Skillet is looking to the future and the past with a pair of announcements.

One of the announcements is that a new Skillet song called “Scream” is due out July 10. It will mark the band’s first fresh material to follow their 2024 album, Revolution.

“We went back to Memphis and worked with a producer who knew the band before we’d made our first record,” frontman John Cooper says of the origins of “Scream.” “Life has taken some great turns, but it’s also taken some painful turns. Now we’re here, and we still have more of a story to tell. The music kept getting heavier, and I said, ‘We’ve got to go all-in.'”

The other announcement is that Skillet is embarking on a U.S. tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 2006 album, Comatose.

The Comatose: 20 Years, Still Screaming tour launches Sept. 30 in Schenectady, New York, and wraps up Nov. 10 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

“At every show, someone tells me that [Comatose] helped them through the darkest times of their life,” Cooper says. “That is why we wanted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Comatose by doing something we have never done—commemorating the album by dedicating a large portion of the show to these songs that are so meaningful to the band and so many others.”

“Some of them we have played a thousand times. Others we have never played,” he continues. “We are excited to perform them alongside our catalog on this once in a lifetime tour.”

Presales begin Tuesday, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 1 p.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Skillet.com.

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Madonna’s new album, Confessions II, exists because she kept on getting blocked from telling her life story.

As she tells Interview magazine, her planned biopic, for which she spent two years writing the script, fell apart because the studio wouldn’t give her the money she wanted. “I’ve had an extraordinary life. I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget,” she says. “They couldn’t get their heads around it.”

As a result, she says, “I was in limbo … and then Netflix reached out to make a series [about my life].”

“That was a whole other long process, because I couldn’t use the script I had with Universal unless I bought it from them for an extortionist’s price, even though I wrote it,” she continues. So she spent “eight or nine months” trying to find a writer, with no success.

“I was like, ‘Good thing I have another job because I need to work, I need to create. I need to do what I was put on this earth to do,'” she tells Interview.

She reached out to Stuart Price, who produced her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor, because she felt that “people need to dance.” At the same time, there were several deaths in her family. “So I wrote about a lot of family trauma, and then we started making dance music,” Madonna says.

In the middle of the process she found a writer for the Netflix series, but she felt, “I can’t turn back now.” Plus, her daughter Lourdes Leon wanted to collaborate with her.

“She approached me about writing a song together as a way to heal our relationship,” Madonna says. “It was a really important moment, and it solidified the idea that now is the time to make this record.”

Confessions II is due out July 3.

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Garbage and The Breeders are among the artists playing Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival, taking place Aug. 29 in Irvine, California.

The bill, which is made up entirely of women and female-fronted bands, also includes Mitski, Not for Radio, Bikini Kill, Chappell Roan, KATSEYE, Doechii and Rodrigo herself, among others. 

Additionally, Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O, Fleetwood Mac icon Stevie Nicks and Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan are listed as special guests.

“Daisy Chain Fields is built on the belief that joy, community, and creativity can inspire meaningful change,” Rodrigo says in a statement. “I’m so excited to celebrate this incredible lineup of women, and I’m grateful to all of our partners in helping us make this festival come to life. By bringing together women in music and organizations helping shape a better future for women and girls, I hope we can build a community that inspires hope and positive change.”

Net proceeds will support nonprofit organizations “dedicated to advancing and advocating for women and girls,” a press release says.

Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit DaisyChainFields.com.

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Sarah McLachlan said in a recent interview that if her groundbreaking Lilith Fair concept were ever to be revived, it would have to be by “someone who’s relevant and coming up in the world.” Enter Olivia Rodrigo.

In the ’90s, Lilith Fair broke ground by featuring largely female acts — something music biz execs at the time said would never work. Olivia, who was featured in the 2025 Lilith Fair documentary Building a Mystery, announced Monday that she’s spearheading Daisy Chain Fields, a new, all-female festival. 

The festival, set for Aug. 29 in Irvine, California, will feature Olivia, as well as Chappell Roan, Doechii, Bikini Kill, The Breeders, Garbage, KATSEYE, Mitski, Santigold and more. Special guests include none other than Sarah McLachlan, as well as the legendary Stevie Nicks.

Net proceeds from the festival will benefit nonprofit organizations that advance and advocate for women and girls.

Olivia says in a statement, “Daisy Chain Fields is built on the belief that joy, community, and creativity can inspire meaningful change. I’m so excited to celebrate this incredible lineup of women, and I’m grateful to all of our partners in helping us make this festival come to life.”

“By bringing together women in music and organizations helping shape a better future for women and girls, I hope we can build a community that inspires hope and positive change,” she adds.

Presales start Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT; you can sign up for a presale passcode now at DaisyChainFields.com. Visit the website for more ticket details.

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Anthrax will be without drummer Charlie Benante on the road for a bit.

Benante said in an Instagram post that he’s suffered an injury to his right hand and is on doctor’s orders to take a break from performing to “give it the proper time to heal.” He will be absent from the band through a July 4 date in Spain.

The affected dates will feature drummer Darby Todd in Benante’s place.

“I’m incredibly grateful that Darby Todd will be stepping in behind the kit for these dates and helping keep the shows rolling while I recover,” Benante says. “I’m already focused on getting healthy and look forward to being back on the road soon. Thank you all for the support and understanding.”

Benante is expected to return for a July 7 date in Portugal. Anthrax will then kick off a North American tour with Iron Maiden and Megadeth beginning in September.

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Kenny Chesney set his second residency at Sphere Las Vegas in motion on Friday with a special appearance by Eric Church.  

The Country Music Hall of Famer delivered a 29-song set for the sold-out crowd of nearly 17,000 people that included “Here and Now,” “Livin’ in Fast Forward,” “Young,” “Beer in Mexico,” “Keg in the Closet,” “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,” “Guitars, Tiki Bars (& a Whole Lotta Love),” “Come Over,” “Noise,” “All the Pretty Girls,” “Carry On,” “Knowing You” and “Out Last Night.” 

Kenny’s second summer run adds both fresh visuals and set changes. 

“Sphere lets me take people back home with ‘I Go Back,’ to piers that don’t exist for ‘Til It’s Gone,’ flying through downtown Los Angeles for ‘Settin’ The World on Fire,’ inside a pinball machine with ‘Big Star’ and some of my favorite places in ‘When I See This Bar,’” Kenny explained after the show. “You can take them, give them even more of what the song is.”

Eric surprised the crowd during “When I See This Bar,” going on to do “Drink in My Hand” and “Springsteen.”

Kenny’s 2026 Sphere show wrapped with a three-song encore of “American Kids,” “Anything But Mine” and “Don’t Happen Twice.”

The run resumes Wednesday, with shows continuing through July 11.  

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The Ozzy Osbourne exhibit in Birmingham, England, is getting a new piece of Ozzy memorabilia.

The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery just announced that Ozzy’s black Gothic-style throne will be part of the Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero exhibit starting July 1.

Ozzy debuted the throne in 2024 when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. He last used it during his solo and Black Sabbath performances at the July 5, 2025, Back to the Beginning concert in Birmingham’s Villa Park, which turned out to be Ozzy’s final concert. Ozzy died just weeks later on July 22, 2025.

“As we approach the one-year anniversary of Back to the Beginning, it feels fitting that Ozzy’s throne, which has now become synonymous with his final performance, would be placed in the museum, where it can be seen by the fans who loved him,” said Sara Wajid and Zak Mensah, co-chief executives at Birmingham Museums Trust.

Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero opened June 25, 2025, to coincide with the Back to the Beginning concert. It was originally supposed to close in September 2025 but has been extended until Sept. 27, 2026.

In other Ozzy news … his daughter Kelly Osbourne shared her heartbreak of missing Ozzy in a Father’s Day post on Instagram.

“Dad, I still find myself looking for you in ordinary moments the advice I need, the joke I want to tell, the victory I wish you could see,” she wrote. “The ache of missing you is the price of loving you, and I would pay it forever rather than have never been your child at all! “

She added, “I will never stop missing you. It is an honor to spend the rest of my life loving you. Until we meet again!”

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