If you like the groove Miranda Lambert’s been throwing down lately, there’s more to come.
Though she hinted at it with “A Song to Sing,” her duet with Chris Stapleton from July 2025, Miranda came right out and said it in “Crisco,” which dropped in May: “Ain’t we mixin’ country and disco?”
She also spells it out in a new Instagram video, bellying up to the bar behind two bedazzled Crisco-esque cans: One says “country” and the other says “disco.”
“Yeah I gotta keep movin’, gotta keep groovin’/ ‘Cause that song that’s in my soul will carry me on down the road/ I gotta keep goin’ till the going’s gone/ Till it’s gone, gone, gone,” Miranda sings in the background.
The accompanying text confirms “Till the Going’s Gone” will drop on Friday, fueling fans’ hopes there’ll soon be a whole album to follow.
Miranda’s most recent project was 2024’s Postcards from Texas.
Alicia Keys performs on ‘American Idol’ season 24 finale (Disney/Eric McCandless)
Alicia Keys is honoring Clive Davis, the man she says “changed my life forever.” After posting a photo of herself with Clive on her Instagram Story Monday, she shared a post on her feed, reflecting on the impact he had on her life.
“He believed in me from the very beginning, when I was just 18 years old, and very few saw what I was capable of!” Alicia wrote of Clive, who passed away at 94 years old. “He has stood beside me through every chapter that followed. Not just in that fake industry way but in a way that was full of love for how unlimited I could be! He called me a renaissance woman! It’s one of my favorite descriptions. It reminds me to be boundless.”
“If he didn’t see in me the glimmer of what was to become, you and I may have never known each other and be on this deep musical journey,” she wrote. “You will be missed beyond words but I am so grateful to have had you for as long as I did.”
Clive signed Alicia to Arista Records in the late ’90s, before leaving the label to launch J Records. There, he recruited Alicia, who released her Grammy-winning debut album, Songs in A Minor, under his tutelage. They later worked on four more albums together.
Jennifer Hudson, who signed to J Records shortly after her American Idol run and maintained a relationship with Clive, wrote on Instagram, “Yes, he was the legendary music mogul, but he was family to me.”
Dionne Warwick, whose career Clive helped revitalize, said, “I can think of no other record man that seemed to have that magical ability to know a hit when he heard a song.”
Andy Grammer attends ‘The Drop: Andy Grammer’ at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on October 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Andy Grammer will reprise his 2025 Greater Than: A One Man Show concert experience with Greater Than Pt. II: A One Man Show.
Following Andy’s already announced Big Stupid Hearts tour, which runs July 25 through Aug. 30, the new show launches Nov. 3 in Nashua, New Hampshire. It will be a stripped-down presentation that will allow Andy to, as he puts it, “connect with so many of you in such a deeply beautiful, meaningful way.”
He writes on Instagram that the first Greater Than tour was “so raw, candid and special” that he’s excited about sharing “more of these moments with you all.”
He calls the show “an intimate set of songs, storytelling and poetry” that “kind of feels like we’re all in someone’s living room with each other, holding space for everyone in the room.” It will be an all-new show, but, he notes, “the sentiment remains the same.”
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time at AndyGrammer.com.
Meanwhile, Andy will release a new song, “Best Hearts,” on July 10.
Startup Katalyst Space is teaming up with NASA to try and rescue the Swift telescope using the company’s newly developed robotic spacecraft. (NASA)
(LONDON) — Satellites don’t always stay in orbit. As they get closer to Earth, atmospheric drag can pull them lower and lower until they burn up, with solar activity speeding up the process.
NASA’s Swift Space Observatory is facing that fate — its orbit is decaying, and if left alone, it will be destroyed in a matter of months.
But in a first-of-its-kind mission, Katalyst Space, a startup, is teaming up with NASA to try and rescue Swift using the company’s newly developed robotic spacecraft, LINK.
“This is a historic mission, you know, some would call it the first of its kind, a robotic spacecraft that can go and capture an unprepared satellite,” said Robert Lamontagne, vice president of strategic partnerships at Katalyst Space.
Swift’s original orbit was around 370 miles above the Earth’s surface. But over the years, it’s fallen to less than 250 miles, according to NASA. Now it’s a race against the clock to keep Swift from falling even further and burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.
To save the satellite before time runs out, the Arizona-based company built its 935-pound rescue spacecraft in just 250 days. LINK was designed to physically interact with Swift despite the observatory not being designed for this kind of operation.
“Over the last nine months, we have gone from a clean sheet to a spacecraft that is currently integrated on a rocket, on an airplane ready to go to college for launch,” added Kieran Wilson, the principal investigator for LINK at Katalyst Space. “This is an absolutely unprecedented development timeline for this program.”
If all goes as planned, LINK will be launched into space on Saturday aboard a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket, which will be launched from a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar carrier aircraft taking off from Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific.
Once in orbit, it will take about three weeks for LINK to rendezvous with and capture the 22-year-old observatory. Over two to three months, the spacecraft will use its thrusters to raise Swift into a more stable orbit. The two will then separate as LINK lowers itself back into Earth’s atmosphere, where it will burn up, keeping it from adding to the rest of the space debris in our orbit.
The hope is that the maneuver will add 10 years to the mission and allow NASA to resume its scientific operations. The space agency had to stop most of the observatory’s scientific operations to reduce drag and slow its descent from orbit.
“No one thought it was going to be possible,” said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, NASA’s division director for astrophysics. “No one thought we would get as far as we’ve already gotten today.”
The clock is ticking for the $30 million mission to be completed. According to NASA, Swift is currently falling at roughly eight kilometers per month, and the space agency estimates it will drop below 300 kilometers sometime around October.
According to Wilson, at that point, the satellite will be “too low” for the rescue mission to be executed.
A potential blueprint for saving satellites
Earth’s orbit is littered with lots of aging satellites. If the mission is successful, NASA and Katalyst hope it could help establish a blueprint for future satellite rescues so fewer spacecraft are abandoned. Katalyst envisions having a fleet of spacecraft that can repair, refuel and upgrade satellites in need of help.
“Katalyst is here really to kind of mark the end of that throwaway model and the start of a new model where we think the spacecraft operators should no longer be constrained by the silly decisions that were made before launch,” Lamontagne said.
There’s no guarantee the rescue will be successful. Swift wasn’t designed to be grabbed by another spacecraft, and its age could make it vulnerable to damage during the capture.
“We still have to get spacecraft on orbit. We have to operate the spacecraft there successfully. And as we’ve all seen before, that’s a very challenging thing to do,” said Wilson.
“Rendezvous is going to be a challenge. It’s always a technical challenge, but we think we’re ready to handle that,” he added.
NASA says space weather and how the Earth’s atmosphere interacts with the spacecraft could also impact the outcome.
“If my confidence proves true and this team pulls off everything perfectly, the darn sun puffing up the darn atmosphere, at the wrong time,” Domagal-Goldman said. “There are still unknowns, both in terms of the dynamic nature of this part of Earth’s atmosphere, and its response to solar activity that is beyond all of our control.”
The Swift Space Observatory is a NASA satellite built to study gamma-ray bursts, the brightest and most powerful explosions in the universe. Swift uses multiple instruments, including three multiwavelength telescopes that can collect data in visible, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray light. NASA has used it to study black holes, stars, comets and other celestial objects.
“Swift can routinely conduct follow-up with things that go bump in the night within minutes. It really is NASA’s first responder,” said Brad Cenko, Swift’s principal investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Launched in 2004, the observatory was supposed to last only two years. But it’s been operating for more than two decades.
“Last year, Swift received five requests from the community to follow up newly discovered sources each and every day. That’s more annual community requests than any other NASA facility,” Cenko added.
King Ultramega “Loud Love” single artwork. (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale sings on a new cover of the Soundgarden song “Loud Love.”
The recording is part of the King Ultramega project, spearheaded by Mark Menghi of the band Metal Allegiance in honor of the late Chris Cornell. It also includes Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick and original Pearl Jam drummer Dave Krusen.
“I feel like I’m always learning something from Chris,” Hale says in a statement. “Every few years I’ll discover something deeper in his lyrics, or higher in his range. But there is an authenticity that comes with Chris that can’t be taught or trained for. I believe every word he writes. I’m inspired by his control over his animalistic vocal range, and his poetry, but also how honestly he sings.”
You can watch the video for the “Loud Love” cover on YouTube.
Hale has previously covered Soundgarden’s “Fell on Black Days” with Halestorm, as well as Temple of the Dog’s “Hunger Strike,” in which she sings both Cornell and Eddie Vedder’s parts.
My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James has announced a new solo album called WowedOut.
The record is due out Aug. 28. It marks James’ fourth solo effort and is the follow-up to 2018’s Uniform Distortion.
“There’ve been times in my life where I’ve felt lost or depressed, but music has always been the thing that pulls me back,” James says in a statement. “When I think about making this album, it almost feels like I was in some kind of dream and now I’m trying to remember what the dream was about. The whole thing brought me a lot of joy and comfort while I was making it, and I hope it brings everyone else a little joy and comfort too.”
The first single off Wowed Out is called “Come Again” and is out now.
My Morning Jacket’s most recent album is 2025’s is.
Clive Davis speaks onstage during the 68th GRAMMY Awards Pre-GRAMMY Gala & GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Avery Lipman & Monte Lipman on January 31, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Billy Joel and Aerosmith are among the latest artists sharing tributes to legendary music executive Clive Davis, who passed away Monday at the age of 94.
Joel shared a clip on Instagram from a 1974 interview where Davis talks about signing him.
“Clive Davis convinced me to sign with Columbia Records many years ago,” Joel wrote in the caption. “He recognized the talent of great musicians and understood the power of contemporary music,” noting, “I will always be grateful to Clive for his recognition of the critical importance of songwriting.”
Aerosmith shared a clip of the song “No Surprize,” about how they got their big break. In the track, they sing about Davis telling them he was going to make them a star.
“Our hearts are with the friends and family of Clive Davis, and all the artists and music lovers whose lives he changed with his vision, talent, and generosity,” they wrote. “He discovered Aerosmith, an unknown bar band, in 1972 and swiftly signed us to Columbia Records. He stood by us through our resurgence in the 1980s when our future wasn’t promised.”
They added, “He was a great man whose life’s work became the melody of modern culture and whose memory will always be a blessing.”
In addition, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton each shared their own tributes to Davis, with Tyler calling him, “The man with golden ears and Infinite Wisdom.”
Others paying tribute to Davis include Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell, Kenny Loggins and Dionne Warwick, who released a statement in which she called Davis “one of a kind.”
“I can think of no other record man that seemed to have that magical ability to know a hit when he heard a song,” Warwick added.
Heather Donohue, star of ‘The Blair Witch Project,’ backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards at Lincoln Center. (Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
We now have the release date for the upcoming The Blair Witch Project film.
Lionsgate has announced that the new horror movie will arrive in theaters on Sept. 24, 2027. The studio shared the release date in a post to Instagram on Tuesday.
The post featured a short video of the release date written in tree branches with eerie music playing in the background. Its caption simply reads, “9.24.27.”
Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Atomic Monster’s James Wan are set to produce the film. YouTube horror filmmaker Dylan Clark will direct it.
Clark took to Instagram back in May to share what the opportunity to helm a The Blair Witch Project movie means to him.
“The Blair Witch Project is one of the films that got me into filmmaking. To have the opportunity to step into that world with some of the people responsible for its creation is an absolute dream,” he wrote. “Can’t wait to see everyone in the woods soon.”
Clark recently partnered with Universal Pictures to adapt his horror short film Portrait of God, which is being produced by Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele.
The original Blair Witch Project debuted to theaters in 1999. A sequel, titled Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, arrived in 2000. The franchise was rebooted by Lionsgate in 2016 with the Adam Wingard-directed movie Blair Witch.
(NEW YORK) — A wildfire burning in Utah tripled in size overnight, prompting mandatory evacuations of homes and campgrounds and completely closing a highway in the mountainous area.
Fueled by drought conditions and wind gusts up to 50 mph, the Cottonwood Fire in Beaver County started Monday afternoon and spread rapidly overnight, according to Utah Fire Info.
As of Tuesday morning, the blaze has burned more than 10,000 acres and was 0% contained, officials said.
The Cottonwood Fire ignited around 3:36 p.m. on Monday, threatening populated areas in Beaver County, according to officials.
Just after 9 p.m. local time on Monday, residents in the Eagle Point and Merchant Valley areas of Beaver County were ordered to evacuate immediately as flames bore down on the area, authorities said.
The cause of the blaze is under investigation.
The Cottonwood Fire is one of 342 wildfires currently burning across Utah, consuming more than 64,000 acres combined, according to Utah Fire Info.
The biggest active fire is the Iron Fire burning in Juab County, about 28 miles southwest of Provo. As of Tuesday morning, the Iron Fire had burned 31,304 acres and was 9% contained, said Al Nash, public information officer for the Great Basin Team 3, a federal agency in charge of the incident.
Nash told ABC News that firefighters battling the Iron Fire are bracing for another day of hot, dry and windy conditions.
The fire has prompted numerous evacuations in the area, including the complete evacuation of the town of Eureka, which has a population of just over 600.
“Our firefighters are expecting to have another challenging day,” said Nash, adding that humidity is expected to drop into the single digits.
Kelly Wicken, a spokesperson for the Utah Division of Forestry, said the blaze started on private land and has now spread across Juab and two other counties, crossing onto federal land and shutting down a highway.
Before the fire, the National Weather Service had issued red flag fire danger warnings for a large part of the state.
Red flag warnings for fire weather danger are in place across southern Utah and through much of western and central Colorado. Strong winds and low humidity are expected to fuel the existing fires and enable new fires to spark and spread rapidly.
(NEW YORK) — A wildfire burning in Utah tripled in size overnight, prompting mandatory evacuations of homes and campgrounds and completely closing a highway in the mountainous area.
Fueled by drought conditions and wind gusts up to 50 mph, the Cottonwood Fire in Beaver County started Monday afternoon and spread rapidly overnight, according to Utah Fire Info.
As of Tuesday morning, the blaze has burned more than 10,000 acres and was 0% contained, officials said.
The Cottonwood Fire ignited around 3:36 p.m. on Monday, threatening populated areas in Beaver County, according to officials.
Just after 9 p.m. local time on Monday, residents in the Eagle Point and Merchant Valley areas of Beaver County were ordered to evacuate immediately as flames bore down on the area, authorities said.
The cause of the blaze is under investigation.
The Cottonwood Fire is one of 342 wildfires currently burning across Utah, consuming more than 64,000 acres combined, according to Utah Fire Info.
The biggest active fire is the Iron Fire burning in Juab County, about 28 miles southwest of Provo. As of Tuesday morning, the Iron Fire had burned 31,304 acres and was 9% contained, said Al Nash, public information officer for the Great Basin Team 3, a federal agency in charge of the incident.
Nash told ABC News that firefighters battling the Iron Fire are bracing for another day of hot, dry and windy conditions.
The fire has prompted numerous evacuations in the area, including the complete evacuation of the town of Eureka, which has a population of just over 600.
“Our firefighters are expecting to have another challenging day,” said Nash, adding that humidity is expected to drop into the single digits.
Kelly Wicken, a spokesperson for the Utah Division of Forestry, said the blaze started on private land and has now spread across Juab and two other counties, crossing onto federal land and shutting down a highway.
Before the fire, the National Weather Service had issued red flag fire danger warnings for a large part of the state.
Red flag warnings for fire weather danger are in place across southern Utah and through much of western and central Colorado. Strong winds and low humidity are expected to fuel the existing fires and enable new fires to spark and spread rapidly.
