The Rocky Horror Picture Show didn’t receive a single Oscar nomination when it was released in 1975, but the film has since become a cult classic, so much so that even the Motion Picture Academy has taken notice. On Sept. 26, the Academy Museum in Los Angeles will host a “50th Anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show” program.

Music industry legend Lou Adler, who was one of the producers of the film; Tim Curry, who starred in the film as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite alien scientist; and Sins O’ The Flesh are scheduled to appear. “Join us for a sing-along and shadow cast experience for this one-night-only 50th anniversary program,” the event’s notes advise. “Prop kits will be sold at the theater for maximum audience participation.”

The film also starred Barry Bostwick and future Oscar winner Susan Sarandon, and helped introduce future rock star Meat Loaf. The film was based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show, with music, book and lyrics by Richard O’Brien. The cast album to that show bubbled under the Billboard 200 in November 1974.

The film opened in the U.K. at the Rialto Theatre in London in August 1975 and in the U.S. the following month at the UA Westwood in Los Angeles. Initial response was mixed to negative, but it soon became a hit as a midnight movie, when audiences began participating with the film at the Waverly Theater in New York City in 1976.

Adler received a Grammy nomination in 1976 for producing the cast album, which was released on his Ode Records (through A&M). The album eventually reached No. 49 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold. The track “Time Warp” has become a classic.

In 2005, the film was selected for the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Adler, 91, is an industry legend. He founded Dunhill Records in 1964, producing hits by such artists as The Mamas & The Papas and Scott McKenzie. He helped produce the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. He signed Carole King to his Ode Records in 1970 and produced eight Gold, Platinum or multiplatinum albums by her. In 1972, he and King won Grammys for album of the year (Tapestry) and record of the year (“It’s Too Late”).

Adler was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 (receiving the Ahmet Ertegun Award, presented by Cheech & Chong, for whom he produced four Gold albums). He received a trustees award from the Recording Academy in 2019.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has had a long afterlife. The Rocky Horror Glee Show aired on Fox in October 2010 as part of the second season of Glee. It featured cameos by Bostwick and Meat Loaf. An EP from the show, which included “Time Warp,” “Damn It, Janet” and “Sweet Transvestite,” reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200.

In October 2016, Fox aired a modern-day “reimagining” of the film titled The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again.

Coachella is famously one of the most trendsetting festivals on the planet, meaning that a strong performance there can significantly boost an artist’s profile and trajectory.

A new documentary series from Coachella producer Goldenvoice explores this phenomenon through the lens of 2025 performances from Shaboozey, Ivan Cornejo, Djo, The Marias and The Dare. Sponsored by T-Mobile and co-produced by creative agency MGX, the five-part Arrival began unrolling on YouTube earlier this summer, with the final episode featuring Djo debuting more recently.

Arrival looks at how artists often design their entire annual schedule around a Coachella set, with Djo’s manager Nick Stern saying in the doc that “it was really an exciting moment when we found out we got our Coachella offer. We had been planning the album cycle and the touring cycle really based around Coachella, so in a way, it was a big relief to get that offer, but also always exciting to be asked to play for 20,000 people.”

Taking viewers behind the scenes, from each artist preparing for the show to the performance itself, Arrival looks at how playing Coachella is a milestone moment for most any act. “Thankfully we got through … all of those really difficult and awkward moments to now playing the Outdoor Stage at Coachella,” María Zardoya of indie pop band The Marias says in the group’s episode, with the bandmate Josh Conway adding that “we stuck to our gut, and here we are.”

“I’m so grateful that Goldenvoice Productions chose us to document such a special moment for us in Arrival,” Zardoya tells Billboard. “It memorialized a performance that ended up being my favorite in the band’s history. It truly felt like the ‘moment’ we had been working toward over the last eight years as a band. I know it won’t be our last; main stage next.”

“Making the episode of Arrival really put everything into perspective for us,” adds Conway. “Between the conversations about our experience and history as a band, and going through our memory boxes, it made an already monumental Coachella performance even more special.”

Arrival follows a 2024 mini-documentary from Goldenvoice Productions called Busy P Says Oui that explores the process of booking Daft Punk’s history making 2006 Coachella set.

“When we began this partnership between MGX and Coachella, our goal was always to create a series that went beyond just the lead-up to the festival,” series director at MGX CEO Karam Gill tells Billboard. “We wanted each episode to explore deeper cultural themes, creative influences, and personal stories — giving fans an intimate look at some of this year’s most exciting artists.” 

Watch the Djo episode below and find the complete Arrival series on YouTube.

For the foreseeable future, Megyn Kelly will probably be shopping at American Eagle, not Levi’s, for all of her denim needs. Amid the controversy surrounding Sydney Sweeney’s new American Eagle commercials, the conservative commentator has thrown her support behind the Euphoria star while pitting the actress against Beyoncé.

In a Tuesday (Aug. 5) post on X, Kelly reshared a photo of the 35-time Grammy winner modeling an outfit by Levi’s — which Bey has been the face of since last year — and wrote, “This is the opposite of the Sydney Sweeney ad.”

“Quite clearly there is nothing natural about Beyonce,” she continued. “Everything – from her image to her fame to her success to her look below – is bought and paid for. Screams artificial, fake, enhanced, trying too hard.”

When one person accused the former Fox News anchor of bullying Bey, Kelly replied, “It is not possible for me to ‘bully’ BEYONCÉ, literally one of the richest, most privileged/connected/famous ppl in the world.”

Billboard has reached out to Beyoncé’s rep for comment.

Kelly’s comments come as many conservatives — including President Donald Trump, who recently wrote on Truth Social, “Go get ‘em Sydney!” — are rallying around Sweeney in response to the backlash her American Eagle jeans commercials have received. In the ads, the White Lotus alum boasts about her “great genes,” using the phrase interchangeably with “great jeans.”

As Sweeney is a white woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, many critics have compared the messaging to racist Nazi propaganda, though the fashion brand has said in a statement that the campaign “is and always was about the jeans.”

Denim aside, this isn’t the first time Kelly has taken issue with Beyoncé. In June, the media personality accused the Destiny’s Child alum of “playing victim” after Bey included footage of Kelly dissing her in visuals for the Cowboy Carter Tour.

“Here is another one of the most privileged, beloved women in the world,” Kelly said on The Megyn Kelly Show at the time. “But [she] still has to look for the one sliver where she could play the victim and be aggrieved, because big bad Megyn Kelly said something completely milquetoast about her entry into country music.”

Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon and is the last surviving member of NASA’ legendary Apollo 11 crew. He’s seen and done things just a handful of other humans have ever gotten to experience, which might explain that when presented with the opportunity to take a picture with sibling pop boy band the Jonas Brothers back in 2017 he seemed, well, unimpressed.

At least according to fellow New Jersey Hall of Fame member Joe Jonas. The JoBros singer appeared with siblings Nick and Kevin Jonas on a recent episode of Mythical Kitchen’s Last Meal podcast, where the mention that the new Jersey HOF inductees now share the honor with Aldrin (2008) — along with recently inducted stars actors Paul Rudd and Meryl Streep, director Kevin Smith and singer Lesley Gore and legacy members Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, among others — reminded Joe of Aldrin’s long-ago galactic snub.

“I have a Buzz Aldrin story for you,” Joe said to host Josh Scherer. “He refused to take a picture with me. “Somebody came up to him and said, ‘You should probably take a picture with them.’ So we did get the photo.” Joe recalled that his eyes were wide open in the snap because he was still a bit star-struck (and dumbstruck) after initially approaching Aldrin by saying, “‘Excuse me, Mr. Aldrin, can I take a picture?’ He was like, ‘no!’”

The incident took place on the sidelines of a Dallas Cowboys football game nearly a decade ago, and it was commemorated in a Twitter post from Aldrin of the smiling foursome featuring the caption, “I met the Jonas Brothers at the @dallascowboys game. Apparently they’re hot stuff.”

When they’re not recalling past intergalactic icings, the Bros are gearing up to release their upcoming seventh studio album, Greetings From Your Hometown, which is due out on Friday (Aug. 8).

Watch Jonas Brothers discuss Aldrin’s snub below.

The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame will be inducting a new class of revered Music City tunesmiths who are known for writing hits including “Boulder to Birmingham,” “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song),” “She’s Looking at Me,” “Only in America,” “Every Mile a Memory” and “You Look Good in My Shirt.”

Brad Paisley, Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale, Don Cook, Steve Bogard and Tony Martin make up the Hall’s Class of 2025. These six electees will join the 247 previously inducted members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame when they are formally inducted during the 55th annual Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala, slated for Monday, Oct. 6, at Nashville’s Music City Center.

Bogard and Martin have been elected in the contemporary songwriter category, while Lauderdale has been elected in the contemporary songwriter-artist category. Cook has been elected in the veteran songwriter category, Harris in the veteran songwriter-artist category, while Paisley was elected in 2024 but was deferred at his request to 2025.

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame board of directors chair Rich Hallworth and executive director Mark Ford made the announcement of this year’s class of honorees during a press conference held Wednesday (Aug. 6) at Nashville’s Columbia Studio A, part of Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business.

“Gathering as we do each year – to reveal and welcome the members of our incoming class – is truly one of the highlights of our calendar,” Hallworth said in a statement. “To these outstanding songwriters, we say, ‘Thank you for sharing your songs and your artistry with us. We are proud to honor you this fall, when you will officially join your legendary peers in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.’”

Bogard is known for writing songs including “Carried Away” (recorded by George Strait), “Prayin’ for Daylight” (Rascal Flatts) and “Every Mile a Memory” (Dierks Bentley). Martin’s songwriter credits include “Baby’s Gotten Good at Goodbye” (Strait), “A Little More Summertime” (Jason Aldean) and “You Look Good in My Shirt” (Keith Urban). Two-time Grammy winner Lauderdale has recorded many of his own composed songs, among them “I Feel Like Singing Today,” “She’s Looking at Me” and “Mighty Lonesome.” Thirteen-time Grammy winner Harris also popularized many of her self-written songs, including “Boulder to Birmingham,” “White Line” and “Heartbreak Hill.”

Cook’s songwriting credits include “I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again” (T. Graham Brown), “Small Town Girl” (Steve Wariner) and “Only in America” (Brooks & Dunn). Three-time Grammy winner Paisley is known for writing many of his own hits, including “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song),” “Letter to Me” and “Remind Me” (a duet with Carrie Underwood).

The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame launched in 1970, with its 247 previously inducted members including songwriters and artist-writers including Bill Anderson, Bobby Braddock, Garth Brooks, Felice & Boudleaux Bryant, Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Tom T. Hall, Harlan Howard Alan Jackson, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Bob McDill, Bill Monroe, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Don Schlitz and Cindy Walker.