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Koe Wetzel is tapping into the chaos, growth, and newfound perspective behind his rise from Texas bar stages to global headlining success on his upcoming album, The Night Champion.
The country rocker officially announced that his sixth studio album will arrive June 12 via Columbia Records. Keep reading to find out even more details about the project.
As for what fans can expect in his new era, he set the tone of the gritty atmosphere and intensity with a dark, cinematic introduction video that ends with a haunting statement, “When the sun goes down, that’s when the real ones rise.”
Since his early days playing rough Texas bars and roadhouses, Wetzel has built his career on relentless touring, loud nights, and a no-rules approach to music that has taken him far beyond where he started. At the time, he never imagined his songs would resonate with audiences outside the Texas scene, but more than a decade later, he has emerged as a powerful force in the music industry.
The singer/songwriter reached new heights with his Gold-certified 9 Lives album, which spawned a five-week No. 1 and produced 2025’s most played country radio song with “High Road.” The Night Champion serves as a follow-up to that chapter as it captures the aftermath of that wild run while sharing a clearer reflection of all the lessons he’s learned along the way.
“It’s a continuation of 9 Lives, from that record to now,” Wetzel explains. “Really, it’s everything that’s happened – because you don’t go from kids playing for beer to headlining Red Rocks, arenas all over the country, partying and trying to make sense of it all and not shift. My head space is clearer now. I can look back, see how it fits together. It doesn’t make sense, exactly, but it all happened. That search for what it all means keeps bringing me back.”
For Wetzel, the new record is as much about survival as it is the success he’s experienced, knowing the hard work and scarifies that it took to come out on the other side.
“It’s crazy I’m not in jail or dead as hard as I went these last 15 years,” he said honestly. “Right now, I’m the best version of myself I’ve ever been. I survived the night side of me. I’m coming out of it a champion. That’s the essence of the record.”
So far, fans have gotten a look into the album through early releases like “Time Goes On” and “Surrounded.” They will get yet another taste when yet another track titled “Hurts Like You” arrives on Friday, May 8. He notes that across the 11 tracks, listeners will come to understand where he is at right now.
There is “an edgy roughness to all the songs that doesn’t give a f**k, but there’s a tenderness to it, too,” Wetzel explains. “Whatever happens, I’m man enough to deal, but the focus and headspace have shifted; I’ve grown up and become okay with looking back.”
That growth both personally and creativity has become a driving force on this record. He made a strong effort to write music that is authentic, knowing that “When you force it, people feel it.” With this project, longtime fans and new listeners alike are set to come together and understand this version of Koe Wetzel.
“You’ve gotta go in and get the music behind the feeling,” Wetzel continues. “I know what I want to say now, where the songs should go, and I want them to come from a space, not an appointment.”
In support of the album, Wetzel will bring his new music to fans across U.S., Canda and Australia on The Night Champion World Tour. The trek will include over 50 headlining shows, with Shane Smith & The Saints, Ole 60, Wyatt Flores, Corey Kent, Wade Bowen, Bayker Blankenship, Kolby Cooper and Logan Jahnke serving as support on select dates.
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West Wilson is at the center of yet another controversy this week.
And once again, the Summer House star might once again be feeling a little overexposed.
Speaking with Sophie Cunningham on Wednesday’s episode of the “Show Me Something” podcast, West revealed that nude photos of his have leaked online.
But the worst part, according to West, is not the violation of his privacy but the fact that the pics are not especially flattering.
“They’re not even sexual; they look medical. I’m soft in all of them. I don’t even know if the other two are me,” he explained (via TMZ).
Yes, West might be having a hard time lately — but he wasn’t when the pics were snapped, if you know what we mean.
Wilson says he found out about the leaked photos when he got a text message about them “five seconds before I walked onstage” to film the Summer House Season 10 reunion last month.
As we previously reported, audio from that reunion later leaked online, so West is dealing with all kinds of security breaches these days!
As for that leak, West denies that he was in any way responsible.
And while Bravo says they’ve identified and punished the leaker, West claims he still doesn’t know who it was.
“I’m gonna ask eventually,” he told Sophie.
All of this comes on the heels of news that West is dating his Summer House co-star Amanda Batula.
Their announcement created quite a stir due to their past connections (until recently, Amanda was married to Kyle Cooke, while West dated Batula’s bestie, Ciara Miller).
So we guess it’s not surprising that West is so chill about his nudes being leaked. After all, he’s been showing off his junk to anyone who’s interested lately.
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Menin’s Fair Fares push tests Mamdani
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ALL’S FARE: City Council Speaker Julie Menin portrayed Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration today as stuck running a failing mass transit discount program.
The alternative? Her own plan to provide free fares to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.
Drawing that very particular contrast served as an attempt to turn the tables on Mamdani, who made free buses a key campaign pledge. Menin’s preferred approach is to expand Fair Fares — an existing discount for low-income residents — into a free bus and subway program for people at or below 150 percent of the poverty level.
In the process, Menin and other Council members poked the administration for not enrolling enough people in the current iteration of Fair Fares by failing to cut unnecessary red tape. Right now, less than 40 percent of eligible people participate, leaving half a million New Yorkers paying full freight for rides they could get at half price.
Menin called it “failing” and blamed a multi-step enrollment process that includes downloading an app and filing out a lengthy form.
“There has to be a recognition that the system is broken,” she said during a Council hearing today.
Rebecca Chew, a chief program officer from the city’s Human Resources Administration, told Menin the agency “worked hard to streamline the process and identify efficiencies, and it’s something we’re continuously looking at to improve and refine.” Later, Chew said that nearly half the people enrolled in one year — right now that’s 380,000 — fail to re-enroll in the next.
Fair Fares largely predates Mamdani, but under lengthy questioning from Council Member Crystal Hudson, Chew and her colleagues did not offer specific targets for improving enrollment.
The Council is seeking to make enrollment automatic.
Menin opened the hearing by saying she was “very disappointed” in the Mamdani administration for not sending the head of the Department of Social Services to testify.
“I’d be remiss if I did not express our deep disappointment in that,” she said.
Mamdani has not yet taken a position on the Council proposal.
The democratic socialist has long been skeptical of means-tested programs. But by his own admission, his free-buses-for-all plan isn’t going to happen this year, which creates an awkward situation: He now appears unwilling to support an arguably half-loaf solution that would nonetheless help hundreds of thousands of people ride the bus and subway for free.
“Fair Fares is an important tool for low-income New Yorkers but does not reach enough of them,” Mamdani spokesperson Jeremy Edwards said in an email. “The administration is reviewing all Fair Fares proposals. We will continue to encourage eligible residents to enroll in Fair Fares and work with city and state partners to make transit more affordable for all New Yorkers.” — Ry Rivard
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WEDDING BELL$: With New York City mired in red ink, one new idea might help Mamdani make a very small dent in the very big budget shortfall.
City officials have reached out to state lawmakers to let the City Council hike the cost of a City Hall wedding from $25 to $55 and the fee for a marriage license from $25 to $60.
The fee increases would be a miniscule boon to the city’s financial needs — perhaps to the tune of $4 million a year. And the sponsors in the state Legislature say the bill isn’t written with balancing the budget in mind
The fees haven’t been increased since the early 1990s, and the administrative costs of performing a wedding have since risen to $126 — meaning the total fee hike to $115 would simply mean city government loses less money on each ceremony.
“This is a request from the Marriage Bureau, so I think it makes sense,” said state Sen. John Liu, who introduced a bill on the subject Tuesday. “It’s important that people don’t view this as a marriage penalty — no one likes fees and no one likes fee increases, but it’s been the same for decades.”
Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair Charles Lavine expects critics won’t hesitate to gripe about the minor change: “’If we make it more expensive to get married, then fewer people will get married,’” he said, predicting the GOP response.
The issue is being discussed outside of budget talks, so it will need to be dealt with in the dwindling number of session days before state lawmakers pack it in on June 4.
“We are going to be stuck with a handful of legislative days,” Lavine said. “I hope it’ll work. It’s about time those fees will be made a little more substantial.”
Mamdani has paid more attention to the Marriage Bureau than any of his predecessors — he’s notably the only modern mayor to stop by the City Clerk’s office to officiate ceremonies himself. — Bill Mahoney
NO ICE MELT: White House border czar Tom Homan’s threat of an ICE surge into New York if a package of sanctuary measures are approved isn’t deterring Democratic state lawmakers.
“If anything, it makes me want to double down,” Democratic state Sen. Pat Fahy said.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are close to an agreement on a series of bills that would limit how federal immigration agencies like ICE can coordinate with local police departments. They also plan to limit where civil deportation warrants can be executed, blocking them from being carried out in locations like educational facilities and houses of worship.
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ICE VENDOR FACES HEAT: Mamdani’s administration is scrutinizing NYPD contracts with a surveillance technology company that’s faced criticism for doing business with federal immigration authorities, our Chris Sommerfeldt reports today.
The examination of the NYPD’s dealings with Vigilant Solutions is part of an ongoing audit process being conducted by Mamdani’s administration at the police department and five other city agencies.
Mamdani ordered the reviews in February with the stated goal of strengthening New York City’s sanctuary laws as President Donald Trump’s administration continues its aggressive — and at times lethal — immigration crackdowns across the U.S. The laws bar city employees and resources from being used to assist federal authorities in civil immigration matters.
The revelation that the NYPD audit is looking at a private company indicates Mamdani wants to scrutinize not just whether the department is complying with the sanctuary laws but also its vendors. In ordering the audits, Mamdani specified they may result in “changes and updates to policies and protocols,” suggesting the singling out of Vigilant could come with repercussions for its NYPD contracts.
Asked why the police department’s Vigilant connections are being scrutinized in particular, mayoral spokesperson Sam Raskin provided little clarity. “The Mamdani administration has engaged with a number of agencies on their policies, guidelines and procedures related to federal immigration enforcement,” he said Tuesday. “We will share more soon.”
As part of the audit process, a questionnaire directed the NYPD to submit a “draft audit” to the mayor’s office with responses to all inquiries by April 20. The form then says the NYPD and the mayor’s office would review the draft before a finalized submission to Mamdani by Thursday.
Read the story from Chris in POLITICO here.
ON A RELATED MATTER: When Jeff Blau of Related Companies sat for an interview at a real estate conference Wednesday, he likely expected a friendly crowd.
But three separate times during a 30-minute interview, activists from the left-leaning New York Communities for Change interrupted his remarks to protest a tentative Adams administration deal under which Blau’s firm would benefit from some $2 billion in public subsidies to complete Hudson Yards.
“$2 billion of taxpayer’s money!” the activists, who were quickly rushed out of the room, shouted. “Shame on you! Shame on you, Related!”
The progressive advocacy group is pushing the Mamdani administration to scrap the public financing scheme — calling it a “boondoggle” and the “biggest corporate bailout in New York City history.”
That tentative deal is now up to Mamdani, but he’s not rushing to move it forward. Mayoral spokesperson Matt Rauschenbach said Wednesday: “We are not actively engaged in negotiations to move this project forward at this time.”
Blau said he still hopes to advance the project.
“Our hope is that we will announce a transaction this year, we’ll start construction on another 3 million square foot office building and probably start about 2,500 apartments at the same time, 625 affordable units,” Blau said at the conference. “So really a great addition to New York City.”
The ticketed event Wednesday was hosted by The Real Deal, a trade publication that covers the real estate industry. Founder and publisher Amir Korangy, who interviewed Blau, slammed the interruptions.
“This is not the right venue for this,” Korangy said, clearly exasperated by the third instance. “This was clearly coordinated.”
He added, to some chuckles, “I mean, at least they bought tickets.”
Blau was generally bullish on New York City and offered some praise of the mayor, even as other members of the business elite have raised concerns about his approach in recent days.
“I think the mayor is very, very supportive of new housing construction and is trying to eliminate barriers,” Blau said. “He’s just getting started and our hope is that he will continue to do that and he will focus on things like [485-x] and engage with the private sector,” he added, referring to the property tax incentive for New York City residential projects that has garnered criticism from the industry.
“We’re doing things all around the country and even globally, but New York City is our home,” Blau continued. “This is the greatest city in the world, despite the protesters. I’m committed to New York City.” — Janaki Chadha
FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
BLAKEMAN ON CLIMATE CHANGE: Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman demurred when asked today if he believed in climate change during a press conference at the state Capitol.
“Would it be accurate to say that you believe in climate change?” Blakeman was asked.
“I’m not a scientist and I’m not an engineer,” he responded. “Anytime we can make the environment better with a commonsense solution that’s affordable and makes sense, why not?”
Minutes before, Blakeman stressed to reporters that concerns about climate change shouldn’t guide energy policy decisions.
“To take drastic measures and pretend that you’re actually going to change the carbon footprint of our state and that’s going to have a material effect on the world is complete, utter fiction,” Blakeman said. “Our carbon footprint is miniscule compared to the rest of the world.”
His comments come as Democrats like Hochul are struggling to keep up with the state’s ambitious green policies. The governor poised to win changes to weaken New York’s climate law in the budget, eliminating a near-term deadline to reduce emissions.
Playbook followed up with Blakeman’s campaign this afternoon to ask if he’s landed on a stance on whether he believes climate change is real. We haven’t heard back yet. — Jason Beeferman
IN OTHER NEWS
— SCRUB-A-DUB: Mamdani’s administration has quietly removed a landing page on the city Economic Development Corporation’s website promoting New York City’s business ties to Israel. (Free Beacon)
— LONG LINES: The number of Long Island families receiving food stamps has grown significantly as thousands may lose access following eligibility changes. (Newsday)
— IN THE STREETS: Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israel protestors were met with a heavy police presence outside Park East Syngogue, which was hosting an event on land sales in Israel. (The New York Times)
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Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert united on stage at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, to perform their buzzed-about duet “Horses and Divorces” together for the first time ever.
On the final night of a three-night run at Gruene Hall in celebration of her new album, Middle of Nowhere, Musgraves surprised the crowd when she welcomed Lambert to the stage.
“Us East Texas gotta stick together, alright,” she said before welcoming her fellow Texan to the stage.
In a moment captured by fans on social media, the audience could be heard shouting loudly, cheering them on.
Lambert greeted Musgraves with a hug and admitted “tonight we bury the hatchet,” referring to their previous feud.
As the crowd continued to cheer, the superstars joined together to perform “Horses and Divorces.”
Musgraves and Lambert’s friend and co-writer, Shane McAnally, was also there to witness the moment. He documented it on social media, writing, “this definitely felt like a fever dream. The best fever dream I ever had. Love you Miranda Lambert/ Kacey Musgraves.”
He also shared an adorable selfie with the artists, captioning it, “Hell just froze over,” referencing a line in the song.
In a recent interview with Variety, Musgraves opened up about patching things up with Lambert after confirming what fans had long speculated—that she and Lambert had a “grass-fed, grade A” beef.
Their tension traces back to an early career moment for Musgraves involving the song “Mama’s Broken Heart.” At the time, she had hoped it would be her breakout track, but ultimately stepped aside and allowed Miranda Lambert to record it instead. As we all know, it went on to become a major hit.
While the experience later helped establish Musgraves as a respected songwriter in Nashville, she was left frustrated by watching a song she connected with become a defining moment in someone else’s career.
Years later, Musgraves said she was scrolling on Instagram when she came across a post of Lambert riding one of her horses. In that moment, she realized: “Well, I guess we have two things in common: horses and divorces.”
Musgraves said the idea instantly sparked a song concept.
“Then I took it a step further: ‘What if I write it with her? What if it’s a duet? F**k it, I’m gonna reach out.’ I hadn’t spoken to her in years and was like, ‘Hey, I have this idea. If anybody would get it, it would be you. We’ve had our s**t over the years, but this would be really funny.’ And she was like, ‘I’m down,’” Musgraves recalled.
They went on to write the song with McAnally, and it became one of the final tracks to make the cut for Middle of Nowhere.
“I mean, it’s real and that’s why I love this song, because it’s not coming from some contrived place in a writing room,” she told the publication. “We’ve come together after years of really, honestly, not being friends.”
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Neymar has apologized for a training ground rift with Santos teammate Robinho Jr. in an incident that could further dent his already slim chances of playing for Brazil at the World Cup. Robinho Jr., the 18-year-old son of former Brazil star Robinho, had alleged this week that he was slapped by the 34-year-old Neymar during team training. On Tuesday night, Neymar scored in Santos’ 1-1 draw at Deportivo Recoleta in Paraguay in a Copa Sudamericana match, but media attention was on what he had to say about the scuffle earlier this week. “These things happen in soccer,” Neymar told reporters. “It should have been solved by us two. It was a disagreement we had during training, I had a reaction and exaggerated a little. Soon after I apologized, we talked in the dressing room and came to an understanding.” Neymar, Brazil’s all-time top scorer with 79 goals, has not played for the national team since an ACL injury in October 2023. Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti is expected to announce his World Cup squad on May 18. Reporting by The Associated Press.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports