Liam Gallagher has announced he will no longer be throwing his tambourine or maracas into the crowd during Oasis concerts, citing safety concerns after multiple fan injuries.

The decision comes amid the Britpop band’s highly anticipated Live ’25 reunion tour, its outing first 16 years. Liam and his brother Noel Gallagher launched the tour with shows in Cardiff, Wales, in July, followed by performances in Manchester and London.

Earlier this week, during a trio of shows at Edinburgh, Scotland’s Murrayfield Stadium, Liam broke the news to fans that the tradition of tossing percussion instruments into the audience had officially been banned.

“I can’t throw my tambourine out tonight or my maracas I’ve been told not to,” the lead singer said, according to The Sun. ““I’m not being tight or anything like that. Do you know what I mean?”

He continued, “I’ve just been told, ‘Don’t do any of that s-t anymore,’ because you don’t know how to behave yourselves. You keep pinching each other on your nipples and ears and f-king s-t like that and kneeing each other in the bollocks.”

The announcement follows a recent incident at London’s Wembley Stadium, where a 42-year-old woman was injured after catching Liam’s maracas. The woman initially caught the instrument but was then tackled by two men who wrestled it away from her, according to The Metro UK. She later shared photos of her injuries with British media outlets.

This is not the first troubling incident during the Live ’25 tour. Earlier this month, a fan died after falling during another Wembley concert.

Oasis will perform the first of two shows at Dublin’s Croke Park on Saturday (Aug. 16) before heading to North America for stops at Toronto’s Rogers Centre on Aug. 24–25, followed by stops in Chicago, New Jersey, Los Angeles and Mexico City.

Music and film mogul David Geffen says his estranged husband fabricated abuse and sexual exploitation claims as part of a “a ludicrous and contrived attempt to humiliate Geffen in the court of public opinion and extract an out-of-court settlement.”

The accusations come in Geffen’s first legal filing responding to the bombshell lawsuit brought last month by the media executive’s soon-to-be ex-husband, Donovan Michaels, a former exotic dancer 50 years his junior. The pair is in the midst of divorce proceedings after less than two years of marriage.

Michaels (whose real name is David Armstrong) alleges in the lawsuit that Geffen treated him as a “sexual commodity” for years, only to later leave him destitute and tossed aside “like a used object.” But the mogul argues on Wednesday (Aug. 13) that these claims are a “work of fiction” designed to “extort Geffen by publicly shaming him.”

“Plaintiff cannot embarrass Geffen and extort a settlement with petty gossip and salacious lies,” writes Geffen’s attorney Patricia Glaser. “Unfortunately for plaintiff, Geffen has the integrity, ability and strength to litigate this case in a court of law (rather than in the press) where plaintiff’s fabricated claims cannot succeed.”

Geffen says Michaels’ central claim — that he promised to provide “lifetime” financial support for Michaels no matter what — is a complete lie. No such promises were ever made, Geffen argues, and Michaels won’t be able to corroborate his allegations with any written documentation or witnesses.

All the other claims in Michaels’ lawsuit are lies, too, according to Geffen’s answering brief. Geffen says there was no abuse in the couple’s relationship, and that he treated Michaels with “nothing but kindness, respect and generosity.”

If anything, says Geffen, Michaels was the one to take advantage of him by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars from the mogul’s coffers on luxury clothing, cosmetics, extravagant vacations, cosmetic surgery, OnlyFans subscriptions and sex workers.

And while Michaels’ lawsuit claims Geffen plied him with drugs as a tool of coercion, Wednesday’s court filing says this could not be further from the truth.

“The allegations in the complaint that Geffen encouraged or even was aware of plaintiff’s illicit drug habit are a pure fabrication,” writes Glaser. “Plaintiff hid his drug use from Geffen for years. Plaintiff regularly used ketamine, cocaine and perhaps other illegal drugs. Geffen does not.”

Michaels’ attorneys did not immediately return a request for comment on Friday (Aug. 15).

With a net worth reportedly over $9 billion, Geffen has long been one of the entertainment industry’s wealthiest figures. He launched the influential labels Asylum Records and Geffen Records, as well as animation powerhouse DreamWorks Pictures.

According to Michaels’ lawsuit, he and Geffen met in 2016 through the website SeekingArrangements.com. Michaels says Geffen initially paid him for sex, but that the relationship later evolved into a serious romantic partnership.

Geffen and Michaels married in 2023 without a prenuptial agreement. Geffen cited irreconcilable differences to file for divorce this past May, and marriage dissolution proceedings are continuing to be litigated separately from the civil case that Michaels initiated in July.

Consequence has a message for his former G.O.O.D. Music labelmate Pusha T.

The Queens rapper stopped by Hot 97 recently to talk about the state of hip-hop with DJ Drewski by sharing alleged text messages from a group chat that apparently included himself, Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), and the Virginia MC before sending Push a message and abruptly walking out of the interview, leaving Drewski stunned in a clip that has surfaced on social media captured by Glock Topickz on Twitter.

“Today we need to address what’s going on in hip-hop,” Cons proclaimed as the interview began. “Today I need to share with New York, with Hot 97, the home of hip-hop, and the rest of the world. … I’m really high with integrity and the truth, and this summer we didn’t have a ‘song of the summer.’”

The rapper said we didn’t have a song of summer because of Pusha T’s comments about the state of his relationship with Ye and accused Push of making those comments simply to help promote Let God Sort Em Out during the project’s rollout. “One of the reasons why we didn’t have a ‘song of the summer,’” he said, “Is because the sound bite of the summer was ‘I don’t respect Kanye as a man’ performed by — and I’mma emphasis ‘performed’ by — Pusha T and his brother Malice, known as the Clipse.”

Consequence then had DJ Drewski read the alleged text messages from the aforementioned group chat from around the time DONDA was released in 2021.

“In the diss record to Drake, you still not 100 percent in the right with me even though he should not have spoke on your wife,” Drewski read aloud, allegedly in messages from Ye. “You not perfect either. The record still caused me mental harm, so that meant when you shot, you hit me and my family also. We have to protect my brain at all cost, because I have the vision. It’s accountability, you not wrong but you not 100 percent right either.” 

“Yeah I agree, I’m not perfect…,” Pusha allegedly replied. “I never learned how to turn the other cheek when disrespected. It’s how I was raised. Martin Luther King wasn’t respected in my house either. Hurting you or your family wasn’t my intention. Protecting my family and the brand was the only mission. Sorry for any trauma caused by me.”

Consequence then went on to call the “Numbers on the Board” rapper hypocritical because he allegedly apologized to Ye even though Push has recently stated that he has no more respect for his former collaborator and friend.

“Right, so he apologized for basically dragging Kanye into the beef with Drake,” he said. “He actually said in his own words, ‘Sorry for any trauma I’ve caused you and your family.’ So, where I’m from, if you’re willing to apologize to someone, that would mean that you respect them, right? So if you’re running a whole rollout based on not respecting someone and you’re a man, but you know that you already apologized to this man, then are you being honest with your base? Are you being honest to the world? Is this a real feeling or is this contrived for marketing?”

He continued by comparing Push’s older brother Malice to Martin Luther King Jr., before goading both members of the Clipse to meet him “outside” and taking a shot at their drug-dealer rap personas.

“And another thing I wanna point out in the text is that he said, ‘Martin Luther King wasn’t respected in his household,’” he told Drewski. “From everything I’ve seen, isn’t Malice engulfed in the same scripture as Martin Luther King? And I heard homie say that he’s the devil and all this, so maybe you don’t respect your brother either. Maybe it’s whatever for fame, maybe it’s whatever to feel like you’re the top guy, but you know what makes you the top guy out here? A hit record.”

He added: “So, I’mma say this and I’mma leave, ‘I’m outside. Anybody got anything to say to me, you can take your brother out the pulpit and find me in the streets. I’m from the same streets as the Supreme Team, I’m from the same streets as Rick and Alpo and AZ, you know, real drug dealers. Remember those? One,’” before walking off.

Drewski posted a reel on his Instagram of himself standing behind a console as he awaits Consequence’s arrival with the text that says, “He doesn’t know it yet, but the guest he’s interviewing is going to get up and walk out.” And in the accompanying caption, the Hot 97 DJ and host wrote, “I’ve seen guests walk out in other interviews, but it was a first for me. N I didn’t even say anything wrong,” while later taking to the comments asking if he should put the interview out.”

As of right now, the interview’s YouTube link is set to private.

Push and Consequence’s issues go back to around 2011 when the latter accused the former of biting his rapping style while feuding with both Ye and Push at the time and dropping the diss track “The Plagurist Society.”

The Grand Ole Opry welcomed Sesame Street‘s Elmo and Abby Cadabby to help celebrate the Grand Ole Opry’s 100th anniversary, with the beloved characters making their Opry performance debuts.

Elmo, clad in a blue cowboy shirt and hat, joined Grand Ole Opry member Lauren Alaina to sing her hit “Road Less Traveled.” Alaina — marking her first Opry appearance after the birth of her daughter Beni Doll Arnold in June — welcomed Elmo to the stage.

“All the way from Sesame Street, y’all make some noise for my friend Elmo!” Alaina said excitedly, as the character popped up from behind the Opry podium. Alaina complimented Elmo’s cowboy costume (“You like Elmo’s bolo tie?,” the red Muppet asked), before they sang together.

Meanwhile, Abby Cadabby performed with Tayla Lynn — granddaughter of late Country Music Hall of Famer and Opry member Loretta Lynn. Together, Abby Cadabby and Lynn sang one of Loretta’s signature songs, “You’re Lookin’ at Country.” Loretta Lynn herself once appeared on Sesame Street in 1984, performing “Count on Me” with The Count.

In the second half of the show, Elmo and Abby joined a steady list of performers, actors, journalists and sports figures who have served as guest announcers on the Opry.

That’s not the only Sesame Street connection country music has had recently: Singer/songwriter and 11-time Grammy winner Chris Stapleton recently made an appearance on an episode of Sesame Street, joining Elmo, Abby Cadabby and other Sesame Street characters to sing the song “You’ve Got a Friend in Music.”

Numerous country artists have made appearances on Sesame Street over the decades since the beloved children’s educational program debuted in 1969, including Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, Johnny Cash and Faith Hill.

See footage of Alaina introducing Elmo on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry below:

Jessica Simpson will be taking her live experience to Las Vegas this fall, announcing an exclusive one-night-only performance.

Simpson announced the performance on Thursday (Aug. 14), revealing that she will be continuing her musical comeback with a special show at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Nov. 8.

The performance is one of only a few that Simpson has announced lately, with the star having made her triumphant return to the stage for the first time in 15 years in March.

That performance itself came just weeks after Simpson revealed the details of her new EP, Nashville Canyon, which was her first new release since 2010. A two-part EP, the first half was issued in March, with the second part arriving on Sept. 5. 

The arrival of the music served as something of a new era for Simpson, who utilized music to embrace overcoming a series of heartbreaks, including a separation from her longtime husband Eric Johnson. 

“I’ve lived through the hardest parts of life, and music is what has brought me back,” Simpson said at the time. “Nashville Canyon is for anyone who’s ever been told who they are or how they should live their life. It’s about finding your true voice and the courage to be exactly who you are.”

“Music makes you un-become to become, and through this process my soul has been pulled to the very place it belongs. This music is mine to share, and it’s not just about me—it’s about everyone who’s ever felt lost or overlooked. I want to remind them that they’re not alone.”

Simpson’s last music release was her 2009 holiday album, Happy Christmas. Over the course of her music career, she dropped seven studio albums, starting with her 1999 debut project, Sweet Kisses.

Alongside her handful of live performances this year, Simpson will also celebrate the release of Nashville Canyon’s second part with an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry on Sept. 9 alongside Kolby Cooper, Noeline Hofmann, I’m With Her, Lucie Silvas, and more.