Wolfgang Van Halen of Mammoth performs at Little Caesars Arena on November 20, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. (Scott Legato/Getty Images)
Wolfgang Van Halen takes his love of Foo Fighters to new heights on his latest Mammoth album, 2025’s The End.
Toward the end of the opening track, “One of a Kind,” Wolf starts screaming the line “We’re not coming home” in a way that’s very reminiscent of Dave Grohl’s vocals.
“I do think that’s probably my Grohl-iest I’ve ever sounded,” Wolf tells ABC Audio.
In general, Wolf found he was trying new things with his voice on The End.
“Through the vocal recording and everything, I was really uncomfortable most of the time,” Wolf says. “I thought that was cool because it meant I was doing something I wasn’t familiar or comfortable with.”
While “One of a Kind” might remind you of the Foos, the song “The End” will definitely remind you of Wolf’s late father, Eddie Van Halen, with its tapping guitar intro. Wolf says he long had that tapping part set aside, but didn’t know what to do with it until “The End” came along.
“I was like, ‘Wait, I have that tapping thing,’ what if it’s the centerpiece of this intro and it kinda has these epic stabs in between,” Wolf recalls. “It was almost a fun writing exercise to write a song around that idea.”
Also on “The End,” Wolf briefly turns into Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers with a slapping part that’s actually played on guitar instead of bass, which came along after a discussion with his producer.
“I only had a guitar on me, so I was like, ‘It goes like this, but pretend it’s a bass,'” Wolf says. “When I showed it to him he was like, ‘Dude, you should do that on guitar, that sounds really cool.'”
Mammoth will launch a U.S. tour in support of The End Thursday in Buffalo, New York.
Cover of Warren Zevon’s ‘Epilogue: Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival’ (Omnivore Recordings)
Warren Zevon’s final live performance is getting a special vinyl release.
Epilogue: Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival will be released on two-LP opaque metallic silver vinyl on April 17.
The album captures Zevon’s August 2002 performance at Canada’s Edmonton Folk Music Festival, which turned out to be his final live performance ever. The reissue includes an etched fourth side, along with liner notes from bandmate Matt Cartsonis, who played with Zevon during the show.
Originally released in November 2025 on black vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday, Epilogue features performances of such Zevon classics as “Werewolves of London,” “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” and “Lawyers, Guns And Money,” as well as the track “Dirty Life and Times,” which has only been played live twice.
Not long after playing the Edmonton Folk Festival, Zevon was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He passed away Sept. 7, 2003, at the age of 56. In November, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the musical influence category.
Epilogue: Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival on silver vinyl is available for preorder now.
Don Toliver performs as Don Toliver X Yeat during the 2025 Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash at SeatGeek Stadium on June 20, 2025, in Bridgeview, Illinois. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images)
Don Toliver has topped a few Billboard charts, but there’s only one award he would like to receive someday.
Speaking to Billboard for a recent cover story, he revealed that he wants to get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Don has quite some time to wait before becoming eligible for a nomination; an artist can’t be nominated until 25 years after their first commercial release. Until then, Don said his goal is to spend more quality time with his son.
“I just want to be locked in me and my son just sitting back watching Winnie the Pooh,” he says. “Man, practicing whatever he wants to practice [and I’m] cooking up, sketching designs and setting up something even crazier one day.”
That and taking care of his loved ones, he said, are more important to him than chasing any other accolade.
“To provide for my family the way I’ve done is the greatest reward,” Don said. “My grandma called me the other day and asked me, ‘Yo, my refrigerator is broken. I need a new fridge.’ We brought her a fridge with a touch screen, just because she wanted it. At the end of the day, bro, that s*** warms my heart.”
“An award is cool, but I know for a fact I’m going to make that bread,” Don said. “Just like being able to sit here and say, ‘I can chill out and really just focus on my family and work on music whenever I really feel like I’m in a good mood or in a vibe to do so,’ makes me happy.”
Don is set to headline the first night of Billboard Presents The Stage at SXSW 2026 on March 13. His tour supporting his album Octane kicks off in May.
Jack Johnson performs at FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island during ‘Farm Aid 30’ on September 19, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
Jack Johnson will be performing at the 2026 South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
The “Upside Down” artist will take the stage at Austin’s Stubb’s venue on March 13, following the premiere of his new documentary, Surfilmusic, earlier that day at the Paramount Theatre.
As its title suggests, Surfilmusic follows “Johnson’s evolution from surfer to filmmaker to world-renowned musician.”
“The new film celebrates the lifelong friendships and ocean-driven community that shaped Johnson’s path,” a press release reads.
Johnson is also launching his Surfilmusic tour in June.
Sharon Osbourne attends the 68th GRAMMY Awards on February 01, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Sharon Osbourne has shared more details about the return of Ozzfest.
During the latest episode of The Osbournes Podcast, Sharon says the plan is for the festival to return in 2027 in the Aston area of the late Ozzy Osbourne’s hometown of Birmingham, England, before coming over to the U.S.
“We want to do two days in Aston Villa and then come to America,” Sharon says. “We want to hear from everyone where we should go in America.”
Sharon adds that she hopes Ozzfest will return to a full touring festival by 2028.
Sharon founded Ozzfest, which, of course, is named after Ozzy, in the ’90s. It became a staple of the late ’90s and early 2000s hard rock and metal scene, helping propel the careers of bands including Linkin Park, Slipknot and Deftones.
The last Ozzfest was held on New Year’s Eve 2018 in Los Angeles. It marked Ozzy’s final full-length live performance before the 2025 Back to the Beginning concert, during which he played a solo set with the reunited Black Sabbath. Ozzy died just over two weeks later on July 22.
In related news, Sharon teased during a panel at the 2026 MIDEM conference in France that a statue of Ozzy will debut on the grounds of the French festival Hellfest.
Hellfest previously unveiled a statue of Ozzy’s longtime friend and collaborator, late Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister.
RZA will attend Beyond Chicago, a four-day all-genre film festival showcasing 30 features of “all-killer-no-filler cinematic chaos and carnage,” according to a press release. He’ll be bringing along his film One Spoon of Chocolate and will present a special 35mm screening of The Kid with the Golden Arm. Beyond Chicago will take place April 2-5 at the historic Music Box Theatre.
Lil Yachty and Coach K have expanded the Yacht Water brand with the newly added Piña Yacht Water, made with reposado tequila, fresh pineapple juice and a touch of sea salt. “Piña brings a whole new energy to Yacht Water,” Yachty said in a statement.
Eric Bellinger has announced a minitour where he will perform at City Winery locations in various cities. An Intimate Night with Eric Bellinger Live kicks off with April 29 in Boston and wraps with a two-night stand in Atlanta May 17 and 18. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis and Nashville are also on the schedule. Tickets go on sale Friday.
Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys performs during Riot Fest at Douglass Park on September 20, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images)
The Beach Boys’ Bruce Johnston is leaving the band.
The 83-year-old Johnston joined the group in 1965 as a fill-in for Brian Wilson during live performances. In a statement to Rolling Stonehesays he’s leaving the group in order to spend more time in the studio.
“It’s time for Part Three of my lengthy musical career!” he tells the mag. “I can write songs forever and wait until you hear what’s coming!!! As my major talent beyond singing is songwriting, now is the time to get serious again.”
He adds that he’ll be embarking on a speaking engagement career, along with personal appearances and events. He also plans to join The Beach Boys for special performances, including their July 3 and 4 shows at The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
“This isn’t goodbye, it’s see you soon,” he adds. “I am forever grateful to be a part of the Beach Boys musical legacy.”
Mike Love, who’s the only original Beach Boys member still in the band, tells the mag in a statement that Johnston “is one of the greatest songwriters, vocalist[s], and keyboardist[s] of our time.”
“We’ve had the honor of his performance and participation for many many years with The Beach Boys,” he adds. “Change is always promised in life, today we find ourselves in a chapter of change, but not an end.”
“I am very supportive of Bruce and I have every confidence that he will produce great music,” he notes.
After joining The Beach Boys on tour in 1965, Johnston appeared on many of their albums, starting with 1965’s Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!). He also wrote several Beach Boys songs. He left the group in 1972, but returned in 1978 and has been touring with them ever since.
HBO Max released the first trailer for its upcoming DC Studios superhero TV series on Wednesday, one day earlier than originally planned.
Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre and Kelly Macdonald star in the upcoming show, which will make its debut in August.
Lanterns follows a new recruit named John Stewart (Pierre) and Hal Jordan (Chandler). The two intergalactic cops are “drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland,” according to the show’s official logline.
“With all due respect, we’ve been training for, what, two months? And I haven’t even worn the ring yet,” Pierre’s Stewart says in the teaser trailer.
“Don’t get hung up on the jewelry, junior,” Chandler’s Hal Jordan says in response. “You’re just a f****** substitute teacher. You’re not ready to get up in front of the class until the ring says you are.”
Hal then shrugs and says, “But alright,” before leaving the ring on the dashboard and jumping out of the driver’s seat of the car he was driving.
Later in the trailer, Hal calls this instance “training.”
True Detective: Night Country‘s Chris Mundy is the showrunner for Lanterns. He writes the program alongside Watchmen‘s Damon Lindelof and DC comic creator Tom King.
An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron 151, prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of Operation Epic Fury, March 2, 2026. (U.S. Navy)
President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff revealed in an interview this week that Iranian negotiators told him in the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli military operation in Iran that they had enough enriched uranium to “make 11 nuclear bombs.”
But since the major combat operations were launched on Saturday with the intent of crushing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the administration has yet to publicly produce any concrete evidence on the whereabouts of the nuclear material or who is in control of it. The Israel Defense Forces claimed that at least 40 top military commanders were killed in the opening strikes of the conflict.
In an interview on Fox News, Witkoff told host Sean Hannity that as soon as he and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, sat down with the Iranian negotiators for denuclearization talks last month, their counterparts spoke of their stockpile of enriched uranium.
“Jared and I opened up with the Iranian negotiators telling us they had the inalienable right to enrich all the nuclear fuel they possessed,” Witkoff said. “We, of course, responded that the president feels we have the inalienable right to stop you in your tracks.”
Witkoff claimed the Iranian negotiators openly shared details about their supply of nuclear material.
“In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60% [enriched uranium] and they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs,” Witkoff said.
Witkoff said the 60% enriched uranium can be brought to weapons-grade in about a week and that the 20% enriched uranium can be brought to weapons-grade in three to four weeks.
“They manufacture their own centrifuges to enrich this material,” Witkoff said. “So, there’s almost no stopping them. They have an endless supply of it.”
The statement appears to contradict what the Pentagon said last summer about Iran’s ability to develop weapons-grade uranium following U.S. strikes on its nuclear facilities.
In July 2025, Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, said at a news conference that that the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June set back Iran’s capability to develop a nuclear weapon by “closer to two years.”
“It’s not just … enriched uranium or centrifuges or things like that. We destroyed the components that they would need to build a bomb,” Parnell said at the time.
But on Tuesday, that assessment fell to the wayside as the administration defended the U.S. military operation by insisting Iran posed an imminent threat to Americans. A senior administration official told reporters in a briefing that among the factors in the operation was that Iran had the ability to rebuild those components destroyed in the bombing, including its own centrifuges.
The official said a lot of the enriched uranium remained mostly in Isfahan with some still at Natanz and Fordo.
“It can be a long and cumbersome process in extracting it and covering it up,” the official said. “I think the first question is, where is it? The second question is, how do we get to it, and how do we get physical control? And then after that, it would be a decision of the president and department, the Department of War, CIA, as to whether we wanted to physically transport it or dilute it on premises.”
Iran has stated numerous times that it doesn’t want nuclear weapons, but believes it has the right to use nuclear power for civilian purpose. It had also been part of a nuclear deal with the U.S., which Trump withdrew from during his first term.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told ABC’s “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that the attack on his country was “unprovoked and unwarranted.” He said Iran was negotiating with the United States in good faith prior to the attacks.
“A deal was at our reach, and we left Geneva happily with the understanding that we can reach a deal next time we meet,” Araghchi said.
In their two public briefings on “Operation Epic Fury” in Iran, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not address what has become of Iran’s nuclear material since the widespread military strikes began on Saturday.
In several speeches since the attacks commenced, Trump has also not been specific about the status of Iran’s nuclear material.
Hegseth, Caine, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio conducted a closed-door briefing with members of the U.S. Senate and House on the Iran operation on Tuesday afternoon.
In a letter sent on Monday to the administration’s briefers, five top House Democrats — including Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee — asked for information on nuclear security in Iran.
“Who currently controls Iran’s nuclear facilities and materials, and what safeguards are in place to prevent diversion or proliferation, or complete loss of control?” the Democratic lawmakers asked in their letter.
But following the briefing, Meeks said the briefers offered few answers.
“Here we are again without answers. Here we are again without complete transparency,” Meeks said. “Here we are again trying to go around Congress.”
Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said the briefers provided “no additional” information on the imminent threat that prompted the military operation, adding, “There’s nothing that we got that you don’t have.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., challenged any suggestion that the Trump administration was unclear during their briefing with House members about their objectives in Iran.
“This is really a very simple matter. It’s about the building of ballistic missiles. That’s what Iran was engaged in, and they were doing it at a speed and in a scale that was exceeding the ability of our regional allies to respond appropriately,” Johnson said. “This created an imminent and serious threat. It also gave them cover to continue with their nuclear ambitions.”
Johnson added, “As you know, we tried very hard to negotiate with them about that nuclear enrichment of uranium … and the buildup of their missiles was so important and so serious that the President of the United States, this president, thought that it was a great enough threat that we needed to act.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, said in a social media post on Tuesday that, based on the latest available satellite imagery, it “can now confirm some recent damage to entrance buildings of Iran’s underground Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant [FEP].”
“No radiological consequence expected and no additional impact detected at FEP itself, which was severely damaged in the June conflict,” the IAEA said in the post.
In June 2025, the U.S. and Israeli militaries launched “Operation Midnight Hammer,” targeting three of Iran’s nuclear facilities — Natanz, Fordo and Isfahan — with “bunker-buster” bombs, according to the White House.
At the time, Trump said the operation “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s key uranium enrichment sites.
In a speech on Monday at the White House, Trump said that after “Operation Midnight Hammer,” Iran attempted to rebuild its nuclear facilities in another location, “because they were unable to use the ones we so powerfully blew up.”
“In addition, the regime’s conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly and dramatically, and this posed a very clear, colossal threat to America and our forces stationed overseas,” Trump said. “The purpose of this fast-growing missile program was to shield their nuclear weapon development and make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone to stop them from making these highly forbidden, by us, nuclear weapons.”
The Institute for Science and International Security said in a statement on Tuesday that its analysis of satellite imagery indicates the Natanz nuclear complex, Iran’s main uranium enrichment site, was struck twice during Saturday’s joint U.S.-Israeli attack.
Neither the Trump administration nor the Israeli government have confirmed the alleged strikes on the Natanz complex.
Meanwhile, Israel targeted a compound near Tehran linked to the regime’s nuclear weapons “capabilities,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in statement Tuesday.
After the U.S. targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities last year, Israel, which participated in the operation under the code-name “Rising Lion,” continued to track scientists connected to the Iran’s nuclear weapons program “and located their new location at this site in a manner that enabled a precise strike on the covert underground compound,” the statement said.
“The strike removes a key component in the Iranian regime’s capability to develop nuclear weapons and joins a series of strikes conducted during Operation ‘Rising Lion’ that were essential to eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat,” the IDF said.
-ABC News’ Mary Kekatos and Jordana Miller contributed to this report.
Charlie Puth joins Moises as chief music officer (Courtesy Moises)
Charlie Puth has just picked up a side gig: He’s now the chief music officer of AI platform Moises.
Moises was designed by musicians and is used by more than 70 million musicians worldwide, according to a press release. It lets artists do things like isolate vocals and instruments, identify chords and come up with new arrangements. What it doesn’t do is create an entirely new song out of nowhere — it’s more of a creative tool.
“I’ve been using Moises in my own creative process for years, as have many of my friends,” Charlie says in a statement. “It opens up possibilities that used to take hours or expensive studio setups.”
“AI, when done right, isn’t here to replace musicians,” he adds. “It’s here to help artists learn, explore, and bring their ideas to life.”
In his new role Charlie will “collaborate on artist-focused features, help shape creative direction, and ensure the platform continues to reflect how musicians actually work,” according to the release.
Now through March 31, Charlie and Moises are running a global remix competition, where you can create your own remix or cover of Charlie’s song “Beat Yourself Up” from his new album, Whatever’s Clever! Charlie will select the winners, who will receive $100,000 in cash and prizes, as well as a meet-and-greet at Charlie’s New York City show on May 29. You can enter now at Moises.ai.
