The Format has shared a new song from the reunited band’s upcoming comeback album, Boycott Heaven.
The track is called “Shot in the Dark” and is accompanied by a music video. It marks the second Boycott Heaven cut to be released, following lead single “Holy Roller.”
Boycott Heaven is due out on Jan. 23, 2006, and marks the first Format album since 2006’s Dog Problems. The band, which consists of vocalist Nate Ruess and multi-instrumentalist Sam Means, broke up in 2008, and Ruess went on to form fun.
Ruess and Means then reconvened in 2020 for a planned reunion tour, but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They reunited again in 2025 for a brief run of fall shows and will embark on a full tour in spring 2026.
Additionally, The Format has just announced four acoustic concerts for the end of 2025, taking place Dec. 9 in Rochester, New York, Dec. 10 in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 13 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Dec. 15 in Tucson, Arizona. You’ll need to register for a code for a chance at tickets, which go on sale Friday at noon local time.
Backstreet Boys perform at Sphere Las Vegas (Rich Fury)
Backstreet Boys‘ residency at Sphere Las Vegas has been wildly popular, but it’s wrapping up in February. So who would the group like to see take their place at the state-of-the-art venue? AJ McLean says Taylor Swift‘s on his list — but he suggests she pop up at one of their shows first.
Speaking to TMZ, AJ was asked which acts he’d love to see perform at the Sphere. After naming Coldplay, Lenny Kravitz and Red Hot Chili Peppers, he added, “I don’t know if she would ever do it, but I think Taylor would absolutely destroy it.”
“She’s the sweetest … she’s been so kind to my daughters, anytime that we’ve had a chance to hang out and meet her at her shows, she’s just the best,” AJ continued. He and the TMZ reporter then discussed the viral remix that mashes up the Backstreet Boys hit “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” with Taylor’s song “Elizabeth Taylor.” AJ loves the remix.
“I mean, fans are hoping that she’ll come do ‘Elizabeth Taylor’ while we do ‘Backstreet’s Back’ [at the Sphere],” AJ noted. “We would break the planet if that happened. So Taylor, if you want, come see the show first, so you know what’s going on, and then you can figure out if you wanna come up with us. We’re not gonna say no.”
Heart’s Nancy Wilson performs at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
Heart‘s Nancy Wilson is set to appear on a new podcast from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
The Music Makes Us podcast, premiering Nov. 18, will be hosted by Bikini Kill‘s Kathleen Hanna. In addition to Wilson, it will feature such guests as Chaka Khan and Paramore‘s Hayley Williams.
“I wanted to sit down with the most exciting musicians on the planet to talk about their influences, weird behind-the-scenes moments and the music that made them,” Hanna says. “Everyone says their podcast is for you the listener and that’s true, but it’s also for me. By talking to other artists I’m being reminded of all the ways music can comfort us, fuel us and create community.”
Wilson, by the way, performed at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday. She joined Toni Cornell, daughter of the late Chris Cornell, for a performance of “Fell on Black Days” in honor of inductee Soundgarden. She also played alongside Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke, Aerosmith‘s Joe Perry, Bryan Adams and The Black Crowes‘ Chris Robinson to celebrate Bad Company’s induction.
Highlights from the ceremony will air as an ABC primetime special on Jan. 1.
Tom Felton takes his curtain call during his Broadway debut as Draco Malfoy in ‘Harry Potter and The Cursed Child’ at the Lyric Theatre on Nov. 11, 2025, in New York City. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
Tom Felton has returned to the Wizarding World.
The actor, who played Draco Malfoy in all eights films in the Harry Potter franchise, has reprised the role while making his Broadway debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. Felton took to the stage for the first time on Tuesday, where he received thunderous applause from fans in the audience the moment he appeared.
After speaking his first word back as the character, which was, aptly, “Potter,” the actor waited to say the rest of the line for a good 30 seconds as the crowd cheered him on. “I need a favor,” Felton finally said after the applause ended. The moment was shared in a video posted on the official Cursed Child Instagram.
“It’s true then, what they’re saying on the train. Tom Felton has come to Broadway,” the caption reads. “Tom Felton makes his first appearance as Draco Malfoy on Broadway. #CursedChildNYC.”
The caption is a reference to one of Draco’s lines from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. “It’s true then, what they’re saying on the train,” Draco says in reference to Harry’s arrival at Hogwarts.
Felton’s casting was announced back in June. He originally joined the show for a 19-week limited engagement, which was scheduled to last through March 22, 2026. Now he plans to stay in the role for an additional seven weeks due to high demand. Fans can see him as the Slytherin wizard through May 10.
“Don’t miss your chance to witness wizarding world history. Tom Felton returns to the role he made famous, Draco Malfoy, as he joins the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child live on Broadway this fall,” the Cursed Childwebsite reads.
The play continues the Harry Potter story 19 years after the events of the book series and film franchise. It follows the children of Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco, who now all attend Hogwarts together.
Poppy on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Poppy has announced a new album called Empty Hands.
The follow-up to 2024’s Negative Spaces is due out Jan. 23, 2026. It includes the previously released single “Unravel.” A second cut, titled “Bruised Sky,” is out now.
“‘Bruised Sky’ embraces Poppy at her heaviest sonically, with powerful and commanding vocals that effortlessly shift between melodic bridges and death growls,” a press release reads. “As Poppy’s vocals build, so does the guitar backing her, matching her ferocity decibel for decibel.”
In this July 23, 2025, file photo, Rep. Robert Garcia gestures as the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement meets in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. Members of the subcommittee passed a motion to subpoena the so-called “Epstein files.” Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, FILE
(WASHINGTON) — Reactions are pouring in from Capitol Hill after House Democrats released correspondence from sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in which he wrote that President Donald Trump “spent hours at my house” with an alleged victim.
The emails, written in 2011 to Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell but made public on Wednesday by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, have added to a renewed push by some lawmakers to compel the administration to release all files related to Epstein.
“We won’t stop until we end this White House cover-up. Release the files, NOW,” Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking member on the Oversight panel, wrote on X.
Many Democrats issued similar calls.
“It’s clear as day: Trump is in the Epstein files,” New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler wrote on X. “The American people deserve the full truth.”
“The public deserves to know who enabled Epstein, who looked the other way, and who’s still being protected. Survivors have waited long enough. Release the Epstein files NOW,” wrote Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee accused Democrats of “trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump.”
In a social media post, Republicans on the panel claimed in the 2011 email between Epstein and Maxwell, Democrats redacted the name “Virginia” — a likely reference to prominent Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who had made extensive public comments about her exploitation by Epstein, but had never accused Trump of any wrongdoing.
“Democrats continue to carelessly cherry-pick documents to generate click-bait that is not grounded in the facts,” a House Oversight Majority spokesperson said in a statement. “The Epstein Estate has produced over 20,000 pages of documents on Thursday, yet Democrats are once again intentionally withholding records that name Democrat officials.”
After the release by House Democrats, House Republicans on the Oversight panel released an additional 20,000 pages of documents they received from the Epstein estate.
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, one of a handful of Republican women backing the effort to compel the release of all Epstein files, defended Trump and said focus should be on the victims.
“How pathetic that Democrats are using Epstein’s victims to bury headlines on their vote against reopening the government,” Mace wrote on X.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also accused Democrats of “selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative.”
“The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions. The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,” Leavitt said in a statement to ABC News.
“These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again,” Leavitt added.
In other messages released by House Democrats, Epstein appeared to touch on his relationship with Trump and whether he’d been banned from membership at Mar-a-Lago years earlier.
“Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” Epstein wrote in a message to author Michael Wolff, “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”
Trump, who hasn’t yet directly weighed in on the latest development, previously blamed Democrats for creating a “hoax” surrounding the Epstein files.
After Epstein was arrested in 2019, Trump said he hadn’t spoken with him since 2015 because of a falling out. This summer, as momentum picked up in Congress to release all the Epstein files, Trump said Epstein “stole” young women (including Guiffre) from his Mar-a-Lago club, but that he didn’t know why.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna are leading a discharge petition to force a vote on compelling the Justice Department to release all the Epstein files.
Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, set to be sworn in on Wednesday, is expected to become the decisive 218th signature needed for the petition.
“Why did Justice or the FBI not get & release these?” Khanna wrote on X about the Epstein emails made public by House Democrats. “Today, [Massie] & my petition gets 218!”
The Aurora Borealis lights up the night sky over Monroe, Wisconsin, on November 11, 2025. (Ross Harried/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Dazzling waves of color are lighting up the skies this week.
After green and pink displays of auroras lit up the sky Tuesday night, another Northern Light array is expected to bring a gleaming light show to the northern part of the U.S. Wednesday night.
The auroras are being caused by one of the strongest geomagnetic storms of the year, which occurs when electrons from the sun collide with Earth’s magnetic field to produce colored lights, according to NOAA.
“Aurora is the name given to the glow or light produced when electrons from space flow down Earth’s magnetic field and collide with atoms and molecules of the upper atmosphere in a ring or oval centered on the magnetic pole of Earth. The collisions produce light much like how electrons flowing through gas in a neon light collide with neon and other gasses to produce different colored light bulbs,” NOAA’s website reads.
Two dozen states could see the Northern Lights Wednesday night per NOAA’s aurora viewline map that includes Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
Mike Bettwy, a meteorologist at the Space Weather Prediction Center, told ABC News that the auroras on Wednesday could be as clear as the ones on Tuesday.
“We had three coronal mass ejections leave the Sun since late last week. The third and final one is expected to impact our atmosphere later today and tonight. It is difficult to predict with a high degree of certainty or precision, but it is possible this will be as impactful as last night’s event. There were reports of aurora as far south as Tampa, Florida, overnight,” Bettwy said.
“While not unprecedented, it is quite unusual for the aurora to be visible at these low latitudes; probably only occurring once or twice per solar cycle,” he added.
The best time to see the aurora is between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., according to NOAA.
NASA recommends going to the darkest area and using a long exposure to get the best photos of the light show, per their guidance.
NASA did not immediately reply to requests for comment from ABC News.
: Megan Thee Stallion attends Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 33rd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party on March 02, 2025, in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images)
If you didn’t already know, Megan Thee Stallion‘s new single, “Lover Girl,” gives fans insight into her current space in life. She tells US Weekly the song’s “just reflective of this new chapter of my journey.”
“Right now, I’m in a great space where I’m just more comfortable and open to receiving love from everyone in my life,” says Meg, who is currently dating NBA star Klay Thompson. “It’s a beautiful and peaceful place to be, so I’m really just enjoying the soft life right now.”
She adds, “[T]he reception to the song has been incredible – I’m really happy the Hotties are loving it.”
“Lover Girl” is the newest song added to Meg’s discography, which includes hits she hopes to one day perform on the Super Bowl stage.
“I’m manifesting a Super Bowl halftime performance for myself in the future. Honestly, I would really love the opportunity if it presented itself and I would embrace the challenge,” Meg tells the publication. “The Hotties know I love to put on a show, so I would just want to turn the halftime show into a big party, come with some surprises and put on for my city.”
Dave Mustaine of Megadeth seen performing live on stage. (Bonnie Britain/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Megadeth may be embarking on a farewell tour, but their Countdown to Extinction still has a ways to go.
Frontman Dave Mustaine tells Kerrang!that “we’re easily talking about touring for another three to five years” before Megadeth officially hangs it up.
“And if we’re going to be doing it for that long then, s***, I’ll be looking at the birthday I don’t even want to think about!” the 64-year-old Mustaine adds.
So far, Megadeth’s touring plans include 2026 U.S. dates with Iron Maiden.
A final, self-titled Megadeth album is due out Jan. 23. Lead single “Tipping Point” is out now; a second cut, titled “I Don’t Care,” will premiere Friday.
Photo of Little Feat (Photo credit: Fletcher Moore)
Little Feat is ready to say goodbye to the road. The band just announced that their upcoming tour will be their last.
The trek, fittingly called The Last Farewell Tour, a callback to their 1975 release, The Last Record Album, will kick off April 10 in Orlando, Florida.
“Playing is the joy and satisfaction of touring, but it comes with the hard part — travel, the endless miles on a bus,” the band said in a statement. “There’s no dodging the wear and tear, and Little Feat has been playing for quite a while.”
Although dates are currently confirmed through May 24 in Thornville, Ohio, more shows are expected to be announced.
“It’s definitely not an absolute, never-gonna-play again statement,” the band adds. “This wind-down will take several years to accomplish, and while it does, Feat will continue to perform and record as long as they are able. It’s a retirement from the travel of touring.”
“Feat has an incredible legacy of music and the celebration that comes with it, and the near future will see them honoring their own past with more playing,” they note. “But it’s time to give the trusty tour bus, however comfy, a rest.”
To coincide with the announcement, Little Feat has released the previously unreleased song “Feathers and a Smile,” which was written by Little Feat’s late co-founder Lowell George and features his daughter Inara George on vocals. It is now available via digital outlets.
A complete list of dates can be found at LittleFeat.net.
