“Good Time” hitmaker Niko Moon‘s Happy Himalayan artesian water, which is infused with pink sea salt, is now available at 300 retail locations.
Crazy Lucky: Remarkable Stories from Inside the World of Celebrity Icons by Nashville entertainment lawyer John Mason is out now, with tales of memorable clients like Reba McEntire, Olivia Newton-John, Priscilla Presley and more.
Will Lorde be celebrating the arrival of her new album at Glastonbury?
The “Royals” star posted an image on her Instagram Story capturing an aerial view of the U.K. mega festival’s Woodsies stage. Notably, the Woodsies set schedule lists an act TBA performing at 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
Lorde’s upcoming record Virgin drops that same day. It includes the singles “What Was That,” “Man of the Year” and “Hammer.”
Lorde will launch a U.S. headlining tour in support of Virgin in September.
While Dead & Company are playing three nights in San Francisco in August to mark the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary, those won’t be the only shows celebrating the band’s enduring legacy.
Grahame Lesh & Friends are set to host a three-night concert series, The Heart of Town, put on by The San Francisco Giants and Relix. The concerts will take place July 31-Aug. 2 at San Francisco’s Pier 48 in Mission Rock, near Oracle Park.
Grahame, son of the late Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, will be joined on the bill by Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith of Dawes,John Medeski, Duane Betts, Neal Francis and others.
While the July 31 show starts at 8 p.m., the Aug. 1 and 2 shows coincide with the first two nights of Dead & Company’s Golden Gate Park stand, so they won’t start until 11 p.m. As a press release notes, this way “the music never stops.”
“I’m so thrilled to be among the countless Deadheads flocking to beautiful San Francisco to celebrate 60 years of the Grateful Dead – the timeless music of my father Phil and his dear friends – in Golden Gate Park with Dead & Company,” Grahame shares. “And I know that San Francisco will be filled with that music all weekend. I’m honored to contribute to that with all of my friends at The Heart of Town.”
Various presales will kick off Friday at 10 a.m. PT, with tickets going on sale to the general public starting Monday at 10 a.m. PT. There will also be three-day passes available, which go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. PT.
Bracelet at Toronto’s Rogers Centre; Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Images
During Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour last year, Taylor was welcomed to New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome by a 140-foot long inflatable friendship bracelet that was hung outside the stadium. Now, it’s become the ultimate souvenir of the tour: Taylor just bought it.
According to the agenda of the Thursday board meeting held by the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, the sale to Firefly Entertainments, Inc. has been approved, at a cost of $13,000, with Firefly Entertainments, Inc. also footing the bill for the pickup, shipment and delivery of the bracelet. According to Nola.com, Firefly is Taylor’s personal services company.
Nola.com reports the idea for the inflatable bracelet came from Abby Jones, an executive at ASM, the company that manages the Superdome. She tapped a Miami-based artist named Kolodny, who specializes in inflatables, to create the piece, which spelled out “Taylor Swift The Eras Tour.”
The bracelet proved to be so popular that the Superdome even lent it to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and the Rogers Centre in Toronto for the Eras Tour shows there.
He’s shared anecdotes in his music, interviews and podcast, but now, Cam’ron will be telling his story in book form.
He announced on Instagram Wednesday that he will release a memoir, courtesy of the $750,000 book deal with publishing powerhouse Simon & Schuster. In it, he’ll bring fans along on a journey of his early days in Harlem to his mainstream rise as a rapper, fashion innovator and multimedia mogul, including some of the highs and lows.
“I’m happy to have this deal done,” Cam’ron said in a statement, per Billboard. “Hopefully the book will be released February of 2026 and that everyone can take something from my memoir when they read it.”
The news of Cam’ron’s book deal arrives just days after he announced he also signed a multimillion dollar deal with Revolt for his sports talk show Talk with Flee.
“N***** is right this ain’t a run I’m on. It’s a f****** marathon,” he wrote in an Instagram caption accompanying the post. “My mom up in heaven working. Miss and love you.”
Scorpions are celebrating their 60th anniversary with a new compilation album.
The German rockers are set to drop From the First Sting on Sept. 26, a 16-track, career-spanning collection that features such hits as “Rock You Like a Hurricane,” “Wind of Change” and “No One Like You,” along with two previously unreleased songs, “This Is My Song” and “Still Loving You,” the latter of which features a guest appearance by British violinist Vanessa Mae.
The compilation will be released in the U.S. on CD and two-LP. It is available for preorder now. In Europe and the rest of the world it will be released on two-LP or two-CD, and as a deluxe two-LP/two-CD set.
Next up for Scorpions, they play the Rock Imperium Festival in Murcia, Spain, on Friday. They’re also set to continue their anniversary festivities in Sin City with the five night Scorpions – Coming Home to Las Vegas 60th Anniversary Las Vegas Residency, kicking off Aug. 14 at PH Live at Planet Hollywood.
Even though Zach Top‘s the ACM new male artist of the year, you might be surprised to find out he hasn’t played that many stadiums.
You can witness the Washington native in front of one of his biggest crowds so far Thursday night, as the annual CMA Fest special airs on ABC.
“Last year on the platform stage was my first time in a stadium,” he says of his experience at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium. “We’ve got to do a couple — well, I guess only one other. We played down at the Houston Rodeo back in March, and that was a stadium obviously.”
“But we’re not too used to it. Not too bored of it yet. So everybody’s real excited and you know, a little nerves and stuff,” he said before his performance. “And it’s always a little more nervous when you’re gonna be on TV and everything.”
During the 3-hour concert special, you’ll see Zach play his first #1, “I Never Lie,” and do a medley of “Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)” and Alabama‘s “Mountain Music” with his Broken Branches Tour partner Dierks Bentley.
Dierks does his current hit, “She Hates Me,” as well.
The night of the show also happened to be the very first time Zach played his new single, “Good Times & Tan Lines.”
“Hopefully it’s the new summer anthem for everybody who loves country music,” he said. “First time playing it live ever.”
The CMA Fest special premieres Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC, before streaming on Hulu on Friday.
Now that Ariana Grande has been nominated for an Oscar, shouldn’t she be able to vote on them?
She’s one of 534 people who have just been “invited to membership” by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year. If she accepts, she’ll get to vote on who wins Academy Awards in the future. She was invited as an actor, not as a musician, because that’s the category in which she was nominated. All the invitees have “distinguished themselves by their contributions to motion pictures.”
In the Music category, new invitees include Brandi Carlile and producer Andrew Watt, who were Oscar-nominated for co-writing “Never Too Late” with Elton John, for the music legend’s Disney+ documentary of the same name.
In addition to his work with Elton, Watt co-wrote and co-produced most of the songs on Lady Gaga‘s latest album, Mayhem. He’s also worked with The Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, Justin Bieber and many more.
If all 534 invitees accept the invitation, that will bring the academy’s membership up to 11,120, with voting members numbering 10,143. The academy’s membership would then comprise 35% women, 22% from underrepresented communities and 21% international.
The Pretenders are set to reissue their greatest hits collection.
The Chrissie Hynde-led band will rerelease their 1987 compilation, The Singles, on two-LP and CD with remastered audio on Aug. 15.
The 16-track album features Pretenders classics like “Brass in Pocket,” “Back on the Chain Gang,” “Talk of the Town,” “Middle of the Road,” and “Don’t Get Me Wrong,” as well as their cover of the Sonny & Cher classic “I Got You Babe.”
The news comes just a week after the Pretenders treated their fans to a new live album. They released Pretenders Live – Kick ‘Em Where It Hurts! on June 20, featuring live performances recorded during the band’s 2024 theater tour.
Cole Swindell‘s headed to the Big Apple to promote his new album, Spanish Moss, which comes out Friday.
He’ll perform his new radio single, “We Can Always Move On,” Tuesday, July 1 on NBC’s Today show, before stopping by ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis, which starts at 7 p.m. ET.
The Georgia native’s also booked a special NYC concert to showcase his fifth album. Tickets to his Webster Hall gig are on sale now.
The “Forever to Me” hitmaker’s set to launch his Happy Hour Sad Tour in September, but he has another major event planned before then: He and his wife Courtney are expecting a baby girl later this summer.
