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Jane Kimmel’s friends must be so jealous of her, OMG. On Tuesday, Jimmy Kimmel’s 11-year-old daughter got to help introduce Olivia Rodrigo as the closing act of the 2026 Disney Upfronts, where her father had just gotten done roasting the network. After Rodrigo performed the single “drop dead,” she then brought Jane up to the

Pearl Jam will play its first show since longtime drummer Matt Cameron’s final performance with the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers on May 18, 2025, in Pittsburgh, and it will take place on some very familiar grounds. The group is widely expected to introduce a new drummer, whose identity has yet to be confirmed,

Bloc Party have announced a new album, Anatomy of a Brief Romance, and released the first single, “Coming on Strong.” The new album is set for release on September 11th on newly formed record label cOnTAGIOUS LTD via Virgin Music Group. Get Bloc PartyTickets Here Anatomy of a Brief Romance is produced by Trevor Horn

One of the most anticipated albums of the summer finally has a release date. Gracie Abrams’ third LP, the 16-track Daughter From Hell, will arrive July 17 from Interscope, with lead single “Hit the Wall” emerging on Thursday (May 14). Click here to pre-order Daughter From Hell re-teams Abrams, the daughter of Hollywood titan J.J.

Dua Lipa is suing electronics maker Samsung for $15 million, claiming the company has utilized her image to sell TVs without her permission. The Grammy-winning, dance-pop singer filed the copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit in California federal court May 8th alleging Samsung is using her photo on television boxes without her permission to push sales.

The Tame Impala / Dua Lipa cinematic universe continues to expand. During the Kevin Parker-led band’s show last night (May 7) at the O2 in London, itsurprised the crowd by bringing Lipa out for a two-song mini-set that further cemented their unexpectedly fruitful collaboration. Lipa emerged midway through “Afterthought,” a standout from Tame Impala’s 2025

On Friday, Charli XCX kicked off her new musical era with “Rock Music.” Today, she pivots almost immediately with the release of the B-side, “I Keep Thinking About You Every Single Day And Night.” If we were to believe “Rock Music,” then the Brat superstar was headed toward the realm of rage-baiting pop-punk. Musically speaking,

After months of teasing a supposed “rock” pivot — and plenty of internet discourse about what exactly that even means in 2026 — Charli xcx has finally dropped “Rock Music,” a chaotic, self-aware new single that both fulfills and trolls every expectation surrounding her post-BRAT era. The track arrives after Charli sparked debate in a

Every week, Consequence staffers spotlight their favorite new songs for our Songs of the Week column. This week, we’re excited about new tunes from Aldous Harding, Deante’ Hitchcock, ear, Vundabar, RIP Magic, and more.  Aldous Harding — “Coats” Days before the release of her fifth studio album, Train on the Island, Aldous Harding dropped the

The 2026 World Cup is shaping up less like a soccer tournament and more like a very expensive global music festival. Per the New York Times, FIFA is planning star-studded opening ceremonies for each host nation’s first match this summer, which will feature Katy Perry, Future, LISA from BLACKPINK, Michael Bublé, Alanis Morissette, J Balvin,

Country rockers Treaty Oak Revival have announced the second leg of their ongoing 2026 “West Texas Degenerate Tour” following a breakout year fueled by their chart-topping album, West Texas Degenerate. Fresh off an exciting appearance at Stagecoach Festival, the Texas quintet revealed a new stretch of North American dates beginning July 24th in Los Angeles,

Do you love experiencing live music but the popular music festivals in America are getting too big and becoming more about fashion than music? Well, there is a growing number of avid music fans who refuse to go near mega-festivals like Chicago’s Lollapalooza, Indio’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and San Francisco’s Outside Lands.

Lagunitas’ “Live at Lagunitas” concert series is back, baby! The brewing company’s long-running tradition of throwing kick-ass shows at their LaguMiniAmphitheaterette in Petaluma, California, continues into 2026 — and it’s starting off with a banger. On May 25th, renowned bassist and songwriter Blu DeTiger brings her one-of-a-kind club set to the Lagunitas site to launch

Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert officially buried their decade-plus-old beef last night (May 5) at the former’s show in New Braunfels, Tx., when they performed their duet “Horses and Divorces” from Musgraves’ new album, Middle of Nowhere. See fan-shot footage below. As the story goes, Musgraves long harbored resentment that a song she wrote and

The Rolling Stones joined Conan O’Brien at a special announcement event in Brooklyn today to discuss their upcoming album Foreign Tongues, where Mick Jagger revealed how The Cure’s Robert Smith ended up appearing on the project. “I turned up one day to do my vocals in London, and there’s this bloke standing there with his back

As expected, the Rolling Stones have re-teamed with producer Andrew Watt, who helmed their 2023 comeback Hackney Diamonds, for another new album. The 14-track Foreign Tongues will be released July 10 through Capitol and is being previewed with new single “In the Stars” as well as “Rough and Twisted,” which emerged last month as a

The first Monday in May has arrived, which means it’s Met Gala time. For its 2026 edition, the annual fundraiser benefiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute was chaired by a powerhouse lineup of Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour with a theme centered on “Costume Art.” Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz

M.I.A. has been removed from her opening slot on Kid Cudi’s Rebel Ragers tour after being booed onstage in Dallas on Saturday (May 2) for her statements about immigrants. The artist, who is of British and Sri Lankan descent, at one point complained about being “canceled for being a brown Republican voter” and then said

In news that would absolutely delight this writer circa 2009, Nick Thorburn (Islands and The Unicorns) and Mike Stroud (Ratatat) have joined forces for a new band, The Creem. So, just how did this seemingly unlikely duo come together in the first place? As Thorburn told Flood Magazine, it all surprisingly dates back some 20

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Outkast’s Stankonia is a very popular record, certified platinum five times since its 2000 release. But it’s also a very long, 73-minute album stuffed full of different styles and genre experiments, and

Olivia Rodrigo pulled double duty on this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, taking her inaugural turn as host as well as serving as musical guest in support of her forthcoming album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. Rodrigo previewed the album by performing the lead single “drop dead” and debuting

On its improbable third album since reuniting in 2014 after a 14-year hiatus, American Football isn’t interested in reclaiming youth so much as interrogating what came after it. The Sonny DiPerri-co-produced LP4 (Polyvinyl) doesn’t just revisit the band’s long-established emotional palette – it complicates it, stretching those heart-piercing guitar lattices and murmured confessions into heavier,

Post Malone has postponed the start of his 2026 “BIG ASS Stadium Tour” and canceled several upcoming dates outright. In a statement shared to social media on Friday evening, Malone attributed the decision to needing more time to finish his next project. “I promised y’all beautiful people new music, and I don’t have the time

On Middle of Nowhere, Kacey Musgraves doesn’t so much return to her roots as redraw the map entirely — one where solitude isn’t a pit stop between relationships but the destination itself. Written in the aftermath of a breakup and shaped by long stretches of intentional aloneness, her seventh LP and debut for Lost Highway

Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter have released their collaborative new single “Bring Your Love,” a team-up that arrives after the pair debuted the track during Carpenter’s Coachella 2026 Weekend 2 headlining set. As their joint Coachella performance suggested, “Bring Your Love” is a dance-forward track almost scientifically designed for runway shows, not unlike iconic Madonna banger

Olivia Rodrigo is going big again — and then some.The three-time Grammy winner has announced the Unraveled tour, a sprawling 65-date global run behind her upcoming third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, due June 12 via Geffen Records. The outing kicks off Sept. 25 in Hartford, Ct., and stretches

The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood are hitting the road this summer for a co-headlining tour. The run of shows, titled “Devils in the Details,” will take place in July. The tour kicks off July 9th in St. Paul, Minnesota, with dates that follow across the East Coast, including a stop

With their eclectic mix of punk, reggae, ska, and hip-hop, the Long Beach, California trio Sublime became one of the most beloved bands of the ‘90s. Singer/guitarist Bradley Nowell, bassist Eric Wilson, and drummer Bud Gaugh’s original run together only lasted eight years before Nowell’s tragic overdose death, but the three albums they recorded together

Karol G has announced a massive new world stadium tour. Officially titled the “Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour,” the 40-plus-date run will take the Colombian pop singer across North America, Latin America, and Europe over the next year and a half. The tour follows her historic headlining set at Coachella 2026, where she became the