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With the Thunder leading the best-of-seven series against the Lakers 2-0, home court now shifts from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles for Game 3 during the West Semifinals of the 2026 NBA Playoffs. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the No. 1-seed, Oklahoma City Thunder, take on LeBron James and the No. 4-seed, L.A. Lakers, in a prime-time game. You can watch the NBA postseason game online with Sling TV.

On Saturday (May 9), the Thunder-Lakers game takes place at Crypto.com Arena in Southern California.

Watch Game 3: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. L.A. Lakers, at a Glance:

When Does Oklahoma City Thunder vs. L.A. Lakers Game Start?

Game 3: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. L.A. Lakers game airs live, with tipoff at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT.

Where to Watch Oklahoma City Thunder vs. L.A. Lakers Online

The Oklahoma City Thunder vs. L.A. Lakers game broadcasts on ABC, and it also livestreams on Sling Select, or Sling Blue. Keep reading for more details on how cord-cutters can watch the Thunder-Lakers game online with Sling TV.

How to Watch Oklahoma City Thunder vs. L.A. Lakers With Sling TV

A subscription to Sling Select, which comes with ABC for Game 3, gets you access to live TV from top-rated cable channels. Starting at $29.99 per month, you can watch networks, including FOX News, National Geographic, GRIT, NFL Network, FX, FOX Sports, FOX, NBC, MeTV, Game Show Network, Heroes & Icons TV, LMN and Vice.

Additionally, ABC is on Sling Blue, but pricing and availability depends on your local TV market. You can learn more about Sling TV here.

Which Celebrities Are Making Appearances During Thunder vs. Lakers?

It’s likely there might be a number of celebrities and recording artists in attendance during the game, such as Oklahoma City Thunder fans Toby Keith, Bill Hader, Kristin Chenoweth, Lil Yachty and others; as well as L.A. Lakers fans Denzel Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dogg and more. Tune in to Sling TV to find out who’s at the NBA game.

Starting at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT, Oklahoma City Thunder vs. L.A. Lakers game airs on ABC, while it’s available to livestream on Sling TV on Saturday, May 9.

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Sony Music Group reported on Friday (May 8) its sales revenues rose 21% to 570 billion Japanese yen ($3.6 billion) for the quarter ending March 31 compared to a year ago driven by higher recorded music streaming revenue, Bad Bunny and Harry Styles album sales and live events and merchandise.

Operating income for the Japan-based company’s fiscal fourth quarter came in at 132.4 billion yen ($829 million), an increase of more than 36% from last year.

Sales of Bad Bunny’s hit album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Harry Styles Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally and Tate McRae‘s So Close To What helped the company generated 2,120 billion yen ($13.3 billion) for the fiscal year, which for Sony also ended on March 31, a 15% increase from the prior fiscal year. Higher revenues from streaming services in recorded music and music publishing, live events and merchandising in recorded music helped operating income reach a record high of 447 billion yen ($2.8 billion), an increase of 25%.

Streaming revenue for the full fiscal year grew to 852.7 million yen ($5.4 billion), and to 419.9 million yen ($2.6 billion) in the music publishing division, marking increases of 9% and 14% on a U.S. dollar basis respectively.

The company forecast that revenues will likely hold flat at this level in the coming fiscal year as higher streaming income is expected to offset lower concert revenue, with operating income to come off its record highs by about 11%.

The company flagged big forthcoming releases by Chris Brown, Foo Fighters and Maluma.

Ronnie Wood is just as excited as the rest of us for the release of The Rolling Stones’ 25^th and latest studio album Foreign Tongues.

When the legendary British guitarist stopped by The Tonight Show on Thursday night, May 7, he had the bounce of a cat, and the energy of lightning bolt.

Wood, age 78, will turn back time when he sets out on a run of solo shows in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe this summer, his first in 16 years. And in November, an exhibition of his artwork in Germany.

The big drop, of course, is the release of Foreign Tongues on July 10, a 14-track LP led by core members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Wood, with starry contributions from Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, The Cure frontman Robert Smith and others.

The album, Fallon explained, reading from a vinyl copy, includes a cover of Amy Winehouse’s “You Know I’m No Good,” the original of which was housed on the late diva’s Back to Black album from 2006. Winehouse and the Rolling Stones have history. The “Rehab” singer joined the Rock Hall-inducted band on stage in June 2007 at the U.K.’s Isle of Wight Festival, for a rendition of “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.”

Late night viewers were also treated to a snippet of “Back In Your Life,” which features a “fantastic” Wood solo, according to Fallon, who has enjoyed an early listen to the album.  Wood, we learned, drew divine inspiration for the recording. The Englishman cut his solo on the day Brian Wilson died, last June, when he was still reeling from Sly Stone’s passing days earlier. “It came out my guitar, the feeling, you know,” he recounts. “Just one take. I didn’t do that, the guitar played itself.”

For his latest stint on NBC’s The Tonight Show, Wood took a trip down memory lane as he reminisced on how he learned music and art from his older siblings, was gifted his first guitar, being skint before fame, forming The Faces with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart, and he rounded it out with a harmonica jam with Fallon and the house band.

“It’s inspirational to do” music and art, he says. “You know, I’m lucky enough to do a solo thing with the painting, and then be a part of a band, you know, part of a group, to express musically. It’s such a gift, you know, to be able to do both.”

Ahead of Foreign Tongues, the band has released two tracks from the project: album opener “Rough and Twisted” and lead single “In the Stars. Wood’s guest spot on NBC’s The Tonight Show came 24 hours after Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger stopped by to do his bit in a goofy gag.

Watch Wood’s interview below.

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. 

Last week, we featured Madonna with Sabrina Carpenter, Kacey Musgraves and Zara Larsson.

This week, Charli xcx kicks off her next chapter with “Rock Music,” MUNA releases its punchy fourth album and Lykki Li drops her sixth and final career project… plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below:

Charli xcx, “Rock Music”

Soon after Charli’s management teased to Billboard in April that she was working on her forthcoming eighth album, she started dropping hints about what that would sound like, including telling British Vogue there may would be some rock inspiration. Sure enough, her new single is aptly titled “Rock Music,” and includes the hotly contested lyric: “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music.” But, true to form, Charli’s take isn’t what listeners might expect; “Rock Music” is a dizzying one-minute and 55-second track that is more or less a grungy dance track with a guitar riff — and sure enough, it would sound right at home on a dance floor.

MUNA, Dancing On the Wall

MUNA’s fourth album, Dancing On the Wall, arrives today with focus track “Eastside Girls,” complete with its music video starring actor Hannah Einbinder, comedian Kate Berlant and more. With vocalist Katie Gavin’s distinct voice creating a throughline through all of MUNA’s work — from introspective slow songs to uptempo bangers — Dancing On the Wall is a full-bodied continuation of the trio’s rising arch.

Kelela, “linknb”

As Kelela readies her upcoming album, New Avatar, out 10 July, she continues to raise the bar with her genre-blurring blend of soul, R&B, and alternative experimental music. And “Linknb” manages to fit it all in — in just under two minutes — keeping expectations for her third full-length at an all-time high.

Lykke Li, The Afterparty

The sixth and, according to the Swedish singer, final Lykke Li album is out today — and serves as a bittersweet celebration of a near 20-year career and a farewell on her own terms. While The Afterparty offers a complete narrative as a whole, “Happy Now” is perhaps the best snapshot of this moment for Lykki Li, as she sings on the chorus: “Did your tears all go away? Did the darkness ever fade? Is it over? Are you happy now?”

The Last Dinner Party, “Big Dog”

Rock band The Last Dinner Party go all in with latest single “Big Dog,” delivering big, electrifying riffs alongside vocals that slide from eery whispers to full-throttled declarations. Fittingly, the act released an “(On The Road)” music video, given that the track is already a staple of its live show — which even more fans will be able to catch, since The Last Dinner Party will support Olivia Rodrigo on select dates early into 2027.

Little Simz, Sugar Girl

Two weeks after teasing its existence, Little Simz has shared Sugar Girl, her third new project in as many years. From the bouyon-inflected “Open Arms” to the Auto-Tuned fantasia of “That’s A No No,” Sugar Girl is a triumphant reunion of Simz and producer Jakwob, the craftsman behind 2024’s endlessly danceable Drop 7 EP. Nonetheless, the clear standout is the JT-assisted “Game On”; “I’m so T, I support the trans/ Game on bitch, let’s take a stand/ Do black lives still matter to these brands?” she spits in her guest verse, delivering a disarming combination of politics and humor like only she can. – KYLE DENIS 
 
PJ Morton, “Sell My Soul”

Housed on the Saturday Night side of the tracklist, “Sell My Soul” is the latest taste of PJ Morton’s forthcoming Saturday Night, Sunday Morning double album. “You try to come at my weakest/ You try to come when I’m down/ But as long as I am breathing/ The sun can come back around,” he croons in the first verse, desperately holding onto optimism and faith in the face of grueling temptation. Featuring Keyon Harrold on trumpet and flugelhorn, “Sell My Soul” is a grounding mantra we can all take a few pointers from. — K.D. 
 
 
 

Charli xcx is living the year of going all-out. With the release today of “Rock Music,” the British singer, songwriter and producer switches gears, cranks up the amps and rocks it with electric guitars.

One of those amps goes out the window at the top of the official music video. Shot in black and white, and directed by Aidan Zamiri, the clip follows Charli as she gets up to rock ‘n’ roll stuff, strutting around central Manhattan wearing fewer clothes than anyone else, smoking up a storm, and unleashing a moshpit.

At its musical core, “Rock Music” has a throwback edge, its guitar riff slotting into what is essentially a mid-paced electronic track in which Charli splices and dices her vocals in the chorus. No, it’s not heavy. “Rock Music” has more in common to Daft Punk than it does to Deep Purple.

Charli first teased her new era, new sound in an April interview with British Vogue, which premiered one of the new song’s lyrics: “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music.”

She told the publication, “if I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad. That’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.”

Charli has since clarified that she isn’t necessarily performing an about-face. On Instagram, she recently shared a clip of herself in the studio and wrote, “a video of me making a song called ‘rock music’ that is not actually rock music which is funny because i never said i was making a rock album.”

“Rock Music” is Charli’s first release since the Wuthering Heights companion album arrived in February, and dropped in at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 chart. Before that, her 2024 Brat album peaked at No. 3 on the all-genres chart, peaked at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart and ARIA Chart, and caught the zeitgeist.

Charli’s busy year includes a starring role in A24’s The Moment, based on her original idea and the first co-production from her new studio365 venture. Also, she appears in Daniel Goldhaber’s remake of the 1978 cult horror Faces of Death, Greg Araki’s erotic thriller I Want Your Sex, Cathy Yan’s independent film The Gallerist, Julia Jackman’s period fantasy 100 Nights Of Hero, Romain Gavras’ satirical action Sacrifice and Pete Ohs’ intimate drama Erupcja.

Stream “Rock Music” below and watch the official music video.