Sebastian Zar, an attorney whose clients included Post Malone, died suddenly on Sunday (Oct. 12). He was 36.

The New York-based Zar worked for Theo Sedlmayr & Associates. “We’re received an outpouring of messages from people in our industry sharing their thoughts about Sebastian,” Sedlmayr told Billboard. I like to believe that’s because he was a kindred spirit to many, passionate about supporting creators of music in all its forms. He’ll be deeply missed by everyone whose lives were touched by his positive energy.”

In 2018, Billboard highlighted Zar, who grew up in Great Neck, N.Y.,  as a “rising star” — one of five industry executives still in their 20s but already making an impact. At the time, Billboard wrote: “While at Syracuse University School of Law, Zar began managing artists. At 26, he started his own law firm. He has since landed at Sedlmayr, where his clients include Post Malone and Pusha T.”  Zar told Billboard of his desire to meet whatever his clients needed: “In the streaming age, a lot of these young artists don’t want a label deal,” says Zar. “I’m willing to put on as many hats as necessary to get them to where they want to be.” 

Range Media Partners’ Matt Graham, who had known Zar for nearly 20 years, says the late attorney made an instant impression. “Sebastian’s hustle, commitment and constant desire to find the next great artist was apparent from the day I hired him as an intern 17 years ago and that fire was never extinguished,” he tells Billboard in a statement. “I loved him for his confidence and for staying present in my life and the lives of everyone he cared about. He never let too much time pass without catching up. I’m gutted to lose him as a friend and little brother, and we are all worse off in the music industry without him advocating on behalf of the artists he loved so much.” Zar worked with Range as outside counsel.

Like Graham, Universal Music Publishing Group chairman and CEO Jody Gerson had known Zar for years, first becoming aware of him through her son. “My son Julian followed Sebastian’s music blog, Watch My Ego, when he was in high school. He reached out to Sebastian, and the two quickly bonded over their shared love of music and discovering new artists,” Gerson tells Billboard. “Later, Sebastian told Julian he was applying to law school and hoped to practice entertainment law. He asked if I might write him a letter of recommendation, and after getting to know him better, I was more than happy to do it. I was thrilled when he called to say he’d been accepted — and even more thrilled years later when Theo Sedlmayr took a chance on him and brought him into the firm. Sebastian was a truly special person, and he has left us far too soon.

“I am deeply saddened by his passing and send my heartfelt condolences to his family and loved ones,” Gerson continues. “His parents should be so proud. Sebastian was a beautiful and kind person — a wonderful attorney, and at his core, a genuine music fan. We will miss him dearly.”

Zar is survived by his siblings, James Zar and Kimberly Bloorian.

All Time Low notch up double digits with Everyone’s Talking!, which arrives today, Oct. 17, through the alternative rock veterans’ own label Basement Noise Records.

Everyone’s Talking! is the 10^th full-length studio LP from the Maryland quartet, comprising Alex Gaskarth, Jack Barakat, Rian Dawson and Zack Merrick, and features the previously-released “Sugar,” a collaboration with Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter JoJo, and the first single “Suckerpunch.”

All Time Low have landed 10 titles on the Billboard 200 chart, including five top 10 appearances. All told, the rockers have racked up 5 billion career streams, and led Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart with “Sleepwalking” (in 2023) and “Monsters,” featuring blackbear, the latter logging 18 weeks at the summit in 2020-21.

All Time Low has been roadtesting new material on their 30-plus-date Everyone’s Talking! Tour, which kicked off earlier this month and endured a hiccup earlier this week when the band skipped shows at Red Rocks and Seattle when frontman Gaskarth was sidelined with a throat infection.

Gaskarth has been cleared to continue on the tour, reads a statement (though he’s being “extremely mindful of his voice”) and fans are invited to celebrate the new LP with a free concert today, Oct. 17 at The Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas, ahead of the band’s spot at the When We Were Young Festival this weekend.

In the closing weeks of 2025, All Time Low will head Down Under for the 2025 Good Things Festival, a three-date east coast run of Australia featuring the likes of Tool, Weezer and Garbage. The U.K. and Europe beckon in 2026, when All Time Low will embark on a stretch of headline arena shows starting Jan. 20 in Glasgow, Scotland, and visiting London, Paris, Prague, Barcelona and elsewhere.

Everyone’s Talking! is issued in partnership with Photo Finish Records/Virgin Music Group. Stream it in full below.

Ty Dolla $ign dropped his fourth studio album Tycoon on Friday (Oct. 17) via Atlantic Records.

“A tycoon is a boss. It came from a Japanese word ‘tycoon,’ which means ‘great lord.’ It’s the same thing — great boss, the best at your craft. The top of your game, right?” he told Billboard in a new interview. “That’s what I feel like I’ve reached. There’s still heights I wanna reach, there’s still places I wanna go, there’s still more goals I have, but I’m there. I’m one of the biggest artists in the game.”

He released three singles prior to the project: the Wayne Wonder-sampling “All In,” “Smile Body Pretty Face,” featuring Kodak Black and YG, and “Show Me Love,” featuring Tory Lanez.

Tycoon comes five years after Ty’s last solo studio album Featuring Ty Dolla $ign. While nodding to his consistency as a collaborator, the 25-track project included multiple collabs with Ye, Mustard, Quavo, Nicki Minaj, Jhené Aiko, FKA twigs and more. Featuring Ty Dolla $ign peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. In September, Billboard honored Ty with the Collab Impact Award at The Future of Music & Money event, in partnership with UBS and powered by Feeture.

He and Ye dropped their ¥$ collab albums Vultures 1 and Vultures 2, the former of which topped the Billboard 200 for two weeks. Vulture 1‘s hit single “Carnival,” featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Ty’s second Hot 100 No. 1 after 2018’s “Psycho” with Post Malone.

Listen to Tycoon below.

This weekend, Sabrina Carpenter will return to the Saturday Night Live stage — but this time, she’ll be hosting.

In new promos for her double duty as host and musical guest on Saturday’s show, Carpenter scoffs when castmember Marcello Hernandez asks if she’s “scared to host.”

“Me? I perform in front of thousands of screaming fans every night,” Carpenter replies casually.

“So you’re not scared?” Hernandez asks, to which Carpenter responds, “No. I’m terrified. But not of hosting. Deep down, my greatest fear is…”

At this point, Carpenter and Hernandez share their identical greatest fear in unison: ” …My dentist grows a really long beard and during the appointment it tickles my chest.” The pair look at each other stunned and just walk away.

Elsewhere in the promos, Carpenter and Hernandez give a pep talk to any viewers who might be washing dishes, and Carpenter threatens to arrest the cameraman for being too hot — just like she does in the crowd on her Short n’ Sweet Tour.

In fact, she previously arrested Hernandez, in character as Domingo, at one of her Los Angeles shows last year. He was reprising his role as the seductive SNL character who originated in a viral sketch last fall set to the tune of Carpenter’s smash hit “Espresso.” “My name’s Domingo,” Hernandez said from the crowd to wild cheers, after catching Carpenter’s attention. When Carpenter asks where he’s from (“I’m from Miami, baby,” he growls), she replies, “I wish you were from my bedroom.”

While it’s her first time hosting, Carpenter was a musical guest in May 2024 and she also popped up on February’s SNL50 special, duetting with Paul Simon and co-starring with Pedro Pascual in a new Domingo sketch. Carpenter is currently back on her Short n’ Sweet Tour — though she’s also promoting her August album Man’s Best Friend this time around — and she’ll return to L.A. for six new dates, wrapping Nov. 23.

Saturday Night Live airs at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and streams on Peacock. (See all the options to watch SNL here.) Watch the new promos below: