(L-R) Jon Bon Jovi and Jesse Bongiovi attend Hampton Water celebrates Bubbly with Jon Bon Jovi at La La Laundry on January 30, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Hampton Water)
Jon Bon Jovi’s family continues to grow.
The rocker’s son Jesse Bongiovi and wife Jesse Light announced on Instagram Monday that they welcomed their first child.
“Blair Lucy Bongiovi. Our sweet girl has arrived, and we couldn’t be happier,” they wrote, next to a partial photo of the infant. “Welcome to the world, baby Blair bear.”
This is Jon Bon Jovi’s second grandchild. In August, son Jake Bongiovi and his wife, Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown, announced in a joint Instagram post that they had adopted a baby girl.
The 30-year-old Jesse is Jon Bon Jovi’s eldest son. The rocker and wife DorotheaBongiovi have four children together, daughter Stephanie Bongiovi, 32, and sons Jesse, Jake, 23, and Romeo Bongiovi, 21.
Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes perform during the 2025 SEMA Fest at the Las Vegas Convention Center on November 07, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Bryan Steffy/Getty Images)
The Black Crowes and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne are confirmed to play the 2026 Mad Cool Festival, happening July 8-11 in Madrid, Spain.
Both artists are booked to play the final night of the festival, which also features headliner Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pulp and The National’s Matt Berninger.
The festival’s other headliners include Foo Fighters, Florence + the Machine and Twenty OnePilots, with the lineup also featuring Kings of Leon, Halsey, Dogstar, Lorde, A Perfect Circle, Charlie Puth and more.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Mad Cool. After various presales, tickets go on sale to the general public on Nov. 20.
Byrne is currently on tour in support of his latest album, Who is the Sky?, and is set to play three nights in Seattle starting Tuesday.
The Black Crowes will release a super-deluxe box set of their third studio album, Amorica, on Friday. They also just announced a tour of Australia that kicks off April 3 in Melbourne and includes an appearance at the Byron Bay Bluesfest.
Drake and PartyNextDoor have just racked up a few certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America. Their album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, has garnered 1 million equivalent album units, officially obtaining a Platinum certification.
A few of its tracks have also been certified: “Somebody Loves Me,” “Die Trying,” “CN Tower,” “Something About You,” “Gimme a Hug” and “Spider-man Superman” are now Gold. “Nokia,” which also appeared on the album, is now a double-Platinum song.
PartyNextDoor and Drake released $ome $exy $ongs 4 U on Valentine’s Day and supported it with the $ome $pecial $hows 4 UK/EU tour.
Their song “Somebody Loves Me” is nominated for best melodic rap performance at the 2026 Grammy Awards.
Lee Brice’s Sunriser Tour (Courtesy True Public Relations/Lee Brice)
Lee Brice will launch the Sunriser Tour in 2026, heading to Canada for nine dates in the spring.
The trek kicks off April 10 in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and wraps April 25 in Kitchener, Ontario. Brett Kissel and Grace Tyler will join him on the dates.
“Man, Canada, y’all have been ridin’ shotgun with me since back before I even had a hit!” Lee says in a news release. “That fire you lit in my soul has only burned brighter over the years, and you’ve got a permanent spot right here in this country boy’s heart.”
“You’ve watched me chase these sunrises,” he continues, “and I can’t wait to roll back into your towns on the Sunriser Tour, showin’ off this new fire we’ve stoked together. Get ready friends, I’m comin’ back to y’all with all I’ve got!”
Lee just released his new track “Killed the Man” as his new radio single, with more new music still to come.
Charli XCX attends the 5th Annual Academy Museum Gala at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, on October 18, 2025 in Los Angeles (Frazer Harrison/WireImage)
Charli XCX has released her first official post-Brat single, and it’s different from what you might expect.
The song, “House,” is part of the album of music she’s created for Emerald Fennell‘s upcoming take on Wuthering Heights. It’s a collaboration with Welsh rocker John Cale, best known for his work with pioneering Rock & Roll Hall of Famers The Velvet Underground.
As she explained earlier this month in an Instagram Story message, Charli said that a quote from Cale — “elegant and brutal” — had inspired the sound of her music for the film. She reached out to Cale to see what he thought about the songs, and they ended up collaborating on “House,” which, Charli said, “made me cry.”
The song begins as a poem with creepy-sounding musical backing, as Cale recites:
Can I speak to you privately for a moment? I just want to explain. Explain the circumstances I find myself in. What and who I really am. I’m a prisoner. To live for eternity. I was thinking, ‘What is this place?’ I thought it would be perfect. I thought, ‘I want it to be perfect.’ Please. Let it be perfect. Am I living in another world? Another world I created. For what? If it’s beauty, do you see beauty? If there’s beauty, say it’s enough.”
Then, Charli and Cale sing together, repeatedly, “I think I’m gonna die in this house” as the music gets more intense. Finally, as the song ends, Cale intones, “In every room, I hear silence.”
The video features a dark woods at night, a raven, burning candle wax, and Cale seemingly holding Charli down against her will on a marble altar.
Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, hits theaters Feb. 13, 2026.
Cover of Freddie Mercury’s ‘Mr Bad Guy’/(Hollywood Records)
Freddie Mercury’s debut solo album, Mr Bad Guy, is being reissued in celebration of its 40th anniversary.
The album will be released Dec. 5 on 180 gram translucent green vinyl featuring a 2019 mix by Queen’s longtime sound team, Justin Shirley-Smith and Joshua J. Macrae. The mix originally appeared on the Mercury box set Never Boring. The album will also be reissued on picture disc.
“We went back to the original multi-track tapes,” Shirley-Smith says. “It’s a great collection of songs and Freddie’s vocal performance is absolutely extraordinary.”
He adds, “The idea wasn’t to try to make it sound like they would make it now, it was to make it sound like it would have then if they’d had better technology and more time. And of course, it’s a massive honor to work on anything Freddie did, and we always treat it with the utmost respect.”
Originally released in April 1985 during a Queen hiatus, Mr Bad Guy was made up of 11 songs written by Mercury, featuring more of a dance-pop sound than the music he recorded with Queen.
“I had a lot of ideas bursting to get out and there were a lot of musical territories I wanted to explore which I really couldn’t do within Queen,” Mercury said at the time.
Although not a hit in America, the album hit #6 in the U.K. The lead single, “I Was Born to Love You,” was later reworked by Queen after Mercury’s 1991 death and appeared on their 1995 album Made in Heaven, which was their 15th and final studio album.
Måneskin guitarist Thomas Raggi has announced his debut solo album, Masquerade.
The record, due out Dec. 5, was produced by Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello, who previously worked with Måneskin on the song “GOSSIP.” It also includes collaborations with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Luke Spiller of The Struts, Franz Ferdinand‘s Alex Kapranos, ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum, Jet‘s Nic Cester and Sergio Pizzorno of Kasabian.
“Seeing so many musical icons come together (along with the ones I had the pleasure of meeting while writing the album) reminded me that music knows no boundaries; that you have to follow your instinct and inspiration, ignore imposed rules, and simply do what you feel,” Raggi says in a press statement. “The Måneskin story teaches me that, and now I had the ultimate confirmation. I feel as if those who made music history are placing a hand on my shoulder, saying: ‘You’re on the right path.'”
Raggi’s Måneskin bandmates Damiano David and Victoria De Angelis have also released solo material. The band’s most recent album is 2023’s RUSH!
Here’s the Masquerade track list:
“Getcha!” with Nic Cester & Chad Smith & Tom Morello “Keep The Pack” with Matt Sorum & Tom Morello “Lucy” with Upsahl & Hama Okamoto & Chad Smith “Cat Got Your Tongue” with Sergio Pizzorno “For Nothing” with Matt Sorum “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” with Alex Kapranos “The Ritz” with Luke Spiller “Fallaway” with Maxim
Riley Green is heading overseas in 2026 to play for U.S. troops.
His three military dates kick off March 9 at U.S. Navy Base Fleet Yokosuka in Kanagawa, Japan. On March 10, he continues on to nearby Naval Air Facility Atsugi. March 22 will find him in Hickman, Hawaii, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor.
Supporting the troops is a cause close to Riley’s heart: He’s singled out veterans-focused charities like Folds of Honor since establishing the Buford Bonds Charitable Fund in 2023, which is named after both his grandfathers.
Riley’s military trek comes shortly before he sets his Cowboy As It Gets Tour in motion April 16 in Southaven, Mississippi.
Tyler, The Creator made a humongous leap back to the top 10 of the Billboard 200. His album Chromakopia lands at #5 after previously sitting at #117. It earned 51,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Nov. 6, according to Luminate, and garnered 41,000 traditional album sales.
The jump comes just days after the anniversary reissue of Chromakopia, which was released as a CD, vinyl and two collectible boxed sets. The original rendition dropped on Oct. 28, 2024, and debuted atop the Billboard 200, where it stayed for its first three weeks. It’s now nominated for album of the year, best rap album and best album cover at the 2026 Grammys.
Tyler is also up for best alternative music album for Don’t Tap the Glass, best rap performance for “Darling, I” featuring Teezo Touchdown, and best rap song for “Sticky” featuring GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne.
Sam Fender on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Sam Fender may people-watch on the way back home, but you can watch his new concert film without having to even leave your home.
The “Seventeen Going Under” artist will stream his Live at London Stadium performance on YouTube, premiering Saturday at noon ET.
As you might’ve guessed from the title, Live at London Stadium was filmed during Fender’s show in the English capital in June. For a preview, you can check out the Live at London Stadium rendition of “People Watching” streaming now.
“People Watching” is the title track and lead single off Fender’s Mercury Prize-winning new album, which was released in February. A deluxe version of the record, featuring a collaboration with Elton John, drops Dec. 5.
