Guns N’ Roses are hitting Latin America this fall.
The band just announced 13 new tour dates that will have them playing Mexico, Central America and South America.
The new dates kick off Oct. 1 in San José, Costa Rica, followed by shows in El Salvador, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Peru, before wrapping Nov. 8 in Mexico City.
A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at GunNRoses.com.
The “Sweet Child O’ Mine” rockers are currently on the first leg of their 2025 tour, with the trek hitting Coimbra, Portugal, on Friday. The summer dates culminate with a July 31 appearance at the Wacken Open Air in Wacken, Germany.
Billy Joel’s former wife Elizabeth Weber and stepson Sean Weber-Small; Gary Gershoff/WireImage
While many Billy Joel fans know that his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, was originally married to his bandmate Jon Small, they may not be aware that Elizabeth and Jon had a son, Sean Weber-Small, who lived with Billy and Elizabeth during their marriage. In the new Billy Joel documentary And So It Goes, part one of which premiered Wednesday at the Tribeca Festival, Sean and Elizabeth open up for the first time about their relationship with The Piano Man.
“My mother and I have been silent about any of our time with Billy since really 1983,” Sean tells People. “Those memories we had, they were ours. So I’ve kind of felt like by talking about them, it would kind of cheapen them somehow, if that makes any weird sense.”
As for why they’re speaking now, Sean says, “My mom didn’t get her due for a long time and kept her mouth shut, and kind of, in my opinion, took the high road. So people are going to get to hear her story and our story.”
While he, his mom and Billy lived together as a family, Sean tells People, “Billy was always really clear that I had a dad. He wasn’t my dad.” He described Billy as more of a “conspiratorial uncle” with whom he was “always getting into trouble.”
Sean says after Billy and Elizabeth split, he would see Billy if they happened to be in the same place at the same time, and also kept in touch via phone and email. He says looking back on his time with Billy via the film has been “healing.”
And So It Goes, which will premiere on HBO in July, also details Billy’s two pre-fame suicide attempts, his drinking and his reckless behavior with motorcycles.
Matt Maeson has shared a new single called “Everlasting.”
In a statement, the “Hallucinogenics” artist shares that he “wrote ‘Everlasting’ from a very defeated place.”
“I was trying to be a good father, a good husband, a good artist,” Maeson says. “I was failing at all of it. I was hardly sleeping, drinking too much and not communicating. Failing in all of these aspects invited a lot of intrusive thoughts. Thoughts that I think many people in my same position have had but I don’t hear spoken about very often. They’re ugly and uncomfortable but they’re real nonetheless.”
“I needed to be honest with myself and writing this song gave me the outlet to do that,” he continues. “It’s a heartbreaking song that in turn, has given me a lot of healing. I hope if there’s anyone out there listening in a similar place that it can meet them there and provide some solace.”
You can listen to “Everlasting” now and watch its music video on YouTube.
Along with the new track, Maeson has announced a U.S. tour, running from Sept. 26 in Dallas to Nov. 8 in New York City. Presales begin June 10 at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit MattMaeson.com.
Maeson’s most recent album is 2022’s Never Had to Leave. He also put out a live album in 2024.
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“Jane,” who is testifying under a pseudonym, resumed her testimony at Sean Combs‘ trial Friday, making her the second of Combs’ ex-girlfriends to testify how the couple’s romance morphed into a degrading pattern of unwanted sex with male prostitutes in which she felt “obligated” to participate.
The court heard an audio recording with a male prostitute she previously identified as Don.
On the recording, “Jane” and Don are heard looking for a condom when Combs objected to the condom use.
Prosecutor Maurene Comey asked, “In that moment, that we just heard, why didn’t you just insist that Don wear a condom?”
“Jane” answered, “I just didn’t want to disappoint my lover.”
“Jane” testified that after intercourse with the prostitute and Combs, “I would just take a shower and get ready for the next one.”
A typical hotel night would include three rounds of this kind of sex, a number Combs decided, according to “Jane’s” testimony.
“I would give subtle cues that I was tired, and I would say I was hungry or I would lay down or I would just come in and give him little faces,” “Jane” testified. “He would say, ‘You’re not getting tired on me. Let’s finish strong.’”
When Comey asked, “Why not just say you wanted to stop?” “Jane” wailed loudly into the microphone and told the court, through tears, “I don’t know.”
“Jane” testified Combs gave her ecstasy to keep her awake and having sex, telling the court she would take multiple doses in a single “hotel night.”
The first time “Jane” told the court she remembered crying occurred when she thought she and Combs were having a one-on-one date night.
Sobbing, “Jane” testified she had “three rounds with this guy and I just remember Sean standing up to leave. And I was just so high and just feeling so lonely and sad and why would he leave me like that.”
Asked how Combs reacted, “Jane” told the jury, “He said, ‘Are you crying’ and almost looked disgusted with my face.”
After “hotel nights,” “Jane” said she would text Combs, “probably just to say I love him.”
Some of the messages were sexually explicit, as “Jane” told the court she was playing into his fantasy “to turn my lover on.”
The jury saw one message from “Jane” in which she wrote she was “horny” for Combs “because that’s how I was feeling for him.”
The jury also saw a text message from later in the relationship in which “Jane” tried to communicate her true feelings about “hotel nights.”
She testified that she sent it because “I didn’t like them and I was realizing this was becoming the dynamic of what we were” and she was, according to her testimony, “getting scared with how often it was starting to become.”
Jane read her message: “I wish we could jump this back to when we first started dating…ever since I opened Pandora’s box I’ve never been able to close it…it’s hurting me because I’m so much more than being left in the dark in hotel rooms…I don’t want to play this role in your life anymore. It’s dark, sleazy and it makes me feel disgusted…I don’t want to play this role out of fear of losing the roof over my head.”
Comey asked her to read Combs’ response. “He said, ‘Girl stop.'”
“Jane” told the court the longest “hotel night” occurred on New Year’s Eve 2022 and “lasted three or three and a half days,” adding she never got to sleep.
“I would take ecstasy. I would drink caffeine. I would drink water. I would order myself smoothies or protein shakes,” “Jane” testified.
She told the court the ecstasy helped. “I didn’t want it to feel like it was too real,” “Jane” testified, beginning to sob. “Make things easier.”
She testified that she twice tried to make it through a hotel night without drugs because she “was just tired of doing that to my body.” She testified she ended up asking Combs for a pill, which he allegedly provided.
The second time, in October 2023, “Jane” said she was hoping to help Combs get sober.
“I just cared so much about Sean’s health and I could just see he was excessively partying on top of all the pills that he takes. I just wanted him to get clean,” “Jane” testified. “He said, ‘OK I’m going to do 30 days without anything.'”
She told the court Combs asked for “one last sobriety party,” which took place at L’Ermitage in Beverly Hills and lasted 12 to 18 hours. After having sex with two male escorts she threw up, according to her testimony.
“Sean came in and I told him that I had just thrown up and he was like, ‘That’s good you’ll feel better now that you’ve thrown up so let’s go’ because the third guy was here,” Jane testified. “I was just so mad at myself for doing that. I deeply regretted that.”
“Did you have sex with a third entertainer after you threw up?” Comey asked. “Yes,” “Jane” testified.
If you are affected by abuse and needing support, or know someone who is, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). You can also chat online at thehotline.org or online.rainn.org, respectively.
Former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell is back with new music.
Campbell and his band The Dirty Knobs just released the new tune “Heart of a Heartland,” which he says is a song “he’s very proud of.”
“It’s kind of like a travelogue through the middle of America,” Campbell shares on Instagram. “The music is very simple, but the lyrics refer to a lot of American landscapes and sentiments. Many of the images are drawn from things I’ve seen in my travels through the heartland over the years.”
He adds, “It was also really fun to have strings on the song, thanks to Patrick Warren’s arrangement.”
The tune is the first new song from Campbell and The Dirty Knobs since they released the 2024 album Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits. They just kicked off a new tour, which hits Toronto on Saturday. A complete list of dates can be found at TheDirtyKnobs.com.
Bush has premiered the video for “The Land of Milk and Honey,” the lead single off the band’s upcoming album, I Beat Loneliness.
The clip doesn’t feature any milk or honey, but it does have a lot of fire, which snakes around the band as frontman Gavin Rossdale fittingly sings, “Fire does what it wants.”
You can watch “The Land of Milk and Honey” video streaming on YouTube.
I Beat Loneliness, the follow-up to 2022’s The Art of Survival, drops July 18. It also includes the previously released song “60 Ways to Forget People.”
Bush will be touring the U.S. alongside Shinedown starting in July.
Victoria Monét is going on tour, but different from the kind her fans are used to. She announced she’s going on a three-city book tour to promote her upcoming children’s book, Everywhere You Are.
“In support of this book, I will be doing a really special, very, very small book tour,” she shared on Instagram.
The tour will visit Chicago, Los Angeles and New York between June 24 and June 29, giving fans the opportunity to meet and take pictures with Victoria, and get their book signed.
Everywhere You Are will arrive June 24. Illustrated by Alea Marley, it tells the story of a gentle moon who “comforts a young star as night ends and they separate,” per the synopsis.
“It’s near and dear to my heart,” Monét said of the book. “The goal is to combat separation anxiety in children and parent guilt, people balancing work and family life.”
She adds she’s excited for the tour and “beyond grateful to those who have already supported by pre-ordering the book.”
Black Sabbath‘s massive Back to the Beginning reunion and farewell concert will stream online.
The sold-out show will take place July 5 in Sabbath’s hometown of Birmingham, England, and the stream will begin at 10 a.m. ET. The stream’s site notes that it will “be delayed 2 hours from the in-arena start time.”
“We had such an overwhelming demand from fans from around the globe, who couldn’t get tickets to the show, and they took to social media, pleading with us to broadcast a livestream of the show,” Sharon Osbourne says in a statement. “Being this is such a historic event, we just couldn’t let them down.”
A ticket to the stream costs $29.99, and you can also purchase a T-shirt/ticket bundle for $64.98. For more info, visit BacktotheBeginning.com.
Back to the Beginning will mark the final Sabbath performance and will feature all the original members — Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward — playing together live for the first time in 20 years. Ozzy will also perform a solo set in what will be his last-ever concert.
Also on the stacked bill are Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax and Mastodon. Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello will be the show’s musical director.
It’ll be Different Night Same Rodeo when Bailey Zimmerman‘s second album drops Aug. 8.
The new record will include his hits, “Backup Plan” with Luke Combs and “Holy Smokes,” as well as the previously released tracks “New to Country,” “Hell or High Water” and “Holding On.”
The new song, “Comin’ in Cold,” arrives with the album announcement, along with its music video.
Bailey’s debut, Religiously.The Album., came out in January 2023.
He kicks off his New to Country Tour Friday in Indianapolis.
