Next month, 5 Seconds of Summer will take the stage at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall for a special livestream in celebration of their new album, 5SOS5.

The livestream, dubbed The Feeling of Falling Upwards, will take place September 22. “We really wanted to do something that could involve all our fans around the world,” the band says in a statement. “That’s where the idea was born. For this special show, we will perform a set of reimagined songs from our career, plus brand new tracks off the new album, accompanied by an orchestra and choir.”

The show will be a real full-circle moment: when 5SOS first visited England back in 2013, they busked on the street just steps away from the Royal Albert Hall.

5SOS5 is due out September 23. It features the previously released tracks “Take My Hand,” “Me, Myself & I” and “Complete Mess.”

The livestream starts worldwide at 8:30 p.m. London time, but will be rebroadcast three time so fans around the world don’t have to watch it in the middle of the night or the middle of the afternoon.

“We can’t wait to share this night with you and are so grateful to still be taking this journey with every single one of you,” says the band.

You can buy tickets now via Dreamstage.live. VIP tickets include access to an exclusive preshow Q&A with 5SOS starting at 7 p.m. British Summer Time, followed by a screening of a video called The Making of the Album 5SOS5.

Here’s when you can catch the livestream:

• Live: 3:30 p.m. EDT
• Rebroadcast #1: 8:30 p.m. EDT
• Rebroadcast #2: 8:30 p.m. PDT
• On Demand: Beginning Friday, September 23, at 2 p.m. EDT; ending Monday, September 26, at 9 a.m. EDT

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On Monday, Michael Joseph “Prince” Jackson Jr. and Paris Jackson remembered their late father, Michael Jackson, on what would’ve been the King of Pop’s 64th birthday.

Prince, 25, posted a series of Instagram photos with his father and siblings — Paris and Prince Michael “Bigi” Jackson II.

“Happy birthday to the greatest! Miss you more and more but I love you more and more with each day,” wrote Prince, who also shared a series of photos and videos from throughout Michael’s career to his Instagram Stories. “Thank you for everything.”

Paris, 24, posted a photo of herself as a toddler kissing Michael on the lips, alongside the simple caption, “hbd.”

As previously reported, it was announced Monday that an expanded version of the best-selling album of all time — Michael’s Thriller — arrives November 18 and is now available for preorder.  November marks the 40th anniversary of the album’s release in 1982.

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Items from the personal collection of late Megaforce Records co-founders Jon and Marsha Zazula are going on sale in an upcoming auction.

Among the pieces available are various concert tickets and flyers from early Metallica shows, the key to a truck stolen from Metallica in 1983, and the original headpiece for the Anthrax Not Man mascot.

The auction, which is being put on by Backstage Auctions, will run September 2-11. For more info, visit BackstageAuctions.com.

The Zazulas founded Megaforce Records in 1982 and soon signed a then-unknown Metallica to their first-ever record deal. Marsha passed away in January 2021, followed by Jon in February 2022.

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Former Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug “Cosmo” Clifford has unveiled plans to release the latest in his “Cosmo’s Vault” series of archival music projects. The collaborative album, called California Gold, was recorded in 1978 with founding Derek & the Dominos member Bobby Whitlock and is slated for release September 9.

The 10-track collection was produced by Clifford, and all of the songs were co-written by him and Whitlock. Whitlock sang lead and played keyboards on every song, and also contributed some backing vocals and guitar. Clifford played drums throughout the record and added backing vocals to some tracks, as well.

California Gold also includes contributions from legendary Booker T & the MG’s bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn and former Graham Central Station guitarist David Vega.

The album is packed with soulful songs featuring roots rock and blues influences. You can preorder California Gold now on CD and digitally.

Here’s the album’s full track list:

“Good Times”
“Get Down Fever”
“It Ain’t Like Mama Told Me”
“Turn the Beat Around”
“On Hold Again”
“Purple Mountain”
“It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn”
“Do or Die”
“I’m Happy Just Being Alive”
“Rollin’ On”

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Noel Gallagher has announced a pair of new signature guitars with Gibson and Epiphone.

The instruments include recreations of two of the ex-Oasis member’s own beloved guitars: the 1960 Gibson ES-355 and the Epiphone Riviera. The ES-355 is widely regarded as Gallagher’s most famous guitar.

“F*** me, what a Guitar!” Gallagher says of the ES-355 recreation. “I’ve actually sent my main one back to storage, something I haven’t done since the day I bought it … THAT’S how good it is!”

Of the Riviera, Gallagher adds, “That guitar played a part on so many songs in the [’90s] it’s ridiculous. The Epiphone is excellent, really very good … sounds exactly like my original one, it’s a belter!”

For more info, visit Gibson.com or Epiphone.com.

Gallagher previously teamed up with Gibson last year to release the Noel Gallagher Gibson J-150 acoustic guitar.

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On Monday, Michael Joseph “Prince” Jackson Jr. and Paris Jackson remembered their late father, Michael Jackson, on what would’ve been the King of Pop’s 64th birthday.

Prince, 25, posted a series of Instagram photos with his father and siblings — Paris and Prince Michael “Bigi” Jackson II.

“Happy birthday to the greatest! Miss you more and more but I love you more and more with each day,” wrote Prince, who also shared a series of photos and videos from throughout Michael’s career to his Instagram Stories. “Thank you for everything.”

Paris, 24, posted a photo of herself as a toddler kissing Michael on the lips to her Instagram Story alongside the simple caption, “hbd.”

As previously reported, it was announced Monday that an expanded version of the best-selling album of all time — Michael Jackson’s Thriller — arrives November 18 and is now available for preorder.

November marks the 40th anniversary of the album’s release in 1982.

Michael Jackson Thriller 40 is a double CD set with a bonus record filled with rare audio recordings and demos that Jackson worked on during the 1982 album’s sessions.

Sony Music will begin unveiling the titles of every bonus track after Labor Day — but only one at a time. The final mystery title will be made known on November 17.

Sony is further treating fans by including 15 rarely heard tracks in an expanded digital release of the Thriller album. 

Thriller sold over 70 million copies worldwide and is certified 34-times Platinum by the RIAA, making it the second-best-selling album in the U.S. The album dominated the Billboard 200 chart for an impressive 37 weeks. It also dominated the Billboard Hot 100 with seven top-10 hits, including the chart-topping singles “Billie Jean” and “Beat It.”

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Seal revealed his parents weren’t the people who pushed him to become a singer — it was one of his teachers.

Speaking on his Think About It podcast, the “Kiss from a Rose” singer opened up about the teacher, who’s one of his “champions and pivotal figures,” as the person who helped him realize he could sing.

“The person that really started it for me … that made a difference, was a teacher named Mr. Ren,” Seal recalled.

Seal said he attended a school that served low-income, blue-collar families. “I wasn’t very good academically and, like most of the people in my class … [I thought] we were never going to amount to anything,” he said.

“[Mr. Ren] was the one that saw me, and saw something in me and encouraged me to sing,” the Grammy winner said. “The first time I sung publicly was in front of him. I guess I started singing because I idolized him.”

Seal said Mr. Ren pushed him further by putting him onstage “in front of the parents and teachers” at the end- of-the-year celebration. The young singer was understandably nervous and “froze.”

“I’ll emphasize that my parents had never heard me sing. They didn’t even know I could sing,” added Seal, adding he was supposed to sing an a cappella version of Johnny Nash‘s “I Can See Clearly Now.”

“I remember being so afraid, and closing my eyes and getting through this song, and being lost in it and finishing it. And it was like one of those scenes in the movie where you could hear a pin drop,” said Seal.

Seal said he “never forgot that feeling” when the audience erupted into cheers, and he eventually pursued a singing career — because, as he said, Mr. Ren “believed in me.”

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Walker Hayes might be known as the good-timing “Fancy Like” guy, but fans of the artist’s deeper cuts already know that his song catalog is full of tear-jerking ballads, too.

For example, Country Stuff (The Album) includes a searing track called “Briefcase,” which Walker wrote about his complicated, loving relationship with his dad.

The song’s lyrics remember how his father sold real estate and was often too busy to spend time with the family. Once Walker grew up and became a father himself, he gained new perspective on the sacrifices his dad had to make to provide for his kids.

“He died right before this hit the rocket ship,” Walker explains in an interview on Southern Living‘s Biscuits & Jam podcast. “And it’s been perplexing to me this year. Honestly, I still text him. I texted his number from the Grammys, and said, ‘You know, I’m nominated for a Grammy.”

Though he never lived to see his son’s biggest musical successes, Walker says that his dad was an instrumental part of his early days in music.

“My first gig was at the yacht club on Mobile Bay. The only reason I played that show is because he booked it. He called me and said, ‘You’re already signed up to play,’ and he didn’t ask me, he didn’t ask if I wanted to, he didn’t say ‘practice,’ he said, ‘You’re playing on Friday,’” Walker remembers.

“I played that gig and it truly changed my life, and he is the reason,” he added.

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