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Katy Perry performing in 2025 (photo: Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for Katy Perry). 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, Anitta and Mexican rock royalty Maná.Mexico get

Charli xcx Goes ‘Rock,’ Kinda, On New Single 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 recent British Vogue cover story by declaring, “I think the dancefloor is dead, so now we’re m

Tame Impala's Kevin Parker and Dua Lipa at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival (photo: Samir Hussein / WireImage). 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 album Dea

Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horowitz and Michael 'Mike D' Diamond with New York City Council Member Christopher Marte at the unveiling of "Beastie Boys Square" (photo: Adam Gray / AFP via Getty Images). More than a decade after Hot Sauce Committee Part Two marked the final studio release from the Beastie Boys, group member Mike D is officially back with his first solo music. The 60-year-old rapper/producer has dropped “Switch Up,” a loose, genre-blurring cut that emer

(photo: Mason Poole) Two years after the breakthrough success of The Returner, Allison Russell is back this summer with another deeply communal and expansive album. The singer/songwriter’s third studio LP, In The Hour of Chaos, will arrive July 10 via Fantasy Records. First single “Cold April” features Kara Jackson and Denitia, plus vocals from Russell’s daughter Ida’s Explore! Pop Choir.“Things are rough. Things have been rough before,” Russell

Fire-Toolz Walk With Me The question must be asked: Has Fire-Toolz sold out? After all, Lavender Networks marks producer, shredder, singer, and beatmaker Angel Marcloid’s debut on Warp Records, which puts her in the company of Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada. And one track prominently features a country singer, a drastic departure from the usual Fire-Toolz mélange of screensaver EDM, Hypercolor death metal, blackened new age, and copious other mutant genres that usually don&#8217

Mark Crozer. (Credit: Molly McGrath) Name  Mark Crozer Best known for  Being the long-suffering bass guitarist in The Jesus and Mary Chain. Also as that guy who wrote and performed the song Broken Out In Love which was later renamed Live In Fear, going on to become a surprise hit as the walk-on music for the late lamented WWE superstar Bray Wyatt. Also, something I’m not at all known for but which is nevertheless true, is that I perform

Stevie Wonder on January 35, 1974. (Credit: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In January 1974, Stevie Wonder and his band performed on the German television program “Musikladen.” His set that day was heavy on songs from the 1973 masterpiece Innervisions, and closed with a rendition of the 1972 hit “Superstition” that I saw many times on VH1 grow

Photo Courtesy of Rocking The Docks 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. That’s why there is a surge of boutique festivals becoming more popular across America

(photo: Elise Joseph James) Fresh off a headline-grabbing surprise duet with Noah Kahan in Nashville and the announcement that she’ll co-headline the D.C.-area All Things Go festival in September, Paramore’s Hayley Williams is taking her increasingly ambitious solo era global.The artist has confirmed an expansion of her The Hayley Williams Show trek, adding new dates across North and Latin America following rapid sellouts at venues including Forest Hills Stadium outside New

The Rolling Stones' Ron Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (photo: Mark Seliger). 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 limited white label vinyl release under the na

(photo: Sonny McCartney / MPL Communications) For an artist who’s spent the better part of six decades rewriting the rules of pop music, Paul McCartney has somehow managed a genuine first: a full-fledged duet with his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr. The nearly 84-year-old McCartney unveiled the track, titled “Home to Us,” today (May 5) during an intimate playback event at London’s Abbey Road Studios, where 50 fans were invited inside the legendary Studio Two for an early listen

Charli xcx at Roskilde Festival in Denmark on July 2, 2025 (photo: Joseph Okpako / WireImage). Charli xcx, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Twenty One Pilots, Lorde, Skrillex, Kings of Leon and the reunited the xx will headline the 25th anniversary edition of the Austin City Limits festival, which returns to Zilker Park from Oct. 2-4 and 9-11.The bill will also feature Turnstile, Labrinth, Lola Young, the Chainsmokers, Geese, Young Miko, Bleachers, SOFI TUKKER,

Tame Impala's Kevin Parker (photo: Julian Klincewicz). A year after Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker quietly upended the idea of what a songwriting tool could look like, his hardware company is leaning all the way into the mythmaking.On May 11, Telepathic Instruments will release Clear Orchid: Arctic, a fully transparent, limited-edition version of its buzzy Orchid chord generator, capped at 3,000 units worldwide. The drop also brings back the original Orchid colorway, plus its no

Jason Isbell and Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood (photo: TT Management). Jason Isbell is turning the 2026 editino of ShoalsFest into something more than just a hometown gathering by leaning even further into the history that made him.The fifth installment of the event will return Oct. 3-4 to McFarland Park in Florence, Al., with a lineup led by Isbell and the 400 Unit alongside Jeff Tweedy, S.G. Goodman, Willow Avalon and Steve Trash. But the headline moment is something deeper i

Chris Douridas, music director and morning host of KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" radio show at the board in the Santa Monica studio. (Credit: Al Seib/The LA Times) In Southern California, there are a few key numbers that Angelenos need to know: when to take the 101 or the 405, the differences between people with 310 and 818 area codes, and why you should always, always turn on 89.9 FM when you’re in the car (and likely in traffic on the 101 or 405). That radio di

Booji Boy (a.k.a. Mark Mothersbaugh) of Devo on stage at El Mocambo, Toronto, UK, 25th October 1978. (Photo by Peter Noble/Redferns via Getty Images) Devo’s yellow hazmat jumpsuits are in tatters, an unavoidable side effect of the band’s collective (in all senses) perpetual motion. It’s a breezy Sunday night in New York, and Devo’s tightly coiled nature hasn’t eased a bit. Even the coordinated dance moves they bring out on their closer, “Uncontrollabl

Sugar's Bob Mould, Malcolm Travis and David Barbe (photo: Beau Sorensen). Reunited ’90s rock trio Sugar capped a sold-out, three-night reunion run — the Bob Mould-led band’s first shows in 31 years — Monday (May 4) at New York’s Webster Hall, welcoming surprise guests such as Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood, the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and Mould solo band member Jason Narducy to sing at the end of the set. Hood gave his best vein-bul

(photo: Emman Montalvan) 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 she couldn’t perform her song “Illegal” because “some of you could be in the audience.” A torrent

Paramore's Hayley Williams at the 2025 Newport Folk Festival (photo: Newport Folk Festival). With its Toronto lineup already announced and its New York bill soon to follow, All Things Go has locked in a loaded roster for its 2026 edition near the nation’s capital.Hayley Williams, Brandi Carlile, Zara Larsson, Mitski, MUNA, Lola Young, and Ethel Cain will anchor the proceedings, which take place Sept. 25-27 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. Tickets go on sale Wedn