Thomas Rhett & Niall Horan perform on stage on day one of the C2C Country To Country 2023 Festival at The O2 Arena on March 10, 2023 in London. (Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
Thomas Rhett kicked off his 2026 concerts supporting Morgan Wallen on his Still the Problem Tour April 10 in Minneapolis.
TR has a couple more stadium dates with Morgan in May, but in July, he sets his Soundtrack to Life trek in motion with a stadium show of his own, this time at Nashville’s Geodis Park.
“I can only imagine how awesome it’s gonna be to play a concert here,” he told reporters during a news conference at the venue. “We get to kick off our tour here, which is awesome. Hometown shows are always amazing and full of pressure because every cousin that you’ve ever known — or did not know — shows up and is in [the] meet and greet.”
He’s not a cousin, but a longtime pal — this one of One Direction fame — will join him to co-headline the night.
“My buddy Niall Horan, who I’ve been buddies with for a decade now — I think a lot of people thought, ‘That’s so interesting. Why would they tour together?'” TR said. “We’ve been friends for a while and been talking about touring together for a minute.”
“And so to be able to kick our tour off here in Nashville, getting to co-headline this spot is gonna be just such a blast,” he continues. “So I’d encourage anybody who wants to come to a show, come on out July 9. It’s gonna be a blast. “
TR and Niall previously collaborated on “Old Tricks” for TR’s About a Woman (Deluxe) album.
They’re also set to play July 18 at Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark Stadium, with Kashus Culpepper and Emily Ann Roberts opening both nights.
Ne-Yo at 59th Annual CMA Awards (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)
Ne-Yo has been exploring his music as a country artist, an experience he says has been much better than he expected. He tells Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast that he was prepared to enter a world that might not be very welcoming.
“It came with all these warnings and all this fear that people were trying to put on me. ‘They’re not real accepting of anything outside of what they do over there, in Nashville. It’s cliquey, and if you don’t know this person or haven’t done this, they’re not gonna,’” he says. “I hate to admit it, but I came out here kind of expecting something like that.”
Instead, he says, “My experience has been the exact opposite. Every single person I’ve worked with has embraced what I’m trying to do with open arms. Everybody’s interested and intrigued about how I’m going to take what I do and what country music is and fuse them together.”
“I’ve yet to meet the drunk racist guy. He hasn’t showed up yet,” Ne-Yo says. “I’m waiting to meet whoever the hell it is that’s going to be the bane of my Nashville existence. This person has not reared their head yet.”
His country singles “Simple Things” and “Up Out & Gone” are now available on DSPs.
Jonny Scott and Martin Doherty of CHVRCHES perform at Stadio San Siro, on June 25, 2023 in Milan, Italy. (Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images)
The CHVRCHES side project The Leaving, featuring founding member Martin Doherty and longtime live drummer Jonny Scott, has announced their debut live concert.
The show will take place June 6 in Los Angeles. Visit TheLeaving.fm for ticket info.
The Leaving launched in 2025 with the single “Saved.” The band’s debut album, Ultimate Buzz, is due out Friday.
CHVRCHES, meanwhile, have been in the studio working on new music to follow their most recent album, 2021’s Screen Violence. Frontwoman Lauren Mayberry also put out her debut solo record, Vicious Creature, in 2024.
Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge performs on the Palomino Stage during day 2 of Stagecoach Festival on April 26, 2025 in Indio, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for Stagecoach)
Alter Bridge will launch a U.S. tour Saturday in Orlando, Florida. The band will be supporting their new, self-titled album, which means Myles Kennedy and company now have 12 more songs they could possibly add to the set list.
“You have songs as a fan you’re gonna wanna hear, we can’t not play ‘Blackbird,'” Kennedy tells ABC Audio. “But when you have now eight records, it’s a delicate dance. How do you incorporate all those tracks with some new tracks?”
For this tour, Kennedy says Alter Bridge will likely be leaning on the very new and the very old.
“What we’re gonna do is we’re gonna play obviously some of the newer stuff,” Kennedy says. “We’re also gonna go back and do some real old stuff that we haven’t done in a long time, kinda pepper those in the set.”
Kennedy also hopes the shows will feature some new visual elements reflective of the Alter Bridge album.
“You’re always just trying to make it interesting,” Kennedy says. “Especially [because] we have such an incredible, die-hard fanbase.”
The album Alter Bridge is out now. It includes the single “Silent Divide.”
Openers for Alter Bridge’s tour include Filter, Sevendust and Tim Montana, depending on the date.
Musician Robbie Robertson receives the Lifetime Achievement Honor at the 2019 Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards during Canadian Music Week 2019 at Rebel Entertainment Complex on May 9, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Isaiah Trickey/FilmMagic)
New on Netflix in April is Sitting Bull, a two-part History Channel documentary about the legendary leader of the Lakota people. But rock fans may not be aware that its main title theme is one of the last things Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Robbie Robertson worked on before his 2023 death.
The theme was created by Robbie and his son, Sebastian Robertson, drawing from their Native American heritage. Earlier this year, it won both of them a CLIO Award.
“The idea was, I was going make the piece of music, get it into a pretty good place and share it with my dad, and then we were gonna build it together,” Sebastian told ABC Audio.
“He was really happy with the first demo I did … and that’s, like, an impossible thing to have happen with my dad. He’s very picky and very detail-oriented.”
Sebastian and Robbie then joined forces. “We sat down in his studio with it. We batted back and forth some guitar ideas,” he explains. He also incorporated a melody that Robbie began humming.
“I made it into something that I thought worked for the theme. And I said, ‘I think we should send this in’ … and they loved it,” he said.
Robbie passed away during the production of documentary, and while Sebastian finished the theme for broadcast, he said he continued to feel his dad’s presence.
“My dad was still there working with me,” he recalled. “And we were just kind of working on a mystic level at that point. And by the end of it, you know, I felt incredibly proud of the music.”
“It probably will always be the most memorable and important thing that I do,” he added. “Because it will be the last thing that I ever did with my dad.”
Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian with Grogu in ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.’ (Lucasfilm)
The force will be with Star Wars fans this May 4.
Lucasfilm is set to host special-look fan events for its upcoming film Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. All of the special events will take place on May the 4th, also known as Star Wars Day, at select IMAX theaters around the world.
The events will feature over 25 minutes of exclusive footage from the upcoming movie, fan giveaways and other surprises. One of the giveaways will be a brand-new, exclusive poster created just for this event.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is based on the Disney+ TV series The Mandalorian starring Pedro Pascal. Jon Favreau directed the movie, which stars Pascal alongside Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Allen White.
“The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin (Pascal) and his young apprentice Grogu,” according to the film’s official description.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu opens in theaters on May 22.
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Eagles will be reissuing their 1975 album, One of These Nights, on May 1, and they’ve just shared another bonus track from the release.
One of These Nights (Deluxe Edition) includes a previously unreleased concert, recorded Sept. 28, 1975, at Anaheim Stadium in California. They’re previewing the concert with the digital release of a live performance of the On the Border track “Best of My Love.”
The concert features Eagles members Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner, Bernie Leadon and Don Felder performing tracks from One of These Nights, as well as other hits. The show, Leadon’s final performance with the band, features his eventual replacement, Joe Walsh, joining them for the encore to perform his track “Rocky Mountain Way.”
One of These Nights (Deluxe Edition) will be released as a three-CD/Blu-ray set, featuring a new mix of the album and the 1975 concert. The Blu-ray features Dolby Atmos and high-res stereo mixes of both the album and concert. It will also be available digitally and as a three-LP set featuring the new album mix and the concert. All formats are available for preorder now.
The deluxe reissue is coming out just one day before the Eagles headline New Orleans Jazz Fest on May 2. They also have May shows in Atlanta; Nashville; Arlington, Texas; and Hollywood, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at Eagles.com.
In honor of Earth Day Wednesday, Billie Eilish closed down her online store and wrote that she was “encouraging fans and shoppers to donate time or resources to organizations of their choice to help make life on this planet safe, healthy and just.” She also listed several of those organizations, including her mom’s Support + Feed, which works to deliver plant-based meals and pantry items across the country. Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter named Billie one of the 25 “Greenest Hollywood Celebrities,” thanks to her efforts to tour without single-use plastics and with biofuel-powered trucks. She also encourages her fashion collaborators to use animal-free materials.
EJAE from the KPop Demon Hunters’ group HUNTR/X is featured in People magazine’s new “Most Beautiful” issue. In it, the “Golden” singer says, “I was so obsessed with makeup growing up. I wanted to hide behind makeup because I wanted to look a certain way. Korea is all about trends.” She adds, “Now I’m more accepting of my bare face. I feel the most beautiful after I take a shower, and I put skin care on.”
In case you missed RAYE on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, you can watch her two performances on YouTube. She performed “Click Clack Symphony.” from her album This Music May Contain Hope. As a bonus, she sang another song from the album, “Joy.,” and was joined by her sisters Amma and Absolutely, both of whom are opening for her on tour.
Netflix has revealed a few details of its upcoming documentary on Kylie Minogue. The three-part doc, KYLIE, will look at the Australian pop icon’s 50-year career via home movie footage, personal photos and new interviews with Kylie. So far, there’s no debut date for the project.
U.S. President Donald Trump walks to Air Force One on April 11, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. President Trump is traveling to Florida. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed the Iranian regime was “seriously fractured” as part of his pretext for indefinitely extending the ceasefire with Iran a day before the previous one was set to expire.
“Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal,” Trump wrote in a social media post Tuesday afternoon in which he announced he was prolonging the current ceasefire for an indeterminate period of time.
Before that, however, Trump repeatedly telegraphed as recently that the U.S. was negotiating with “rational” and “reasonable” individuals in Tehran’s government after U.S. and Israeli strikes killed several of Iran’s senior leaders.
In the preceding days and weeks, the president praised what he portrayed as a new Iranian regime as a better negotiating partner than that which existed prior to the war.
Even in the hours before his post on Tuesday, Trump said in an interview with CNBC that the leaders now in charge of Iran were “much more rational.”
“It is regime change, no matter what you want to call it, which is not something I said I was going to do, but I’ve done it,” Trump said.
It’s a sentiment that the president has repeatedly conveyed.
“Now it’s a new regime, OK, and we find them pretty reasonable, to be honest with you, by comparison pretty reasonable. It really is a new regime, and I think we’re doing very well,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News on April 15. “We have had regime change, because the people we dealt with yesterday were, frankly, very smart, very sharp, very good, very good.”
He followed up those remarks the next day, telling reporters as he departed the White House that Iran has “a new set of leaders, and we find them very reasonable.”
In a phone call on April 17 with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl, Trump said he believed he could trust the Iranians and that this will all be resolved “very soon.”
On April 7 as Trump’s deadline for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz approached, he threatened “A whole civilization will die tonight,” but said “now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS.” Hours later, he extended the deadline for another two weeks.
But since then, tensions have continued in the Strait of Hormuz and an effort to restart peace talks in Islamabad this week fell apart.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Wednesday that Tehran would return to the negotiating table when “necessary and logical grounds” are met, according to Iranian state television.
“Diplomacy is a tool for securing national interests and security, and whenever we reach the conclusion that the necessary and logical grounds for using this tool to realize national interests and consolidate the achievements of the Iranian nation in thwarting the enemies from achieving their sinister goals, we will take action,” Baghaei said.
Asked Wednesday by the New York Post in a text message if talks with Iran could resume by Friday as its sources were telling it, Trump replied, “It’s possible! President DJT.”
At the same time, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who Trump had said was “much more reasonable” than the previous regime, said a ceasefire is only “if it is not violated by the maritime blockade and the hostage-taking of the world’s economy, and if the Zionist warmongering across all fronts is halted.”
Ghalibaf said opening the Strait of Hormuz is “impossible with such a flagrant breach of the ceasefire.”
“They did not achieve their goals through military aggression, nor will they through bullying. The only way forward is to recognize the rights of the Iranian nation.”
ABC News’ Desiree Adib contributed to this report.
Neil Young during day four of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2025 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Neil Young has given fans an update on his next album and has revealed it will include three songs he wrote in the ’60s.
In the latest post to his Neil Young Archives website, Young writes that the new album is “quite a special album to me.” He adds, “Music is a gift and when it comes like this I really feel it. Everything here feels so good. I hope you will agree.”
He goes on to say that the album includes five news songs that he recorded with his band The Chrome Hearts, noting they recorded four on day one in the studio, and the fifth on day two.
“We were then out of songs. We needed more,” he writes. “The next morning I had a song going through my head and was playing it. I checked it out in the archives and found it was from 1963, unreleased.”
“There were three more. I found the three others with it … also unreleased!” he continues. “Three 60 year old songs and five brand new ones!”
Young says the album is now “ready to go,” adding, “I cannot wait for you to hear it and I hope it gives you what it gives me.” He says the album is “coming soon.”
But before we get the new album, Young says he’ll be releasing As Time Explodes, a live album he recorded with The Chrome Heart on their 2025 U.S. and European tour. He says the album is “ready to go,” although he doesn’t reveal any details about a possible release date.
Young released his first album with The Chrome Hearts, Talkin to the Trees, in June 2025.
