Nick Jonas warmed hearts with his siblings in the warm, fuzzy and silly last year’s A Very Jonas Christmas Movie. But this holiday season, the Jonas Brothers singer and Power Ballad star will crank up the chill factor when he co-stars with Kathryn Newton (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come) in MRC’s holiday horror film White Elephant.
According to Deadline, the film directed by Eli Craig (Clown in a Cornfield) will tell the story of “Eight friends. One prize. Zero trust. Their annual festive holiday gift exchange spirals into a cutthroat game of Christmas carnage.”
Jonas is among the producers through his Powered By Jonas company. At press time no additional information was available about the rest of the cast or a release date. The news of the Christmas creeper movie comes after Jonas premiered his new musical dramedy, Power Ballad, at SXSW earlier this year, a film in which he and Paul Rudd play an unlikely musical duo who rediscover the joy of songwriting together. That movie, directed by John Carney (Once, Sing Street) is slated to be released by Lionsgate on June 5.
It will be a busy year in the multiplex for Jonas, who is slated to co-star alongside Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black and Kevin Hart in the latest Jumanji sequel from Columbia Pictures. Jonas will also star in the high-stakes thriller Bodyman, from director Gary Fleder (Reacher), described as the story of a longtime bodyguard of an “eccentric billionaire” who unexpectedly inherits his dead boss’ private military company, setting off a violent clash with the man’s family.
In a statement, Fleder called Bodyman a “smart, lean, high-voltage action thriller that gives Nick the chance to show every side of what he can do: the physicality, the intensity and the emotional depth”; Bodyman will also be produced by Powered by Jonas. “I’ve been developing this project for a while and I’m excited to see it come to fruition. Re-teaming with Byron Balasco and director Gary Fleder also makes this project more special to me,” Jonas said in a statement.
Jonas released his first solo album in five years, Sunday Best, in February.
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Enjoy an evening of songs and stories with John Legend on his 2026 tour.
The Grammy-winning singer and pianist is ditching larger arenas to deliver fans a more stripped-down live show focusing on intimate connection and personal storytelling about his career. The piano-driven concert is heading to the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, CA next on April 4 before hitting ten other US cities, including Virginia Beach, VA; Buffalo, NY; Providence, RI and Hershey, PA.
How to Buy John Legend Tickets, At a Glance
- Remaining Dates: April 4 – June 13
- General Sale: Ticketmaster
- Resell Ticket Sites: StubHub, Vivid Seats, Seat Geek, GameTime, TicketNetwork
John Legend’s “An Evening of Songs & Stories” intimate 2026 theater tour will the feature the EGOT winner performing piano-driven versions of his hits like “All of Me,” which spent 59 non-consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and at No. 1 for three week straight. In addition of playing his catalog of records, he’ll be sharing personal stories from his impressive 20+ year-long career. The reason for opting for smaller venues is to have ways to create a more direct and vulnerable connection with fans.
With Legend’s tour already underway, tickets are selling fast. To help you find last-minute tickets, we’ve compiled all the best ways to shop tickets online. Ticketmaster does have some general tickets available, but shifting your focus to several resell sites is a great way shop cheap, last-minute concert tickets as well. Learn more below.
Where to Shop John Legend 2026 Tour Tickets Online
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With StubHub, fans can affordable John Legend tickets for as low as $84 in select cities. Shoppers can use the site’s filters to find the best venue seating and pricing to match your budget. On StubHub. choose from the number of tickets needed, price and even have estimated fees included in the cost, so there are no hidden surprises. Plus, each purchase is protected by StubHub’s FanProtect, which you can learn more about here.
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John Legend 2026 Tour Dates
Here’s the full slate of upcoming US dates for John Legend’s “An Evening of Songs & Stories” tour.
Apr 4: Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, Indio, CA
Apr 8: Altria Theater, Richmond, VA
Apr 9: Sandler Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Beach, VA
Apr 11: Akron Civic Theatre, Akron, OH
Apr 12: The Kentucky Center – Whitney Hall, Louisville, KY
Apr 21: NJPAC, Newark, NJ
Apr 22: Shea’s Buffalo Theatre, Buffalo, NY
Apr 24: Toyota Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, CT
Apr 26: Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI
Apr 28: Landmark Theatre, Syracuse, NY
Apr 29: Hershey Theatre, Hershey, PA
May 3: Wilkes Barre, PA, F.M. Kirby Center
May 5: Schenectady, NY, Proctor’s Theatre
May 16: Greensboro, NC, Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts
May 17: Charlotte, NC, Ovens Auditorium
June 13: Pine Bluff, AR, Saracen Casino Resort
A man was arrested early Wednesday for trespassing after being found on Nicki Minaj’s Hidden Hills mansion property in Los Angeles.
According to USA Today, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department confirmed that 36-year-old Leland Adams was taken into custody early Wednesday in Northwest Los Angeles. Police shared that Adams didn’t enter the home.
Los Angeles jail records show that a 36-year-old named Leland Adams was booked at the Lost Hills station on Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge.
TMZ also reported that Minaj was not home at the time of the individual trespassing onto the Queens rapper’s property.
Minaj’s Hidden Hills home was at the center of an assault lawsuit. A judge ruled in 2024 that Minaj had to pay a $500,000 judgment to German security guard Thomas Weidenmüller for her husband, Kenneth “Zoo” Petty, who allegedly assaulted Weidenmüller during a stop on the Nicki WRLD Tour in 2019.
With Minaj initially refusing to pay up, the judge ordered that the 11,000-square-foot home in Hidden Hills, California, valued at $20 million, be sold to satisfy the lawsuit ruling. Minaj and Petty avoided the mansion’s sale by making an eleventh-hour payment to Weidenmüller in January.
The “Super Bass” rapper was slapped with another lawsuit in March, when production company 24/7 Productions (USA) Inc. claimed that Minaj stiffed them out of $275,000 for services when she performed at iHeartRadio’s 2023 Jingle Ball concerts as well as the launch of Pink Friday 2 in December 2023.
“Despite many attempts over the course of nearly two years to ‘chase up’ payment of the 24/7 Invoices, defendants have inexplicably failed to pay any portion,” the production company’s lawyers told Billboard.
Even after missing the original six-figure payments, the company still worked on Minaj’s record-breaking Pink Friday 2 World Tour in 2024.
Billboard has reached out to the Los Angeles Police Department and Minaj’s reps for comment.
Did you know that Easter and Passover are the “two most metal holidays of all time”?
That’s according to Jack Black in just-released promos for his hosting stint on Saturday Night Live this weekend alongside similarly named rock star Jack White as musical guest.
“It’s the Easter show, baby!” White says, while Black adds, “And the Passover show, homey — the two most metal holidays of all time!”
The pair of Jacks then trade off the most metal biblical references, with Black throwing up the sign of the horns while shouting, “Lamb’s blood!”
“Rising from the dead!” White adds.
“Exodus!” Black says.
This is where SNL castmember Marcello Hernandez tries to chime in, adding theatrically, “The Easter Bunny!” But Black and White aren’t having it. “No,” Black says, with White adding disappointedly, “You ruined it.”
Elsewhere in the promos, Hernandez calls Jack White “the opposite of Jack Black” and Black makes sure to give White a “legendary” introduction. Watch below:
Saturday’s episode will mark Black’s fifth time hosting, while White will be the musical guest for a sixth time, including his SNL debut with The White Stripes back in 2002. Black is promoting his return as the voice of Bowser in the animated sequel The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which arrived in theaters on Wednesday. Black made his solo Billboard Hot 100 debut back in 2023 thanks to his song “Peaches” from the first Super Mario Bros. Movie, peaking at No. 56 on the chart.
Saturday Night Live airs at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and streams on Peacock. (See all the options to watch SNL here.)
It’s been a little over seven months since Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement with an Instagram post that broke the Internet.
In the time since, the superstar couple have have kept quite busy. Swift released her 15th Billboard 200 No. 1 album The Life of a Showgirl back in October — moving a record-breaking 4 million equivalent album units — while Kelce signed on for his 14th season with the Kansas City Chiefs earlier this month.
Though the pair have both shared that they’re excited to plan the wedding, they are preoccupied with their work.
“I’m just doing the album thing now,” Swift said in an October appearance on The Graham Norton Show after Norton asked if she’s already planning for the big day. “And then I think the wedding is after that.”
However, with Swift and Kelce finally making their awards show debut as a couple at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on March 26, we are once again wondering about their wedding plans.
Members of the Tayvis camp have kept what they may or may not know about the couple’s plans for the big day mostly quiet. Kelce’s mother Donna Kelce straight up refused to speak about her potential involvement with the wedding planning when ambushed by a photographer at LAX. “I’m just happy. I’m so happy for them,” Donna said.
Meanwhile, Swift’s future sister-in-law Kylie Kelce (who’s married to Trav’s big brother Jason) made a plea on her Not Gonna Lie podcast on April 2 that people need to stop asking her for wedding dirt. “Quit asking me and my mother-in-law [Donna] about upcoming nuptials,” she said point-blank to the camera. “Nobody’s f—ing telling you anything.” She added: “I don’t have any details. I have no details. I have none. Look at that. That’s how many details I have. None. None.”
While Donna and Kyle are staying hush-hush, a few people close to the duo — including Taylor and Travis themselves — have shared little bits and pieces here and there about the nuptials.
Here is everything we know (so far) about the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding.
As part of our continuing efforts to serve the music industry and its creators, Billboard Pro now features a music industry events calendar for readers.
The calendar will act as music’s most complete summary major national and international industry events, from conferences to festivals to networking mixers and more. Just as Billboard is music’s must-read source for news, charts and analysis, now it also is the go-to for business happenings.
April 2026
- April 3-5 – March Madness Music Festival (Indianapolis, Ind.)
- April 9 – Resonate: Guitar Center Business Solutions Expo (Nashville)
- April 9-12 – The Canadian Folk Music Awards (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
- April 9-12 – Country Thunder Arizona festival (Florence, Ariz.)
- April 10 – Ultra New Zealand festival (Wellington, New Zealand)
- April 10-12 – Coachella weekend 1 (Indio, Calif.)
- April 10-12 – Tortuga Music Festival (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)
- April 11 – Ultra Australia festival (Melbourne, Australia)
- April 12 – Ultra Beach Gold Coast festival (Southport, Australia)
- April 13 – CMA Triple Play Awards (Nashville)
- April 13-14 – Fun Business Days Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
- April 14 – Music Sustainability Summit (Los Angeles)
- April 14 – North American Concert Promoters Association annual meeting (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
- April 14-16 – Ohio University Music Industry Summit (Athens, Ohio)
- April 14-16 – Pollstar Live! (Los Angeles)
- April 15 – Pollstar Awards (Los Angeles)
- April 17 – Day Zero Bali festival (Bali)
- April 17-19 – Coachella weekend 2 (Indio, Calif.)
- April 18 – Anti Social Camp Education Summit (New York)
- April 18 – Syndicate Smokedown & Music Festival (Fort Worth, Tex.)
- April 18-19 – High Water Festival (Charleston, S.C.)
- April 19-21 – HITS HOME conference (Nashville)
- April 20-May 6 – La Linea – The London Latin Music Festival (London)
- April 22-24 – IMS Ibiza (Cala Llonga, Ibiza, Spain)
- April 23 – Billboard Latin Women in Music (Miami)
- April 23-May 3 – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (New Orleans)
- April 24-25 – Ubbi Dubbi festival (Fort Worth, Tex.)
- April 24-26 – Liberation Weekend II festival & fundraiser (Washington, D.C.)
- April 24-26 – Stagecoach (Indio, Calif.)
- April 25 – Sick New World festival (Las Vegas)
- April 27-May 2 – Soundscape Northwest festival and conference (Portland, Oreg.)
- April 28 – Spotify Q1 earnings call
- April 29 – APRA Music Awards (Sydney)
- April 29 – Association of Artist Managers (AAM) Awards (Sydney)
- April 29 – Billboard Women in Music (Los Angeles)
- April 29 – Universal Music Group Q1 earnings call
- April 29-May 2 – Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata (Valledupar, Colombia)
May 2026
- May 1-3 – Beachlife Festival (Redondo Beach, Calif.)
- May 2 – iHeartCountry Festival (Austin)
- May 3-6 – Milken Institute Global Conference (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
- May 6-7 – Secure Venues Summit (Seattle)
- May 7 – Music Will Benefit (New York)
- May 7-10 – Welcome to Rockville (Daytona Beach, Fla.)
- May 8 – Amplify Music Investment Summit (New York)
- May 8 – Grammy Hall of Fame Gala (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
- May 8-10 – Country Thunder Florida festival (St. Pete Beach, Fla.)
- May 8-10 – KCON Japan (Chiba, Japan)
- May 8-10 – Rolling Loud USA (Orlando, Fla.)
- May 11 – The Webby Awards (New York)
- May 13 – Universal Music Group annual general meeting of shareholders (Amsterdam)
- May 13-16 – The Great Escape festival (Brighton, England)
- May 14-16 – Chrysalis festival (San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico)
- May 14-17 – Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival (Columbus, Ohio)
- May 15-17 – Kilby Block Party festival (Salt Lake City)
- May 15-17 – Sounds That Move festival (New York)
- May 16 – Zipangu Japanese Music Event (Pasadena, Calif.)
- May 17 – Academy of Country Music Awards (Las Vegas)
- May 19 – The Gordon Parks Foundation Annual Awards Dinner & Auction (New York)
- May 20-23 – Brighton Music Conference (Brighton, England)
- May 20-24 – Lightning in a Bottle festival (Buena Vista Lake, Calif.)
- May 21 – Ivor Novello Awards (London)
- May 22-23 – Africa Rising Music Conference (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- May 22-24 – BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend festival (Sunderland, England)
- May 22-24 – BottleRock Napa Valley festival (Napa, Calif.)
- May 22-24 – Dark Star Jubilee festival (Thornville, Ohio)
- May 23-24 – Sueños festival (Chicago)
- May 23-25 – Movement Festival (Detroit)
- May 24 – K-LOVE Fan Awards (Nashville)
- May 25-June 2 – bamX — Black Music Week (Atlanta)
- May 27-29 – Bridge Conference (Umag, Croatia)
- May 28-30 – Dusty Vaquero Days festival (Gillette, Wyo.)
- May 30-31 – Roots Picnic (Philadelphia)
June 2026
- June 1-6 – SXSW London (London)
- June 1-July 1 – Blue Note Jazz Festival (New York)
- June 3 – New York Music Month Conference (New York)
- June 3-5 – AIMS: AI Music Summit (Boston)
- June 4-6 – HIGH END Vienna (Vienna)
- June 4-6 – Primavera Sound Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
- June 4-7 – Carolina Country Music Fest (Myrtle Beach, S.C.)
- June 4-7 – CMA Fest (Nashville)
- June 5-7 – Governors Ball Festival (New York)
- June 5-7 – Rock am Ring (Nürburg, Germany)
- June 5-7- Rock im Park (Nuremberg, Germany)
- June 6-7 – All Things Go Toronto festival (Toronto)
- June 6-7 – Railbird Music Festival (Lexington, Ky.)
- June 7 – Tony Awards (New York)
- June 8 – Libera Awards (New York)
- June 8 – UJA Federation of New York Music Visionary of the Year gala (New York)
- June 8-11 – A2IM Indie Week (New York)
- June 10-11 – NAMM NeXT Europe (Amsterdam)
- June 10-14 – Download Festival (Leicestershire, U.K.)
- June 11-13 – Rock the South festival (Decatur, Ala.)
- June 11-14 – Bonnaroo (Manchester, Tenn.)
- June 12-13 – 5 O’Clock Somewhere Fest (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
- June 13 – Braves Country Fest (Atlanta)
- June 13 – MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN (Tokyo)
- June 13-14 – All Good Now festival (Columbia, Md.)
- June 18-20 – Sónar Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
- June 18-20 – Summerfest weekend 1 (Milwaukee)
- June 18-21 – Barefoot Country Music Fest (Wildwood, N.J.)
- June 18-21 – Hellfest (Clisson, France)
- June 18-21 – The Isle of Wight Festival (Newport, England)
- June 18-21 – Tailgate N’ Tallboys festival (Bloomington, Ill.)
- June 19-21 – Sónar Week (Barcelona)
- June 19-20 – Zootown Music Festival (Missoula, Mont.)
- June 19-21 – We Belong Here Brooklyn festival (New York)
- June 25-27 – Summerfest weekend 2 (Milwaukee)
- June 25-28 – Electric Forest festival (Rothbury, Mich.)
- June 25-July 4 – Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (Montreal)
- June 26-28 – Wilco’s Solid Sound festival (North Adams, Mass.)
July 2026
- July 2-4 – Summerfest weekend 3 (Milwaukee)
- July 2-5 – Rock Werchter festival (Rotselaar, Belgium)
- July 3 – Roundhay Festival (Leeds, England)
- July 3-5 – ESSENCE Festival of Culture (New Orleans)
- July 3-18 – Montreux Jazz Festival (Montreux, Switzerland)
- July 8-11 – Mad Cool festival (Madrid)
- July 8-12 – Windy City Smokeout festival (Chicago)
- July 9 – O2 Silver Clef Awards (London)
- July 9-19 – Festival D’été de Québec (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada)
- July 10 – BST Hyde Park festival (London)
- July 10-11 – Minnesota Country Club Festival (St. Paul, Minn.)
- July 10-12 – Wireless Festival (London)
- July 16-18 – 4848 Festival (Snowshoe, W. Va.)
- July 16-19 – Country Thunder Wisconsin (Twin Lakes, Wis.)
- July 17-19 – Inkcarceration festival (Mansfield, Ohio)
- July 17-19 – MATI Festival and Conference (St. Louis)
- July 17-19 – Minnesota Yacht Club Festival (St. Paul, Minn.)
- July 17-19 – Under the Big Sky festival (Whitefish, Mont.)
- July 18-19 – Summer of ’99 and Beyond Festival (Tinley Park, Ill.)
- July 23-25 – Headwaters Country Jam (Three Forks, Mont.)
- July 24-25 – Eaux Claires festival (Eau Claire, Wis.)
- July 24-26 – Newport Folk Festival (Newport, R.I.)
- July 28-Aug. 1 – Latin Alternative Music Conference (New York)
- July 30 – AIR Awards (Adelaide, Australia)
- July 30-Aug. 1 – Hinterland Music Festival (St. Charles, Iowa)
- July 30-Aug. 2 – Lollapalooza (Chicago)
- July 30-Aug. 2 – Y Not Festival (Pikehall, England)
- July 31-Aug. 2 – OSHEAGA Music and Arts Festival (Montreal)
August 2026
- Aug. 2-4 – Musikfest Music Industry Conference (Bethlehem, Pa.)
- Aug. 3 – Country Radio Hall of Fame Induction and Dinner (Nashville)
- Aug. 5-9 – Boardmasters festival (Newquay, England)
- Aug. 7-8 – Up in the Sky Music Festival (Aspen, Colo.)
- Aug. 7-9 – Baja Beach Fest (Rosarito Beach, Mexico)
- Aug. 7-9 – Outside Lands (San Francisco)
- Aug. 8 – Head in the Clouds Music & Arts Festival (Pasadena, Calif.)
- Aug. 12-15 – Iceland Eclipse festival (Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland)
- Aug. 12-16 – Boomtown Festival (South Downs National Park, England)
- Aug. 14-16 – Flow Festival (Helsinki, Finland)
- Aug. 14-16 – KCON LA (Los Angeles)
- Aug. 20-22 – Las Vegas Songwriters Festival (Las Vegas)
- Aug. 20-23 – Green Man Festival (Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Wales)
- Aug. 22 – Just Like Heaven festival (Pasadena, Calif.)
- Aug. 25 – SOURCE Hall of Fame Awards (Nashville)
- Aug. 26-30 – Rock en Seine festival (Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, France)
- Aug. 27-30 – Creamfields festival (Daresbury, England)
- Aug. 28-29 – All Points East festival (London)
September 2026
- Sept. 1-4 – BIGSOUND (Brisbane, Australia)
- Sept. 3-6 – End of the Road festival (Dorset, England)
- Sept. 4-5 – Vive Latino España (Zaragoza, Spain)
- Sept. 4-6 – Velocity at Field of Dreams festival (Dyersville, Iowa)
- Sept. 4-7 – ARC Music Festival (Chicago)
- Sept. 5-6 – Bumbershoot Arts & Music Festival (Seattle)
- Sept. 14 – Primetime Emmys (Los Angeles)
- Sept. 17-20 – Louder Than Life festival (Louisville, Ky.)
- Sept. 18-20 – Borderland Music and Arts Festival (East Aurora, N.Y.)
- Sept. 18-20 – Cascade Equinox Festival (Redmond, Oreg.)
- Sept. 19-20 – Experts Only festival (New York)
- Sept. 19-20 – Sea.Hear.Now Festival (Asbury Park, N.J.)
- Sept. 24-27 – Bourbon & Beyond festival (Louisville, Ky.)
- Sept. 25-26 – Somewhere Festival & Conference (Wichita, Kans.)
- Sept. 25-27 – Oceans Calling Festival (Ocean City, Md.)
October 2026
- Oct. 1 – Day Zero Tulum festival (Tulum, Mexico)
- Oct. 1-4 – Aftershock festival (Sacramento, Calif.)
- Oct. 7-9 – Beyond The Music conference (Salford, England)
- Oct. 10-11 – Head Trip festival (Indio, Calif.)
- Oct. 13-16 – Mondo.NYC conference (New York)
- Oct. 16-18 – Mission Bayfest (San Diego)
- Oct. 21-25 – Amsterdam Dance Event (Amsterdam)
- Oct. 22 – Mercury Prize ceremony (Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
- Oct. 24 – Sick New World festival (Fort Worth, Tex.)
November 2026
- Nov. 8-10 – jump.global Summit (Los Angeles)
- Nov. 12 – Latin Grammy Awards (Las Vegas)
- Nov. 14 – Darker Waves festival (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
December 2026
- Dec. 7-8 – Live Summit Middle East (Abu Dhabi)
- Dec. 11-13 – Tomorrowland Thailand (Pattaya, Thailand)
January 2027
- Jan. 17 – globalFEST winter festival (New York)
March 2027
- C2C (Country to Country) Festival (London, Glasgow & Manchester, United Kingdom)
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Levi’s has teamed up with legendary hip-hop trio Beastie Boys for a ’90s-inspired T-shirt collection. Paying homage to the rap groups rise to fame, this limited release honors their formative years in New York and draws upon the Beastie Boys impact on street culture as well as their earlier music, such as the classic album, Hello Nasty, from 1998.
The Levi’s x Beastie Boys collection includes four different graphic shirts “inspired by vintage collector’s tees, says Levi’s in a press release.” Available Thursday (April 2), fans can shop between a “Color Up” white tee, which features a range of artwork from Hello Nasty on the back; a red graphic tee emblazoned with an iconic group logo utilized in their early days; a “Hello Nasty Caviar” tee, that includes the album artwork from the acclaimed 1998 album; and finally, a long-sleeve “Caviar” tee showcasing artwork from their 1995 EP Root Down.
“Few groups have had the cultural impact of the Beastie Boys,” says Leo Gamboa, VP – Collaborations at Levi’s. “With this collection, we wanted to celebrate their legacy – the humor, the attitude, and the spirit of the ‘90s – in a way that feels true to them.”
The Levi’s x Beastie Boys collection is available top shop online right now on Levi’s.com. The price range for the limited-release goes from $45 – $50. The quantity of each tee is unavailable, but act fast so you don’t miss out on these throwback-inspired merch.
NEW RELEASE
Levi’s x Beastie Boys “Caviar” Long-Sleeve Tee
A long-sleeve black tee that includes artwork from the Beastie Boy’s 1995 EP Root Down.
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Levi’s x Beastie Boys “Hello Nasty” Tee
A graphic t-shirt paying homage to the Beastie Boys Hello Nasty album cover.
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Levi’s x Beastie Boys “Color Up” Tee
A white tee featuring art designs from the Beastie Boys 1998 album, ‘Hello Nasty’ on the back.
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Levi’s x Beastie Boys Band Logo Tee
An all-red graphic t-shirt featuring a throwback Beastie Boys logo.
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How does a producer follow up crafting a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit for a decade-defining global superstar? For Tyler Spry — who was part of the elite creative team that brought Bad Bunny’s Grammy-winning album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS to life, including a writing/producing credit on record-breaking title track “DtMF” — the answer is to do it again, this time for another of the biggest acts in the world: BTS.
After four years of solo exploration by Jin, SUGA, j-hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jung Kook while the members completed their individual military conscription, the South Korean boy band’s shapeshifting first project since 2022, ARIRANG, regroups by rooting itself in cultural heritage — while also tapping talent (Diplo, Ryan Tedder, Kevin Parker, El Guicho, JPEGMAFIA and more) from all over the map. “I’m so fortunate to have been able to work on these two albums that feel bigger than just bodies of music,” Spry tells Billboard from his studio in Silver Lake.
He started work on the more recent project not too long after Bad Bunny’s album was released, pitching ideas to BTS’ team at the outset of 2025. With the R&B track “Please,” which would ultimately make it onto ARIRANG‘s lighter-weight second half, the producer earned himself a spot at an L.A. writing camp held last summer, alongside collaborators from Tedder’s publishing company Runner Music. During those studio sessions — captured in small part by Netflix documentary BTS: The Return — trance-like lead single “Swim” came into being.
“Some of the best songs just fall out of thin air,” Spry says. “It’s like they’ve always existed somewhere, and you just need to be in the right headspace to reach out and grab them.” For “Swim,” that spark “just happened so effortlessly,” he notes. “A lot of times, you have to fight for a song. There’s something there that’s really good, but you just can’t crack it.” Here, the basic composition was fleshed out in fewer than 30 minutes.
After Spry and Diplo signee Leclair got down that rough beat, Tedder quickly freestyled the second verse and then handed off the track for a longer tinkering process. “That was when RM came in, and I think they started to get more serious about the record,” Spry says. “He was trying to figure out how to make it fit the vision they had for the lead single.”
It wasn’t until the septet returned to Seoul to finish recording that the pressure of the group’s self-imposed March deadline really started to ramp up. Because they were working halfway around the world, Spry would get vocals from longtime BTS collaborator Pdogg back in the middle of the night; he recalls stepping out of a friend’s birthday party to listen to a mix of “Please” with the HYBE crew. “It was chaotic,” he laughs. “But I love the chaos. I thrive in the chaos. It’s my job as a producer.”
Below, Spry talks to Billboard about the stress and “magic” of creating ARIRANG tracks — plus a few “really good” songs that just might surface on future BTS projects — during the L.A. studio sessions and beyond.
ARIRANG is now a Billboard 200 No. 1 album, with “Swim” topping the Billboard Hot 100, Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts. How are you feeling about the reception?
Honestly, I’m amazed by the response. I am aware that BTS is one of the biggest artists in the world, but when we set out to make this project, it was very ambitious, and it’s definitely a sound that I don’t think the fans or the general public were expecting.
It was so cool to see them perform [“Swim”] live. I hadn’t seen it yet. Everything related to BTS is very secretive and on lockdown, so I didn’t see any music videos or performance videos before they happened. It was really exciting to see these legends out there dancing and singing a record that we made in a little studio in L.A.
How did you get involved with the album?
At the beginning of last year, I was sitting down with my publisher, Ryan Tedder, and we were talking about who we wanted to collaborate with. He mentioned that BTS was going to be making a comeback. Honestly, it felt like a lofty, almost unattainable goal to have a record with BTS. But I love a challenge, so we decided to swing for the fences.
We spent a few weeks at Ryan’s studio in West Hollywood, starting ideas, sending them to the team, trying to find something that would stick. Some of it was probably too pop, too close to their earlier English-language records like “Dynamite” and “Butter.” But we caught our stride and started finding a sound that felt fresh and exciting.
And this was before the L.A. studio sessions?
Yeah. I wouldn’t say I came onto the project in any official capacity before that. My team and I were just sketching, painting, trying to find sounds that would be exciting for the label and for the band. Before the L.A. writing sessions, we found something like that. That ended up being a song called “Please,” which, after some changes, landed on the album. It was our ticket into the writing camp that they were hosting at Conway Studios.
The crew [from Runner Music] was mostly me, James Essien, Sean Foreman, Ryan Tedder and Sam Homaee. And then there was a whole gang of incredible songwriters and producers, a revolving door of people at Conway. That was June or July of last year. But initially, we weren’t in the room with the band. They invited us out, and there were a lot of people making ideas to present to them.
Tell me more about the process of making “Please.”
We weren’t necessarily writing full, finished, polished ideas from scratch every day. Rather, we were trying to capture some kind of magic, like lightning in a bottle. “Please” ended up being one of those. I was just chopping up these keyboards and guitars that sounded like old soul sounds and putting together some off-the-grid hip-hop drums. It’s the only song on the album with a single producer credit, so it means a lot that the guys and [HYBE chairman] Bang trusted me to carry that one across the line.
The day we wrote the song, I came home and my friend Dawson from the band Almost Monday and my wife and I all sang gang vocals around the dining room table in my kitchen. The band decided to keep them in because there was just this raw texture that they connected with. You can hear it really quiet in the background on the chorus.
What was your first impression of BTS as collaborators?
We weren’t working with them all at one time. It would be chaos to have that many voices in the room. But I got to work with them one-on-one.
Jung Kook is an amazing songwriter, and he is an incredible singer. He can sing with no Auto-Tune and hit all the notes. V is so warm and sweet and has an incredible tone. He’s really funny too, even though there’s a bit of a language barrier. We were cracking jokes and having fun in the studio.
RM feels almost like the older brother of the group. He knows what he wants. He helps bring the guys in and get them excited about things. It was a good energy. Honestly, they’re some of the nicest guys I’ve met, let alone just artists. It was really a privilege working with them.
There are some songs that we made with them that they were really creatively involved in that have not seen the light of day. So I hope — it’s not up to me — but I do hope that those get to come out into the world.
They did mention that they’ve already claimed some of the unused songs from the studio sessions for upcoming solo projects.
Yeah. [Laughs] I would definitely like to know who’s claiming which songs. There are some really good ones.
How did BTS mediate disagreements while working on the album?
They’ve done a really great job making sure that every voice is heard, every opinion is respected. The final album, once they whittled it down, is such a distilled version of what every member really wanted.
When working with the guys, the best music that we made was when we created a space where we were free to try anything. Like, SUGA could jump onto the mic and feel comfortable freestyling a rap in front of songwriters and producers that he’d only known for a few days. Or, Jung Kook could tell us that a lyric concept that we have sucks, and he doesn’t like it. [Laughs] But in a nice way, in a kind way. Or RM saying, “Oh, that verse is cool, but we wouldn’t say that,” or, “That’s not our flow.”
It feels like some of the lyrics on “Please” were a result of that calibration.
Are the original lyrics out there?
No, but there’s speculation that the line “Hold me from the front, back, left, right” might have been something else originally. Something less PG.
Perhaps it could have been something else originally. [Laughs] No comment.
I mean, some of the best songwriters and producers are also artists, but you’re wearing a different hat when you’re writing music for other people. Our job was to build a room that they could exist in.
But they’re the stars; once they step into the room, that’s what brings it to life. On a song like “Please,” you set the mood with the chords and the drums and the melodies, and then they come in and figure out what they want to say and how they want to perform it.
Tell me about how “Swim” was chosen as the lead single.
“Swim” is a subtle song. They’re not singing at the top of their range. The melody isn’t particularly athletic, but it’s an earworm. It sneaks up on you. I think that’s what ended up happening with them.
That day, we were paired with Leclair, who’s signed to Diplo. When we were working, we’d write two or three songs because we weren’t trying to deliver a finished, polished thought. There weren’t any references. Leclair and I just put together the rough beat while James and Sean were freestyling on the couch. The chorus just fell out of thin air.
I think everyone was afraid of it, because it’s such a subtle song. It didn’t feel like, “Here’s ‘Dynamite.’ Here’s the smash.” But I remember two weeks after we wrote it, I was going to the lounge to make myself a coffee. I walked past V, and he was humming to himself, “Swim, swim.” I don’t even think he knew that I could hear him. That was when I knew, “OK, I think we’re on to something. I think this is probably going to be the song.”
It’s interesting that you contrast the two songs, because when they were discussing “Swim,” BTS said it reminded them of “Dynamite,” mostly in that it was such an unexpected choice.
BTS has such an incredible team around them with Pdogg and Bang, and they’re obviously incredible writers on their own. They come to people like us to help contextualize them to the world in a new way.
That’s why I use a reference like “Dynamite,” because, at that point in time, that was what introduced them to a whole new demographic of people and built new fans. We had the task of trying to do that now, while honoring their core fan base and where they come from.
They are fundamentally different people than they were before they took a break. They grew a lot. Their tastes changed, their voices changed. It was daunting to steward that process, but I’m really proud of what we ended up doing. I mean, look at the response. There’s a whole bunch of people listening to BTS that weren’t listening to BTS a few months ago.
“Swim” is also one of three English-language songs on the album. Were there larger conversations about that?
More than ever, the language that a song is in does not necessarily affect how large the audience for that song is. I had the fortune of having a No. 1 six weeks ago with Bad Bunny’s “DTMF” being the first Spanish-language single to top [the Billboard Hot 100, Global 200 and Global Exclu. US charts simultaneously]. Now — granted, it is in English — “Swim” is the No. 1 song on the Hot 100. A Korean act on an American chart.
I’m really proud to be a part of this album because, like DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, it feels like such a deep representation of who they [BTS] are as artists and the country that they come from. I think it’s pretty bada– that they decided to do a lot of the album in Korean — not just make a project that was focusing on being a large commercial venture, but rather a snapshot of who they are creatively at this point in their lives.
It seemed like ARIRANG was produced on a tight timeline. Did you feel that pressure in the studio?
At the writing camp, while the stakes were really high, none of us were made to feel pressured or competitive. Obviously, we all wanted to write the BTS comeback single, but on any given day, we’d show up and, like, my friends are in Studio B, my friends are in Studio A. We all get to have lunch together, high-five each other and listen to the songs that we made.
Once they had “Swim,” “Normal” and “Please” — once they had the bulk of the earlier songs on the project — and they started to really assemble the album, that was when pressure started to set in. Getting the vocal performances right, getting the mixes right — that’s where we were really under the gun, especially to make the vinyl and CD deadlines.
Was there a particularly memorable moment working with the members on this album?
There’s a video that’s gone around on the Internet when I was writing with V, James Essien and Sean Foreman. That video is not the making of any of the songs that made the album, but it was one of the most fun days I had in the studio with the guys. We were just jumping up and down, singing the songs. I think that it was one of the freest days we had in the studio, creatively. So I do hope that song gets to see the light of day.
I’m glad there were those fun times, because the Netflix documentary shows a lot of creative anguish.
We had so much fun with the members in the studio. Like I said earlier, there were definitely times where SUGA would jump off the couch like a bolt of lightning, run into the booth and freestyle a verse out of nowhere. Or Jung Kook would say, “I think I have an idea. Can I get on the mic?” And then he’d get on the SM7 and go stupid, just completely crush the most angelic melody. We were really trying to create a space where they felt safe to try anything. And I think we accomplished that.
Courtney Love says she’s cool with Dave Grohl — but she also has a small bone to pick with the Foo Fighters frontman.
While appearing on an episode of The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan posted Wednesday, the Hole rocker was characteristically blunt when addressing the former Nirvana bandmate of her late husband, Kurt Cobain. “Grohl, come out with it and just say we’re cool,” she said. “Be man enough.”
“Man up, because you’re the uber man that has all the straight males,” she continued to Corgan. “And we’re cool, but you won’t say it, because you’re afraid you’ll lose your audience. You’re afraid it’ll affect your relationship with literal Paul McCartney … Dave, it would really behoove me if the straight white males that are your base would stop picking on me.”
Love also called out the drummer for allegedly writing several songs about her. “I couldn’t write a song about Dave Grohl to save my life,” she said. “He’s written, like, four songs about me, and they’re hits. I’m like, ‘Wait what?’”
Billboard has reached out to Grohl’s rep for comment.
Love and Grohl have had their bumps in the road over the years. In 2014, the former criticized the surviving members of Nirvana for joining forces with McCartney for a 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy benefit concert. They also clashed in court years after Cobain’s death in 1994 over the rights to Nirvana’s catalog.
In 2014, however, the pair hugged onstage at Nirvana’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Watch Love’s full conversation on The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan above.
George Clinton, Heart, Lucinda Williams and Take 6 have been added to the list of performers for the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum’s 2026 Grammy Hall of Fame Gala taking place May 8. Clinton, Heart and Williams recorded titles that are among the honorees.
They join previously announced performer Norah Jones, who will also be presented with the Ray Charles Architect of Sound Award. Warner Records will also be honored as the Anthony Mason-hosted event, which will take place at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
Fourteen titles spanning nearly a century of recorded music will be honored at the gala, extending as far back as 1926’s “Trouble in Mind” recorded by Bertha “Chippie” Hill to 1998’s Car Wheels on A Gravel Road by Lucinda Williams. Among the other three singles and 11 albums being inducted are Pink Moon by Nick Drake, Maggot Brain by Funkadelic, Dreamboat Annie by Heart and All Eyez on Me by 2Pac.
The Recording Academy’s national trustees established the Grammy Hall of Fame to honor recordings released before the Grammy Awards began being handed out in 1959. The honor is now open to any recording that is at least 25 years old. A special member committee selects the recordings to be inducted based on their qualitative or historical significance. Final ratification comes from the Recording Academy’s national board of trustees.
“It’s a privilege to recognize these influential recordings as the 2026 Grammy Hall of Fame inductees,” Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, said in a statement. “Each selection reflects the creativity, craft and cultural impact that recorded music can carry across decades. We’re honored to help preserve these works and celebrate the artists and communities behind them, so their legacies continue to inspire generations to come.”
The show will be produced by former Grammy Awards executive producer Ken Ehrlich, alongside Ron Basile, Chantel Sausedo, Lindsay Saunders Carl, and Lynne Sheridan.



















