J. Cole has canceled his concert scheduled for Thursday night (Aug. 27) at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California, following the death of a member of his touring crew.

The venue announced the cancellation in a statement on Instagram, sharing that the crew member had died in a trucking accident earlier that morning.

“Following the tragic passing of a member of the touring crew in a trucking accident this morning, J. Cole’s performance at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento tonight, August 27, has been canceled,” the statement reads. “Our thoughts are with the crew member’s family and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time.”

No additional details regarding the accident or the identity of the crew member were immediately provided.

Ticket holders who purchased their tickets through Ticketmaster will receive refunds automatically and do not need to take any further action, according to the announcement. Those who purchased tickets through third-party resellers are advised to contact their point of purchase.

The Sacramento stop was scheduled as part of J. Cole’s The Fall-Off Tour, his first solo headlining tour in five years and his first global run in nearly a decade. The tour supports his seventh studio album, The Fall Off, and is scheduled to visit more than 50 cities across more than 15 countries. His next scheduled dates are set for Oakland, California, on Saturday (Aug. 28) and Sunday (Aug. 29), as well as Los Angeles dates on Tuesday (Sept. 1) and next Thursday (Sept. 3). It is unclear whether any upcoming shows will be affected.

“Thank you for understanding,” the Golden 1 Center statement concluded.

Read the full statement below.

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Vic Mensa and Chance the Rapper go way back. The two Chicago MCs came up in the rap scene of their hometown as young teenagers and eventually formed the SAVEMONEY rap collective of like-minded local artists. However, the two had a falling-out as both rose to success during the 2010s.

The two sat down for the premiere episode of The Vic Mensa Show and hashed things out after years of avoiding their personal grievances with each other, which led to a tearful and heartfelt conversation between old friends. Mensa explained his own personal animosity came from being jealous of Chance’s success around the time he dropped his critically acclaimed mixtapes Acid Rap and Coloring Book.

“The intense rivalry of our creative process and then like seeing you in so much success, it grew jealousy in me, you what I’m saying?” he admitted before apologizing.

Chance accepted his apology and stated that he wouldn’t be sitting there if he hadn’t already forgiven him before then apologizing for something himself. “Let me say sorry because there was something that was on my mind while you was just talking that I’ve always wanted to apologize for,” he told Vic. “And I think we talked about it before, but if we didn’t, I still need to apologize.

“One thing that I did that I always felt bad about was — this is around Acid Rap — I don’t even know if the tour ended up happening,” he continued. “But I remember Cara was trying to book me a tour, and she was like, ‘You should have Vic open.’ And I was like, ‘No.’ And I said at the time that I didn’t want to do it ’cause I was like, ‘Vic’s not opening for me. We at the same level. He doesn’t need to be opening.’ But in reality, I was just like, ‘I don’t want to have to split this. I don’t wanna have to share this stage at this point.’ And that was definitely bogus.”

Vin accepted his apology and held back tears as he thought back to how much he needed the money he would’ve gotten from the tour during that particular period of his life and admitted that he was going through couch cushions and his sister’s piggybank looking for some money. “I knew I had motion and I was right there,” a tearful Mensa said. “But that really hurt me, you know, ’cause I was like, ‘Damn, I actually really I need this.’”

You can watch the full conversation between Vic and Chance below.

Jelly Roll isn’t backing down from making jokes at the president’s expense, with the country star once again taking aim at Donald Trump‘s physique during his guest-hosting stint on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

During his monologue on the Wednesday episode of the late-night talk show — where Jelly has been serving as guest host while Kimmel takes a break — the musician brought up the outrage MAGA conservatives and Fox News pundits have expressed in response to his recent jabs at the POTUS. Two nights prior on Kimmel, Jelly had quipped that he’d “lost an entire Donald Trump” when describing his own 300-pound weight loss and at one point joked, “Mr. President, from one fat pig to another, take it from me that physical fitness is very important.”

In an unserious defense of his previous comments, a grinning Jelly told Kimmel’s audience, “I thought fat-on-fat crime was OK!”

“We can debate whether this president is mentally fit, but I think we can all agree he is certainly not physically fit,” the Grammy winner continued before introducing a parody commercial for a fake weight-loss drug called “Donjaro.”

“Is your obesity making it difficult for you to focus on the things you love?” a narrator says over clips of Trump in the faux ad. “Does your butt bulge in ways that defy the laws of physics?”

After the video was over, Jelly said sarcastically: “Wouldn’t it be nice to see Trump lose something besides the war, his popularity and most of his f–king marbles? I believe in you, Mr. President. With a little hard work, one day your waistline will be just as thin as your skin.”

Billboard has reached out to the White House for comment.

Elsewhere in the monologue, the singer poked fun at Trump’s “ridiculous” trade war with Canada, which has reportedly caused a surge in the prices of toilet paper, amongst other things. “You have to admit, there is something poetic about it being so expensive to wipe our a– just because the president’s full of sh–,” Jelly said, earning laughter and applause.

He also disputed Jesse Watters’ recent suggestion on Fox News that Jelly had taken Ozempic and suffered “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a side effect. “First of all, Jesse, I’ll have you know Ozempic is the only drug I haven’t tried,” the CMA Award winner joked. “I lost weight the old fashioned way: cocaine.”

One reason Jelly’s comments have caused as much of a stir as they have is that the star has largely stayed out of politics throughout his music career. He was asked about his thoughts on speaking up about politics backstage at the 2026 Grammys, where he told reporters, “People shouldn’t care to hear about my opinion, I’m a dumb redneck … I didn’t even know politics were f—ing real until I was in my mid-20s in jail.”

“I have a lot to say about it,” he continued at the time. “And everybody’s going to hear exactly what I have to say in the most loud and clear way I’ve ever spoken in my life. I look forward to it.”

Jelly’s final night as substitute for Kimmel will be Thursday (Aug. 27).

Watch Jelly’s monologue doubling down on his jokes about Trump’s weight above.

“Olivia Rodrigo: the cure unraveled,” an exhibition showcasing the handmade sets, props and artwork created for Rodrigo’s “The Cure” music video, is set to open at the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles on Sept. 2 and run through Feb. 22, 2027.

That means the exhibit will be on view from about six weeks before first-round voting for the 69th annual Grammy Awards begins Oct. 12 until 15 days after the awards will be presented at Crypto.Com Arena, which is also in the L.A. Live complex.

Will the exhibit give Rodrigo a boost in Grammy voting? It certainly can’t hurt. Rodrigo is regarded as a strong candidate for nominations in the marquee categories. Her third studio album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, seems certain of landing an album of the year nod. She has at least two strong candidates for record and song of the year nods: “The Cure” and “Drop Dead.”

Rodrigo is a Grammy darling, having received three awards from 14 nominations, including best new artist in 2022.

The exhibit, presented by American Express, promises to give fans an intimate look behind the making of Rodrigo’s “The Cure” music video. An expanded version of the exhibit will open in early fall 2026, with additional details to be announced.

The exhibit launches with a special program with Rodrigo on Tuesday (Sept. 1), the evening before it opens to the public. The event includes a conversation moderated by Oscar-winning filmmaker and veteran music journalist Cameron Crowe and live performance.

“I grew up going to the Grammy Museum and their mission is especially important to me, so it’s a full circle moment to be able to work with them on this exhibit,” Rodrigo said in a statement. “It’s the perfect place to feature ‘the cure’ music video pieces that mean so much to me, as well as some incredibly special items from the past decade that we’re later adding that I’ve never shown before. I can’t wait for you all to see them in person!”

Kelsey Goelz, Grammy Museum curator, added, “Olivia is a pop music creative force and the Grammy Museum is thrilled to showcase the special magic behind a fan-favorite video. This exhibition offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at the making of a professional music video, while highlighting the importance of DIY and handcrafted artistry.”

Featuring props from the music video, original storyboards, behind-the-scenes photographs from the shoot, and interactive photo opportunities, Olivia Rodrigo: the cure unraveled invites fans to step directly into Rodrigo’s visual world.

Directed by Cat Solen and Jaime Gerin, the video for “The Cure” follows Rodrigo as she explores the complexities of love and, in the process, finds herself unraveling. The finished video is crafted almost entirely by hand, incorporating miniatures, animatronic heart puppets, and stop-motion animation. Production designer Liam Moore transformed nearly every surface and object with cardboard and hand-painted details.

Rodrigo has two nominations for the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards – best pop for “Drop Dead” and best alternative for “The Cure.”

Exhibit highlights include:

Ms. Rachel and Mr. Aron are seeing rainbows in a brand new light these days.

For Rachel and Aron Accurso, the married co-creators behind the global children’s phenomenon Ms. Rachel, the colorful subject of their new single “I Love a Rainbow” became an opportunity to go bigger, musically and visually. The playful bossa nova track is the first preview of their debut album, I’m So Happy, due Sept. 25, and its new music video — premiering exclusively on Billboard — finds the pair surrounded by Colorado mountains, polychromatic scarves, chalk-covered sidewalks and plenty of play.

But let’s not mistake all of that joy for simplicity.

The music video features an extended version of “I Love a Rainbow,” complete with a new bridge, a sweeping string section and additional live musicians. For the Accursos, expanding a song already familiar to Ms. Rachel families meant finding a way to make its world feel even bigger.

“We wanted to expand it,” Aron tells Billboard. “We wrote a new bridge and we added a big string section and more live musicians, which feels expansive.”

So, too, did filming among the Colorado mountains. But at its heart, Rachel says, the video is about “joy and connection and play.”

That philosophy sculpted the day the pair spent filming with 11 children from Colorado families. The couple took a lovely approach in having the children involved in the creative process. They didn’t direct the kids through predetermined actions, and instead allowed them to feel immersed in the music.

“They knew the song, and [we were] like, ‘What do you imagine? What do you think would be good for this next part?” Rachel says. “Just creating it with the kids and making sure they had a really special day.”

The resulting video captures children dancing with rainbow scarves and helping create a giant chalk rainbow, with those outdoor scenes interwoven with footage of musicians performing the song in New York City. For Rachel, a former music educator, putting the instruments onscreen was part of the point.

“When they hear that riff, if they see Aron’s playing it on piano or they see [someone] playing the percussion, I think it’s cool to think, ‘Maybe I could play that,’” she says. “Maybe they get an interest in guitar from seeing the instruments.”

Aron proudly directed the video himself, continuing the hands-on approach that has defined the couple’s work since the early days of their YouTube channel.

“It goes back to just us, the way we started the channel, and that it was very homegrown and creator-led,” he says.

There may have been another influence in those superb mountain shots too: The couple’s 1-year-old daughter has recently been enjoying “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music, and Aron admits the classic musical was “definitely” on his mind while the team was developing the video.

“There are little hints of The Sound of Music [in the video]: the mountain vibes, and the singing around,” he says.

The visual ambition of “I Love a Rainbow” mirrors the strategy behind I’m So Happy as a whole. The 23-track collection transforms the songs that were first introduced on Ms. Rachel into more lively studio recordings. The album features original songs and children’s classics, with lush orchestration, new arrangements and contributions from 19 vocalists and 42 instrumentalists.

For Aron, who has a background in musical theater as a composer, conductor and Broadway music director, each song required its own approach.

“It was looking at each song individually and just imagining, ‘What is the most special version of that song?’” he says. “So it was unique to each one.”

Some songs called for restraint. “Walking to the Zoo,” for example, uses a smaller ensemble, while tracks including “Caterpillar” felt capable of supporting a full orchestra.

Meanwhile, “I Love a Rainbow” seemed to call out for strings. “I thought the string section would really add to the experience and the expansiveness of the idea,” Aron says.

Rachel has her own shorthand for her husband’s musical instincts: Aron owns a shirt that reads, “I hear things.”

And, she says, “I feel like he hears things that I don’t.”

That attention to detail is central to how the couple thinks about children’s music. Rachel, who holds a master’s degree in early childhood education and music education, says children shouldn’t be treated as though they need less sophisticated art.

“Children deserve detailed, rich music,” she says. “Not just deserve, but that they do enjoy it.”

That same care extended to I’m So Happy, as the Accursos worked with engineers, live musicians and other Broadway-trained collaborators to expand the songs beyond the versions created for the show, where deadlines often require the couple to move quickly from one episode to the next.

“With the album, we were able to do more of the details or go back and do some of the things that maybe I would have liked to have done the first time around,” Aron says. “It was just a desire to dig in more with more detailed arrangements, more professional engineers, live musicians.”

The duo wants listeners to understand that children’s music doesn’t require less craft than music made for any other audience.

“I think maybe the misconception is that it is somehow dumbed down or less effortful,” Rachel says. “Children really deserve that detailed music.”

Aron adds that the pair treated I’m So Happy “with as much care as if it were a Broadway cast album.”

That care — and the emotional weight children can find in music — perhaps comes through most clearly in “Caterpillar,” a song with a personal history for the couple.

Aron wrote the track while putting their now-7-year-old son to bed during a period when he was struggling with a speech delay. Their son didn’t begin speaking until he was 2 years and 9 months old, Rachel recalls, and the family watched as he worked to communicate.

“Aron wrote this beautiful song about a caterpillar that’s struggling but keeps going,” she says.

The song can still provoke an unexpectedly strong reaction from some of its youngest listeners.

“Babies have this phenomenon where they cry at it,” Rachel says, explaining that even children too young to fully understand the lyrics seem to respond to its emotion with a sorrowful pout.

“The kids feel deeply and they respond to music, even if they don’t understand the lyrics necessarily,” she says. “They feel what went into it.”

For Rachel and Aron, that’s fundamentally the point of I’m So Happy: Children are listening more closely — and feeling more deeply — than adults may sometimes realize.

“Kids are smarter and deeper and more amazing than we give them credit for sometimes,” Rachel says.

And with I’m So Happy, Ms. Rachel and Mr. Aron are making sure the music meets them there.

“I Love a Rainbow” is out now, while I’m So Happy arrives Sept. 25 via Magic Star, the children’s and family division of Sony Music Entertainment’s The Orchard.

Posty won’t be delivering for fans in Asia, Australia and New Zealand later this year, as planned.

Post Malone’s Big Ass World Tour was scheduled for its swing through Asia and down under later this year, a run that included shows at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium (on Oct. 9), Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium (Oct. 12), Sydney’s ENGIE Stadium (Oct. 15), and Auckland’s Go Media Stadium (Oct. 21).

The “Rockstar” singer was also booked to headline three Strummingbird Festival appearances in the regional Australian towns of Ballarat (Oct. 10), Newcastle (Oct. 17) and Sunshine Coast (Oct. 18). 

Those shows are now shelved, and a reason has not been given.

“We’re gutted to let you know that Post Malone will no longer be headlining Strummingbird, due to the recent postponement of his Asia and Australian tours,” reads a statement from the touring festival.

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The Australia dates have been scrubbed from the official Ticketmaster page, and the NZ show is listed as “cancelled.”

Live Nation has yet to announce new dates for Malone’s headline tour, the U.S. singer and rapper’s first in these parts since headline Spilt Milk festival, which visited Canberra, Ballarat and Perth in 2023, and opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers’ on the rockers’ six-date Australasian stadium run earlier that year.

On the Spilt Milk run, he made himself at home by performed a “shoey” on stage — an Aussie tradition where the victim drinks beer out of a shoe.

Post Malone makes himself at home on the Australian charts, too. His seven albums have all impacted the ARIA top 10, including No. 1s for Beerbongs & Bentleys in 2018, Hollywood’s Bleeding in 2019. His most recent collection, the 2024 country album from F-1 Trillion, flew to No. 2.

The American star has been busy of late. He recently announced his engagement to Christy Lee, with whom he has been romantically linked since early 2025. He busted out a new song “Chrome Heartbreaker” during the 2026 FIFA World Cup Closing Ceremony, and his August 26^th mixtape has been made available for streaming for the very first time.

We will always love Dolly Parton. Harry Styles made certain of that, when he paid tribute to the late country music superstar during the first night of his residency at Madison Square Garden, the start of an unprecedented stretch of 30 consecutive shows at the storied arena. 

The British pop artist gave the best possible salute to Dolly by playing her recording of “I Will Always Love You” on the MSG speakers.

The former One Direction star thanked his band and gave a “special thanks to all the musicians who have inspired me over the years.” Of course, Parton was high on that list. “Dolly, thank you so much,” he remarked.

Styles went on to play two verses and choruses of the song, originally released in 1974, and told the crowd to sing along on the first chorus. The audio then faded out, say people who were in the arena, and segued to his solo hit “Sign Of The Times.”

Dolly, perhaps the greatest country music artist of all time, an inductee into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the writer of more than 3,000 songs, died Tuesday (Aug. 25) at the age of 80.

Parton was named Billboard’s Top Country Artist of All Time, having landed 25 No. 1s on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, the most of any woman, and 49 top 10s on Billboard’s Country Albums chart. An all-rounder with a heart of gold, Dolly will also be remembered for her philanthropy, her acting roles, her business acumen and her support of good causes.

The Tennessee native co-owned Dollywood, a theme park located in her hometown of Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and she operated the Imagination Library — a program that mails free books to children from birth until they first begin school. The late star had also been a co-owner of Sandollar Productions alongside her former manager, Sandy Gallin, which produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Father of the Bride and Sabrina, among others.

New York is Styles’ current tour’s first and only stop in the United States, after having previously stopped in Amsterdam, London, São Paulo and Mexico City for a combined 31 dates across July and August.

Nicole Kidman may have needed a second to place the name, but once a fan mentioned Adéla‘s upcoming song titled after her, the Oscar-winning actress was all in.

At the London premiere of Practical Magic 2 on Wednesday (Aug. 26), Kidman was asked by a fan whether she knew Adéla, the Slovak singer/songwriter whose rapidly rising pop career is about to get an especially Kidman-esque addition.

“Do you know who Adéla is?” the fan asked in a video.

“No!” Kidman initially replied.

After the fan explained that Adéla is a singer with a song called “Nicole Kidman,” however, Kidman’s memory quickly kicked in.

“Oh, yes! She is! I do know!” Kidman exclaimed. “I think she’s Slovakian, right?”

When the fan confirmed that the singer was “amazing,” Kidman doubled down on her fandom and revealed she may soon be seeing Adéla herself in concert.

“I absolutely know who she is and she’s coming to Nashville and I’m going to go see her,” Kidman said.

The timing couldn’t be better for the ascending, pink-haired pop star. Adéla is set to release her debut album, PRIMA, on Sept. 4, and the newly revealed 11-song track list includes “Nicole Kidman” as its second track. The project will also feature her breakout single “Ain’t in LA,” which became her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at No. 85.

Adéla is currently bringing the PRIMA era to fans on her Red Bottoms Tour, which stops off in Nashville on Sept. 21 at The Basement East.

According to Adéla Instagram fan site @adeladiary, the pop singer reacted to Kidman’s kind words later Wednesday, commenting: “WOW OH MY GOD NICOLE WOW OH MY GOD HOLY SH– WOW.”

As for whether the actress has heard the song that bears her name? That’s a question the fan didn’t get to ask. But with PRIMA on the horizon, maybe Kidman will soon be able to report back.

Watch the full video below.

Nicole Kidman revealed that she is an ADÉLA fan, and will be attending her Nashville show next month!

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— 🏁 (@concertleaks) August 26, 2026