Amid a challenging touring environment, Michelle Branch sold out the first leg of her upcoming Everywhere and Back Again tour, so now, she’s added a second leg. It’s an additional 17 dates, beyond the initial 20 she first announced. The first leg runs from Sept. 27 in Seattle to Nov. 13 in Lexington, Kentucky. The second leg starts Feb. 25, 2027, in Charleston, South Carolina.
A presale for the new dates begins Aug. 19 at 10 a.m. local time. Other presales will follow throughout the week; tickets go on sale to the general public on Aug. 21 at 10 a.m. local time. Visit michellebranch.com for details and ticket info.
The tour comes in support of her upcoming Everywhere and Back Again EP, which features new versions of her biggest hits, reimagined with special guests. The first single, “Game of Love,” is a collaboration with New Radicals’ Gregg Alexander, who co-wrote the song.
“Announcing leg two of the Everywhere and Back Again tour has been the hardest secret to keep! I’m blown away by all the love for the tour and ‘Game of Love,'” Michelle said in a statement. “Can’t wait to see you all out on the road. This is just the beginning.”
Meanwhile, Michelle has revealed that Maren Morris is her special guest on her new version of “Goodbye to You.” The two artists performed it together live on Aug. 15 in Nashville, with Maren telling the crowd that Michelle was a big inspiration to her when she was younger.
‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger’ film poster. (Magna Studios/Sony Music Vision)
A new trailer for the upcoming Oasis documentary Don’t Look Back in Anger is out now.
As previously reported, the film follows the “Wonderwall” outfit’s 2025 reunion tour, which marked the first time the formerly feuding brothers Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher had shared the live stage in 16 years.
“The songs are one thing, but I’d forgotten what he means to people,” Noel says in a voiceover, presumably referring to Liam. “I certainly wasn’t prepared for the intense outpouring.”
Don’t Look Back in Anger is set to hit theaters and IMAX on Sept. 11. Limited IMAX early access screenings will take place Sept. 9. Tickets are on sale now.
The doc will be available to stream on Hulu and Disney+ later in 2026.
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More than 40 years after receiving her first MTV VMA nomination, Madonna leads the list of nominees for the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards.
Madonna is up for 11 awards this year, including video of the year for Confessions II – The Film, an over 10-minute long short film soundtracked to the first six songs from her most recent album, Confessions II.
She’s also nominated for artist of the year; song of the year and best collaboration for “Bring Your Love,” her song with Sabrina Carpenter; best dance for Confessions II – The Film, and several technical awards.
Madonna received her first-ever MTV VMA nomination in 1984 for best new artist for “Borderline.” Since then, she has won 19 competitive VMAs, and in 1986, she was the first-ever female recipient of the honorary MTV Video Vanguard Award. Her last VMA win was in 1999 for best video from a film for “Beautiful Stranger,” from Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me.
The VMAs will air live from Los Angeles on Sept. 27 on CBS, and will be simulcast on MTV. Paramount+ Premium subscribers can stream it live. It’ll be available globally the next day on Paramount+ and MTV. Voting is open in 13 categories at Vote.MTV.com.
Many of Madonna’s career-defining moments have come on the MTV Video Music Awards, dating back to the very first one in 1984. So, it’s fitting that she’s this year’s leading nominee for the 2026 MTV VMAs.
The Queen of Pop is up for 11 Moon Persons at this year’s ceremony, including video of the year for her short film, Confessions II – The Film, plus artist and song of the year, best collaboration, dance, direction, art direction, cinematography, editing, choreography and visual effects. Over her career, she’s won 19 VMAs; in 1986, she was the first female artist to receive the Video Vanguard Award.
Taylor Swift is this year’s second-most nominated artist, with nine nods. She’s up for video of the year for “The Fate of Ophelia,” which has also earned her nominations for artist of the year, best pop, direction, art direction, cinematography, editing, choreography and visual effects.
Taylor and Beyoncé are tied for the title of the most-awarded artist in VMA history, so if she wins even one of them, she’ll have that title to herself.
Other top nominees include Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter, each with seven nods, and Bruno Mars, PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson with five apiece. LISA has four, and Shakira and Tate McRae have three.
In addition to Madonna and Taylor, the video of the year category includes Ariana’s “hate that I made you love me,” Bruno’s “I Just Might,” Sabrina’s “Tears” and GENER8ION for “STORM starring Yung Lean.”
The VMAs will air live from LA on Sept. 27 on CBS, and will be simulcast on MTV. Paramount+ Premium subscribers can stream it live. It’ll be available globally the next day on Paramount+ and MTV. Voting is open in 13 categories at Vote.MTV.com.
Here are the main nominations:
VIDEO OF THE YEAR Ariana Grande – “hate that i made you love me” – Republic Records Bruno Mars – “I Just Might” – Atlantic Records GENER8ION – “STORM starring Yung Lean” – Iconoclast Music Madonna – “Confessions II – The Film” – Warner Records Sabrina Carpenter – “Tears”- Island Taylor Swift – “The Fate of Ophelia” – Republic Records
ARTIST OF THE YEAR Ariana Grande – Republic Records Bruno Mars – Atlantic Records Madonna – Warner Records Morgan Wallen – Big Loud/Mercury Records Sabrina Carpenter – Island Taylor Swift – Republic Records
SONG OF THE YEAR BTS – “Swim” – BIGHIT MUSIC Ella Langley – “Choosin’ Texas” – Columbia Records HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI – “Golden” – Republic Records/Visva Records Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter – “Bring Your Love” – Warner Records Olivia Dean – “Man I Need” – Island PinkPantheress – “Stateside + Zara Larsson” – Warner Records UK/Atlantic Records RAYE – “WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!” – Human Re Sources
BEST NEW ARTIST, presented by The General Insurance® Bella Kay CORTIS Magnus Ferrell Malcolm Todd Myles Smith Sienna Spiro Stella Lefty
BEST COLLABORATION Clipse, Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T, Malice – “Chains & Whips” French Montana x Max B – “Ever Since U Left Me” Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter – “Bring Your Love” PinkPantheress – “Stateside + Zara Larsson” Shakira & Burna Boy – “Dai Dai” Teyana Taylor & Lucky Daye – “Hard Part”
BEST POP Ariana Grande – “hate that i made you love me” Charli xcx – “SS26” LISA – “Dream feat. Kentaro Sakaguchi” Olivia Rodrigo – “drop dead” Sabrina Carpenter – “House Tour” Tate McRae – “Nobody’s Girl” Taylor Swift – “The Fate of Ophelia”
BEST DANCE, presented by BACARDÍ® Rum Bebe Rexha & Faithless – “New Religion” Harry Styles – “Aperture” Lady Gaga & Doechii – “RUNWAY” Madonna – “Confessions II – The Film” PinkPantheress – “Stateside + Zara Larsson” Slayyyter – “DANCE…” Tate McRae – “Nobody’s Girl”
BEST K-POP BLACKPINK – “JUMP” BTS – “SWIM” CORTIS – “REDRED” KATSEYE – “PINKY UP” LE SSERAFIM (feat. j-hope of BTS) LISA – “Dream feat. Kentaro Sakaguchi”
BEST HIP-HOP Cardi B ft. Kehlani – “Safe” Don Toliver – “E85” Drake – “Janice STFU” Megan Thee Stallion – “LOVER GIRL” Travis Scott – “DUMBO” Tyler, The Creator – “SUGAR ON MY TONGUE”
BEST R&B Bruno Mars – “I Just Might” Chris Brown – “It Depends/Obvious” Dave & Tems – “Raindance” Justin Bieber – “YUKON” Kehlani – “Folded” Mariah the Scientist & Kali Uchis – “Is It a Crime”
BEST ALTERNATIVE Geese – “Taxes” mgk & Fred Durst – “FIX UR FACE” Noah Kahan – “The Great Divide” Olivia Rodrigo – “the cure” SOMBR – “Homewrecker” Tame Impala – “Dracula” twenty one pilots – “Drag Path”
BEST LATIN Anitta with Shakira – “Choka Choka” Bad Bunny – “NUEVAYoL” Fuerza Regida – “TU SANCHO” KAROL G – “Papasito” Rosalía ft. Yahritza Y Su Esencia – “La Perla” Ryan Castro, Kapo & GANGSTA – “LA VILLA” Shakira & Burna Boy – “Dai Dai”
BEST COUNTRY Ella Langley – “Choosin’ Texas” Kacey Musgraves – “Dry Spell” Lainey Wilson – “Somewhere Over Laredo” Luke Combs – “Back in the Saddle” Shaboozey – “Cowgirl” Stella Lefty – “Boston” Tucker Wetmore – “Brunette”
Fontaines D.C. has announced the details of their upcoming album, Dopamine Chamber.
The Irish outfit’s fifth studio effort is due out Oct. 16. It’s the follow-up to 2024’s Romance, which spawned the single “Starburster.”
“The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” says frontman Grian Chatten. “You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”
The record’s first single is called “Marianne” and is out now.
Fontaines D.C. will be performing at the upcoming Shaky Knees, Sea.Hear.Now and Ohana festivals.
Billy Corgan performs onstage during the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at The New York Marriott Marquis on June 11, 2026 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for for Songwriters Hall of Fame)
The Smashing Pumpkins will launch their Rats in a Cage tour in September. Each show will feature one set dedicated to the 1995 Pumpkins album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in honor of its 30th anniversary, as well as a second, career-spanning set.
“The Rats in a Cage tour is interesting, because I’ve made the choice that we’re gonna play the Mellon Collie set first,” frontman Billy Corgan tells ABC Audio. “Which means you’re gonna have 15-18,000 people in a room wondering, ‘OK, now what are they gonna do?'”
Indeed, the RIAA Diamond-certified Mellon Collie has some of the biggest Pumpkins hits, including “1979,” “Tonight, Tonight,” “Zero” and “Bullet with Butterfly Wings,” which spawned the famed lyric that inspired the tour’s name.
“We’re planning something sort of different,” Corgan says. “It’ll be interesting ’cause some people will take the journey and other people will think, ‘What are they doing? Because I came here to celebrate, and they’re taking me through a funeral.'”
The Rats in a Cage tour kicks off Sept. 30 in Columbus, Ohio.
Snowfall‘s Wanda and Leon take on the music business in the show’s spinoff, The Drop: A Snowfall Saga.
A trailer shows Wanda expressing her belief in the power of music to reshape American culture, much like it helped transform her life as she recovered from a crack addiction in the original series.
“You gotta understand what I been through. When I was getting clean, music brought me back to life,” says Wanda, played by Gail Bean.
Though she enters the business believing it’s “the new gold rush” with “no cops, no murder,” the trailer reveals that danger follows as she immerses herself in the music industry and navigates its ties to the streets.
Leon, played by Isaiah John, has vowed to leave that world behind as he hopes to “chase down his own atonement through his free legal clinic,” according to the show’s website.
The Drop: A Snowfall Saga, which also stars Asante Blackk, Peyton Alex Smith, Simmie “Buddy” Sims III and Brandon Mychal Smith, premieres Sept. 8 on FX and Hulu.
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Are Ariana Grande and her ex-turned-current boo Ricky Alvarez getting serious? According to Page Six, sharp-eyed fans noticed that at the London stop of her Eternal Sunshine Tour, she had a new tattoo on her collarbone, which appeared to read, “I do love you.” She posted a photo of those words in an Instagram dump a few days ago. This is significant, because Ricky has the same words tattooed on his collarbone, but in a different font.
Bruno Mars has a new visual coming. According to Entertainment Tonight, Bruno and Latin star Karol G recorded a live video for their emotional duet “Still” during her Aug. 15 show at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The song appears on Karol G’s latest album, which just came out Aug. 7. Ahead of the big moment, a message flashed on the screen, noting that the two had never performed the song live before, and confirming that the performance was being filmed for an upcoming video.
Katy Perry may be a huge star, and her boyfriend may be the former prime minister of Canada, but they’re still totally cringe when it comes to their kids. Justin’s son Xavier, who records under the name Xav, shared a video of his dad and Katy reacting to hearing his song “Downtown” come over the PA at a local Montreal hardware store. Justin lip-syncs to the song while waving a plunger around, and Katy jumps around goofily. “My new single Downtown reaction video,” Xav captioned the video. “Send me yours.”
Ella Langley performs on ABC’s ‘CMA Fest presented by SoFi’ (Disney/Connie Chornuk)
Everyone, say it with me: Ella Langley is still #1.
The singer’s hit “Choosin’ Texas” has now racked up an 18th week on top of the Billboard Hot 100. That means it’s just one week away from tying the all-time record for a non-holiday song. That record is currently held by two songs: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” both of which ruled for 19 weeks.
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is the overall leader, with 22 weeks at #1.
Meanwhile, Ella can now count superstar rapper Drake among her “Ella’s Fellas” — the name the singer’s male fans use to refer to themselves. Drake jumped into the comments of Ella’s Sunday Instagram post and wrote “Goated Pen,” which is a slang way of saying, “one of the greatest songwriters of all time.”
This of course led to multiple fans begging Drake to record a collaboration with Ella.
And she seems to be a Drake fan, as well. On Saturday she posted a TikTok of herself lip-synching to “HYFR,” from the Toronto rapper’s 2012 album Take Care.
Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles project recently filmed a very iconic moment in Beatles history.
Video posted to social media shows the cast — Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr — walking through the crosswalk by the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London. A photo of that infamous walk, of course, would go on to become the cover of the band’s 1969 album Abbey Road.
The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event is expected to open in April 2028. It will consist of four films, each told from the perspective of one of the band members. The cast also includes Saoirse Ronan as Linda McCartney, Mia McKenna-Bruce as Ringo’s wife Maureen Starkey, Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono and Aimee Lou Wood as Harrison’s wife Pattie Boyd.
The Sony films will mark the first time Apple Corps Ltd. and The Beatles have granted a studio the rights to the life stories of band members and their legendary catalog of music.
