On Sunday (July 26), Slayyyter kicked off her WOR$T GIRL IN THE WORLD Tour with a hometown show — and special treat.

During the opening night set, the pop provocateur live debuted four unreleased songs. Within 24 hours, she announced that one of those unheard gems, “BRAND NEW CHANEL$,” will arrive on Friday (July 31), giving even more fans the first taste of what could be an extension of her iconic era.

Slayyyter revealed the news via Instagram on Monday (July 27) alongside a high-quality live snippet of herself performing the track during the show in St. Louis, Missouri. She accompanied the post with a message thanking fans for coming to show and wrote, “I love my hometown so much. I can’t wait to do it all over again tonight.”

Concertgoers at the tour opener were the first to hear “BRAND NEW CHANEL$,” along with three other unreleased songs: “NEKROMANTIK,” “I THINK HE’S GOT A GIRL” AND “CRANK 2.” The surprise debuts immediately caused speculation to rise surrounding Slayyyter’s next album, though she has yet to announce a new LP.

“BRAND NEW CHANEL$” will be the first official release since her third studio album, WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, which arrived in March and debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Dance Albums chart. It also scored Slayyyter her first entry on the Billboard 200, reaching No. 22.

Her WOR$T GIRL IN THE WORLD Tour extends through Nov. 5, wrapping in London at The Roundhouse. The trek includes a handful of festival appearances, including Lollapalooza Chicago, Reading and Leeds Festivals and All Things Go in Washington, D.C.

It’s not all bad news for Boosie Badazz.

The Louisiana rapper reunited with a childhood friend while he visited Detroit to perform at the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre for his national tour “Boosie Badazz & Friends: Blues on the River V,” as he finds himself in the middle of various legal battles that involve a lawsuit over an alleged assault by hookah at a nightclub and a legal action he recently filed after a failed presidential pardon effort.

Last month, Boosie posted a Reel on Instagram asking his followers to give him some feedback on a heartfelt email he was thinking of sending to his long lost childhood best friend, Derrick, who moved from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Michigan when they were kids. “Aye, I think I found my long lost friend,” he said to the camera. “I got an email on ’em, so I’m finna email him. Y’all tell me how this email sounds.” He then began reading the message where he talked about all the good times they had growing up while attending Wildwood Elementary and referred to his old friend as his “bestie” before leaving his number for him to reach out.

When he was done reading the email, someone in the background could be heard saying, “That was so sweet and sentimental.”

However, the comments on the post took a predictably different tone. Some joked around about how serious the email sounded with one of those people being Derrick himself who left a comment with laughing emojis telling his buddy to get in touch. “You wrote that s—t like I’m on my death bed,” he joked. “I’m crying laughing….who you emailing!?? I’m waiting on the contact. Wow this is crazy…Derrick Jackson Jr on Facebook.”

The two old friends did indeed get in touch and the Baton Rouge rapper posted separate vids of him pulling up on his childhood bestie’s house where the two gave each other a big hug and another of the two of them being kids again at Slick City Action Park where they raced down slides together with one of the captions reading, “Back like we ain’t never separated! We compete at everything.”

DetroitRapDaily then caught up with Derrick where he shared the reply he would’ve sent back had he gotten the email and admitted that people never believed him whenever he would tell them he knew Boosie when they were kids. “Bro, it’s been 30 years since I left Baton Rouge to move back to Michigan,” he began. “I always truly believed we would cross paths again in the same exact way. Your videos explaining your flashback to our childhood friendship brought many memories that I share with my friends and my family here in my hometown. Now many never truly believed I really knew the real Boosie Badazz, now I’m looking forward to renewing our friendship like it never stopped, bro. Sincerely, Derrick Jackson.”

Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong gave fans the surprise of their lives on Friday (July 24) when the veteran pop-punk band’s leader jumped on top of an ice cream truck to play a surprise mini-set to promote the group’s upcoming coming-of-age rock road trip comedy Nimrods. Armstrong performed their Grammy-nominated 1994 single “Basket Case” in Gallagher Square outside Petco Park in San Diego, strumming an acoustic guitar while perched on the roof of a Mister Freezie’s ice cream truck, according to videos posted by fans.

Armstrong was later joined by bandmates drummer Tré Cool and bassist Mike Dirnt as they crammed into the truck emblazoned with the film’s title to hand out T-shirts, cassettes and ice cream to the thousands who’d gathered for the special event. In addition to the band — who are featured in the film that follows three teens as they speed from Kansas City to Los Angeles in the mistaken belief that they have scored a gig opening for Green Day — some of the movie’s stars were also on hand, including Jenna Fischer (The Office) and Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and director/writer Lee Kirk.

The movie follows the fictional group the Analog Dogs (Thames, Kylr Coffman and Ryan Foust) as they take a rowdy road trip across the country, believing that they’ve been tapped to open for their all-time favorite band on New Year’s Eve. The movie also co-stars The Office veteran Angela Kinsey, singer/actress Mckenna Grace (Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie), SNL alum Fred Armisen, comedian Bobby Lee, Keen Ruffalo (Thor: Ragnarok) Ignacio Diaz-Silverio (A Good Person) and Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy).

Co-produced by Green Day, Nimrods originally premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival under its original title New Year’s Rev; the movie will open in the U.S. on Aug. 14. The accompanying soundtrack is due out on Friday (July 31) and features 22 Green Day classics, along with their new song, “I’m Never Gonna R.I.P,” four previously unreleased live tunes and tracks from The Paradox, Ultra Q and McKenna Grace, as well as four from fictional group Analog Dogs.

Charli xcx‘s Music, Fashion, Film B-sides “I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night,” “Playboy Bunny” and “If You Take the Music Then What Has She Got?” have been uploaded to iTunes as part of a digital deluxe version of her new album called Music, Fashion, Film (B-Sides Edition).

The three songs were previously shared with fans on Charli’s @b.sides alt-account on Instagram — and were included as actual B-sides on limited-edition, physical 7″ single releases for “Rock Music,” “SS26” and “Camera,” and as part of a comprehensive Music, Fashion, Film physical box set — but not officially available to purchase as digital downloads until Sunday (July 26).

Charli actually had told fans these B-sides were “never gonna go on streaming … I don’t think.” She did say that could change, though.

“you can call me a hypocrite, i don’t mind,” Charli wrote with a winky face on Sunday’s announcement of her iTunes release of Music, Fashion, Film (B-Sides Edition).

Available for for $4.99 on iTunes, the digital album release includes Music, Fashion, Film‘s original 11 tracks, plus the three B-side tracks and their music videos.

Charli shared more context about the release on Instagram: “i made b sides for each of the songs released ahead of Music, Fashion, Film because it felt natural to pair each songs with a fitting counterpart – something that’s adjacent to the album but not entirely part of it. traditionally, b sides often become fan favorites… and i guess in the case of some of the b sides for this album, that has proven to be true. i felt adamant i wouldn’t put them on streaming because it sort of felt counter intuitive to the whole ethos of those songs, but i know you all really wanted them so i’ve begrudgingly put them on itunes lol.”

Music, Fashion, Film arrived on Friday, along with the online release of the theatrical short film Charli created alongside the record.

She’s set to launch a limited North American tour in support of Music, Fashion, Film on Sept. 11 in Philadelphia before bringing her live show to Brooklyn, Toronto, Boston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, Glendale and Las Vegas.

Billie Joe Armstrong has turned two pillars of his Green Day sound into new signature gear. The frontman has announced a limited-edition Radiant Red Epiphone Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior, along with his first artist signature amplifier with Marshall, the 1959BJA Artist Signature.

Both releases nod to the stripped-down, high-impact guitar tone Armstrong has used across decades of Green Day songs, from the band’s 1994 breakthrough Dookie through its more recent stadium-scale era.

The new Epiphone model features a bright red finish, similar to Armstrong’s Les Paul Junior, while maintaining a deliberately simple setup. The guitar features a single P-90 PRO pickup, master volume and tone controls, and a Lightning Bar wraparound bridge — a no-frills build in line with Armstrong’s long-running punk approach.

The guitar also includes a reproduction of Armstrong’s signature on the back of the headstock and comes with a custom black hardshell case with a leopard-print interior.

Armstrong’s new Marshall amp, meanwhile, marks the company’s first artist signature model in 14 years. The baby-blue 1959BJA Artist Signature is based on Marshall’s handwired 1959HW platform and includes a custom “Dookie Mod,” inspired by the guitar tone Armstrong developed with producer Rob Cavallo during the making of Dookie.

The amp’s look also reaches back into Armstrong’s own mythology. Its baby-blue covering is a tribute to “Blue,” the heavily stickered Fernandes guitar that became one of his most recognizable instruments during Green Day’s early years.

“I’m so overjoyed to have my own signature Marshall amp,” Armstrong said in a statement. “These amps have been a part of my musical life, from my heroes down to little old me. Turn it the f— up!”

The gear news arrives during another busy stretch for Green Day. Earlier this month, the band announced the soundtrack to its upcoming coming-of-age comedy Nimrods, due July 31. The 22-track set includes career-spanning favorites, four previously unreleased live recordings from the Hollywood Palladium and a new song, “I’m Never Gonna R.I.P.”

Armstrong has also been back onstage with his covers band, The Coverups. At recent shows, he was joined by Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson for David Bowie’s “All The Young Dudes,” and the group also covered Nirvana’s “Drain You,” which Armstrong dedicated to late L7 bassist Jennifer Finch.

Green Day released its most recent studio album, Saviors, in January 2024. The album continued the band’s long-running Billboard presence following a catalog that includes Dookie, American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown and Revolution Radio.

Bret Michaels is recovering from surgery to remove a kidney stone, the Poison frontman revealed this week, after playing several shows rather than cancelling on fans.

In a Facebook post shared on what he dubbed “#WisdomWednesday,” Michaels said the stone would not pass after almost seven days of waiting it out.

“The pain became intense but, as usual, I played through Charleston, WV, Grantville, PA and a special private show at Fairchild AFB in Spokane for veterans, active duty and their families,” he wrote. The day after the Spokane performance, he was admitted to hospital “as the pain became too much when the stone would not pass.”

Michaels said the procedure is now complete. “The operation has been done and is complete & I’m out of post-op recovery, and I’m doing everything within my power to feel better and continue playing great shows for great fans when I’ve got a complete clean bill of health,” he wrote.

He used the post to thank the medical staff who treated him, saying the first thing he learned was “complete gratitude for the frontline workers, doctors and nurses,” and adding that he is “wise enough to know how important family, friends, fans, doctors and nurses play such a vital role in our everyday health.”

Ever the showman, he signed off with a joke about being “forced” out of his stage clothes and into a hospital gown, having gone straight from the show to the hospital.

The health scare is the latest chapter in a long, well-documented medical history for the 63-year-old, who has been unusually candid with fans throughout his career.

Michaels has managed Type 1 diabetes since childhood — his mother co-founded a youth diabetes camp during his upbringing — and has become one of music’s most prominent diabetes-awareness advocates. In 2010, he survived a life-threatening brain hemorrhage and a related warning stroke before making a full recovery and returning to the stage. .

Michaels co-founded Poison in Pennsylvania in the mid-1980s before the band relocated to Los Angeles, where they became one of the defining glam-metal acts of the Sunset Strip era. Poison charted 10 singles in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six top 10 hits, and scored their sole No. 1 with the 1988 power ballad “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” which spent three weeks atop the chart over the Christmas holiday. The single anchored their second album, Open Up and Say… Ahh!, certified 5x platinum, and remains the band’s signature song.

Michaels has not announced any changes to his tour schedule, saying he intends to return once he has a full clean bill of health.

A set billed “Hayley Williams & Friends” at the 2026 Newport Folk Festival featured a long list of guests taking the stage with the Paramore frontwoman on Friday (July 24). Among the guests joining Williams for her headlining slot live at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, R.I., were Jack Antonoff, Lucy Dacus and Jenny Lewis.

During her 16-song setlist at the fest, which started with her 2025 album title track “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party” and ended with a group cover of the Bill Withers classic “Lean on Me,” Williams performed “I Wanna Get Better” with Jack Antonoff — his band Bleachers’ debut single back in 2014 — and was also joined by him on guitar for her Ego Death song”Good Ol’ Days.” The pair shared a hug ahead of “I Wanna Get Better,” which had Antonoff and Williams harmonizing on vocals.

Williams played “Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris” live for the first time ever, accompanied by Lucy Dacus — one third of Boygenius (with Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers), who originally sang background vocals on the 2020 Petals for Armor track. Dacus also had a set of her own on the Fort Stage on Friday.

In another surprise moment during Williams’ time on stage, as filmed by a concertgoer at the front of the crowd, Williams welcomed Jenny Lewis out to cover “Silver Lining” with the Rilo Kiley singer-songwriter, from the group’s 2007 album Under the Blacklight. She joined Lewis on vocals at verse three, singing, “And the grass it was a-ticking/ And the sun was on the rise/ I never felt so wicked/ As when I willed our love to die/ And I was your silver lining, as the story goes/ I was your silver lining, but now I’m gold.”

Other musicians taking the stage with Williams Friday in Newport included Karly Hartzman, This Is Lorelei, Joy Oladokun, Liam Benzvi, Annie DiRusso, Kelsey Lu, Remi Wolf, Phoenix Rousiamanis and Madi Diaz. Newport Folk Festival shared a slideshow of pictures from the Williams & Friends set on Instagram post-show.

Friday night’s Newport Folk Festival schedule also featured a headlining set from Ms. Lauryn Hill.

This year’s lineup at the historic Newport Folk Festival continues Saturday-Sunday, with performances from The Lumineers, Nathaniel Rateliff, Brandi Carlile, Brandon Flowers, Tom Morello and more.

Orville Peck is opening up about how a suicide attempt in 2023 inspired some of his most personal music to date.

The 38-year-old country singer revealed in a new interview that he was struggling with both his mental and physical health when he canceled his Bronco tour in June 2023. Two days before announcing the cancellation, Peck said he intentionally overdosed.

“I was a bad addict, a coping alcoholic,” the openly gay singer told Rolling Stone. “And I had this spiral moment, where I went back to my hotel and tried to take my life. It was a big turning point for me, with a lot of realizations to come. It was something that needed to happen.”

Peck, whose real name is Daniel Pitout, said he was “in one of the worst places” of his life. The experience, along with a breakup and a stint in rehab, became the foundation for his fourth album, Mule, due Sept. 18 through Warner Records.

In a news release announcing the album, the 13-song collection is described as a “chronological timeline of the year that reshaped his life, tracing the collapse of addiction, the difficult pursuit of sobriety, and the slow, often uncertain process of rebuilding. Told with unflinching honesty, humor, and compassion, Mule finds Peck confronting love, loss, and identity through songs that move fluidly between classic country storytelling, bluegrass, and expansive Americana.”

The album’s lead single, “Too Little, Too Late,” arrived Friday (July 24). The pop-country track, co-written by Peck, Steve Rusch and Semisonic’s Dan Wilson, serves as a sharp kiss-off to an ex looking for another chance.

Peck also told Rolling Stone that his time in rehab inspired the album track “Rehab Blues.”

“I didn’t want to be there. I thought it was a waste of time, that I’m unique and didn’t have a problem,” he said. “So I was like, I’m going to write the funniest song about this experience, because at the time I was just like, ‘F— this. I want to leave.’”

Mule follows last November’s Appaloosa EP, released after Peck’s 16-week Broadway run as the emcee in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.

Peck, who performed Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” during his Grand Ole Opry debut on Tuesday (July 21), will launch his Man Turned Mule 2026 North American tour on Oct. 28 in Sacramento, California. The trek runs through Nov. 22, wrapping at the Paramount in Huntington, New York.

Katy Perry is speaking out after the White House used her hit song “Firework” without her permission.

The 41-year-old pop star took to social media on Saturday (July 25) to condemn the Trump administration for featuring the 2010 anthem in a White House TikTok post showing footage of military strikes. Earlier this week, the White House’s official TikTok account shared a video that synchronized Perry’s “boom, boom, boom” lyrics with black-and-white footage of bombing. The post was captioned, “Iran has been warned.”

“I am deeply appalled and angry to see ‘Firework’ used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes,” Perry wrote on X. “I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.”

She continued, “I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.”

Perry concluded her statement by writing, “My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.”

Released as the third single from Perry’s 2010 album Teenage Dream, “Firework” became one of the singer’s standout hits, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Perry is among dozens of artists who have criticized the Trump administration over the unauthorized use of their music in political videos and at campaign rallies.

In June, Ariana Grande blasted the White House for using her 2024 song “Bye” in a TikTok video promoting ICE agents making arrests. Earlier this year, Kesha also criticized the Trump administration after her song “Blow” was used without authorization in a TikTok featuring fighter jets and military strike footage captioned “Lethality.”

Check out Perry’s post on X below.

Lou Koller, the founding frontman of New York hardcore institution Sick of It All, has died following a battle with esophageal cancer. He was 59.

The band confirmed his death in a statement posted to Instagram on Friday (July 24). “It’s with unbelievable sadness that we announce to our worldwide hardcore family the passing of our brother Lou Koller,” the group wrote, noting that 2026 would have marked the band’s 40th anniversary.

“We have lost a beloved friend and an iconic frontman. Lou had the power to raise everyone’s spirits at our shows with a smile and a sarcastic comment, and he won people over wherever we played, from every culture and every corner of the world.” The band also thanked those who had contributed to Koller’s medical fund, writing that his “battle is over now and he can finally rest.”

Koller first revealed his diagnosis in the summer of 2024, telling fans that doctors had found a tumor in his esophagus that extended into his stomach. Sick of It All cancelled a European tour so he could undergo treatment, and the hardcore community rallied with benefit concerts and donations.

By May 2025, he had announced he was cancer-free following a final round of chemotherapy, but the disease returned months later.

Sick of It All formed in Queens, New York in 1986, built around Koller and his brother Pete, the band’s guitarist. The group emerged from the same late-’80s New York hardcore scene as Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags and Madball, playing clubs like CBGB and building a devoted following through relentless touring. Their 1989 debut Blood, Sweat and No Tears became a genre landmark, and by 2020 the band had sold at least half a million records worldwide across a career that stretched nearly four decades.

Their commercial high point came in the mid-’90s major-label era. Scratch the Surface (1994), released on East West, drew critical acclaim and produced the singles “Scratch the Surface” and “Step Down,” the latter earning MTV rotation; it remains the band’s best-selling album. Its follow-up Built to Last (1997), reached No. 32 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart. The band later signed to Fat Wreck Chords and continued releasing music into the 2010s, with their most recent album, Wake the Sleeping Dragon!, arriving in 2018.

Across their run, Sick of It All became one of the most respected and enduring acts in hardcore, admired as much for Koller’s charisma and generosity as for the music itself. He is survived by his bandmates, his brother Pete among them, and a global community of fans built across 40 years on the road.