Abracadabra! Lady Gaga has emerged the victor in a lawsuit that claimed that the name of her album Mayhem ripped off a trademark owned by a surf company.
Last year, Lost Surfboards filed a suit against Gaga, claiming that the name “Mayhem,” as well as the font she was using on merch, would make consumers think that it was connected to the company’s Mayhem brand of surfboards, surf accessories, clothing and other merchandise. But in a Tuesday decision obtained by ABC News, Judge Fernando M. Olguin dismissed the suit with prejudice.
The judge found that because the alleged infringement was connected to a “expressive work protected by the First Amendment” — an album — the claim would be extremely difficult to prove.
In addition, the judge found that there was insufficient evidence that the alleged infringement was deliberately designed to mislead the public into thinking their merchandise and Lady Gaga’s were connected.
: Frank Beard of ZZ Top performs on stage at Viejas Casino & Resort on November 02, 2025 in Alpine, California. (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)
Several artists have paid tribute to ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard, who passed away at age 77.
Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote on social media that Beard “was one of a kind,” noting he was “A hell of a drummer, a true original, and most importantly to us, a great friend.”
Fellow drummers Matt Sorum, formerly of Guns N’ Roses, and Brad Wilk, of Rage Against the Machine, both wrote of Beard’s skill.
Sorum called Beard, “The backbone of ZZ Top for 57 years with the best shuffle known to man,” noting, “It might sound easy but possibly one of the hardest things I’ve ever try to learn and still trying.” He added that Beard “was born with it in his blood.”
Meanwhile, Wilk wrote that his first experience with ZZ Top was when he was in high school and saw a show on the Eliminator tour. “My mind was BLOWN! Watching his two hand shuffle live was immense,” he wrote.
Phoebe Bridgers performs at during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 22, 2023 in Indio, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella)
We don’t know if a doctor put their hands over her liver, but Phoebe Bridgers has been sidelined due to another organ-related ailment.
The “Lost Boys” artist announced in an Instagram Story Wednesday that she’s been diagnosed with appendicitis, forcing her to postpone her run of intimate U.K. shows.
“I got appendicitis for my birthday,” Bridgers wrote in the post. “Everything in the UK this week will have to move but I’ll make it up to you!!!!”
Bridgers performed in London on Monday, which was her birthday, and was scheduled to play shows on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
While appendicitis is not a great birthday present, Bridgers got a better one from Taylor Swift, who praised her new album, Lost Weekend, as an “absolute triumph.”
Bridgers will launch a sold-out U.S. arena tour in support of Lost Weekend in September.
Céline Dion attends the ‘I Am: Celine Dion’ New York special screening at Alice Tully Hall on June 17, 2024 in New York City. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
Celine Dion is preparing for her return to the stage this fall in Paris.
The Grammy-winning singer, 58, who was diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome in 2022, shared an update on her condition and preparations for her upcoming five-week Paris residency in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, published Tuesday.
Dion, the outlet noted, has performed only once in the past six years, taking the stage at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Her upcoming residency, which kicks off Sept. 12, will mark a major return to performing after her health challenges led her to cancel shows and suspend her 2023 European Courage World Tour.
Stiff-person syndrome is a rare neurological disorder that can cause muscle stiffness and spasms and is thought to be an autoimmune condition, according to the National Institutes of Health. It can cause symptoms including rigidity and stiffness of certain areas of the body causing unsteadiness, slower movements, and difficulties walking.
Treatments are available to help with symptoms, although there is currently no cure for the condition.
Dion told Harper’s Bazaar she experienced symptoms for 17 years before receiving a formal stiff-person syndrome diagnosis in 2022.
To prepare for her Paris shows, Dion committed to an intense training routine — 90-minute Pilates sessions three times a week and ballet classes with a local company two other days each week — and rehabilitation, which includes “new meds, physical therapy, vocal therapy, [and] immunotherapy,” according to the outlet.
The “My Heart Will Go On” singer first announced her Paris residency in March. Speaking with Harper’s Bazaar, she added that the upcoming residency is a gift to her fans.
“It’s been so long, I would like to offer them something to show how I’ve missed them,” she said.
The return comes after Dion gave fans an intimate look at her health journey in the 2024 documentary I Am: Celine Dion, which documented how stiff-person syndrome affected her body and voice.
“They paid for tickets. They bought my records. They gave me that luxury. So the least I can do is tell them that I’m alive,” she said, referring to her decision to do the documentary.
Now, Dion said she is embracing being back in public and returning to work after years of navigating her condition. And she has an explanation for why her fans have stood by throughout her struggles.
“It’s got to be because I’m an open book,” she told the magazine. “I’m honest, and it’s not always pretty. Sometimes it’s happy things, sometimes it’s sad, but it’s called life.”
Pearl Jam’s massive 1991 debut album, Ten, celebrates its 35th anniversary on Aug. 27.
“Ten to me is deep in my heart,” guitarist Mike McCready tells ABC Audio. “It’s a record that sounded like a band that was together for many years but wasn’t, in my mind.”
Indeed, the members of the original Pearl Jam lineup — McCready and guitarist Stone Gossard, bassist Jeff Ament, vocalist Eddie Vedder and drummer Dave Krusen — had already been a part of several other bands, including Green River, Mother Love Bone and Temple of the Dog.
“It’s the combination of efforts of those five guys that had been in a bunch of bands for a long time, and then all coalesced into one,” McCready says.
In recording Ten with Pearl Jam, McCready sensed its significance pretty much from day one.
“Ten was the example of the first situation I was in when everything was firing on all cylinders,” McCready says. “From the first day Ed showed up and we worked on ‘Once,’ and the five of us were in the room, I knew this was gonna be special. I didn’t know to the extent, but we all knew it was gonna be something.”
That “something” turned into a defining and seminal record of the ’90s grunge and alternative scene on the way to earning Diamond certification by the RIAA and spawning classic singles including “Even Flow,” “Alive” and “Jeremy.”
Three-and-a-half decades later, McCready calls performing Ten songs live a “mythical,” “spiritual” experience.
“We feel that the crowd has lifted ‘Alive’ and ‘Even Flow’ and these songs to a song that’s bigger than when we first recorded it,” McCready says. “It’s more of a universe in itself.”
Kanye West has released the music video for Bully track “Ok” featuring Don Toliver. The visual shows doctors removing objects from Ye’s decapitated body, with Toliver appearing for his verse. He eventually resuscitates Ye by reattaching his head. A duel unfolds in the background as Ye sharpens his sword before the two rappers end the video staring into the camera. The clip is the latest directed by Ye’s wife, Bianca Censori, following “Father,” “King” and “Gemini Season.”
Omarion dropped a visualizer for his song “Reason” from O2,featuring the singer in all black alongside his leading lady, who matches his look as he dances and rides in his luxury car.
“Tell Everybody” that Davido’s music video is out now, featuring Leon Thomas. It features him performing in a luxury residence, with dancers showcasing their skills. He later plays the drums on the steps while wearing a crown. The song is featured on Davido’s new album, Oriadé, which means the head that wears the crown.
Solange paid tribute to her Bring It On: All Or Nothing costar Hayden Panettiere following her death. Over a screenshot of them from the 2006 film, she wrote in her Instagram Story, “rest in peace hayden. in peace, because you are so deserving of it. we had so many parallels in our lives, and the world watched u so courageously live in your radical truth telling your story. we watched your endless quest for vulnerability, and healing.”
“i salute your journey and i honor the work we created together that became something that really means something to people… reaching people we couldn’t have ever imagined at the time, as two young girls, trying to keep looking to the light,” she continued. “the light surrounds you now. rest easy hayden.”
Neil Young during day four of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2025 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Neil Young has just added two new shows to his 2026 schedule.
The rocker and his band The Chrome Heart will play two co-headlining dates with Willie Nelson and the Family in the lead-up to the 2026 edition of Farm Aid.
The shows are happening Sept. 22 at the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Sept. 24 at the TD Pavilion at Highmark Mann in Philadelphia.
A presale begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. ET.
The 2026 edition of Farm Aid is happening Sept. 26 at Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
In addition to Nelson and Young, fellow Farm Aid board members John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Margo Price and Nathaniel Rateliff are on the bill, along with Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, Turnpike Troubadours, Lukas Nelson, Jesse Welles and others.
All three shows will be Young’s first full-scale concerts of the year. He was supposed to tour Europe and the U.K. in June, but in February he canceled the tour, noting he “decided to take a break” from touring.
Tyler, The Creator attends Paramount Pictures’ ‘Jackass: Best And Last’ Los Angeles premiere at Paramount Theatre on June 24, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
Tyler, The Creator has created a fun and interactive way to unveil the lineup for the 2026 Camp Flog Gnaw Festival.
He’s created a word search, available on the festival’s website, featuring clues designed to help fans discover who will be taking the stage.
For those uninterested in playing the game, Don Toliver, Isaiah Rashad, Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE, JID and Future are among the artists tapped for the event.
Leon Thomas is also set to perform, as well as Lupe Fiasco, Syd, Steve Lacy, The Alchemist, Vince Staples and of course, Tyler, The Creator, among other stars.
The festival will take place Nov. 15 and 16 at the Dodger Stadium grounds in Los Angeles.
Drummer Frank Beard of ZZ Top performs onstage during Day 1 of the 2023 Stagecoach Festival on April 28, 2023 in Indio, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
Frank Beard, longtime drummer for the legendary blues rock trio ZZ Top, has died at age 77.
“It was announced today that Frank Beard, ZZ Top’s drummer for the past 56 years, has died. He was in hospice care when he passed away at his ranch in Richmond, TX with family members at his side,” according to a statement Tuesday from the band’s publicist.
A message posted on the band’s official X account in March 2025 announced that Beard had “temporarily stepped away” from the band’s then-current tour to attend to an unspecified health issue, and that Beard was “looking forward to a speedy recovery.” He rejoined the band on tour in September of that year.
Born June 11, 1949, in Frankston, Texas, Hill joined the Houston-based band The Moving Sidewalks in 1969, which featured vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Billy Gibbons. The band soon changed its name to ZZ Top and, following the departure of some members and the addition of bassist Dusty Hill, the trio recorded their debut album, 1971’s aptly titled ZZ Top’s First Album.
“It didn’t take 30 minutes; it didn’t take 30 seconds. I knew that Frank Beard had the kind of chops that I was looking for,” Billy Gibbons recalled of their first meeting in the 2019 documentary ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas. “He played fiercely. He played with determination.”
The band’s follow-up, 1972’s Rio Grande Mud, featured the modest chart hit “Francine.” But it was ZZ Top’s breakout third album, 1973’s Tres Hombres, that put them on the map, largely on the strength of the album’s lead single, the blues rock boogie “La Grange.”
Featuring Beard’s signature snare-rim-tapping triplets intro beneath Billy Gibbons’ sly, growling vocals, then dropping into a hard-pounding shuffle groove two dozen bars in, “La Grange” helped propel Tres Hombres into the top 10 of the Billboard 200 all-genre albums chart on the way to becoming RIAA-certified Gold for sales of more than 500,000 units.
With a lineup unchanged for over half a decade, the “Little ‘Ol Band from Texas” released 15 studio albums during Beard’s tenure, the latest being 2012’s La Futura, with nine of them reaching RIAA Gold or Platinum status. Of those, however, the biggest-selling remains 1983’s Eliminator, which sold more than 10 million units in the U.S. alone and includes the hits “Sharp-Dressed Man” and “Gimme All Your Lovin'” – both propelled by Beard’s hammering, driving backbeat – and “Legs.” The latter, the band’s highest-charting single, featured neither Beard nor bassist Hill, though they were credited.
Beard – ironically, given his name, the only band member who didn’t sport Gibbons’ and Hill’s signature long facial hair – remained with ZZ Top for the entirety of the band’s six-decade existence and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with them in 2004. He struggled with substance abuse early in the band’s history before checking himself into rehab in the early 1980s, during which time the band went on hiatus, his bandmates telling Beard to take however long he needed.
“I just wanted to get sober,” Hill said in ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas. “I wanted to be like people I admired that could sit at home and watch TV and go to bed.”
Beard was married twice, the second time to Debbie Meredith in 1982. She survives him, as do their three children.
ZZ Top bassist and founding member Dusty Hill died in July 2021 at age 72. Billy Gibbons is now the sole remaining member of the original trio.
ZZ Top is currently on the latest leg of their The Big One! tour. Due to Beard’s passing, they’ve canceled their Tuesday show in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Wednesday’s scheduled show in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Rock guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix (1942 – 1970) caught mid guitar-break during his performance at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 1970. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A documentary about Jimi Hendrix’s performance at Woodstock will have its streaming premiere Tuesday in celebration of the 57th anniverary of the festival.
Jim Hendrix: Live at Woodstock – A Second Look will debut on YouTube at 9 p.m. ET. It features black-and-white footage recorded on videotape by a 22-year-old Bard College drama student named Albert Goodman.
According to the YouTube description, Goodman didn’t make it to the festival until Sunday afternoon due to traffic. Then on Monday he “left his tent and snuck onstage, shielded by a friend carrying a guitar,” where he “set up his camera and tripod just 15 feet across the stage from where Jimi Hendrix would perform.”
“Goodman was left alone, assumed to be just one member of the sprawling film crew who had surrounded the stage for the entire event,” the description reads. “Armed with just two previously recorded, open reel videotapes, Goodman settled in behind percussionist Juma Sultan and prepared to document history.”
The film features performances of such Hendrix classics as “Purple Haze,” “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” and his iconic take on “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
The original Woodstock took place from Aug. 15-18, 1969, on Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York. In addition to Hendrix, it featured performances by the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, The Who, Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and many more.
