Chino Moreno of Deftones performs during Lollapalooza at Grant Park on August 03, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Josh Brasted/FilmMagic)
Deftones are headed Down Under in 2026.
Chino Moreno and company have announced a six-show tour through Australia and New Zealand beginning in May. The bill also includes Interpol and Ecca Vandal.
Presales begin Tuesday, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Deftones.com.
Deftones last played Australia in 2022 for the Good Things Festival, but they haven’t toured there as a headliner since 2016.
Deftones released a new album, private music, in August, and toured the U.S. over the spring and summer. They’ll be back stateside in October 2026 to play the Sick New World festival in Forth Worth, Texas.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner are teaming up for a 2026 tour.
The Double Trouble Double Vision Tour will consist of 19 co-headlining dates next summer, kicking off July 23 in Atlanta and wrapping Aug 29 in Rogers, Arkansas.
“The energy the band has felt knowing we’ll be touring with Skynyrd this coming summer has been electric!” Foreigner’s Jeff Pilson says. “Two bands with plenty of iconic songs, dueling guitars, double trouble and double vision are gonna set each and every stage on fire! No question this will be THE go-to event of the summer!”
Skynyrd frontman Johnny Van Zant adds, “I’m excited to share the stage with Foreigner and hear all their amazing hits!” He notes, “I’ve always been a fan, and I believe the audience will love this tour. Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner together — it doesn’t get much better than that.”
An artist presale for tickets begins Tuesday at 12 p.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public starting Friday at 10 a.m. local time. A complete list of date can be found at foreigneronline.com or lynyrdskynyrd.com.
Brett Young will bring his new era to his fans next year.
He’s just announced the 2026 2.0 tour, in support of 2.0, his new album that features his current hit, “Drink With You.” It launches Jan. 22 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and wraps Feb. 28 in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
“I’m beyond excited to hit the road next year,” Brett says in a statement. “It feels like something special is happening and I want y’all to be a part of it.”
A presale starts Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, which is also when VIP packages go on sale. The general sale begins Friday at 10 a.m. local time. Visit BrettYoungMusic.com for more information.
Host Glen Powell during the monologue on Saturday, November 15, 2025. (Will Heath/NBC)
Glen Powell may have gotten more than he bargained for when he referenced Fall Out Boy on Saturday Night Live.
The Top Gun: Maverick actor hosted SNL on Nov. 15, and during his monologue he told the audience about his movie star aspirations growing up.
“When I was a teen, I directed some of my own films, they were a little experimental, emotionally nuanced,” Powell said. “I was watching a lot of French New Wave at the time, I think you’ll see the influence.”
Powell then played a video of himself lip-synching along to Fall Out Boy’s classic “Sugar, We’re Goin Down.”
“That was actually my audition for Top Gun,” Powell quipped.
Powell’s reference made its way to the Fall Out Boy members, who responded in an Instagram post reading, “Want to direct the next fob music video @glenpowell?”
In addition to the excitement over the possible collaboration, fans in the comments are hoping that “the next fob music video” means there’s a next Fall Out Boy album in the works. The band’s most recent record is 2023’s So Much (for) Stardust.
Fall Out Boy has spent 2025 celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 2005 breakout album, From Under the Cork Tree. A deluxe reissue was released in October.
Rocker Patti Smith was awarded the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids.
The book documented Smith’s relationship with late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late ’60s and early ’70s New York art scene. The book was a New York Times bestseller and won several other awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Patti released her second memoir, Bread of Angels, on Nov. 4. Described as “the most intimate” of Smith’s memoirs, the book follows the musician through her childhood in Philadelphia and South Jersey, her teenage years “when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold,” her marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith and their family life, and more.
Some huge stars are coming together to help raise money for historically Black colleges and universities while combating student loan debt. Live Nation Urban and Student Freedom Initiative have tapped stars including Coco Jones, John Legend, GloRilla, Jeezy and the cast of Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen to perform at the inaugural HBCU Awarefest.
Big Boi of Outkast, 2 Chainz, Larenz Tate and WNBA star Angel Reese are also on the lineup as speakers for the upcoming event.
“At Student Freedom Initiative, we are incredibly excited about the coalition and movement that we are building to end the student loan debt crisis for our nation’s HBCU students,” SFI President and CEO Keith Shoates says in a statement. “In addition to these amazing performers, we have enlisted AWAREFEST Ambassadors, showing the breadth of our ecosystem of mission-aligned partners. These individuals will help to spread the word and share the urgency of our mission to tackle the racial wealth gap through the lens of education.”
Tickets for the HBCU Awarefest, taking place March 26, 2026, at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, become available via a presale Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET. The general sale begins Friday at 10 a.m. ET at https://www.awarefest.org/tickets.
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George Strait has invited Zach Top to open for him at his newly added second stadium show in Lubbock, Texas.
The in-the-round show, scheduled for April 24, 2026, at AT&T Stadium, will also feature Dylan Gossett. It joins Strait’s previously announced April 25, 2026, date in Lubbock, which will include Miranda Lambert and Hudson Westbrook.
Tickets for both shows go on sale at GeorgeStrait.com on Friday at 10 a.m. CT.
As previously reported, King George will be celebrated at the 47th annual Kennedy Center Honors in December. In early 2026, he’ll be inducted into the Texas Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Tori Kelly appears on ABC’s ‘Celebrity Wheel of Fortune’ (Disney/Eric McCandless)
Tori Kelly is a mom.
The singer announced the birth of her first child, a baby boy, with husband André Murillo. In an Instagram post, she shared a photo of the newborn’s tiny feet as well as one partially showing the baby lying next to her two pups.
“Zayden Michael Murillo 11.11.25,” she captioned the post. “we love you so much, sweet boy.”
Tori announced her pregnancy in July in a video posted to social media and YouTube. In the video, soundtracked to a new Tori song, Tori and André dance around a house and embrace on the beach. At the end of the clip, Tori sings, “I’m ready for what comes next/ Let’s make a baby,” as she reveals her baby bump.
Tori and André began dating in 2016 and married in a private ceremony in 2018.
The Last Dinner Party has premiered the video for “Sail Away,” a track off the band’s new album, From the Pyre.
The clip cuts between two people dancing in front of a projection of the moon and a close-up profile shot on frontwoman Abigail Morris. It is now streaming on YouTube.
From the Pyre, the sophomore follow-up to The Last Dinner Party’s 2024 breakout debut, Prelude to Ecstasy, dropped in October. It also includes the lead single “This Is the Killer Speaking.”
The Last Dinner Party is currently on tour in the U.K. They’ll launch a 2026 U.S. tour in March.
(L-R) Gene Simmons, Eric Singer, Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer of KISS pose as they light the Empire State Building in celebration of the band’s final show at The Empire State Building on November 30, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust)
KISS returned to the stage for the first time since their final End of the Road World Tour concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden in December 2023. They performed Friday to Sunday at their KISS Kruise: Landlocked convention in Las Vegas.
The performances were the band’s first since the death of founding member Ace Frehley, who they paid tribute to at their first unmasked performance Friday, fan-shot footage posted to YouTube shows.
“Obviously, before we get going, and we’re going to have an awesome time … we just wanted to take a moment to think about somebody who was at the foundation of this band, and we’re talking about Ace,” Paul Stanley said. “We certainly had differences, but that’s what family is about.”
He then asked fans to take a moment of silence to honor Ace and “think about him looking down on us,” which was followed by chants of “Ace, Ace” from the crowd.
The KISS Kruise featured a reunion of the final KISS lineup: Paul, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer.
They played the tracks “Hard Luck Woman” and “Hide Your Heart” at their Friday acoustic performance for the first time since 2019, according to setlist.fm. The set also featured their classic ballad “Beth” and a cover of The Beatles’ “I’ll Be Back.”
The band broke out more KISS classics at their Saturday electric show, including “Detroit Rock City” and “Black Diamond,” as well as “Lick It Up” and “Rock and Roll All Nite” featuring former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick.
