Shawn Mendes has been gearing up for his pandemic-delayed global Wonder Tour and, on Friday, he revealed some bad news — he had to push a slew of dates back to 2023.  He said he had no choice but to delay his European leg of the tour because of the ongoing threat of COVID-19.

“I’m so sorry I won’t be able to see you guys sooner,” he said on social media. “We unfortunately were forced to move the UK/EU tour dates to 2023 due to the pandemic.”   The Grammy winner elaborated on the cause of the delay in a separate statement, which read, “This was a really difficult decision to make.”

“With all of the logistical, travel and venue restrictions still uncertain in Europe due to the pandemic, we were forced to make the tough decision of moving the tour leg to the end of the tour when we are confident we are able to travel and can put on the best possible show we want to, safely and at full capacity,” Shawn explained.  

He also teased, “I am working on a ton of new music for you all!  I’m excited for you to hear.”

In all, 32 stops across Europe and the U.K. were delayed by a year, with the new leg of the tour set to kick off on May 31, 2023 with the first stop set in Bologna, Italy.  

Shawn’s North American dates have not been affected and he promised that “tour will start in June.”   

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After reportedly being sued for $20 million for allegedly raping a woman in 2020, Chris Brown is calling the accusations “some real bulls**t.”

TMZ reports that a woman, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, is accusing Breezy of raping her on December 20, 2020 outside Diddy’s Star Island home in Miami. The woman is seeking $20 million in damages over the emotional stress caused by the alleged attack.

Brown responded on Instagram, writing, “I hope y’all see this pattern of whenever I’m releasing music or projects, ‘THEY’ try to pull some real bulls**t.” 

Doe claims she met Brown on a yacht parked at Diddy’s residence and accepted a drink from the “Go Crazy” singer. When he gave her a second drink, she claims to have experienced “a sudden, unexplained change in consciousness.”

The lawsuit alleges the woman became “disoriented, physically unstable, and started to fall in and out of sleep.” Brown then allegedly took her to a bedroom while she was “drugged,” removed her bathing suit bottom and began kissing her. She claims the artist ignored her pleas to stop, and proceeded to rape her.

Jane Doe says Brown contacted her the following day and demanded she take Plan B—a morning-after emergency contraception pill. The woman claims she did as she was told, and never reported the incident to authorities. Her attorneys, Ariel Mitchell and George Vrabeck, say their client didn’t go to police because she was embarrassed.

In 2009, the Grammy winner was charged with felony assault and making criminal threats following a fight with his then-girlfriend, Rihanna, in Los Angeles. Brown pleaded guilty to a felony and accepted a plea deal of community labor, five years of probation, and domestic violence counseling.

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Charli XCX:Alone Together was released today on Hulu, giving the world an intimate glance at how the “Boom Clap” singer and her fans struggled through the pandemic.

The documentary-style film provides a raw, unflinching glimpse at Charli’s own mental health battles that lockdown exacerbated because she was cut off from her main line of support — her fanbase.  But, the movie is also a story of triumph because it also follows the Grammy nominee making her socially distanced new album, how i’m feeling now. In addition, it documents how Charli connected with her followers and how their input helped shape her 2020 studio work and her understanding of her own mental health issues.

The film’s directors, Pablo Jones-Soler and Bradley Bell said in a statement, “We hope that audiences walk away seeing the value of human connection and the importance of community. We live in a highly individualized society but we have seen that as human beings we thrive when we work, talk, move, love and support collectively. For both Charli and the fans, we see the power of togetherness to heal and creatively push boundaries during an incredibly difficult time period.”

Charli XCX: Alone Together is available now in theaters and on Hulu.  In addition, she recently released her new single “Good Ones,” which is the lead single off her upcoming fifth studio album, Crash, that’s due out March 18.

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If you need a guitar to help tell the story of your life, look no further than the Mike Ness 1976 Les Paul Deluxe.

The Social Distortion frontman has teamed up with Gibson to create a new signature guitar, inspired by his own beloved 1976 Les Paul Deluxe Goldtop.

The Ness Les Paul, which will set you back $8,999, replicates the original’s gold and “aged” finish, and even comes complete with Ness’ signature stickers. For more info, visit Gibson.com.

Ness will be bringing his Les Paul on the road with him on Social Distortion’s upcoming European tour, kicking off in May. The band will be back in the U.S. in November to play the 2022 Outlaw Country West concert cruise.

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Luke Combs just keeps rolling out peeks and hints into his next album. The singer shared rough mixes of two as-yet-unreleased songs this week on Twitter.

One, “Five-Leaf Clover,” is a gratitude-filled ballad that Luke’s been trying out live during his tour stops recently. The other is “Tomorrow Me,” a song he debuted with just his acoustic guitar on social media in summer 2021.

“Another little taste of something y’all may or may not have heard,” Luke wrote when he shared the snippets of the two songs.

Around New Year’s, Luke told fans he was hard at work on his third studio album, and in the weeks since, he’s been making good on his promise to get new music ready for fans’ ears. Meanwhile, his current single, “Doin’ This,” is inside country radio’s Top 30.

Luke shared exciting personal news with fans last week, too. He and his wife, Nicole, are expecting their first child, a baby boy.

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Billie Eilish may have had the best of intentions when launching her new art contest with Adobe, where a grand prize winner would be the designer of her new tour t-shirt and get hooked up with $10,000, but the competition is falling flat among critics.

Professional artists have spoken out against the contest and are using their social media platforms to tell aspiring creatives not to enter Billie’s contest.  Among the naysayers is TikTok user meganroseruiz, a popular illustrator, who shared a video Thursday — that’s already amassed over a million views — where she called the contest “exploitative and dangerous.”  

There are two main criticisms about Billie’s contest — one being that people won’t be paid fairly for their work and the other being that artists will be giving Billie or Adobe the rights to their work, meaning they’ll be able to “take [your design] and put it on merchandise without paying you, even if you don’t win,” which meganroseruiz claims is laid out in the contest’s Terms of Service.

Other artists condemned Billie because the contest asks her fans to design an official piece of merchandise for free.  These artists argue that, while fans may be tempted by the idea of working with Billie and gaining exposure by being featured on her platform, they should be paid fairly for their time and effort.

Billie nor Adobe have responded to the mounting criticism. 

(Note: Linked TikTok contains uncensored profanity)

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It’ll be a little bit longer before you hear the new Megadeth album.

In an interview with Forbes, frontman Dave Mustaine shares that the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s Dystopia is now expected to arrive this summer.

“I know that our actual official record release date had gotten moved back again with all of the distribution stuff, and all of these issues with getting product from one place to the next with record plants making vinyl,” Mustaine explains. “We’re not reliant on vinyl so much but just the whole process has been delayed, so it’s just gotten moved back again.”

“I believe at the time when the record comes out this summer we’ll be on a tour that we’re going to be announcing,” he adds. “But I can’t really get into that right now because I don’t know for sure the dates.”

Mustaine previously told American Songwriter that the record, titled The Sick, the Dying…and the Dead!, was set for release this spring.

While you wait for the record to arrive, you can replay the 12-second clip of the new song “Life in Hell,” which Mustaine shared in a recent Cameo video.

You can also catch Megadeth live on the 2022 leg of the Metal Tour of the Year, kicking off in April. The bill also includes Lamb of God, Trivium and In Flames.

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Dashboard Confessional has released a new song called “Burning Heart,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, All the Truth That I Can Tell.

“In the song, there’s this sense of, ‘OK, here we go! Are you ready? Because it’s starting!'” says frontman Chris Carrabba. “This was the first one I wrote for the new album and it’s the one outlier of the bunch.”

“In this setting, the conceit of the song is between two people in a relationship — well, you only hear one side,” he adds. “That’s the bigger part of the conceit: what if you only heard the one side of the conversation?”

You can download “Burning Heart” now via digital outlets. Its accompanying video premieres Friday at noon ET.

“Burning Heart” is the second track to be released from All the Truth That I Can Tell, following lead single “Here’s to Moving On.” The whole album arrives February 25.

Dashboard will hit the road in support of All the Truth on a co-headlining tour with Jimmy Eat World launching February 27 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Prior to that, Carrabba will play a pair of solo acoustic shows taking place February 22 in New York City and February 25 in Los Angeles. Tickets to those dates go on sale Friday at 2 p.m. ET.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit DashboardConfessional.com.

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