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If there’s one thing Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers are great at, it’s giving advice.

On their podcast, Las Culturistas, the pair utilize humor to get at life’s burning questions, digging deep into the mundane and unearthing gold. In that vein, the pair are a trusted source for many when it comes to the “what’s what” of culture. With their proclivity for taste and a sharp wit in tow, Yang and Rogers embarked on a journey with Marshalls, creating a gift guide that helps shoppers navigate the holiday season, whether for yourself or that ultra picky family member you love but can never figure out.

“I think in this day and age of online shopping, people are like, ‘if I need something, I’ll just go online and I’ll get it right away,’” Rogers says. “So, something I try to do, which is very similar to the way that we’ve created this gift guide, is we create characters. For example, ‘best gifts for the host who insists you bring nothing, but nothing is code for ‘bring something good or else.’”

The guide, titled “It’s Giving Gifts!,” gives superlatives to a slew of Marshalls products that could cater to a specific person, including the “Best gift for the mom whose idea of a sensible walking shoe is a stiletto” or the “Best gifts for the person who loves to tell you ‘the book was better than the movie.’” Yang and Rogers have done the heavy lifting with these ultra-specific guides, giving shoppers the tools they need to choose gifts that best suit that particular person without hassle.

“We all know this person, and so once you read a category, you can kind of see that person in your mind’s eye and just be creative with it. What is that person wearing? What are they doing?,” Rogers added. Yang spoke of his love of candles and the anti-gift card wave, noting that, if all else fails, Marshalls has a “fabulous” gift card that is just as meaningful.

On the topic of gift cards, the pair got to chatting about former Las Culturistas guests, namely Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga. They spoke about what gifts they’d give both artists if given the chance. For Gaga, Yang went specific, saying, “I would give Gaga a silk pajama set. I think her category in this gift guide would be ‘best gifts for the girl who thinks punctuality is like whatever.’”

Yang’s gift for Grande? An on-theme holiday piece or something from Marshalls’ extensive beauty aisle. “I think she wants the holidays. We’d get her something for Christmas. I think I’d get her fragrances as well, which Marshalls has in spades.”

For Rogers, Gaga and Grande’s potential gifts were all about winding down. “I think that they both need some relaxation. I think they would both appreciate that. So maybe some sort of Theragun moment … I think a silk pajama set is really wonderful. Maybe some slippers or some cozy sweats.

Yang and Rogers got going about gifting faux-pas, taking an “I Don’t Think So, Honey!” approach to the topic, a segment on the duo’s podcast. The lesson? If all else fails, regifting is a great option. “Earlier, someone was asking me, ‘How do you cope when you know that you’ve given a bad gift?’ Just re-gift it,” Yang said. “We were also saying earlier, re-gifting is quite sustainable as a practice. It’s circular. So just the whole notion of, ‘You did a bad job giving me this gift. Go fix it.’ I’m like, ‘That’s not on me anymore!’”

You can shop Yang and Rogers’ gift guide on Marshalls’ website now. We’ve scouted a few of our favorites from the duo’s picks that you can browse below.

Bowen Yang & Matt Rogers Holiday Gifting Picks from Marshalls

What’s driven Joe Walsh to put on nine VetsAid benefit concerts during the past nine years? “If I didn’t do stuff like this, I’d have to get a job — and that’s terrifying,” he tells Billboard via Zoom from Wichita, Kan., his birthplace – and also where the ninth VetsAid show takes place this Saturday (Nov. 15).

This year’s lineup features Walsh along with Eagles bandmate Vince Gill, Nathaniel Rateliff, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, and Ryan Bingham & the Texas Gentlemen. Taking place at the INTRUST Bank Arena, the concert—which raises money to benefit regional veterans organizations in Kansas—also livestreams via veeps.com.

VetsAid has raised more than $4 million since its inaugural concert in 2017.

“I’m resonant with all that,” says Walsh, a Gold Star family member whose father, Robert Fidler, died in active duty during 1949 while on air maneuvers over Okinawa, Japan. “Because I play around the country I have consistently bumped into military people, and I just thought, ‘Y’know what? I can make a difference here.’ We don’t have an office in Washington or anything like that; we go to local places that are hubs for vets and we look at what they’ve got going and what’s vet-run, what’s fund-short, and we fund them to keep them going. It’s working it on the streets, but I have made a difference,” he says.

“It’s different in every place we go, but it’s really effective that way. To show up and play for vets, to get them all together and to realize that they’re not alone is huge. And to realize that people care, especially musicians, is huge.”

Walsh was in Wichita on Veteran’s Day, in fact, to make a “profound” visit to meet veterans at the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center. “For somebody to show up and visit is a big thing for a lot of them,” says Walsh, who will have a Wichita street named in his honor on Friday. “They’re just there. They have no choice. (The visit) made a lot of guys happy. We heard some great stories; some of the stuff I heard there’s songs in. This is salt of the earth America, no politics. They put themselves in harm’s way and…whoo! It’s profound.”

In addition to the concert, Walsh will be further funding VetsAid next month by teaming with Julien’s Auctions for Life’s Been Good, selling off more than 800 items on Dec. 16-17 at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. Prior to that nearly two dozen of the pieces will be on exhibit through Dec. 3 at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City’s Times Square. The lots include instruments, amplifiers, cars, stage outfits and more — even Ham radios that Walsh, an avowed enthusiast, has used over the years.

Among the noteworthy items are: the API console from the Record Plant mobile recording truck that’s recorded live performances by Eagles, the Rolling Stones, Metallica, Green Day, Michael Jackson and many more; a 2013 McLaren MP4-12C Spider vehicle; the Moschino-designed brick suit that Walsh wore for Eagles Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1998; and vintage guitars Walsh used on some of his best-known recordings.

“I have too much stuff!” Walsh proclaims. “We all collect stuff. It’s human nature. I have stuff on top of stuff, and that top layer I decided to get rid of. Some of it’s painful to give up, but I don’t use a lot of it. It’s just my stuff. It’s hard to know what to throw out, but I got it done, and we’re gonna auction it. There’s something there for everybody — and you get a good chance to see how nuts I am.”

After a holiday break, meanwhile, Walsh returns to Eagles for another dozen shows at Sphere in Las Vegas during the first three months of 2026. The recently announced March dates have been deemed the “final” shows for the year, but Walsh — who marked 50 years this year since joining the band — maintains that, “I do know we’re not done yet. We’re gonna look at the summer. I don’t know if we can lay anywhere if it isn’t the Sphere, but I think we can. But for the beginning of next year, we know what to do.”

He adds that playing the venue is unlike anything he’s ever done before. “It’s a whole different world,” Walsh explains. “One thing we learned was that everything we know, all of us collectively, has nothing to do with the Sphere. You have to learn it. I asked (U2’s) Edge, and he said, ‘Well, good luck. You’re not gonna like it, but you’ll get used to it. Just give it time,’ and he was so right. It’s an experience I can’t explain. You’re in it. You’re in the show. You’re in whatever’s on the screen — and we can’t watch it. I tried to watch for a little bit, and it’s like, ‘Look how big my nose is!’ and then I was playing the wrong song. So we have to look ahead and focus on it.

“But once you get it, so many people come out of there, and they’re happy. Music is a good thing nowadays; people who don’t agree can sit down and have a great time and go home happy, and that’s what America needs right now.”

Alongside Eagles and VetsAid, Walsh is also serving as a Mega Mentor on The Voice, where he’s enjoying his largely behind-the-scenes role. “I’ve got a great slot there, which is the background,” he says. “Being a judge, I don’t know, but being a mentor and hearing these people get ready to perform and just giving them assurance and a few suggestions, that really makes a huge difference. I can help them go out and kick ass. I know what not to do, and sometimes that’s better advice than what to do.”

He adds that the whole experience “has been really great” and dubs judge Reba McEntire “a monster” – meant as a compliment.

Walsh also has his sights set on making new music in the new year, his first since Analog Man in 2012. “I’ve been writing for a long time,” he says, “but the phone keeps ringing with more Eagles shows. I’ve got stuff, like, three-quarters written. I need a producer to come in and tell me what I’ve done. But I’m gonna put some music out next year.”

Aretha Franklin won countless awards in her lifetime. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She later received a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy and the Kennedy Center Honors, among many others.

Now, eight years after her death at age 76, Franklin will receive another honor when she is inducted into The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame on March 24.

A total of 12 music greats are being inducted. The honorees have won a combined 30 Grammy Awards — Franklin’s 18 Grammys bumped up that total — and countless other honors. Inductees and their family members will be invited to a special ceremony at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre in Boston. The public can learn more about each nominee through a new exhibit, Legends of Folk, Americana Roots Music, 2025 Class, now on display at the Boch Center Wang Theatre.

Five of the inductees are still living – Jackson Browne, 77; Neil Young, 80; Tom Rush, 84; Judy Collins, 86; and Tom Paxton, 88. The other seven have passed – Mississippi John Hurt in 1966, Sister Rosetta Tharpe in 1973, Muddy Waters in 1983, John Hammond in 1987, Alan Lomax in 2002, Leonard Cohen in 2016 and Franklin in 2018.

“These inductees represent the heart and soul of Folk, Americana, and Roots music,” J. Casey Soward, president & CEO of the Boch Center, home of the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame, said in a statement. “They gave voice to ordinary people and helped shape the soundtrack of this country; its struggles, its hopes, and its beauty. Through this induction and our Legends exhibit, we’re honoring the songs, stories, and spirit that continue to move and unite us.”

To honor the inductees, the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame is launching a permanent Legacy exhibit in the Boch Center Wang Theatre. The exhibit will feature iconic items from each of the inductees, including the guitar Stephen Stills used to compose “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” and then gifted to Collins, and handwritten lyrics Paxton wrote for Hurt. It is on display now and available for viewing during all Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame tours and before each concert.

The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame is a cultural and educational initiative of the Boch Center, curated by the Museum Collective.

The 2026 Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame inductees are:

Living Artist

A living artist is a contemporary performer whose initial impact on the genre was at least 25 years before the year of induction.

Jackson Browne

Judy Collins

Tom Paxton

Tom Rush

Neil Young

Legacy Artist

A legacy artist is a performer whose initial impact on the genre was at least 45 years prior to the year of induction.

Leonard Cohen

Aretha Franklin

Mississippi John Hurt

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Muddy Waters

Industry/Non-Performer

Honors those whose creative or technical contributions shaped the sound and legacy of American music.

John Hammond

Alan Lomax

Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first-ever trillionaire — and Billie Eilish, who just a few weeks ago made her feelings about billionaires quite clear, is not happy about it.

In response to the news that the Tesla CEO’s net worth is nearing 13 digits, the pop star reposted a carousel of infographics purporting ways Musk could theoretically use his money for good while choosing to sit on the bulk of his unprecedented wealth instead. Among them are putting an end to world hunger and disease, rebuilding the city of Gaza after it was obliterated in the Israel-Hamas war, and saving endangered species.

After posting several of those panels on individual slides of her Story, Eilish wrote Thursday (Nov. 13) of Musk, “f–king pathetic p—y b—h coward.”

Billboard has reached out to Tesla for comment.

The nine-time Grammy winner’s remark comes one week after a landmark shareholder vote that entitles the tech mogul to $1 trillion in Tesla stock if he delivers on certain performance goals over the next decade. Musk is already the world’s richest man, with a net worth of $465 billion, according to Forbes.

Eilish, meanwhile, recently announced at the Wall Street Journal Innovator Awards that she’ll be donating $11.5 million raised on her Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour to organizations fighting environmental risks and world hunger.

At the event, the two-time Oscar winner also looked out at a crowd full of wealthy individuals — including the world’s sixth-richest man, Mark Zuckerberg — and said, “If you are a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?”

“No hate, but give your money away, shorties,” she added at the Oct. 29 event.

Cardi B’s lawyers are firing back at a “baseless” demand for a new trial in the failed assault case filed by Emani Ellis — including the accuser’s suggestion that Cardi “intimidated” jurors by throwing a pen at a reporter on the courthouse steps.

Ellis is seeking a re-do after jurors easily rejected her civil lawsuit claiming Cardi B (Belcalis Almánzar) assaulted her during an altercation at a Los Angeles doctor’s office in 2018. But in a response filed in court Wednesday (Nov. 12), Cardi’s lawyers said the idea of a second trial should be “rejected out of hand.”

“Plaintiff Emani Ellis’ motion for new trial is entirely frivolous,” Cardi’s attorneys write. “She fails to establish any permitted grounds for a new trial. Instead, she repeats her counsel’s accusations of misconduct that are both false and not grounds for a new trial.”

In seeking a new trial last month, Ellis’ lawyer cited a viral incident in which Cardi was filmed throwing a pen at someone in a courthouse media scrum after he’d asked a provocative question about her pregnancy. According to Ellis, the disturbance might have been “witnessed by the jury” and could have impacted the trial: “Jurors would be intimidated if they had viewed this type of conduct.”

But in Wednesday’s response, Cardi’s lawyers sharply criticized that argument as hearsay and unfounded guessing — and said that Ellis had never raised it during the actual trial: “Plaintiff’s counsel’s speculation, knowingly false statements, and inaction are not grounds for a new trial,” they wrote.

Ellis’ attorney, Ron Rosen Janfaza, did not immediately return a request for comment on Thursday (Nov. 13).

Ellis sued Cardi in 2020, claiming the star had assaulted her when she worked as a security guard at a Beverly Hills gynecologist’s office in 2018, when Cardi was four months pregnant with her first child. Ellis said the star cursed and spat at her and scratched her cheek with a sharp acrylic nail, requiring plastic surgery to repair the wound.

At an August trial, Cardi said she never touched Ellis. During two days on the witness stand, the rapper testified that she and Ellis had a verbal-only altercation after she realized that the guard was recording her — a major concern, Cardi said, because she was still concealing her pregnancy from the public.

The rapper said it was Ellis who got aggressive during the encounter, backing her into a corner and refusing to leave her alone. Cardi also said her nails weren’t capable of cutting anyone, and the jury saw a photo of her at the NBA All-Star Game the week of this incident, sporting square nails that she described as less than an inch long.

After less than an hour of deliberations, the jury unanimously found that Ellis did not prove her legal claims of assault, battery, infliction of emotional distress and negligence. And on the courthouse steps a short while later, Cardi warned against future “frivolous” lawsuits.

“I work hard for my money for my kids and for people I take care of, so don’t you ever think that you gonna sue me, and I’m just gonna settle and just give you my money,” the star said at the time. “It’s not gonna happen.”

In the wake of the verdict, Cardi’s lawyers have asked the judge to punish Rosen Janfaza, Ellis’ attorney, for alleged misconduct during the trial. Seeking so-called sanctions against him, they say he repeatedly violated court orders, including by asking Cardi on the witness stand if she had any gang affiliations despite a ruling that such information was irrelevant to the case.

In his own court filings, Rosen Janfaza has denied breaking any rules willfully, saying he was inexperienced at trial and was “simply asking questions as best he could in an effort to zealously advocate.” But the judge ruled last month that the attorney must now “show cause” why he should not face sanctions. A hearing is currently set for next month.

Separate from the debate over misconduct, Ellis moved for a new trial last month, raising a slew of different arguments. Some were typical of a post-trial motion, like her argument that the verdict was not supported by evidence; others were very much not, like the pen-throwing claim, or an accusation that Rosen Janfaza had had a physical altercation with Cardi’s lawyers in a courthouse hallway.

“All of these actions combined had an affect the outcome of this case,” Ellis’ attorney wrote in that filing. “Plaintiff is entitled to a new trial under the circumstances.”

In Wednesday’s response, Cardi’s lawyers said Ellis’ request for a new trial “does not withstand even cursory review and must be denied.” They also denied any physical encounter, saying that “Mr. Rosen Janfaza provides no elaboration because his accusation is patently false.”

Cardi’s team also repeatedly alluded to the judge’s potential sanctions against Rosen Janfaza — suggesting that his eye-catching claims in seeking a new trial were “just another gratuitous attempt” by him to “besmirch defense counsel” and “distract” from the looming possible punishment order.