(L-R) Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of the band Rush, and Matt Stone perform during South Park The 25th Anniversary Concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on August 10, 2022 in Morrison, Colorado. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Comedy Central)
Rush will launch their Fifty Something tour in June, their first since the death of drummer Neil Peart in 2020. In a new interview with TheNew York Times, frontman Geddy Lee explains why they felt the need to do so.
“In the back of my mind and in the back of my heart, it’s felt like unfinished business, like we owed him a proper thank you and a celebration,” Lee says. “Not a morbid, funereal type of thing. We want to celebrate the wonderful music the three of us spent almost 50 years writing together.”
Sitting behind the drum kit for the tour will be Anika Nilles, who says when she first started working with Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson they gave her insight into working with Peart.
“I got a really good idea of what Neil was to the guys as a band member, but also as a friend. So you cannot replace that, you know?” she says. “I’m basically here to help them to get their music back onstage and make it feel right for them and make it feel right for the fans.”
Lee and Lifeson have credited their participation in the 2022 Taylor Hawkins tribute shows with planting the idea of them returning to the road without Peart. Lee notes the shows “taught us something really important about music. A band can end, but the music lives on.”
“I think for a while we put Rush in a box and put that box in our closet, and it’s almost like we felt weird to open the closet and open that box,” Lee says, noting after the Hawkins shows, “It’s like we had taken the box out of the cupboard and we had opened it up. And you know what? It was OK.”
Marco Calvani, Tina Fey and Kerri Kenney-Silver in ‘The Four Seasons’ season 2. (Netflix)
The official trailer for The Four Seasons season 2 has arrived.
Netflix released the new trailer for the show’s second season on Monday. Created and written by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, the show follows a year in the life of a group of longtime friends over the course of four seasonal vacations.
Fey stars alongside a star-studded cast that includes Will Forte, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Colman Domingo, Marco Calvani and Erika Henningsen. Steve Carell starred in season 1, although his character, Nick, died in a sudden car crash at the end of that season.
“Coming off a hard year, our group of friends carries on their tradition of vacationing together — now with a baby in tow. The Four Seasons picks back up with the core group — Kate (Fey), Jack (Forte), Anne (Kenney-Silver), Danny (Domingo), Claude (Calvani), and Ginny (Henningsen) — as they journey from the familiar comforts of the Jersey shore and upstate New York to the stunning landscapes of Italy,” according to the season’s official synopsis. “With warmth and wit, personal blind spots surface for the group as they each grieve their late friend and embark on new adventures.”
Additionally, Domingo is set to direct the season’s premiere episode, while Fey will direct episode 2. Alan Alda produces the season, which will have eight 30-minute episodes.
Britney Spears attends the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards. (Image Group LA/Disney Channel via Getty Images)
An attorney for Britney Spears issued a guilty plea Monday after the music star was charged with driving under the influence on April 30 following an arrest in March.
Spears, who did not appear in court, pleaded guilty to reckless driving and was sentenced to one day in jail, which she already served.
The 44-year-old singer was also sentenced to three months of an alcohol education program, including weekly visits with a psychologist and twice-monthly visits with a psychiatrist. She is also required to pay a $571 fine and undergo chemical tests at any time at the request of police.
In a statement provided to ABC News, Spears’ criminal defense attorney, Michael A. Goldstein, said, “Through her plea today, Britney has accepted responsibility for her conduct. She has taken significant steps to implement positive change which is clearly reflected in the Ventura County District Attorney’s decision to reduce the charge in this case and dismiss the DUI.”
“Britney appreciates this discretion and is also grateful for the outpouring of support she has received.”
Spears was arrested on March 4 after California Highway Patrol responded to reports of an erratic driver and arrested her on suspicion of driving under the influence of a combination of alcohol and drugs.
The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office in California later charged Spears with a misdemeanor of driving under the influence of alcohol and at least one drug.
Prior to Monday’s hearing, Spears was reportedly spotted leaving a rehab treatment facility over the weekend.
She voluntarily checked herself into a facility after her arrest on March 4, a representative for Spears previously confirmed to ABC News.
After her March arrest, representatives for Spears called her behavior “an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable.”
“Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long-overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life,” the statement added. “Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”
In recent weeks, Spears has posted pictures with her sons on social media and thanked the public for its support.
‘I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol’ documentary artwork. (Courtesy of VMI Worldwide)
Founding Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock has announced the U.S. release of his documentary, I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol.
The film will be available to rent and buy on digital platforms on May 26, and will be available to preorder May 12.
“It tells the tale of my contribution to the band, which I think without it the group wouldn’t have had the success it had,” Matlock says in a statement. “For anybody interested in the birth of British punk and its effect on the then wider music scene, I’d suggest it’s essential viewing — but then I would say that!”
The doc includes interviews with Matlock, and fellow Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, as well as Debby Harry, Chris Stein and the late Clem Burke of Blondie, Billy Idol and the late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer.
Matlock formed Sex Pistols alongside Jones, Cook and vocalist John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon, and co-wrote most of the songs on the band’s one and only album, 1977’s Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. However, Matlock parted ways with the band during the recording process and was replaced by Sid Vicious, who died in 1979.
After various on-and-off reunions over the years, Sex Pistols got back together in 2024 with Matlock, Jones and Cook alongside vocalist Frank Carter in place of Lydon.
Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in ‘The Night Agent’ season 3. (Nazim Serhat Firat/Netflix)
The Night Agent will return for one final mission.
Netflix has announced that the upcoming fourth season of the popular thriller series will be its last. The final season of the show started production Monday in Los Angeles.
Gabriel Basso stars as Peter Sutherland in the show, which has Shawn Ryan as its creator, executive producer and showrunner.
“Ever since the initial success of The Night Agent, I’ve been obsessed with eventually delivering a proper and thrilling conclusion to the show and to Peter Sutherland’s journey,” Ryan said in a press release. “I’m so grateful to Netflix and Sony Pictures Television for partnering with me on The Night Agent and for giving us the space to deliver a definitive final season to our worldwide legion of fans. We are hard at work to complete our story and to make our final season one our fans will never forget.”
Season 3 of The Night Agent debuted to Netflix on Feb. 19.
The third season picked up after the explosive events of season 2. It found night agent Peter Sutherland “called in to track down a young Treasury Agent who fled to Istanbul with sensitive government intel after killing his boss,” according to its official synopsis. “This kicks off a sequence of events where Peter investigates a dark money network while avoiding its paid assassins, while putting him on a collision course with a relentless journalist. Working together, they uncover buried secrets and old grudges that threaten to bring the government to its knees — and get them both killed in the process.”
Once you hear a clip of Miranda Lambert’s new single, you may want to run to the store to get some “Crisco,” but it’s out of stock until May 15.
“We’ve been cookin’ with Crisco/ Ain’t we, it’s in country and disco,” the country superstar sings on what will be her first release with new label MCA. “Stir it around and give it a spin/ It’s a rhinestone world we’re living in/ We’re talking ‘Southern Nights’/ We could be like ‘Islands in the Stream,’ that’s right/ Givin’ in that rhythm with the radio and away we go/ Cookin’ with that Crisco.”
Glen Campbell’s “Southern Nights” hit #1 on both the country and pop charts in 1977, while Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton’s “Islands in the Stream” did the same in 1983.
If the song happens to be a bit too poppy for you, it’s important to remember it’s an undeniable shoutout to Loretta Lynn, who did national commercials for the brand for a decade starting in the late ’70s. (Crisco, of course, is a solid fat made of hydrogenated vegetable oils used for baking and frying that was hugely popular in the 1970s and ’80s.)
“It has so many elements of the country music that I love that I’ve never put on tape,” Miranda says of the song. “There’s a looseness to it, a joy. It feels like dancing in your kitchen with the person you love, spinning old records, not overthinking a thing.”
You’ll be able to taste Miranda’s “Crisco” dish she cooked up with co-writers Aaron Raitiere, Jesse Frasure and Chill Fellacheck on May 15.
Hayley Williams performs at Hilarity For Charity’s annual fundraiser to support Alzheimer’s at Rolling Greens DTLA on November 15, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Hilarity for Charity)
Hayley Williams, Mitski and Lola Young are among the artists playing the 2026 All Things Go DC festival, taking place Sept. 25-27 in Columbia, Maryland.
The bill also includes Rainbow Kitten Surprise, The Beaches, Wolf Alice, Violet Grohl and Balu Brigada.
Williams’ set is billed as “The Hayley Williams Show” like her previously announced shows in New York City’s Forest Hills Stadium and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, which will “feature material across all three of [Williams’] solo albums as well as some exciting surprises.”
Young, meanwhile, is on the lineup after canceling her set at the 2025 All Things Go DC.
Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit AllThingsGoFestival.com.
In related news, Williams is teasing the announcement of more solo tour dates with a list of cities posted to her website. She’s also added a second show at Forest Hills Stadium taking place Sept. 17.
High temperatures for Monday, May 4, 2026. (ABC News)
(NEW YORK) — Millions of people across the country are buckling up for wild temperature swings of up to 30 degrees this week.
The roller-coaster-like dips and highs in temperatures across most of the nation will come amid a late-season snowstorm in Denver and Rocky Mountains. An Illinois dust storm threat could reduce visibility to less than a quarter of a mile.
Whiplash temperature swings
On Monday, temperatures will be above average across much of the Midwest and Northwest, and below average in California and southwest Arizona.
Temperatures are expected to climb to 80 on Monday from Chicago to Kansas City — making it 10 to 15 degrees above average for this time of year.
Oklahoma City and Dallas are forecast to be in the mid-80s on Monday. Meanwhile, California’s Bay Area and Los Angeles are expected to be in the mid-60s on Monday — 5 to 10 degrees below average for the first week of May.
But on Tuesday, temperatures are expected to dramatically drop across parts of the Midwest, including Chicago, which is forecast to see a 20-degree decline, and Denver with a 30-degree decline.
Severe storms are also possible on Tuesday from Dallas to Jonesboro, Arkansas, with the main threats expected to be large hail, damaging wind and possible isolated tornadoes. On Wednesday, severe weather moves across east Texas and into central Alabama, bringing damaging wind, large hail, possible tornadoes and the risk of flash flooding.
New York City, Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, North Carolina, are expected to top 80 degrees on Tuesday — which is 5 to 15 degrees above average for this time of the year.
On Wednesday, a rush of cold air is expected to bring widespread below-average temperatures across the Midwest and Great Lakes.
By Friday, cooler-than-normal temperatures spread across the East and South, while the West goes above average with highs near 100 for Phoenix and Las Vegas, while only reaching the 60s in New York City and Washington, D.C., and the 50s in Boston.
Snow in Colorado
The Colorado Rocky Mountains have received a record-low snowpack this winter. But a late-season snowstorm expected in the area beginning Monday and running through Wednesday could bring a foot to 2 feet of much-needed snow to the Rockies.
Winter storm alerts are in place for parts of Colorado and Wyoming through Wednesday. The heaviest snow is forecast to fall on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Denver metro area could see 3 to 9 inches of snow on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The pending storm is already making an impact on America’s favorite summer pastime — baseball. The start time of Monday’s game in Denver between the New York Mets and the Colorado Rockies has been moved up three hours to 3:40 p.m. MT due to potential snow.
Blowing dust in Illinois
A rare blowing dust advisory has been issued in Illinois, including the Chicago area. Blowing dust was already an issue in Central Illinois on Sunday.
Visibility of less than a quarter mile is possible on Monday in some agricultural areas of the region.
It’s only the second time in history that the National Weather Service (NWS) office based in Chicago has issued a blowing dust advisory. The first advisory was on May 16, 2025, when a large dust storm caused visibility to drop to near zero and wind gusts rose to 60 mph in Chicago and across the area, according to the NWS.
Kevin Jonas attends the New York premiere for ‘A Very Jonas Christmas Movie,” November, 2025 (Disney/Jose Alvarado Jr.)
When the Jonas Brothers start their South American tour later in May, Kevin Jonas will have a new song to sing.
Last year, he debuted his first-ever solo single, “Changing,” and sang it live during the Greetings From Your Hometown Tour. Now he’s got another new song lined up: “Little Things” will arrive May 15, the day before the South American tour starts.
“It took me 15 years to feel confident in making music on my own,” Kevin says in a statement. “I finally find one song, and it was everything I’d been searching for. It unlocked the sound. The search was over, and I could build on it.”
Kevin describes “Little Things” as “a continuation of who I am.” He notes, “My wife and I have been married for 17 years. There are little moments during our time together that trigger my joy and happiness and remind me exactly why I’m still with her.”
“The song discusses all of her favorite things,” he adds. “When you think about it, those little things make us who we are. She isn’t an over-the-top person; she’s just the perfect person!”
And “Little Things” won’t be the last of solo Kevin, either.
“I’m ready for people to hear more of who I am,” he notes. “I’m just a guy who’s lucky enough to make music. I’m proud of it, and I can’t wait to keep writing more songs.”
Cover art for Kehlani’s self-titled album (Atlantic Records)
Kehlani’s self-titled album has debuted on the Billboard 200, coming in at #4. According to Luminate, it earned 69,000 equivalent album units, 45,000 SEA units and 24,000 album sales in the United States in the week ending April 30. The project marks the biggest debut for an R&B album by a woman so far this year and becomes Kehlani’s fourth top-10 album on the chart.
“we outsold my last two albums by miles and thats so important to me,” Kehlani reacted in an Instagram Story. “points on the board is important to me! God is so GOOD! I love you guys!!! What a good year for RNB!”
Kehlani was released April 24 on her 31st birthday, with features including Lil Wayne, Cardi B, Missy Elliott and Brandy. It also debuted at #2 on Top Album Sales and #5 on Top Streaming Albums.
Other songs in the Billboard 200’s top 10 include Michael Jackson’s Thriller at #7 and Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving at #8.
