Roger Taylor, John Taylor, Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran perform at the I-Days Festival at Ippodromo Snai San Siro on June 20, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Sergione Infuso – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
Duran Duran has announced a huge London gig.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are set to headline BST Hyde Park on July 5. This will be the second time Duran Duran has headlined BST Hyde Park in almost five years.
Scissor Sisters will join the band as special guests on the bill, with a full lineup to be announced at a later date.
Following an American Express presale on Friday, a BST presale will begin Monday at 10 a.m local time. Tickets for the festival go on sale to the general public April 1 at 10 a.m. local time. More info can be found at bst-hydepark.com.
Next up for Duran Duran, they’ll headline the BeachLife festival in Redondo Beach, California, on May 1. They’ll then head to Las Vegas for a residency at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, beginning May 2. A complete list of dates can be found at DuranDuran.com.
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has released his debut solo album, Honora, which includes a cover of the Funkadelic song “Maggot Brain.”
Flea’s version of the 1971 psychedelic epic is about half the length of the original 10-minute song, though he does recreate its original spoken-word intro.
Honora features Flea performing on trumpet and his signature bass. It also includes the previously released song “Traffic Lights,” which features Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, and an instrumental cover of Frank Ocean’s “Thinkin Bout You.”
Mariah Carey Olympics medley of ‘Volare’/’Nothing Is Impossible.’ (℗ 2026 International Olympic Committee under license to gamma)
On her birthday — excuse us, “anniversary” — Mariah Carey keeps the gifts coming. On Friday, in addition to releasing her Olympics medley of “Volare”/”Nothing Is Impossible,” Mariah is also handing out a bonus.
As she wrote on Instagram, “Happy 3/27! On my anniversary, I wanted to gift you something special as a thank you for the love you have always shown me.”
“‘Nothing Is Impossible’ is a song that holds a very special place in my heart, and knowing how much it means to you makes it even more so,” she continued. “Performing it at the Olympics opening ceremony was a moment I will forever treasure.”
She then announced that she’s released “a new orchestral version” of the song, now available alongside the medley. “I hope you love it as much as I do,” she added.” The post includes footage of the RoyNoyz Orchestra recording the song.
If you select the medley on your favorite music streaming service, the bonus track shows up alongside it. You can also check it out on YouTube.
Guns N’ Roses will be without keyboardist Melissa Reese for the band’s upcoming tour.
The “Welcome to the Jungle” rockers have issued a press release reading, “Rock legends Guns N’ Roses have announced that Melissa Reese will not be joining the band on tour due to unforeseen personal reasons.”
“We hope our fans understand,” the statement adds.
GN’R’s upcoming live schedule includes a U.S. stadium and amphitheater tour kicking off in July, as well as dates in Europe, Latin America and Australia. They’re also headlining Florida’s Welcome to Rockville festival in May.
Reese joined Guns N’ Roses in 2016 for their Not in This Lifetime… tour, which saw Slash and Duff McKagan rejoin the band alongside Axl Rose.
GN’R did not name a replacement for Reese in their statement, nor did they specify the duration of her absence.
U2 filmed the video for “Where the Streets Have No Name,” the third single off their album The Joshua Tree.
Inspired by The Beatles’ 1969 rooftop concert, U2 took to the roof of a downtown Los Angeles liquor store to perform the song.
The production attracted more than 1,000 fans who gathered to watch the performance, prompting the police to try to shut them down — something the band was hoping for in order to add drama to the video.
U2 actually performed an eight-song set during the video shoot, including four performances of “Where the Streets Have No Name.”
The video went on to earn U2 a Grammy for best performance music video.
Mitchell Tenpenny’s Speed of Light Tour (Courtesy Mitchell Tenpenny/Schmidt Relations)
Mitchell Tenpenny’s new song, “Speed of Life,” was written with eyes toward it going on Teddy Swims’ album.
Typically, when the “Drunk Me” hitmaker and the pop star write together, they each sing a verse on the demo. But since this song was supposed to be for Teddy, this time, he sang the whole thing — which led to an interesting problem for Mitchell.
The more he listened to it, the more he fell in love with it — and the more he was convinced HE should record it.
“This felt like me and I asked, ‘Man, are you cool if I do it?’ And he was like, ‘Absolutely,'” Mitchell tells ABC Audio. “So [I] went in the studio, and then, obviously, trying to sing a song after Teddy, I got such demo-itis like hearing him. So I really had to try to make it my own.”
Mitchell made up his mind that he’d do whatever it took to deliver what he believed the song deserved.
“I told my management … ‘Cancel whatever’s happening two days after the session, because I’m going in there and I’m going to lose my voice. I’m going to sing as hard as I possibly can and try to make this song special and feel emotional, cinematic, anthemic. I want it to feel that way. And so I’m gonna give literally everything I got,'” he recalls.
“And I love the way it turned out. I haven’t been more excited for a song in a long time than I am for this. It feels like me again, and I am truly stoked,” he adds.
Mitchell Tenpenny’s “Speed of Life” is out now and is the name of his headlining tour that stops in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Friday night.
Former Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm (Photo credit: Krishta Abruzzini)
Former Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm’s new solo album, Released, is out now, made up of previously unreleased songs he recorded in the ’80s for his previous solo albums.
While it’s been decades since he first recorded some of these songs, Gramm tells ABC Audio he always knew they existed, but notes “as time went by, I forgot I had them.”
“When I was ready to do a new album, I had some original songs written, and something just kept tugging at me to go back and listen to the songs from my previous solo albums that weren’t on the album,” he says. “I remember when I started listening to ‘em that they shocked me at how good they were, but they were incomplete.”
Gramm says the songs didn’t make his original solo albums not because they were bad, but due to “time restraints,” noting in order to meet deadlines he had to choose songs “that were done, not necessarily the ones that we liked the best.”
Gramm says going back and listening to the tunes all these years later turned out to be “very emotional” for him.
“And then I started getting a little angry. ‘Why didn’t we finish them? Why didn’t we get them on the album?’” he says, noting, “Here are these great songs sitting around for 30 years, you know, or more.”
Gramm says he hopes after listening to the record fans come away realizing he’s “a formidable songwriter, as well as a vocalist.”
“I have a style that’s uniquely my own and it has elements of Foreigner in it, because that’s the band I was part of,” he explains. “But it’s quite a bit different than Foreigner,” noting he hopes the album lets the “difference be known.”
It’s a big month for Charlie Puth: He became a father for the first time on March 13, and his new album, Whatever’s Clever, is out on Friday. He tells ABC’s On the Red Carpet that he can’t wait to go on tour in April because the album was made to be played live.
“I’m looking forward to playing this music live, in a live setting, cause I’ve written this album and produced this album in a way that’s made for Madison Square Garden and big arenas,” Charlie said. “I just … want people to sing along with me. So that’s the first time I’ve taken this approach, where I really wrote this for the people.”
Charlie says he doesn’t mind how those people discover his music, even if its through snippets on TikTok.
“However they want to consume the music,” he said. “I just wanna give, what do they call it? Goosebumps. I want to give people the goosebumps.”
Whatever’s Clever features guest appearances by yacht rock icons Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, as well as sax player Kenny G; “Love Me Not” singer Ravyn Lenae; legendary Japanese musician Hikaru Utada; and Coco Jones, who sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at February’s Super Bowl pre-game show, during which Charlie sang the national anthem.
Discussing the album’s catchy title, Charlie told ABC’s On the Red Carpet, “I think it’s a very human phrase. I found myself saying it a lot during the process of making the record. And I think in the days of so much artificially created content, it’s nice to be human, and stand out, alone.”
RAYE, ‘This Music May Contain Hope’ (Human Re Sources)
RAYE’s sophomore album, This Music May Contain Hope, is finally here, but for a while there, it looked like it might not happen.
In October 2024, RAYE posted on Instagram, “it’s my birthday and my car got stolen with all my song writing books in the [trunk] so no second album any time soon love you bye.”
In March 2025, she told People, “My car was stolen. … There was a big giant book [in it] that says ‘RAYE’s Second Album’ on the front of it with loads of … really f****** personal s***.”
She added, “I hope whoever stole the car just took the stuff and threw it in the bin ’cause I don’t want people reading that.”
Then in October, RAYE revealed the police got in touch with her two or three months earlier and told her that they’d found her car and all her lyric books completely intact.
RAYE subsequently told ABC Audio in November that she did indeed get the lyrics back in enough time to incorporate them into the album. When she started looking at them, she said, “Some of it was like, ‘What am I thinking? I hope no one read that. And some of it was perfect.”
“You know, there’s so much I dumped in those spaces,” she continued. “I do really love a book and a pen, but clearly I’m learning that maybe I’m gonna need to digitalize some things at least. Either that or start using a safe for my lyric books!”
As previously reported, This Music May Contain Hope features 17 tracks grouped into four “seasons.” Guests includeRock & Roll Hall of Famer Al Green, film composer Hans Zimmer, two of RAYE’s sisters and two of her grandparents.
Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on March 04, 2026, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice notified a federal judge that it has been erroneously relying on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo to justify arrests at immigration courts, according to a new court filing.
The filing is part of an ongoing federal case in New York brought by civil rights groups challenging a policy of arresting people at immigration courts.
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they had repeatedly cited a memo titled “2025 ICE Guidance” to defend the policy, which led to courthouse arrests nationwide.
“We write respectfully and regrettably to correct a material mistaken statement of fact that the Government made to the Court and Plaintiffs,” wrote Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Clayton informed the court that ICE officials notified DOJ this week that the guidance “does not and has never applied” to civil immigration enforcement actions in or near immigration courts.
“As stated in the Guidance, it also does not apply to criminal immigration enforcement actions inside courthouses,” the memo states. “The Guidance does, however, apply to civil immigration law enforcement at or near all non-immigration courts at federal, state, and local/municipal level.”
Immigration attorneys and advocates previously told ABC News that immigration enforcement officers have been waiting in immigration court buildings and arresting migrants who have had their cases dismissed.
Deportation hearings in immigration court are legal proceedings initiated by DHS in which an immigration judge determines whether a migrant should be removed from the United States.
Often, an immigration judge will dismiss a case in order to allow the individual to pursue legal relief by seeking asylum, according to attorneys.
Several videos of migrants being detained after their cases were dismissed have gone viral on social media.
“It’s clear that it’s a coordinated campaign of fear-mongering, to put fear into our immigrant communities and undermine the constitutional right to due process,” Priscilla Olivarez, an attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Antonio, Texas, previously told ABC News.
In response to the filing, attorneys for the New York Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU said the arrests have “deprived” immigrants of their right to seek relief from removal.
“The implications of this development are far-reaching,” the groups wrote on Wednesday. “In the months since the Court relied on the government’s representation to deny Plaintiffs preliminary relief, Defendants have continued arresting noncitizens at their immigration court hearings, resulting in their detention—often in facilities hundreds of miles away.”
A DHS spokesperson said in a statement: “There is no change in policy. We will continue to arrest illegal aliens at immigration courts following their proceedings. It is commonsense to take them into custody following the completion of their removal proceedings. Nothing prohibits arresting a lawbreaker where you find them.”
