‘The Leaks’ album cover (Quality Control Music/Motown)
Lil Baby‘s The Leaks project will be arriving sooner than you think. In an Instagram post Wednesday, he announced it will be dropping on his 31st birthday, Dec. 3.
“I’m Dropping ‘The Leaks’ next week for my birthday 12/3 to celebrate with the fans who kept these leaks & snippets alive,” he wrote in the caption. The album is now available to presave.
The Leaks serves as a gift to Lil Baby fans. It contains “full versions of previously teased snippets and leaked songs that have circulated online over the years,” a press release says. The album was originally set for an Aug. 15 release but was pushed back a few times.
The news of its updated release date arrives on Wham Wednesdays, a series that sees Lil Baby drop a new song and accompanying video every week through the end of 2025. His latest contribution, “Middle of Summer,” is now available for fans to stream.
Halle Bailey attends Vogue World: Hollywood 2025 at Paramount Studios on October 26, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Vogue)
The holiday season is upon us, and Halle Bailey is looking forward to “decorating everything, overload,” she says in an interview with E! News.
“I just got Christmas lights all over my house. So, very excited about it,” she said.
Halle told E! News she also likes to bake sugar cookies, noting, “I do a whole thing.”
As for what son Halo Granberry enjoys, Halle says it’s the music, which is why they “wake up in the morning and sing songs.”
Asked whether she thinks he’ll follow in her footsteps, she responded, “Who knows?”
“I would want him to do what he wants to do,” she said. “But he definitely is musically inclined, which is so cool.”
Halle also discussed her hope for her debut solo album, Love?… or Something Like It, which was released during what she says was “a transformative year.”
“I just feel healed and happy and free,” she said. “I just want people to listen to the music, and I’m grateful to be here.”
The album, featuring sister Chlöe, H.E.R., GloRilla and Mariah The Scientist, is now available on streaming services.
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (ABC/Randy Holmes)
The Gibson SG Custom guitar played by Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett during the massive Back to the Beginning concert has sold at auction for $76,800.
The winning bid dramatically exceeded the estimated price of the guitar, which was set between $4,000 and $6,000.
Kirk played the guitar during Metallica’s Back to the Beginning set for a cover of Black Sabbath‘s “Hole in the Sky.” The concert, which took place July 5, ended with a performance from the original Sabbath lineup: Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.
The show was announced as Ozzy’s final live performance ahead of time, and his promise was sadly fulfilled upon his death just over two weeks later on July 22.
Hammett’s guitar was part of Julien’s Auctions’ Played, Worn, & Torn sale, which also included the infamous safe from which the Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson sex tape was stolen. That safe, which was estimated to go for between $5,000 and $7,000, went for $2,560.
Bryan Adams is getting everyone in the holiday spirit.
The rocker just released the new holiday song “California Christmas,” which he co-wrote with his longtime songwriting partner Jim Vallance.
The tune is described as “a sun-soaked holiday anthem that brings a bright West Coast twist to the season.” It is the first taste of Adams’ upcoming holiday album, Bryan Adams & Friends: A Great Big Holiday Jam, and features guest appearances by such Canadian artists as Alessia Cara, Barenaked Ladies, Alan Doyle and The Sheepdogs.
“California Christmas” is available now via digital outlets.
The album also features Adams and friends covering holiday staples like “Little Saint Nick,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Deck the Halls,” “O Christmas Tree” and more.
Bryan Adams & Friends: A Great Big Holiday Jam will be released Dec. 8 to coincide with Adams’ Canadian holiday TV special of the same name, which will air on CityTV.
Adams, who earlier this year released the new album Roll With the Punches, is set to wrap his U.S. tour on Wednesday in Minneapolis. He then heads to the U.K. in December. A complete list of dates can be found at BryanAdams.com.
Lainey Wilson Hosts ‘The 59th Annual CMA Awards’ live from Nashville airing November 19 on ABC; streaming next day on Hulu. (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)
After scoring the entertainer of the year trophy at the Country Music Association Awards, Lainey Wilson is ready to entertain the entire country Thursday at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
On Wednesday she shared footage on her Instagram Story of her parade rehearsals. She sang “Somewhere Over Laredo” while holding an umbrella and wearing a festive red coat with a fur collar. She captioned it, “You can’t rain on this parade!” Unlike most of the other performers, Lainey isn’t riding on a float — she’ll be performing on a stage in front of Macy’s store entrance.
And if you want more Lainey holiday viewing, she appears as an animated version of herself in Disney’s Hulu’s Family Guy’s Hallmark Channel’s Lifetime’s Familiar Holiday Movie, which begins streaming on Hulu Friday. She also sings the theme song, which includes fitting the special’s very long title into the lyrics.
Speaking of “Somewhere Over Laredo,” it just became her ninth top-10 hit on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.
My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way performs at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
My Chemical Romance has announced the openers for the band’s 2026 European tour.
Each show will feature a different supporting act, depending on the night. For example, Joan Jett will be on the bill for MCR’s July 10 performance at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Other openers include Interpol, Sunny Day Real Estate, Echo and the Bunnymen, Mogwai, Idlewild and Skunk Anansie.
MCR’s 2026 tour, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of their 2006 album, The Black Parade, will come to the U.S. starting in August. The openers for the U.S. leg include Franz Ferdinand, Pierce the Veil, Modest Mouse, Iggy Pop, Sleater-Kinney, The Breeders, BABYMETAL, Jimmy Eat World, The Mars Volta, The Used and Thrice.
My Chem will also launch a tour of South America in January with support from The Hives.
Sombr on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Sombr is one of 2025’s biggest breakout alternative artists, but he’s also become a giant pop act — his single “back to friends” reached the top 10 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. Speaking withVanity Fair, sombr shares that he hopes to follow in the footsteps of other musicians he feels has bridged the gap between alternative and pop.
“I feel like Hozier is a great example of being alternative and sustaining it. He still has such a successful business,” sombr says. “The 1975, same thing. Billie Eilish, when I first heard her music, I considered it to be alternative pop, and I relate.”
“I feel like I make alternative music now,” he continues. “I’m a pop star, apparently. That’s kind of how I feel.”
Asked what “alternative” means to him, sombr replies, “Alternative music is just music that is not pop.”
“It’s not made to be a pop song, but it can become a pop song, because it may be a good song that people gravitate toward,” he says. “When I made ‘back to friends,’ that is an indie-rock song.”
Sombr adds that he always felt “alternative” while in school.
“I painted my nails. I wore all black in high school,” sombr says. “I listened to alternative music, so I make alternative music.”
“I feel like some people are just born alternative,” he continues. “I remember being in high school and thinking, Am I going to be emo forever? And I think I am.”
L-R Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander and Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov in ‘Heated Rivalry’ (Sabrina Lantos)
From BookTok to your TV screen: The much-buzzed-about steamy hockey romance seriesHeated Rivalry debuts its first two episodes on HBO Max Friday.
The six-episode series, created by Jacob Tierney and based on the popular novels by Rachel Reid, follows Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, two rival hockey players who start a secret relationship in their rookie season that ends up spanning years. Hudson Williams plays wholesome Canadian superstar Shane, opposite Connor Storrie as Russian bad boy Ilya.
Tierney, Williams and Storrie say seeing the fan excitement grow online before the show has even aired feels “surreal” and “crazy.”
“It just makes me so excited for them to see the show,” Storrie tells ABC Audio. “Because if this is the reaction without, I can’t imagine some of the reactions to what we end up actually doing.”
The faithful adaptation has enough heat to melt the ice, thanks to the chemistry between Williams and Storrie, but the characters’ evolving love story against all odds is what has resonated deeply with fans.
“[The emotional scenes] felt like an extension of the physical ones, especially after establishing our relationship as Connor and Hudson,” Williams says. “It helped just allow us to go anywhere as Shane and Ilya with just sort of innate trust in each other.”
Tierney says the characters are “like high school sweethearts” in a way, who just “can’t shake each other.” “I think there’s something so romantic and swoony about that, that I think that’s partly why they stand out from the pack,” he says.
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump now says extending Affordable Care Act subsidies “may be necessary” as the enrollment deadline looms for millions of Americans who are set to see their premiums skyrocket in the new year.
“Somebody said I want to extend it for two years. I don’t want to extend it for two years. I’d rather not extend them at all,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Tuesday night, pushing back on reports that the White House was going to pitch a plan that would have included a two-year extension of the subsidies.
Trump, though, notably went on to say “some kind of an extension may be necessary to get something else done because the unaffordable care act has been a disaster. It’s a disaster.”
The comments come after a fight over the health care tax credits on Capitol Hill that resulted in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, as Democrats pushed for an extension while Republicans largely balked.
A deal to end the shutdown in the Senate included Majority Leader John Thune promising to allow a vote on a bill of Democrats’ choosing related to the Affordable Care Act in December.
But House Speaker Mike Johnson, who during the funding battle called the subsidies a “boondoggle,” said he wouldn’t commit to a vote on ACA subsidies in the House.
“Am I going to guarantee a vote on ACA unreformed COVID-era subsidies that is just a boondoggle to insurance companies and robs the taxpayer? We got a lot of work to do on that,” Johnson said in mid-November. “We, the Republicans, would demand a lot of reforms before anything like that was ever possible. And we have to go through that deliberative process.”
Some vulnerable Republicans, though, have pushed Johnson to hold a vote on the issue.
A poll from KFF taken right before the federal government shutdown began showed 78% of Americans said they want the ACA marketplace tax credits extended — including 59% of Republicans.
The clock is ticking for a solution for the estimated 22 million ACA enrollees currently receiving a tax credit to lower monthly premiums. December 15 is the deadline for Americans to sign up for or change a plan that begins coverage on Jan. 1. The last day to enroll is marketplace health plans for 2026 is Jan. 15.
Congress is currently out of town for the Thanksgiving recess. Trump is spending the holiday at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, on Monday, said the issue was a “topic of discussion that’s happening very frequently and robustly inside the West Wing” and that Trump was involved in the talks but didn’t reveal any further details.
Trump, on Air Force One on Tuesday, was pressed further on when he will unveil his health care plan and what may be included.
“Don’t give any money to the insurance companies, give it to the people directly. Let ’em go out, buy their own healthcare plan. And we’re looking at that, if, if that can work. We’re looking at that. That’s sort of taken off,” Trump said on Tuesday.
Juelz Santana attends Fat Joe & Friends In Concert at The Apollo Theater on April 02, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)
Juelz Santana doesn’t believe it’s necessary for kids to learn how to read. He contends in a recent episode of the No Funny S*** show that it’s not as important as learning about financial literacy.
“By the time they get to ninth grade they should be learning how to start businesses, but they don’t really need to learn how to read,” he said.
Though he clarified that people are not “supposed to be illiterate,” he doubled down on his argument that reading comes second to learning math, as there are ways to survive without knowing how to read.
“You could listen to a book on YouTube. You can still obtain the information. You don’t have to know how to read. … I believe common sense is better than everything,” Juelz said, noting he recently listened to Robert Greene‘s The 48 Laws of Power.
He even pushed back on host Kenny “KP” Supreme, who argued that reading is essential to reviewing and understanding contracts.
“Reading is just when people want to embarrass you and try to play you … or, ‘You can’t read your contract.’ Anybody who said you can’t read your contract, they didn’t read their contract,” Juelz said. “They had a lawyer read their contract. They just saying it to be funny.”
The full episode is now available to watch on YouTube.
