Charli XCX attends the 5th Annual Academy Museum Gala at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, on October 18, 2025 in Los Angeles (Frazer Harrison/WireImage)
Charli XCX has released her first official post-Brat single, and it’s different from what you might expect.
The song, “House,” is part of the album of music she’s created for Emerald Fennell‘s upcoming take on Wuthering Heights. It’s a collaboration with Welsh rocker John Cale, best known for his work with pioneering Rock & Roll Hall of Famers The Velvet Underground.
As she explained earlier this month in an Instagram Story message, Charli said that a quote from Cale — “elegant and brutal” — had inspired the sound of her music for the film. She reached out to Cale to see what he thought about the songs, and they ended up collaborating on “House,” which, Charli said, “made me cry.”
The song begins as a poem with creepy-sounding musical backing, as Cale recites:
Can I speak to you privately for a moment? I just want to explain. Explain the circumstances I find myself in. What and who I really am. I’m a prisoner. To live for eternity. I was thinking, ‘What is this place?’ I thought it would be perfect. I thought, ‘I want it to be perfect.’ Please. Let it be perfect. Am I living in another world? Another world I created. For what? If it’s beauty, do you see beauty? If there’s beauty, say it’s enough.”
Then, Charli and Cale sing together, repeatedly, “I think I’m gonna die in this house” as the music gets more intense. Finally, as the song ends, Cale intones, “In every room, I hear silence.”
The video features a dark woods at night, a raven, burning candle wax, and Cale seemingly holding Charli down against her will on a marble altar.
Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, hits theaters Feb. 13, 2026.
Lee Brice’s Sunriser Tour (Courtesy True Public Relations/Lee Brice)
Lee Brice will launch the Sunriser Tour in 2026, heading to Canada for nine dates in the spring.
The trek kicks off April 10 in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and wraps April 25 in Kitchener, Ontario. Brett Kissel and Grace Tyler will join him on the dates.
“Man, Canada, y’all have been ridin’ shotgun with me since back before I even had a hit!” Lee says in a news release. “That fire you lit in my soul has only burned brighter over the years, and you’ve got a permanent spot right here in this country boy’s heart.”
“You’ve watched me chase these sunrises,” he continues, “and I can’t wait to roll back into your towns on the Sunriser Tour, showin’ off this new fire we’ve stoked together. Get ready friends, I’m comin’ back to y’all with all I’ve got!”
Lee just released his new track “Killed the Man” as his new radio single, with more new music still to come.
Måneskin guitarist Thomas Raggi has announced his debut solo album, Masquerade.
The record, due out Dec. 5, was produced by Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello, who previously worked with Måneskin on the song “GOSSIP.” It also includes collaborations with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Luke Spiller of The Struts, Franz Ferdinand‘s Alex Kapranos, ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum, Jet‘s Nic Cester and Sergio Pizzorno of Kasabian.
“Seeing so many musical icons come together (along with the ones I had the pleasure of meeting while writing the album) reminded me that music knows no boundaries; that you have to follow your instinct and inspiration, ignore imposed rules, and simply do what you feel,” Raggi says in a press statement. “The Måneskin story teaches me that, and now I had the ultimate confirmation. I feel as if those who made music history are placing a hand on my shoulder, saying: ‘You’re on the right path.'”
Raggi’s Måneskin bandmates Damiano David and Victoria De Angelis have also released solo material. The band’s most recent album is 2023’s RUSH!
Here’s the Masquerade track list:
“Getcha!” with Nic Cester & Chad Smith & Tom Morello “Keep The Pack” with Matt Sorum & Tom Morello “Lucy” with Upsahl & Hama Okamoto & Chad Smith “Cat Got Your Tongue” with Sergio Pizzorno “For Nothing” with Matt Sorum “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” with Alex Kapranos “The Ritz” with Luke Spiller “Fallaway” with Maxim
Cover of Freddie Mercury’s ‘Mr Bad Guy’/(Hollywood Records)
Freddie Mercury’s debut solo album, Mr Bad Guy, is being reissued in celebration of its 40th anniversary.
The album will be released Dec. 5 on 180 gram translucent green vinyl featuring a 2019 mix by Queen’s longtime sound team, Justin Shirley-Smith and Joshua J. Macrae. The mix originally appeared on the Mercury box set Never Boring. The album will also be reissued on picture disc.
“We went back to the original multi-track tapes,” Shirley-Smith says. “It’s a great collection of songs and Freddie’s vocal performance is absolutely extraordinary.”
He adds, “The idea wasn’t to try to make it sound like they would make it now, it was to make it sound like it would have then if they’d had better technology and more time. And of course, it’s a massive honor to work on anything Freddie did, and we always treat it with the utmost respect.”
Originally released in April 1985 during a Queen hiatus, Mr Bad Guy was made up of 11 songs written by Mercury, featuring more of a dance-pop sound than the music he recorded with Queen.
“I had a lot of ideas bursting to get out and there were a lot of musical territories I wanted to explore which I really couldn’t do within Queen,” Mercury said at the time.
Although not a hit in America, the album hit #6 in the U.K. The lead single, “I Was Born to Love You,” was later reworked by Queen after Mercury’s 1991 death and appeared on their 1995 album Made in Heaven, which was their 15th and final studio album.
Sydney Sweeney as Christy Martin in the movie ‘Christy.’ (Eddy Chen)
Sydney Sweeney is opening up about the low box office performance of her latest film, Christy.
The actress, who portrays boxer Christy Martin in the biographic drama film, took to Instagram to share the impact the film had on her life and how that means more to her than box office numbers.
“i am so deeply proud of this movie,” Sweeney captioned a photo carousel of photos from her time on set. “proud of the story we told. proud to represent someone as strong and resilient as Christy Martin. this experience has been one of the greatest honors of my life.”
Sweeney wrote that the film “stands for survival, courage, and hope.”
“through our campaigns, we’ve helped raise awareness for so many affected by domestic violence. we all signed on to this film with the belief that christy’s story could save lives,” Sweeney wrote.
The actress ended her post by thanking everyone who went to the theaters and also those who will see the film in the future.
“if christy gave even one woman the courage to take her first step toward safety, then we will have succeeded. so yes I’m proud,” Sweeney wrote. “why? because we don’t always just make art for numbers, we make it for impact. and christy has been the most impactful project of my life. thank you christy. i love you.”
Christy earned $1.3 million during its opening weekend at the box office, making it one of the worst openings ever for a film released in over 2,000 North American theaters.
(NEW YORK) — President Donald Trump over the weekend vowed to provide each American a $2,000 dividend to be distributed from what he said was tariff revenue.
“A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” the president wrote on social media Sunday, in part.
Within hours, however, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cast doubt on the plan, saying the payout could merely refer to tax savings enshrined by Trump’s signature domestic spending measure.
A tariff dividend may come “in lots of forms,” Bessent told ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday, adding that he had not spoken with Trump about the proposal.
The idea of a potential tariff dividend – reminiscent of pandemic-era stimulus checks – has raised questions about who would qualify and what to make of the Trump administration’s mixed signals about the proposal. Some economists questioned whether the dividend is achievable with available tariff funds.
Here’s what to know about the proposed $2,000 tariff dividends.
What is a dividend?
The term “dividend” typically describes a payout to individual shareholders, funded by a company’s profits.
In this case, the concept functions in a similar fashion, indicating payouts to Americans that are funded by tax raised by Trump’s far-reaching tariffs.
The proposal mirrors the three stimulus checks mailed to Americans during the pandemic, two of which were authorized by Trump. Those three payments totaled as much as $3,200 per tax filer, as well as $2,500 per child, according to the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a watchdog established by Congress.
What did Trump say about a potential $2,000 tariff dividend?
Trump announced the policy proposal in a brief message on social media on Sunday morning, focused on tariff-related tax revenue.
“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k’s are Highest EVER,” the president wrote. “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.”
The message did not specify who would qualify for the payout or how the policy would operate.
Who would qualify for the $2,000 dividend?
It is not clear who would qualify for the payout, though Trump said the measure would exclude “high income people.”
The pandemic-era stimulus checks enacted by Trump were made available to individuals bringing in as much as $75,000 per year and couples earning up to $150,000. Beyond those benchmarks, higher earners were eligible for smaller payments.
Last year, median U.S. household income was $83,730, the Census Bureau found.
Did Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cast doubt on the dividend checks?
Hours after Trump’s announcement, Treasury Secretary Bessent appeared to throw cold water on the likelihood of tariff-related dividend checks.
On Sunday, Bessent suggested the $2,000 savings may instead be rooted in tax cuts previously enshrined by Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill legislation, which he signed into law on July 4.
“It could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president’s agenda. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility on auto loans. Those are substantial deductions that are being financed in the tax bill,” Bessent told ABC News’ “This Week” Sunday.
“The real goal of tariffs is to rebalance trade and make it more fair,” Bessent added.
The dueling remarks from Trump and Bessent come days after the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether a president has the constitutional authority to unilaterally levy tariffs. Arguing on behalf of the Trump administration, Solicitor General John Sauer downplayed the revenue-raising component of the policy, saying the tariffs do not encroach upon the taxing power afforded to Congress under the Constitution.
“The fact that [the tariffs] raise revenue is only incidental,” Sauer told the justices.
Has the U.S. raised enough tariff revenue to fund $2,000 checks?
If Trump were to make the dividend payments available to anyone earning $100,000 or less, the policy would reach about 150 million Americans, amounting to roughly $300 billion in dividends, Erica York, a policy expert at the Tax Foundation, said in a post on X.
As of Sept. 30, the federal government had generated $195 billion in tariff-related revenue, according to the Treasury Department.
By that math, the estimated $300 billion cost of the dividend check proposal would far exceed the amount of currently available tariff revenue.
When factoring in only revenue generated by Trump’s new levies and deducting some negative budgetary impact from those policies, York estimated net tariff revenues of only $90 billion, falling even shorter of the $300 billion required.
Moreover, depending on how the Supreme Court may rule regarding Trump’s legal authority to levy tariffs, the White House may be forced to return tens of billions of dollars in revenue to importers who paid the tax, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found.
In theory, however, the Trump administration could promise to pay the dividend from anticipated tariff revenue. The Treasury Department has forecast $3 trillion in tariff revenue over the next decade. Should the Trump administration choose that route, the dividend payments would add the federal debt, which currently stands at over $38 trillion, according to the Treasury Department.
Tyler, The Creator made a humongous leap back to the top 10 of the Billboard 200. His album Chromakopia lands at #5 after previously sitting at #117. It earned 51,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Nov. 6, according to Luminate, and garnered 41,000 traditional album sales.
The jump comes just days after the anniversary reissue of Chromakopia, which was released as a CD, vinyl and two collectible boxed sets. The original rendition dropped on Oct. 28, 2024, and debuted atop the Billboard 200, where it stayed for its first three weeks. It’s now nominated for album of the year, best rap album and best album cover at the 2026 Grammys.
Tyler is also up for best alternative music album for Don’t Tap the Glass, best rap performance for “Darling, I” featuring Teezo Touchdown, and best rap song for “Sticky” featuring GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne.
Riley Green is heading overseas in 2026 to play for U.S. troops.
His three military dates kick off March 9 at U.S. Navy Base Fleet Yokosuka in Kanagawa, Japan. On March 10, he continues on to nearby Naval Air Facility Atsugi. March 22 will find him in Hickman, Hawaii, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor.
Supporting the troops is a cause close to Riley’s heart: He’s singled out veterans-focused charities like Folds of Honor since establishing the Buford Bonds Charitable Fund in 2023, which is named after both his grandfathers.
Riley’s military trek comes shortly before he sets his Cowboy As It Gets Tour in motion April 16 in Southaven, Mississippi.
Sam Fender on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Sam Fender may people-watch on the way back home, but you can watch his new concert film without having to even leave your home.
The “Seventeen Going Under” artist will stream his Live at London Stadium performance on YouTube, premiering Saturday at noon ET.
As you might’ve guessed from the title, Live at London Stadium was filmed during Fender’s show in the English capital in June. For a preview, you can check out the Live at London Stadium rendition of “People Watching” streaming now.
“People Watching” is the title track and lead single off Fender’s Mercury Prize-winning new album, which was released in February. A deluxe version of the record, featuring a collaboration with Elton John, drops Dec. 5.
A poster for ‘With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration.’ (Netflix)
We now know when With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration will arrive to Netflix.
The upcoming installment of Meghan Markle‘s series arrives to the streaming service on Dec. 3. It will run just under an hour.
The episode finds the Duchess of Sussex letting audiences in to her Montecito, California, home as she shares her tips and tricks for how to make the holiday season even more special.
She will share how her friends and family deck the halls together, go over the details for how to create a holiday feast, give crafting ideas meant to inspire homemade gifts and many more how-tos that audiences can follow along with at home.
“It’s a holiday wonder with warmth, tradition, and a generous dose of joy,” according to a press release from Netflix.
If you are looking to get into the holiday spirit before the new episode drops, the Duchess’ brand, As ever, has also shared a recent drop of seasonal gifts, such as hand-poured candles and hot toddy mulling spice kits.
