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Erykah Badu is hitting the road for the 25th anniversary of her sophomore album, Mama’s Gun. The Mama’s Gun ’25: The Return of Automatic Slim trek will run from Oct. 3 to Dec. 10, with shows scheduled in Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, Detroit and other cities.

Tickets go on sale Wednesday via a Live Nation presale at 10 a.m. local time; they will then become available to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

Mama’s Gun ’25 will follow Erykah’s Luv is…Tour with The Alchemist in support of their upcoming joint album. With two tours scheduled for the year, she told Billboard what she loves most about being onstage.

“It’s the immediate reaction between you and the audience and the immediate feeling. The point where you become one living, breathing organism with people. That’s what I live for,” Erykah said. “It’s my therapy. And theirs, too. We’re in it together.”

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Having already been taken higher, Creed now wants to run.

Scott Stapp and company debuted a cover of the U2 song “Where the Streets Have No Name” during their show in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday.

Stapp has previously performed fellow The Joshua Tree single “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”

Creed is currently on the 2025 leg of their Summer of ’99 reunion tour. They launched the first leg in 2024 after announcing the end of their hiatus in 2023.

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Bush has premiered the video for “Scars,” a track off the band’s new album, I Beat Loneliness.

The clip finds frontman Gavin Rossdale wrestling with his inner demons while alone in a red room. A press release describes it as a “powerful meditation on mental health, internal conflict, and self-reckoning” that “takes viewers on an introspective journey through the darker corners of the mind.”

You can watch the “Scars” video on YouTube.

I Beat Loneliness is out now. It also includes the single “The Land of Milk and Honey.”

Bush is currently on a U.S. tour with Shinedown.

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Ciara released a new song with Latto on Monday in honor of Ciara Day in Atlanta. “This Right Here” is produced by Jazze Pha, marking her reunion with the man who made the beats for “1, 2 Step” and “Goodies.”

“‘This Right Here’ is the type of collaboration I always dreamt of! Being together with my hometown friends on this record means so much to me,” Ciara said in a statement, according to Billboard. “Also knowing the amazing history that Jazze Pha and I have had together makes this moment, extra special. I want to thank Latto for bringing her infectious ATL girl energy to this record.”

Ciara adds that “This Right Here” is one of her “favorite tracks” on Cici, which is set to drop on Aug. 22.

She also celebrated Ciara Day Monday, expanding her and husband Russell Wilson‘s Why Not You Foundation with the launch of a new center in Atlanta.

The nonprofit is “dedicated to education, children’s health and fighting poverty, empowering today’s youth to lead with a why not you attitude,” the website says. In an Instagram Story, Russell revealed more centers will be coming to New York and New Jersey.

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Lady A‘s Hillary Scott and husband Chris Tyrell welcomed their fourth daughter on Friday.

“We are over the moon to introduce you to Selah Jean! She was born 7/25/25,” the two tell People. “She has filled our hearts with joy and her sisters are already the BEST helpers.”

Selah joins older sisters Eisele Kaye, who’s 12, and 7-year-old twins Emory JoAnn and Betsy Mack. 

“Her name means ‘pause and reflect’ and ‘god is gracious,’ and in the few short days she’s been here with us, we can already see that she embodies both of those phrases,” her parents explain. “She truly feels like the most priceless gift — like Christmas in July!”

Hillary’s Lady A bandmate Charles Kelley and his wife happen to be expecting their second child as well.  

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Katy Perry sent the internet chattering after photos surfaced of her dining out with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

TMZ obtained the photos, which reportedly show the two sharing a meal at Le Violon in Montreal, Canada, on Monday night.

Katy’s Lifetimes tour is currently making stops in Canada. She has a show in Ottawa Tuesday night and one in Montreal on Wednesday.

There was no indication that Katy and Trudeau’s meetup was romantic in nature, though Katy is recently single. She and Orlando Bloom ended their engagement after nine years together. Trudeau and his ex-wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau separated in 2023 after 18 years together.

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John Michael Montgomery is bringing his tour days to a close, staging his farewell performance Dec. 12 at Lexington’s Rupp Arena in his home state of Kentucky. 

He’ll keep it all in the family for his last stop on The Road Home Tour, with brother Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry, son Walker Montgomery and son-in-law Travis Denning all joining him for the show.

“I stepped on a tour bus for the first time in 1992 and haven’t looked back since, but now it’s time to bring it all back home for my last concert and I can’t think of a better place than Rupp Arena,” John Michael says.

“I wanted to celebrate this occasion with my family, so I invited some of them to perform with me. We are going to have a lot of fun and end this ride in a big way,” he promises.

JMM built his career on both romantic songs like “Life’s a Dance,” “I Love the Way You Love Me” and “I Swear,” while also delivering up-tempo hits like “Sold” and “Be My Baby Tonight.” 

Presales for John Michael’s farewell concert start Wednesday, before seats become available to the public on Friday. 

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Mariah Carey has a storied past that includes her marriage to Columbia Records exec Tommy Mottola. In the past she has discussed her feelings about their troubled marriage, and alleged he was controlling and emotionally abusive, among other things. In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, she opened up about how she’s dealt with her feelings from that relationship.

“Sometimes I feel angry about that time, but I think I’ve made peace with it – in any case, I vowed I’d stop talking about it,” Carey says of the treatment she received. She noted that humor has been one of her coping mechanisms.

“Humour is my release, and people who know me know that. I’ll make little jokes about what happened because otherwise I could make every day a sob story,” Mariah said. “It’s a coping mechanism, but it’s in my nature to laugh.”

Tommy, who at the time was president of Columbia Records, came across Mariah’s demo tape in 1988 and signed her to the label. They got married in 1993. Under his leadership, Mariah says he tried to fit her into a pop box despite her interest in exploring other genres.

“I wanted to do more R&B, more urban music, and any time I would bring that up, it would get shot down,” she said. “It wasn’t that I didn’t like the music I was making – I just felt there was more inside me that I wanted to release.”

Mariah would go on to tap into the hip-hop and R&B world with her 1997 album, Butterfly. She and Tommy separated and officially divorced in 1998.

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If you just can’t get enough Reba McEntire in your life, you’ll soon have at least two weekly appointments with the country superstar and actress.

This year, Reba has two shows on NBC. She’ll return to The Voice on Sept. 22 for season 28 with Michael Bublé, Snoop Dogg and Niall Horan.

Then Nov. 7, Happy’s Place opens its doors for a second season, with Reba continuing her role as bar owner Bobbie on the sitcom. 

On the musical front, Reba’s 13-track The Hits arrives on vinyl Oct. 13.

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