Robert Smith and Simon Gallup of The Cure perform during Riot Fest 2023 at Douglass Park on September 17, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images)
The Cure has shared an update on the progress of their next album, the follow-up to 2024’s Songs of a Lost World.
In the newly updated “Bio” section of their website, the “Just Like Heaven” outfit reveals, “In March 2025 the band went back into Rockfield Studios to record 13 more songs for a follow up album.”
Frontman Robert Smith spoke about the status of new material in a December interview with the U.K.’s Absolute Radio, during which he said that a “companion piece” to Songs of a Lost World was “pretty much ready to go.” He also said there was another “completely different” Cure record in the works.
Whenever a new Cure album arrives, it appears we won’t have to wait as long this time around. Prior to Songs of a Lost World, Smith and company hadn’t released a new record since 2008.
Joe Jonas of DNCE performs at the Capital Pride concert and festival, Washington, D.C.; June, 2022 (Brian Stukes/Getty Images)
Jonas Brothers‘ current tour, Greetings From Your Hometown, is all about nostalgia. But if watching JoBros play a couple of songs by Joe Jonas‘ side project DNCE during their set isn’t enough for you, you’ll be happy to hear that the group is going to do an actual gig.
The “Cake by the Ocean” combo will be performing at a Halloween party on Oct. 31 at FPL Solar Amphitheater in Miami. The group, which also includes guitarist JinJoo Lee and drummer Jack Lawless, promises “a mischief-filled night of tricks, treats and their fan-favorite hits.”
“This is going to be the ultimate Halloween party,” Joe says in a statement. “We have a lot of tricks up our sleeve and can’t wait to see Miami all dressed up, dancing with us all night long.”
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. ET via Ticketmaster.com. A fan presale begins the same day, but one hour earlier.
DNCE is squeezing in the gig between Jonas Brothers tour dates: JoBros are performing Oct. 29 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Nov. 1 in Lexington, Kentucky.
The JoBros set list includes “Cake by the Ocean” as well as another DNCE song, “Toothbrush.”
Artwork for Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ‘Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou’ playlist/(Concord Records)
Looking for some music to soundtrack your Halloween? A new playlist may just help set the mood.
Concord Records has released a digital collection of Creedence Clearwater Revival classics with titles that seem perfect for Halloween. Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou includes such songs as “Bad Moon Rising” and “Born on the Bayou,” as well as “Tombstone Shadow,” “Pagan Baby,” “Graveyard Train,” “Sinister Purpose” and more.
Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou is now available on all digital outlets and on YouTube.
In August, Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty released the album Legacy, featuring a track list made up of newly recorded versions of his classic CCR tunes. He returns to the road on Oct. 31 with a show in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A complete list of dates can be found at JohnFogerty.com.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attends the Senate Appropriations Committee markup of the “Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,” and other bills in Dirksen building on Thursday, July 10, 2025. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Mitch McConnell, 83, fell to the ground in a Capitol hallway Thursday afternoon as he made his way to Senate votes.
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Cynthia Erivo, Jon M. Chu and Ariana Grande attend the New York special screening of ‘Wicked’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on November 14, 2024. (Kevin Mazur/ Getty Images for Universal Pictures)
Jon M. Chu has revealed that a celebrated actor will voice the Cowardly Lion in Wicked: For Good.
The director described how he selected the mystery actor to voice the iconic character in an interview with Deadline shared on Thursday. Chu says he sent the star a direct message on Instagram asking him to be part of the Wicked sequel.
“I was like, ‘It’s not a ton of lines, but maybe you have a little time. I know you’re busy. I’ll come to you.’ He was like, ‘Why the f*** not, let’s go!’ And then we went ahead and recorded the lines.”
Chu is excited for the rest of the world to find out who is voicing the character.
“Man, wait until the red carpet when the actor who gave us the Cowardly Lion’s voice steps foot on it. It’ll be wild,” Chu said.
The Cowardly Lion was a main character in the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. He was portrayed by BertLahr. The character was teased in the most recent trailer for Wicked: For Good, which was released on Sept. 24.
Pras Michel attends Gold Bar on October 19, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images)
Pras Michél has teamed with Mark Wahlberg for a documentary about his journey from member of the Grammy-winning Fugees to a target in the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.
The case alleges he laundered money that financier Jho Low stole from Malaysia’s state-owned investment fund, 1MDB, to support the reelection campaign of Barack Obama in 2012 and convince the U.S. government to send Guo Wengui back to China, The Associated Press reports. He was also accused of using millions of dollars to bribe Donald Trump‘s administration into dropping an investigation into Low’s embezzlement.
“Everyone is fascinated by all the twists and turns, like it’s some kind of thriller,” Pras says to Variety. “But for me, this is just my life — the real, messy, complicated truth of what I’ve been living through.”
Wahlberg says he’s “rooting for Pras and excited to tell his story,” which co-producer Archie Gips describes as a “surprising mix of pop culture and geopolitical intrigue that feels like a spy thriller come to life.”
Tortuga Music Festival 2026 lineup (Rock The Ocean/Live Nation)
Kenny Chesney will return to headline the Tortuga Music Festival in 2026.
This will be the superstar’s fifth Tortuga performance, starting with the inaugural beachfront gathering in 2013.
“I love everything about Tortuga, starting with that very first year!” Kenny says. “To be on the Atlantic Ocean with all that beach, the sea to one side and A1A to the other is everything this music is made of—and the people who’ve been coming out every time we’ve played there are my kind of people.”
“Work hard, play harder and have fun while loving everyone in the space is a good way to be, and I can’t wait to get there next April,” he adds.
Post Malone and Riley Green are the other headliners for the April 10-12 festival in Ft. Lauderdale, with Chayce Beckham, Ashley Cooke, Russell Dickerson, Tyler Hubbard, Dustin Lynch, Josh Ross, Clay Walker, Dwight Yoakam and many more set to play as well.
Former U.S. security advisor John Bolton speaks at the inauguration of the ‘FAES Campus 2024’, at the Hotel Petit Palace Savoy Alfonso XII, on 23 September, 2024 in Madrid, Spain. Jesus Hellin/Europa Press via Getty Images
(WASHNGTON) — Federal prosecutors in Maryland are expected to ask a grand jury Thursday to indict former Trump national security adviser John Bolton for his alleged mishandling of classified documents, sources tell ABC News.
The move comes on the heels of the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as President Donald Trump continues what critics call a campaign of retribution against his perceived political foes.
Bolton has been a target of Trump’s ire since leaving Trump’s first administration and publishing a tell-all book. Federal agents in August searched Bolton’s Maryland residence and Washington, D.C., office, related to allegations that Bolton possessed classified information.
Bolton has denied ever unlawfully removing classified materials from his time in government and has said no such information was published in his 2019 memoir “The Room Where It Happened.”
The investigation is being run out of the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland, unlike the Comey and James probes which are being conducted by the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, who sources say brought the Comey and James charges against the advice of career prosecutors.
Comey, who was indicted on charges of lying to Congress, and James, who is charged with mortgage fraud, have both denied wrongdoing.
Last month, a federal judge unsealed a redacted version of the affidavit that had been assembled by prosecutors in order to execute their court-authorized search of Bolton’s home. Most of the document concerned allegations surrounding the publication of Bolton’s book, which the first Trump administration unsuccessfully sued to block.
The federal judge overseeing that lawsuit expressed grave concerns over whether Bolton had included highly classified information in his book that could potentially compromise national security.
On the day that Bolton’s home and office were searched, Trump said that he was “unaware” of the searches but went on to call Bolton a “sleazebag.” Referencing the FBI’s 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago home in his own classified documents case, Trump told reporters that having your home searched is “not a good feeling.”
Trump pleaded not guilty in June 2023 to 40 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House in 2021, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information and took steps to thwart the government’s efforts to get the documents back.
After Trump was reelected president last November, the case was dropped due to a long-standing Justice Department policy barring the prosecution of a sitting president.
Trump, asked about Bolton in a June 2022 Oval Office interview with Fox News, said, “He took classified information and he published it, during a presidency. It’s one thing to write a book after. During. And I believe that he’s a criminal, and I believe, frankly, he should go to jail for that, and that probably, possibly will happen. That’s what should happen.”
ABC News’ Pierre Thomas contributed to this report.
‘Quarantième: Live à Paris’ album artwork. (Inside Out Music/Sony Music)
Dream Theater has shared a live version of their song “Barstool Warrior,” recorded for the band’s upcoming live album, Quarantième: Live à Paris.
The set captures Dream Theater’s performance in Paris during their 40th anniversary tour, which marked the prog-metal outfit’s first live outing following the return of founding drummer Mike Portnoy in 2023.
The original “Barstool Warrior” appears on Dream Theater’s 2019 album, Distance Over Time, one of five studio records they put out during Portnoy’s absence from the band.
You can watch the Quarantième: Live à Paris performance of “Barstool Warrior” on YouTube.
Quarantième: Live à Paris is due out Nov. 28.
Dream Theater is currently touring the U.S. in support of their latest studio effort, Parasomnia, which marks their first with Portnoy in 16 years.
Taylor Swift, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ cover image (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot)
How do you get young people to take an interest in art? Make sure there’s a Taylor Swift connection.
The German news agency dpa reports that The Museum Wiesbaden, in Wiesbaden, Germany, recently welcomed a flood of visitors — hundreds more than usual — who all wanted to see a specific painting. Why? They believe it inspired the opening sequence of Taylor’s video for “The Fate of Ophelia.”
The painting by Friedrich Heyseris called Ophelia. It depicts the character from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet moments after she’s drowned, wearing a white dress with her hair spread out behind her, and surrounded by greenery and flowers.
In the opening shot of “The Fate of Ophelia” video, the camera zooms in on what looks like a painting of a drowned woman in a white gown in a very similar pose. But the woman in the “painting” turns out to be Taylor, who then gets up and out of the painting and begins singing.
Taylor hasn’t confirmed that this was the painting that inspired the scene, but museum director Andreas Henningtold dpa, “We’re surprised and happy that Taylor Swift chose this painting from the Museum Wiesbaden as a model for her video. This is, of course, a great opportunity to introduce people to the museum who don’t yet know us.”
Henning says the museum has tried to contact the singer, adding, “I would love to show Taylor Swift the original painting sometime.”
Initially a different painting, also titled Ophelia, by Sir John Everett Millais was thought to have inspired the scene in the video, but the Heyser painting is a closer match. Millais’ painting is in the Tate Britain in London, which attempted to attract visitors by pointing out the similarities.
