National Album Day. In addition, on Oct. 31, the album’s iconic single, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” will be released on transparent blue heavyweight 12-inch vinyl, as a 12-inch picture disc and as a blue cassette single.

“A Night At The Opera was a hugely important album for us,” says Queen guitarist Sir Brian May. “It opened up the world for us.”

“We were at the peak of our confidence,” adds drummer Roger Taylor. “It felt like there wasn’t anything we couldn’t do, and it shows on that album.”

Released in November 1975, A Night at the Opera was Queen’s first #1 on the U.K. album charts; in the U.S., it peaked at #4. In addition to “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which spent nine weeks at #1 in the U.K.,  the album includes the Queen classic “You’re My Best Friend,” as well as future live staples “Love of My Life” and “I’m in Love with My Car.”

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Sabrina Carpenter is about to have a “career-defining” moment.

That’s what she called the news that she’ll be appearing in an upcoming special installment of The Muppet Show, set to stream on Disney+ in 2026. According to a Disney+ Instagram post, the show will feature Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo and the rest of the gang returning to the Muppet Theatre to put on a variety show “filled with music, comedy, and plenty of chaos.”

Sabrina is no stranger to variety shows, having starred in her own Netflix holiday special, 2024’s A Nonsense Christmas.

The Muppet Show originally ran in first-run syndication from 1976 to 1981. The show is currently streaming on Disney+, as well as various Muppet films, spinoffs and specials.

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Mgk has announced a world tour in support of his new album, lost americana.

The international outing includes two North American legs, the first of which runs from Nov. 18 in Glendale, Arizona, to Dec. 19 in Tampa, Florida. Mgk will then head to Europe, Australia and New Zealand in early 2026 before the second North American leg launches May 15 in Wheatland, California. The tour will then conclude July 1 in Ridgefield, Washington.

Wiz Khalifa will also be on the bill, and openers include Julia Wolf, Mod Sun, honestav, Beauty School Dropout, DE’WAYNE and Emo Night, depending on the date.

Presales begin Sept. 22 and tickets go on sale to the general public on Sept. 25 at noon local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Store.MachineGunKelly.com.

Lost americana, the follow-up to 2022’s mainstream sellout, dropped in August. It includes the lead single “cliché.”

Mgk announced lost americana with a trailer narrated by Bob Dylan.

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As he first teased during his TikTok LIVE performance on Sept. 13, Ed Sheeran has announced a North American stadium leg of what he’s calling his LOOP Tour.

The stadium shows start June 13 in Glendale, Arizona, and are currently set to wrap up Nov. 7 in Tampa, Florida. The tour currently includes back-to-back shows in select markets including Toronto; East Rutherford, New Jersey; Hollywood, Florida; and Foxborough, Massachusetts.

“Coming back to North America for the Loop tour. New stage, new setlist, new tricks,” Ed wrote on Instagram. “I LOVE touring North America, I’ve always felt so much love there since the first gig I did in LA and Toronto back in 2010. Can’t wait to be back, see you all there from spring 2026.”
 

The LOOP Tour will kick off in New Zealand in January and will feature music from Ed’s new album Play, as well as classics and fan favorites. His previous Mathematics tour just wrapped on Sept. 7 in Germany.

You can register now at EdSheeran.com for early access to tickets. When you register, you’ll get a unique, one-time code ahead of the presale on Sept. 23 at 9 a.m. local time. Registration doesn’t guarantee tickets. For information about the process, visit support.seated.com. Tickets go on sale to the general public starting Sept. 26 at 10 a.m. local time.

An American Express presale starts Sept. 23 at 12 p.m. local time.

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Madonna has confirmed that her new album is coming next year — and it’ll be released on the same record label where she launched her career.

After 25 years on Warner Records, Madonna left the label in 2007. She’s now re-signed with them for the release of what will be her first studio album in seven years. As previously reported, she’s reteamed with producer Stuart Price for the project, the same producer she worked with on 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor.

“From being a struggling artist in New York City to signing a record deal to release just three singles, it seemed at the time my world would never be the same again and in fact that couldn’t have been truer,” Madonna says in a statement. “Since the beginning Warner Records has been a real partner with me. I am happy to be reunited and look forward to the future, making music, doing the unexpected while perhaps provoking a few needed conversations.”

On Instagram, she seemed to confirm the title of the new album by writing, “Back to music, Back to the Dance Floor Back to where it all began! COADF- P. 2 2026” — that stands for Confessions on a Dance Floor Pt. 2.

Madonna’s most recent album, Madame X, came out in 2019.

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Josh Ross is on a hot streak right now: He was just named entertainer of the year at the Canadian Country Music Association Awards, and picked up single and video honors for his first #1, “Single Again.” 

His debut album, Later Tonight, arrives on Friday — though it almost had a different title.

“It was tough. I mean, to be completely honest with you, I thought about naming the album Nobody from Nowhere and doing that as track one,” he reveals. “I knew that ‘Later Tonight,’ to me, felt like [an] overall [well]-rounded, easy song. It could be, you know, you’re driving along in the car, [or] the lights come on at the bar at 2 a.m. and it’s time to leave. It just felt really easy to digest.”

The former college football player also came up with a little game to play with the other song titles.

“I also thought it was very coincidental that if you take the title Later Tonight and kinda add the other titles to it, like Later Tonight, you’ll “Leave Me Too,” Later Tonight I’m ‘Scared of Getting Sober’ — there was a lot of concepts in the record to me that happened Later Tonight,” he explains. “So for me it was a lotta fun to kinda put that as the first track to welcome people to the record.”

Later Tonight also features Josh’s new single, “Hate How You Look.”

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Maxwell‘s Silent Serenade Ensemble launches Thursday, but it’s nothing like his previous shows or tours. The trek is a moment for him to present his music in a way fans haven’t seen, with an emphasis on the ensemble he’s putting together.

“The ensemble … can be any kind of grouping of instrumentation that you’ve ever seen. It could be reeds, it could be strings, it could harps,” he tells ABC Audio, noting he pushed himself to make his vision come true.

“It’s a challenge for me to make all types of groupings of music and combinations of instrumentation [to] present songs that you’ve already heard before. So this is, like, really ambitious for me,” he shares. “I’m always excited about doing it because it breathes new life into the experience for me.”

While he does enjoy his typical shows where he performs the “songs that people like,” Maxwell says he was eager to tap into the side of him “that needs to have that fun, and needs to explore and needs to take risks.”

“This is my opportunity to do it,” he said of the Silent Serenade Ensemble. “And I think in this time of normalization, commonality, if you will, we need to shake things up.”

He continued, “We need to give people a reason to go, you know, ‘This is some other s*** right here.'”

The Silent Serenade Ensemble currently features four shows: one in Maxwell’s hometown of New York and three in the Washington metropolitan area, his second home. 

“I just wanted to start there and let the word get around, and let’s see what happens afterwards,” he tells ABC Audio, teasing the possibility of an expanded trek. 

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Maroon 5‘s upcoming tour is offering a way for fans to keep their cherished “memories” of loved ones alive.

As Adam Levine explains in an Instagram Reel, the band has created a special website where you can upload a photo of “anybody that you miss, that you’ve lost.” You can post more than one photo. Then, when the band plays their hit “Memories” in concert, they’ll show those photos on their big video screen in montage form.

“It’ll be super, super special,” Adam says of the moment, adding that they “can’t wait to share it with you guys.”

Maroon 5’s song “Memories,” based on Pachelbel‘s “Canon in D Major,” was released in September 2019 and was eventually included on their 2021 album, Jordi. Both the song and the album’s title paid tribute to Jordan Feldstein, the band’s manager, who died in 2017 of a pulmonary embolism. It peaked at #2 on the Hot 100.

Maroon 5’s Love Is Like tour, in support of their new album of the same name, gets underway Oct. 6 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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