Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters performs with Violet Grohl at Glastonbury Festival 2023 on June 23, 2023 in Glastonbury, England. (Harry Durrant/Getty Images)
Dave Grohl has said he’s been “totally uninvolved” with his daughter Violet Grohl’s debut album, but he did impact her latest single in an indirect way.
As Violet tells the U.K.’s Radio X, her song “595” was inspired by a T-shirt advertising a phone sex line that she’d ordered on Etsy. However, the package containing the shirt was rerouted by Dave before it got to her.
“My dad actually opened up my package and saw the shirt and then hid it in his studio for a couple months,” Violet recalls. “I scoured the house looking for the shirt because it said it was delivered, and then I found it in a box in the studio.”
Violet also shares how she told her parents she’d signed a record deal over dinner.
“My dad can make a killer Sunday roast,” Violet says. “I’m pretty sure it was a Sunday roast.”
Violet’s debut album, Be Sweet to Me, drops May 29. Her dad, meanwhile, will release a new Foo Fighters album, Your Favorite Toy, on April 24.
The Black Crowes’ Chris and Rich Robinson (Photo by: Ross Halfin)
The Black Crowes are back with a new album, A Pound of Feathers, which they recorded in just eight days. And while that may sound fast, guitarist Rich Robinson tells ABC Audio that’s just how he and brother Chris Robinson work.
“Chris and I have always been that way when we make records,” he says. “Even when we were kids, we were always that way.” He adds, “This time around we were just like, well, let’s just kind of wing it and see what happens.”
Rich says he and Chris “work really quickly” when they get into the studio together, as does their producer, Jay Joyce.
“At the end of the first five days we had nine songs done, and we’re like wow, that’s pretty cool,” he says.
One of the first singles the band released from the album is “Profane Prophecy,” which Rich says is a fun song that has “an abandon to it.”
“You know, it is kind of a love letter to rock ‘n’ roll music,” he says. “Even how the songs are crafted, how they come across and, you know, and also the variety, the love, it’s a love letter to what rock ‘n’ roll was.”
When it comes to influences on the album, Rich says there’s a “really deep and broad base that we draw from,” but he notes, “At the end of the day, it still sounds like a Black Crowes record.”
A Pound of Feathers is the Crowes’ follow-up to 2024’s Happiness Bastards. While two albums in two years may also seem fast, Rich would be happy to continue at that pace.
“I would make a record a year indefinitely,” he says. “It’s something I love to do.”
Stellan Skarsgård as Gustav Borg in ‘Sentimental Value.’ (Kasper Tuxen Andersen)
Stellan Skarsgård appeared in many iconic franchises and critically acclaimed films prior to Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value. But it’s his performance as Gustav Borg in the 2025 movie that has earned him his first-ever Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. If he wins, he will become the first Swedish male actor to ever win an Oscar for acting, as well as the first Nordic male actor to do so.
At the time of the film’s release, the 74-year-old actor spoke to ABC Audio about what this exciting season of life has been like and whether this momentum feels particularly different.
“I haven’t played that many leading parts in America,” Skarsgård said. “I mean, I’ve played some bad guys.”
It’s true: he was the baddie Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Dune. But he’s also the morally gray Luthen Rael in Andor and one of Sophie’s three lovable dads in Mamma Mia! He’s right, they aren’t leading parts, but they’re surely memorable, and Skarsgård says he learns from them all.
“Every year I learn, and from every project, and I develop as an actor and I find I’m more experienced. It’s a wonderful work,” Skarsgård said.
The actor said the more that he continues acting, the more he can shed “all the anxieties of youth.”
“You don’t give a f*** about it. You become more simple,” he said. “You peel off the layers of b*******.”
The actor says the older he gets, the better actor he is.
“I’m getting better,” he said. “Come back in 10 years. I’ll be really good.”
The Oscars will take place on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. The show will air live on ABC and will also stream live on Hulu.
2 Chainz’s debut memoir, The Voice in My Head is God, is now a New York Times bestseller. Reacting to the news on Instagram, he wrote, “Something told me to write this book. Something told me the message would find the people it was meant for. Now it’s a INSTANT New York Times Bestseller. Grateful for everyone who listened to that voice with me.” The book details his journey to stardom and success, and discusses the higher source behind it all.
Nas has compiled all his guest appearances from the Legend Has It… series into one album. Legend Has It...Feature Presentation features Nas’ commentary on each collaboration and is now available on digital formats. A physical copy is also available for purchase at shop.massappeal.com. For the uninitiated, Legend Has It… celebrated hip-hop legends Nas, DJ Premier, Slick Rick, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Mobb Deep, Big L and De La Soul via the release of their new albums.
John Legend and his Get Lifted company have joined the production team for Broadway’s Cats: The Jellicle Ball, a reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats. He’ll work alongside Mike Jackson, who has also recently signed on as a producer. On Instagram, John says the new musical reimagines the original “in a way that feels completely fresh while still honoring the original. It incorporates ballroom culture and brings an incredible new energy to the piece. We got voguing, runway, fashion, music, all coming together on the stage.”
Jada Pinkett Smith will reprise her role as Lena James in the A Different World sequel, which follows Dwayne Wayne and Whitney Gilbert’s daughter as she starts college at their alma mater, Hillman College. Jada posted a photo taken in front of her trailer, which had her character’s name on the door. “She back #ADifferentWorld,” she wrote in the caption.
Warped Tour 2026 Mexico City lineup. (Courtesy of Vans Warped Tour)
Warped Tour has unveiled the full lineup for its 2026 stop in Mexico City, taking place Sept. 12-13.
The bill, which has been gradually revealed with new artist announcements every day over the past month, includes All Time Low, Atreyu, Black Veil Brides, Bowling for Soup, Dropkick Murphys, Escape the Fate, Flogging Molly, Goldfinger, Hawthorne Heights, Jimmy Eat World, Joyce Manor, Magnolia Park, Mod Sun, Motion City Soundtrack, New Found Glory, Of Mice & Men, Papa Roach, Rise Against, Simple Plan, Sleep Theory, The All-American Rejects, The Devil Wears Prada, The Maine, Thrice, Underoath and Yellowcard.
Warped Tour returned in 2025 following a six-year hiatus. Along with Mexico City, the 2026 stops include Washington, D.C., on June 13-14; Long Beach, California, on July 25-26; Montreal on Aug. 21-22; and Orlando, Florida, on Nov. 14-15.
New album, new hat. Bruno Mars has put out a limited-edition cowboy hat as part of his Ricky Regal collection with Stetson. The Regal Range 6x is lined with a rose motif and lettering that matches the aesthetic of his new album, The Romantic. Available in either black or fawn, it comes with a gold-toned, rhinestone-studded horseshoe pin and removable feather details. The bad news is that there are only 100 of each color available, and they cost $385 each.
In other male pop stars with clothing brands news, Vogue reports that when Harry Styles was spotting out for a run in Brooklyn, New York, Wednesday he was wearing a pair of dove-gray running shorts from his Pleasing lifestyle brand, which haven’t been released yet.
Katy Perry keeps some impressive company: She posted photos of herself attending designer Diane von Furstenberg’s annual luncheon celebrating female Oscar nominees. Katy appeared to be the only singer on the guest list — she’s seen posing with Diane, Jane Fonda, Gwyneth Paltrow, songwriter Diane Warren, Tracee Ellis Ross, jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer and philanthropist Nicole Avant Sarandos, among others. According to Variety, other attendees included Demi Moore, Quinta Brunson, Rachel Zoe, Rita Wilson and Fran Drescher. Katy captioned the post, “Women. In charge. With @DVF always leading the charge.”
Sebastian Bach poses during Day 2 of 2024 Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 26, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)
Sebastian Bach is apologizing to actress Christina Applegate, who revealed in her new memoir that she dumped Brad Pitt for the Skid Row frontman in 1989 when she was just 17.
In her book, You With the Sad Eyes, Applegate writes that at the MTV VMAs that year she left her date, a not-yet-famous Pitt, for Bach and she and Pitt didn’t talk for years after.
In an interview with Billboard, Bach says he was “very surprised” when Applegate’s revelations hit the news.
“I was a single guy on tour, in a band, and I met a lot of girls and I apologize if I hurt her … if I hurt anybody,” he tells the mag. “When you’re young you get thrown into the whirlwind of rock ‘n’ roll, meeting a lot of people and you better hold on tight. It’s like being on a roller coaster.” He notes, “It was a long time ago. If I hurt anybody, I apologize for it.”
In the same interview Bach talked about his new gig filling in for Dee Snider as frontman of Twisted Sister on select tour dates.
“I am a fan,” he says of the band. “They had the tour booked and (Snider’s) doctors told him he couldn’t do it. They had a choice to either try to get another singer or cancel the whole tour.” He adds, “I just look at it in the same way as when Brian Johnson couldn’t do the AC/DC shows (in 2016) and Axl Rose stepped in, or when Queen wanted to tour and Paul Rodgers came in.”
Referring to his 2024 solo album, Child Within the Man, Bach notes, “[A] band like Twisted Sister 100% makes me feel like a child within the man. That music is very youthful and fun.”
J. Cole performs onstage during the 2025 Dreamville Music Festival at Dorothea Dix Park on April 6, 2025, in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage)
After taking time to recover from his Trunk Sales tour, J. Cole is back with a new blog post. In it, he expressed gratitude for the support for his latest and possibly final album, The Fall-Off.
“This post is just me checking in and saying thank you for all the love on the album,” he wrote. “From the youtube videos I see, to the tik tok videos, ig and twitter posts that make it to me, it’s the best feeling when I see people that feel the same way I do about the music. For real.”
“It’s officially a month after The Fall-Off dropped, and I’m still over here playing it every day religiously as if I’m not the one that’s rapping on it,” he continued, singling out “The Let Out” as his favorite track right now. “’Poor Thang’ and ‘I love her again’ are creeping back up there too,” he added.
After giving fans some time to listen, digest and form their own thoughts on the album, Cole said he’s ready to do a press run.
“Now, I feel like it’s a good time to step out my comfort zone (home) and go and do some interviews,” he wrote. “There’s a lot of platforms out there that I f*** with, both big and small, and I look forward to showing up, showing love while continuing to push this album that I gave so much to.”
He also shared his intention to update the blog more regularly, as well as his excitement to go on tour despite not wanting to be away from his kids for an extended period of time.
Barry Keoghan is Ringo Starr in ‘The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event.’ (Lloyd Wakefield)
Barry Keoghan is set to play The Beatles’ Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes’ upcoming films about the legendary band, and in a new interview with Collider he opens up about what it’s been like to work on the films.
“It’s emotional. It is,” he says. “Because The Beatles, for me, I’ve met Ringo and Paul (McCartney), but you get to know the lads very much through all the research. It’s not pressure, it’s sort of like you just want to do them good.”
The film also stars Paul Mescal as McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison. The cast has been filming in Liverpool, where The Beatles got their start, and it sounds like it’s been a great experience for Keoghan.
“And filming up in Liverpool, they’re such lovely people and very welcoming to it,” he says. “There’s just a nice energy around it, and a spiritual kind of circle as well with it.”
The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event will consist of four films, each told from the perspective of one of band members. Due to hit theaters in April 2028, the cast also includes Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney, Mia McKenna-Bruce as Maureen Starkey, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono and Aimee Lou Wood as Pattie Boyd.
In this photo released by the Norfolk Police Department, first responders are shown at the scene of a shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, on March 12, 2026. (Norfolk Police Department)
(NORFOLK, Va.) — A person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, on Thursday.
The school shooting was allegedly committed by a former Army National Guardsman who was convicted of giving material support to ISIS, an FBI official told ABC News.
The gunman opened fire in Constant Hall, an academic building, around 10:43 a.m. and was found dead minutes after officers arrived, Old Dominion University Police Chief Garrett Shelton said during a press briefing.
The suspected gunman was identified as Mohamed Jalloh, who was previously convicted in 2016 of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic militant group.
Two of the victims were members of the university’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, according to U.S. Army Cadet Command.
Students in the ROTC class fought the shooter, an Army official told ABC News.
Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2017 and released in December of 2024, according to Bureau of Prisons records.
He allegedly walked into a room and asked if it was an ROTC class, and when someone answered, “yes,” he shot the instructor several times, according to sources.
When he pleaded guilty in 2016, Jalloh admitted he had communicated with a member of ISIS who was located overseas who introduced him to an individual in the U.S. who was actually an FBI confidential informant.
The ISIS member was believed to be actively plotting an attack and believed Jalloh would assist the informant in carrying it out. During one meeting with the FBI informant, Jalloh was asked about a timeline for an operation and commented that it was better to plan an attack for the month of Ramadan, court records say.
Prosecutors had recommended Jalloh serve 20 years in prison. It’s not immediately clear why he was released before the end of his 11-year sentence, though it is not unusual in the federal prison system for inmates to be released before serving their full term of imprisonment.
A sophomore named Jennifer told ABC Hampton, Virginia, affiliate WVEC that she was waiting for a midterm exam when she heard a group of people saying, “get out, get out, get out.”
“All of a sudden, we heard a commotion. A lot of people rumbling, starting to get up,” she said. “The guy next to me, we looked at each other, we started running, and that’s when we heard, you know, gunshots.”
She commended the university’s quick communication through alerts, saying, “I’m very, very proud of how quick the situation was handled.”
Shelton told reporters that the investigation is still ongoing and they were combing through the campus for clues.
“We now have to search every single room in that facility. There were students that we found that were hiding and faculty and staff,” he said.
The police did not say how the gunman died.
FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement that the bureau is treating the shooting as “as an act of terrorism,” and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force will be working with local police in the investigation.
There’s no longer a threat, the university said, adding that classes are canceled for the rest of the day and Friday.
“Today was a tragic day for the campus of Old Dominion University,” Old Dominion President Brian Hemphill told reporters.
