The Anthony Edwards vs. Kevin Durant and Drake sneaker war doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon.

In a new ad for the adidas AE 3, starring Hasan Minhaj as “The official Anthony Edwards insider,” the comedian and actor took a dig at he Toronto rapper in response to a Kevin Durant Nike commercial from a few months ago.

As he introduces himself, Minhaj makes a joke about your mom before taking a shot at LeBron James and Nike’s stock price, and finally focuses his attention at Drake. “Oh, and meanwhile, somewhere in Toronto, a certain bandwagon fan is facing FOMO and buried in lawsuits. Really sorry about that!” he says to the camera.

Back in June, Durant and Nike released an ad promoting a new purple colorway of the KD 19 where Drake and the sneakers are delivered in a wooden box to the Houston Rockets forward’s house. As Drake talks about the new kicks, he ends his sales pitch with a jab toward Anthony Edwards’s signature sneakers. “‘Hey Ant-Man, can you drop your purple shoes?’ Said four kids in Minnesota,” he jokes. “Like no one wants to see those, they want the KDs”

This is the second ad where Edwards responds to Nike’s commercial.

Earlier this month, in a PrizePicks ad, he parodied the aforementioned Nike ad and had a wooden box delivered to his friends to replace with a box of his sneakers. The box had “FRAGILE: RETURN TO TORONTO” stenciled on it, while someone was inside it trying to get out as they asked for Kevin. Once they realize who might be inside the box, his friend borrows a line from Kendrick Lamar. “Man, buddy ain’t nothin’,” he tells his partner. “You know he had to run to Atlanta to get the swag, anyway.”

After they switch the boxes up, they park in front of a crowd of people, walk out and say, “I heard only four people in Minnesota wanted these.”

We will have to wait and see if Ant-Man earned himself a couple of bars in Drake’s next song.

JAŸ-Z had a message for those online who tried to highlight low resale ticket prices and questioned whether or not his JAŸ-Z30 Tour stops in L.A. were any good.

The Brooklyn rapper and business magnate closed out his two-night performance at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, over the weekend with a public service announcement centered around AI and clapping back at social media trolls who claimed he couldn’t sell tickets or that the audio quality was bad.

“Y’all gotta be very aware of what’s going on in the world, right?” he told the crowd. “People will tell you that nobody was in here tonight, but you got eyes, you can see. People will tell you that the music wasn’t great, but you got ears. You gotta understand, you gotta question everything. In this world of AI and everything … it’s been going on forever. We called it propaganda before. But now, with the technology caught up and these people could trick — a lot of tricknology. … It’s called artificial intelligence because it’s mimicking you guys. It’s mimicking us. We got real intelligence, not artificial intelligence.”

He then continued by asking those in attendance if they “felt” when he brought out several West Coast legends, and ended his statement with some chest-thumping.

“We feel, right? When Snoop and Dre came out, we felt that sh–, correct? Too $hort, Bay Area,” Jay asked the audience. “Make sure you question everything. You feel. Machines are learning you. You tell ’em your swag, you tell ’em your name, you tell ’em the thing and it mimics you. It can’t be you. It could never be you, so question everything, especially in this days and age. Y’all feel me? They will tell you that Jigga ain’t Jigga. Hov is motherf—in’ Hov. Peace & love, Los Angeles. I love you!”

Jay’s Saturday show at SoFi Stadium was the last of eight concerts for his JAŸ-Z30 Tour, celebrating his 30 years in rap. The trek included three stops at New York’s Yankee Stadium, two nights at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, one night at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, and two nights at SoFi.

G Flip and Chrishell Stause have broken up after more than four years together, the couple announced Monday (Oct. 26).

The singer and Selling Sunset star both posted their own statements addressing the news, with G writing on Instagram, “Chrishell and I are no longer together.”

“I will always love her, we will always share a special connection and I cherish our memories together deeply,” the Aussie musician wrote. “My head & heart are feeling very heavy right now and I’m not able to talk but I want to thank you all for your support and appreciate you respecting our privacy at this difficult time.”

On her account, Stause posted a tearful video. “G and I are no longer together,” she says in the clip. “We have agreed to treat this public separation with love and respect for each other. That’s not hard for me because I am in love with this person, and I don’t have all the information or the reasons.

“I feel like a little bit of a failure,” the All My Children alum also admitted. “I just have to heal and figure this out. It’s hard, it’s painful — I’m a lover girl, I swing big, I miss.”

That said, Stause was able to acknowledge that she’d had “an amazing four years with G,” and so “maybe it wasn’t a miss.” “I will always love G, and I don’t ever really see that changing,” she added. “This sucks, but everyone deserves to be happy, and I wish that for both of us.”

G Flip — whose song “Bed on Fire” recently debuted to No. 46 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart after it was featured in Off Campus — first started dating Stause in March 2022, the same year the former soap opera star appeared in the musician’s “Get Me Outta Here” music video. In May the following year, the pair got symbolically married in Las Vegas and made a tradition out of renewing their vows with each wedding anniversary.

See G and Stause’s posts below.

The Seattle Seahawks are throwing some not-so-subtle shade after their win against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday (Oct. 25), so it’s a good thing that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce know how to shake it off.

In posts on social media after the Washington team’s 20-3 victory against the Chiefs — who’d previously been undefeated this season — the Seahawks quoted some of the pop superstar’s lyrics. “Lately, I’ve been dressin’ for revenge,” they captioned an Instagram photo of mascot Blitz in a glittery getup, referencing a line from Swift’s “Vigilante Sh–.”

On X, Seattle also shared a photo of Eras Tour-style friendship bracelets reading, “Seahawks win,” captioned with “End Game,” the title of one of Swift’s Reputation singles.

Though the 14-time Grammy winner wasn’t in attendance at the Chiefs vs. Seahawks matchup, she has been at every Kansas City home game so far this season. On Oct. 18, famous friends Este Haim and Caitlin Clark joined Swift in her usual suite with Donna and Ed Kelce as they cheered the Chiefs on against the Los Angeles Chargers.

The singer has been staying busy as usual lately, releasing The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore in September and logging a 16th Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 with one of the deluxe songs, “Patient Zero.” About a week ago, she attended the Academy Museum Gala and performed a handful of songs including her Toy Story 5 soundtrack hit “I Knew It, I Knew You.”

See the Seahawks’ posts poking fun at Swift and Kelce below.

Silverchair drummer Ben Gillies has a new band. The Kiln pairs him with Joseph Prielozny, a two-time Grammy-winning producer and multi-instrumentalist, and the duo’s self-titled debut album is due in 2027.

Gillies announced the project on social media alongside an auction benefiting Support Act, the Australian charity that provides crisis relief and mental health support to musicians and crew. “It’s my birthday, but this year, the present’s going the other way,” he said in a video posted to coincide with his birthday on Saturday (Oct. 24).

The album’s first vinyl run will be limited to 250 copies, but four test pressings were made before production. Gillies and Prielozny are each keeping one, and a third, signed by both, is up for auction, with half the winning bid going to Support Act. “Only four of these vinyls exist. They’re the very first copies of the record ever made,” Gillies said. Bidding closes at noon AEDT on Saturday (Oct. 31) via the band’s website.

The pair come from opposite ends of the business. Gillies co-founded Silverchair in Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1992 with Daniel Johns and Chris Joannou, and the band broke in the U.S. as teenagers: Frogstomp reached No. 9 on the Billboard 200 in 1995 and spent 49 weeks on the chart, while “Tomorrow” topped both the Modern Rock Tracks and Album Rock Tracks charts and became the most-played song on U.S. modern rock radio that year. “Abuse Me” later reached No. 4 on both rock charts, and Young Modern peaked at No. 70 on the Billboard 200 in 2007. All five Silverchair albums debuted at No. 1 in Australia, and the band has won 21 ARIA Awards, more than any other act. They went on indefinite hiatus in 2011.

Prielozny won his first Grammy in 2013 for engineering Lecrae’s Gravity, which took best gospel album, and a second in 2015 for his songwriting on Lecrae and for KING & COUNTRY’s “Messengers,” which won best contemporary Christian music performance/song.

Details on The Kiln’s sound are scarce. The duo’s website frames the project around songwriting, experimentation and storytelling, with the album exploring the tension between holding on and letting go.

Gillies has worked steadily since Silverchair’s hiatus, including the side project Tambalane with Wes Carr, his band Bento, whose debut Diamond Days arrived in 2012, and solo releases.

Phoebe Bridgers has been announced as the first headliner for All Points East’s 2027 edition.

The indie star will headline London’s Victoria Park as part of the annual festival on Aug. 27, 2027. She’ll be joined by Caroline Polachek, Kelsy Lu, Danielle Ponder, jasmine 4.t and more on the bill.

Presale tickets for the event are available to purchase from Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. GMT, with a general sale beginning a day later on Oct. 29 at the same time. Tickets are available here.

Bridgers is due to perform a run of U.K. arena dates in November, beginning at Manchester’s Co-op Live on Nov. 27, followed by stops in Glasgow, Scotland, Birmingham, England and two shows at London’s O2 Arena on Dec. 1 and 2. 

She’ll also perform a run of intimate performances at record stores throughout December in Bristol, Brighton and Kingston, London. The shows were rescheduled from August when Bridgers was forced to cancel them due to hospitalisation for appendicitis. 

The arena dates in North America and Europe operates a phone-free policy, and will require attendees to place their smartphones and other recording devices into Yondr pouches provided by venue staff.

Her 2026 album Lost Weekend peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and at No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart, both career-bests.

All Points East takes place annually in east London’s Victoria Park and regularly hosts massive outdoor gigs by a diverse bill. 2026’s event saw headline performances by Jorja Smith and Tems, Lorde, Deftones, Tyler, the Creator and Twenty One Pilots. Further announcements for the 2027 event will be due in the coming months.

Jack White is mourning the death of his older brother, Edward “Eddie” Gillis, who managed Third Man Records’ Detroit vinyl pressing plant.

White shared the news in an Instagram post on Saturday (Oct. 24), writing that Gillis had died that morning “after having fought a tough battle against cancer.” “The world lost a beautiful soul today,” White wrote. “Ed was such a caring, funny and generous person that everybody loved.”

Gillis ran Third Man Pressing for 10 years, overseeing the production of “hundreds of thousands” of records for other artists, White wrote, adding that his brother liked to make small sculptures and flowers from the plant’s vinyl scraps. The facility opened in 2017 in Detroit’s Cass Corridor as part of White’s Third Man Records operation, making White one of the few artists to own his own pressing plant. Before that, Gillis worked as a pastry chef, running kitchens and bake shops for the Ritz-Carlton and Beaumont Hospital.

White, the youngest of 10 siblings, also credited Gillis with shaping his musical start. “In his youth Eddie was the guitar player in the family when we were all growing up back when I was on drums only, and he was just great at the instrument,” he wrote, recalling that the two played together over the years, once for the Detroit Tigers during spring training in Florida. “He taught me so many wonderful and simple things over the years that I’ll never forget; how to string a guitar, how to fish on the Detroit river, how to drive a stick shift,” White added. “He was an amazing big brother to me and I just hate to see him leave, but I’m glad he is at peace.”

Gillis is survived by his wife, Angie, and their two children, Amelia and Garrett.

White rose to fame as one half of the White Stripes, whose “Seven Nation Army” topped Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart. As a solo artist, he has sent three albums to No. 1 on the Billboard 200: Blunderbuss (2012), Lazaretto (2014) and Boarding House Reach (2018). Lazaretto also set the record for the biggest vinyl sales week since 1991, a mark it held until 2021.

Press Play, the new solo EP from LISA of BLACKPINK, tops this week’s new music poll.

Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (Oct. 23) on Billboard, choosing LISA’s EP as their favorite new music.

The six-song solo collection topped new releases from Hilary Duff, John Mayer, ATEEZ, Miley Cyrus and more based on reader votes, closing down the poll at an overwhelming 87%.

Press Play arrived on Friday (Oct. 23) along with a music video for the track “Tarantino,” following the pre-release single “SaWaDiKa” that dropped last month. LISA has a songwriting credit on all six tracks.

The set’s title comes from a “Tarantino” lyric: “It’s a movie baby, come and press play.”

“Got my nails really long like the barrel of my gun,” she sings on the chorus. “And my lipstick all over your face/ I’m a boss, I’m a don when I’m drivin’ to the sun/ It’s a movie, baby, come and press play/ Tarantino, Tarantino/ Got my feet hangin’ out the Camino/ Tarantino, Tarantino/ Got my feet hangin’ out the Camino.”

The Thai artist has a mini Las Vegas residency coming up, with show dates on Nov. 12-14 and Nov. 27-29.

Trailing behind Press Play on Billboard‘s poll are Hilary Duff’s Holiday Things, John Mayer’s “Tom and Jerry,” ATEEZ’s “Drop” and Miley Cyrus’ “Cold Blooded.”

See the final results of this week’s poll below.

There’s a new Harry Styles music video coming up on Monday (Oct. 26) — for a song many fans have been raving about since they first heard it.

Styles is releasing a “Coming Up Roses” video.

The news comes straight from the star’s lips, live on stage at the famous Madison Square Garden, via an awfully casual and quiet announcement during night 27 of his 30-night concert residency Saturday night (Oct. 24).

Fan footage captured the moment on video, though one might need to rewatch the clip with the volume turned up high to make sure they’ve heard what they think they heard.

“‘Coming Up Roses’ video on Monday,” Styles said nonchalantly while seated at his piano in New York City on Saturday. The under-his-breath comment made the rounds online post-show, and by Sunday, the Spotify Canvas video clip for “Roses” was updated with a short clip of two sets of feet looking hesitantly ready to dance.

Later on Sunday, he made the announcement more public, posting a promo image on Instagram with the time the video will go live: “Coming Up Roses. October 26, 16:00 UK.” (That’s 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT for U.S. fans.)

The “Coming Up Roses” video is the fourth one to come from the Billboard 200 No. 1 album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, following Styles’ visuals for Hot 100 No. 1 “Aperture,” “American Girls” and “Dance No More.”

A beloved, poignant piano-with-strings-section ballad with regular placement on Styles’ tour setlist, “Coming Up Roses” was an immediate favorite for many fans upon first listen of Kiss All the Time in March.

Styles’ historic run at MSG wraps on Halloween; nights 29 and 30, on Oct. 30-31, are dubbed the “Harryween” shows. Last weekend Billboard confirmed that there’s a documentary in the works on the experience, directed by John Wilson (How to With John Wilson, The History of Concrete) and produced by Universal Pictures Content Group, Peanut World Pictures and Styles.

Future Together, Together tour dates bring Styles to Melbourne, Australia, in November-December, and then back to the U.S. thanks to a tour extension into 2027, when Styles will take the show to Phoenix, Dallas, Los Angeles, Toronto, Atlanta and Chicago in the spring, and then over to Europe in the summer.