Billy Idol at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction/Disney/Eric McCandless
Billy Idol has a chance to nab an Oscar nomination.
The rocker’s song “Dying to Live,” from his documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead, has earned a spot on the Oscars short list for best original song.
The tune, written by Idol, J. Ralph, Steve Stevens, Tommy English and Joe Janiak, is one of 15 tracks to make the short list, with the category to be narrowed down to five songs.
Another track making the short list is the Diane Warren song “Dear Me,” from her documentary Diane Warren: Restless. Warren has been nominated 16 times before, but has never won, although she did receive an honorary Oscar in 2022.
Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards will be announced Jan. 22.
Billy Idol Should Be Dead had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival in June. The film, directed by Jonas Åkerlund, is expected to be released in theaters and on streaming services in early 2026.
Snoop Dogg is set to headline Netflix’s NFL Christmas Gameday.
Following Beyoncé‘s halftime performance in 2024, Snoop will bring his hits center stage on Dec. 25. Snoop’s Holiday Halftime Party will take place at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis during the matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions. The performance will also feature some surprise guests.
“NFL, Netflix and your uncle Snoop on Christmas Day? We’re servin’ up music, love and good vibes for the whole world to enjoy,” Snoop said in a statement. “That’s the kind of holiday magic Santa can’t fit in a bag.”
Snoop also shared the announcement in a video released by Netflix that takes fans through a home decked out with Christmas decorations, including Lions and Vikings stockings and helmets.
“‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the crib, the stockings hung proper, the vibe feeling big,” George Clinton says in the clip, as Snoop starts a record and “Drop It Like It’s Hot” begins playing.
“As the snow kept on falling, the beat started calling. From Minneapolis to L.A. where the champs come to play,” Clinton continues as the camera pans to Snoop sitting in an armchair. Snoop then adds, “We’re about to light up this Christmas in a real way.”
NFL Christmas Gameday returns to Netflix with pregame coverage beginning at 11 a.m. ET. The Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Commanders game kicks off at 1 p.m. ET, followed by Lions vs. Vikings at 3:30 p.m. CT. Each team will wear uniforms featuring the NFL shield backed by two candy canes.
Nine Inch Nails‘ Tron: Ares soundtrack has made the short list to be nominated for best original score at the 2026 Oscars.
The album’s single “As Alive As You Need Me to Be” is also on the short list for the best original song award.
NIN members Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have previously won two Oscars for their scores of The Social Network and Soul. However, a Tron: Ares nomination would mark the first Oscars nod for Nine Inch Nails.
The 2026 short lists also include Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood‘s score for One Battle After Another.
The final nominations will be announced Jan. 22. The 2026 Oscars will air March 15 on ABC.
Ed Sheeran attends the European Premiere of F1 ® The Movie on June 23, 2025 in London, England. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures)
Ed Sheeran, Miley Cyrus and Sara Bareilles are all one step closer to an Oscar.
Songs written by Ed, Miley and Sara have made the short list for the best original song category at next year’s Academy Awards. For Ed, it’s “Drive,” which he co-wrote with John Mayer and writer/producer Blake Slatkin and recorded for the Brad Pitt movie F1.
For Miley, it’s “Dream As One,” which she co-wrote with Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt and Simon Franglen and recorded for Avatar: Fire and Ash.
For Sara, it’s “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet,” which she co-wrote and recorded with Brandi Carlile for the documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, which has made the short list for best documentary feature film.
It’s worth nothing that the Oscar for best original song goes to the people who wrote it, not the people who recorded it. The two new songs from Wicked: For Good — “The Girl In the Bubble” and “No Place Like Home” — were performed by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, respectively. But if either song wins, the trophy will go home with the person who wrote both songs, Stephen Schwartz.
Similarly, “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters is nominated, but only EJAE, one of the people who sang it, would win an Oscar; she co-wrote the song with four other people. The other two members of HUNTR/X, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna, didn’t have a hand in co-writing it.
All in all, 15 songs have advanced to the short list category. The list will be whittled down to five, and the Oscar nominations will be announced Jan. 22. The 98th Academy Awards will take place March 15 and air live on ABC.
Jon Pardi’s The Christmas Show (Courtesy Jon Pardi/The GreenRoom)
“What a rowdy Christmas show!” was Jon Pardi‘s comment after he kicked off his yuletide tour Friday in St. Augustine, Florida.
Of course, that’s at least partially Jon’s fault, considering he’s bringing pyro to the Christmas party. The trek continued Saturday with another St. Augustine show, complete with a 13-piece band with twin fiddles and a horn section.
The set list for The Christmas Show tour includes classics like “Please Come Home for Christmas” and “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” as well as tracks like “Beer for Santa,” “Merry Christmas from the Keys” and “400 Horsepower Sleigh” from 2023’s Merry Christmas from Jon Pardi.
Jon’s also been playing Santa while in the Sunshine State, donating $40,000 to local charities St. Augustine Youth Services, St. Augustine Art Association, Little Smiles in Palm Beach Gardens and A Kids Place of Tampa Bay.
Next up, Jon plays Hollywood, Florida, on Thursday and Tampa on Friday, before bringing it home to the Opry on Sunday.
George Harrison November 23, 1971. (Photo by: Ann Limongello/ABC Photo Archives)
The first-ever video for George Harrison’s classic tune “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)” has just been released, directed by Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard.
It took a team of 20 stop-motion artisans to create the stop-motion clip, which is set in the gardens of Friar Park, the Victorian mansion Harrison purchased in 1970. The video is described as “an homage to his love of gardening.”
“To work with the Harrison family and bring this video to life with a team of incredible young Canadian artists has been a great honor,” says Wolfhard. “It’s hard to put into words how grateful I am for this opportunity. George Harrison has and will continue to be a huge inspiration to me, and his work will live on forever.”
Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison, who was an executive producer on the clip, notes, “Finn is one of the sweetest and most talented people I know of his generation, and he is the perfect person to direct a video for my dad.” He adds, “My dad would have loved this, and I hope his wonderful, creative, heartfelt ideas help this song reach another generation.”
“Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)” was the opening track and lead single off Harrison’s 1973 album, Living in the Material World, which went to #1. The song topped the chart as well, becoming Harrison’s second #1 after “My Sweet Lord.”
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cassandra Klos/Bloomberg via Getty Images
(BOSTON) — A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been shot and killed at his home, authorities said.
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was found Monday night at his house in the upscale Boston suburb of Brookline. He was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on Tuesday, the Norfolk District Attorney’s office said.
The DA’s office said the homicide investigation is ongoing.
The university said Loureiro was a “faculty member in the departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics, as well as the Director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.”
“Our deepest sympathies are with his family, students, colleagues, and all those who are grieving,” MIT said in a statement. “Focused outreach and conversations are taking place within our community to offer care and support for those who knew Prof. Loureiro, and a message will be shared with our wider community.”
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico released this photo of Ryan Wedding on Dec. 8, 2025. U.S. Embassy in Mexico
(NEW YORK) — A former Olympic snowboarder is one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, with authorities comparing the Canadian citizen to notorious drug lords like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Pablo Escobar.
The alleged drug kingpin — 44-year-old Ryan Wedding — is accused of heading a criminal enterprise that traffics tons of cocaine, engages in murder to further their aims and retaliate, and uses cryptocurrency to conceal their illicit profits.
Wedding faces multiple federal charges in the United States, where authorities have said he is responsible for trafficking “multi-ton quantities of cocaine” from Colombia. He is also wanted by authorities in Canada on separate charges, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The FBI dubbed its operation into the alleged criminal organization “Giant Slalom” — a nod to Wedding’s Olympic event — and has warned the fugitive should be considered dangerous.
Wedding — whose alleged aliases include “El Jefe,” “Giant” and “Public Enemy” — is believed to be in Mexico, being protected by the Sinaloa cartel, according to the FBI.
Here’s a look at Wedding’s path from premier athlete to alleged drug kingpin.
Feb. 27, 1999
Wedding wins the bronze medal in the men’s parallel giant slalom event at the 1999 Junior World Championship.
March 8, 2001
Wedding wins the silver medal in the men’s parallel giant slalom event at the 2001 Junior World Championships.
Feb. 14, 2002
Wedding competes for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where he places 24th in the men’s giant parallel slalom.
June 13, 2008
Wedding is arrested in San Diego and subsequently charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, according to court records. According to the federal complaint, he conspired with two others to buy 24 kilograms of cocaine, unwittingly from an FBI source, as part of a Vancouver-based drug trafficking organization.
Nov. 30, 2009
A jury finds Wedding guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
May 28, 2010
A federal judge sentences Wedding to 48 months in prison.
Dec. 7, 2011
Wedding is released from U.S. federal prison. Federal prosecutors allege he would go on to found his criminal enterprise.
Nov. 20, 2023
Two parents are murdered in front of their daughter, who was also injured, in a case of mistaken identity in Ontario, according to federal prosecutors. Wedding and his alleged second-in-command — Andrew Clark, a fellow Canadian — had allegedly ordered the retaliatory murder of a Canadian drug trafficker, believing the driver had stolen 300 kilograms of cocaine from them, according to a federal indictment.
The assassin crew broke into a house that the family was renting, fatally shooting the two victims and seriously injuring a third, mistakenly believing they were family members of the co-conspirator, according to the indictment. The couple’s daughter was shot multiple times but survived, prosecutors said.
April 1, 2024
An individual was killed in Ontario, allegedly at the order of Clark and another man involved in the criminal enterprise, according to federal prosecutors.
May 18, 2024
Another individual is killed over a drug debt, allegedly at the order of Wedding and Clark, according to federal prosecutors.
June 18, 2024
A sealed, six-count indictment is filed against Wedding and Clark in Los Angeles federal court, charging them with running a criminal enterprise, committing murder in support of the enterprise and conspiring to distribute and export cocaine.
Sept. 17, 2024
A superseding indictment is filed in Los Angeles federal court against Wedding, Clark and 14 others. The 16-count indictment includes, among others, an attempted murder charge against Wedding and Clark.
The indictment alleges that the enterprise conspired to ship hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Southern California to Canada. The cocaine was allegedly transported from Mexico to the Los Angeles area, where it was stored in stash houses before being transported to Canada via long-haul semi-trucks, according to the indictment.
The indictment also alleges the organization committed multiple murders to achieve its aims, including the killings and attempted murder of the family members in November 2023 in Ontario and the murders of the individuals in April 2024 and May 2024.
Wedding and others allegedly made billions of dollars through the enterprise, which was moved around in the form of cryptocurrency, prosecutors say.
Law enforcement has seized more than one ton of cocaine, three firearms, dozens of rounds of ammunition, $255,400 in U.S. currency and more than $3.2 million in cryptocurrency as part of its investigation into the so-called Wedding Drug Trafficking Organization, the DOJ says.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for any information leading to Wedding’s arrest.
Oct. 8, 2024
Clark is arrested by Mexican authorities, according to the Department of Justice. He is subsequently extradited to the U.S.
Oct. 17, 2024
On the same day federal prosecutors announce the superseding indictment, Wedding’s attorney allegedly advises him and Clark that if a federal witness were killed, the federal charges against them “would necessarily be dismissed,” according to a subsequent federal indictment.
Wedding then allegedly places a bounty of up to $5 million on the witness in exchange for “any person locating and killing” the individual, according to the indictment.
Jan. 31, 2025
The federal witness is killed while eating at a restaurant in Medellin, Colombia, by an unknown shooter, according to a federal indictment. The witness, who was not identified in the indictment, was shot in the head five times, prosecutors said.
Following confirmation of the witness’ death, Wedding allegedly facilitates an approximately $500,000 payment to members of the conspiracy in Colombia via an encrypted platform, according to the indictment.
March 6, 2025
Wedding is added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
The U.S. Department of State is now offering a reward of up to $10 million for his capture. The reward is “jointly being offered with assistance from the Canadian and Mexican governments as part of a unified effort to bring Wedding to justice,” the FBI says.
March 24, 2025
Clark pleads not guilty to his federal charges. His trial is set to begin in February 2026.
Oct. 28, 2025
A new federal indictment is filed against Wedding in Los Angeles federal court, accusing him of orchestrating the murder of the witness in Colombia. Eighteen others, including his Ontario-based lawyer, are also charged in the indictment in connection with his alleged criminal enterprise. The lawyer — who has not yet entered a plea — is accused of advising Wedding that if he killed the witness, then criminal charges against him in his 2024 federal narcotics case would be dropped, prosecutors said.
The indictment alleges that the criminal enterprise worked with members and associates of prominent Mexican drug cartels to move hundreds of kilograms of cocaine via boats and planes from Colombia to Mexico at a time, then used semi-trucks to smuggle the drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Nov. 19, 2025
The U.S. Department of State increases its reward for information regarding Wedding to $15 million.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also sanctions Wedding, as well as multiple individuals and entities closely associated with him.
Dec. 8, 2025
U.S. officials release new photos of Wedding. In one, a newly obtained photo released by the Los Angeles FBI office, Wedding is seen lying in a bed shirtless, with a prominent tattoo of a lion on his chest, in a photo authorities said is believed to have been taken in Mexico during the summer of 2025. In the other, shared by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, Wedding is seen with a different haircut and facial hair in an undated photo.
Cristina Scabbia Lacuna Coil performs live on stage during a concert at the Huxleys Neue Welt on November 3, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. (Pedro Becerra/Redferns)
Lacuna Coil has announced a U.S. tour for 2026 alongside Escape the Fate.
The trek kicks off March 24 in New York City and will crisscross the country before wrapping up back in the Empire State on May 1 in Albany, New York.
Presales are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit LacunaCoil.com.
Lacuna Coil will be touring in support of their latest album, Sleepless Empire, which dropped in February.
Along with the tour announcement, Lacuna Coil has premiered the video for the Sleepless Empire track “Hosting the Shadow,” which features Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe.
The clip, streaming now on YouTube, features footage from Lacuna Coil’s live performance of “Hosting the Shadow” alongside Blythe at the 2025 Aftershock festival.
American Disco and R&B singer Donna Summer (born LaDonna Gaines, 1948 – 2012) performs onstage at the Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, July 12, 1983. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
Disco queen Donna Summer has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Summer, who wrote her hits like “Love to Love You Baby,” “Bad Girls,” “On the Radio” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” was celebrated Monday at a ceremony in West Hollywood, California. Summer’s husband, Bruce Sudano, and their daughters Brooklyn Sudano and Amanda Sudano Ramirez were in attendance.
“It’s important to me because I know how important it was for Donna,” Bruce Sudano said at the ceremony. “The backstory is, with all the accolades that she received over her career, being respected as a songwriter was always the thing that she felt was overlooked. So for her to be accepted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I know that she’s very happy … somewhere.”
Summer passed away in 2012 at age 63. She sold an estimated 150 million records worldwide and was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
