Zach Bryan Sets July 4 Release for ‘Great American Bar Scene’ Album … and Says He’s Giving 23 Bars Across the Country a 10-Day Sneak Preview

“No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public,” according to a quote widely attributed to H.L. Mencken.

died June 20 at the age of 88.“Me and my dad really got to know each other after I left home at 15,” Kiefer, 57, told The Sunday Times in an interview published Saturday.“My parents split when I was three and my mum, sister and I moved to Canada,” he continued. “I didn’t live with my dad. I would see him at Christmas and for a couple of weeks in the summer.

Coldplay were breaking Glastonbury Festival records as they took to the stage with their fifth headline slot on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night (June 29). The band first headlined on the Pyramid Stage in 2002, and their performance sees them overtake The Cure, who have headlined the slot four times.

The iconic Los Angeles punk band X is issuing what it is calling its final album, Smoke & Fiction, and has detailed plans for a U.S. tour. 

The internet is abuzz this week about the fifth episode of the “Star Wars”/Lucasfilm series, “The Acolyte,” from writer/director Leslye Headland. And for good reason, but we’ll get to that in a second.

Machine Gun Kelly has continued his pivot to country by covering Zach Bryan’s ‘Sun To Me’ – watch it down below.Following in the footsteps of other pop artists turning to country such as Beyoncé, Post Malone, and Lana Del Rey, Machine Gun Kelly (now mgk) has covered Oklahoma’s Zach Bryan from his living room, dubbed ‘Cheshire Cottage’.After starting his career in rap with 2012 debut album ‘Lace Up’, he would then go on to transition into emo and pop-punk beginning with 2020’s ‘Tickets To My Downfall‘. But it appears as though mgk is now entering a new era of country, having covered The Chicks’ ‘There’s Your Trouble’ at CMA Fest earlier this month.Now, the rapper and singer (real name Colson Baker) has chosen to sing Bryan’s ‘Sun To Me’, which was released on his 2022 album ‘American Heartbreak’.

A post shared by punk rock from LA (@xthebandofficial)1. ‘Ruby Church’2. ‘Sweet Til the Bitter End’3. ‘The Way It Is’4. ‘Flipside’5. ‘Big Black X’6. ‘Smoke & Fiction’7. ‘Struggle’8. ‘Winding Up the Time’9. ‘Face in the Moon’10. ‘Baby & All’The Los Angeles post-punk band’s departure comes only four years after their 2020 reunion, which saw the original line-up – comprised of vocalist Exene Cervenka, vocalist-bassist John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom and drummer D.

An “urgent review” must be carried out by council education chiefs to ensure that everything is being done to prevent bullying in Dumfries and Galloway schools.

After rejecting Skydance’s offer to merge two weeks ago, Paramount Global new co-CEO troika of Brian Robbins, George Cheeks and Chris McCarthy told a packed company town hall of 500 at the studio’s Melrose Lot Paramount Theater what progress has been made since the annual shareholders meeting three weeks ago, and what the company’s path will be going forward. In sum, bankers have been hired to explore the sale of “certain Paramount owned assets” per Cheeks, while layoffs are on the horizon as the conglom looks to achieve a half billion in cost savings.

The next Yorgos Lanthimos directed feature Bugonia starring his Kinds of Kindness thespians Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons is hitting theaters on Nov. 7, 2025.

Sony announced on Friday that its new film Here, reuniting the director, writer, and stars of the classic Forrest Gump, will open wide via TriStar Pictures on November 15.

Katie Price has opened up about her blossoming romance with new partner JJ Slater amid swirling speculation of marriage.

Ariana Grande, girl… You want to have dinner with a MURDERER?!

EXCLUSIVE: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the filmmaking duo behind BAFTA-nominated Nick Cave pic 20,000 Days on Earth, have just wrapped filming a new performance film dubbed The Extraordinary Miss Flower. The project brings to life the remarkable story of Geraldine Flower and the discovery of a suitcase of letters sent to her in the 1960s and 1970s that inspired acclaimed Icelandic singer-songwriter Emilíana Torrini to return to the studio. 

his wife’s recent accident that left her in a pool of blood.“First of all, she wasn’t drunk,” Mandel, 68, told TMZ on Tuesday. “I’m going to tell you the truth: she took gummies. So it’s not an alcohol problem, she was on pot.”The “America’s Got Talent” judge added that she got out of bed in the middle of the night and “fell,” and it was “really scary.” He added, “I put her on the bed and tried to give her ice.

Renown TV personality, Noel Edmonds, added a particular flavour to Good Morning Britain today after accidentally swearing during the live show. Noel joined the show's hosts, Susanna Reid and Ed Balls, on the cosy morning sofa to chat about his decision to move to New Zealand and his passion for broadcast media. However, the conversation went pear-shaped pretty quickly when he let slip the colloquial name of his pub - the B*gger Inn.

The jubilant cheers of "We've got our Princess back" echoed on Saturday, serving as testament to the public's joy.

Peaky Blinders star Paul Anderson has said he is “struggling” after sparking concerns about his health.Earlier this year, fans of the hit BBC period drama were left worried about Anderson’s wellbeing after an image showed the actor with a somewhat changed appearance. This came just weeks after he pleaded guilty to possessing crack cocaine.At the time, Anderson assured his fans that he was OK, but on Thursday (June 13), the actor opened up about the struggles he is currently facing, saying in an Instagram video: “Just like you, search inside. Find it for yourself, overcome the struggles, the tribulations, the pain that you are feeling.“There is no story without struggle.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For his new “Honeymind” album, singer and actor Ben Platt brought in an especially honeyed voice as a counterpart on one song, Brandy Clark. He had written “Treehouse” in a writing session with Clark well before the album was being put together, and then he and producer Dave Cobb had the eureka (or as Platt puts it, “duh”) moment of realizing just how much more haunting it might sound as a duet with the co-writer, whose chops obviously don’t begin and end with songwriting prowess.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Françoise Hardy, a French singer, actor and model whose classical beauty and often melancholy music combined to transfix fans internationally in the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 80. Her son, Thomas Dutronc, also a musician, reported the death on his Instagram account, posting a baby photo of himself with his mother and writing: “Maman est partie.” Or, mom is gone.