Sum 41’s 2019 set at Hellfest in Clisson, France is exactly what the band does best, a high-octane run through their catalog in front of thousands of fans on one of Europe’s biggest stages, delivering “The Hell Song,” “We’re All To Blame,” and more with the kind of ferocious precision that reminds you why this band has stayed a vital force in rock music for over two decades.
Canadian Punk Rock Titans Sum 41 Tore Apart Hellfest 2019 and the Footage Proves It
Carrie Underwood Launches HiNote, a Women’s Wellness Brand Built Around Real Daily Life
Carrie Underwood has launched HiNote, a women’s wellness brand built around the idea that taking care of yourself shouldn’t require overhauling your entire day. The brand brings together movement, nourishment, and community under one roof, with products and tools designed to fit into real life rather than compete with it.
The first product out of the gate is HiNote Everyday Energy Daily Nutrition Drink Mix. It delivers 20g of protein, including 15g of clear whey and 5g of collagen, alongside 5g of fiber, 13 fruits and vegetables, superfoods, greens, and vitamin B. No added sugar, no caffeine, and it comes together in 30 seconds. Available in three flavors, Berry Medley, Juicy Peach, and Strawberry Lemonade, it’s designed to provide sustained energy throughout the day.
“Health and wellness have always been such an important part of my life,” says Underwood. “Through my app, my own workouts, and daily conversations, I keep hearing the same heartfelt truth from women everywhere, myself included: we want to care for ourselves while still showing up for everything else our busy lives demand. That’s why I created HiNote.”
Alongside the drink mix, Underwood’s popular fitness app fit52 is evolving into HiNote Life, Powered by fit52. The app brings together guided workouts led by Underwood, simple and nutritious recipes, a food tracker, and a supportive community in one destination. It’s available now on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Underwood has been building in this space for a while. fit52 launched in 2020 alongside her New York Times bestselling book Find Your Path. She also founded Calia by Carrie Underwood and holds an equity stake in BodyArmor sports drink. HiNote is the next step in a wellness portfolio that’s been growing steadily for years.
HiNote has also partnered with Girls on the Run International, a national nonprofit delivering after-school programs for girls in grades three to eight that combine physical activity with confidence-building and life skills development. The partnership reflects the brand’s broader commitment to empowering women and girls through movement and community.
HiNote Everyday Energy Daily Nutrition Drink Mix, single-flavor bags, variety packs, and a branded shaker bottle are available now at HiNote.com.
The Nth Power Let the Music Do the Talking on New Album ‘Never Alone’
‘Never Alone’, the new album from The Nth Power, is out now, and it’s the kind of record that rewards patience. Built around themes of connection and shared experience, the trio lets those ideas live inside the music rather than announcing them. The result is an album that breathes, develops slowly, and sticks around.
The Nth Power have always been a live band at their core, and the decision to record largely in the room reflects that identity. Grooves develop gradually here. Songs like “Crave You” and the title track don’t chase big moments. They build steady presence through repetition and subtle variation, which gives ‘Never Alone’ a cohesive flow across its runtime.
The collaborative tracks add dimension without disrupting the record’s pace. “Simple Life,” featuring The Soul Rebels, brings a brighter, more outward-facing energy into the mix. “Smile,” featuring Nicholas Payton and Skerik, moves slower and deeper, horns adding texture without overwhelming the core arrangement. Both tracks earn their place.
Instrumentally, the album stays focused. Nikki Glaspie anchors everything behind the kit, while Nick Cassarino and Nate Edgar keep their focus on texture and groove. There’s very little excess anywhere on the record, even when guests expand the sound. The band operates within a defined range and trusts it completely.
What defines ‘Never Alone’ is its restraint. It doesn’t chase peaks. It builds an atmosphere and invites you into it, which is harder to pull off than it sounds and more satisfying when it works.
The Nth Power are supporting the album with New Orleans release-week shows, Northeast headline dates, and summer festival appearances.
Photo Gallery: No Doubt Open Their Sphere Residency With “Tragic Kingdom” Live for the First Time in Nearly 20 Years
No Doubt walked onto the Sphere stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday night and opened with “Tragic Kingdom,” a song the band hadn’t performed live in nearly 20 years. That’s how you start a residency. The show was the first of 18 dates at one of the most technologically advanced venues in the world, and it delivered on every level.
Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont, and Adrian Young tore through fan favourites including “Don’t Speak,” “Hella Good,” “Ex-Girlfriend,” and “Just A Girl,” backed by Sphere’s fully immersive LED display and Sphere Immersive Sound system. Archival footage dating back to the band’s late-80s beginnings ran throughout the show, making it feel like both a celebration and a statement.
The residency marks No Doubt’s first extended run of shows in nearly 14 years, following their 2012 Seven Night Stand in Los Angeles. It arrives on the heels of the 30th anniversary of ‘Tragic Kingdom’, the breakthrough album that defined an era and continues to connect with audiences worldwide. The band also becomes the first female-led act to headline Sphere.
Their return has been building. Reunion performances at Coachella in 2024 and FIREAID in early 2025 reestablished the band’s presence before this Las Vegas run. Sphere is the right room for a catalog this big and a visual identity this strong. The venue wraps the audience in sound and image in a way that few acts have the material to fully justify. No Doubt does.
Running alongside the residency is The No Doubt Experience, an immersive pop-up developed with Vibee and located in The Summit Showroom at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. The exhibit features more than 500 artifacts from the band’s archives, interactive installations, and archival storytelling tracing their full evolution. It’s free and open to the public, with added access for Vibee VIP pass holders.
The residency runs through Saturday, June 13. Tickets and information are available at nodoubt.com.
Live at Sphere — Remaining Dates:
Friday, May 8, 2026
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Friday, May 15, 2026
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Thursday, May 21, 2026 (Memorial Day Weekend)
Saturday, May 23, 2026 (Memorial Day Weekend)
Sunday, May 24, 2026 (Memorial Day Weekend)
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Friday, May 29, 2026
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
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All Photos below by Matt Starkey
All Photos below by John Shearer
Mary J. Blige Adds Ten More Las Vegas Dates After Her Residency Opens to Sold-Out Crowds
Mary J. Blige sold out her opening weekend in Las Vegas, and the demand didn’t stop there. Ten additional performances of Mary J. Blige: My Life, My Story The Las Vegas Residency have been added at Dolby Live at Park MGM, with new dates running August 28 through September 6 and October 23–31. Presales are open now, with general sale opening Monday, May 11 at 10 a.m. local time.
The residency is a full career retrospective, backed by a powerhouse live band, dynamic dancers, and a production built to match the scale of her catalog. Hits including “Family Affair,” “Be Without You,” “Real Love,” and “I’m Goin’ Down” anchor a show that moves through three decades of some of the most essential R&B music ever recorded. Blige’s voice, her raw storytelling, the whole thing lands exactly as it should in Dolby Live’s 5,200-seat room.
The opening weekend set a high bar. Surprise appearances from The Lox, Method Man, Jadakiss, and 50 Cent turned already-sold-out shows into genuine events. Each performance promises new surprises and special collaborations. A limited number of tickets remain for the previously announced May and July dates.
Britpop Icons Ash Celebrate 30 Years of ‘1977’ With Expanded Edition and Global Tour
Thirty years ago, three teenagers from Northern Ireland released a debut album that became one of the defining records of the Britpop era. ‘1977’ hit number one, went platinum, and gave the world “Girl From Mars,” “Goldfinger,” “Kung Fu,” and “Oh Yeah.” Ash are marking the anniversary properly, with an expanded edition of the album and a global tour that runs from September through December 2026.
The 30th Anniversary Edition comes in three formats. The 2LP EcoRecord Green and Black ‘InkPlosion’ vinyl presents the original album on LP1, with a curated collection of B-sides on LP2, including “Day Of The Triffids,” “Luther Ingo’s Star Cruiser,” “Cantina Band,” and “T Rex.” The 2CD Digisleeve and digital edition dig even deeper.
Disc 1 carries the original 12-track album alongside four additional recordings, including the long-lost “Bittersweet Blue,” a 2026 version of “Oh Yeah,” a 2026 demo mix of “Girl From Mars,” and an acoustic 2026 mix of “Gone The Dream.” These aren’t filler additions. They add genuine dimension to a record that still sounds urgent and melodic three decades on.
Disc 2 captures a full live performance of ‘1977’ recorded at STABAL Studios in 2021, with fan favourites from the era including “Coasting,” “Sneaker,” “American Devil,” and “Silver Surfer.” It’s a document of a band that never lost the thread of what made these songs work in the first place.
The global 1977 tour kicks off in September, with dates across Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and Europe, wrapping in the UK and Ireland in December. Japanese dates are to be announced. Presale opens May 12 and general sale begins May 15.
Also already in the books, Ash performed a live acoustic streamed concert on May 6 from Belfast’s Oh Yeah Centre, 30 years to the day since ‘1977’s’ original release. The evening was hosted by BBC Introducing’s Taylor Johnson, who guided the band through the stories behind the music.
The 30th Anniversary Edition of ‘1977’ is available on 2LP vinyl, 2CD Digisleeve, and digitally.
2026 Tour Dates:
September – Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia (dates TBA)
October/November – Europe (dates TBA)
December – UK and Ireland (dates TBA)
Presale: May 12
General Sale: May 15
Pop-R&B Newcomer Maria Ellis Maps Out Heartbreak One Single at a Time With “Relapse”
Maria Ellis knows exactly what she’s building. “Relapse,” her new single, is one piece of a larger sequence of songs designed to map a relationship from beginning to end, each release adding context to the last. It’s an ambitious structure, and “Relapse” makes a strong case that she can pull it off.
The song occupies the tension between knowing better and doing it anyway, without pushing toward resolution. That’s a harder emotional register to sustain than either regret or defiance, and Ellis holds it with real control. The hook loops back on itself in a way that mirrors the theme, each pass carrying a bit more weight than the one before.
Musically, “Relapse” lands in a sleek pop-R&B hybrid with clear roots in early-2000s radio, rhythmic structure, layered vocals, and all, but the production stays minimal enough to feel current rather than nostalgic. Nothing in the track feels accidental, and that’s a direct result of Ellis working across songwriting, production, and arrangement herself.
Her debut EP ‘Ultrabaddie’ introduced a more self-possessed, assertive version of her voice. “Relapse” complicates that, which makes the overall project feel more complete and more honest. A songwriter who came up prioritizing expression over technical form, Ellis has been building toward this kind of emotional specificity since the start.
There’s a lived-in quality to the detail here. Writing as a way to process anxiety and loss shaped her instincts early, and those instincts still drive the work. “Relapse” is polished, but it doesn’t sand down the edges that make it real.
imagineNATIVE 2026 Rolls Out Six Special Events and 25 Media Arts Works Across Toronto
The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival runs June 2–7 in Toronto and June 8–14 online, and the special events and media arts programming announced today match the ambition of the film slate. Six special events, 25 interactive digital works and audio experiences, and all of it open to the public. Tickets and full details are at imagineNATIVE.org.
The festival opens Tuesday, June 2 with the annual Welcome Gathering at the Spadina Museum. Performances by the Skye Dancers, food catered by PowWow Cafe, and an Indigenous artisan market set the tone for the week. That evening, the Opening Night Party moves to Malaparte on King West, with music from Six Nations singer-songwriter James N. Wilson and Ojibwe/Blackfoot DJ, producer, and performer Classic Roots. The CN Tower will be lit in imagineNATIVE’s red, blue, and turquoise for the occasion.
The free iNdigital Space + Arcade exhibition opens June 3 at the TIFF Lightbox and runs through the festival. Fourteen works spanning VR, interactive installations, video games, and projections make up the Official Selection. Standouts include Skins in the Game by Skawennati (Kanien’kehá:ka) and Jason Edward Lewis (Hawaiian/Samoan), examining misrepresentations of Indigenous people in video games, and Blood Quantum Physics by Feather Miigwans (Anishinaabe), a speculative fulldome work where Indigenous cosmology meets quantum science.
Eleven audio works accompany the interactive exhibition, drawing from podcasts and original music by artists including Jana Schmeiding (Cheyenne River Lakota Sioux), Brian Bahe (Hopi/Tohono O’odham/Navajo), The Aunties Dandelion (Kanyen′kehá:ka – Six Nations), Melaw Nakehk’o (Dene/Dënesųłiné), Jayne King and Taylor Tutawa Mclaren (both Māori), Kim Wheeler (Anishinaabe/Mohawk), January Rogers (Mohawk/Tuscarora Six Nations of the Grand River), and others.
The Art Crawl returns Thursday, June 4, now in its 12th year as a festival staple. Seven artist-run galleries participate, including Gallery TPW, A Space Gallery, Gallery 44, Market Gallery, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, and Vtape. The pay-what-you-can crawl features work from Kent Monkman (Cree), Darlene Naponse (Anishinaabe), Zachery Cameron Longboy (Sayisi Dene), Kay Nadjiwon (Anishinaabe), and several others pushing the boundaries of Indigenous storytelling in visual art.
TD Free Friday lands June 5, with all screenings across the festival available at no cost, supported by TD Bank. The annual Awards Presentation follows on the afternoon of June 6 at the TIFF Lightbox, hosted by Saulteaux/Cree comedian Vance Banzo. Award medallions and lanyards were created by Tuscarora WoodWorks and Two Hearts Beadwork, respectively.
Closing out the special events is The Beat, a live concert at the El Mocambo. Gary Farmer and The Dish and Spoon Band headline, the blues-rock outfit led by acclaimed Cayuga actor and musician Gary Farmer. They’re joined by Evan Redsky, a singer-songwriter from Mississaugi First Nation, and MR SAUGA, whose work is grounded in the traditional and cultural influences of the Michi Saagiig peoples. It’s a closing night worth staying for.
Festival Dates:
In-Person: June 2–7, 2026, Toronto
Online: June 8–14, 2026
TD Free Friday: June 5, 2026 (all screenings free)
Tickets and full programming: imagineNATIVE.org
Country Legend Reba McEntire Drops the Music Video for New Single “One Night In Tulsa”
Reba McEntire just released the music video for “One Night In Tulsa,” and it’s exactly the kind of moment her five-decade career earns. Filmed during her exclusive one-night-only pop-up event, “One Night In Atoka,” the video captures a stripped-down live performance inside Reba’s Place, her restaurant, bar, live music venue, and retail store in Atoka, Oklahoma. The audience was made up entirely of sweepstakes winners, making the footage feel genuinely rare.
The song itself is a return to the ’90s Country ballads that built McEntire’s reputation as one of the genre’s most defining voices of heartbreak. “One Night In Tulsa” draws on her Oklahoma roots, and the live setting gives it an intimacy that a studio recording simply couldn’t replicate. It lands beautifully.
“One Night In Tulsa” is the title track of the ‘One Night In Tulsa EP’, the first in a series of monthly music capsules McEntire is releasing throughout 2026 to mark her 50-year career milestone. Each capsule pairs a newly recorded song with a curated selection of tracks that trace the arc of her legacy. A companion playlist, “The Making of Reba,” is available now.
The numbers behind McEntire’s career are almost hard to process. Thirty-five number one singles. Over 58 million albums sold worldwide. Sixty Top 10 hits on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, the most among female artists in the format’s history. Her Top 10 streak spans five consecutive decades, putting her in rare company alongside George Jones, Willie Nelson, and Dolly Parton.
Beyond the music, McEntire has built one of the most expansive careers in entertainment. Country Music Hall of Fame inductee. Kennedy Center Honors recipient. A critically acclaimed Broadway run in Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun. Six seasons of her self-titled sitcom. Happy’s Place, now renewed for a third season. Four seasons as a coach on The Voice. A New York Times bestselling book in Not That Fancy.
The monthly capsule rollout gives fans a structured, deepening look at what 50 years of McEntire sounds like, new music alongside the catalog, curated and connected. It’s a smart, generous way to mark a milestone this significant.
The ‘One Night In Tulsa EP’ is out now. The music video is streaming via MCA. More capsules follow monthly throughout 2026.
imagineNATIVE 2026 Unleashes Its Most Expansive Programming Yet, Spanning 56 Nations Across 20 Countries
26 years in, the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival continues to define what Indigenous screen storytelling looks like on a global stage. The 2026 edition runs June 2–7 in Toronto and June 8–14 online, with a program representing 56 Indigenous Nations across 20 countries.
This year’s festival opens with AKI, a documentary feature directed by Darlene Naponse (Anishinaabe). Shot entirely in Anishnawbemowin, the film follows the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek through the seasons, with a score by Juno Award-nominated cellist Cris Derksen and multi-instrumentalist Julian Cote. It’s an extraordinary piece of work, immersive and visually unforgettable.
Closing the festival is Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband), the Canadian Screen Award-nominated historical drama from celebrated Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk. A traditional Inuit love story steeped in magical realism, the film features first-time actors and brings Inuit culture and folklore to life in genuinely stunning cinematic fashion.
The gothic horror film Mārama, directed by Taratoa Stappard (Ngāti Toa/Ngāti Raukawa me Ngāti Tūwharetoa), is among the major highlights. The Victorian-era debut feature, developed through the imagineNATIVE Institute’s 2020 Screenwriting Features Lab, ventures into what’s been called “Māori Gothic” territory. It screens as part of TD Free Friday on June 5, when all screenings are free.
The dramatic features lineup is deep. Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, directed by Shane Belcourt (Métis) and produced and co-written by Tanya Talaga (Anishinaabe), reconstructs the 1974 armed occupation of Anicinabe Park in Kenora, Ontario. Meadowlarks, directed by Tasha Hubbard (Cree), brings together Michael Greyeyes, Michelle Thrush, Carmen Moore, and Alex Rice in a story of siblings reunited after the Sixties Scoop. And Gail Maurice’s Blood Lines, her sophomore dramatic feature, is told in English and Michif and centres on a Métis community story of identity, family secrets, and reconnection.
APTN’s REZervations for Two, hosted by Scott Wabano and Kairyn Potts, makes its World Premiere as a new Indigenous blind-dating reality series, a genuinely fun and unexpected addition to the slate. It sits alongside the imagineNATIVE Originals program, showcasing new commissioned work from emerging and mid-career Indigenous filmmakers across Canada.
Special events round out the experience. The Beat, a live concert at the El Mocambo, features Gary Farmer and the Dish and Spoon Band, Evan Redsky, and MR SAUGA. The short film programs, spanning comedy, horror, family programming, experimental work, and land-based storytelling, are among the richest the festival has assembled. The youth-made shorts program includes the winning film from the 2025 imagineNATIVE Tour’s Indigenous Youth Short Film Contest.
The 2026 theme is built around urgent dialogue, resistance, truth-telling, and Indigenous knowledge as a pathway toward a shared future. Across features, shorts, and media arts, the programming delivers exactly that, with a level of ambition and range that makes this one of the most essential film festivals in the country.
2026 Festival Dates:
In-Person: June 2–7, 2026, Toronto
Online: June 8–14, 2026
TD Free Friday: June 5, 2026 (all screenings free)
Tickets and full programming: imagineNATIVE.org