Tay-K is currently behind bars in Texas, serving 55-year and 80-year concurrent prison sentences for a pair of murder convictions. The rapper spoke to Complex from prison on Wednesday (Nov. 11) for his first interview since getting locked up as he prepares to release his #MonstersUnderMyBed album on Friday (Nov. 13).

Born Taymor Travon McIntyre, Tay-K talked about how prison opened his ears to different genres and artists such as Nirvana and Linkin Park that he wasn’t familiar with before jail.

Now, supplied with a tablet by the John B. Connally Unit, Tay-K has developed a more eclectic taste in music, filling his prison playlist, which includes the London-based duo Loaded Honey and Olivia Rodrigo.

“If I told you the s–t I listen to, you wouldn’t expect none of it,” he said. “Right now my favorite album is this album by this duo, Loaded Honey … I f–k with Rio [Da Yung OG], I listen to Fatt Smxck, I f–k with Olivia Rodrigo. I love Olivia Rodrigo. I like her first album.”

When asked him if he listened to Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, Tay-K revealed he was already up on that album too. “I f–k with that s–t. I listened to it,” he replied.

The pop star released the album — her third — in June, and it topped the Billboard 200 with 485,000 total album-equivalent units earned, according to Luminate.

While he was on the run in June 2017, Tay-K’s breakthrough hit, “The Race,” caught fire and reached the top 50 (No. 44 peak) of the Billboard Hot 100. U.S. marshals apprehended the young rapper in New Jersey that month, and he was convicted of murder and aggravated robbery charges in July 2019 for his part in a 2016 Texas home invasion that left 21-year-old Ethan Walker dead. He was sentenced to 55 years in prison.

In a separate case, Tay-K was found guilty of murder in April 2025 for the April 2017 murder of Mark Anthony Saldivar in San Antonio. Prosecutors alleged that Tay-K and his accomplices met up with Saldivar outside a Chick-fil-A and planned to rob him of his camera equipment. When a struggle ensued, Tay-K fatally shot Saldivar. The rapper was sentenced to 80 years.

The 26-year-old is gearing up to release his #MonstersUnderMyBed album on Friday, which was recorded behind bars and serves as his first project since 2017’s #SantanaWorld.

Tay-K made a guest appearance on Dominic Fike’s How to Quit Smoking closer “SPOTLIGHT / INNER CHILD,” which arrived in October and features a recent prison conversation between Fike and Tay-K.

Watch Complex‘s full interview with Tay-K below.

With the rollout this week in cinemas of HOME, Parkway Drive make the rare leap from metalcore to stars of the big screen.

Directed by Allan Hardy (Viva The Underdogs) and Macario De Souza (Bra Boys), and produced by Hype Republic, the documentary traces the Australian rockers on their journey from underdog status in the sweaty metal scene to the stage-and-charts juggernauts they are today.

Its climax, the band’s one-off live concert at the iconic Sydney Opera House in June 2025, backed by a full symphony orchestra.

Parkway Drive has crashed the Billboard 200, collected No. 1s, ARIA Awards, and played the biggest stages on earth. Few moments, if any, compares to the prospect of playing the Sydney Opera House, capturing the moment for posterity, and pulling it off in the face of potential, ghastly failure.

As far as life experiences go, the concert was somewhere between “wild,” “insane” and “surreal,” frontman Winston McCall tells Billboard over a Zoom.

“Playing the Opera House and everything around this movie has literally been the pinnacle of this man’s career,” he says. “There’s nothing that is ordinary in any way, shape, or form, that will ever be able to be repeated as well, and that can recapture the moment and the work that went into doing what we were doing. And the fact that it was a small fraction of time that so much work went into.”

Hardy and De Souza came to the band with the idea. A suggestion, really. The beginning of a tale, without a middle or an end. “They’re like co-conspirators of ours,” he quips. “They were like, ‘hey, we were in contact with the Opera House, and there’s a date that you guys can play if you want to play. There’s one date available. Do you guys want to do it? You’ve got to say yes, now, basically.’”

The date was six months away, rather close for a band with no plan or idea for the production, and which was, at the time, powering through its 20th anniversary tour.

This is the Sydney Opera House. There might just be one shot. Oh, and metalcore bands, they’re not typically booked for this venue.

No pressure.

The self-funded show sold out in three-minutes. Parkway Drive nailed it. The proof is in the film, distributed by Mushroom Studios, and in the forthcoming companion live album. In one memorable moment, McCall abseils 150 feet from a helicopter onto the venue’s famous sails, and onto a platform two feet wide. Small chance of success, whopping chance of failure.

“We got to rehearse once with the orchestra, and that was four hours before we played. So we did a one full dress rehearsal, four hours before the set, went and had dinner and played it again, and then it was done,” he says.

“So, it didn’t even have time to sink in. You’re just like, ‘oh my god, this is incredible, what’s happening? What the f— just went on.’ There’s no other situation like that in our band’s career that we’ve ever had that compares to that kind of thing.”

Conversation turns to new music. Parkway Drive dropped “Sacred” just weeks before the sold-out, black-tie symphonic show at the Opera House. There’s no word on whether “Sacred” will have a parent album. The band’s most recent studio collection, Darker Still, dropped in 2022 and gave Parkway Drive a third consecutive No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and the ARIA Award for best hard rock / heavy metal album.

“There’s stuff,” McCall says of new Parkway Drive music. “I mean, we’re brewing things.”

Parkway Drive formed in the coastal New South Wales town of Byron Bay in 2003, issuing their debut album two years later. They landed their first top 10 appearance in Australia with 2007’s Horizons, which also hit No. 27 on the Top Heatseekers chart. Then, 2010’s Deep Blue ignited a run which saw the group consecutively chart four titles in the top 40 of the Billboard 200, with 2015’s Ire peaking at No. 29. Ire also rolled to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hard Rock Albums tally.

For now, the HOME film and live recording, which drops Dec. 4 on vinyl, CD and digital formats, should keep fans of Parkway Drive, fans of heavy music, satiated. HOME – Live at the Sydney Opera House (via Parkway Records/Civilians) McCall insists, “it’s literally one of the best live recordings of any band that I’ve ever heard, let alone a band with a symphony behind it.”

HOME got its world premiere Tuesday (Nov. 10) with a special black-tie event at Sydney’s iconic State Theatre, and opens Thursday (Nov. 12) in Sydney and Melbourne, followed by premieres in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin and elsewhere. Parkway Drive will rock festival stages around the world next year, including Hellbound II (Australia), Rock For People (Czech Republic), Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park (Germany), Sweden Rock, Greenfield Festival (Switzerland) and more.

“We’ve got highlights that include headlining the biggest metal festivals on the planet, to playing some of the most remote locations, to seeing some of the wildest sights and meeting some of the most amazing people,” recounts McCall. The HOME concert, however, “you kind of can’t top that.”

Check out HOME premiere dates and live performances here. Pre-save HOME – Live at the Sydney Opera House here.

Ye (formerly Kanye West) has been selling out stadiums across the globe with spot tour dates throughout 2026, most recently packing more than 83,000 fans into AT&T Stadium in Dallas for a show over the weekend.

Ebro Darden and Peter Rosenberg debated the merits of West’s touring in 2026 on Monday’s (Nov. 9) episode of The Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show, and the media personalities aren’t buying the comeback narrative tied to Ye following his antisemitic remarks and controversial antics in years past.

Prior to the Ye talk, the co-hosts discussed Macklemore’s Free Palestine Tour and his claims that arenas across the U.S. were attempting to censor him by not allowing him to perform due to his political beliefs.

“The venues can say whatever the f— they want to do. … They can do this, and say, ‘Hey, we don’t want you here,’” Ebro said. “My suggestion always in these sort of things is you go get a smaller venue and you block out multiple nights and you do a residency-style thing.”

That led into Peter Rosenberg bringing up Ye having back-to-back sold-out shows in Houston and Dallas earlier this month. “Everyone’s celebrating,” Rosenberg quipped.

“Everybody was hitting me talking about how record-breaking it was,” Ebro replied. “And I was like, ‘Guys, I’ve been involved in concerts before. I know how to make the stage setup so you can get more people in the building and make it look like you got more numbers.’ He still sold the tickets.”

Rosenberg believes “people are enjoying it extra” when it comes to West’s return to performing in stadiums “because now it has the extra sauce of the perceived comeback thing too.” He added: “People love a comeback story. Like, he was down bad, guys. He was down to his last billion.”

Ebro explained that as a society, “We’re all victims of marketing. It’s all marketing.” Rosenberg questioned West’s acts of contrition amid his comeback trail, which included taking out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Jewish and Black communities, and also meeting with a rabbi.

Rosenberg and Ebro’s comments went viral on social media, and Rosenberg addressed the Ye fans in his mentions on X. “Kanye fans were hip hop fans,” he claimed. “Ye fans are just weirdos.”

West will wrap up his Stateside touring with his final U.S. show of 2026 on Nov. 21 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. He made North American stops throughout the year in Los Angeles, Tampa Bay, San Antonio, Chicago, New Orleans, Houston and Dallas.

On the music front, Ye released his Bully album in March, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

Watch the full Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show below. Talk about Ye takes place shortly after the hour mark.

Yella Beezy (born Markies Conway) was convicted on capital murder charges by a Dallas County jury on Wednesday (Nov. 11) for hiring the gunman who shot and killed rapper MO3 (born Melvin Noble).

Beezy was sentenced to life in prison without the chance for parole, according to the Associated Press.

“We don’t know what turned it for the jurors. We appreciate the verdict,” lead prosecutor Tommy Adams said. “We think they got it right today. It’s been one of the most challenging cases over the last six years.”

Beezy affiliate Kewon White was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Prosecutors painted White as the gunman who killed MO3 on a Dallas interstate in November 2020.

White pulled up alongside MO3’s vehicle on I-35 in South Dallas near the Dallas Zoo, which led to him chasing the rival rapper on foot and firing more than 40 rounds from a pistol.

MO3 was transported to a local hospital, but succumbed to his injuries. White was allegedly paid $40,000 by Beezy to gun down the “Everybody” rapper.

“This is capital murder, and the state has brought you a lot of speculation,” Yella Beezy’s attorney John Gussio told the courtroom.

The gallery was emotional as the guilty verdict was read, as Beezy’s family and friends wept and exchanged hugs. CBS News footage showed Beezy asking to kiss a family member — a request that appeared to be denied — before being escorted out of the courtroom.

Yella Beezy was indicted by a Dallas grand jury and arrested in March 2025. He secured a $750,000 bond less than two weeks later after the bond was reduced from $2 million.

Beezy was previously arrested in 2021 on charges of sexual assault, abandonment of an endangered child and unlawful weapon carrying, but they were all dismissed.

The 35-year-old was the victim of a drive-by shooting in October 2018 in a Dallas suburb, but survived after being shot three times.

On the music front, Yella Beezy notched a pair of Billboard Hot 100 hits with “That’s On Me,” which peaked at No. 56 in 2018 and “Bacc at It Again” alongside Quavo and Gucci Mane in 2019 (No. 78 peak). He’s released a handful of singles in 2026, including “Where I Been,” “Let Me Vent” and “Sweet Nothings” with K Camp.

After all that they’ve been through, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale are cool — at least, cool enough to reunite to support their son Kingston at his recent concert, with the No Doubt frontwoman attending with husband Blake Shelton at her side.

The three musicians were all in the audience Tuesday night at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, California, as Stefani and Rossdale’s eldest son rocked out onstage, according to photos circulating online. TMZ also shared video of Shelton and his fellow The Voice coaching alum holding hands as they left the venue, with Stefani at one point saying goodbye to her parents before getting into her car.

Rossdale was also captured interacting with fans and signing autographs outside of the venue, at one point telling paparazzi that while he might love to perform with Kingston someday, his son “doesn’t want anything to do with me musically.”

“He wants to do his own [thing],” the Bush rocker said proudly. “He’s really big on that. I was lucky I was even allowed to come.”

Stefani and Rossdale also share younger sons Zuma and Apollo. They got married after six years of dating in 2002 before filing for divorce in 2015.

“I never thought I’d ever get divorced,” Rossdale said on the Amy and T.J. podcast in 2024. “Sometimes I wish that, when you see the kids, there’s a loss. It would be nice if there was more of a connection with the person that made them with me.”

The “Just a Girl” singer would go on to marry Shelton in 2021 after they met on The Voice. The pair recently returned to the singing competition series for its 30th-anniversary special, which aired in September.

Kingston is clearly paving his own way in music, taking after his famous parents. The 20-year-old’s show at The Troubadour came a few days after the release of his EP Louise Street.

“Last night was amazing!!” he wrote on his Instagram Story the day after his concert. “Huge thank you to everyone that showed up love you guys can’t wait for the next one.”

Current Billboard cover star Hilary Duff made an appearance at the Billboard Live Music Summit on Tuesday (Nov. 10) at the 1 Hotel West Hollywood to accept the award for Outstanding Pop Tour of the Year and talk about taking this run, The Lucky Me Tour, on the road.

Speaking with Billboard‘s executive editor Lyndsey Havens, Duff reflected on the moments when she decided that she wanted to tour behind her hit album luck… or something, a run that brought her back out on the road after an almost 20-year hiatus from touring.

“I remember sitting with my husband and talking about it, and he’s always the person to calm me down and make everything really digestible,” Duff said. “But then past that I was sitting with my manager Darren [Gilmore] and Colin Lewis at Live Nation and being like, ‘no, I’m gonna do this,’ and just being really scrappy and confident, and then sitting in my car and being like, ‘oh my god, am I gonna do this?’ It was just one foot in front of the other, and then this other part of me that was like, ‘I know how to do this, and I know that I can.’”

Duff has more than proved that she could, with The Lucky Me Tour having grossed $48.3 million from 610,000 tickets sold through its first 40 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore. At the Summit, Duff spoke about how the show has evolved throughout the run, which will continue next year with 32 more dates in arenas across Europe, Latin America and the United States from May through November.

“We’re constantly evolving and changing things,” Duff said. “Like, ‘oh, that really worked this night, let’s lean more into that’, or ‘that song doesn’t fit well there, let’s change that.’ Constantly gut-checking what feels good and lands well with me is what makes it land with other people.”

Duff also spoke about the realities of being away from her four children while on the road, saying that “It’s been a real practice in like, I matter too, and my dreams matter too. It goes against everything in your body to step away from the children that you created. But it’s okay to make sacrifices for your family and still live a life that you find purpose in just for yourself. This has just been a big year of dreaming, and some of those dreams becoming realities.”

She also talked about speaking to her younger selves, from the era when she was a child star on a hit TV show to an internationally famous teenage pop star to an early twenty-something who stepped away from it all to figure her life out.

“It would just be really nice to go back and tell her that she figured it all out in a really healthy way, and that it’s on her terms,” Duff said. “There was a point where when you’re on a train that’s going so fast, it’s hard to stop it, and I didn’t even know why I wanted to stop it — I was just overwhelmed and done. It’s really hard to stop that at that age, and to have enough guts to just need to pause.

“I did eventually pause for a really long time,” she continued, “and I think I would be really proud and be like, ‘Girl, you take a break and figure this out, and you go get an awesome family — [it will be a] roller coaster up and down sometimes, personally and professionally — but all that gets you to a really cool place.’ This has just been such an epic year, a year filled with love, and I’m so proud. I’m really proud of myself, and that’s hard to feel as an adult.”

The Chicks and Kacey Musgraves will join Shania Twain at the top of the bill for State Fayre 2027, completing an all-female headline lineup that organisers say is a first for a major U.K. camping festival.

Following its inaugural edition this summer, the festival heads back to Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex, between June 18-20. Twain was confirmed for the event in a post shared to State Fayre’s Instagram account on Nov. 2.

The Chicks, comprising Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Strayer, will return to the U.K. for the first time since 2023, which included appearances at Glastonbury and BST Hyde Park supporting Bruce Springsteen. Musgraves will make her first festival headline appearance in the region, while Twain’s State Fayre slot forms part of a wider U.K. and Ireland summer run, which will see her perform in cities including Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast and more through June 29.

State Fayre has also revealed its first wave of additional acts, with Billy Strings, Sam Barber, The Corrs, Drake Milligan, Sons Of The East, Brothers Osborne, Bear’s Den, Evan Honer, Noah James, Aaron Rowe, Mountain Grass Unit, Danny Worsnop, Taylor Acorn, Alyssa Bonagura and Bella McCormick among those confirmed. More artists are expected to be announced over the coming months.

Weekend and Saturday day tickets are available via the official State Fayre website. A presale for Friday and Sunday day tickets is now live via PayPal, ahead of general on-sale at 9 a.m (GMT) on Nov. 13.

In a press statement, State Fayre festival organisers Anna-Sophie Mertens and Alex Simmonds described The Chicks, Musgraves and Twain as “three incredible artists who each in their own way have inspired and represented vital change, within not only these genres but music as a whole.” 

They continued: “To bring all three together as a U.K. festival first is something we’re very excited about. With further additions including in-demand Sam Barber, Billy Strings Brothers Osborne and The Corrs showing the breadth of what makes State Fayre what it is (and much more to be announced), we’re asking if it can be June 2027 already?”

Beyond the musical offerings, State Fayre will also bring experiential elements to the site including fairground rides and The Fume Pit, its dedicated barbecue area featuring more than 15 U.K. and international traders across the weekend. 

Speaking to Billboard U.K. earlier this year, Mertens, who serves as senior vp of touring at Live Nation UK and sits on the Country Music Association’s board, discussed the festival’s ambition to bring different strands of country and roots music together under one banner.

“It’s really important for us to bring together a few different musical elements, but to ensure they blend together so that we could showcase the real depth of each genre,” she said. “There really isn’t any other event doing that at such a large scale.”

Dua Lipa, SZA and Tame Impala will headline Coachella 2027, the festival’s reps announced on Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Also joining the lineup over its two weekends are Daddy Yankee, Madonna, Phoebe Bridgers, Don Toliver, Zara Larsson, Weezer, Dom Dolla and many more.

“Kill Bill” hitmaker SZA has previously performed at the festival, playing sets in 2016 and 2018, and making a cameo during Justin Bieber’s headlining set in 2026. Tame Impala spearhead Kevin Parker is also a Coachella veteran, having headlined the festival in 2019 after playing sets in previous years.

However, Lipa — whose 2024 Billboard 200 No. 2 album Radical Optimism featured Impala’s production on many of the songs — has never been on the lineup, having only ever taken a stage in the Valley as a guest performer during Martin Garrix’s set in 2017.

The 2027 iteration of Coachella will take place across two weekends on April 9-11 and April 16-18. Information on ticket packages is already available on the festival’s website.

Fans who miss out on tickets can once again watch from their devices, as YouTube returns for its 15th year as the exclusive livestream partner for both weekends. 

Leading up to the 2027 headliner announcement, there’d been much speculation that Lipa and Impala would be leading the bill. Their desert takeover will come after Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter and Karol G headlined the festival in Indio, Calif., in 2026, a year that also saw sets from KATSEYE, sombr, The XX, Disclosure, Teddy Swims, Devo, The Strokes, GIVĒON, Addison Rae, Labrinth, David Byrne, PinkPanteress, Laufey and more.

The year before that, 2025 headliners Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott headed a lineup that also featured Missy Elliott, Benson Boone, LISA, FKA Twigs, GloRilla, Tyla, Artemas, Charli xcx, Anitta, Clairo, ENHYPEN, Jimmy Eat World, T-Pain, Megan Thee Stallion, Zedd, JENNIE, Beabadoobee, Ty Dolla $ign, Rema, Shaboozey and more.

Passes go on sale from Friday, Nov. 13 at noon PT. For more visit coachella.com and check out the full bill below.