Night Ranger is revisiting one of their classic hits.
The “Sister Christian” rockers have released a remastered version of their 1983 single “(You Can Still) Rock in America,” which originally appeared on their sophomore album, Midnight Madness.
The new remastered version of the song is one of several remixed and remastered hits featured on their upcoming compilation album, Best Of, dropping Aug. 28. Also included on the record are “Sister Christian,” “When You Close Your Eyes” and “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me,” along with bonus tracks, including a live performance of the holiday classic “Feliz Navidad.”
Best Of will be released on CD and vinyl, with a double-LP version available in black, gold and orange splatter. All are available for preorder now.
Night Ranger is currently on a U.S. tour and is set to play Reno, Nevada, on Friday. A complete list of tour dates can be found at NightRanger.com.
The 1975 frontman Matty Healy is featured on a new song from the band Tiny Habits.
The track is called “Anything He Was” and includes vocals from Healy. Tiny Habits describe it as a song about “a specific loneliness brought on by someone else’s discontent.”
“Anything He Was” will appear on the upcoming Tiny Habits album, Keepers, due out Aug. 28.
Healy previously linked up with Tiny Habits to perform a cover of the James Taylor song “Carolina in My Mind.”
As for Healy’s main gig, The 1975 has been relatively quiet since wrapping their Still… At Their Very Best tour in 2024, though they did return to the live stage to headline Glastonbury in 2025.
Sleep Theory “Bye Bye Bye” single artwork. (Epitaph)
Sleep Theory is doing this tonight, and by “this,” we mean cover *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye.”
The “Stuck in My Head” rockers have long included a rendition of the boy band classic in their live set, and have now recorded an official studio version.
The track adds heavy guitar riffs while keeping the sugary vocal harmonies and would certainly be a fitting soundtrack to Deadpool brutally murdering countless members of the Time Variance Authority.
You can watch the video for Sleep Theory’s “Bye Bye Bye” cover streaming now on YouTube.
The cover follows Sleep Theory’s 2025 debut album, Afterglow. The record’s current single, “Words Are Worthless,” hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart and is currently climbing the Alternative Airplay chart.
Ariana Grande performs at the 97th Academy Awards on March 2, 2025. (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
It’s not surprising that Frankie Grande would feel compelled to post about how much he loves his sister Ariana Grande’s current tour. But someone with no skin in the game — Lizzo — took to Instagram to gush over Ari’s recent show in Inglewood, California..
Posting video of the moment Ariana is lifted up in the air while singing “supernatural,” Lizzo wrote, “I have too much too say. Ari— thank you. This is a woman who gives her alllllllllll and NO SHADE, she don’t have to. Thee vocalist thee Loubotin platform custommmmmm…. I cried, I laughed, I sang TF along.”
“You coulda healed far far away from us… somewhere over the rainbow. But you chose to heal with us. On stage. Every night. So thank you. We love you. Brava,” she concluded.
As for Frankie, he said in his lengthy post, “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it forever: I believe my sister is the greatest singer of all time. There is simply no substitute for hearing those songs performed live. Her artistry, her musicianship, her storytelling, and a discography that is truly unmatched all came together in what I genuinely believe is the highest expression of her craft.”
“Yes, I’m her brother,” he noted. “But I also know I’m one of millions who recognize that we’re witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime artist at the absolute peak of her powers.”
As for the Eternal Sunshine tour production, Frankie said, “It was cinematic, theatrical, intimate, spectacular, and vocally flawless all at once. Somehow it felt like a Broadway show, a film, and a concert existing in the same magical space.”
The tour is set to continue through Sept. 1, wrapping up with 10 shows at London’s O2 Arena.
Charli XCX for Rolling Stone’s July/August 2026 issue (Gus Van Sant)
When Charli XCX released “Rock Music,” the first song from her upcoming album. Music, Fashion, Film, many fans interpreted the lyric “I think the dance floor is dead” as a blanket statement about the entire genre. Even Madonna responded, writing, “If your dance floor feels dead/Maybe you’re playing the wrong music.” But in her new Rolling Stone cover story, she insists that’s not what she meant.
“That lyric is very much about my relationship with Brat, and my personal experience with that album,” she says. “My husband runs a dance-music label. There’s been such a wealth of incredible dance/electronic-adjacent records that have been coming out recently. … Dance music is in an incredible place.”
While Charli insists her new project is not a rock album, as has been rumored, she says it’s also not like Brat.
“I knew when I was making it that I was never going to make that record again,” she says. “It’s not creatively rewarding for me to make the same thing twice.”
But she rejects the notion of genre as “a very old school notion, adding, “It’s just me [and my collaborators], doing our thing.”
Also in the interview, Charli praises some fellow artists who, like her, took several years to find their audience.
“There’s been a lot of artists who have been doing things for a long time, who are having their moment now,” she tells the magazine. “Like Zara [Larsson]. I’m so f****** happy for her. And someone who I totally ride for is RAYE.”
Charli and RAYE have been friends for 10 years and have collaborated several times.
“There was a time in our lives when we were together a lot,” Charli says. “And her journey, becoming an independent artist and doing her thing, is really cool.”
E Street Band and Bruce Springsteen saxophonist Clarence Clemons died in a Florida hospital six days after suffering a stroke at his home. He was 69.
Clemons, also known as The Big Man, was a member of the E Street Band from 1974 until his passing. He met Springsteen in 1971 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Their meeting was immortalized on the track “The E Street Shuffle,” from Springsteen’s sophomore album, 1973’s The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, and on the 1975 Born To Run classic “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.”
Clemons was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band in 2014.
In addition to his work with Springsteen, Clemons released several solo albums and had a hit with the 1985 track “You’re A Friend of Mine,” a collaboration with Jackson Browne.
Springsteen chose Clarence’s nephew Jake Clemons to be the new E Street Band saxophonist in 2012. He has performed with them ever since.
“Beautiful Things” is Megan Moroney’s latest hit to float down from Cloud 9 and ascend to the top five of the country radio charts.
But if you look at the other end of the ranking, there’s another track from her latest album that’s just beginning its climb.
“Medicine” comes with a bit of a warning: If you’re a man who’s ever treated a woman badly, Dr. Moroney will see you now.
“‘Medicine’ is a song I wrote with some of my favorite people about giving a guy a taste of their own medicine,” Megan explains. “I just find it hilarious that anytime I’ve ever treated a guy like 10 percent of how they’ve mistreated me, they freak out. And so this song is just kind of giving them a taste of their medicine.”
“And it’s a fun honky-tonk song, and I hope that I will see all of y’all line dancing to this one very soon,” she adds.
Megan swings by Summerfest in Milwaukee on Thursday, before a Friday stop in Grand Rapids. On Saturday, she plays Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
Tom Higgenson of Plain White T’s performs during the 2022 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 23, 2022 in Indio, California. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Coachella)
Hey there, Delilah, what’s it like on a Southwest Airlines flight? Well, the Plain White T’s can tell you.
The band recently boarded a Southwest flight and performed their signature hit, “Hey There Delilah,” while in the air as part of the airline’s Live at 35 program, which invites musicians to serenade the cabin while cruising at 35,000 feet.
The in-air set actually marked the second Plain White T’s performance on a Southwest flight — they were also among the first bands to play Live at 35 upon its original launch 15 years ago.
“We’ve played a lot of venues over time, and I speak for all of us when I say there is nothing like hearing a plane full of people singing along with your music at 35,000 feet,” says frontman Tom Higgenson in a statement. “We had the opportunity to perform inflight with Southwest over a decade ago, and while that can feel like it was a million years ago, not much has changed. We loved making history with Southwest and their welcoming team.”
You can catch the Plain White T’s performing on land during their ongoing U.S. tour with Yellowcard.
ussell Wilson and Ciara attend The One Party by Uber: New York City at Pier 36 on June 12, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Uber)
People often ask Ciara to share the prayer she used to find her husband, Russell Wilson, but what did Russell pray for when it came to finding his future wife? Speaking to Keke Palmer on her podcast, he revealed he had a very specific plan for his life after his previous marriage came to an end.
“I had a whole plan,” Wilson told Palmer. “I’ma be single for about 10 years. I’ma make some friends along the way and then you gon’ marry your best friend, that whole thing, and sure enough, a year and half into my plan, I meet her, and I knew exactly when I met her, she was the one.”
According to Russell, he had told a friend he could see himself with Ciara before they even met.
“Somebody asked me, ‘Who do you see yourself with?’” Wilson said. “I was like, ‘Ciara.’ They were like, ‘She ain’t going to like you.’ I said, ‘She ain’t met me yet.’”
Years after, he had a conversation with his pastor over dinner and wrote down his “five nonnegotiables” for a future partner: a woman of faith, a woman who would be faithful, a woman like his mother, a woman who was independent and “somebody that would tilt the room.”
“Those five things, I wrote down, prayed over—we prayed over that night,” he told Keke. “Three days later, I met Ci for the first time.”
The full episode of Baby, This is Keke Palmer is available to watch on YouTube.
In celebration of America’s 250th birthday, Esquire has put together a list of what it describes as “songs that are distinctly American, addressing protest and leisure, joy and pain, wisdom and silliness, nostalgia and experimentation.”
Olivia’s “Drivers License” made the cut, with Esquire writing that it “demonstrated the eternal power of two of American pop’s defining themes — cars and heartbreak.”
Furthermore, the mag says the song “transcended backgrounds and generations, creating a shared, uniquely national experience” and “stands as the … pinnacle” of 21st century pop.
Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” is also on the list because it’s, according to Esquire, “the all-time biggest-selling single by a female artist” and an “an era-defining record.” The magazine also notes it “represented the culmination of America’s musical century, blending country-music storytelling, pop sonic architecture, and Black creative expression.”
Other songs that made the cut include Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’,” Aretha Franklin’s “Respect,” Bruce Springsteen’s “The River,” “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar, “Margaritaville” by Jimmy Buffett and tracks by Bob Dylan, The Ramones, Johnny Cash, KISS, The Chicks, Woody Guthrie, Bad Bunny, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and The Beach Boys.
In case you’re wondering why “Party in the U.S.A.” or “Born in the U.S.A.” isn’t on the list, it’s because songs that mentioned “America” or “U.S.A” in the title or chorus were immediately eliminated, due to the 25-song limit.
As for why there are no songs by Prince or Michael Jackson, Esquire writes that the two men “possessed such otherworldly gifts that they seemed to stand for something beyond their native country.”
