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Paris Hilton graced Stagecoach 2025, and the pop queen shared how she prepped for her huge set, the details of her remix album, ‘Infinite Icon,’ and more!
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Tetris Kelly: We’re out here sliving with one of our favorite pop queens, Paris Hilton. How are you?
Paris Hilton: I am amazing right now. That was so much fun.
I mean, we gotta talk about how much fun it is. But let me tell you, you had one of the hottest sets at Stagecoach because Lance Bass from *NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys, Shaboozey, me, we were all outside. We couldn’t even get in Paris.
I heard there was 1000s of people trying to get in.
We were desperately trying to see your set, and you killed it. Brought Lizzo out. How was that?
I love her so much. She is so kind, lovely, talented, beautiful, amazing. Her new single is so sick. And it was just so much fun, feeling the energy and how excited everyone was. And I’m just so proud.
And I mean, you’ve been killing your festival season in general. You also popped up and surprised everybody at Coachella. So how do you prepare to, like, come to these festivals and put on a show like that?
I’ve actually been preparing this set for the past three months. So I’ve been researching, finding the best remixes of every song, remixing my songs, everything. So I want it to be very special and unique. And the outfit like this is from THEBLONDS, like it was a whole thing. And then my dancers, I’m just so grateful to my whole team for helping me put on an iconic show.
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Stagecoach 2025 brought out the hottest country stars, including Jelly Roll, Shaboozey, Jessie Murph and more. We got to catch up with all of the country stars and even some non-country musicians including Paris Hilton and Nelly. We take you through the highlights of each day and our interviews with the biggest names in country!
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Jelly Roll:It couldn’t have worked out any better for me. Boozey, Koe Wetzel’s here. I felt like my friend day, kind of, and I’m a Sturgill fan.
Paris Hilton:I heard there were thousands of people trying to get in.
Nelly:I thought everybody was doing a rap festival on Tuesday and then a country festival on Wednesday.
Tetris Kelly:And you were like this isn’t …
Nelly:Yeah, and then I found out that I was receiving blessings.
Jessie Murph:I love them both. They’re my brothers, and I don’t know, it’s really cool to share that moment with them. It’s such a big moment, especially a big moment, especially Jelly like headlining looks crazy. I’m really happy for them both.
Tetris Kelly:From on stage to backstage and all the parties in between, Billboard was all over the desert this weekend for Stagecoach, and we take you there in Billboard All Access. Our weekend actually kicked off Friday morning with a brunch at Ariat House with Annie Bosko, who was about to take the main stage at the Empire Polo Field. Once we arrived on site, the grounds were a vibe, as always, with the iconic ferris wheel and fans filing in for an epic day as we headed backstage.
Hey, I’m happy to be here with you guys. I kind of set you up, well you set yourselves up with your new song, “Finish This Drink.” There’s drinks on the table. I’m just saying, you know, cheers to that. Cheers to the new music.
Brothers Osborne: Cheers!
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Wiz Khalifa just dropped Kush & Orange Juice 2 on April 18, and the rapper shares why he chose to make a follow-up album to the original Kush & Orange Juice. He discusses performing at Coachella, working with J. Cole and Gunna, what fans can expect from his tour, his thoughts on being compared to Snoop Dogg, not realizing Blacc Hollywood went No. 1, his role in the legalization of marijuana in New York and more!
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Carl Lamarre:Yo, yo. What’s going on y’all? I am Billboard deputy director of R&B/hip-hop, Mr. Carl Lamarre. Today for Billboard In Conversation, we got the man, the myth, the legend — Mr. Kush & OJ, Wiz Khalifa.
Wiz Khalifa:What’s up, brother?
Khalifa, man, you know, we’re gonna talk everything from the new album, Kush & OJ, the world tour, if you still got that gym regimen going, still f–king up them weights.
Mhm.
Say less we might my do a bet, a little weight competition.
Push ups. Do functional push-ups.
I would say you lost me to functional push-ups. I don’t know what the s–t is. What’s a functional push-up?
It’s like a three way, like you do scap, you do scap half, and then you do scap full.
You see you throwing words out there I never heard of before, bro.
Like, we gonna stick to this.
It’s some ROTP s–t you hit me with right there, but no real talk. Man, congratulations. This is the 15th anniversary of Kush & Orange Juice, man. Tell me some of your fondest memories making that classic.
Really just like the mode that I was in, like tapped in with the fans being on the road, buying Jordans, wearing chucks, wearing camo shorts every day, literally, like smoking kush and drinking orange juice and just, you know, putting the world onto a whole lifestyle that we were living.
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Prolific Canadian metal musician Devin Townsend has revealed to fans that his forthcoming run of North American tour dates will be his last for the “foreseeable future” as he takes a “vacation” from touring.
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The 52-year-old shared the news with his fans via a video message on Monday (April 28), telling them they should embrace the upcoming opportunity to catch him live throughout May.
“For nearly 35 years, I’ve followed a creative path guided by instinct—each album, each tour, each project a new chapter in a story I’ve felt compelled to tell,” he added in an accompanying message. “My mind latches onto concepts, and I love chasing them down. That chase has made this journey wild, unpredictable, and deeply fulfilling.
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“Over the years, I’ve heard it countless times: ‘Dev, take a break… please.’ But the flood of ideas, the excitement, and the support of incredible musicians and listeners have kept me going, kept me touring, and kept me grateful for a life on the road.
“That said, things have changed—especially since the pandemic,” he added. “Booking tours now means planning up to two years in advance. With fewer venues, fewer crews, and a saturated touring circuit, it’s become more challenging than ever to line things up.”
As a result, Townsend explained that when he wraps up his upcoming run of dates in Los Angeles on May 23, it will be the “last time you’ll see me on stage for the foreseeable future.” Continuing, he noted that his extended period of rest will see him taking time to “breathe and recalibrate” as he deals with the necessities of life and he tends to the “dozen things that I’ve been waiting to do for all these years that have to be pushed aside due to the constant touring.”
“That doesn’t mean I’m done playing live. Not by a long shot,” he continued. “I’ll be performing until my final breath. But right now, I need to be present for the people who need me, and to give myself the space to reflect on everything I’ve been through.”
Townsend also added that he would be taking the time to launch a new YouTube series called The Ruby Quaker Show where he explores the numerous creative ventures he has had on the back burner for years. “Now I’m making the time to bring them to life, without that familiar pressure of knowing I’ll be gone again in a month,” he says.
In the meantime, Townsend also added that he would be doing his best to make the upcoming shows as “meaningful and unforgettable as possible” before he takes an extended period of leave from the stage.
“I will return to the stage. But first, I need to reset,” he concluded. “Touring has been a beautiful, exhausting constant in my life, and for once, I’m listening to the voice that says: slow down. I want to create from a place of calm inspiration rather than frantic obligation. And until I can truly be there for the people who rely on me, my creativity won’t be at its best.”
Townsend first rose to prominence in the ‘90s after working with and touring alongside Steve Vai, before founding Strapping Young Lad in 1994. The group would ultimately split in 2007, though Townsend had already embarked upon a prolific solo career by this point, with releases under the Devin Townsend Project and Casualties of Cool monikers also arriving over the years.
While the Devin Townsend Project’s 2012 release Epicloud would hit No. 105 on the Billboard 200 and top the Heatseekers chart, he would receive his biggest success in 2013 when Z² reached No. 73 on the Billboard 200.
As Haim ready the release of their long-awaited fourth album, the trio of siblings have dropped an extensive run of North American and U.K. tour dates.
The Haim sisters officially confirmed the title of their upcoming album only a week ago during a show at The Bellwether theater in Los Angeles on April 23. The show itself was their first full show in nearly two years, with the trio revealing that I Quit will be their moniker of their fourth LP.
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The follow-up to 2020’s Women in Music Pt. III, the upcoming record will officially arrive on June 20, and has so far been previewed by way of singles “Relationships,” “Everybody’s Trying to Figure Me Out,” and the newly-released “Down to Be Wrong.”
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As the countdown to the record’s release slowly ticks away, Haim have now unveiled a run of tour dates to occupy them during the latter half of the year.
Launching their upcoming tour plans with festival dates across the U.K, Europe, and Japan over the summer, the I Quit tour will see the trio embark upon a 23-date tour of the U.S. and Canada between September and October, before returning to the U.K. that same month with a six date run of shows.
In a recent interview in i.d. magazine, self-proclaimed “serial monogamist” Danielle said the new album is the first they’ve made without the involvement of her longtime boyfriend, producer Ariel Rechtshaid, and that she’s single for the first time since 2011. “Being single now, I’m just trying to embrace it, because I’m… I feel like I’m the age where I need to embrace it,” she said.
Alana said that the album is “the closest we’ve ever gotten to how we wanted to sound,” with Danielle diplomatically adding that working again with another longtime collaborator Rostam was “very quick, kinetic with him, which I really love as an artist… Maybe before, it wasn’t that way, it was kind of a more… longer, searching, labored situation.”
Haim – 2025 I Quit Tour Dates
Sept. 4 – TD Pavilion at the Mann, Philadelphia, PASept. 5 – The Stage at Suffolk Downs, Boston, MASept. 6 – Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, ONSept. 8 – Madison Square Garden, New York, NYSept. 9 – Westville Music Bowl, New Haven, CTSept. 10 – Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MDSept. 12 – United Center, Chicago, ILSept. 13 – The Rave, Milwaukee, WISept. 14 – The Armory, Minneapolis, MNSept. 17 – Edgefield, Portland, ORSept. 18 – WAMU Theater, Seattle, WASept. 20 – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, Vancouver, BCSept. 23 – Mesa Amphitheatre, Phoenix, AZSept. 25 – The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TXSept. 26 – Moody Center, Austin, TXSept. 28 – White Oak Music Hall- Lawn, Houston, TXSept. 30 – The Pinnacle, Nashville, TNOct. 3 – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Denver, COOct. 4 – The Great Saltair, Salt Lake City, UTOct. 7 – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CAOct. 9 – Kia Forum, Los Angeles, CAOct. 10 – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, San Diego, CAOct. 11 – Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CAOct. 24 – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, UKOct. 25 – Utilita Arena, Cardiff, UKOct. 26 – Brighton Centre, Brighton, UKOct. 28 – The O2, London, UKOct. 30 – AO Arena, Manchester, UKOct. 31 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, UK
Stagecoach 2025 was full of the hottest country stars and the best food, and we caught up with Goldenvoice’s Stacy Vee, Jelly Roll, Shaboozey and Guy Fieri to get their take on how the festival has grown over the years.
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Tetris Kelly:
I mean, hanging out with Stacey, you’re a legend. You’ve been with this thing since the beginning. So how is it to like come here, have these amazing artists join you and support you?
Stacy Vee:
I mean, it’s pretty amazing to see this collection of personalities, talent partners, bookers, we all come together with a common goal of pushing the genre forward and having a bunch of fun in the process.
Tetris Kelly:
I mean, and Guy, how has it been to work with Stacey over all these years?
Guy Fieri:
Well, she is the queen, the godmother, she’s the one that curates this. I know everybody loves to come to Stagecoach, but all of our careers have been impacted by her vision and awareness of what’s going on in the world, in the world of music, the world of food, the world of, you know, a party and Stagecoach is Stagecoach because of Stacy Vee.
Tetris Kelly:
I mean, you’re rolling up to Stagecoach, man, this is three weekends for you. I’ve been laughing about you and T-Pain. Coachella, Coachella, Stagecoach. How’s it to be here tonight?
Shaboozey:
It’s amazing, man, to be over here with my brother. Man, we just put out a song and and, you know, I’m just really humbled and grateful to be here.
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Coco Jones has released her debut album Why Not More?, and the R&B singer shares how sampling Britney Spears’ “Toxic” for “Taste” came to life, her experience working with an “in love” Future, how she’s defining R&B in her own way, and more! What did you think of Coco Jones’ new album? Let us know […]
Morgan Wallen and Post Malone’s “I Ain’t Coming Back” debuts in the top 10. Tetris Kelly:This is the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated May 3. Still hanging in the top 10 is “Beautiful Things.” Teddy Swims is at No. 9. Morgan and Post debut a new one at No. 8, while […]
T-Pain is ready to take on his third straight weekend in Indio, California, this time at Stagecoach. The beloved musician shares his journey of performing on the main stage at Coachella, discusses the new ideas he’s bringing to Stagecoach, reflects on Beyoncé, Shaboozey and other Black musicians breaking through in country music, talks about how Wiscansin Fest came to life and how he got GloRilla to join, and opens up about his resurgence and more!
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Tetris Kelly:
Out here in Indio, hanging out with my boy T-Pain, this is what? Weekend three of this for you?
T-Pain:
Weekend three!
Most people say Oh, weekend one, weekend two… weekend three. This is three for T-Pain, this is wild, man, I’m so proud of you, but you’ve been streaming the whole time, like, keeping people involved. So how’s that been to, like, have people along for this journey?
It’s OK, man, you know what I’m saying? It’s, it’s, it’s more frustrating than anything. Can’t get in the pool as much as I want to. That’s why I’m so ashy right now. Just got out the pool. So, you know, everything, I’m just ash. I’m just made of all ash.
Living the life. And I mean, how is it to, like, kind of have people in your personal space? Because, like, some people, I don’t know how many hours you do in sets, but like, when you got a shower, use the bathroom, you need some private time. Like, how was it to be doing that?
I don’t really have, like, personal time, you know what I mean? Like, I’ve grown up, like I got signed when I was 18. So I don’t, I don’t even know what personal life is like, you know what I’m saying? So it’s always been public. You know, going to the bathroom is pretty easy, set the camera just right above, right above the nipple, but no man, people know. You know people understand. Like, when you’re letting them into your life, you can leave them in places.
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