Music

Never mind the bollocks, here’s Billie Joe Armstrong rocking with the Sex Pistols.

The Green Day frontman made a surprise appearance during the reformed punk icons’ set Thursday at the Tons of Rock festival in Norway, joining vocalist Frank Carter in singing “Anarchy in the U.K.”

Sex Pistols announced their reunion in 2024 with original members Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook alongside Carter in place of frontman John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten. Lydon has criticized the new lineup as “karaoke.”

The Sex Pistols reunion tour comes to the U.S. in September.

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Women playing golf in Music City? Keith Urban and Tim McGraw are here for it. 

The two superstars are both sponsors of the annual Music Row Ladies Golf Tournament, which will take place Aug. 18 at Old Natchez Country Club.

It’s the 38th year for the annual gathering, which raises money for United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee. Last year the event brought in more than $84,000, bringing its all-time total to more than $2.5 million.

You can find out more about the fundraiser online.

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50 Cent has joined the cast of Street Fighter, a feature adaptation of the Capcom video game. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’ll take on the role of Balrog, a disgraced boxer working as the villain’s bodyguard. He’s said to be performing his own stunts and is currently in training. “No Days off, Let’s work all roads lead to Shreveport. Boom,” he wrote on Instagram of his new gig.

Drake has reacted to T-Pain criticizing him for not exiting the music industry. On the Crash Dummies podcast, Pain said he was inspired when Drake said he wanted to be bow out of the industry instead of getting nixed, but learned “he hasn’t followed his own words.” In response, Drake wrote on Instagram, “This guy always had resentment for me. You can hear it every time he speaks on my name.” 

Kid Cudi says his animated project, Entergalactic, didn’t continue because of its streams. Responding to a fan, he explained on social platform X, “I asked them multiple times about doing another season and they told me no becuz they say it didn’t stream the way they expected.” He continued, “Critically acclaimed, and a Emmy win, and still no interest. Very sad and it breaks my heart. I felt like the audience would’ve grown and more people woulda caught on, but they weren’t into it.”

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After teasing a surprise Glastonbury set Thursday, Lorde returned to the U.K. festival for the first time since 2022 on Friday, performing at 11:30 a.m. on its Woodsies Stage.

Dressed in white and backed by a four-piece band, Lorde played her new album Virgin in its entirety, including the already released songs “What Was That,” “Hammer” and “Man of the Year.” Variety reports that halfway through her set, she told the crowd, “Thank you so much for being here with us on the day that Virgin is born. We decided to play the whole record for you from front to back. This may be a one-of-one,.”

She added, “This record took me a lot. I didn’t know if I’d make another record to be honest, but I’m back here completely free. And I’m so grateful to you for waiting.”

Lorde then finished by playing her hits “Ribs” and “Green Light.”

There’s plenty of footage on social media of Lorde’s performance, which was also shown on the BBC in the U.K.

Virgin is Lorde’s fourth album. She’s set to launch a tour in support of it in September.

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Lewis Capaldi is a survivor, and he’s got the new music to prove it.

The Scottish singer, who stepped away from the spotlight in 2023 to take care of his physical and mental health, has released a new single called “Survive,” which addresses that challenging time in his life. 

He teased the single with billboards featuring the lyrics of the song placed near the site of the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival. In 2023, Lewis, who has Tourette’s syndrome, struggled to finish his set at the same festival; the audience helped him out by singing along.

In the chorus he sings, “I swear to God I’ll survive, if it kills me to, I’m gonna get up and try/ if it’s the last thing I’ll do.”  The song also has a video to go with it.

Lewis co-wrote “Survive” with RØMANS, with whom he also co-wrote his 10-million selling global hit “Someone You Loved.”

In May, Lewis returned to the stage, performing a six-song set at an event that benefited a Scottish mental health charity.

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Parker McCollum‘s self-titled fifth studio album is out now, featuring his hit, “What Kinda Man,” a dozen tunes he co-wrote, one outside cut and one notable cover: Danny O’Keefe‘s “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues.”

The 1972 track would be the singer/songwriter’s biggest hit, making it to the top 10 on the pop chart. Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty and Willie Nelson would all go on to record memorable versions, but Parker wanted to hear Cody Johnson sing it. 

“‘Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues’ is one of my favorite songs ever,” Parker says. “I love Danny O’Keefe, I used to listen to that song real, real late nights back in what we call the van days before we had tour buses.”

“It’s a song that’s always stuck with me,” he continues, “and for several years now I’ve always wanted to hear Cody Johnson sing that song. I think he’s such an incredible vocalist and I love his voice. I think it’s so unique and it’s authentic to him.”

Even though Parker and Cody are both among country’s biggest stars, he was still a little unsure about approaching his fellow Texan.

“I was actually pretty nervous,” Parker admits. “I texted him one day when I was driving back home to Houston, and I just said, screw it, I’m gonna text him and ask him if he’ll sing on the song with me.”

“And man, he shot right back and said he’d love to do it.”

Friday night, Parker plays Wilmington, North Carolina, before moving on to Macon, Georgia, on Saturday.  

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