Almost Monday on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Following the success of “can’t slow down” and “jupiter,” almost monday is out with a new song and video.
Singer Dawson Daugherty says the song, “enjoy the ride,” is about “anxiety and trying to confront the things you fear.” He explains, “It’s a reminder to ourselves to hold on to the beauty in life, even when things feel like they are spinning out of control.”
Unlike “can’t slow down” and “jupiter,” “enjoy the ride” isn’t on the deluxe version of the band’s debut album DIVE. On Instagram, the band shared, “wrote this song a few weeks ago and felt like it wasn’t summer if almost monday wasn’t dropping a song.”
The band will play the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco on Friday and kick off a tour with The Band CAMINO starting in October.
Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams perform during The Eras tour November 2024 (TAS2024/Getty Images)
Covering a song you like in concert isn’t unusual, but when that song is 10 minutes long, you’ve set quite a challenge for yourself. Gracie Abrams managed to pull it off, though.
Performing her second show at LA’s KIA Forum, Gracie busted out a cover of Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version),” which she performed solo, with just herself and a piano. The fans sang along with every word.
Gracie, of course, heard the song every night as the opening act on her friend Taylor’s Eras Tour in 2023 and 2024. On her current tour, she’s been taking a page from Taylor’s book, doing “surprise songs” as well as unreleased material.
Gracie plays the Outside Lands festival on Saturday and will then wrap up her tour Aug. 27 in Mexico City.
Lauren Alaina‘s addressing the death of her dad in her new song, “Little Things.”
J.J. Suddeth passed away suddenly in July 2024.
“The loss of my father was unexpected and life shattering,” she reflects. “When you have a loss of this magnitude, the little things in life start to matter a lot less.”
The new song came out of a conversation she had with her brother before a writing session.
“He said someone had complained to him about the cost of eggs,” Lauren recalls. “He said he just kept thinking to himself, ‘My dad just died. I don’t really care about the cost of eggs anymore.’ It really struck me.”
“I told him when something that really matters happens, your eyes are opened to what doesn’t,” she continues. “I told him I was going to write that song for us that day. I know our dad would be proud of us both.”
“Little Things” follows Lauren’s recent releases “All My Exes (featuring Chase Matthew),” “Household,” “Those Kind of Women” and “Heaven Sent,” which was inspired by the arrival of her daughter, Beni Doll Arnold, in June.
Bad Wolves’ ‘Die About It’ deluxe edition (Better Noise Music)
Bad Wolves have announced a deluxe edition of their 2023 album Die About It, due out Sept. 19.
Among the nine new tracks is a reworking of “Say It Again,” featuring Lauri Ylönen, frontman of Finnish rockers The Rasmus. Bad Wolves drummer John Boecklin says, “This song has always meant a lot to me—I’ve always loved it — but I never expected it to evolve the way it did with The Rasmus.”
“In my opinion, it’s some of the best lyricism on the album, and I’m really glad it’s finally getting the spotlight it deserves,” he notes. “It’s truly some of our best work.”
Ylönen adds, “This song hit me hard and energized me. It used to be one of my top workout songs before I got to sing on it!”
Among the nine new tracks are orchestral and live versions of “Legends Never Die” and a live version of “Bad Friend.”
“It’s fun for us to be able to continue celebrating the Die About It album in this way,” says Boecklin. “It gives us a chance to revisit our material with a different perspective and refresh the release that we’re still in love with.”
“There are songs that were written during the album sessions that you never got to hear and some fun reinterpretations of tracks that you’ve already heard,” he adds. “Lots to dig in on here, see you soon Wolfpack!”
Here’s the track listing:
“Intro” “Bad Friend” “Die About It” “Savior” “Hungry for Life” “Legends Never Die” “NDA” “Move On” “Masquerade” “Say It Again” “It’s You (2 Months)” (feat. KILLBOY) “Turn It Down” “Set You on Fire” “Hungry for Life” (feat. Daughtry)
New Tracks: “Hanging on to Thunder” (feat. Stand Atlantic) “Made for the Misery” “Home” “Because of You” “All I Need Is Hope” “Say It Again” (feat. The Rasmus) “Legends Never Die” (Orchestral) “Bad Friend” (Live) “Legends Never Die” (Live)
he Beatles answer questions regarding their Shea Stadium concert at a press conference on August 23, 1965 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
The Beatles’ 1965 concert at New York’s Shea Stadium will be celebrated by the New York Mets at Citi Field.
According to the Associated Press, the team will mark the 60th anniversary of the historic concert with a special night at the stadium on Aug. 15 which will include a performance by cover band 1964 The Tribute in front of Shea Bridge, along with a special giveaway of a Shea Stadium replica to the first 15,000 fans who enter the stadium.
The Mets will be playing the Seattle Mariners that night, and the game will feature a first pitch thrown out by staff who worked the Beatles concert. There will also be special fireworks after the game.
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr headlined Shea Stadium, home of the Mets from 1964-2008 and the New York Jets from 1964-1983, on Aug. 15, 1965. According to setlist.fm, they played a 12-song set that included such tunes as “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Ticket to Ride,” “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help!” The show was turned into a 50-minute documentary, The Beatles at Shea Stadium.
Shea Stadium was demolished in 2009. Billy Joel performed the final concerts at the park on July 16 and 18, 2008, with the final show featuring a surprise guest appearance by McCartney.
Cher‘s 2003 live album documenting her record-breaking Living Proof: The Farewell Tour is finally coming to digital service providers and vinyl.
The Farewell Tour, previously only available on CD, will be released as a two-LP hot pink and purple vinyl set and on streaming platforms on Sept. 26. From the album, a live version of her first solo hit — her 1965 cover of Bob Dylan‘s “All I Really Want to Do” — is out now.
The newly remastered album, which was recorded in 2002 in Miami, includes three tracks which were previously only included on the TV special and concert film Live! The Farewell Tour. They include “We All Sleep Alone” and “Different Kind of Love Song.”
Cher’s Farewell Tour, which didn’t end up being her final tour at all, was, at the time, the highest-grossing tour ever by a female artist, lasting from 2002 to 2005 and grossing over $200 million across 325 shows.
The album features songs from every part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s career, from “Bang Bang” to “Half-Breed” to “Take Me Home” to “If I Could Turn Back Time” to “Believe.”
Here’s the track list:
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” “Song for the Lonely” “All or Nothing” “I Found Someone” “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” “All I Really Want to Do” “Half-Breed” “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves” “Dark Lady” “Take Me Home” “The Way of Love” “After All” “Just Like Jesse James” “Heart of Stone” “The Shoop Shoop (It’s in His Kiss)” “Strong Enough” “If I Could Turn Back Time” “Believe” “Save Up All Your Tears” “We All Sleep Alone” “Different Kind of Love Song”
Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton have their first hit together with “A Song to Sing,” a tune they co-wrote a couple years ago and recorded in South Georgia.
“This song, I think we wrote it two years ago and then we cut it last year in Savannah,” Miranda reveals. “We went down to Dave Cobb Studio in Savannah and worked on it for two days. And it was really a vibe.”
It’s a laid-back rhythm and blues feel that made its way onto the finished recording.
“Everyone that I played it for, and Chris and [his wife and background vocalist] Morgane [Stapleton] said the same [thing], like, it just makes people smile,” Miranda says. “It kinda has this old-school feel that just makes you want to groove and smile, and I hope people find joy in it.”
“A Song to Sing” is Miranda’s first new music since 2024’s Postcards from Texas.
The Rolling Stones perform during the final night of the Hackney Diamonds ’24 Tour at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena on July 21, 2024 in Ridgedale, Missouri. (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)
Aug. 12 is National Vinyl Record Day, and to celebrate The Rolling Stones are offering fans a unique collectible.
In connection with their Crossfire Hurricane Rum, The Stones have debuted what they’re calling a Pressed and Poured set, which includes a vinyl Stones record, a full-sized bottle of Crossfire Hurricane and a limited-edition Rolling Stones pourer, which features their iconic lips logo.
The set is described as “a collector’s dream that brings music and spirit together in one unforgettable drop.”
The sets are currently available to order at CrossfireHurricane.com and will ship at the end of August, early September.
The Rolling Stones debuted Crossfire Hurricane in 2023. It was described as a blend of rums from Jamaica, Barbados and the Dominican Republic that is aged in oak barrels. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards called it a “tribute to the islands that have inspired us for decades.”
Eve has a discography of songs that capture a wide range of emotions and experiences, but “Love is Blind” is the one that showed her the powerful impact music can have on people. While a guest on the Apple radio station The Message with Ebro Darden, she said the song was based on a poem she wrote, inspired by something she’d witnessed.
“The two verses of ‘Love is Blind’ is a poem that I wrote when I was 16, because my friend at the time who was 17 was dating this dude, older dude who was basically putting her up in an apartment,” Eve explained. “She got pregnant. Come to find out this dude had a whole other life, whatever. He used to beat her. She used to come to my house and have black eyes. It was crazy.”
Eve notes she didn’t really understand the impact of “Love is Blind” until the song dropped and she began to see fans’ reactions.
“That’s when I started to understand how music can really affect people and, I don’t know, where people can see themselves in your lyrics,” she said. “Because people would come up to me and be like, ‘Thank you so much for that song. My sister went through this,’ or ‘I’m going through this, but I went and found some help.'”
Eve says she’s grateful to her label Ruff Ryders Entertainment for allowing her to release a song that was different than the others playing on the radio.
“At that time, there was no music out like that,” she said. “And especially coming from a female, the fact that they were like, ‘Nah, let’s do it.’ They knew that was something. It was really important for me to get that song out.”
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Brent Smith of Shinedown performs at The Kia Forum on August 03, 2025 in Inglewood, California. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Shinedown‘s recent show in Milwaukee featured a special guest: frontman Brent Smith‘s son.
The younger Smith joined his dad’s band for a performance of the song “Second Chance.” You can watch footage of the father-son moment on Shinedown’s Instagram.
From the reaction of Papa Smith and the crowd, he did even better than the best he can.
“One for the books,” the post’s caption reads. “A proud moment at Milwaukee’s @fiservforum. Killed it.”
Shinedown is currently on their U.S. Dance, Kid, Dance tour, with support from Bush and Morgan Wade. The band’s put out three new songs in 2025: “Dance, Kid, Dance,” “Three Six Five” and “Killing Fields.”
