Lauren Alaina & Chase Matthew’s “All My Exes” (Big Loud)
Lauren Alaina currently has her biggest hit on the radio since 2021’s “Getting Over Him” with Jon Pardi.
If there’s any downside to her new duet with Chase Matthew, it’s that the song Lauren co-wrote was, in fact, ripped from the pages of her own life.
“I wrote ‘All My Exes’ about a relationship I had that was, let’s just say not my best relationship,” she reveals. “And we were fighting down on Broadway, actually. Everybody’s had a fight down on Broadway, right? If you’ve been to Nashville, you have.”
“I basically wrote this song about things that he was, like, yelling at me and saying about me,” Lauren continues. “And I was like, ‘Well, you know, I’ve heard this before. I’m not saying you’re right, but you are not the first to say this to me.’ It’s the classic, ‘it’s not you, it’s me’ song.”
Another interesting twist to “All My Exes”? It was Lauren’s husband, Cam Arnold, who loved the song so much that he secretly played it for Chase while on tour, because he believed the two of them could make it a hit.
Jack Antonoff of Bleachers performs on stage during Lollapalooza at Grant Park on August 01, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images)
Bleachers are headlining the first show of Rolling Stone magazine’s 2026 Rock Tour, taking place May 20 at the Fillmore in New Orleans.
Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. CT, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday at 10 a.m. CT.
The Rolling Stone Rock Tour aims to showcase “the most exciting artists shaping the future of rock” and highlight “emerging voices across indie, alternative, and genre-defying rock,” according to a press release. It will also make stops in Denver, San Diego, New York City, Chicago and Nashville; artists for those dates have yet to be announced.
Bleachers, meanwhile, will launch a full U.S. tour in June in support of their upcoming album, everyone for ten minutes, due out May 22.
Jake Kiszka from Greta Van Fleet performs on stage at Tons Of Rock Festival 2024 on June 29, 2024 in Oslo, Norway. (Per Ole Hagen/Redferns)
Greta Van Fleet guitarist Jake Kiszka is taking part in a live Q&A event taking place April 23 at the Gibson Garage in Nashville.
The event starts at 3 p.m. CT, and is free and open to the public. Anyone hoping to attend is encouraged to arrive early.
“To mark the occasion, we’ll be unveiling something truly special,” the Gibson Garage Instagram teases.
Greta Van Fleet’s most recent album is 2023’s Starcatcher. Kiszka has since launched the band Mirador, which released their self-titled debut album in 2025.
Dustin Breeding, Kelly Breeding, Carnell Breeding, Patrick Breeding and Bryan Breeding of the band B5 perform during The Boys 4 Life Tour at Smoothie King Center on March 13, 2026, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
B5 has been busy performing as part of the Boys 4 Life tour — an opportunity they had just a few days to prepare for.
“We were asked to join, I’d say eight days prior for the tour,” Patrick tells ABC Audio. “So we did have to round up, get ourselves together pretty quickly. But you know what they say, when you stay ready, you don’t really have to get ready.”
The opportunity, he adds, was well worth it because of the love from their fans.
“Going to these cities and seeing these fans … in real time onstage … makes B5 feel great,” Patrick says. “It gives us just even more fuel to go out there each night and to just give it our all and leave nothing out there on the stage.”
The Boys 4 Life tour serves as a reunion of sorts. The group shares the lineup with Bow Wow, Omarion and Pretty Ricky — artists they toured with during the 2005 Scream IV Tour.
“It’s very nostalgic,” Carnell says, noting they get to see each other now as adults. “It’s a different vibe, it’s a different feeling.”
What’s also different is B5’s approach to performing.
“We were really wild back then,” Patrick says. “Nowadays … we’re seasoned, everything’s a little more controlled. Everything has intention behind it.”
Still, fans can expect high energy.
“Our set is pretty energetic. … We have a very good, seasoned, clean set,” says Dustin. “[We] hit you with the hits … and then, you know, kill them at the end with the ‘All I Do.'”
“The crowd goes crazy every time,” he adds of the crowd’s response. “The way [the set list] rolls out and flows is being received very well … so we definitely recognize that and we appreciate it.”
Sabrina Carpenter performs during Day 1 of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 19, 2024 in Indio, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for Coachella)
Sabrina Carpenter will headline Coachella for the first time on Friday, and she says fans should get ready for something special.
“It’s the most ambitious show I’ve ever done,” Sabrina tells Perfectmagazine in a chat with designer Marc Jacobs. “It’s probably the most time I’ve ever had to actually just sit down and talk about a show as I’m building it.”
“Most of the time, you’re really quickly thrust into physical rehearsals, but this time around we started this process around seven months ago. So it’s been a long journey,” she adds. “It will be very special.”
Sabrina’s current phase of global pop domination technically began at Coachella two years ago, when she played the main stage at sunset and sang what was then a brand-new song live for the first time: “Espresso.”
“That was a really special day for me … and now, two years later, we’re back,” she adds. “And I think that’s what makes this show feel really, really surreal: getting to celebrate all the songs that have come after it, and just how many lives they’ve lived since they’ve come out.”
But while “Espresso” helped shoot her to stardom, Sabrina tells Jacobs that the song didn’t have as big an impact on her life as did her Short n’ Sweet tour, which wrapped up in November 2025.
“I feel like that really, really changed my life. That was my first arena tour. It was the first time anyone got to really live with these songs and hear how they sound out loud,” she explains. “It was really the tour – and the fans. It’s mostly what they’ve done to change my life, which is existing, showing up. I owe it to them.”
Donald Fagen performs onstage at the Second Annual LOVE ROCKS NYC! A Benefit Concert for God’s Love We Deliver at Beacon Theatre on March 15, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for God’s Love We Deliver)
Donald Fagen last played under the name Steely Dan in March 2024. So what’s he been doing since then? According to his stepdaughter, he’s “enjoying his retirement,” though he’s still making music and performing occasionally.
Fagen’s stepdaughter Amy Helm — daughter of Fagen’s late wife Libby Titus and the late Levon Helm of The Band — tells Vulture that Fagen is “doing fantastic,” adding that he’s living in Woodstock, New York, where she and her family are based, “full time.”
“We’ve been playing a lot of music. He’s enjoying his retirement,” adds Helm, a singer and songwriter who organizes the ongoing series of concerts known as the Helm Family Midnight Ramble.
“He’s playing piano and singing the occasional rock-and-roll cover with our family band at the Midnight Ramble, and we’re having a great time,” she says. “He’s working on music with my son as well. They’re working on an album, and that’s been fun. So it’s a nice time for the family.”
Helm says that Fagen has no plans to perform with Steely Dan, explaining, “Right now he’s really enjoying being retired and not having any expectations or pressure. We drive around, we listen to music, and he picks fun covers for us to try at the Midnight Ramble. He’s just enjoying the downtime, but I guess you never know.”
Helm gave Vulture the update after some Instagram videos she posted to promote the Midnight Ramble went viral simply because Fagen was seen in the background.
“All of a sudden friends were texting me and letting me know that it was really resonating with Steely Dan fans,” Helm tells Vulture. She adds, “Someone asked him what he thought about having a viral moment, and he said, ‘We must really have our finger on the pulse of the nation.’”
‘The Boys’ season 5 on Prime Video. (Amazon MGM Studios)
The Boys are back for one final fight. The fifth and final season of the Prime Video series premieres Wednesday, and it follows The Boys’ attempt stop the unchecked power of the egomaniacal Homelander. It’s also building to a big finale that Karl Urban, who plays Boys leader Butcher, promises will be satisfying for fans.
“One hundred percent. We’re actually all super-confident of the fact that the rocket ship has landed in a wonderful way,” Urban tells ABC Audio. “We can’t wait for audiences to see the fun, exciting, action-packed season that we’ve got in store for them and also to experience … heartaches along the way.”
Urban warns, “‘Don’t get attached to … too many characters,” adding that there are “consequences being dealt.”
One positive change this season? Karen Fukuhara’s unstoppable character, Kimiko, regained the power to speak at the end of season 4 and can now fully express her personality. “It was just fun to be able to play a new side of Kimiko that we hadn’t discovered,” she tells ABC Audio.
In the premiere, Homelander is running the country and imprisoning those who oppose him in “freedom camps.” Parallels between the show and the real world are inevitable, but Jensen Ackles, who plays Soldier Boy, insists it wasn’t planned, especially since the show was scripted and shot two years ago.
“The show doesn’t necessarily comment on what’s going on … it’s more showing a reflection of what we all see and then turning it on its head in a wild way,” Ackles explains. “But it’s definitely … wild how reflective and how much of a mirror image, certain aspects of the show are in real life.”
The first two episodes of The Boys are now available. Episodes will drop weekly, with the finale streaming May 20.
(WASHINGTON) — An 11th hour plea from the prime minister of Pakistan appears to have swayed both President Donald Trump and the Iranian regime to agree to a two-week ceasefire deal in exchange for temporarily opening the Strait of Hormuz, at least temporarily staving off Trump’s promise to bomb Iran back to the “stone ages.”
With just hours to go until Trump’s 8 p.m. ET Tuesday deadline, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif — one of the key mediators attempting to the end the conflict — issued a public call to Trump, urging him to allow more time for negotiations.
“Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future,” Sharif said. “To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks.”
Sharif also implored Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz as a “goodwill gesture.”
Just after 6:30 p.m. ET, Trump posted on his social media platform that he would suspend military attacks.
“Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two week,” he wrote.
“We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate,” Trump continued, referring to an Iranian counterproposal transmitted to negotiators after rejecting plans for a longer ceasefire on Monday. “Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two-week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated.”
Within the hour, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council claimed that the U.S. agreed to its plan which includes numerous concessions.
In a lengthy statement on Iranian state media, the council said the U.S. “committed in principle to non-aggression, continued Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz, acceptance of enrichment, lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions.”
Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, meanwhile, said Iran would agree to a ceasefire if attacks against it are halted. He also said passage through the Strait of Hormuz would be allowed during the two-week period if coordinated with Iran’s armed forces.
The White House did not respond to specific questions Tuesday evening on whether the U.S. agreed to Iran’s 10-point plan — which includes lifting all primary and secondary sanctions and withdrawing combat troops from the region — or what it made of Iran saying the Strait of Hormuz would open with coordination from Iran’s military.
In response, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement:
“President Trump’s words speak for themselves: this is a workable basis to negotiate, and those negotiations will continue. The truth is that President Trump and our powerful military got Iran to agree to reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and negotiations will continue.”
Despite Trump calling Iran’s counterproposal a “workable basis” for negotiations, it contains many terms the U.S. and the president himself have long rejected and was previously described by administration officials as “maximalist.”
After the two-week ceasefire was announced, mediators began making arrangements to hold the first round of talks following the implementation of the ceasefire on Friday in Islamabad, but the White House said late Tuesday that it had not yet committed to any plans.
Before Sharif’s proposal was made public, two U.S. officials cautioned that although talks showed signs of progress, the Trump administration and Iranian regime still appeared to be far apart on core issues, expressing doubt that a broad deal could be reached on such a tight timeline.
One U.S. official also said the dynamic proposed by Sharif mirrored confidence-building measures under discussion behind closed doors, but up until the president and Iranian authorities accepted the terms, it was unclear whether both sides could be brought on board.
Fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz is a top priority for U.S. officials, who indicated that any agreement with Iran would have to lead to near-immediate progress on that front.
Asked about the state of negotiations with Iran on Tuesday morning, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he hoped “to have more news” later in the day and called Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz “a big problem for the world.”
“The whole world’s been impacted unfortunately because Iran is violating every law known by striking commercial vessels in the Straits of Hormuz,” he said. “I mean this is a regime that doesn’t believe in laws, rules or anything like that — it’s a State Sponsor of Terrorism, so it’s not surprising that they’re now conducting terrorist activity against commercial vessels.”
Iran sees the strait as equally important and has signaled publicly and in private negotiations that it is highly reluctant to agree to any terms that would see it losing leverage over the waterway.
Iran’s counterproposal issued Monday stipulated that the country would fully open the Strait of Hormuz but set the rules for passage through the waterway and extract a toll of $2 million per vessel, a situation the Trump administration has repeatedly said would be untenable.
Kehlani is set to perform as the latest guest on Amazon Music Presents: In the Paint, “which brings basketball and music together by reimagining artists’ most essential songs in a cinematic, courtside setting,” as per a press release. Her episode premieres Thursday and will air during the NBA on Prime Video postgame show, NBA Nightcap, after its New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics livestream. It arrives ahead of her self-titled album, due out April 24.
It’s Been Awful for Isaiah Rashad, and he’s planning to explain how. His new album, his first in five years, is set to release May 1. He announced the news via a cinematic trailer, which shows the rapper with open, bloody wounds as he limps across a field after seemingly being beaten. It ends with him lying on the ground as two people stand over him. It’s Been Awful will serve as the follow-up to 2021’s The House is Burning. Its single, Same Sh!T, is now available for presave. A snippet of an instrumental can be heard on the website.
Al Green, Patti LaBelle and Public Enemy are on the lineup for the Stern Grove Festival, a set of free concerts taking place in San Francisco this summer. Patti is scheduled to play on Aug. 9, and Public Enemy will take the stage on Aug. 15. Al’s performance will follow on Aug. 16.
Beyoncé’s Lemonade is the latest album to get the Rockabye Baby treatment. The songs have been reimagined as instrumental lullabies and compiled on an album titled Lullaby Renditions of Beyoncé’s Lemonade. It arrives on Friday and follows the 2017 release Lullaby Renditions of Beyoncé. The animation for “Hold Up” is available to watch on YouTube.
Brent Smith of Shinedown performs in concert during Rocklahoma at Rockin’ Red Dirt Ranch on August 31, 2025 in Pryor, Oklahoma. (Gary Miller/Getty Images)
Shinedown has added four dates to their upcoming Dance, Kid, Dance Act II U.S. tour.
The newly announced shows take place July 26 in Charlotte, North Carolina; July 28 in Camdenton, Missouri; Sept. 5 in Grand Island, Nebraska; and Sept. 7 in St. Louis.
The bill will also include Skillet and From Ashes to New in Charlotte; From Ashes to New in Camdenton; Dexter and the Moonrocks in Grand Island; and Winona Fighter in St. Louis.
Presales begin Wednesday, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For all ticket info, visit Shinedown.com.
The Dance, Kid, Dance Act II tour, the sequel to 2025’s Dance, Kid, Dance tour, launches in May. It supports the upcoming new Shinedown album, EI8HT, due out May 29.
