Month: August 2025

Lil Nas X was arrested early Thursday morning in Los Angeles on suspicion of battery on a police officer and hospitalized for a possible overdose, per ABC Los Angeles affiliate KABC.

Montero Lamar Hill, otherwise known as Lil Nas X –  was taken into custody and hospitalized after he was found walking in the street without his clothes on. Hill was seen walking down the middle of Ventura Boulevard in Studio City at 4 a.m. on Thursday in just a pair of white briefs and cowboy boots on video released exclusively to TMZ.

The Los Angeles Police Department told NBC News in a statement that officers responded to the 11000 block of Ventura Boulevard just before 6 a.m. in regard to reports of a nearly naked man (the location is just west of the 101 Freeway, near Vineland Avenue). Police said that the man – later identified as Lil Nas X — charged at officers when they arrived on the scene. LAPD said: “he was transported to a local hospital for a possible overdose and placed under arrest for Battery on a Police Officer.” Hill also punched an officer twice in the face during the encounter, according to a police source.

Officers were unsure whether Hill was on any substances and/or whether he was in mental distress, and booking records were not immediately available in the Los Angeles County database.

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MTV has announced a first round of performers and honorees for the MTV Music Video Awards.

Alex Warren, Busta Rhymes, J Balvin ft. DJ Snake, Ricky Martin, Sabrina Carpenter and Sombr will take the stage at the awards show in September.

Rhymes will also be honored with the first-ever MTV VMA ‘Rock the Bells Visionary Award‘, while Martin will receive the first-ever ‘Latin Icon Award.’

LL Cool J hosts the 2025 MTV VMAs, airing live coast-to-coast from New York’s UBS Arena Sunday, September 7th at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT on the CBS Television Network, simulcast on MTV and streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S.

Nominees for the VMAs were announced earlier this month, with Lady Gaga leading with 12. Bruno Mars received 11 nods, while Kendrick Lamar is up for 10 awards, and Blackpink’s Rose and Sabrina Carpenter each earned eight nominations.

Additionally, Ariana Grande and The Weeknd have seven nods each, while Billie Eilish had six, Charli XCX earnng five, and Bad Bunny, Doechii, Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll, Miley Cyrus and Tate McRae each nominated four times.

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YUNGBLUD just dropped “ZOMBIE,” the latest single from his fourth studio album IDOLS. 

The song debuted alongside a a new cinematic music video starring Academy Award-nominated actress Florence Pugh. Directed by Charlie Sarsfield and produced by Untold Studios, the video find Pugh as a nurse helping patients through their struggles, pain, and triumphs.

Yungblud explains: “The song was written initially about my grandmother going through serious injury and trauma, leading her to become a different person to who she was before. It’s about the feeling of deterioration and ugliness; shutting out the world and the people we love out of the fear of becoming a burden or an embarrassment. We all want someone or something to comfort us no matter how we are right now or who we become in the future. But it’s f*cking scary.”

IDOLS can be streamed: HERE.

See the video for ‘ZOMBIE’ – HERE.

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The Goo Goo Dolls have shared the video for “Nothing Lasts Forever,” written by vocalist/guitarist John Rzeznik and produced by Gregg Wattenberg and Grant Michaels.

The visual was directed by Kat White and filmed in Los Angeles, featuring strangers passing by each other in a subway station while Rzeznik and bassist/vocalist Robby Takac perform. See the video for ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ – HERE.

Says Rzeznik: “It always feels good to share new music, and ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ came from a place of accepting change and letting go. The song is a reminder that everything moves, everything shifts, and that’s part of life. We’re also grateful to put this out ahead of our Summer Anthem Tour so fans can experience it with us live.”

The Goo Goo Dolls will release their new EP, Summer Anthem, on August 22nd.  To preview the EP, Goo Goo Dolls have shared the track “Not Goodbye (Close My Eyes)” alongside an accompanying lyric video. Written by John Rzeznik and produced by Gregg Wattenberg and Grant Michaels, the song reflects on the fading nature of life and the quiet clarity that comes with letting go.  Rzeznik shares: “‘Not Goodbye (Close My Eyes)’ is a song about accepting the inevitability of mortality and how life is constantly in flux”

See the lyric video for Not Goodbye (Close My Eyes) – HERE.

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Prime Video has shared the trailer for The Runarounds, a coming-of-age music drama series from the creators of the hit series, Outer Banks.

An official synopsis reads: “The Runarounds follows a group of recent high school graduates from Wilmington, North Carolina, who come together the summer after graduation to form a rock band, united by their shared love of music and near-impossible dream of stardom. As they pursue the big leagues, they encounter big trouble along the way.”

The Runarounds stars William Lipton, Axel Ellis, Jeremy Yun, Zendé Murdock, and Jesse Golliher came together for the project after Pate recruited Outer Banks stars Chase Stokes and Madelyn Cline to put out a call for young musicians on social media to star in a new series. The series also stars Lilah Pate, Maximo Salas, Kelley Pereira, Marley Aliah, Mark Wystrach, Brooklyn Decker, Hayes MacArthur and Shea Pritchard star.

Outer Banks creators Josh Pate, Jonas Pate and Shannon Burke are also are among The Runarounds‘ executive producers.  Josh Pate recently told Entertainment Weekly of the process that led to the selection of the musicians/actors who ultimately formed the Runarounds: “We got 5,000 bands sent to us in a week. I was thinking that these kids are going to freak out if they’ve never had cameras in their face before.”  

Pate added that the pilot for The Runarounds was originally shot in 2022, but since then the musicians have formed a group in real life. “They’ve written tons of songs. They just played their first festival in Charlotte. They’re out of high school now and they’re totally legit musically. It’s awesome.”

In addition, the official soundtrack to the series will be released coinciding with the series’ debut on September 1st (to presave, head HERE).  The band’s first two singles — “Funny How The Universe Works” (featured in the series trailer) and “Senior Year” (the first song written and recorded by the real-life band) — are also available now on streaming services.

All eight episodes of The Runarounds premieres Sept 1st on Prime Video; see the series trailer: HERE.

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