Poppy on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Poppy has shared a new song called “Guardian,” a track off her upcoming album, Empty Hands.
“Urgent guitar riffs marry with thunderous percussion against euphonious, infectious vocals from Poppy,” a press release says of “Guardian.” “She continues to evade the boundaries of genre to create her own vision of what metal can and should be.”
You can watch a visualizer for “Guardian” on YouTube.
Empty Hands, the follow-up to 2024’s Negative Spaces, drops Jan. 23. It also includes the previously released songs “Unravel” and “Bruised Sky.”
Poppy will be opening for Evanescence‘s 2026 European tour. She previously teamed up with Amy Lee and Spiritbox‘s Courtney LaPlante on the single “End of You.”
James Murphy performs with LCD Soundsystem at the 2025 Sea.Hear.Now Music Festival on September 13, 2025 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. (Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)
LCD Soundsystem has announced a 2026 residency in Chicago.
The “Dance Yrself Clean” outfit will perform at the Windy City’s Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom on March 5, 6, 7 and 8. Presales begin Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Dec. 12 at 10 a.m. local time.
Boots Riley‘s latest project, I Love Boosters, will kick off the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival. The movie starring Keke Palmer, Lakeith Stanfield, Don Cheadle and more will make its world premiere on opening night of the annual event, which will run March 12-18 in Austin, Texas. The movie tells the story of a crew of professional shoplifters called the Velvet Gang who choose a cutthroat fashion maven as their next target.
“The Velvet Gang has officially cased Austin and decided Opening Night at SXSW 2026 will be the start of their global takeover! We are beyond thrilled to kick off the festival with the World Premiere of Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters,” Claudette Godfrey, vice president of film & TV at SXSW, said in a statement, noting the film is a “wildly original and boundary-pushing vision that’s deliciously unpredictable.”
“I Love Boosters is audacious, entertaining, and guaranteed to get our festival off to an unforgettable start,” she continued. “Trust us, you’ll want to be there when The Velvet Gang bursts onto the scene!”
The film, which also stars Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonzalez and Demi Moore, will be Boots’ third project to premiere at the SXSW festival. His first, Sorry to Bother You, debuted in 2018, and I Am A Virgo premiered in 2023.
Dustin Lynch attends the ‘The 59th Annual CMA Awards’ (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)
Dustin Lynch went back to his old school on Tuesday night to help out the folks in his hometown of Tullahoma, Tennessee.
The 10th edition of his annual Dustin Lynch and Friends Benefit Concert, held at Tullahoma High School, raised over $32,000 for local kids and families. Specifically, the money will be used to build an inclusive playground for special needs children and support Isaiah 117 House, where kids awaiting foster placement can feel safe and at home. Donations were also collected for Toys for Tots during the show.
Dustin wraps up his stint on the Two for the Road tour with Scotty McCreery on Saturday; he’ll be finished with touring for the year on Dec. 13. In January, he’ll return to Luke Bryan‘s Crash My Playa destination festival in Cancun. As the unofficial “mayor” of Crash My Playa, he’ll host his now-legendary Pool Situation pool party.
Kelsea Ballerini performs on the ‘The 59th Annual CMA Awards’ (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
If you saw Kelsea Ballerini perform her song “I Sit in Parks” during November’s CMA Awards and thought, “That’s one of the best songs I’ve heard all year” — well, you weren’t alone.
The song has been chosen as one of Rolling Stone‘s 100 Best Songs of 2025, and it’s one of the very few country tracks on the list; it comes in at #90. The publication notes, “Kelsea Ballerini dropped the most honest country song of the year with this just over two-minute diary entry about all that she’s sacrificed in pursuit of her career. … [H]er bare emotion makes the song a must-hear for anyone who’s set aside life in favor of work.”
Coincidentally, or perhaps not, Kelsea actually mentions Rolling Stone in the lyrics of “I Sit in Parks.”
HARDY also has a song on the list: “Luckiest Man Alive,” from his Country! Country! album, comes in at #87. While Rolling Stone notes that the song isn’t a single, it adds, “That doesn’t mean it wasn’t one of the most feel-good sing-along pop country songs of the year.”
Calling it a “three-minute earworm,” the publication writes, “It may contain just about all the Music Row tropes the genre gets ridiculed for (jacked-up truck, SEC football, and a Hank [Williams] Jr. quote? Check, check, and check), but it sure works.”
Much higher up on the list is Hailey Whitters‘ “High on the Hog,” coming in at #64. Rolling Stone describes it as a “whip-smart, fiddle-heavy travelogue about the trials and travails of being an aspiring heartland country star” and praises its “throwback earworm arrangement that conjures everyone from Miranda Lambert to Alan Jackson.”
By the way, Rolling Stone‘s #1 song of 2025 is Lady Gaga‘s “Abracadabra.”
An attendee wears a GOLF le FLEUR tote bag during Camp Flog Gnaw music festival on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Los Angeles , CA. (Ronaldo Bolaños / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The next clothing drop from Tyler, The Creator‘s le FLEUR* label will be his last. In an Instagram post announcing the final collection, Tyler shared that making clothes is his “second passion” and that the clothing line, created in 2019, was his way to “mirror things that matched my personal style.”
“this has taken me to places ive dreamed of,” he wrote, thanking Virgil Abloh, Pharrell Williams and “every helping hand that understood the language.”
Le FLEUR*, he adds, “was a language i wanted to create, but now its time to slow down on communicating. thank you to everyone who supported the idea.”
He clarifies in the post that the clothing will be the only part of the line to come to an end, as “fragrances, accessories and specific collaborations will still continue on.”
Select items from the final le FLEUR* clothing collection will drop Saturday, with a look at the last seven years of the collection now available online. “i never wanted to be in the lookbooks or campaigns but for this last one it felt right ( i was the fit model afterall),” he wrote.
The magazine describes the “magic” of the song, off Gaga’s most recent album, Mayhem, writing, “The song was an immediate hit and 2025’s most inescapable earworm anthem thanks to the way she and her sorceress’ apprentices assembled a perfect Lady Gaga pop song — one that nods to early hits like ‘Just Dance’ and ‘Bad Romance’ right on the edge of glory while feeling totally of her own brand-new moment.”
Also making the top 10 is “Golden” by KPop Demon Hunters group HUNTR/X, performed by Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami and EJAE, at #3; “Manchild” by Sabrina Carpenter at #6; “The Fate of Ophelia” by Taylor Swift at #8; “Luther” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA at #9; and “The Subway” by Chappell Roan at #10.
Rolling Stone previously revealed its 100 Best Albums of 2025 list, with Gaga’s Mayhem coming in at #2. Bad Bunny‘sDebí Tirar Más Fotos was #1.
Gwen Stefani performs on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ on December 3, 2025 (Todd Owyoung/NBC)
Gwen Stefani wants everyone to feel “nostalgic” when they see No Doubt’s show at the Sphere Las Vegas.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday, Gwen chatted about reuniting with the band for 18 residency shows kicking off next May.
“I want people to come and make it feel, like, really nostalgic. Like they’re back in time. Like, ‘Remember this? Remember this, guys?’ Like, this is what we did together,” she said.
Gwen adds that she and her bandmates are putting together the set list and that “it’s gonna be so awesome.”
No Doubt had been on hiatus since 2015 before announcing a pair of reunion performances at Coachella 2024. Since then, their only other live performance took place at January’s FireAid benefit concert.
Gwen also performed her new holiday song, “Shake the Snow Globe,” featured in the Prime Video holiday movie Oh. What. Fun.
Lil Baby has finally released his album The Leaks. It dropped Wednesday on his 31st birthday, giving fans full versions of leaked songs and snippets that have been teased over the years. Young Thug, Lil Yachty and Playboi Carti are featured on the album, which serves as a gift to Lil Baby’s day-one fans.
GloRilla‘s not making an R&B album after all. After previously posting on X that she was going the R&B route for her sophomore album, she told Complex’s Jordan Rose she was just trolling those “trying to talk s***” after she revealed the R&B artists on the project. She also teased she’s entering a new era following 2024’s Glorious. “I can’t tell y’all when it’s gonna be. But I’m excited for it and I hope y’all like it […] I’m in the studio,” she said. “I’m always working.”
Ray-J has taken issue with Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who he claims have never greeted his sister, Brandy, when attending several of her Boy is Mine tour shows to see Kelly Rowland perform. “N***** need to pull up when they pull up to the show,” he said in an Instagram video, noting they’ve taken pictures with her co-headliner, Monica. “Come on, say ‘what’s up’ to Brandy. Jay-Z and Beyonce, for y’all to come to every show and not speak to B. I don’t like that.” In the caption, Ray clarified that Brandy did not co-sign and was not aware of his post. “THIS IS COMING FROM THE HEART!! And I LOVE MY FAMILY AND I LOVE JAY AND BEY!!” he wrote.
A little over two months after the death of their drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin released a statement announcing their breakup.
“We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were,” read the statement.
The surviving members of Led Zeppelin – Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones – reunited three times following the split.
The first reunion happened in 1985 at Live Aid in Philadelphia, while the second occurred on May 14, 1988, at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert, with Bonham’s son, Jason Bonham, behind the drum kit.
The third and final reunion took place Dec. 10, 2007, at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at the O2 Arena in London, again with Jason Bonham behind the drum kit.
