The Struts’ Luke Spiller on ‘Good Morning America.’ (ABC/Paula Lobo)
The Struts frontman Luke Spiller has released a new solo single called “When I Die Will I Miss Living.”
The track follows Spiller’s debut solo album, Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes And Wine, which was released in 2025.
You can watch the video for “When I Die Will I Miss Living” on YouTube. According to Spiller’s Instagram Story, the song will be featured in Wednesday night’s episode of the NBC series Chicago Med.
The Struts, meanwhile, have been in the studio working on their next record. Their most recent album is 2023’s Pretty Vicious.
Jay Messina, Jack Douglas and Steven Tyler listen to playback of tracks for Aerosmith’s “Draw The Line” Lp, while recording at The Cenacle in Armonk NY, May 15, 1977.(Ron Pownall/Getty Images)
Aerosmith has paid tribute to producer Jack Douglas, who produced four of their multi-Platinum albums.
Douglas died Monday at the age of 80. The band took to Instagram Wednesday to remember the producer, noting he “changed our lives.”
“We are mourning the loss of Jack Douglas, the legendary producer whose talent and passion shaped our sound and changed our lives,” the band wrote. “Jack was a brilliant artist and collaborator who inspired us in profound ways and left an indelible mark on the entire music industry.”
“We celebrate his life and epic career and feel so privileged to have known him and to benefit from his remarkable skill and friendship,” they added. “We are heartbroken for his family, but find comfort in knowing how much he loved his life and work. We are so proud and grateful to be part of his legacy.”
Douglas worked as producer and engineer on four Aerosmith albums in the 1970s: 1974’s Get Your Wings, 1975’s Toys in the Attic, 1976’s Rocks and 1977’s Draw the Line. He also produced 1982’s Rock in a Hard Place and 2012’s Music From Another Dimension!, which was the band’s final album. Douglas also helped write songs with the band and produced several of guitarist Joe Perry’s solo albums.
Ice Cube threw out the ceremonial pitch during Tuesday night’s game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. The moment doubled as a reunion with his Friday co-star Mike Epps, who served as catcher for the pitch. The game also featured a giveaway of 40,000 bobbleheads of Ice Cube riding in his signature blue lowrider. An Ice Cube x Dodgers T-shirt featuring the bobblehead design can be purchased on the MLB Shop.
Don Toliver is keeping his Octane world alive with the release of the official music video for “E85.” Directed by Shadrinsky, the video blends police body-camera footage with clips of Don dangling from a helicopter and being rescued by girlfriend Kali Uchis. The video is available to watch on YouTube.
Skilla Baby has released a new song titled “GYSM,” short for “Get You Some Money.” Described in a press release as a “love song to stacking cash,” the track samples Jesse Powell’s 1996 cut “You.” In the accompanying video, Skilla Baby wakes up to his alarm before taking on a variety of jobs, including janitor and construction worker.
Taylor Swift is a regular social butterfly these days. After traveling to London for dinner, a show and a birthday party, then to Greece for a wedding, then to New York for a family dinner, she was out again in the Big Apple on Tuesday night. This time, the occasion was the 40th birthday party of her friend Lena Dunham, held at Via Carota in the West Village, as per E!. Also attending were Andrew Rannells and Emily Ratajkowski.
It’s like the ’80s all over again: Both Madonna and Michael Jackson are back on the Billboard Hot 100. Madonna’s there courtesy of her new duet with Sabrina Carpenter, “Bring Your Love,” while four of Michael’s classics are back on the chart thanks to the biopic Michael. According to Billboard, the last time MJ and Madge were on the charts simultaneously was 22 years ago. Madonna was at #83 with her Britney Spears duet “Me Against the Music,” while MJ was at #100 with “One More Chance.”
If you can’t swing a trip to France this fall to see Céline Dion’s Paris residency, maybe you can make it to Canada to see her dress. Starting Friday, the McCord Stewart Museum, located in Céline’s hometown of Montreal, will be exhibiting the dress she wore to sing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Called Céline in Dior: A Dazzling Moment, the “immersive experience” features an up-close look at the Christian Dior Couture gown, which required more than 1,000 hours of work to complete.
Mötley Crüe performs on ‘American Idol.’ (Disney/Eric McCandless)
Mötley Crüe has announced a new box set collecting the band’s first five albums.
The package, dubbed Crücial Crüe, includes 1981’s Too Fast for Love, 1983’s Shout at the Devil, 1985’s Theatre of Pain, 1987’s Girls, Girls, Girls and 1989’s Dr. Feelgood spread across five vinyl LPs or five CDs. It’s due out July 10.
A collection of hand-numbered copies, limited to just 250 pieces, is available exclusively via Mötley Crüe’s Crüeseum site.
You can catch Mötley Crüe live on The Return of the Carnival of Sins tour, kicking off in July.
The U.S. Capitol Building dome, on May 12, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — In an unanimous 99-0 vote, the Senate on Wednesday advanced a resolution to withhold pay from senators during a government shutdown.
Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts did not vote on the resolution, which was introduced by Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana.
The vote was a procedural one. The legislation now moves toward final passage, and is expected to pass with resounding support.
The legislation, which would take effect after the November 2026 election, would instruct the secretary of the Senate to place senators’ paychecks on hold during the duration of any future federal government shutdowns. Those payments would be released to lawmakers only after the government reopens.
While multiple similar House bills have been introduced, it’s unclear if legislation in the lower chamber will pass.
“Take your brain with you, because this is about shared sacrifice. This is about putting our money where our mouth is,” Sen. Kennedy said on the Senate floor ahead of Wednesday’s vote.
Kennedy’s resolution comes after federal workers faced a historic 43-day government shutdown late last year caused by a deadlock between parties over Affordable Care Act subsidies.
During that time, approximately 670,000 federal workers were furloughed, 60,000 workers outside the federal government lost their jobs and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients lost out on benefits all while members of Congress continued to get paid — highlighting the disparity of financial pain endured by members of Congress and the people they serve.
Calls for withholding pay from members of Congress continued to grow this year during the record 75-day partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Transportation Security Administration agents, Coast Guard members and other department employees went without pay as a stalemate played out on Capitol Hill over immigration enforcement funding and oversight reforms.
(WASHINGTON) — The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh, clearing the way for Warsh to replace central bank head Jerome Powell when his term ends later this week.
The Senate confirmed Warsh by a vote of 54 to 45. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., was the lone Democrat to vote in favor of Warsh.
The vote comes weeks after the Department of Justice moved to drop its criminal probe into Powell. Before that, Warsh had faced a bipartisan stonewall in the Senate Banking Committee over the investigation.
The probe into Powell focused on alleged false testimony to Congress about an office renovation. Powell, whose term ends on Friday, called the investigation a politically motivated effort to influence interest-rate policy.
Last month, Washington U.S. Attorney Jeaninne Pirro said the investigation into the office renovation would be taken up by the Fed’s inspector general.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who previously vowed to oppose Warsh’s nomination on account of the investigation, said he would flip his vote after the investigation was set aside. Tillis greenlit the nomination in a committee vote last month, helping advance Warsh to a confirmation vote on the full Senate floor.
Powell said last month that he would stay on at the central bank’s board of governors after his term expires next month as the investigation into the central bank’s office renovation continues.
“I’ve said I won’t leave the board until this investigation is well and truly over with transparency and finality, and I stand by it,” Powell said at a press conference in Washington, D.C.
“My concern is really about the series of legal attacks on the Fed, which threaten our ability to conduct monetary policy without considering political factors,” Powell added.
Trump previously denied any involvement in the criminal investigation.
Powell could remain on the Fed’s 12-member policymaking board until 2028, retaining a role in the central bank’s interest-rate policy over that period.
Warsh, a former Fed official, will serve a 4-year term as chair. He is currently a fellow at the Hoover Institution conservative think tank, which is based at Stanford University.
During his term as a Fed governor in the late 2000s and early 2010s, Warsh gained a reputation as an interest-rate “hawk,” meaning he generally preferred higher interest rates as a means of ensuring low and stable inflation.
In recent months, however, Warsh has voiced support for lower interest rates, rebuking the Fed’s concern about inflation risk posed by a flurry of new tariffs issued last year.
Warsh is set to take the helm of the Fed in a challenging period for central bank policymakers.
Inflation rose for a second consecutive month as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran continued to send gasoline prices surging in April, government data on Tuesday showed. Annual inflation jumped to its highest level in three years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Fed has opted to hold interest rates steady at three consecutive meetings since the outset of 2026. Before that, the Fed cut interest rates a quarter-point three straight times.
If the Fed moved to raise interest rates, it would hike borrowing costs for many consumer and business loans, risking an economic slowdown.
Markets forecast a roughly 60% chance of interest rates holding steady for the remainder of this year, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. The odds of an interest-rate hike by the end of the year stand at about 30%.
US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins speaks at an event with US Vice President JD Vance and Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) at Ex-Guard Industries, a manufacturing facility on May 5, 2026, in Des Moines, Iowa. Vance is attending the event to support Nunn ahead of the state’s June 2 primary election. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt-Pool/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — A new federal lawsuit accuses Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins of proselytizing federal employees by frequently invoking Jesus Christ in work emails.
The National Federation of Federal Employees and a group of seven USDA employees filed the lawsuit in California, accusing Rollins of violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
“Secretary Rollins’s practice and policy of subjecting agency employees to proselytizing messages conveys the expectation that USDA employees share in the Secretary’s religious beliefs, even when doing so would betray an employee’s own beliefs,” the lawsuit said. “It is exactly the sort of government-sponsored religious coercion, religious sermonizing, and denominational preference that the Establishment Clause prohibits.”
The complaint listed a series of emails sent by Rollins to commemorate recent holidays, including crediting “gratitude towards a loving God” in her Thanksgiving email, writing that “God gave us the greatest gift possible” in her Christmas email, and describing the story of Jesus’ resurrection as the “greatest story ever told” in her Easter email. Rollins only acknowledged Christian holidays, according to the complaint.
“Our nation’s Founders — having learned from the harmful effects of past religious conflicts — adopted the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to safeguard against government promoting any favored religion or imposing its preferred religious practice on its citizens to protect religious freedom for all,” the lawsuit said.
While religious expression is protected under law and federal employees are permitted to engage in private religious speech, the Establishment Clause prohibits the government from establishing an official state religion, favoring one religion over another, or favoring religion over non-religion.
The federal employees who brought the lawsuit alleged that Rollin’s speech “indoctrinates USDA employees and has caused them to feel coerced, unwelcome, excluded, and like outsiders to the agency.”
One employee claimed in the suit that she was told it would “create trouble” for her if she asked to be removed from the email distribution list, and others said they feared retaliation if they complained about the messages.
Another employee said he “feels that the Secretary is conveying to him that he is unwelcome and ‘going to hell’ because he does not share the Secretary’s beliefs.”
In response to the lawsuit, a USDA spokesperson said in a statement, “While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process.”
Neil Young and Pearl Jam collaboration ‘Mirror Ball’ (Reprise Records)
Neil Young’s 1995 album, Mirror Ball, a collaboration with Pearl Jam, is set to be reissued for the first time in over 30 years.
Although the album was part of Young’s Official Release Series Volume 6 that came out in October, the album’s now being reissued as a standalone, on CD and vinyl, and is available for preorder now via Pearl Jam’s website. Shipping will begin May 22.
Released June 27, 1995, Mirror Ball is credited to only Young on the album’s sleeve because of legal issues with Young and Pearl Jam’s respective labels. The members of Pearl Jam are credited in the album’s liner notes. The album peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and went on to be certified Gold by the RIAA.
In December 1995, Pearl Jam released the EP Merkin Ball, featuring two songs that were recorded during the Mirror Ball sessions, “I Got Id” and “Long Road.”
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ world tour (Courtesy Netflix)
In the not-so-distant future, tickets for a KPop Demon Hunters world tour will be going up, up, up for sale.
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the record-breaking, Oscar-winning Netflix animated film and its award-winning, chart-topping soundtrack, the streamer has announced a KPop Demon Huntersglobal concert tour.
The tour is described as a “live experience” that will “bring elements of the global phenomenon to life in dynamic and unforgettable ways for fans around the world,” but there aren’t any details beyond that. For example, the involvement of the singers behind the movie’s two main groups, HUNTR/X and Saja Boys, is unknown at this time.
More information about which cities the tour will visit and when tickets will go on sale will be announced later this year, but you can join a wait list to be notified at KPopDemonHunterslive.com.
KPop Demon Hunters debuted on Netflix on June 20, 2025, and became the most-watched original title in Netflix history. Its soundtrack dominated the Billboard charts, including the #1 hit “Golden,” the first K-pop song in history to win a Grammy Award and the first to win an Academy Award. The film also won the best animated feature film Oscar.
Since the movie became a success, EJAE, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna, the voices of HUNTR/X, have performed together on TV and live, and were named Women of the Year at Billboard‘s annual Women In Music gala.
