Governors Ball 2026 lineup. (Courtesy of Governors Ball Music Festival)
Lorde is headlining the 2026 Governors Ball festival, taking place June 5-7 in New York City’s Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
The other headliners are rapper A$AP Rocky and K-pop star Stray Kids. The bill also includes Katseye, JENNIE, Ravyn Lenae, Audrey Hobert, Dominic Fike, Kali Uchis, Major Lazer, Mariah the Scientist and Absolutely, who is RAYE‘s sister and will be opening for her on tour this year.
You can sign up now for a presale taking place Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. Tickets will go on sale to the general public starting Thursday at 11 a.m. ET.
Josh Charles on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ (Todd Owyoung/NBC)
Travis Kelce is the nicest guy ever — at least according to everyone who’s ever met him. So why did Taylor Swift‘s video co-star Josh Charles once call her then-boyfriend a d*** to his face? He explained the story on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday night.
Charles and Ethan Hawke played mad scientists in Taylor’s elaborate video for “Fortnight,” and Travis was on set while they were filming it. When Fallon asked Charles about Hawke’s claim that Charles and Travis had gotten into a fight, Charles clarified that it wasn’t a fight but a disagreement over Travis’ attitude on the field.
Charles, who is a Ravens fan, told Fallon, “I’ve always liked Travis Kelce. I just thought he was so cool. But that year they beat us in the AFC Championship game — they beat the Ravens — he was a real jerk that year. So I kind of fell off of him.”
When he finally met Travis on set, Charles said he flat-out told him, “This year, you were kind of a d***. What was up with that?” Instead of punching him in the face, Charles recalled that Travis just laughed and said, “You know what? You’re right. I’m gonna tell you why.”
According to Charles, Travis explained that the Chiefs were “most worried” about facing the Ravens, so he had “to come in with some swagger.”
“And he did,” Charles said. “He got in our heads and they won the game.”
After clearing the air, Charles then said Travis turned out to be “actually great” and “such a good dude.” Still, he added, “I like him a lot, but I’ll root against him.”
Cover of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’/(Parlophone Records)
David Bowie is the latest artist to see a streaming bump thanks to the Netflix series Stranger Things.
Bowie’s “Heroes” plays over the closing credits of the show’s series finale, and according to Billboard, Luminate data shows that the song saw a 500% increase in streams following its inclusion.
“Heroes,” the title track to Bowie’s 12th studio album, saw about 342,000 streams on Jan. 1, the day after the show’s New Year’s Eve debut, and then continued to increase up to 456,000 streams on Jan. 2 and 470,000 streams on Jan. 3. Those numbers mark a significant increase compared to the months prior to the episode’s airing, when “Heroes” would average about 94,000 streams per day.
Stranger Things has a history of boosting the visibility of songs from previous decades. Most notably, KateBush‘s 1985 single “Running Up That Hill (Deal With God)” became the most streamed song on Spotify in the U.S. and the U.K. after its use in the fourth season of the show. It also went to #1 in the U.K. and #3 in the U.S.
“Heroes,” originally released in 1977, wasn’t the only song featured in the Stranger Things series finale. Other songs in the episode include Prince‘s “When Doves Cry” and “Purple Rain,” Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper,” Pixies’ ” Here Comes Your Man” and Cowboy Junkies’ cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane.”
Luke Combs has both a new album and a new baby on the horizon in 2026, all while his latest hit, “Days Like These,” seems on track to be his next #1.
“You know, it’s a pretty simple tune and it was literally born on just this day where I was just having a great day,” he recalls. “I was like, ‘Man, you know, I wish I had more of these. I’ve got to write about this to some extent.'”
His sixth album, the follow-up to 2024’s Fathers & Sons, is also getting its finishing touches.
“New record’s done,” he told ABC Audio just before November’s CMA Awards. “I’m done with my part. It’s not quite turned in yet, but it should be turned in in the coming weeks and be out sometime early next year.”
“So I’m excited for people to hear it,” he adds. “It’s gonna be really good, I think.”
As for Luke’s third child, he and wife Nicole Combs have only revealed it’s due sometime this winter.
Musician Mike Garson, former member of David Bowie’s touring band, performs onstage during the second annual Above Ground concert benefiting MusiCares at The Fonda Theatre on September 16, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
Saturday marks 10 years since David Bowie’s death and his longtime pianist Mike Garson is opening up about the last time he spoke with the rock legend.
Garson tells Gold Derby that their last conversation was quite hopeful, despite the fact that Bowie was secretly battling cancer.
“It was only a few weeks before. He reached out to me, talking about continuing the trilogy of the Outside album,” Garson says, referring to Bowie’s 1995 album, and planned sequels that never happened. “He never gave up hope. … He was dying, and yet he was saying, ‘Let’s do this.’ So, of course, I got excited.”
Garson also recalls the last message he got from Bowie, noting he knew it was the end even though he was unaware of Bowie’s illness.
He says he had just listened to Bowie’s discography which left him “awestruck,” prompting him to send Bowie an email. Garson says, “And within three seconds, he emailed me back, saying, ‘Mike, we did a great body of work together.’”
Garson said the “finality” of that statement had him telling his wife “that’s the last time I’m going to hear form him.” “I don’t know if it was just my intuition,” he explained. “I did not know he was dying then, because he kept [his illness] secret from everyone. … But we had a very special connection.”
Garson is set to headline a trio of shows, Bowie’s Piano Man: A Decade in the Stars, at the Sun Rose West Hollywood in Los Angeles Jan. 8-10. The shows will celebrate Bowie’s birthday and the 10th anniversary of his death, and will feature guest appearances by Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Bowie touring bassist Carmine Rojas and others.
KATSEYE pose in the press room during the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 07, 2025 in Elmont, New York. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for MTV)
The Grammys are Feb. 1, and KATSEYE is nominated for the best new artist Grammy, up against artists including Olivia Dean, Alex Warren, sombr, Lola Young and Addison Rae.
Group member Sophia Lafortezatells People that initially, they thought the idea of them being nominated for a Grammy at this point in their career was “impossible” and “just insane,” so when they got the good news, she says, “We died.”
“It’s literally just the biggest, biggest honor … When we found out, we were all in tears, screaming, crying,” adds KATSEYE’s Lara Raj.
And if they do win? Lara says, “First, we’re all going to probably call our parents … because most of us are away from our families. And then, I don’t know, every time after we have a performance, we love to sleep. So, we might sleep.”
“But I think if we win a Grammy, we’re going to need to have a party,” she adds. “We’re going to need to do some celebration, the six of us, for sure.”
As for what 2026 holds for the “Gabriela” group, Sophia says, “We’re definitely working on a lot of new things and a lot of new music, and we never really do want to spoil anything too crazy. All we can say is for EYEKONS to standby and continue to hang on with what we’re going to release, because we plan to do this for a long time.”
Miley Cyrus attends the 2025 Academy Awards (Disney/Scott Kirkland)
It’s been a while since Miley Cyrus had a major acting role. She played herself in the 2022 TV movie Dolly Parton’s A Magic Mountain Christmas and had an uncredited part in the 2024 film Drive Away Dolls, but the last non-musical thing she actually starred in was a 2019 episode of Black Mirror. So, what would it take her to get back behind the camera?
“If the opportunity or the script or the character was right or was designed in a way that I would make sense [in it], I’m totally there,” she told Entertainment Tonight.
But right now, Miley is focused on getting an Oscar nomination for her Avatar: Fire and Ash song “Dream As One,” and preparing something for the 20th anniversary of Hannah Montana, which is coming up on March 24.
Asked about her plans for the latter on a red carpet on Sunday, Miley told Variety, “We’re working hard on ’em.” Asked to give “one little tease,” Miley shook her long, blond, Hannah-esque hair and said, “You see the bangs!”
Tim McIlrath of Rise Against performs onstage during day 2 of Warped Tour at Shoreline Waterfront on July 27, 2025 in Long Beach, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
Rise Against frontman Tim McIlrath didn’t swing away his chance to play a historic guitar.
The Chicago punks recently visited the Martin Guitar Museum in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, which houses the very first Martin guitar ever made.
Upon being presented with the instrument, McIlrath sat down with it and started strumming the Rise Against song “Swing Life Away” while singing the first verse.
You can watch footage of the performance now via the Rise Against Facebook.
Martin would later manufacture the 1959 D-18E that Kurt Cobain famously played during Nirvana‘s 1993 MTV Unplugged performance. That particular guitar sold for a record-breaking $6 million at auction in 2020.
Rise Against will launch a U.S. tour in March in support of their latest album, 2025’s Ricochet.
Busta Rhymes at 2025 Espys (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
Busta Rhymes is entering 2026 with a sense of happiness he’s eager to share. Speaking to ABC’s On the Red Carpet, he says that fans can expect exactly that from him this year.
“My 2026 is definitely going to be filled with an abundance of sharing this happiness that I’ve been feeling. I just want to share this joy. I want everybody to feel just as happy, if not more happy than how I’m feeling, because I’m extremely happy and I’m grateful to everything and everyone that contributed to that happiness that I finally figured out exists for real,” he shares.
He says he also aims to use his music “to shift the climate” amid “what’s happening in the environment right now,” noting, “We don’t need to do a deep dive.”
Much like his performance at Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest with DJ Cassidy, Wyclef Jean and T.I., Busta says his 2026 will feature more collaborations.
“We’re gonna have an unparalleled 2026 because this is what we need to show more of. This coming together, this collective effort, common destiny, common cause this united front of being able to give people the smoke no matter what level of smoke, through what we do and through what we love and that’s what it’s about,” he shares. “So just look forward to a whole lot more of that 2026.”
Noel Gallagher performs during the Oasis Live ’25 world tour at MetLife Stadium on August 31, 2025 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
It doesn’t sound like James Bond will be looking back in anger anytime soon.
Following U.K.tabloid reports that Oasis is being lined up to record the theme song for the next film in the long-running spy franchise, Noel Gallagher tells talkSPORT that they haven’t been approached for the gig.
“This James Bond thing? What, Oasis? No,” Gallagher replied when asked about the rumors.
However, that doesn’t mean Gallagher wouldn’t be open to an Oasis Bond song.
“It’d be an absolute honor,” Gallagher said. “I think those kind of things should be done by Brits, and not Yanks.”
If Oasis did end up recording a new Bond song, it would mark their first fresh material since the band’s 2025 reunion tour, which saw Noel and his formerly estranged brother Liam Gallagher sharing the live stage for the first time in 16 years. The “Wonderwall” outfit hasn’t announced any future plans since completing the run in November, instead declaring, “There will now be a pause for a period of reflection.”
