Madeline DeMarcus, Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts, Allison DeMarcus & Dylan DeMarcus (Omar Vega/WireImage)
While some country stars prefer to keep their awards away from their family life, others take inspiration from seeing their accolades on display in everyday life.
For Rascal Flatts‘ Jay DeMarcus, his trophies are front and center, though that has a lot to do with the decorating choices of his wife, Allison DeMarcus.
“When we bought the house that we’re in right now, we have a big fireplace in our living room in the center of the room,” Jay says. “It’s a stone fireplace, which is really cool.”
“And on either side of it are these glass shelves that are lighted that my wife was so sweet to put all of my awards on either side of this fireplace,” he continues. “So, they’re in our living room there.”
Jay has quite a collection: Rascal Flatts won their first CMA trophy for new artist in 2002 and went on to win vocal group of the year six consecutive times, from 2003 to 2008.
They’re nominated once again this year at the 59th CMA Awards, which air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Meghan Trainor‘s new single “Still Don’t Care” is her remedy for online hate, and now she wants her fans to believe it as much as she does.
Speaking to People, Meghan explained that she wrote the song after her socials were flooded with negative comments. “My page is usually a friendly, happy, mom-loving place, but it took a dark turn,” she says. “People started commenting about my body, saying I’m too thin, and that they don’t recognize me anymore. And I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve just been focusing so hard on my health and my fitness that I’ve never felt better.'”
“So, I was confused and sad and was like, ‘Oh, it’s almost worse now.’ I don’t know what happened,” says Meghan, who admits she would cry over the cruel comments.
However, she eventually learned in therapy to stop giving “strangers” so much “power” over her. In the song, she sings, “Oh, let me take a moment, think it over/ Does it touch me at all?/ Nope, I still don’t care.”
“I’m rewiring my brain to finally believe this. And I know when I sing it a hundred times, I will,” Meghan says of her upcoming tour. “So, I recommend playing the song every morning and learning every word and screaming it as loud as you can until you start believing it, because that’s what it takes. It takes a lot of work.”
“I believe in it so much and I love it so much,” Trainor says of the song. “I think it’s so important, especially now more than ever, the world’s a very dark, hateful place. If this is a little bit of light in the world, that’d be sick.”
“Still Don’t Care” is from Meghan’s upcoming album Toy With Me, due out April 24.
Sting performs at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England, October 2025 (Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)
Sting‘s musical The Last Ship closed on Broadway in January of 2015, but now it’s sailing back to New York City — just a little further uptown.
A reworked version of the Tony-nominated musical, inspired by Sting’s own childhood in Wallsend, a shipbuilding town in the north of England, will play at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House for nine performances. The musical, running from June 9 to 14, 2026, features a new book and new and revised songs by Sting.
The former Police frontman will star in the production as shipyard foreman Jackie White, while his frequent musical collaborator Shaggy will also appear, playing the role of the ferryman.
Previewing the new production for reporters at the Met on Wednesday, Sting explained that as a kid, he watched “thousands of men” go to work in the shipyard each morning.
“It was dark. It was dangerous. It was noisy and I would think, as I kid, ‘Is this what I’m supposed to do when I grow up?'” he recalled. “So I did everything in my power to escape that destiny.”
But after he found success, Sting said, “I realized I had a debt to pay. And the debt was to my community, the community that made me who I am. And the debt would be paid in the form of a story: to tell a story about my community.”
On Wednesday, Sting performed several songs from the musical on the Met stage, accompanied by just guitar and piano. He will release an expanded edition of his 2013 album The Last Ship on Dec. 5. It includes five brand-new, never-released recordings.
Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes shows his emotions as he looks at the flower memorial in front of The Bataclan concert hall on December 8, 2015 in Paris, France. (Pierre Suu/Getty Images)
Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the attack on the Bataclan venue in Paris during an Eagles of Death Metal concert.
On Nov. 13, 2015, terrorists stormed the venue in the middle of EODM’s set as part of a wider attack on the French capital that killed 130 people, 90 of whom were at the Bataclan.
The EODM members playing the show — frontman Jesse Hughes, guitarist Eden Galindo, drummer Julian Dorio and bassist Matt McJunkins — escaped, though the band’s merch manager, Nick Alexander, was among those killed. Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, who cofounded EODM with Hughes, was not playing the show.
The impact of the Bataclan attack reverberated throughout the music world: U2, who was set to perform in Paris for a live HBO concert broadcast the following day, canceled the special. Deftones, who were scheduled to play the Bataclan the next three nights and had members in attendance at the EODM concert, canceled their remaining European tour dates, as did Foo Fighters.
U2 would return to perform in Paris in December 2015, and invited EODM onstage during the second of two concerts in the city. The music world also rallied around the band by contributing covers of their song “I Love You All the Time.”
A documentary exploring the aftermath of the attacks and the friendship between Hughes and Homme, Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (OurFriends), premiered in 2017.
“What happened 10 years ago was perhaps the worst thing that ever happened in my life,” Hughes says in a new statement toRolling Stone. “I lost faith in almost everything, I lost my confidence, I lost my sanity. Through the help of U2, our fans, and most importantly the strength of the people of France, I have slowly rebuilt my reality.”
Eddie Murphy reflects on his 50-year career in his new documentary, Being Eddie, but that originally wasn’t his intention. Speaking to Extra, he reveals he had just wanted to document his return to standup.
“I was going to do standup again. … And it was like, ‘Okay, let’s document it. Let’s do a documentary and show the whole process of getting the act together,’” he says. “And so we started doing that and then the pandemic hit.”
“After the pandemic was over, I was like, ‘Oh, I’m not going out there and telling no jokes. You can catch COVID. … But we had all of this footage,” he continues. “And it was like let’s just keep it going.”
The timing, Eddie adds, “worked out perfect because this is about to be my 50th year in show business.”
Being Eddie finds Eddie opening up for the first time about his journey, which includes “the only thing that might have been traumatic” for him in his life: the death of his brother Charlie Murphy. The documentary also features appearances from Arsenio Hall, Jamie Foxx, Tracee Ellis Ross, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle, who discuss Eddie’s impact and influence in Hollywood.
“To know that you had some impact on the people that came after you that they look at you a certain way … that’s always a good feeling,” Eddie says, noting he’s open to returning to the stage as a standup comedian.
“If it ever struck me that I could have some fun doing it, I’d get up there and do it again,” he said. “But it has to be fun for me. … If I’m having fun, it’s going to work and it’s going to be funny.”
Cover art for Cheap Trick’s ‘All Washed Up’/ (BMG)
Cheap Trick will release their 21st studio album, All Washed Up, on Friday, and bassist Tom Petersson says their approach to making records today is the same as it was when they first started out over 50 years ago.
“We just are making songs that we like, would like to hear ourselves,” he tells ABC Audio. “So it’s like we’re making it for ourselves and our friends, and then the rest, it’s like having a lottery ticket.”
Songs on the album range from fast rockers like “The Riff That Won’t Quit” to ballads like “The Best Thing,” but Petersson says they don’t go into the studio with a plan to have specific types of songs on an album.
“If one person doesn’t like it we won’t do it,” he says of the songs they record, noting they won’t include a ballad on a record just because someone tells them to.
“If somebody writes a ballad, then we go, ‘Hey, that is a good one. OK, let’s do that,’” he explains. “Now we just basically do it for our own enjoyment because that’s probably all anybody’s gonna get out of it is their own enjoyment.”
“We want to do something we’re not embarrassed to play for people,” he says, explaining that they wouldn’t want to record something they don’t like even if it could sell 10 million copies.
He adds, “We just want to do what we think sounds good.”
All Washed Up is Cheap Trick’s first album since 2021’s In Another World. It will be released digitally, on CD and on black vinyl. There will also be an orange marble variant, limited to 1,000 copies, sold through the band’s website.
Justice Smith as Charlie, Ariana Greenblatt as June, Dominic Sessa as Bosco, Jesse Eisenberg as Daniel Atlas, Isla Fisher as Henley Reeves, and Dave Franco as Jack Wilder in ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t.’ (Katalin Vermes for Lionsgate)
For its next trick, Now You See Me becomes a three-film franchise.
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, in theaters Friday, continues the magician-themed heist series following the original 2013 movie and its 2016 sequel. The threequel reunites Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher as the Four Horsemen, a troupe of Robin Hood-esque illusionists who use their powers of deception to rob from the rich and powerful for the benefit of the common people.
As Franco tells ABC Audio, he had no idea Now You See Me would become a trilogy back when he was filming the first one.
“The concept of magicians pulling off bank heists, it’s a very fun idea, but in the wrong hands, that could be a disaster,” Franco says. “But I think when that first movie came together the way it did, we were all like, ‘Oh my God, that’s like a miracle magic trick in and of itself.’ And now we’re just trying to harness it, and we just have so much fun making these films.”
Eisenberg thinks that the films have connected with audiences because they make viewers “feel clever.”
“You’re in on the puzzle, and it’s just a great feeling to have,” Eisenberg says. “I have to say, I’ve been in a lot of movies, and these movies, Now You See Me, are the ones I’m stopped for on the street more than anything else.”
Along with the original Horsemen, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t brings three new up-and-coming magicians to the fold, played by Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Ariana Greenblatt.
“Huge fan of the first two movies,” Greenblatt says. “I wanted to be in the group, I wanted to be friends with all of them, I wanted to know magic.”
Gigi Perez on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Gigi Perez has been named Vevo’s 2025 DSCVR Artist of the Year.
The DSCVR series is an annual “hand-picked, highly curated selection of global artists who Vevo has tipped to break through to the mainstream.”
“Gigi Perez is the definition of what it means to be an artist on the rise,” says Vevo executive JP Evangelista. “With a sound that is bold yet vulnerable, storytelling that’s deeply authentic, and a stage presence that is simply unmatched, she perfectly embodies the next generation of artists that Vevo always loves to champion.”
Perez’s 2025 has included releasing and touring in support of her debut album, At The Beach, in Every Life, which includes her breakout single, “Sailor Song.” She also played shows opening for Hozier.
In celebration of her DSCVR Artist of the Year title, Perez has released a new acoustic performance video for her song “Fable.”
Vevo, meanwhile, has also announced its list of 2026 DSCVR Artists to Watch, which includes Royel Otis.
‘The Surface Seems So Far’ album artwork. (Fantasy Records)
Seether has premiered the video for “Lost All Control,” the current single off the band’s latest album, The Surface Seems So Far.
The clip follows a mysterious figure as they walk through a desert while picking up and trying on different masks. You can watch it on YouTube.
The Surface Seems So Far was released in 2024. It also includes the lead single “Judas Mind,” which hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
Seether is currently on a U.S. co-headlining tour with Daughtry, which concludes Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
