Another Grohl hits the chart: Violet makes ’Billboard’ debut with ‘THUM’

Another Grohl hits the chart: Violet makes ’Billboard’ debut with ‘THUM’
Another Grohl hits the chart: Violet makes ’Billboard’ debut with ‘THUM’
“THUM” single artwork. (Auroura Records)

After signing her own record deal, Violet Grohl is following in her father’s footsteps in another way.

Violet’s single “THUM” has entered the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart, officially marking her Billboard debut.

The track, which debuted in December on Bandcamp before receiving a wide streaming release in January, begins on Adult Alternative Airplay at #38.

Of course, Violet’s dad, Dave Grohl, has a long history on the Billboard charts with Foo Fighters. The “Everlong” rockers have logged a total of 44 songs on the Alternative Airplay chart, which ties them with U2 for most in the ranking’s 38-year history, and 43 songs on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

Foo Fighters will release a new album, Your Favorite Toy, on April 24. Violet’s debut album is forthcoming.

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Metallica adds February 2027 dates to Sphere residency

Metallica adds February 2027 dates to Sphere residency
Metallica adds February 2027 dates to Sphere residency
Metallica Life Burns Faster at Sphere artwork. (Courtesy of Live Nation)

Metallica has added even more dates to their upcoming Life Burns Faster residency at the high-tech Sphere venue in Las Vegas.

The newly announced shows will take place in 2027 on Feb. 4 and 6, 18 and 20, and 25 and 27. Presales begin for members of Metallica Fifth Member fan club at 3 p.m. PT.

Metallica’s previously announced Sphere dates take place Oct. 1 and 3, 8 and 10, 15 and 17, 22 and 24, and 29 and 31; Nov. 5 and 7; and Jan. 28 and 30.

With each pair of shows, which take place on Thursdays and Saturdays, the Thursday concert will feature a completely unique set list from its corresponding Saturday performance.

Presales to the previously announced shows are ongoing. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. PT.

Metallica’s also announced the launch of the Royal Flush ticket, which gets you into every Metallica show of 2027.

For all Metallica Sphere info, visit Metallica.com

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Music Notes: Queen Latifah, T.I. and more

Music Notes: Queen Latifah, T.I. and more
Music Notes: Queen Latifah, T.I. and more

If you came across rumors that Queen Latifah had passed away, she has a new post on Instagram denying the reports. “Good morning, it’s me, Latifah,” she says in a video Thursday. “I’m 100% A-OK. Can’t believe what you read on the internet or see. Can’t believe nothing now, right? I’m good. Peace.”

Lo Kee, a restaurant in Atlanta, is honoring some famous women from the city with specialized items on its menu, according to Billboard. The menu features the Latto crispy rock shrimp tempura as an appetizer, Mariah the Scientist filet mignon cubes as an entrée and the NeNe Leakes thai tea crème brûlée as a dessert. There are also menu items named after Monica, Ciara, Keri Hilson, Kandi Burruss, Tamar Braxton and Porsha Williams.

T.I.’s song “Let ‘Em Know” is back in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. Speaking to Billboard about the accomplishment, he says, “It’s surreal, in a way. It’s humbling that relevance still exists within this art that I’ve been able to present to the world after such a long journey. I just appreciate the fans receiving it.” Elsewhere in the interview, he talked about leaving Atlantic Records, the 50 Cent feud and more.

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Phil Collins tops the fan-vote leaderboard for Rock Hall induction

Phil Collins tops the fan-vote leaderboard for Rock Hall induction
Phil Collins tops the fan-vote leaderboard for Rock Hall induction
2026 Rock Hall Nominees (Courtesy Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

There’s no guarantee that the artist who tops the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame fan vote will actually get into the Rock Hall, but at least they can take comfort in the fact that fans think they belong there.

Over 2.5 million votes have been cast since the nominees for induction were announced, and so far Phil Collins is #1 in the fan vote by a comfortable margin. Were he to make the cut, it would be his second time in the Hall, since he’s already in as a member of Genesis.

Coming in at #2 is R&B boy band New Edition, followed by Pink at #3. The late R&B icon Luther Vandross is currently #4, followed by Billy Idol, INXS and Sade — which, by the way, is a group and not just a person.

The rest of the top 10 vote-getters are, in descending order, Mariah Carey, Wu-Tang Clan and Lauryn Hill.

The nominee with the fewest votes on the leaderboard? The late singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley, who released one highly influential album, Grace, before he accidentally drowned in 1997.

Of course, the leaderboard can change many times before the deadline to vote is reached. As previously reported, the results of the fan vote are submitted as a single ballot, as though all the fans together were one actual Rock Hall voting member. There are roughly 1,200 voting members in all. The winner of last year’s fan vote, Phish, did not make it into the Hall.

The 2026 Rock Hall of Fame inductees should be revealed in April; the ceremony will take place in the fall.

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Guns N’ Roses announce tour of Australia & New Zealand

Guns N’ Roses announce tour of Australia & New Zealand
Guns N’ Roses announce tour of Australia & New Zealand
(L-R) Slash and Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses perform onstage during the Power Trip music festival at Empire Polo Club on October 06, 2023 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Power Trip)

Guns N’ Roses announced in February they were headlining the bp Adelaide Grand Final Concert on Nov. 29 in Adelaide, Australia. Now it turns out that while they’re Down Under, they’re going to be playing some other shows, as well.

The “Sweet Child O’ Mine” rockers just announced dates for a tour of Australia and New Zealand, which will have them hitting seven cities. The trek kicks off with the Adelaide show, and then the rockers will visit Townsville, Brisbane, Newcastle, Melbourne and Sydney in Australia, before wrapping the tour on Dec. 17 in Auckland, New Zealand.

A presale for the Guns N’ Roses Nighttrain fan club begins Friday. A complete list of tour dates and ticket information can be found at GunsNRoses.com.

Guns N’ Roses is set to launch a North American tour on May 5 in Hollywood, Florida. Their next show is March 28 in Monterrey, Mexico.

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Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan star in ‘Beef’ season 2 teaser trailer

Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan star in ‘Beef’ season 2 teaser trailer
Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan star in ‘Beef’ season 2 teaser trailer
Charles Melton as Austin Davis, Carey Mulligan as Lindsay Crane-Martin, Oscar Isaac as Josh Martin and Cailee Spaeny as Ashley Miller in ‘Beef’ season 2. (Netflix)

The official teaser trailer for the second season of Beef is here.

Netflix has shared the first trailer for season 2 of the popular Emmy-winning anthology series from A24 and creator Lee Sung Jin.

This season features a brand-new story with a completely different cast of characters. Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny star in season 2. The incident that sparks the new “beef” is a Gen Z couple witnessing an alarming fight between their millennial boss and his wife.

“Newly-engaged Ashley Miller (Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Melton), both lower-level staff at a country club, become entangled in the unraveling marriage of their General Manager, Joshua Martín (Isaac), and his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martín (Mulligan),” according to its official synopsis. “Through favors and coercion, both couples vie for the approval of the elitist club’s billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh Jung), who struggles to manage her own scandal involving her second husband, Doctor Kim (Song Kang Ho).”

The teaser trailer begins with Issac’s Joshua Martín giving a voice-over monologue.

“Our members, do you know why they pay so much to come here?” he says. “The courts, the exclusivity, the discretion. People need a place where they can feel safe. Where they can pretend everything is OK. It’s the land of make believe.”

The cast also includes Seoyeon Jang as Eunice, William Fichtner as Troy, Mikaela Hoover as Ava and the musician BM in his acting debut as Woosh.

There will be eight 30-minute episodes in season 2. Lee returns as its creator, showrunner and executive producer. The first season’s stars, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, also return to executive produce season 2, joined by Mulligan, Isaac, Melton and Spaeny as executive producers.

Beef season 2 arrives to Netflix on April 16.

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House fails to adopt Iran war powers resolution

House fails to adopt Iran war powers resolution
House fails to adopt Iran war powers resolution
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to members of the media during a news conference on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

(WASHINGTON) — The House failed to adopt a war powers resolution that attempted to curtail President Donald Trump’s military actions in Iran.

It failed by a vote of 212-219. Republican Reps. Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson bucked GOP leaders by voting in favor; four Democrats voted against the resolution, including Reps. Greg Landsman, Henry Cuellar and Jared Golden.

The resolution, which only expresses the sentiment of Congress, called on the president to terminate the use of U.S. armed forces in hostilities against Iran or any part of the Iranian government or military unless a declaration of war or authorization to use military force is enacted.

It came after recent U.S. strikes on Iran that killed several Iranian leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran.

The measure was non-binding and not subject to the president’s signature or veto.

Speaker Mike Johnson argued Wednesday that the United States is “not at war” but only engaged in a “defensive operation” in Iran. 

“We’re not at war right now,” Johnson told reporters at the Capitol. “We’re in — four days into a very specific, clear mission and operation.”

Later on Wednesday, Trump contradicted Johnson, repeatedly referring to the conflict in Iran as a “war” hours after Johnson said it wasn’t.

Sitting next to Johnson during a roundtable on energy prices, Trump said “we’re doing very well on — on the war front, to put it mildly.”

Johnson had said that the “passage of a war powers resolution right now would be a terrible, dangerous idea.”

“It would empower our enemies. It would kneecap our own forces, and it would take the ability of the U.S. military and the commander in chief away from completing this critical mission to keep everybody safe,” he said Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Senate Democrats failed to meet a 51-vote threshold on an alternate Iran war powers resolution sponsored by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine and Republican Sen. Rand Paul. The resolution failed behind a 47-53 tally. 

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The latest globe-trotting adventures of Dustin Lynch

The latest globe-trotting adventures of Dustin Lynch
The latest globe-trotting adventures of Dustin Lynch
Dustin Lynch (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)

Where in the world is Dustin Lynch these days? Well, it’s probably not the place you would expect: South America. 

“Annual New Country boys trip is underway!” he posted on his socials. “Argentina is off to a great start. Amazing people.”

For the past few years, Dustin and two of his longtime friends have made a tradition of visiting a place they’ve never been. That’s why they’ve named it their “New Country boys trip.” Typically, they’ve gone around the first of the year, though obviously it’s later this year.

Dustin also included a carousel of photos of the sights in Argentina with his friends.

While we don’t know how long the trip will be, we do know that Dustin has to be back at work March 13, when he plays the Coca-Cola Roxy in Atlanta with Corey Kent and Meghan Patrick. 

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Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis announce Nothing But Hits Las Vegas residency

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis announce Nothing But Hits Las Vegas residency
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis announce Nothing But Hits Las Vegas residency
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis attend the Songwriters of North America (SONA) Warrior Awards to support a unified voice protecting expression, compensation, and the rights of Songwriters and Composers worldwide at the Skirball Cultural Center on October 12, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for the Songwriters of North America (SONA) Warrior Awards )

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are headed to Sin City for a residency that will be filled with “Nothing But Hits.”

Their Nothing But Hits residency will feature six performances at Voltaire at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas in April. The shows will mark their first time celebrating and performing songs from their discography onstage.

“We’ve been fortunate to do so many incredible things in our careers,” Jimmy Jam said in a statement. “But we’ve never had the chance to perform our catalog live. Being able to share these songs — and the stories behind them — in a space like Voltaire is going to be special.”

“The show will feel like traveling through the soundtrack of your life,” Terry Lewis added. “It’s not just the music — it’s the memories and moments connected to it.”

He told Good Morning America fans should expect “a lot of hits [and] a lot of fun,” noting, “You never know who’s gonna show up and do something.”

The Nothing But Hits residency begins on April 17, with shows also scheduled on April 18, 22, 24, 25 and 26. Ruben Studdard and Shanice Wilson will join as special guests.

Tickets are now available at voltairelv.com.

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have written and produced hits for artists including Michael Jackson, Prince, Usher, Mariah Carey, New Edition, Toni Braxton and H.E.R. They co-wrote and produced nearly every track on Janet Jackson’s Control album, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

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Kenny Chesney explores the music of Willie Nelson in new season of ‘One by Willie’

Kenny Chesney explores the music of Willie Nelson in new season of ‘One by Willie’
Kenny Chesney explores the music of Willie Nelson in new season of ‘One by Willie’
Willie Nelson and Kenny Chesney performs at Farm Aid at the Comcast Center on September 20, 2008 in Mansfield, Massachusetts. (Paul Natkin/WireImage)

Kenny Chesney leads off the new season of the One by Willie podcast focusing on his love for Willie Nelson’s 1976 recording of “That Lucky Old Sun.” 

Of course, Kenny rerecorded it with Willie in 2008 and also made it the title track of one of his albums.

The podcast, which starts its seventh season on March 11, takes a notable fan of the Red-Headed Stranger and lets them explore their love for one Willie song of their choosing.  

“We started this project because we thought listening to Willie records with cool, smart people would be fun,” host John Spong says. “And it definitely has been.”

“But it’s turned into a much deeper look at him,” he continues, “with three main takeaways: As an artist, Willie Nelson found success by being true to himself. As a person, he never wavered from being true to the people around him. And as for the songs themselves, every single one of them comes with a great story.”

Jamey Johnson, Bill Anderson, Taj Mahal and Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart are just some of the people who’ll be part of the seventh season.

Miranda Lambert, John Mellencamp, Whoopi Goldberg, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt and Vince Gill have all done episodes in the past.

You can listen to One by Willie free on all major podcast platforms.  

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