As Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Scott Cooper-directed biopic about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s moody, bleak Nebraska album premiered at Telluride Film Festival in Colorado on Friday night (Aug. 29), viewers were the first to hear Jeremiah Fraites’ emotional score.

The Lumineers co-founder moved into composing with the film, which held special meaning for him. “I grew up in New Jersey, so Bruce Springsteen’s music was always a part of my landscape, whether learning how to drive to eating at 24-hour diners, his music was always with me,” Fraites tells Billboard.  “Collaborating with Scott Cooper on Deliver Me From Nowhere was a career high and personal privilege. What Scott has done with this film is rare—he’s captured the quiet fragility and unfiltered honesty of Bruce’s life during the making of Nebraska. It was an honor to support his vision.”

The 20th Century Studios film chronicles Springsteen writing and recording the 1982 album, recorded on a 4-track recorder in his New Jersey bedroom, and the emotional upheaval he experienced as he dealt with his growing fame and his conflicted past. Jeremy Allen White stars as Springsteen, while Jeremy Strong plays his longtime manager Jon Landau.

For Fraites, the challenge was to honor Springsteen’s work without parroting it.

“I didn’t approach the score by trying to imitate Bruce’s sound—there’s no way to replicate that. But the emotional tone of Nebraska—its restraint, its space, its raw honesty—definitely informed the way I thought about the music. It was more about feeling than style,” he says.

“I chose to ground the score with an upright piano I playfully call Firewood—a beat-up instrument so devalued it was once considered fit only to burn,” he continues. “That imperfection felt right for Bruce’s story: raw, unvarnished, and rooted in resilience. Its rough edges and worn tone captured a sense of grit and authenticity that a pristine concert piano simply couldn’t.”

It’s a big fall season for Fraites, who also scored Stephen King’s The Long Walk, with the Lionsgate film opening Sept. 12. Additionally, The Lumineers continue on their 2025 tour, which includes a mix of stadium and amphitheater dates, including Chicago’s Soldier Field Saturday (Aug. 30) and Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 6.

Deliver Me From Nowhere opens wide theatrically Oct. 24.

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What better way to start off the 2025 NCAA college football season than with two juggernauts going head-to-head? For Saturday’s “Big Noon Kickoff,” the reigning title defender Ohio State Buckeyes play host to a top-ranked Texas Longhorns squad with their new trending quarterback, Archie Manning. Kicking off August 30 at noon ET, this is one football game college fans can’t miss.

Yes, it’s Labor Day Weekend, and yes, most people are headed to the beach, but with so many headlines leading into this matchup, including Lee Corso’s final College Gameday appearance, how could you not be in the radius of a TV? However, if your family does drag you to the shore or a cookout, here’s everything you need to know about streaming the Texas vs. Ohio State Game online from your TV, laptop, and phone on Sling TV.

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On one hand, we have the No. 1 Texas Longhorns on the road with their new starting QB, Manning, who sat behind Quinn Ewers the past two seasons and is now looking to have a breakout season and live up to the legacy of his uncles Payton and Eli Manning. On the other hand, we have No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes looking to defend their national championship title, as well as their home field.

If that wasn’t a big enough reason to tune in, watching Corso’s farewell on College Gameday is a must-watch for any NCAA football fan. His final headgear pick will also be made at the same place where the tradition started 29 years ago, as Lee donned a Brutus head in his first-ever headgear pick before Ohio State’s 1996 win over Penn State.

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Twenty years ago, Rihanna released her debut album, Music of the Sun, on Aug. 29, 2005. No one could have predicted on that late summer day just how close to the sun the then-17-year-old from Barbados would end up flying.

Two decades later, the woman born Robyn Fenty has added a lot of hyphens to her job title beyond pop star, venturing into acting (Battleship, Smurfs), business (Fenty Beauty, Savage x Fenty) and motherhood (RZA and Riot Rose with A$AP Rocky), just to name a few side hustles. On Friday (Aug. 29), Rihanna couldn’t let the day go by without celebrating all that she’s accomplished in her illustrious career.

On her social accounts, RiRi shared a video that looked back at all her awards, Billboard chart-topping hits, business accomplishments and philanthropy over the years, alongside a heartfelt message of gratitude to all those who’ve helped her live her wildest dreams.

“20 years ago, i left my country, my culture, my food, and family to embark on a journey that started with the release of my very first body of music!” Rihanna wrote across her Instagram and X accounts alongside the video. “So many of you were a part of my life and career since the very beginning, and some of you have joined the adventure along the way. I’m forever grateful to all of you. Each of you played a very crucial role in where this journey has taken me thus far! I just wanted to take this moment to say thank you!

“Thank you for the greatest first 20 years ever!” she continued. “20 years of the most loyal, die-hard fans that don’t play about me whatsoever, 20 years of hard work and hardworking teams around me, 20 years of lessons, 20 years of unforgettable experiences and accomplishments, 20 years of my family being my number one support system, and to all the people who said yes to me and gave me a chance before it was ‘cool’ to (Execs, DJ’s, writers, producers, dancers, choreographers, directors, fashion designers, photographers, glam, journalists, brands, mentors, etc etc) 20 years worth of thanks to you!! I thank God, He’s been very generous to me and the Glory belongs to Him!”

She ended the message with the hashtag #R20, just as her loyal Navy fanbase has been doing in their celebration posts all day.

Music of the Sun started it all for Rihanna, beginning with lead single and breakthrough hit “Pon De Replay,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 2005 ahead of the album’s release the next month. So far, Rihanna has racked up 32 top 10 Hot 100 hits — with 14 of those going to No. 1. Music of the Sun debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for 35 weeks.

Below, find Rihanna’s full message to celebrate 20 years in the music industry:

Manchildren and pearl-clutchers, beware — Sabrina Carpenter‘s new album Man’s Best Friend is here.

On Friday (Aug. 29), the pop star dropped her highly anticipated seventh studio LP, complete with 12 tracks. That includes lead single “Manchild,” which earned Carpenter her second-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June, and “Tears,” a music video for which dropped at the same time as the album.

Produced by Jack Antonoff and released via Island Records, Man’s Best Friend arrives just over a year after the Grammy winner’s breakout album, Short n’ Sweet. Featuring hits “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” the 2024 project spent four weeks atop the Billboard 200, marking Carpenter’s first No. 1 album on the chart.

With Short n’ Sweet and now Man’s Best Friend, the singer has established herself as a lyrical master of double entendre, oftentimes charging her lyrics with brazenly sexual themes. Though she’s received some criticism for that — as well as the racy Man’s Best Friend album cover, which features her on all fours as a man grips her hair — Carpenter has stayed true to who she is.

“The album is not for any pearl clutchers,” Carpenter told Gayle King on CBS Mornings in a clip posted Thursday (Aug. 28). “But I also think that even pearl clutchers can listen to an album like that in their own solitude and find something that makes them smirk and chuckle to themselves.”

“But I think about being at a concert with, you know, however many young women I see in the front row that are screaming at the top of their lungs with their best friends,” she added at the time. “You can go like, ‘Oh, we can all sigh [in] relief like, ‘This is just fun.’ And that’s all it has to be.”

Listen to Man’s Best Friend below.