The 40/40 Club is seen at 6 West 25th. St. on December 28, 2005, in New York City. (Photo by Peter Kramer/Getty Images)
Jay-Z is bringing back his 40/40 Club for Fanatics Fest NYC, which takes place July 16-19 at the Javits Center.
The reimagined venue will blend sports, luxury and entertainment, according to a press release. It will feature signature details from the original club, including framed jerseys from its archives, grand chandeliers and stadium-style seating. As with the original, celebrities will be in attendance. Jay is set to make an appearance, along with guests personally invited by him and Michael Rubin and a select group of customers from Fanatics Sportsbook & Casino.
While it remains unclear what A-listers will attend this year, last year’s event featured Kevin Hart, Travis Scott, DJ Khaled, Druski, Tiffany Haddish, Spike Lee and Quavo, among others.
With Carly Pearce’s fifth studio album on the horizon, there comes an unexpected change: The “I Hope You’re Happy Now” hitmaker is changing record labels. She’s leaving Blue Highway Records for BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville.
“Signing with BMG feels less like turning a new page and more like finding the best next chapter,” Carly says. “I am incredibly grateful to be surrounded by a team that truly hears my voice and matches my ambition. The horizon looks exactly how it’s supposed to.”
Carly’s new home at BBR/BMG makes her labelmates with Lainey Wilson, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton and Jelly Roll, among others. She’s been with Blue Highway, formerly known as Big Machine, since the start of her career in 2017. Her current single is “If I Don’t Leave I’m Gonna Stay” with Riley Green.
The news comes on the heels of a busy week of CMA Fest, where Carly was a CMA Artist of the Day at Fan Fair X, hosted her fifth annual Carly’s Closet benefit for the CMA Foundation and played the main stage at Nissan Stadium.
If that wasn’t enough, she also performed at Billboard Live at Category 10 and Spotify House at Ole Red, as well as mentoring teens at Grammy Camp in Nashville.
Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, and Taylor Swift attend the ‘Toy Story 5’ Los Angeles World Premiere in Los Angeles, California on June 9, 2026. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for for TAS Rights Management)
When Taylor Swift revealed that she’d written a song for Toy Story 5, she noted that she’d been “a Toy Story kid from the age of 5 til now.” And she proved it by showing up to the movie’s premiere on Tuesday night with her original VHS tape of Toy Story under her arm.
But she wasn’t just carrying it around to prove her fandom; she asked Toy Story star Tom Hanks to autograph it for her. He did, as he told USA Today, and then laughed, “I told her she should have brought in the VHS machine so that we could have signed it, ’cause that could go into the Smithsonian Institute as well.”
Separately, Tom told Variety that he had no idea Taylor had a song in the movie until the last moment, when, he said, “They ushered us into a soundproof room and said, ‘Tonight, at 9 p.m., the true end titles song is going to drop and it’s by Taylor Swift.'”
“And I said, ‘You guys kept this from us all this time?’ We saw the movie and it did not — we had some dummy [song] in there, so they surprised us as well.”
He added, “That’s like saying, ‘By the way, Judy Garland is singing “Over the Rainbow” at the beginning of this’ — that kind of thing.”
And while speaking to E! at the premiere, Tom offered the following marriage advice to Taylor and her fiancé, Travis Kelce: “The man must make the waffles on Sunday.”
Toy Story 5 arrives June 19.
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‘NIMRODS’ film poster. (Inaugural Entertainment/Live Nation Studios)
Green Day has premiered a new trailer for the band’s upcoming movie, NIMRODS.
The teaser, soundtracked by the classic “Basket Case,” sets up the premise of the film, in which three friends, played by Mason Thames, Kylr Coffman and Ryan Foust, steal a car and embark on a road trip after being tricked into believing that they’re opening for the “American Idiot” outfit on New Year’s Eve.
You’ll also see shots of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, whose early van touring days inspired the movie.
The NIMRODS trailer is now available to watch on YouTube.
NIMRODS will premiere in theaters on Aug. 14. The cast also includes Mckenna Grace, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Fred Armisen and Bobby Lee.
Green Day first announced the project in 2025 under the name New Years Rev. It premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival before changing its name in April.
Joan Cusack, the voice of Jessie, and Taylor Swift attend the ‘Toy Story 5’ Los Angeles World Premiere in Los Angeles, California on June 9, 2026. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for for TAS Rights Management)
Taylor Swift has her biggest country hit in years with “I Knew It, I Knew You,” her original song for Toy Story 5; it’scurrently #25 on the Mediabase radio chart.
Swift said in a new interview with ABC News that she was inspired by the journey of Jessie, the beloved cowgirl ragdoll in the animated movie franchise.
“We have seen her go through such heartbreak and such, you know, triumphs and loss, and we learned her back story,” Swift said in an interview that aired Wednesday on Good Morning America. “But in Toy Story 5, we see such a character development and, really, lessons that I could relate to as she’s grown up and as she has learned more about her experiences and her memories.”
The singer continued, “Just the feeling that, like, sometimes people’s paths diverge, and that doesn’t mean that that’s the last time that you get to feel those memories or know that person.”
When the song was released on June 5, Swift revealed that she collaborated on it with singer-songwriter and producer Jack Antonoff. She shared on social media that they wrote the song with “adoration” for the Toy Story characters that were staples of their childhoods.
Swift performed “I Knew It, I Knew You” for the first time live at the Toy Story 5 world premiere Tuesday night in Los Angeles. She also performed “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” alongside Randy Newman, the man who wrote and sang Toy Story‘s signature tune.
Toy Story 5, a Disney and Pixar film, is scheduled to premiere in theaters on Friday, June 19. Swift posed at the film’s premiere with its stars, including Joan Cusack, who voices Jessie on the big screen.
The 14-time Grammy winner said that as a longtime Toy Story fan herself, it was a “poignant” moment for her to pen and perform a song for the movie’s latest release.
“I watched Toy Story when I was 5 and I’ve watched every single one of the films so many times,” she said. “So I really think that, like, to be able to be welcomed into something that has welcomed me, unknowingly, its entire existence, just as a fan, feels like very poignant for me and for my family.”
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A year ago nobody knew what a HUNTR/X was and nobody had ever heard of Saja Boys. But on June 20, 2025, KPop Demon Hunters took over pop culture, and now Netflix has planned special celebrations for the movie’s one-year anniversary.
First, KPop Demon Hunters will return to theaters across the U.S. and the world for anniversary screenings. Check your local listings for a theater near you. Additionally, there will be free outdoor screenings of the sing-along versions of the Oscar-winning film across the U.S. starting June 19 in Salt Lake City. That will be followed by free screenings in Atlanta, San Francisco, San Diego and Brooklyn on June 20; Butte, Montana, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 24; and Cleveland, Ohio, on June 25. A different location in San Diego will host an additional screening on June 26. Visit Tudum.com for full details.
Both Netflix houses — one in Philadelphia and one in Dallas — will offer a full day of fan activities on June 20. There will be screenings all week at the Philly house.
KPop Demon Hunters became the most-watched original title in Netflix history. Its soundtrack dominated the Billboard charts, including the #1 hit “Golden,” the first K-pop song in history to win a Grammy Award and the first to win an Academy Award. The film also won the best animated feature film Oscar. The voices of HUNTR/X — EJAE, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna — have become stars in their own right, performing on TV and at live events, and a KPop Demon HuntersWorld Tour is coming.
Mgk performs onstage on January 31, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Leon Bennett/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Mgk’s experience getting a blackout tattoo was not an easy one.
Speaking with BillboardCanada, the “bloody valentine” artist opens up about the health issues he faced while getting his entire upper body inked in black, which he first debuted in 2024.
“After the first week, we hit my lymph nodes around my armpits and shoulders, and I got really sick,” mgk says. “My skin was turning yellow. I wasn’t able to sleep. I stopped being able to move certain parts of my upper body.”
The complications stemmed from mgk’s desire to get the ink done in a much shorter time frame than the two years tattoo artist ROXX, who created the piece, said it would take.
“She warned me that it was going to be near impossible, even from a pain tolerance standpoint,” mgk says. “I said, ‘yeah, we got two months.'”
In persevering through the end of the piece, mgk says he “came out the other side extremely inspired.”
“Not just because of what I had done, but because of what I had to overcome,” he says.
Mgk is currently touring North America in support of his latest album, 2025’s lost americana. He’s since put out a new song called “FIX UR FACE” with Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst and an EP titled blog era boyz with Wiz Khalifa.
Wiz Khalifa has released the official music video for “passport” from his collaborative mixtape with mgk, blog era boyz. The video finds Wiz Khalifa and mgk on a tennis court and at a pool party, blending those clips with footage from their time on mgk’s lost americana tour. The song, trek and the album pay tribute to the internet mixtape era that shaped them, while celebrating their music, history and friendship, according to a release. “passport” is now available on YouTube.
Michael Jackson: The Verdict topped Netflix’s TV charts, garnering 17.8 million views in its first five days, according to Variety. The three-part movie features interviews with jurors, accusers, defenders and others during the 2005 trial.
Nas, Ella Mai, Busta Rhyme and Wyclef Jean are on the bill for Queens Group Stage HQ as part of the FIFA World Cup 2026™ Group Stage matches in New York. Also serving as a global celebration of soccer, music and culture, the event will feature more than 40 performances. More information can be found at nynjfwc26.com/queens.
(L-R) Alex Lifeson, Anika Nilles and Geddy Lee of Rush perform during the opening night of their first American tour in 11 years at The Kia Forum on June 07, 2026 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
Rush offered up some more surprises during the second night of their Fifty Something tour stop at the KIA Forum in Los Angeles.
During Sunday’s opening night, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson kicked off the show’s second set with three parts of their seven-part track, “2112.” For Tuesday’s show, according to setlist.fm, they opened the set with all seven parts. They haven’t performed three of those parts — “Discovery,” “Oracle: The Dream” and “Soliloquy” — live since 1997.
While the show had repeat performances of classics like “The Spirit of the Radio,” “Freewill,” “Limelight” and “Tom Sawyer,” Rush did break out some new songs during night two that they haven’t played in a while. Those include “The Trees” and “A Passage to Bangkok,” which they haven’t played since 2008; “Leave That Thing Alone” and “Witch Hunt,” last played in 2011; and “The Analog Kid,” which they haven’t played since 2013.
They also performed “Finding My Way,” the lead-off track from their 1974 debut album, which they played at the 2026 Juno Awards in March, but prior to that hadn’t performed on tour since 1980.
Rush’s Fifty Something tour is their first tour since 2015’s R40 Live, and their first since the 2020 death of drummer Neil Peart. They return to the KIA Forum on Thursday.
A complete list of dates can be found at Rush.com.
Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez attend the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Selena Gomez is in London filming the new season of Only Murders in the Building, and she misses her husband, Benny Blanco. But maybe it would help if she watches the new ad for Jennifer Aniston’s haircare line, because they’re both in it.
Sharing a carousel of photos of them together, Selena wrote to Benny on Instagram, “distance means so little when someone means so much….@itsbennyblanco mish you bb.” Benny wrote in the comments, “I fall more and more in love with you everyday” and “time stands still when i’m in ur arms.”
But meanwhile, in a new ad for Jennifer’s Lolavie hair care line, Benny unexpectedly shows up at her house so she can do his hair. They walk into another room, only to find Selena sitting there, which also surprises Jen.
“What are you doing here?” Selena asks Benny. “My appointment,” Benny explains. Selena says she’s there to bring Jen some gifts from her Rare Beauty line.
As Jen attempts to tame Benny’s unruly mop of curls, Selena raids Jen’s closet and runs out with a couple of blazers. “Is this on the giveaway pile? Cause I see about eight more things,” she says. “Take whatever you want,” Jen says. Benny, meanwhile, grabs a pair of Jimmy Choo heels for himself.
As they leave Jen’s house, the Friends star closes the door in relief and says, “That was so weird.”
Someone wrote in the comments, “THIS needs to be a Netflix show!”
