Gorillaz has announced a U.S. tour in support of their new album, The Mountain.
The headlining trek kicks off Sept. 17 in Orlando, Florida, and will conclude Halloween night, Oct. 31, in Seattle. Openers include rapper Little Simz and hip-hop trio Deltron 3030, the latter of which features Gorillaz’s “Clint Eastwood” collaborator, Del the Funky Homosapien.
Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on March 9 at 10 a.m. local time.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Gorillaz.com.
The Mountain, the follow-up to 2023’s Cracker Island, dropped on Friday. It includes the single “The Happy Dictator.”
In throwback Gorillaz news, the Recording Academy has uploaded the band’s hologram performance of “Feel Good Inc.” on the 2006 Grammys, which turned into a mashup with Madonna and her song “Hung Up.” You can watch that streaming now on YouTube.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrives for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security,” in Dirksen building on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is facing two days of grilling on Capitol Hill as Democrats question her leadership of the Department of Homeland Security amid criticism of immigration enforcement operations and threats to the homeland after U.S. strikes against Iran.
Noem is testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday; she will testify before theHouse Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Her testimony comes as some parts of Noem’s agency — from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the Transportation Security Administration to the Coast Guard — are shut down amid a funding fight over Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Democrats have said they will fund the department only if changes are made to the agency in the wake of the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis involving federal law enforcement.
Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Monday that Noem will face “tough” questions after “stonewalling” Congress.
“Secretary Noem is the public face for an abominable anti-immigrant crusade. Her agents continue to wreak havoc on our cities and act with unspeakable cruelty against children, immigrant families, and American citizens,” Durbin said. “The American people are horrified by what they’re seeing, and Secretary Noem stonewalled Congress for months because she knew her conduct was egregious. She will be asked tough questions and held accountable for her reckless and deadly enforcement agenda.”
The secretary’s testimony is the first time she will be appearing before Congress after tensions in Minneapolis and the killing of Good and Pretti.
Saying she had another meeting to get to, Noem left midway through her last hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee in December under intense questioning from Democrats over ICE operations and tactics.
In the hours following the shooting of Pretti, a Minneapolis Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, Noem drew criticism for insinuating he wanted to “massacre” law enforcement before the evidence and investigation was complete. Pretti was licensed to carry a handgun. Video from multiple angles showed that Pretti did not try to draw his gun from his waistband before or during the scuffle with federal agents.
Two Senate Republicans have said Noem should be out of a job, and Democrats have called for her impeachment.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he stands by Noem.
Justin Timberlake’s 2024 mug shot (Sag Harbor Village Police Department)
It didn’t end up ruining the tour, but Justin Timberlake is afraid that the bodycam footage of his 2024 drunk driving arrest might ruin his reputation.
Justin filed suit against the Village of Sag Harbor in Long Island, New York, as well as the village’s police department and police chief, to prevent the footage from being released. In the court filing, obtained by ABC News, Justin’s attorney asks the court to “permanently enjoin” the footage from being released in response to a request for it under the Freedom of Information Law.
According to the filing, the footage lasts around eight hours and “encroaches upon areas of [Timberlake’s] life and emotional state that have no relevance at all to [his] arrest.”
Furthermore, the filing argues that releasing the footage would “constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy because it reveals intimate, highly personal, and sensitive details concerning [Timberlake] and his family, and includes information of medical, familial, otherwise confidential nature.”
“The harm from public exposure … is immediate and irreparable,” the filing adds.
The filing goes on to say that the footage depicts Justin “in an acutely vulnerable state” during his traffic stop, sobriety test, arrest and confinement.
“Public dissemination of this footage would cause severe and irreparable harm to [Timberlake’s] personal and professional reputation, subject [him] to public ridicule and harassment, and serve no legitimate public interest in understanding the operations of government,” it goes on to say.
Justin was stopped June 18, 2024 in Sag Harbor after running a stop sign and subsequently “performed poorly” on field sobriety tests. He pled guilty to driving while ability impaired by alcohol and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and fined $500.
Sag Harbor mayor Thomas Gardella told Newsday that the village will wait on the court’s ruling.
The official trailer for Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice has arrived. It shows off what to expect from the R-rated action comedy film about two gangsters and the woman they love as they try to survive the most dangerous night of their lives. Vince Vaughn, James Marsden and Eiza González star in the time-travel movie, which makes its world premiere at the SXSW Film & TV Festival 2026 on March 14, before arriving to Hulu on March 27 …
Even more actors have joined the cast of Prime Video’s upcoming God of War series. Louis Cunningham will play Modi, Ben Chapple will play Magni, Evelyn Miller will play Gna and Island Austin will play Thrud in the new show. God of War is currently in production. It’s based on PlayStation’s popular video game and has already received a two-season order …
The first trailer for Scary Movie 6 has made its debut. It shows off some of the horror movies that are being satirized in the upcoming film, such as Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance. Scary Movie 6 arrives to theaters on June 12. It stars Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris and Regina Hall, and takes place 26 years after the core four outran a familiar masked killer …
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Rockets 123, Wizards 118 Celtics 108, Bucks 81 Nuggets 128, Jazz 125 Clippers 114, Warriors 101
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Red Wings 4, Predators 2 Blue Jackets 5, Rangers 4 Flyers 3, Maple Leafs 2 Stars 6, Canucks 1 Hurricanes 1, Kraken 2 Avalanche 4, Kings 2
The U.S. Supreme Court as seen on February 24, 2026 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday blocked a New York state court ruling that had ordered the Empire State’s congressional map redrawn ahead of the 2026 midterms.
A state judge in New York ruled earlier this year that New York must redraw its congressional map and cease using its current one because the current map’s 11th Congressional District violates the state’s Constitution and dilutes the votes of Black and Latino voters.
U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, the Republican representing the district, had appealed the ruling initially in state court and later asked the Supreme Court to block the order, as did other Republicans.
The district currently covers Staten Island, along with several neighborhoods across the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn.
In a statement posted on social media, Malliotakis praised the Supreme Court’s decision, arguing that it “helps restore the public’s confidence in our judicial system and proves the challenge to our district lines was always meritless.”
“The plaintiffs in this case attempted to manipulate our state’s courts to use race as a weapon to rig our elections. That was wrong and, as demonstrated by today’s ruling, clearly unconstitutional,” Malliotakis’ post said.
In a concurring opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the state court order that knocked down New York’s current map “blatantly discriminates on the basis of race” and that the court had no choice but to step in — even so close the election.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a sharply worded dissent, accused her colleagues of prematurely intervening in a state-law case, even before New York courts had fully resolved the appeals.
“By granting these applications, the Court thrusts itself into the middle of every election-law dispute around the country, even as many States redraw their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 election,” Sotomayor wrote. “It also invites parties searching for a sympathetic ear to file emergency applications directly with this Court, without even bothering to ask the state courts first.”
The ruling from SCOTUS allows appeals to play out in lower courts, but it means New York will not be redrawing its map for the 2026 election.
“This blatantly political case violated both the New York State and federal constitutions and, as Justice Alito stated, the lower court’s decision was a full-blown racial gerrymander,” New York Republican Party chair Ed Cox wrote in a statement Monday.
Mumford & Sons’ new album, Prizefighter,has debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
The record lands at #10 with a total of 44,000 equivalent album units. It marks the “Little Lion Man” outfit’s sixth top-10 record on the Billboard 200.
As previously reported, Prizefighter debuted at #1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart, giving them two-straight #1 albums in their home country in less than a year, following 2025’s Rushmere.
Mumford & Sons have hit #1 on the Billboard 200 three times, with 2012’s Babel, 2015’s Wilder Mind and 2018’s Delta.
Mumford & Sons performed two songs off Prizefighter over the weekend on Saturday Night Live, including the single “Rubber Band Man” with Hozier. They’ll launch a North American tour in June.
‘Master of Puppets’ album artwork. (Blackened Recordings)
It may seem like time itself is crawling faster now that Metallica’s Master of Puppets is officially 40 years old.
The metal legends’ third studio effort was first released on March 3, 1986. The album continued to push the boundaries of thrash on its way to becoming one of the most seminal and influential albums in heavy metal music history, as evidenced by its octuple-Platinum RIAA certification and its induction into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2015.
Master of Puppets is centered around its epic 8 1/2-minute title track. Frontman James Hetfield’s meditation of drug addiction is intensified by fiery down-picking and dueling guitar solos.
Today, the song “Master of Puppets” is Metallica’s most-played song live, and its legacy continues to live on in new ways. In 2022, “Master of Puppets” made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 after its use in the season 4 finale of Stranger Things. Metallica’s also named their upcoming Life Burns Faster residency at the high-tech Sphere venue in Las Vegas after a lyric from “Master of Puppets.”
Along with the title track, Master of Puppets includes the ripping opener, “Battery,” and the instrumental “Orion,” which was written primarily by bassist Cliff Burton. “Orion” would turn out to be something of a swan song for the 24-year-old Burton, who was killed in a bus accident during Metallica’s tour in support of Master of Puppets in September 1986.
Burton was replaced by Jason Newsted, who was then replaced by current Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo.
‘The Music of Billy Joel’ (Courtesy Music Of Presents)
Billy Joel is the subject of this year’s Music Of concert put on by New York entrepreneur Michael Dorf.
This is Dorf’s 21st Music Of charity concert, and he tells Rolling Stone it was the rocker’s documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, that finally pushed him to make the Piano Man this year’s honoree.
“I think there’s a lot of love for Billy, and a desire to hear his music,” Dorf says.
This year’s show will be held March 12 at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The lineup includes Joel’s daughter Alexa Ray Joel, Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas, Train’s Pat Monahan and others, with Joel’s eight-piece touring band serving as the house band.
“The fact that it is his band, that’s exciting for people,” Dorf says. “We sold out without a single artist mentioned who’s performing, and we got a great lineup, as people trusted. Fingers crossed, let’s see if we have any special guests.”
Of course fans would love for one of those special guests to be Joel, who canceled his 2025 tour in May after being diagnosed with a brain condition. The only time he’s performed since then was a surprise appearance with a Billy Joel cover band in Wellington, Florida, in January.
Dorf will only say that like all previous honorees, Joel has been invited to the concert.
“There’s a box for the band, and if we’re lucky and they want to jump on stage, great,” he tells the mag. “But it’s really for them as much as it is anybody.”
Money raised from the concert benefits music education programs. Previous concerts celebrated the music of Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M., Paul McCartney, Van Morrison and The Who.
Keke Palmer in ‘I Love Boosters’ still photo (Neon)
The West Coast premiere of Boots Riley’s new movie, I Love Boosters,will take place in Oakland, California, as part of the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival in April. The new project has been named the Centerpiece film for this year’s festival, used to showcase culturally significant films.
Held at Oakland’s historic Grand Lake Theatre, the first screening is set for April 28 at 6:30 p.m. PT, followed by a moderated conversation. A second screening will begin at 9:30 p.m. PT after a moderated introduction. Tickets are currently available to SFFILM members, but will go on sale to the general public on Wednesday.
“I’m hyped as hell to bring I Love Boosters to SFFILM since they were the first organization to recognize me as a filmmaker and to support me in my filmmaking journey,” Boots Riley said in statement. “It’s going to be extra special to premiere in my hometown at Grand Lake Theater [where] I’ve been going to since I was a kid. This film is my best work and it’s going to be special to see this movie, which is set in the Bay Area, play here.”
The movie will premiere March 12 during opening night of the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival. It’s about a crew of professional shoplifters who choose a cutthroat fashion maven as their next target. Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfield, Don Cheadleand more star in the film.
