Annie Lennox is set to release the “visual memoir” Annie Lennox: Retrospective in September, and now she’s announced two special appearances in London to promote the book.
The Eurythmics singer will sit down for a conversation at the Emmanuel Centre on Sept. 24. She will then take part in a book signing at the Waterstones in Piccadilly on Sept. 27.
Ticket information for both events can be found at AnnieLennox.com.
Annie Lennox: Retrospective, dropping Sept. 16, features over 200 photographs that take fans chronologically through the legendary singer’s career. The book includes shots from her personal archives, as well as album covers and music video stills, covering Lennox’s time with Dave Stewart in Eurythmics to her solo career and more.
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Back in June, The Band Perry announced their official return to country music. Now they’ve revealed they’re back with the label that made them stars: Big Machine.
“Coming back home to our Big Machine / Nashville Harbor family feels like a beautiful full-circle moment for us,” Kimberly Perry says. “To bring the foundation of everything we’ve built together into a new season of creativity means the world.”
“This reunion feels like a second chance, a deeper chapter, and we’re just so grateful to be writing it with the family who believed in us first,” she adds.
This time, the trio consists of Kimberly, her husband, Johnny Costello, and her brother Reid Perry. During their previous time with Big Machine, The Band Perry created monster hits like “If I Die Young,” “Better Dig Two” and “DONE.”
They’re set to play the special Opry 100 show Thursday night at the Ryman in Nashville.
Miley Cyrus has debuted the new video for her Something Beautiful track “Walk of Fame.”
In the clip, out Thursday, the singer sports a silver mini dress and high-heeled boots as she steps out onto Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. She struts, dances and writhes on the stars that line the streets as she sings, “I walk the concrete like it’s a stage.”
Miley is set to receive her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the coming year.
“To now be cemented on this legendary boulevard, surrounded by the icons who inspired me, feels like a dream,” she wrote on social media after the honor was announced. “This moment will live forever, thank you to everyone in my life who made it possible. I am grateful to share this star with you.”
Something Beautiful was released May 30, with the visual companion to the album debuting on Disney+ and Hulu July 16.
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Cyndi Lauper‘s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour began in October 2024 and has already traveled to the U.S., Canada, Paris and Japan. The final leg starts Thursday in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Cyndi tells ABC Audio what her initial concept was for what she says will be her final major tour.
“I said, ‘Well, if I’m gonna say goodbye, let me say goodbye the right way,'” she explains. “So that was the main thrust of it: that I was gonna bring people together, celebrate who I am now, and all the music that people listen to — share my story, let them know how important it is, how their stories are important [and] everybody’s story is important.”
“We’re a community of light, so why not bring people together and make them happy?” she notes. “And we want people to come to the show and leave happy.”
Cyndi says the reason she’s decided to stop touring has nothing to do with performing, and everything to do with what it takes for her to actually get to the stage so she can perform.
“The packing and unpacking is such a drag. And if you saw the luggage cart with my luggage,” she says. “So I won’t miss that. I’ll miss the people.”
But what’s good news for her fans is that Cyndi isn’t giving up the stage entirely.
“If I want to give a show, I’ll find a place I could stay in the same place and do a show … maybe two in a row, whatever it is. I’ll do that,” she says. “But on a tour, it’s really rough.”
The tour is set to wrap Aug. 30 at the Hollywood Bowl.
Ed Sheeran is helping Chris Hemsworth face his fears in a new season of Limitless: Live Better Now.
In a new trailer for the show, we see Ed challenge the Thor actor to play drums for a crowd of thousands of people on Ed’s stadium tour.
The clip then shows Chris learning to play the instrument and admitting that he’s “struggling.” We also see shots of him taking the stage with Ed at National Arena in Bucharest, Romania.
“The moment I walk out and see how big that arena is, I’m starting to think, ‘I gotta get out of here!'” he says.
The National Geographic series follows Chris as he challenges himself to do things outside his comfort zone in an effort to strengthen his mind and body.
Limitless: Live Better Now premieres Aug. 15 on Disney+ and Hulu.
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Nine Inch Nails have premiered a new song called “As Alive as You Need Me to Be,” the first preview of the band’s Tron: Ares soundtrack.
The track, which marks the first new original NIN music in five years, is out now via digital outlets and is accompanied by a lyric video.
You can also hear “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” in the new Tron: Arestrailer, which shows Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto as a program called Ares.
The Tron: Ares soundtrack will be released on Sept. 19 ahead of the Disney film’s release on Oct. 10. While Trent Reznor has often composed film scores alongside his NIN bandmate Atticus Ross, the Tron: Ares soundtrack is being released specifically as a Nine Inch Nails project.
Meanwhile, Nine Inch Nails are preparing to launch the U.S. leg of their Peel It Back world tour in August. The international trek first kicked off in Europe in June.
Here’s the Tron: Ares track list: “Init” “Forked Reality” “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” “Echoes” “This Changes Everything” “In the Image Of” “I Know You Can Feel It” “Permanence” “Infiltrator” “100% Expendable” “Still Remains” “Who Wants to Live Forever?” “Building Better Worlds” “Target Identified” “Daemonize” “Empathetic Response” “What Have You Done?” “A Question of Trust” “Ghost in the Machine” “No Going Back” “Nemesis” “New Directive” “Out in the World” “Shadow Over Me”
Near the beginning, Russell hoists a boom box over his head outside a house full of girls, evoking John Cusack‘s famous scene from Say Anything. From there, his new friends follow him as he takes the celebration to the streets, using some of his already-viral choreography and picking up a marching band along the way.
The party then moves to the dance floor at a bar, with Russell serving cans of High Noon behind the bar and sharing King’s Hawaiian roll sliders with his wife, Kailey Dickerson.
“Happen to Me” is currently one spot away from making it into the top 10, with the full Famous Back Home album set to arrive Aug. 22.
At Wonder Bar in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance for a tribute to his late friend and E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who had passed away in June of that year.
The 45-minute set for 400 fans included soul classics, as well as “Savin’ Up,” which Bruce wrote for Clemons’ 1983 album with the Red Bank Rockers.
Clemons was a member of Bruce’s E Street Band from 1974 until his passing in 2011 at the age of 69. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band in 2014.
In 2012, Springsteen chose Clarence’s nephew Jake Clemons to be the new E Street Band saxophonist. He has performed with them ever since.
Klay Thompson skipped out on the ESPYs Wednesday night to hard launch his relationship with Megan Thee Stallion.
The two made their red carpet debut at her inaugural Pete & Thomas Foundation gala, where they took some photos before sharing a kiss.
She then dished some information about their first encounter to People, saying, “Oh, we met and it was such a meet cute it was like a f****** movie. I won’t tell you how and I won’t tell you when, but it was a movie.”
Asked what she loves most about Klay, Meg said it was his kindness. “He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in my life,” she said in her interview with People.
The Pete & Thomas Foundation gala took place at the Gotham Hall in New York City with guests including Fat Joe, Lil Uzi Vert and Angie Martinez. Taraji P. Henson served as host, while Muni Long took the stage to perform.
The foundation itself was created to pay homage to Megan’s late parents, Joseph Pete III and Holly Thomas, who she believes are currently looking down at her.
“I feel like they can see what I’m doing right now,” Megan tells People. “I feel like they’re looking down on me from heaven, and I feel like they’re like, ‘Yes, daughter!’ I feel like my momma’s so happy.”
“I feel like she is clapping,” Meg continued. “I feel like my great-grandma is so happy. I feel like my daddy is like, ‘this is exactly what I knew my child was gonna do.’ I feel like they’re super proud.”
Her red carpet debut with Klay arrives after fans noticed him in the background of a post on her Instagram. He later shared a photo dump featuring a picture of them kissing and another of them holding hands.
Bruce Springsteen continues to bring in the big bucks on tour.
Billboardreports that The Boss’ recent trek with the E Street Band, which kicked off in 2023 and wrapped on July 3 in Italy, was the biggest moneymaker of his career.
The tour, which consisted of 129 shows, brought in $729.7 million, with 4.9 million tickets sold. Those numbers handily surpass Springsteen’s previous highest-grossing tour, the 2012-13 Wrecking Ball World Tour, which brought in $347 million. It also sold more tickets than any previous Springsteen tour, also surpassing the Wrecking Ball World Tour, which sold 3.6 million tickets.
One reason for the increase in numbers is likely do to higher ticket prices. Billboard notes that for this tour, prices were 29% higher than they were for his The River Tour in 2016 and 2017. That tour brought in $200 million, as did The Rising Tour in 2002 and 2003, and The Magic Tour in 2007 and 2008.
