If you want to be as curious as Blippi, then we’ve got the music video for you.

The blue-and-orange-clad preschool favorite delivered his latest song “Curious Like Me” at the top of the month, and on Wednesday (Aug. 13) he dropped a brand-new music video for the song — the lead track from Friday’s Be Like Blippi EP — that takes him all across the United States to cross paths with country superstar Kane Brown, actor/singer Jordan Fisher and more friends who want to help Blippi on his journey of curiosity.

The new video kicks off Be Like Blippi Week and arrives ahead of the new five-part YouTube series Blippi: The Ultimate Road Trip, which follows Blippi and his bestie Meekah as they visit iconic cities and landmarks (including Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry) and meet celebrity guests, including Brown, Fisher and Milk Bar CEO Christina Tosi.

In addition to the music video, Billboard is also going behind the scenes of the making of the song with an exclusive Behind the Orange Glasses clip that follows Blippi recording in the studio and testing out instruments like a slide whistle, trombone, maracas and even wine glasses filled with water. “I ask a lot of questions,” Blippi says in the exclusive clip. “Some might say I’m… curious.”

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The lyrics of the song are a perfect match for the journey of discovery Blippi has been on since Stevin John originated the kid-friendly character in 2014. “If you wanna be curious with me/ Go ahead and grab your glasses just as fast as you can,” he sings to start the tune. “Gonna go explore I wanna find out more/ There’s so much to discover with one another/ We got so much to teach each other/ You can be anything/ We can do everything/ Anyone can be so curious, curious, curious like me.”

In the video, Blippi wears his signature blue-and-orange striped hat with his orange glasses and suspenders, and many of his co-stars (kids and grown-ups too) try out his trademark look.

Kane Brown no doubt has some Blippi fans in his house, considering he’s the dad to three kids between 1 and 5 years old with wife Katelyn: 5-year-old daughter Kingsley, 3-year-old daughter Kodi, and 1-year-old son Krewe.

Watch the new music video below:

If you missed out on getting tickets for the Backstreet Boys‘ larger than life Into the Millennium Las Vegas residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas there is some good news. On Wednesday morning (Aug. 13), the boy band announced that due to demand they are extending their run at the iconic immersive venue, adding seven new shows in December and January 2026, including a New Year’s Eve gig.

The fresh dates will take place on Dec. 26, 27, 28, 30 and 31, as well as Jan. 2 and 3.

BSB are the first pop band to take up residence at the domed venue and according to a release, at the end of the 21 previously announced, sold-out gigs they will have performed in front of 350,000 fans. Tickets for the newly added dates will go on sale first via a Backstreet Boys Fan Club pre-sale beginning on Aug. 19 at 9 a.m. PT, followed by an artist pre-sale beginning on Aug. 20 at 9 a.m. PT; sign up for the artist pre-sale here through 7 p.m. PT on Aug. 17. A general on-sale will kick off on Aug. 22 at 9 a.m. PT here.

U2 helped launch the venue in Sept. 2023, followed by Phish, Dead & Company, the Eagles, EDM artist Anyma and Kenny Chesney. BSB kicked off their 21-show run of Sphere gigs on July 11, with the current residency slated to wind down this Sunday (Aug. 17) before picking back up in December.

According to a Billboard report on opening night, the eye-popping spectacle, “transported fans to outer space as a massive screen surrounded them with visuals of a spacecraft right before the band appeared on stage. The Backstreet Boys — Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean and Kevin Richardson — launched into a night of hits with ‘Larger Than Life,’ which was the perfect description of the show they had created.”

Twenty One Pilots are ready for the world to hear their upcoming eighth studio album, Breach. In fact, they’re so excited about it that they’re planning a global listening event at record stores across the world a week before the LP’s release date (Sept. 12).

The band announced the roster of indie record retailers that will host the album replays on Sept. 6 and 7, which will also include exclusive giveaways. According to a map posted by the band, the events are currently scheduled to take place in nearly every state in the U.S.; at press time there were no parties planned in Iowa, Arkansas, Hawaii or New Mexico, though the band said more locations will be announced soon.

That means that fans in Arizona can pop into a local Zia Record in Tucson, or Grace Records in Gilbert, Run Out Groove Records in Burbank, Programme Skate & Sound in Fullerton or 1-2-3-4 Go! Records in Oakland (all in California), while Ohio residents can pop in to Republic of Athens Records in Athens, Magnolia Thunderpussy in Columbus or Toxic Beauty Records in Yellow Springs.

In addition to multiple locations in each state, the sessions will also be held on Sept. 10 in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal in Canada, Sept. 11 in Mexico City, the Netherlands, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Germany, Sept. 10 in Poland, Ireland and France and Sept. 6 across the U.K. Down Under Skeleton Clique members can pop into shops in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne and Auckland on Sept. 10 and 11, while on Sept. 11 fans in Japan can log into a YouTube listening party and those in South Africa can pop into Surfarosa in Cape Town.

Limited edition picture discs will be available at each location beginning while supplies last.

So far, the duo has released the single “The Contract” from the album that will thematically continue the narrative arc that began with 2015’s Blurryface and continued on 2018’s Trench, 2021’s Scaled and Icy and 2024’s Clancy. 21P will kick off the Clancy Tour: Breach 2025 stadium/amphitheater run on Sept. 18 with a show at Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium.

Zoë Kravitz survived a potentially career-ending mushroom trip on the first season of The Studio, but she almost didn’t make it out of a stay at Taylor Swift‘s house without destroying the joint in a mad panic. The actress/director stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers on Tuesday night (Aug. 12) to share a hilariously harrowing story about the time her mom Lisa Bonet’s adorable pet snake almost caused an A-list incident.

Kravitz said Swift had generously invited the mother-daughter duo to stay in her home during the evacuations caused by the L.A. wildfires in January. “My mom lives in Topanga Canyon, so I said, ‘No, that’s a dangerous place to be. Come [here].’ And my mom has a pet snake, and so she has her evacuation stuff; she came over with the snake,” Kravitz said. “We ended up having to stay there for maybe about two weeks, and Taylor has this very beautiful house. I think it’s from the ’30s, like it’s a beautiful house, something you want to preserve and take care of.”

One way to take cover of such a jem is to not lose your reptile in it. But, as the pair were getting ready to leave on their last day and the Blink Twice director was packing up her things, Kravitz told her mom that she really wanted to “be a good house guest. I like to leave places better than I found them. I don’t want her [Swift] to even know we were here.’ So I was kind of going around and cleaning up, and I’m downstairs and she’s upstairs and my phone rings and it’s my mom.”

Uh oh.

It was Bonet and her voice was “super high,” which made Kravitz think something was amiss. “And she’s like, ‘I’m in a little bit of a pickle. Can you come upstairs?’” Kravitz said. That’s when she learned that Bonet’s pet snake, Orpheus, had found “this little hole in the corner” of the room to hide in.

Turns out the snake crawled into a hole next to a banquette built into the wall and while Bonet was able to get a hold of the snake’s tail, “they’re all muscle, they’re very, very strong, so she’s holding the snake’s tail. We don’t know what to do.” Kravitz said she started to panic as the snake crawled further and further into the hole.

“It’s like that scene in Jurassic Park when they’re in the car and the branches breaking every time they move,” Kravitz said. “I was panicking so much that my mom likes to say, ‘If I had both hands, I would have slapped you.’” They were saved by the house manager, who showed up with a crowbar to tear apart the banquette so they could reach the snake, adding that they were “ripping up the tile, we’re scratching the walls.”

In the end, she said, “we completely destroyed Taylor’s bathroom, and there was just this moment where I was like, ‘either we destroy her bathroom or I have to tell her that there’s a snake somewhere in her house,’” explained Kravitz, with Meyers saying they were “both bad options.” They did end up destroying the bathroom, with Meyers holding up a pic of the aftermath, with cabinets torn apart and Bonet and Kravitz laying on the floor, head-to-head, holding on to the snake with all their might.

Kravitz said she assured the house manager that she would pay for the damages, asking him to not say anything until was all fixed. “And I remember calling her [Swift] and saying, ‘Hey — also very high voice — I wanted to talk to you about something,’ and she was like, ‘Is it the fact that you almost lost a stake in our house and destroyed my bathroom?,’” Kravitz said.

The story — which came on the same day that Swift announced her upcoming 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl —  prompted Meyers to joke that Orpheus is definitely “gonna get like three songs on the next album.”

Watch Kravitz tell her snake tale below.

More than a year on from their last live performances, Canadian musician Cindy Lee has announced a short run of North American tour dates.

Lee (the musical moniker of Patrick Flegel) had initially announced an extensive run of tour dates throughout April and May 2024 in support of their breakthrough album, Diamond Jubilee. 

Described as the “last American tour” for the enigmatic artist, the latter half of the planned run was called off for undisclosed personal reasons within the touring party.

Now after more than a year of silence, new dates have been added to the artist’s schedule with shows in Chicago, Toronto, Montreal and New York City planned for early November. 

Freak Heat Waves, who had previously performed on Lee’s 2024 tour, will open all dates except for Toronto, where Blue Light will start proceedings.

Flegel’s Cindy Lee project first rose to prominence in 2020 following the release of What’s Tonight to Eternity?, and later gained widespread acclaim thanks to 2024’s mysterious Diamond Jubilee album.

Promoted with little fanfare, the album was purposely absent from streaming services (save for a YouTube upload of the record), with a typically-awkward Geocities site serving as the main point of digital distribution for the two-hour long triple LP. Regardless, reviews were extremely positive and the album was ultimately shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize.

“The buzz around Diamond Jubilee indicates both the beauty of the album itself and a broader excitement at the possibility that branding and endless self-promotion aren’t everything,” wrote Rosie Long Decter for Billboard Canada. 

“In a period where artists and labels are struggling to figure out how to break through the online noise, it’s refreshing to see an artist so whole-heartedly reject the imperatives of the streaming economy, and to see that artist lauded, instead of chided.”

Cindy Lee – 2025 Tour Dates

Nov. 5 – Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
Nov. 6 – Massey Hall, Toronto, ON
Nov. 10 – Rialto Theatre, Montreal, QC
Nov. 15 – Brooklyn Paramount, New York City, NY