Twenty One Pilots at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
A seven nation army couldn’t hold Twenty One Pilots from covering “Seven Nation Army” again. Theoretically, Jack White could hold them back, but instead gave them his blessing.
After rocking the White Stripes classic during November’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in honor of Jack and Meg White, the “Stressed Out” duo broke out “Seven Nation Army” once more during a show in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Before Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun launched into the song, a message from Jack popped on the video screen.
“Hi, I’m Jack White, and I give Tyler and Josh permission to do this song,” Jack said in the video, as seen in fan-shot footage.
Perhaps Jack will also be buying a ticket to see Twenty One Pilots’ More Than We Ever Imagined concert film, premiering in IMAX and movie theaters worldwide on Feb. 26. Exclusive IMAX previews will take place Feb. 25.
Megan Moroney & Jamey Johnson John Shearer/Getty Images for CMA
Megan Moroney and Jamey Johnson used their MOJO to raise money for charity on Jan. 15.
The two teamed up to host an event they called MOJO — which comes from their last names — at The Social at the Fennec in Birmingham, Alabama.
About 260 people turned out for the capacity event, which included food, an auction and, of course, music.
In addition to their respective sets, Megan and Jamey came together to perform Don Williams‘ “Till the Rivers All Run Dry” and John Prine‘s “Angel from Montgomery.”
Jamey and Megan’s work together goes back to 2022, when he took her on tour.
“She blew us off the stage every night,” he recalled.
“Jamey really took a chance on me when he took me out on the road,” Megan reflects. “It was my band’s and my first tour. We were driving around in a church van and U-Haul. I told Jamey that I really felt like I had made it when the U-Haul tire blew, and instead of waiting on AAA, I said, ‘Put it on the card.’”
The two also have an interesting connection to Birmingham. Of course, Jamey’s an Alabama native, while Megan’s father retired from the town’s O’Neal Steal in 2025.
It turns out Jamey also worked there prior to his music career, something the men discovered when they were hanging out at the Opry.
In all, MOJO raised $315,000 for Megan and Jamey’s foundations.
Bret Michaels of Poison performs onstage during The Stadium Tour at Truist Park on June 16, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation)
A planned Poison tour celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary isn’t happening, reportedly because frontman Bret Michaels was asking for too much money.
Talk of the tour began over the summer after guitarist C.C. DeVille wrote on social media, “Poison tour 2026. Are you ready?” But now drummer Rikki Rockett tells the New York Post’s Page Six it’s not happening because Michaels demanded to be paid six times what Rockett, DeVille and bassist Bobby Dall were getting.
“We had a great offer, I thought. But we left the table,” Rockett says. “It didn’t work.”
“Really what it came to was C.C., Bobby and I were all in, and I thought Bret was, but he wanted the lion’s share of the money, to the point where it makes it not possible to even do it,” says Rockett. “It’s like $6 to every one of our dollars. You just can’t work that way.”
“I don’t do this just for the money. I do have a love for this, absolutely,” he adds. “But at the same time, you don’t want to go out and work really hard just to make somebody else a bunch of money.”
Rockett hasn’t ruled out a tour in the future, joking that it would be “a perfect Poison folly to do a 41st anniversary tour.” He notes that while replacing Michaels is “not out of the question,” it is “the last resort.”
“I don’t want to do that. I’m not quarreling with Bret[.] … We just didn’t come to agreement,” he says. “I don’t like it, and I’ll say that, but it’s not like, ‘Let’s put up our dukes.’ I don’t think there’s a better frontman for Poison.”
(MINNEAPOLIS) — The Justice Department said they are investigating am incident in which anti-ICE protesters disrupted a service on Sunday at a Minneapolis church where one of the pastors is an ICE official.
Video posted online by Black Lives Matter Minnesota shows protesters entering Cities Church in Minneapolis, where they said one of the pastors, David Easterwood, is the acting field director of the St. Paul ICE field office.
Easterwood was not at the church at the time of the protest, according to Black Lives Matter Minnesota. Jonathan Parnell is the church’s pastor and can be seen talking to the protestors in the video.
“Someone who claims to worship God, teaching people in this church about God, is out there overseeing ICE agents. Think about what we’ve experienced,” a protestor tells the congregation inside the church in the Black Lives Matter Minnesota video.
“I just spoke to the Pastor in Minnesota whose church was targeted,” Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X Sunday. “Attacks against law enforcement and the intimidation of Christians are being met with the full force of federal law.”
“If state leaders refuse to act responsibly to prevent lawlessness, this Department of Justice will remain mobilized to prosecute federal crimes and ensure that the rule of law prevails,” Bondi’s post continued.
Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon likewise said they are investigating the incident.
“This heinous act that occurred in Minnesota yesterday is receiving the highest level of attention from @TheJusticeDept,” Dhillon posted on X. “@AGPamBondi & I are working around the clock, because no right in our Constitution is more sacred than the freedom to assemble & pray to God.”
Dhillon also said that they were investigating the church protest as “potential violations of the federal FACE Act.” The Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 makes it a federal crime to intimidate or interfere with any person “seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship,” or attempting to obtain or provide reproductive health services. The legislation was prompted by violent crimes that were being committed against abortion providers and those seeking their services.
“At approximately 10:40 a.m. on Sun. Jan. 18, Saint Paul Police officers responded to Cities Church on the 1500 block of Summit Ave. following multiple calls reporting approximately 30 to 40 protesters who interrupted church services,” the St. Paul Police Department told ABC News in a statement.
“By the time officers arrived on scene, the group had moved outside the church and began to walk down the alley. Saint Paul Police continued to monitor the protest,” the statement concluded.
A St. Paul Police spokesperson later said in a statement that they are “actively investigating this incident as a disorderly conduct investigation” and had no additional public information at the time due to the investigation being open.
The Cities Church website lists Easterwood as one of their pastors. Easterwood also appeared with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during an Oct. 24 news conference in Minneapolis, where Noem identified him as an ICE acting field office director in the region who is with Enforcement and Removal Operations.
Easterwood also is one of several parties, including Noem, named in a class action lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU alleging “unlawful policies and practices” by ICE in Minnesota, including racial profiling and arrests without warrants or probable cause.
ICE blamed the disruption on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, saying on social media that they “are responsible for whipping these mobs into a frenzy and then allowing them to run rampant.”
“The Governor has repeatedly and unequivocally urged protesters to do so peacefully,” a spokesperson for Walz told ABC News in response to a request for comment. “While people have a right to speak out, he in no way supports interrupting a place of worship.”
Frey had not publicly addressed the church protest as of early Monday afternoon. He did post a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on X, to mark Monday’s federal holiday commemorating the late civil rights leader.
“’Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ Dr. King said it best. On MLK Day, I’m thinking about his call to stand up for justice, love others, and speak out when power goes too far. As the federal gov moves the opposite way, we’ll keep standing with our neighbors,” Frey posted.
Billie Eilish accepts the Environmental Justice Award onstage during the 2026 King Holiday Observance: 2026 MLK, Jr. Beloved Community Awards at Hyatt Regency Atlanta on January 17, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
Billie Eilish accepted the 2026 MLK Jr. Beloved Community Environmental Justice Award in Atlanta over the weekend.
After receiving the honor presented by the King Center, Billie admitted in her acceptance speech that it was “hard to celebrate” given that environmental justice feels “less achievable than ever given the state of our country and the world right now.”
“We’re seeing our neighbors being kidnapped, peaceful protesters being assaulted and murdered, our civil rights being stripped, resources to fight the climate crisis being cut, fossil fuels and animal agriculture destroying our planet, and people’s access to food and health care becoming a privilege for the wealthy instead of a new basic human right for all Americans,” she said. “It is very clear that protecting our planet and our communities are not a priority for this administration.”
But she said that being at the event was giving her hope for the future.
“I am so inspired by all the stories and the other honorees tonight and everyone in this room, and I’m grateful to everyone and for the huge community of people who are taking action centered on Dr. King’s message,” she said. “I have this platform and I think it’s my responsibility to use it, so I feel like I’m just doing what anyone in my position should be doing.”
Billie previously raised more than $11.5 million in donations through her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour for her Changemaker Program, which helps organizations fighting food insecurity and the climate crisis.
The annual MLK Jr. Beloved Community Awards is set to air on BET in February.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of an X5.8 solar flare peaking at 9:23 p.m. EDT, May 10, 2024. (NASA)
(NEW YORK) — A strong geomagnetic storm could soon interact with Earth’s atmosphere, bringing the potential for northern lights displays to be seen much further south in the continental U.S., according to space weather experts.
A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) — a massive burst of solar material and magnetic field from the sun’s outer atmosphere — that occurred on Sunday is expected to reach Earth within the next 24 hours, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.K.’s Met Office.
Strong (G3) or severe (G4) geomagnetic storm conditions could occur as a result of the CME, including auroras that extend as far south as Alabama and northern California.
Northern light displays occur when a solar flare interacts with the atoms and molecules in Earth’s atmosphere.
As the solar flare clashes with the upper atmosphere, it causes the atoms to emit a glow, creating a spectrum of light in the night sky.
Whether the auroras will actually be visible will depend on how the CME arrives, the magnetic orientation of the CME’s magnetic field and how cloudy it is locally.
The best time to see the northern lights in the U.S. is generally between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. local time, and traveling to the darkest location possible is recommended for the best viewing, according to NOAA.
The storm could also impact power systems, spacecraft operations, radio frequencies and satellite navigation.
Geomagnetic storms are ranked on a scale of 1 to 5. A G3 storm could require voltage corrections on power systems and cause intermittent satellite navigation and low-frequency radio navigation problems, according to NOAA.
Under a G4 storm, possible widespread voltage control problems and other issues on power grids could occur, as could increased satellite navigation and low-frequency radio navigation problems.
Spacecrafts could also experience surface charging and tracking problems.
The sun’s magnetic field reached its solar maximum phase of its 11-year cycle in October 2024 and has continued to emit strong solar flares and geomagnetic storms, leading to an increase in aurora displays.
Intense magnetic activity caused by sunspots are expected to last through 2026, according to NOAA.
NOAA is currently analyzing the data for the most recent CME.
Rapper T.I. attends the red carpet screening of ‘Nothing To See Here: Watts’ at College Football Hall of Fame on January 15, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
T.I. took some time away from making music, but he’s officially back, returning with the signature fade he wore in the early years of his rap career.
After years of wearing dreadlocks, the rapper posted a video on social media teasing the song and his hair transformation. The clip opens with the sound of buzzing clippers and glimpses of T.I. in the barber chair. “Get ready, it’s time,” a voice-over says, which is followed by on-screen text announcing his new song.
“He’s Baaaaaaack!!!!!!” T.I. added in the caption. “Let Em Know,” produced by Pharrell aka Skateboard P, is out now.
“Let Em Know” is set to appear on T.I.’s upcoming album, Kill the King. Speaking to TMZ in 2023, he explained the meaning behind the title. “’Kill the King’ to me, it’s a representation of killing the ego,” he said. “I feel like the King of the South moniker is very egotistical, self-gratuitous, and it’s a persona that kind of enters the room before I do physically.”
T.I. previously told Baller Alert that the project will be his final album, and described what kind of music fans will hear. “So my last album is Kill the King, which will be, you know, it’s gon’ be edgy, energetic,” he said. “It’s gon’ have a lot of Tip in it … but I’ve been making somewhat, I guess, more melodic, you know, more R&B vibes, Afrobeat-R&B vibe, party music.”
“Let Em Know” follows T.I.’s 2024 releases “LLogclay” featuring YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and “Thank God” featuring Young Dro and Kirk Franklin with the Sunday Service Choir. His last full-length album was 2020’s L.I.B.R.A.
Suzy Bogguss is now officially a member of the Grand Ole Opry, after she was inducted by Reba McEntire during Friday night’s show.
After Suzy sang her hits “Someday Soon,” “Aces” and “Outbound Plane,” Trisha Yearwood came out — which was a surprise to the audience.
“I love this woman,” she said of Suzy. “It’s really an honor to be here on such a special moment. To get to be here on the night you were invited and to be here tonight is just amazing.”
“Suzy Bogguss is one of those artists who doesn’t just sing songs, she lives them,” Trisha continued. “Her voice, her heart, her commitment to the music have inspired so many, including me.”
Then Reba came on for the official induction.
“Suzy Bogguss’ voice is like an angel’s voice,” Reba told the crowd. “When she sings you know it. You know it when you hear it on the radio. I am so proud to give you this trophy that tells you that you are the latest member of the Grand Ole Opry. Congratulations!”
Suzy admitted she was a little overwhelmed.
“I can’t even express it to you. And you know me — I talk a lot and I can’t even find words,” she said. “This place is so special. Honestly, I have always been nervous up here. Tonight, sitting in the circle, I feel so calm. It’s like being in the eye of the hurricane or something.”
Reba and Trisha returned to join Suzy, Terri Clark and Kathy Mattea on “Hey Cinderella,” before Reba closed out the show, which was also her 40th anniversary as an Opry member.
The title treatment for ‘Red, White & Royal Wedding.’ (Amazon MGM Studios)
The sequel to Red, White & Royal Blue is officially in production.
Prime Video has announced that cameras have started rolling on the upcoming sequel movie Red, White & RoyalWedding. The streaming service made the announcement in a video posted on Instagram.
“we’re so beyond back. #RWRWedding is officially in production!” the video’s caption reads.
Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez are set to reprise their starring roles for the sequel. While plot details are being left under wraps, the new film will tell the next chapter in the love story of Alex Claremont-Diaz, the first son of the United States, and Prince Henry, who is third in line to the British throne.
“Welcome back!” Galitzine said in the video, before Zakhar Perez said, “Oh, I did want to say that we are here for Bea’s wedding.”
“Yeah, we just wanted to clarify, you know?” Galitzine continued, before Zakhar Perez said, “We’re not getting married.”
“That’s a long ways off at this point,” Galitzine said.
But I’m a Cheerleader director Jamie Babbit will helm the upcoming movie. Babbit takes over directing duties from Matthew López, who helmed the first film. She directs from a script by Gemma Burgess, López and Red, White & Royal Blue author Casey McQuiston. McQuiston will also executive produce.
“Working with this team to bring Red, White & Royal Blue to life has been a dream come true, and I hope readers and watchers alike will love how the story continues in the sequel,” McQuiston said in a press release.
Babbit said she’s thrilled to be back in the “queer love universe” after she directed But I’m a Cheerleader while she was in her 20s.
“We all need this kind of optimism, fantasy, and gay joy,” Babbit said. “I’m thrilled to work with this brilliant team.”
Ellie Rowsell and Wolf Alice perform at the “Mercury Music Awards 2025” at the Utilita Arena on October 16, 2025 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. (JMEnternational/Getty Images)
Wolf Alice has joined the lineup for England’s Eden Sessions concert series.
Eden Sessions take place at the Eden Project in Cornwall, which is described as a “beautiful global garden where you can rediscover the natural world.” Wolf Alice’s set will take place on June 16.
“Sooo excited to be playing down in Cornwall at the Eden Project this year!” the “Bloom Baby Bloom” outfit says in a Facebook post. “It’s one we’ve wanted to do for some time and in such a beautiful place.”
Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. local time. For more info, visit EdenSessions.com.
Other artists playing Eden Sessions concerts include Bastille, Snow Patrol and Pixies.
