Nashville notes: Tracy Lawrence’s No Alibis Tour + Ian Munsick’s ‘Geronimo’

Nashville notes: Tracy Lawrence’s No Alibis Tour + Ian Munsick’s ‘Geronimo’
Nashville notes: Tracy Lawrence’s No Alibis Tour + Ian Munsick’s ‘Geronimo’

Tracy Lawrence will launch his 2026 No Alibis Tour March 12 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Presales are underway now, with tickets becoming available to the public on Friday. 

Tyler Braden‘s new track, “Dry County,” drops Friday. It’s the first taste of his new project, due during the first half of 2026.

Ian Munsick will release his new song, “Geronimo,” on Friday, as part of his new partnership with Triple Tigers Records.

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The Maine releases new song ‘Die to Fall’ off upcoming ’Joy Next Door’ album

The Maine releases new song ‘Die to Fall’ off upcoming ’Joy Next Door’ album
The Maine releases new song ‘Die to Fall’ off upcoming ’Joy Next Door’ album
‘Joy Next Door’ album artwork. (Photo Finish Records/8123)

The Maine has released a new song called “Die to Fall,” the first single off the band’s upcoming album, Joy Next Door.

“‘Die to Fall’ is a dialogue with myself about the desire to let go,” says frontman John O’Callaghan. “Let go of my insecurities, my ego, my worries, let go of ‘me’ for even just a second and truly feel the gravity of all the little moments we can often take for granted. If none of the above resonates, then at the very least, it’s a song to rage to.”

You can watch the “Die to Fall” video on YouTube.

Joy Next Door is due out April 10. It’s the follow-up to The Maine’s 2023 self-titled effort, which includes the singles “blame” and “thoughts i have while lying in bed.”

The Maine will launch a U.S. tour in March.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.) 

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Slash, Duff, Chad Smith, Post Malone & Andrew Watt performing Ozzy tribute on 2026 Grammys

Slash, Duff, Chad Smith, Post Malone & Andrew Watt performing Ozzy tribute on 2026 Grammys
Slash, Duff, Chad Smith, Post Malone & Andrew Watt performing Ozzy tribute on 2026 Grammys
CBS Presents The 68th Grammy Awards (©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)

Slash and Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses will perform at the 2026 Grammys alongside Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, music star Post Malone and producer Andrew Watt.

The performance will pay tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne, who died in July 2025 at age 76.

Guns N’ Roses and Smith were among those who played 2025’s Back to the Beginning concert, which took place two weeks before Ozzy’s death and marked his final live concert.

Watt produced Ozzy’s final two solo albums, 2020’s Ordinary Man and 2022’s Patient Number 9, which featured contributions from Slash, McKagan, Smith and Malone. Ozzy also performed alongside Malone at the 2019 American Music Awards.

The 2026 Grammys will air Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and stream on Paramount+.

The Grammys will air on ABC in 2027. 

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Reba McEntire to lead in memoriam at the Grammys

Reba McEntire to lead in memoriam at the Grammys
Reba McEntire to lead in memoriam at the Grammys
Reba McEntire (Ralph Bavaro/NBC)

Reba McEntire will pay homage to those we’ve lost this year during Sunday’s Grammy Awards.

“Watch @reba lead a touching in memoriam tribute to musical icons, alongside [Brandy Clark] and [Lukas Nelson],” the Grammys announced Wednesday on its socials

The 2026 awards air Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+. 

You might remember Reba also led a 40th anniversary tribute to The Golden Girls with Little Big Town‘s Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman at September’s 77th Emmy Awards, performing the iconic theme song, “Thank You for Being a Friend.”

So far, there’s no word on what she’ll sing with Brandy and Lukas on Sunday.

The Grammys will air on ABC in 2027.

 

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Dolly Parton’s ‘Light’ shines for six decades on the ‘Billboard’ charts

Dolly Parton’s ‘Light’ shines for six decades on the ‘Billboard’ charts
Dolly Parton’s ‘Light’ shines for six decades on the ‘Billboard’ charts
Dolly Parton’s “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” (Butterfly Records)

Dolly Parton now has chart hits spanning 60 years, thanks to her rerecording of “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” with Lainey Wilson, Miley Cyrus, Queen Latifah and Reba McEntire on the occasion of her 80th birthday. 

The all-star sing-along scored the highest debut of the week at #41 on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart, emerging at #1 on Billboard‘s Country Digital Song Sales tally as well.

“This is the best gift I could receive!” Dolly said of the news. “I want to thank the fans, all the radio programmers, and all the streaming partners.”

Dolly’s first chart success came in 1966 with a song she co-wrote and contributed uncredited vocals to: “Put It Off Until Tomorrow” by Bill Phillips. It made it to #6 and was named a BMI Song of the Year.

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ROSÉ reveals the lengths she went to in order to hide her romance

ROSÉ reveals the lengths she went to in order to hide her romance
ROSÉ reveals the lengths she went to in order to hide her romance
Rosé attends Spotlight: Rosé at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on Dec. 4, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

ROSÉ has always been very private about her romantic life, but now she’s revealed what lengths she went to in order to hide at least one relationship from the public.

While appearing on the Call Her Daddy podcast, host Alex Cooper asked ROSÉ how she avoided getting photographed by the paparazzi with a man. The answer, the “APT.” singer revealed, is that she wore disguises. Specifically, she said, she “studied how elderly women would dress on the street,” and then she’d order those same kinds of clothes, plus a short dark wig, and wear it to visit her then-boyfriend. 

“I would go to his house, because we can’t go anywhere,” she explained. “I would travel that way just in case somebody [saw me].”

She laughed, “For a while in my house I had a whole section of grandma clothes, because I went wild. I just ordered, like, light-blue flowery long skirts.” She said she did that for “at least six months,” because she was “so committed to keep the secret.”

Also on Call Her Daddy, the BLACKPINK singer, whose birth name is Roseanne Park, talked about her stage name, revealing she only found out that she’d been assigned the name “ROSÉ” by her record company about eight hours before it was announced publicly.

“They actually came up with it and I freaked out,” she recalled. “I was like ‘What?’ I mean, I love it now but at the time I was like ‘What? ROSÉ?’ At first I was like, ‘I sound like a grandma!'”

After she saw it onscreen, she said, “That’s when I was like, ‘OK, it looks nice.'”

BLACKPINK’s new mini-album, Deadline, arrives Feb. 27.

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Documentary on late ex-Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno announced

Documentary on late ex-Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno announced
Documentary on late ex-Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno announced
‘Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer’ film poster. (Cleopatra Entertainment)

A new documentary about late former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno has been announced.

Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer is set to be released in the summer by Cleopatra Entertainment. It will feature appearances by Metallica‘s James Hetfield, KISSGene Simmons and Maiden founder Steve Harris, among others.

“I wanted to make a film that was unlike any rock doc you’ve ever seen,” says director Wes Orshoski.

Di’Anno sang on Maiden’s first two albums, 1980’s self-titled debut and 1981’s Killers. He parted ways with the band in 1981 and was replaced by current Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson.

Toward the end of his life, Di’Anno battled a number of health issues. A fan-driven crowdfunding campaign helped Di’Anno move to Croatia in seek of treatment, where, as Orshoski says, “fans and doctors gave him the hope he was desperately searching for.”

Di’Anno died in October 2024 at age 66.

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Nicki Minaj says she’s probably Donald Trump’s biggest fan

Nicki Minaj says she’s probably Donald Trump’s biggest fan
Nicki Minaj says she’s probably Donald Trump’s biggest fan
Musician Nicki Minaj attends the Treasury Department’s Trump Accounts Summit at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on January 28, 2026, in Washington, DC. Trump Accounts are a portion of recently passed tax and spending legislation where the federal government will deposit $1,000 into investment accounts for every child born between 2025 and 2028 once parents sign their children up while filing their income taxes. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Nicki Minaj is doubling down on her support for President Donald Trump.

She attended the Trump Accounts Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, where Trump called her to the stage, held her hand and talked about her loyalty.

“I’d like to ask you to come up, Nicki, come on up. … She’s been such a great supporter, and a great supporter of Trump Accounts,” Trump said, in part. “She’s so good. She’s been MAGA, what can I say?”

Minaj then made her onstage appearance, declaring herself one of Trump’s biggest supporters.

“I am probably the president’s #1 fan. That’s not going to change. And the hate or what people have to say does not affect me at all,” she said. “It actually motivates me to support him more. … We’re not going to let them get away with bullying him and … the smear campaigns.”

Nicki’s appearance came after she previously spoke with Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, at the Turning Point USA convention.

Meanwhile, rapper Tyler, The Creator has spoken out against Trump supporters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose agent was involved in the death of U.S. citizen Renee Good in Minneapolis. He posted a Paid In Full scene on his Instagram Story in which Mekhi Phifer‘s Mitch is heard saying, “F*** ICE.” Tyler added, “Again. And anyone who voted for that man.”

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Placebo composing music for Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’

Placebo composing music for Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’
Placebo composing music for Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’
Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal of Placebo attend the UK premiere of ‘Placebo: This Search For Meaning’ held at the Vue Leicester Square, London. (Mario Mitsis/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Placebo is composing the music for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of the Bertolt Brecht play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

The play will run at England’s Swan Theatre from April 11 to May 30.

Originally written in 1941, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is about a fictional 1930s Chicago mobster that also serves as an allegory for and satirizes the rise of Nazi Germany.

“Thematically, this cautionary tale from history feels more urgent & prescient than ever, and its relevance to today’s world is very chilling,” Placebo says in a press release.

“The creative process for this project was very different for us, sometimes akin to shooting arrows in the dark,” the “Pure Morning” outfit continues. “So we tried to connect with the psychology of the outsider, as well as taking inspiration from themes of power, alienation and moral decay – which are at the core of this play. We are elated by the thought that Placebo’s newest music will be performed nightly at the Swan Theatre and we can only hope that we have done this great play justice.”

Placebo’s most recent album is 2022’s Never Let Me Go.

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Josh Groban’s intimate London concert to screen in theaters Valentine’s Day weekend

Josh Groban’s intimate London concert to screen in theaters Valentine’s Day weekend
Josh Groban’s intimate London concert to screen in theaters Valentine’s Day weekend
‘Josh Groban: An Intimate Evening at The Union Chapel’ (AMC Theaters/VEEPS Studios/TourDForce/Cinefromage)

It’s the perfect Valentine’s Day date: Going to see a Josh Groban concert at your local movie theater.

From Feb. 13 to Feb. 15, the concert film Josh Groban: An Intimate Evening at The Union Chapel will be shown on 100 screens in 45 different U.S. markets. There will also be additional screenings in select international cities.

The film documents a performance Josh did last year at London’s Union Chapel, an intimate venue that holds about 900 people. The trailer shows him performing covers of “Both Sides Now,” “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” as well as his own singles “February Song,” “You Raise Me Up” and “The Constant.”

“Union Chapel is such an incredible venue,” says Josh in a statement. “We wanted to create a show that felt truly personal and immersive, which the venue really lends itself to. Bringing that experience into theaters — especially over Valentine’s Day weekend — makes it something truly special.”

The film might also be a preview of what Josh has planned for his upcoming world tour, which begins Feb. 7 in Hawaii.

Tickets for the concert film are available now at AMC.com.

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