‘Parker McCollum: The Deluxe Edition’ (MCA Nashville)
It’s been years in the making, but Parker McCollum‘s finally sharing his “Big Ole Fancy House” with his fans.
The track’s become a fan favorite, since he’s included it in his set for years, though he hadn’t recorded it until now.
“Y’all been asking for this one for a while so I’m glad it’s finally getting to you,” Parker says. “Took a couple of times of cutting it before it felt good enough to release, and I think I got it the way it should be heard.”
“Appreciate all the love everyone has shown this song. Means a lot,” he adds.
“Big Ole Fancy House” is the first of four new tracks that will be added to the expanded version of Parker’s self-titled fifth album that came out in June.
PARKER MCCOLLUM The Deluxe Edition is set to arrive March 20. He hasn’t revealed what the other three songs will be.
The iconic soundtrack to the ’80s movie Pretty in Pink is set to be reissued in celebration of the movie’s 40th anniversary.
The soundtrack, which features songs from INXS, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (OMD), New Order, The Smiths, The Psychedelic Furs and more, will be reissued as a limited-edition “Pretty in Baby Pink” vinyl. It will include two songs not previously available on the original soundtrack: Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness” and Talk Back’s “Rudy.”
It will also be released on standard black vinyl with the original track list.
The Pretty in Pink soundtrack featured such iconic tunes as the title track by The Psychedelic Furs, as well as “If You Leave” by OMD, which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album peaked at #5 on the Billboard chart and has been included on several lists of the best soundtracks of all time.
And this isn’t the only way the movie’s anniversary is being celebrated. The film, written by John Hughes and starring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer, Harry Dean Stanton, Annie Potts and James Spader, will return to theaters Feb. 13 through Feb. 16.
This special 40th anniversary screening features a bonus “Filmmaker Focus” featurette with director Howard Deutch, who recounts memories of the movie’s production and talks about its lasting impact.
‘The Muppet Show’ stars Sabrina Carpenter and the original Muppet cast. (Disney/Mitch Haaseth)
Muppet fans, rejoice.
Disney+ has released the official trailer for The Muppet Show special event that’s coming to the streaming service and ABC on Feb. 4.
Along with the new trailer, the highly anticipated special has added Maya Rudolph as a guest star. Rudolph joins the cast that also includes special guest star Sabrina Carpenter, and the show’s executive producer and guest star Seth Rogen.
Fans can expect the special to feature beloved Muppets like Miss Piggy and Kermit back for this brand-new event. “Music, comedy, and a whole lot of chaos are bound to ensue when The Muppets once again take the stage of the original Muppet Theatre with their very special guest, Sabrina Carpenter!” according to the event’s official synopsis.
The trailer finds Kermit walking through the backstage areas of The Muppet Theatre before settling down at his desk with a cup of tea. All the while, his friend Rowlf plays the piano beside him.
“Rowlf, have you been playing this whole time?” Kermit asks.
“Well, what did you think it was? Some kind of sentimental montage in your head? We’re doing the show again, frog!”
We then see Miss Piggy interacting with Carpenter. The pop star tells Miss Piggy she is her idol.
“I grew up watching you, my parents grew up watching you, their parents grew up watching you,” Carpenter says, before Miss Piggy makes an annoyed scream.
The original The Muppet Show series was created by Jim Henson and ran from 1976 to 1981. 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the original Muppet Show, which has all five seasons available to stream on Disney+.
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Don Toliver‘s next album, Octane, is set to drop on Jan. 30. He announced the news via a trailer on his social media Thursday. The clip opens with an overturned car and an injured woman lying on the ground. The camera then cuts to Toliver speeding through the streets in his car before he exits and enters what appears to be a factory, where he and a scientist seemingly work to bring the woman back to life.
After hitting the road with Chris Brown in 2025, Summer Walker has announced her first arena tour. The Still Finally Over It Tour with Monaleo, Odeal and the Over It karaoke club kicks off May 26 in Toronto and wraps in London on Aug. 2. “You’re invited to the Still Finally Over It Tour. The final chapter of the Over It trilogy,” she wrote on social media. “My first arena tour. All three eras. All the feelings.” Fans can now sign up for access to the presales, which begin next week.
Denzel Curry has formed a supergroup called The Scythe with FERG, Bktherula, TiaCorine and Key Nyata. According to Complex, the group aims to honor and showcase their ties to the South. “The Scythe is a family and a group[.] … We still have our respective solo careers but when we come together it’s The Scythe,” he said. Their project, STRICTLY 4 DA SYCTHE, will arrive in March, featuring the lead single “LIT EFFECT.”
A$AP Rocky has three children with Rihanna, but does he want more? He tells The Joe Budden Podcast he wants “whatever God give me.” “I ain’t gon’ hold you, though. We got our hands full right now. We got a football team right now.” He then joked, “I’m about to catch up to Nick Cannon.”
Harry Styles ‘Aperture’ press photo. (Stella Blackmon)
Harry Styles’ new single, “Aperture,” now has a visual to go with it.
The music video for the song, released Friday, begins with Harry in a hotel room calling down to the front desk. When he heads to the lobby, he’s confronted by a man who charges at him and tackles him down a spiral staircase. The two eventually go from tussling to dancing, performing some impressive lifts and flips throughout the building.
Harry explained to BBC Radio 1 Friday that “Aperture” was the last song he wrote for his new album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.
“We had most of the album done and a lot of it was exploring the themes that the song is exploring,” he said. “Getting this song at the end of the process when we were feeling the freest and having a lot of fun and it kind of felt like the mission statement of what the album was about.”
He said taking a couple of years off from work led to “a lot of big realizations about generally opening up more to the world and allowing some more positive things to come into my life.”
“It was the culmination of all that was happening around me making this record,” he said. “[‘Aperture’] was like a perfect little bow, and once this song happened it was like, ‘Oh, the record’s finished.’”
Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. comes out March 6. Here is the track list: “Aperture” “American Girls” “Ready, Steady, Go!” “Are You Listening Yet?” “Taste Back” “The Waiting Game” “Season 2 Weight Loss” “Coming Up Roses” “Pop” “Dance on More” “Paint by Numbers” “Carla’s Song”
Covers of Supertramp’s ‘Even in the Quietest Moments…’, ‘Breakfast In America’ and ‘…Famous Last Words…’ (Universal Music)
Supertramp is celebrating their 50th anniversary by reissuing some of their classic albums.
The latest releases include 1977’s Even in the Quietest Moments…, their 1979 megahit Breakfast in America and 1982’s …Famous Last Words….
All three albums have been remastered at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios and will be released on vinyl on March 20. They are available for preorder now.
Even in the Quietest Moments…, Supertramp’s fifth studio album, was a top-20 hit for the band and featured the Hot 100 hit “Give a Little Bit.” But it was Breakfast in America that was their breakout album, hitting #1 on the Billboard chart and selling over 22 million records worldwide, thanks to such hit songs as “The Logical Song,” “Goodbye Stranger” and “Take the Long Way Home.”
Finally, …Famous Last Words… was a top-five hit for the band. It was also the last Supertramp album to feature the classic lineup of Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies, Dougie Thomson, John Helliwell and Bob Seibenberg.
The new releases are the latest additions to Supertramp’s 50th anniversary reissue series, which launched in August with the announcement of half-speed remasters of 1974’s Crime of the Century and 1975’s Crisis? What Crisis?
Megadeth’s self-titled final album is out now, which means fans are finally getting to hear the band’s cover of Metallica’s “Ride the Lightning.”
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine was Metallica’s original guitar player but was fired from the band in 1983 and replaced by Kirk Hammet. He didn’t actually play on the original “Ride the Lightning,” which appeared on Metallica’s 1984 sophomore album. However, he’s credited as a co-writer on the song as it uses a riff that he came up with.
Mustaine first confirmed that Megadeth’s album contained the Metallica cover in an October interview with Rolling Stone.
“Our intentions were pure,” he said of rerecording the song. “I didn’t have any reason I was going to say, ‘Oh, hey man, this thing that we’ve had for 40 years where you guys will never tour with me, me doing the song is going to change things.’ That wasn’t it at all. It was more about: This is my life going forward. I want to do things that are respectable.”
Next up, Megadeth is set to kick off a farewell tour of North America, starting in Canada on Feb. 15 in Victoria, British Columbia. They will hit the U.S. starting in September. A complete list of dates can be found at Megadeth.com.
Ryan Wedding of Canada competes in the qualifying round of the men’s parallel giant slalom snowboarding event during the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games at the Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah, Feb. 14, 2002. (Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Ryan Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder investigators said has been leading a major drug ring, was arrested Friday, multiple sources told ABC News.
The 44-year-old Canadian has been on the FBI’s Most Wanted list in connection with indictments that allege he is responsible for trafficking “multi-ton quantities of cocaine” from Colombia and connected with several murders for hire in Canada and Mexico.
Wedding was previously indicted in Los Angeles federal court on multiple federal charges, including running a continuing criminal enterprise, committing murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise and assorted drug crimes.
A superseding indictment was filed in November, alleging that Wedding ordered the killing of a witness who was set to testify against him in a federal drug trafficking case, according to the Justice Department.
Prior to starting his alleged criminal enterprise, Wedding, whose alleged aliases include “El Jefe,” “Giant” and “Public Enemy,” was a professional snowboarder and competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
He is also facing similar charges in Canada, according to Canadian authorities.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay on the field before the preseason game against the Cleveland Browns at Lucas Oil Stadium on August 17, 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Justin Casterline/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — The death of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is now under federal investigation, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
The FBI and the DEA are investigating the 65-year-old Irsay’s death in May at the Beverly Hills Hotel along with the California addiction specialist who had been treating him with opioids and ketamine, the sources said.
Dr. Harry Haroutunian signed the death certificate that said the cause was cardiac arrest due to pneumonia, according to a copy of the document obtained by ABC News. There was no autopsy, the certificate said.
Haroutunian did not respond to an ABC News request for comment.
The FBI declined to confirm or deny the investigation, which was first reported by the Washington Post.
Irsay was the billionaire owner of the Colts for nearly 30 years, celebrating a Super Bowl victory with Peyton Manning in 2007. He was open about his life-long struggle with addiction.
“We are aware of the investigation, but at this time, we’ve not been contacted by the FBI or been served with any subpoenas,” the Colts said in a statement provided to ABC News.
The use of ketamine to treat addiction was the subject of an investigation into the 2023 death of Matthew Perry. Five people ended up facing criminal charges in the Perry case with one doctor being sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for distributing ketamine to the actor.
The investigation into Irsay’s death is in its early stages, the sources said.
(LONDON) — Delegations from Russia, Ukraine and the United States are set to hold trilateral talks in the United Arab Emirates on Friday in what officials say will be the first trilateral meeting since Russia launched a full-scale invasion on Ukraine almost four years ago in February 2022.
The talks — planned for Friday and Saturday in Abu Dhabi — will be at a technical level and not include heads of state but is still a notable diplomatic engagement amid the ongoing fighting.
Administration officials for U.S. President Donald Trump have projected confidence over reaching a deal in recent days, saying territorial control of eastern Ukraine is the last remaining sticking point. But that issue is arguably the most difficult and many experts remain skeptical an agreement is possible yet.
President Trump’s lead negotiators special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner met for four hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin into the early hours of Friday. But the Kremlin afterwards indicated there was no breakthrough and vowed to continue fighting unless Ukraine cedes all of its Donbas region and agrees to a number of other heavy Russian demands.
Ahead of the meeting with Putin Witkoff on Thursday said that negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are now down to “one issue.”
“And we have discussed iterations of that issue, and that means it’s solvable,” Witkoff said in Davos Thursday.
When Trump was asked what concessions Putin needs to make during the upcoming talks, Trump didn’t mention any specifics but did indicate that concessions from Putin are on the table.
“He’ll make concessions,” Trump said. “Everybody’s making concessions to get it done.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Davos at the World Economic Forum on Thursday. The talks between the two lasted for about an hour.
“This is the last mile, which is the most difficult,” Zelenskyy said following the meeting. “The dialogue is not easy, but it was positive,”
After the meeting, however, Zelenskyy issued a sharp rebuke to Europe for not doing enough to stop Russia.
“Too often, Europeans turn against each other — leaders, parties, movements, and communities — instead of standing together to stop Russia, which brings the same destruction to everyone. Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers,” Zelenskyy said.
“Instead of taking the lead in defending freedom worldwide — especially when America’s focus shifts elsewhere — Europe looks lost, trying to convince the U.S. president to change,” he continued.
Witkoff and Kushner met with Putin along with Josh Gruenbaum, who has been newly appointed by Trump as a senior adviser to his Board of Peace.
On the Russian side, the meeting was attended by presidential aide Yuri Ushakov and investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev, according to the Kremlin.
Speaking to journalists afterwards, Ushakov indicated Putin will still only accept an agreement that hands control of Donbas to Russia, as Moscow alleges was outlined during the summit between Putin and Trump in Alaska last summer.
“The main thing is that during these negotiations between our president and the Americans, it was once again stated that without resolving the territorial issue according to the formula agreed in Anchorage, one should not expect to achieve a long-term settlement,” Ushakov continued.
Ushakov maintained that the Russian Federation is sincerely interested in resolving the Ukrainian crisis through political and diplomatic methods, but wouldn’t retreat on the battlefield during negotiations.
“While this is not the case, Russia will continue to consistently achieve the goals set for the special military operation on the battlefield, where the Russian armed forces have a strategic initiative,” Ushakov said.
Russia’s invasion has killed hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, razed whole Ukrainian cities and forced over 5 million to flee the country, according to the United Nations.
The American delegation shared with Putin “first-hand” their assessments of the meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy in Davos, according to the Russian delegation.
“Our security negotiating group has already been formed and will fly to the Emirates in the coming hours. It includes representatives of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, headed by Admiral Kostyukov, Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff, ” Ushakov said.
In Davos, Zelenskyy suggested he doubted Russia is ready to reach a peace deal, saying “I am not sure Putin wants to end this war in the situation where he is.”
“Maybe they want to find compromises. We are open to different steps, and I said that there are two sides that compromise,” said Zelenskyy. “Russians will not win this war. They did not win and will not.”
ABC News’ Mariam Khan, Patrick Reevell and Will Gretzky contributed to this report.
