Paula Abdul is returning to American Idol to sub for sick judge Luke Bryan.
The country singer will miss the talent contest s first live show of the season after contracting Covid-19.
He revealed the news on social media, writing: I m sad to say I won t be a part of tonight s first live @americanidol show. I tested positive for Covid but I m doing well and look forward to being back at it soon.
Abdul, who was one of the original American Idol judges, will replace him on Monday night s episode, which will mark the ABC competition series first return to the studio with a live audience format since the coronavirus pandemic shut down filming. She will join Lionel Richie and Katy Perry.
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Moby regrets opening up about his relationship with Natalie Portman in his memoir, suggesting the drama surrounding his comments may have been the reason the book flopped.
In his 2019 autobiography, Then It Fell Apart, the musician claimed he took Portman for a drink and kissed her while visiting her at Harvard during her studies there in the late 90s.
After the book s release, Portman refuted Moby s tale that she was involved in a romantic relationship with him, saying she found it disturbing that he was using her to promote his book.
Moby eventually apologised to Portman and others he has written about in Then It Fell Apart without telling them beforehand.
Synth-pop pioneers Soft Cell s first album in two decades is a lot more worldly-wise .
The Marc Almond-led duo have been back in the studio in lockdown working on what will mark their first new music since 2002 s acclaimed LP Cruelty Without Beauty .
The Say Hello, Wave Goodbye hitmakers went their separate ways with one final gig at The O2 in London in 2018.
However, they later reunited and hit the studio to record a brand new album for fans.
Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper s Wired column, instrumentalist Dave Ball said: Before the O2 show, Marc and I hadn t seen each other in about 15 years.
Olly Alexander has a slew of unreleased songs waiting to be released.
The Years & Years star - who has just released Starstruck , his first single since announcing he will continue as the sole member of the group - has vowed to drop the best tracks from his vault and offer what is left to other artists to do what they please with.
He told The Rebecca Judd Show on Apple Music 1: Some of the songs I never want to throw them away because they still are my babies and I still like parts of them. Maybe another artist would listen and like it, and want to do something, like their own thing, so I ve kept a lot of them just in case.
Megadeth are just hours away from finishing their new album.
The thrash metal titan s bassist David Ellefson has revealed the follow-up to 2016 s Dystopia is in the final hours getting everything done .
He told Rock Music Star: “I was actually just down there [at the recording studio] last week. I went to Nashville to just put a couple of little, tiny finishing touches on some stuff. We’re literally in the final hours of getting everything done. Obviously, COVID slowed things down.
“Kiko [Loureiro, guitar] lives over in Finland now, and there were some delays last year, just with travel and with everything shutting down. But me and Dirk [Verbeuren, drums] got down there pretty quickly by May and June [of last year], we were in there cutting tracks. It’s been good, though.”