SZA attends the 27th Annual Webby Awards on May 15, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Webby Awards)
SZA’s hard work, dedication and success have earned her a spot in the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
She’ll be inducted in the category of performing arts and entertainment, and is one of 13 people being celebrated at the 18th annual NJHOF induction ceremony.
Fellow classmates include The Rascals, former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor and former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. Inductees will also be honored with a year-round program that spotlights their impact on others.
“The Class of 2026 showcases the diverse talent, resilience, and spirit of achievement that define the great state of New Jersey,” NJHOF Chairman Jon F. Hanson said in a statement. “Each inductee, through their creativity, leadership, and pursuit of excellence, has made impactful contributions that continue to inspire future generations.”
“As our nation celebrates 250 years of independence, New Jersey is proud to honor a remarkable group of individuals whose achievements reflect the talent, innovation, and determination that define the Garden State,” Gov. Mikie Sherrill added. “The New Jersey Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026 has made a lasting impact in their fields and serves as an inspiration to future generations. I congratulate this outstanding class of inductees and thank them for their contributions to New Jersey and beyond.”
The New Jersey Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place on Sept. 24.
Wet Leg has released the horsegiirL remix of their song “CPR.”
For those unfamiliar, horsegiirL is the moniker of German artist Stella Stallion, who wears a horse head mask onstage. You might’ve seen her join Wet Leg onstage to perform “CPR” during their set at Coachella.
The remix reimagines “CPR” as a pulsing electronic track and includes a new verse courtesy of Stallion.
The “CPR” remix is included on the upcoming deluxe version of Wet Leg’s 2025 sophomore album, moisturizer. The expanded set, which also includes live tracks, demos and other bonus recordings, is due out July 10.
The original moisturizer also includes the singles “catch these fists” and “mangetout.”
The Pretty Reckless’ new album, Dear God, is out now. With her band’s fifth full-length studio effort, frontwoman Taylor Momsen feels that the group has “really touched upon something incredibly special.”
“It just kinda does all the things I want it to do,” Momsen tells ABC Audio of Dear God. “It’s brutally honest, it’s vulnerable, it’s emotional, but it’s aggressive and intense, and it kinda covers the whole spectrum of human emotion.”
As the title suggests, Dear God makes frequent reference to religious imagery in its lyrics. Momsen describes herself as not a particularly religious person, and describes the idea of God on the album as “grander than religion.”
“Don’t crucify me for saying that,” she quips.
“God is representative of something bigger than you,” Momsen continues. “This album is really, it’s a collection of confessions of my life.”
In those confessions, Momsen not-so-fondly revisits her hard-partying days with the single “When I Wake Up,” while in “Love Me” asks the power above, “Why doesn’t anyone love me?” Meanwhile, the track “Eye of the Storm” finds Momsen confessing to emotions she wouldn’t even tell those closest to her as she sings, “Tell the band I’m doing fine.”
“You can be as close to someone in the world … my band is my, you know, everything,” Momsen says. “We’re chosen family, we know each other inside and out. But when you’re individually living in an unsettled space in your brain, that’s not always something that you reveal to everyone.”
The Pretty Reckless will launch a U.S. headlining tour in support of Dear God July 10 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The trek also includes dates opening for AC/DC.
Lead singer Michael Hutchence (back row, left) with INXS band members, clockwise from top right: Andrew Farriss, Tim Farriss, Garry Gary Beers, Kirk Pengilly, and Jon Farriss. (Photo by Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
The music of INXS is going to be the subject of a new ballet opening in the band’s native Australia.
The Queensland Ballet has teamed with HOTA, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, for the new contemporary ballet Elegantly Wasted, featuring dance interpretations of the band’s songs.
“INXS have always embraced exploring new ideas and the different ways our music can connect with people,” INXS founding member and composer Andrew Farriss says in a statement. “This ballet is a fresh artistic interpretation that stands in its own space. It’s not about the band’s story but shows how our music can inspire new forms of expression.”
He adds, “It’s exciting to see the work approached from a completely new perspective. … [W]e’re looking forward to seeing how it comes to life.”
The production is described as a “striking contemporary work that charts a compelling shift from artifice to awareness, from surface to soul. It invites us to question what we perform, what we conceal, and what we might rediscover if we dare to be seen without filters.”
Elegantly Wasted was the band’s 10th studio album and its final album recorded with frontman Michael Hutchence before his 1997 death.
All eight episodes of the Emmy-winning drama’s fifth and final season are now streaming on Hulu. The season takes place over the course of one day in the titular Chicago restaurant, where everything that could possibly go wrong does — and then some. Adding to the pressure is the threat of imminent closure by The Bear’s chief investor, Olivier Platt’s Uncle Jimmy.
“I think it makes so much sense for everybody to throw themselves into this last service, to be existing with these characters in real time. … It amps everything up, you know?” Jeremy Allen White, who plays Carmy Berzatto, told ABC Audio.
“There’s more struggle, there’s more urgency, time is important, stakes rise, and so yeah, I thought structuring the last season this way was just a great, great idea, and ended up being really effective.”
The season also picks up right after Carmy’s season 4 finale decision to leave The Bear in the hands of Sydney, Natalie and Richie. That means Ayo Edebiri [EYE-oh eh-deh-BEE-ree]’s Sydney finds herself in charge in the most stressful of circumstances, before finally breaking down.
“It’s a lot to get to do inside and have it build,” she told ABC Audio. “And so when it does come out in those physical moments, that’s always really fun for me. I feel like my body is, like, Laffy Taffy.”
As for Ebon [EH-ben] Moss-Bachrach’s front-of-house manager Richie, he refuses to give up and goes overboard in trying to motivate the staff to keep going.
“It is a very aggressive optimism, maybe, I would say,” he laughs. “It feels nice to play someone who has that generosity, who wants to take care of everyone.”
Disney is the parent company of ABC News and Hulu.
The video begins with the words “Part II,” because it’s a sequel to the 2025 video for “bandaids.” As you might recall, that clip ended with Katy lighting a cigarette at a gas station and blowing it, and presumably herself, up.
In “Watch It Burn,” Katy is rushed into a hospital operating room covered in burns. As doctors try to save her, she gets flashes of herself destroying everything around her with a massive scorpion tail, but when she looks in the mirror, it’s not there.
After breaking out of the hospital and going through a car wash, Katy’s scorpion tail fully emerges, and she walks down the street causing mayhem and destruction. Finally, she staggers into the church, where she’s held down in a baptismal font of holy water until she emerges, gasping.
According to a press release, “Watch It Burn” is about “permission to feel anger honestly, to stop minimizing pain and let the suppressed emotions finally surface.” In it, she sings, “For years/ I tried to rise above/ Was only light and love/ But now I’m shut the f*** up.”
In the chorus she sings, “You know I gave and I gave/ Now I’m giving up/ There’s nothing more you can take, no/ Don’t wanna cause a scene/ But give me the gasoline/ Tonight’s the night/ I light a match/ Throw it hard behind my back/ Gonna try to forgive and forget/ Light a cigarette/ And watch it burn.”
Katy’s been performing “Watch It Burn” during her festival dates this summer, and she wrote on Instagram, “Loved seeing how many of you already know the words.”
Sleep Theory has released a cover of the Paramore song “My Heart.”
The track marks the second cover from the “Stuck in My Head” rockers in as many weeks, following their rendition of *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye.”
Like “Bye Bye Bye,” “My Heart” has also long been included in Sleep Theory’s live set. You can listen to the official studio version now via digital outlets.
Perhaps you’ll hear “Bye Bye Bye” and “My Heart” on Sleep Theory’s upcoming U.S. tour, which kicks off in July. The band will be touring in continued support of their 2025 album, Afterglow, which includes the single “Words Are Worthless.”
The original “My Heart” appears on Paramore’s 2005 debut album, All We Know Is Falling.
Druski attends the 2025 ESPY Awards at Dolby Theatre on July 16, 2025, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
The countdown to the 2026 BET Awards continues with the announcement of a four-part series titled Behind the Image: BET Awards Edition. Set to premiere on BET just hours before the main show on Sunday, it will kick off at 5:30 p.m. ET.
Episodes will spotlight award show host Druski, Keke Palmer and T.I., with Terrence J serving as host. Fetty Wap is also slated to perform for his first-ever solo post-prison TV performance.
Druski’s episode will find him giving a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation for Culture’s Biggest Night as he gears up to host the show. Keke will discuss her commitment to helping shape and advance the culture, as well as her career and longevity. T.I. will open up about his music, comedy and entrepreneurship.
Bow Wow’s Tiny Desk performance will follow at 7:30 p.m. ET. The prerecorded performance serves as the culmination of a Tiny Desk Black Music Month series celebrating the culture and BET.
Meanwhile, the 2026 BET Awards Red Carpet Live! will air on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitch starting at 5:30 p.m. ET. Bow Wow will host alongside Rocsi Diaz, Loren Lorosa, Jason Lee, Tierra Marsh and Brian McIntosh.
Bow will also flex his hosting duties on Thursday at 7 p.m. PT during a celebrity basketball game, featuring Da’Vinchi, Flo Milli, G Herbo, Hunxho, Jacquees, Jozzy, Key Glock, Lucky Daye, Luke James, Maiya the Don Masego, Maliibu Miitch, Rome Flynn, Shannon Wallace, Shareef O’Neal, Symba, Toosii and YFN Lucci.
The BET Awards air live on BET at 8 p.m. ET and reair at 8 p.m. PT.
Terrion Arnold is seen in a booking photo released by the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office on June 24, 2026. (Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office)
(TAMPA, Fla.) — Detroit Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold faces multiple felony charges in Florida for allegedly orchestrating a kidnapping in which three men were robbed and beaten at gunpoint, authorities said.
The 23-year-old NFL player is one of seven people arrested in connection with the “targeted armed robbery” in Tampa, police said.
Arnold is accused of “coordinating and directing” the codefendants to “lure” the three men to an apartment, where they were allegedly beaten in retaliation for the alleged theft of more than $200,000 worth of his personal property from an Airbnb he had stayed at with friends days earlier in Largo, according to the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office.
The men, all in their late teens, were allegedly beaten and pistol-whipped by two of the co-defendants, while a third streamed the assault to Arnold and other suspects who were traveling to the apartment, police said. Investigators uncovered a group chat in which Arnold and another suspect allegedly gave directions during the assault, police said.
After arriving at the apartment, Arnold allegedly directed the other suspects to go inside, at which point the victims were robbed during the ongoing assault, police said.
Nearly two hours after arriving at the apartment, the victims were escorted out by armed suspects and left in their vehicle, police said. Arnold is not said to have entered the apartment or interacted with the victims, based on the police statement.
The incident occurred on Feb. 4, three days after multiple items belonging to Arnold and others were stolen from an Airbnb he had rented, according to police. On Feb. 3, Arnold and others reported a loss totaling more than $250,000 to the Largo Police Department, police said.
Arnold allegedly suspected that two of the three victims were responsible for the theft, though investigators ultimately determined that none of them were involved, Tampa police said.
“Investigators believe, based on evidence gathered, that Arnold was the primary conspirator,” the Tampa Police Department said in a statement Wednesday.
The victims reported the incident to Tampa police and “positively identified the suspects,” police said. The three victims had “visible injuries from being battered,” police said.
Cell phone evidence and “corroborating testimony” from the co-defendants also “helped establish Arnold’s role in planning and directing the crimes,” the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office said.
Arnold surrendered to authorities Wednesday night, prosecutors said. He was booked on four counts of armed robbery and four counts of kidnapping, online jail records show. He faces a potential sentence of up to life in prison if convicted on the charges, prosecutors said.
He remains held on no bond following his initial appearance in Hillsborough County court on Thursday. His pretrial detention hearing has been scheduled for Monday. The Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office said it plans to argue that Arnold should remain behind bars until his trial.
Among the six codefendants arrested in connection with the case, four men are being held without bond, while two women pleaded guilty on Wednesday to robbery and kidnapping charges, according to the state attorney’s office. As part of their plea agreements, they are required to testify truthfully in proceedings related to the case, the office said.
“No one has the right to take the law into their own hands. A dispute over missing property does not justify kidnapping, violence, or retaliation,” Hillsborough County State Attorney Suzy Lopez said in a statement. “This arrest is the result of months of investigative work and collaboration between the Tampa Police Department and our prosecutors. We will continue to pursue justice for the three victims by holding everyone accountable for their roles in this crime.”
Arnold’s sports management team said he “categorically denies any involvement in the matters underlying the allegations made against him and maintains his innocence.”
“There is no credible evidence linking Mr. Arnold to these allegations,” Denise White, CEO of EAG Sports and Entertainment Agency, said in a statement to ABC News. “Instead, the government appears to be relying on testimony from multiple convicted felons who have admitted their own involvement and may have substantial incentives to shift blame in an effort to lessen their sentences.”
The Lions said in a statement to ABC Detroit affiliate WXYZ that they are “aware of the legal situation” involving Arnold and “will not comment at this time out of respect for the ongoing legal process.”
Arnold, a native of Tallahassee, Florida, played at the University of Alabama and was a first-round pick in the 2024 draft.
