Story of the Year has released a new song called “Disconnected,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, A.R.S.O.N.
You can watch the “Disconnected” video on YouTube.
A.R.S.O.N., the follow-up to 2023’s Tear Me to Pieces, is due out Feb. 13. It also includes the single “Gasoline (All Rage Still Only Numb),” which is currently charting on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay ranking.
Story of the Year will celebrate the release of A.R.S.O.N. with a hometown show in St. Louis on Feb. 14. Their upcoming live schedule also includes sets at the Welcome to Rockville and Sonic Temple festivals.
Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys performs onstage during day 2 of Warped Tour at Shoreline Waterfront on July 27, 2025 in Long Beach, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
Dropkick Murphys have announced a split LP with the hardcore band Haywire.
The album is called New England Forever and will be available exclusively on the upcoming Dropkick tour, launching Feb. 9 in Portland, Maine.
The track list includes a reworking of the 2005 Dropkick song “Citizen C.I.A.” retitled as “Citizen I.C.E.”
The Dropkick tour will conclude with the band’s annual St. Patrick’s Day show, taking place March 17 in Boston.
Dropkick Murphys’ most recent album is 2025’s For the People.
Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Paul Stanley attend the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center on December 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)
Peter Criss has responded to a recent Gene Simmons interview in which he claimed Criss didn’t deserve a songwriting credit on KISS‘ 1976 hit “Beth.”
The track, which peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100, is credited to Criss, the late Stan Penridge and producer Bob Ezrin.
Simmons made the claim during an interview with the Professor of Rockpodcast, saying, “Peter had nothing to do with that song. He sang it. … The mythology of ‘Beth’ is exactly that: mythology.” He argued Criss got the writing credit because he was “lucky enough to be in the same place at the same time as a guy who wrote” it.
But Criss told Billboard Simmons’ version of events is “not correct.”
“Gene wouldn’t know how the song was originally written because Gene wasn’t there from the conception of the song in the late ‘60s and he wasn’t there for the completion of the song with Bob Ezrin,” Criss said. “Gene’s statements are ridiculous and very uncalled for; he talks about things that he doesn’t know about.”
Criss said he wrote the melody and created the phrasing of the song’s original demo, then titled “Beck,” with Penridge. He also said that even though Simmons claimed it was his idea to change the title, it was Ezrin who changed it.
Ezrin also told Billboard that Simmons’ account is “not exactly how I remember it.”
“I believe from what I was told that the original song was written by Criss and Penridge and was called ‘Beck.’ It was a bit rockier and more macho,” he said. “I felt it had potential, so I asked to take it home and play with it a bit.”
Criss noted, “I would not put my name on a song I had nothing to do with. That is not who I am. I would not do that.”
Footage newly obtained by ABC News appears to show the moment that the man suspected of opening fire at Brown University in December fled the Ivy League campus following the tragic incident. (Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office)
(PROVIDENCE, R.I.) — Footage newly obtained by ABC News appears to show the moment that the man suspected of opening fire at Brown University in December fled the Ivy League campus following the tragic incident.
Officials believe Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, is seen on a dash camera video recorded from a Brown University shuttle vehicle on Dec. 13 around dusk, walking through a parking lot adjacent to Barus and Holley, the building that includes the Providence, Rhode Island, school’s physics department.
His right hand appears to be in his pocket as he then jaywalks nonchalantly across Hope Street toward an adjacent residential neighborhood.
The Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General confirmed to ABC News that the footage is believed to depict the shooter and that the video was recorded immediately following the shooting.
The video was released in response to a public records request filed by ABC News. Authorities are currently declining to release many additional records associated with the response to the incident.
Neves Valente, a former Brown graduate student suspected to have been motivated by a lengthy grudge, shot and killed students Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook inside a final exam review session, according to authorities.
Nine others were wounded in the shooting, officials said at the time.
At some point after the shooting, police say Neves Valente traveled to the Boston suburbs and killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro near his Brookline home.
Neves Valente later crossed the New Hampshire state line by a few yards and took his own life at a self-storage facility as authorities sought to take him into custody, according to police.
The video recorded by the shuttle bus was referenced in a Providence Police criminal affidavit against Neves Valente that noted, “This was observed to be at 16:03, immediately after the shooting.”
The footage appears to indicate that the tragedy that occurred inside Barus and Holley was not evident to people on the street outside, with a handful of pedestrians seen casually walking nearby.
A Brown University police car can be seen parked on the curb. Around 25 seconds after Neves Valente fled the scene, another police car can be seen driving down Hope Street. Its blue emergency lights were flashing.
After years of anticipation, J. Cole has finally revealed the official release date for The Fall-Off.
Cole shared the album artwork on Instagram and announced the news via a video that finds him doing everyday activities. A voice-over soundtracks the visuals, addressing the idea of “falling off” in show business.
“Everything is supposed to go away eventually,” the voice says, noting how fame is often viewed as a rise-and-fall narrative. It then highlights how people often look down on artists once they’re no longer at their peak, rather than seeing success as something that’s naturally fleeting.
The video closes with a shot of Cole from below, with the clouds and trees behind him, before the album title and release date appear on the screen. A brief snippet of a new song then plays, on which Cole is heard rapping, “Picture my soul, climbing out an infinite hole/ When n***** die over pride and live for the,” before the clip cuts off.
Cole has been teasing The Fall-Off since 2018, referencing it on KOD’s “1985 — Intro to ‘The Fall Off.’” That same year, he told Angie Martinez he’d been working on the album for nearly two years. He later suggested it would arrive in 2020, but the project never came out. Since then, Cole has mentioned the album on tracks like “m y. l i f e,” “7 Minute Drill” and “Crocodile Tearz.”
(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday significantly expanded the ability of candidates for political office to challenge rules governing an election, rolling back lower court decisions that had said a candidate needed to show concrete harm in order to bring a suit.
The 7-2 decision handed a victory to Republicans in Illinois who are contesting a state policy of counting timely cast but late-arriving mail ballots up to two weeks after Election Day.
It also promises to increase litigation nationwide ahead of the midterm election.
“Candidates have a concrete and particularized interest in the rules that govern the counting of votes in their elections, regardless whether those rules harm their electoral prospects or increase the cost of their campaigns,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the court’s opinion.
Roberts concluded that candidates — by virtue of running for office alone — should have the ability to bring legal challenges over rules governing how campaigns are conducted and votes are cast and counted.
Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan concurred with the court’s judgment in the case but on different grounds, saying candidates should need to show a “pocketbook injury” or other “actual or imminent injury” before being allowed to sue.
In dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, accused the majority of breaking from settled law and “unnecessarily thrusting the judiciary into the political arena.”
“By carving out a bespoke rule for candidate-plaintiffs — granting them standing to challenge the rules that govern the counting of votes, simply and solely because they are candidates for office — the Court now complicates and destabilizes both our standing law and America’s electoral process,” Jackson wrote.
Rolling Loud ’26 U.S. lineup (Courtesy of Rolling Loud)
Don Toliver, Playboi Carti and NBA YoungBoy will headline Rolling Loud’s only U.S. festival of 2026, taking place in Orlando May 8 to May 10.
Don will perform on Friday, Carti will close on Saturday night and NBA YoungBoy will wrap the festival on Sunday. Other artists on the lineup include Sexyy Red, BossmanDlow, Chief Keef, Destroy Lonely, Pooh Shiesty, Loe Shimmy, Tacorine and Skrilla.
The event will mark Rolling Loud’s first-ever festival in Orlando and will take place at Camping World Stadium.
“Playboi Carti, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and Don Toliver each represent different forces shaping hip-hop right now, and bringing them together for our only U.S. festival of 2026 felt intentional,” Rolling Loud co-founder Tariq Cherif said in a statement. “Eleven years in, Rolling Loud is still about putting the culture first and creating moments, elevating new voices, and building something that fans can feel proud to be part of.”
Rolling Loud co-founder Matt Zingler added that Orlando “felt like the right place to evolve the festival. It’s a new city, a new venue, and a lineup that truly reflects where hip-hop is today.”
Rolling Loud will also head overseas in 2026, with festivals set in Sydney and Melbourne on March 7 and 8. The events will feature headliners Gunna and Ken Carson, as well as Swae Lee, Tyga, Ski Mask the Slump God and more.
Tim McGraw‘s first show of 2026 will take place during an outdoor hockey game.
The country superstar’s set to headline the 2026 Navy Federal Credit Union NHL Stadium Series outdoor game Feb. 1 in Tampa, Florida.
Tim will play during the first intermission at Raymond James Stadium as the Tampa Bay Lightning takes on the Boston Bruins at the home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The game starts at 6:30 p.m. ET and will be televised on ESPN. A limited number of tickets to the rare outdoor hockey game still remain.
So far, it’s the only show on Tim’s schedule save for his March 21 concert at the RodeoHouston.
Covers of Peter Gabriel’s ‘In The Big Room’ and “Live at WOMAD 1982′ (Peter Gabriel Ltd.)
Peter Gabriel has announced the CD and LP release of two live albums that he released to digital services in 2025. The rocker is set to drop In the Big Room on March 13 and Live at WOMAD 1982 on May 8.
In the Big Room is a recording of an intimate fan club show that took place in November 2003 in the Big Room at Gabriel’s Real World Studios in the U.K. The 14-track album features songs Gabriel performed during two tours: the 2002-03 Growing Up Live tour and 2004’s Still Growing Up Live tour. The album features performances of songs like “In Your Eyes,” “Shock the Monkey,” “Digging in the Dirt” and “More Than This.”
Live at WOMAD 1982 captures Gabriel’s performance at his first WOMAD festival, which stood for World of Music, Arts and Dance. The concert took place in Somerset, England, and featured 60 bands from over 20 countries. The album features a recording of Gabriel’s Friday night set, which included seven songs from his album 4, which was released two months after the event.
Both physical releases are available for preorder now.
Gabriel recently announced that he’ll be releasing a new album in 2026, o/i, and will drop a new song with each full moon of the year. The entire album will be released by the end of 2026.
Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande speak on stage as Universal Pictures presents a special ‘Wicked: For Good’ Q&A at Saban Media Center on Nov. 15, 2025, in North Hollywood, California. (Unique Nicole/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)
We now have some official information about Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey‘s revival of Sunday in the Park with George, including ticket info.
After the two Wicked stars seemingly confirmed that they’d be starring in a new production of the classic musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, London’s Barbican Centre made it official with an Instagram post. You can now sign up to be notified about tickets, which will go on sale in May. They will only be available via the Barbican website and box office.
The show itself opens in the summer of 2027, which means Ariana fans now have two chances to see her sing live onstage: during her concert tour this year and in the musical next year.
The Sunday in the Park with George revival will be directed by Marianne Elliot, who previously directed Jonathan in a production of Company. He found out he’d landed a starring role in Bridgerton right after his award-winning run in that show ended.
Ariana has stage experience, as well, having won an award for her Broadway debut in the musical 13. She appeared in the show starting in 2008, when she was 15.
