Miranda Lambert‘s hoping to see you on the road sometime in 2026.
“Lookin forward to seein y’all at a show this year!” she posted on Instagram Monday. “@rockthecountry fest just announced this morning.”
The “A Song to Sing” hitmaker will headline the festival May 29 with Kid Rock. Jelly Roll, Josh Turner and more will play the Bloomingdale, Georgia, stage May 30.
Miranda kicks off her 2026 shows Feb. 15 at the Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida. So far, she has about a dozen dates at fairs, festivals and special events, though she hasn’t announced a major tour.
Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd performs onstage during the 2024 CMA Music festival at the Nissan Stadium on June 06, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Lynyrd Skynyrd is set to play the 2026 Rock the Country touring festival.
The mostly country festival will take place over eight weekends this summer, with the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers confirmed for the Ashland, Kentucky, stop. Skynyrd will perform July 10, with a lineup headlined by country star Jelly Roll.
Other artists booked for the festival include rockers Creed, Kid Rock and Shinedown, plus country stars such as Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Brooks & Dunn, Riley Green and Miranda Lambert.
Other Rock the Country 2026 dates include: May 1-2 in Bellville, Texas; May 29-30 in Bloomingdale, Georgia; June 27-28 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; July 25-26 in Anderson, South Carolina; Aug. 8-9 in Hastings, Michigan; Aug. 28-29 in Ocala, Florida; and Sept. 11-12 in Hamburg, New York.
You can sign up now for a presale that begins Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit RocktheCountry.com.
Lynyrd Skynyrd is set to spend their summer on the road with Foreigner on the Double Trouble Double Vision Tour. It will consist of 19 co-headlining dates, kicking off July 23 in Atlanta and wrapping Aug. 29 in Rogers, Arkansas. A complete schedule can be found at lynyrdskynyrd.com.
A$AP Rocky co-wrote, co-produced and raps on “Helicopter$,” his latest single and a preview of his Don’t Be Dumb album. The track arrives with a new music video, in which he also flexes his directing skills alongside Dan Streit.
In the clip, Rocky and members of his crew recklessly ride the D.B.D helicopter he used during his 2025 Lollapalooza set through the city. They hang out and perform to a rooftop filled with people dancing and waving rags around in helicopter-like motions. SWAT officers appear throughout, eventually targeting Rocky and even raiding his home. As he attempts to escape in the helicopter, he falls, dropping to his death.
“Helicopter$” was written with Kelvin J. N. Magnusen, and produced with Kelvin and Soufien Rhouat.
Don’t Be Dumb, which also includes lead single “Punk Rocky,” is set to arrive on Friday.
James Taylor at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony (Disney/Eric McCandless)
James Taylor is one of the acts set to perform at The Nearness of You Concert, an all-star benefit concert supporting cancer research at Columbia University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The event honors the memory of Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Michael Brecker, who died in 2007. He played sax on Taylor’s 1972 track “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight,” described on Instagram as “one of the most memorable collaborations in James’s catalog.”
The concert will be held Feb. 9 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Appel Room in New York, hosted by comedian Susie Essman. The lineup also includes trumpeter Chris Botti, singer/songwriter Lisa Fischer, inaugural poet Richard Blanco and special guests.
This is the fifth Nearness of You Concert that’s been held. Previous shows have raised over $5 million for cancer research and featured artists like Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Christopher Cross and others.
In December Taylor revealed his plans to tour in 2026, noting in a social media video that he would be out west in California and Nevada in April, and then hit the East Coast in June. So far the only confirmed U.S. shows are his annual July 3 and 4 concerts at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts. Taylor also has dates in the U.K. and Europe in July. A complete schedule can be found at JamesTaylor.com.
Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society performs onstage at Hollywood Palladium on July 29, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
Black Label Society has announced a new album called Engines of Demolition.
The 12th studio effort from the Zakk Wylde-led band, and their first since 2021’s Doom Crew Inc., is due out March 27. It includes the previously released songs “The Gallows,” “Broken and Blind” and “Lord Humungus.”
Also on the track list is a cut called “Ozzy’s Song.” Wylde, of course, was the guitarist in Ozzy Osbourne‘s solo band and performed alongside the late Prince of Darkness during his final show at the 2025 Back to the Beginning concert.
Black Label Society will launch a U.S. tour in February.
Here’s the Engines of Demolition track list: “Name in Blood” “Gatherer of Souls” “The Hand of Tomorrows Grave” “Better Days & Wiser Times” “Broken and Blind” “The Gallows” “Above & Below” “Back to Me” “Lord Humungus” “Pedal to the Floor” “Broken Pieces” “The Stranger” “Ozzy’s Song”
Teyana Taylor wins Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture at the 83RD ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES®, airing live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. (Phil McCarten/CBS)
Teyana Taylor has fought One Battle After Another during her time in the industry, which makes her first Golden Globe win even sweeter. After taking home the award Sunday night for best supporting actress in the Paul Thomas Anderson film, she told the press that her years of hard work had finally come to fruition.
“I’ve been doing it since I was 15 years old, you know? And what this was, for me, was God reminded me that the weight is not punishment, it’s preparation for what’s already written,” she said. “So my name being written on that card and the engraving — this is just mind-blowing, you know? … I’m still gagging right now. I’m just like, oh, my God. I’m so happy. I’m filled with so much gratitude. I don’t take any of this for granted. I don’t take any of it at all.”
In an Instagram carousel featuring photos of her with the award, Teyana reiterated the closing words of her acceptance speech: “Our softness is not a liability. Our depth is not too much. And our light does not need permission to shine. We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter. Our dreams deserve space.”
She then thanked the Golden Globes for recognizing her journey.
“I’ve been at this for 20 years, so this award doesn’t only represent this role,” she said. “It represents every season, every sacrifice, every yes, every no, and all the love and life I’ve poured into my work and into others along the way.”
“Purpose doesn’t rush,” she continued. “It arrives right on time.”
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is drawing backlash from former Federal Reserve and Treasury officials as well as current members of Congress, including those in President Donald Trump’s own party.
A bipartisan group of top economic officials released a blistering statement on Monday calling the probe an “unprecedented attempt to use prosecutorial attacks to undermine” the central bank’s independence.
“This is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets with weak institutions, with highly negative consequences for inflation and the functioning of their economies more broadly. It has no place in the United States whose greatest strength is the rule of law, which is at the foundation of our economic success,” read the statement from Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, Tim Geithner, Jacob Lew, Hank Paulson and others.
The investigation, announced by Powell in a rare video message on Sunday, is related to Powell’s testimony last June about the multi-year renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings in Washington. But Trump has made Powell a frequent target of his attacks and push to cut interest rates.
White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, who is on Trump’s short list to be the next Federal Reserve chair, said time will tell if the probe is a pretext for firing Powell over interest rates.
“Well, in the fullness of time, we’ll find out whether it looks like a pretext,” Hassett, who denied involvement in the probe, told CNBC in an appearance on Monday. “But right now, we’ve got a building that’s got, like, dramatic cost overruns and, you know, plans for the buildings that look inconsistent with the testimony. But, you know, again, I’m not a Justice Department person. I hope everything turns out OK.”
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, who serves on the Senate Banking Committee, said he will oppose the confirmation of any Trump nominee to the Federal Reserve until legal matters concerning Powell are resolved, which could make it difficult for a nominee to advance out of committee.
“If there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve, there should now be none. It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question,” Tillis said in a statement on Sunday night.
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, in a post on X on Monday, said Tillis is “right in blocking any Federal Reserve nominees.”
“After speaking with Chair Powell this morning, it’s clear the administration’s investigation is nothing more than an attempt at coercion. If the Department of Justice believes an investigation into Chair Powell is warranted based on project cost overruns — which are not unusual — then Congress needs to investigate the Department of Justice. The stakes are too high to look the other way: if the Federal Reserve loses its independence, the stability of our markets and the broader economy will suffer,” Murkowski posted on X.
House Financial Services Chairman Rep. French Hill, a Republican, said pursuing criminal charges against Powell is “an unnecessary distraction.” Sen. Kevin Cramer, another Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, said that he does not believe Powell is a criminal and that he hopes the criminal matter will soon be put to rest.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Monday that “if the investigation is warranted, then they’ll have to play that out.” When pressed if he believed the probe is warranted, Johnson said, “I have not reviewed his testimony, so I am not sure, but that’s not really my lane.”
A spokesperson for Attorney General Pam Bondi said Bondi “has instructed her U.S. Attorneys to prioritize investigating any abuse of taxpayer dollars.” Powell said in his statement the probe was fueled by Trump’s monthslong pressure campaign on him to lower interest rates.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, slammed Trump as a “wannabe dictator” over his campaign against Powell.
“Acting like the wannabe dictator he is, Trump is trying to push out the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and complete his corrupt takeover of America’s central bank so that it serves his interests, along with his billionaire friends,” Warren said in a speech about the future of the Democratic Party ahead of 2028 at the National Press Club.
President Trump denied any involvement in the criminal probe during a brief interview with NBC News on Sunday night but continued his criticism of Powell’s leadership.
ABC News’ Lauren Peller contributed to this report.
Jackson Dean & Shannon Miscoll (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for BMI)
Jackson Dean is engaged to be married, an Instagram post from his fiancée reveals.
“forever with you,” Shannon Miscoll posted on Jan. 3. “i can’t wait to be your wife @thejacksondean !!”
The post shows Shannon and Jackson in the woods in one photo, and a closeup of her engagement ring in another.
So far, Jackson hasn’t posted anything about his impending nuptials.
Musically, the “Don’t Come Lookin'” hitmaker has just released “Make a Liar” as his new radio single. It’s the follow-up to “Heavens to Betsy,” which became his second #1 in November.
“Make a Liar” seems to hint at Jackson’s third studio album, since it doesn’t appear on his most recent collection, On the Back of My Dreams, which came out in September 2024.
(L-R) Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander and Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov in ‘Heated Rivalry’ on HBO Max (Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max)
(SPOILER ALERT) You won’t have to leave the cottage anytime soon. Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid has announced that the seventh book in her Game Changers hockey romance series is coming this fall.
The book, titled Unrivaled, will be the third book focusing on Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov — the characters played by Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie in the popular Heated Rivalry TV adaptation on HBO Max.
Unrivaled picks up where Heated Rivalry’s sequel The Long Game left off, with — spoiler alert — Shane and Ilya playing on the same hockey team as a married couple. According to the book’s description, they’ll have to face growing backlash to their relationship now that they’ve gone public.
Unrivaled is available for preorder now and is set for a Sept. 29 release.
Meanwhile, the show’s stars continue to rise. Williams and Storrie presented at the Golden Globes Sunday night; Storrie is booked for appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers Monday and the Today show on Wednesday.
Heated Rivalry has been picked up for a second season, which will follow the events of The Long Game.
Charlie Puth’s Whatever’s Clever! World Tour (Live Nation)
Charlie Puth touring the world? Sure — whatever’s clever.
The “Changes” star will kick off the Whatever’s Clever! World Tour April 22 in San Diego. The U.S. legs wraps up June 13 in Houston, before Charlie heads overseas to the U.K. and Europe. During his North American run, Charlie will play theaters and arenas, including New York’s Madison Square Garden and LA’s Kia Forum. Opening acts include Daniel Seavey and Lawrence.
Charlie says in a statement, “I feel like I’ve worked and waited my entire career to put this sort of live show on for you all. We have worked so hard to bring you the sort of top-level musicianship and arrangements that you all deserve in a live show, and I am beyond excited to bring my music and this incredible band and show to some of the most iconic rooms in the world. It’s going to be fun!”
The tour comes in support of Charlie’s new album, also called Whatever’s Clever!, due out March 27. A new single, “Beat Yourself Up,” arrives Friday.
An artist presale starts Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time; tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time at charlieputh.com. Citi/AAdvantage cardmembers can access a presale starting Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time via citientertainment.com.
