The 2025 iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina will return to Miami’s Kaseya Center on Oct. 25, iHeartMedia announced on Thursday (July 10). Gilberto Santa Rosa, Morat, Olga Tañón, Kapo, Chyno y Nacho and Elvis Crespo are set to perform at the event, which will stream live exclusively on ViX.

Furthermore, Santa Rosa, the Puerto Rican star known as “El Caballero de la Salsa,” will also be honored with the iHeartRadio Corazón Latino Award presented by State Farm in recognition of his contributions to Latin music and a career spanning more than four decades.

“Our community looks forward to iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina every year, it’s a moment to celebrate our culture and the global impact of Latin music,” Enrique Santos, president and chief creative officer of iHeartLatino and on-air talent for iHeartRadio, said in a statement. “This year, we’re proud to partner for the first time with TelevisaUnivision and stream the event on ViX, making it even more accessible for fans everywhere. It’s going to be an unforgettable night.”

“Bringing iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina to ViX marks a major milestone in how we’re expanding access to the biggest Latin Music moments,” added Ignacio Meyer, president of U.S. Networks Group and Music Partnership Development at TelevisaUnivision. “This event reflects our commitment to delivering unforgettable, live experiences to our audience and deepening our position as The Home of Latin Music. Our always-on music destination continues to connect fans to the artists and sounds they love – whenever and wherever they want it.”

Tickets for the 2025 iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina go on sale on Tuesday, July 15 at 10 a.m. ET via Ticketmaster.

Tom Morello has been raging against the machine for the entirety of his music-making career — and perhaps even before. So there was no question, and there should be no surprise, that the Rage Against the Machine guitarist would address the Trump administration’s frenzied deportation efforts, particularly in Los Angeles, in song.

Morello has released the hard-hitting “Pretend You Remember Me” in coordination with the Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles (CHIRLA), a Los Angeles County-based organization that was founded in 1986 and operates a hotline, legal services and other resources focused on its mission to protect the area’s immigrant community. “Releasing this song now is in direct response to what we’ve seen happening, the state terror we’ve seen happening in this country of mass agents tearing families apart,” Morello tells Billboard.

Recent ICE raids in and around Los Angeles, as well as the federal government sending National Guard troops and U.S. Marines into Los Angeles as part of its campaign only stroked the guitarist/activist’s, well, rage.

“I was on the front lines in the battles of the Marines and cops and ICE in the streets of Los Angeles,” he says, “and blasting out of every car were Rage songs. On placards held up at every rally are the lyrics from Rage songs — some of the Nightwatchman music I played in the streets, too. So playing this music at this time felt like it was absolutely appropriate to do.

“Like anybody else, I’m all in favor of violent criminals being arrested — but I think we should start with the violent criminals who the International Criminal Court is seeking for their wars overseas rather than hard-working people who are just trying to make a decent life for their families here. If you support anything, let it be justice.

“The reason why you saw one of the biggest protests in the history of the U.S. (against the ICE raids in Los Angeles) is there is a real fear that American fascism is about to kick down our door. We’re not at the brink of it; we’re in the middle of it. The good news is tens of millions of people were out in the streets protesting it. The band news is it’s real. Fortunately there are a lot more of us than there are of them — that’s something we tend to forget.”

“Pretend You Remember Me” is slated for what Morello — who served as musical director for the recent Back to the Beginning Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne farewell concert in England — calls “my first solo rock album,” which he expects to have out next year via Mom+Pop Music. It follows “Soldier in the Army of Love,” which came out during June of 2024. “I continue to write and record,” he says. “I definitely want to have more new music out this year as I continue to tour. My rock albums have mostly been band efforts (with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave) or they’ve been hybrid albums, like the three Atlas Underground records with a lot of guest artists and weaving in kind of EDM threads. I’ve made four acoustic Americana records under the name the Nightwatchman that are near and dear to my heart. And I’ve made rock albums with Bruce Springsteen and Prophets of Rage.

“The reason why this (rock album) is manifesting now is that over the course of the last three years I’ve been touring and embracing the totality of my catalog. That’s steered me towards making (rock) music of my own.”

Morello says to expect “some shredding guitar solos on it. On the one hand is the big Morello riffage of Rage and Audioslave; on other hand is a kind of Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town vibe. (‘Pretend You Remember Me’) falls comfortably in between those.”

Morello — who played on Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball and High Hopes albums and toured as an E Street Band sub during 2013-14 — is also backing The Boss’ critical concert comments about Trump and his administration during his recent European tour. “Bruce and I have texted about the ongoing stuff. I know he’s stood strong while he’s performing overseas, that he stood strong every day, and I’m very supportive of that.”

Morello is currently playing shows in Canada, with two shows at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom coinciding with the release of “Pretend You Remember Me.” He’ll also perform at the Rocklahoma Festival on Aug. 30 in Pryor, Okla., with more Canadian shows on his schedule in October and November.

Last Friday (July 4) Oasis came good on rock’s most anticipated reunion with a show for the ages at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. The two-night stand was the first of 41 dates on their Live ‘25 tour, which runs through the U.K. and Ireland until mid-August, and then heads to North America and beyond.

As they prepare for their five homecoming shows at Manchester’s Heaton Park over the next week (July 11-20), the band have shared an official live recording of “Slide Away” from their first show back. The song has been released to all streaming platforms, and is available to listen to below. 

The song’s artwork features a picture of punters at the show doing the “poznan,” a celebration adopted by fans of their beloved soccer team Manchester City which involves linking arms, facing away from the pitch and bouncing up and down. Liam Gallagher asked the audience to do the move while playing “Cigarettes & Alcohol” at Friday’s concert.

“Slide Away” was featured on the band’s 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe, and was one of many ‘90s classics to appear in the 23-song setlist over the first two shows. The Gallagher brothers’ hit-packed setlist also included “Live Forever,” “Wonderwall,” “Supersonic,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” and more.

The live recording is the first new original release from the band since 2009’s Falling Down EP, which included outtakes from their 2008 LP Dig Out Your Soul. The group have reissued a number of live and acoustic recordings from the archive in the interim, including a demo of “Don’t Stop” (2020), first believed to have been written in 2005 by Noel Gallagher. He later recorded the song for his solo venture, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, on a deluxe edition of their 2023 LP Council Skies.

On Wednesday (July 9), the group announced the release of a huge box set reissue of all seven studio albums (and B-side collection The Masterplan, 1998) on CD and vinyl. Billboard also reports that streams of their back catalog has leapt 93% since their comeback show on July 4.

Listen to the live “Slide Away” below

Dolly Parton has revealed she’s stepping back from songwriting in the wake of her husband Carl Dean’s death on March 3, sharing that she’s not yet ready to embrace the deep emotions that writing brings.

The country legend opened up about her decision during an appearance on Khloé Kardashian’s Khloé in Wonder Land podcast, where she reflected on her creative process and how grief has affected it.

“My husband passed away three months ago… Several things I’ve wanted to start, but I can’t do it. I will later, but I’m just coming up with such wonderful, beautiful ideas. But I think I won’t finish it.”

Parton continued, “I can’t do it right now because I’ve got so many other things that I can’t afford the luxury of getting that emotional right now. So there are times like that, things like that that will start here a little bit, but I’ll write something else, though, if it comes. So I’m just putting that all on hold.”

Parton also spoke passionately about her lifelong love for songwriting, calling it her “joy” despite being her career. “It happens just to be my job, but it is also my joy,” she said.

Dean passed away in March at age 82. The couple shared one of music’s most enduring love stories, having first met outside a Nashville laundromat the day Parton arrived in the city to pursue her dreams. They married two years later and stayed together for more than six decades.

“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together,” Parton wrote on social media following his death. “Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy.”

Despite the hiatus, Parton has stayed busy with projects including her Dolly: An Original Musical and various philanthropic ventures. Still, she made it clear that when the time is right, her pen will find its way back to paper.

“Everything begins with a story or a song… I think that’s one of the reasons I love to write, because I feel like I’m so connected to God right then,” she said.

Following its 20th-anniversary reissue on vinyl, the soundtrack to the 2005 Pride & Prejudice film hits No. 1 for the first time on both Billboard’s Classical Albums and Classical Crossover Albums charts (dated July 12). It jumps 6-1 on the former, and 5-1 on the latter.

The soundtrack, composed by Dario Marianelli and performed by pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the English Chamber Orchestra, was reissued June 27 in a number of vinyl variants — some in expanded packaging. Collectively, the album earned 9,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending July 3 (a gain of 974% compared to the previous week), according to Luminate, with album sales comprising a little over 8,000 of that sum (up 14,105%). The latter sum marks the album’s largest sales week ever in the U.S. Further, vinyl purchases comprise essentially all of that 8,000 figure.

The album additionally hits a new peak on Billboard’s Soundtracks chart (No. 3) and debuts on Vinyl Albums (No. 5), Top Album Sales (No. 9) and the overall Billboard 200 (No. 180).

Billboard’s Classical Albums, Classical Crossover Albums and Soundtracks charts rank the week’s most popular overall classical, crossover classical and soundtrack albums, respectively, in the U.S., by equivalent album units earned. The Billboard 200 tallies the country’s most popular overall albums of the week, across all genres, by units. Vinyl Albums and Top Album Sales rank the week’s best-selling vinyl albums and overall albums, respectively, by traditional album sales.

Pride & Prejudice was directed by Joe Wright and stars Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. The film earned four Academy Award nominations: actress in a leading role (Knightley), art direction (Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer), costume design (Jacqueline Durran) and original score (Marianelli).

Equivalent album units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.