Peabo Bryson performs onstage during the Thurgood Marshall College Fund 28th Annual Awards Gala at Washington Hilton on November 21, 2016, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images for Thurgood Marshall College Fund)
Peabo Bryson’s family has announced arrangements for his Celebration of Life.
Peabo, known for his hit songs and duets, including “Beauty and the Beast,” died June 2 surrounded by family and friends.
His family will hold a private ceremony on Father’s Day to honor and reflect on his life, followed by a private homegoing service on Monday at 10 a.m. ET, according to an official statement.
The service will feature musical performances by Regina Belle, BeBe Winans and Ruben Studdard in tribute to the late star. Attendance is invitation only; however, fans may watch the service via livestream.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Mr. Robert “Peabo” Bryson Student Scholarship Endowment Fund at Morris Brown College or Antioch Urban Ministries, Inc.
Cole Swindell’s “Girl Dad” (Warner Records Nashville)
Cole Swindell’s “Girl Dad” is out now, continuing the story he started with 2015’s “You Should Be Here.”
While his #1 dealt with losing his dad in 2013, the new song carries the story forward, imagining what he’d say to his father after getting married in 2024 and welcoming his daughter in 2025.
“I’ve spent a lot of my life chasing dreams, milestones, and moments I thought would define me,” Cole wrote on social media. “Then I became a father. Getting to share these real life moments with you through my music truly means the world to me and my family. I appreciate so many of you already sharing what this song means to you from the clips you’ve heard.”
The “Girl Dad” music video dropped simultaneously, picking up where the “You Should Be Here” clip left off. Cole gave his fan club, The Down Home Crew, an exclusive preview during CMA Fest.
Taylor Swift, ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ from ‘Toy Story 5’ (Walt Disney Records)
Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo have taken over the music charts across the pond.
Olivia’s new album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love,has topped the U.K.’s album chart with first-week sales of just under 103,000 units. That’s a lot more than either one of her previous albums sold in its first week: SOUR moved 51,000 units, while GUTS did 60,000. In fact, Olivia now has the biggest first-week sales for any album by a non-British artist in the U.K. so far this year.
Plus, at age 23, she’s the youngest international artist to sell over 100,000 albums in an opening week since Britney Spears did it in 2024 with Greatest Hits: My Prerogative.
Olivia says in a statement to Official Charts, “Thank you so much for this Number 1 album award! It means so much to me. I wrote so many of these songs in the U.K., so it makes it extra special. Thank you all for listening, I appreciate it so much.”
Meanwhile, Taylor’s new Toy Story 5 song “I Knew It, I Knew You” is #1 for a second week on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart. It sold 71,000 units in the past week, giving it the biggest sales week for any single so far this year. The previous record was held by Harry Styles, whose song “Aperture” sold 70,000 units in its first week.
But Olivia is right behind Taylor; three songs from her new album sit at #2, #3 and #5 on the Singles Chart: “stupid song,” “the cure” and “drop dead,” respectively.
The Band’s ‘Music From Big Pink’ (UMe/Capitol Records)
The Band’s debut album, Music From Big Pink, has gotten an audio upgrade.
The album, which features the band’s iconic Robbie Robertson-penned tune “The Weight,” has just been reissued as part of UMe’s Vinylphyle audiophile series.
The release, cut from the original 1968 album master, has been pressed on 180-gram black vinyl and includes new liner notes by music writer Rick Florino.
The pressing, limited to just 3,000 copies, is available now.
Music From Big Pink, originally released July 1, 1968, was recorded following The Band’s stint backing Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour, when they were known as the Hawks. The album’s title references the pink house in West Saugerties, New York, where Band members Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson lived, and the group worked on the record. The cover artwork is a painting by Dylan.
Luca Guadagnino attends the Dior Homme Menswear Fall/Winter 2026-2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 21, 2026, in Paris, France. (Peter White/Getty Images)
Artificial, the upcoming film by director Luca Guadagnino, will no longer be released by Amazon MGM Studios.
The studio confirmed the news to ABC Audio on Friday.
“We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker – not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement. “We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.”
Artificial is described as a comedic drama about the world of artificial intelligence. It explores Sam Altman’s OpenAI during a period in 2023 when Altman was fired and rehired in a matter of days. It is directed by Guadagnino from a script by Saturday Night Live alum Simon Rich.
The film’s cast includes Mark Rylance, Andrew Garfield, Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Billie Lourd, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Cooper Hoffman and Ike Barinholtz.
It would have reunited Guadagnino and Amazon MGM Studios after he directed the 2024 film Challengers for the studio, as well as 2025’s After the Hunt.
Mgk on ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2021.’ (ABC/Jeff Neira)
Mgk has announced a livestream for his upcoming show in Indianapolis on Saturday.
You can tune in to watch Saturday at 9 p.m. ET via mgk’s YouTube and Twitch channels, as well as the streaming platform Veeps.
“Streaming live in concert Saturday night for anybody who couldn’t see the tour in person,” mgk writes in an Instagram post.
He adds that the stream is also “for my Detroiters that only saw half a show,” referencing his recent performance in the Detroit area that was cut short due to weather.
Mgk is currently touring the U.S. in support of his latest album, 2025’s lost americana.
Katy Perry attends the 2026 Tribeca Festival premiere of ‘Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour’ on June 8, 2026 in New York City. (Manny Carabel/WireImage)
Katy Perry has created an entirely new show, complete with new props, for her festival run this summer, which she’s dubbed the Out of Office Tour.
During her performance of “I Kissed a Girl” in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Thursday — her first show of the tour — Katy climbed into a giant water bottle labeled “Katyade” and went crowd-surfing, to the delight of fans. She also gave her new single “Watch It Burn” its live debut, ahead of its release on June 25.
While singing “Never Really Over,” she stood next to an enormous iPhone and didn’t answer calls from, among others, the initials “JM,” “RB” and “OB.” Those seemingly stood for her ex-boyfriend John Mayer, her ex-husband Russell Brand and her ex-fiancé Orlando Bloom.
But when the caller displayed as “JPJT” — which stands for Justin Pierre James Trudeau, Katy’s boyfriend, who she calls “the love of my life” — she hit “accept.”
According to MundoAmerica.com, another part of the show featured Katy getting a fake phone call from her daughter during the song “All the Love.”
Katy’s costumes included a long white shirt sporting the words “I am not a robot” with a sequined American flag tie and Canadian flag cufflinks, and a two-piece top and skirt that was a near-replica of an outfit she wore in 2009.
Her setlist was also different from her 2025 Lifetimes Tour, which is coming to screens this summer as a live concert film. In addition to all her biggest hits — from “Roar” and “Firework” to “Teenage Dream” — the new setlist included “Harleys in Hawaii,” “Thinking of You,” “Never Really Over” and a cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song “Heads Will Roll.”
Brothers Osborne’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream” (Big Machine)
Brothers Osborne are covering Tom Petty’s 1989 classic “Runnin’ Down a Dream” for the soundtrack of Bobby Rahal: True American Racer.
Riley Green, Rascal Flatts, Greylan James, Danielle Bradbery, Mackenzie Carpenter, The Jack Wharff Band and others also contribute tracks to the Bobby Rahal: True American Racer (Inspired By) Soundtrack, which drops Aug. 21.
Billy Bob Thornton and Mark Collie offer the original “True American Racer (500 miles)” featuring Slash, from their newly formed duo The Backbeat Troubadours.
Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta is one of the directors of the film, which focuses on Rahal’s relationship with team owner Jim Trueman and their fight to win the Indianapolis 500 as Trueman battled terminal cancer.
You can watch Bobby Rahal: True American Racer on Tubi now.
In this photo illustration, collectible Pokémon cards are viewed in a store on January 23, 2026 in Pasadena, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
(STOCKTON, Calif.) — Two Northern California stores were burglarized and had thousands of dollars worth of Pokémon trading cards stolen within hours of each other this week, according to police and the stores’ owners.
Investigators in Stockton are looking for clues and suspects in the Wednesday burglaries, which have become the latest incidents in a string of Pokémon card thefts across the country.
Police do not immediately know if the two burglaries are connected.
The first incident took place at Dragon’s Den Games around 1:55 a.m. local time when a hooded suspect broke a glass display case and made off with the cards in under a minute, according to police and surveillance footage.
Tom Douglas, the store’s owner, told ABC affiliate KXTV that the thief was only looking for one thing in his store.
“They’re looking for Pokémon [cards],” Douglas said. “They’re not interested in board games.”
Around 3:30 a.m. a suspect, who was also wearing a similar black hood, broke into JNA Collectibles on Fremont Street, roughly three-and-a-half miles away from Dragon’s Den Games, according to police and surveillance footage.
JNA Collectible’s owner, Joshua Lawson, told KXTV that the suspect used a crowbar to break through the front door, smash a glass display case with the Pokémon cards and flee the scene with the cards in just a minute.
“In one minute, I lost thousands of dollars,” he said.
Lawson noted Pokémon cards can range in value from about a dollar to tens of thousands of dollars for some graded cards. There have been similar thefts in California, New Jersey and other states.
“This is a problem for every single store in this area,” Lawson said.
Douglas told the affiliate that the ongoing thefts are one of the reasons he’s decided to close Dragon’s Den Games at the end of the month after nearly a decade of business.
He said the store has been burglarized four times since January.
“This is brand new this year,” Douglas said. “It kind of feels like it came out of nowhere.”
Tay Keith attends the 2024 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on September 05, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Grammy-nominated producer Tay Keith has died, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.
Police said officers found him dead Thursday in his Nashville apartment on Martin Street while conducting a welfare check. Authorities are awaiting autopsy results, but said no foul play is suspected. He was 29.
Born Brytavious Lakeith Chambers, Tay Keith was raised in South Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Science degree and went on to build an extensive production catalog.
Among his most popular productions are BlocBoy JB’s “Look Alive” featuring Drake, Drake’s “Nonstop” and “Pound Town 2” with Sexyy Red featuring Nicki Minaj. He co-produced Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” — which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a 2019 Grammy nomination for best rap song. He earned his second best rap song Grammy nomination in 2024, for 21 Savage and Drake’s “Rich Flex.”
Keith also produced Beyoncé’s “Before I Let Go,” a bonus track off her Homecoming: The Live album, which has become a staple at summer barbecues, weddings and family reunions.
