If Jade isn’t already your pop star obsession, she will be soon. The “FUFN (F*ck You For Now)” singer has announced that her debut album, That’s Showbiz Baby!, is coming out on September 12. No tracklist has been announced yet, but hopefully it will include one of the best songs of 2024.
That’s Showbiz Baby! features collaborations with Mike Sabath, Lostboy, Cirkut, Raye, and Pablo Bowman.
“This album has been years in the making, so I’m beyond excited that I can finally let everyone know when it’s coming out,” Jade said in a statement. “I’m very proud of That’s Showbiz Baby! as a body of work and can’t wait to share it with the world. To be able to perform the album live later this year is also a dream come true. See you all on tour!”
You can check out the That’s Showbiz Baby! album cover below, as well as Jade’s tour dates.
Jade’s That’s Showbiz Baby! Album Cover Artwork
Sony Music UK/RCA Records
Jade’s 2025 Tour Dates: That’s Showbiz Baby! Tour
10/08 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Olympia Theatre
10/09 — Belfast, UK @ Ulster Hall
10/11 — Brighton, UK @ Dome
10/12 — Manchester, UK @ Academy 1
10/13 — Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy
10/15 — Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy
10/16 — Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy 1
10/18 — Newcastle, UK @ O2 City Hall
10/19 — London, UK @ Roundhouse
That’s Showbiz Baby! is out 10/12 via Sony Music UK/RCA Records. Find more information here.
Festival season is here, but standalone concerts are worth keeping track of, too. Live Nation is providing a terrific opportunity to see some great acts in the next few months with their “$30 Ticket To Summer” promotion.
Essentially, fans will be able to get $30 tickets to over a thousand shows in the US and Canada. The list of participating artists is strong, featuring Halsey, Avril Lavigne, Leon Bridges, Kesha, Nelly, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Willie Nelson, Billy Idol, The Black Keys, Goo Goo Dolls, James Taylor, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, The Offspring, Pantera, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and of course, Kidz Bop Kids. More info about the promotion, including which specific dates are part of the promo, can be found here.
Tickets go on sale starting May 21. Before that, there’s a T-Mobile Early Access and a Rakuten Early Access, both running on May 20 at 10 a.m. ET. Additional information about the T-Mobile sale can be found here, and the Rakuten here.
Halsey is fresh off launching her For My Last Trick tour. She wrote of it, “This tour is going to be a little bit different. Each song was carefully selected. For good reason. There will be many moments where you’re not so sure, but the person next to you is screaming. And some where your neighbor just doesn’t get it, but I’m playing the song you crossed your fingers you’d hear. […] This is something special. I can feel it.”
Each year, fashion fans tune into the Met Gala to find out how their favorite celebrities will interpret the themes and, to quote a popular phrase, “put that sh*t on.” One of those celebrities is Megan Thee Stallion, who has become a fixture of the Met’s infamous carpet pics. And, despite a persistent online rumor about her being banned from future gala’s for violating the organizers’ cell phone policy, it looks like she’ll continue that tradition.
“We’re gonna dead these rumors right now, okay?” she said. “People are like, ‘Oh my God, Megan, you got banned from the Met Gala. No, I didn’t, babe. Like that’s not true. Y’all made that up and ran with it. They love making [stuff up]. Anna [Wintour] loves me, babe. That’s why my phone was out.”
Even so, Meg’s onto new endeavors already as it is, so her invite to next year’s Met Gala is next year’s problem. For now, she’s concentrating on putting together her own fancy dinner, the inaugural Pete & Thomas Foundation Gala, honoring philanthropy related to the foundation she named after her parents. She’s also branching out into fast food franchising, with a Popeyes Chicken opening soon in her hometown, Houston.
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are Nine Inch Nails, but generally, they’re more active as film composers. It’s a world they clearly love and now they’re paying homage to it with a new event: Today (May 14), they duo announced the inaugural Future Ruins festival, set for November 8 at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center.
The lineup is populated by film composers, including John Carpenter, Mark Mothersbaugh, Danny Elfman, and of course Ross and Reznor themselves. Questlove will also be on hand to present the scores of Curtis Mayfield.
A press release notes the event is “designed to feel thoughtful and immersive, bringing this music to light in an environment where it has never been heard before,” and that “each artist is encouraged to take big swings and reimagine their work for a live audience.” The fest will feature everything from “electronic sets and live bands to orchestral performances.”
Reznor and Ross said in a statement, “There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again.” Reznor added, “It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting.”
New Snoop Dogg alert: He and Dr. Dre only released Missionary a few months ago, but he already has a new album on the way, Iz It A Crime?.
The project is set to arrive tomorrow, May 15, and it includes features from Sexyy Red and Pharrell. Based on this teaser, the title track samples the Sade classic “Is It A Crime.”
On Access Hollywood, he spoke about the inspiration behind the album title, saying:
“Just some of the things that I do, that I’ve done, that have been speculation, and I just want to ask the question, ‘Is it a crime? Is it a crime for me to do the things that I do? Is it a crime for me to take care of people, to love people, to be there for people? Is it a crime for me to be me?’”
Check out the Iz It A Crime? cover art and tracklist below.
Snoop Dogg’s Iz It A Crime? Album Cover Artwork
Death Row Records
Snoop Dogg’s Iz It A Crime? Tracklist
1. “Intro”
2. “Iz It A Crime?” Feat. October London
3. “Joy”
4. “Unsung Heroes”
5. “Sophisticated Crippin’”
6. “Can’t Wait” Feat. LaRussell
7. “Can’t Get Enough” Feat. Jane Handcock
8. “Keep It Movin” Feat. Stesmatic and Charlie Bereal
9. “Just The Way It Iz” Feat. Wiz Khalifa and J Black
10. “You Want My All” Feat. Akeem Ali
11. “What’s Hattnin?” Feat. Charlie Bereal
12. “Spot” Feat. Tonio Armani and Pharrell Williams
13. “ShutYoBitchAssUp” Feat. Stresmatic
14. “Cold Summer” Feat. Denaun
15. “Snoop Will Make You Dance”
16. “Life’s Journey” Feat. Blaqtoven
17. “Me N OG Snoop” Feat. Sexyy Red
18. “Let Me Love You”
19. “West Up”
20. “My Friend” Feat. Denaun
21. “Live Life”
Iz It A Crime? is out 5/15 via Death Row Records. Find more information here.
Did you know that of the 100 most-streamed songs on Spotify, only three were released in the 1990s? The complete list: “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana (2.4 billion), “Wonderwall” by Oasis (2.3 billion), and “Iris” by The Goo Goo Dolls (2.3 billion). That’s it!
“It was pretty interesting, because that was the first time I had ever written a song for a film specifically,” Goo Goo Dolls lyricist John Rzeznik told the Grammys about the origin of the band’s biggest hit. “I had a guitar [that] had four strings on it because I broke two. I just wandered into this weird tuning, and I went back to my hotel room, and thought about it.” He added, “I never expected that song to do so well. I just wanted to be on a soundtrack U2, Peter Gabriel, and Alanis Morissette were on.”
On her upcoming Ultrasound world tour, Lorde is playing major venues like New York’s Madison Square Garden and Inglewood’s Kia Forum. Lorde seems to admit, though, that she was hesitant to go for giant rooms like these following her underwhelming Melodrama tour in 2017 and 2018.
In an email sent to newsletter subscribers yesterday (May 13), Lorde wrote:
“I am in legitimate shock about your excitement for this tour. It’s beyond what I could have dreamed. Deciding to book a bigger tour was something I agonised over (Melo arena tour…if you know……) but in the spirit of having the gd stones I decided that this music wants to be played in big rooms and that a lot of us should be there. To have that met with this is so beautiful. Thank you for your faith in me. I am not f*cking around with it.”
In 2018, The Guardian said the Melodrama tour “flopped,” and reported that at a Milwaukee concert, only 6,000 fans showed up to the 18,000-capacity arena, and that Ticketmaster significantly slashed ticket prices for other tour stops amid low sales.
Find Lorde’s tour dates below.
Lorde’s 2025 Tour Dates: Ultrasound
09/17 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center !*
09/19 — Chicago, IL @ United Center !*
09/20 — Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle !*
09/23 — Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center !*
09/24 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena !*
09/26 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden =!
09/27 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre =!
09/30 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center =!
10/01 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden !*
10/03 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Petersen Events Center !*
10/04 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem !*
10/07 — Duluth, GA @ Gas South Arena !^
10/09 — St. Louis, MO @ Chaifetz Arena !^
10/10 — Milwaukee, WI @ UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena !^
10/11 — Minneapolis, MN @ Armory !^
10/14 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre =!
10/17 — Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena =!
10/18 — Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum =!^
10/19 — Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre !^
10/21 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center !^
10/22 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena !^
11/09 — Luxembourg @ Rockhal $
11/10 — Paris, France @ Zénith de Paris @ La Villette %
11/15 — Manchester, UK @ AO Arena =%
11/16 — London, UK @ O2 Arena &%
11/19 — Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro &%
11/20 — Birmingham, UK @ Utilitia Arena &%
11/22 — Dublin, IE @ RDS Simmonscourt &%
11/24 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ AFAS Live &
11/27 — Brussels, Belgium @ Forest National !
11/29 — Bologna, Italy @ Unipol Arena !
11/30 — Zurich, Switzerland @ Halle 622 !
12/01 — Munich, Germany @ Zenith !
12/03 — Cologne, Germany @ Palladium !
12/05 — Berlin, Germany @ Max-Schmeling-Halle !
12/06 — Lodz, Poland @ Atlas Arena !
12/08 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ K.B. Hallen !
12/09 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Annexet !
= with Blood Orange
! with The Japanese House
& with Nilüfer Yanya
* with Chanel Beads
^ with Empress Of
% with Jim-E Stack
$ with Oklou
Virgin is out 6/27 via Republic Records. Find more information here.
But Joey Badass had something besides bars to hand out. He also had a few origin stories to share. During a sit-down with Red Bull, Joey spoke about his early days in the underground Brooklyn rap scene and how his path eventually crossed with fellow BK native Jay-Z.
According to Joey Badass, he nearly inked a management deal with Roc Nation. Unfortunate for him, it slipped through his fingers.
When asked about remaining steadfast to the independent route, Joey made the shocking confession.
“I didn’t necessarily opt to go the indie route,” he said.
“It was a chain of communication that I didn’t have any part in,” he continued referring to the failed partnership. “You gotta understand, at that point I’m a 17-year-old kid from Brooklyn, that was the dream, the highest honor you can have.”
Joey then chimed: “Jay is my favorite rapper, even to this day, and within a year of being in the game he wanted to sign me. But he didn’t want to sign me as an artist, he wanted to manage me. I had a manager at the time and I always wonder if that’s how it got botched.”
Eventually, the pair would attempt to connect for another venture, Western film The Harder They Fall (produced by Jay-Z and directed by Jeymes Samuel). Joey Badass was supposedly approached to joining the movie’s cast but ultimately had to decline as he had recently committed to his role in 50 Cent’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan.
If only for a sense of Brooklyn unity, fans hope to see Jay-Z and Joey Badass work together at some point.
The Beyhive is frantically running out to lock down a Western look for the Cowboy Carter Tour. Just in the nick of time, Beyoncé has swooped in with a simple yet fashionable suggestion.
In a limited-edition t-shirt drop, supporters can purchase Beyoncé’s reimagination of the company’s logo to mirror the double “i” used throughout Cowboy Carter. Fans can currently grab a tee in white with red trim or all black for $45 on Beyoncé’s official online store.
Beginning on May 16, the logo shirt will b made available global with the retailer, by way of their website Levi.com, the Levi’s clothing app, and in select Levi’s stores.
Beyoncé and Levi launched their collaboration with a series of teaser and two commercials (“Chapter 1: Launderette” and “Chapter 2: Pool Hall“) emphasizing the brand’s rich denim legacy. Now, their new t-shirt collaboration shows off another staple in Levi’s longline of causal goodies.
The Beyoncé X Levi’s Graphic Essential Sporty Ringer tees are available now. Find more information here.
Reneé Rapp has kept a pretty low profile this year. Outside of a few commercials reprising her Mean Girls role, the “Not My Fault” singer’s professional plans have been kept tightly under wraps–until today (May 13).
Over on Instagram, Reneé Rapp confirmed her musical hiatus will soon come to an end. In a teaser clip (viewable here), Rapp announced her forthcoming single, “Bite Me.”
“MAY 21,” she captioned the risqué video.
Rapp let it all hang out (literally) as she ditched a shirt and bra opting only for cap with the song’s title, and a pair of gray sweatpants barely covering her animal print panties.
The topless visual set the mood for what’s to come as Rapp’s singes the lines, “I’m a real bad girl, but a real good kisser / Leave me alone b*tch I wanna have fun.”
Reneé Rapp’s upcoming single “Bite Me” is out 5/21 via Universal. Find more information here.
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