Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother performs at Pandemonium music festival on April 20, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. (Naomi Rahim/WireImage)
Wolfmother will be telling you all the story about the joker and thief every night on the road in 2026.
The Australian rockers have announced a U.S. tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 2005 self-titled debut album, which they will be playing in full each show.
The outing runs from June 7 in Austin, Texas, to July 12 in San Diego. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Wolfmother.com.
The album Wolfmother earned fans with its throwback hard rock sound reminiscent of bands like Led Zeppelin. It spawned singles including “Joker and the Thief,” “Woman” and “White Unicorn.”
Wolfmother has since released five more albums, the most recent of which is 2021’s Rock Out.
2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Joe Cocker (Courtesy of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
British singer Joe Cocker, who passed away in 2014, is set to be posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Known for his soulful voice, Cocker rose to fame starting in the late ’60s and is remembered for his iconic performance at the Woodstock festival in 1969.
Some of his biggest hits were covers of songs made famous by other artists, including The Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends,” which was later used as the theme for the series The Wonder Years; “You Are So Beautiful to Me,” written by Billy Preston;and “Feelin’ Alright,” written by Traffic’s Dave Mason.
He also had a #1 hit in the ’80s with the An Officer and a Gentleman song “Up Where We Belong” with Jennifer Warnes, which won a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe.
Cocker’s been eligible for the Rock Hall for 31 years, and there are plenty of artists who think his induction is long overdue. In fact, when the nominations were announced in April, artists like Paul McCartney, Billy Joel and ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons came out in support of Cocker’s induction.
McCartney released a letter calling him “a great man and a fine singer whose unique style made for some fantastic performances,” while Joel shared a video in which he read a 2014 letter he sent to the Rock Hall, urging them to induct Cocker. Gibbons called Cocker “the very embodiment of rock and roll in terms of talent and spirit.”
And Simon Kirke, who’s being inducted into the Rock Hall this year with Bad Company, says he’s happy to see Cocker getting in with them. He tells ABC Audio, “The guy should have been inducted years and years ago. Such a great singer.”
The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held Saturday in Los Angeles and will stream live on Disney+ starting at 8 p.m. ET. ABC will also air a highlights special on Jan. 1, 2026, at 8 p.m. ET.
Riley Green performs on ABC’s ‘CMA Fest presented by SoFi’ (Disney/Larry McCormack)
Riley Green has already scored one #1 hit in 2025 with “Worst Way,” but his latest duet with Ella Langley, “Don’t Mind If I Do,” is nearing the top of the charts, as well. Riley, who wrote both songs, says it’s always special when a song he had a hand in sees that kind of chart success, and he feels gratitude for it on two different levels.
“It’s kinda hard to comprehend, really. I’ve gotta kinda stop and appreciate it every once in a while,” he says. “The songwriter side of me, that’s a huge honor, you know what I mean? For me to have a song that I wrote, whether I sang it or somebody else did, would be a really great achievement for me to have a #1 song like that.”
But beyond that, Riley says getting to actually perform a song he’s written as it’s rising to the top is a different kind of thrill.
“Being that it’s something that I’m playing, and I get to go see these people sing it louder and louder every week at places I’ve never been before because they’ve heard it on the radio — that’s a really cool feeling,” he says. “It keeps you going for sure.”
“Don’t Mind If I Do” is nominated for musical event of the year at the 59th annual CMA Awards, coming up Nov. 19 on ABC and streaming the next day on Hulu.
Dua Lipa attends The 2025 Met Gala Celebrating ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ on May 5, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/FilmMagic)
Dua Lipa is the face of YSL Beauté’s Libre, the second-bestselling fragrance in the world. But now she’s expanding into skin care with her very own brand, DUA, which she says was designed to be “clean, effective and effortless.”
DUA is a partnership with the skincare brand Augustinus Bader and includes a cleanser, a glow complex and a moisturizer, priced from $40 to $80 each. According Women’s Wear Daily, the brand is being kept limited to those three products.
“We had this agreement that we were trying to simplify down to a highly efficient routine,” says Augustinus Bader CEO Charles Rosier [rose-ee-AIRE].
Rosier notes that Augustinus Bader is bringing “the science” to the line, while Dua “inspires by her positive energy, dynamic life and her vision.” In this case, the science is a special ingredient called TFC5™️, designed for people with younger skin.
Dua wrote on Instagram, “such a dream to launch my very own skincare line in collaboration with the best of the best. I’m so in LOVE with these formulations and the amazing TFC5™️ technology that makes them so special, let the new journey begin!”
The products are available exclusively at DuaByAB.com.
New Edition performs on Good Morning America on Thursday, October 30, 2025. (Paula Lobo)
Before New Edition announced in late October their plans to tour in 2026, a Boston street had been renamed in their honor: Dearborn Street became New Edition Way during a ceremony in August. Speaking to ABC Audio, Michael Bivins shares how it felt for them to be celebrated in such a way by their hometown.
“It was beautiful because it was right in front of the school that Ricky [Bell] and Ralph [Tresvant] went to. Bobby [Brown]’s house was right there. His building was there. And it was the gym that we met in, the Orchard Park Rec Center,” he recalls. “The whole city came out, and it was just a special moment.”
Mike shares that the energy from the celebration is what he hopes to spread when New Edition launches the New Edition Way tour with Boyz II Men and Toni Braxton.
“You don’t realize how special it is to see your neighbors, and for people to talk about when they were younger and eating sandwiches and swimming and karate and basketball. And I think that’s what the New Edition Way is all about,” he explains. “We want [to] take that type of energy from Orchard Park…[and] move it around the country.”
The New Edition Way tour kicks off Jan. 28, 2026, in Oakland and runs through April 4, 2026, in Houston. It follows their residency in Las Vegas.
“Being out on the road is home for us, this is what we know the best, and we able to do the type of show that we really wanna do,” Ralph says. “I think that at the end of the day, we love just traveling from city to city and bringing what we do to the fans, instead of having them come to us.”
He says Vegas was fun, but “it’s just time to hit the road and do what we’re normally used to.”
Incubus’ Brandon Boyd on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd‘s visual artwork is going on display at a gallery in Toronto.
The exhibition will open Nov. 13 at Taglialatella Galleries with an event attended by Boyd. It will remain on view through Nov. 27.
“In addition to his celebrated music career, Boyd is an accomplished visual artist, known for his striking works that blend ink, watercolor, and acrylic—bridging the worlds of portraiture, abstraction, and contemporary expression,” the gallery says.
Boyd is also set to take part in a moderated Q&A session about the exhibit, the details of which will be announced soon.
Incubus, meanwhile, has been working on new music to follow their 2017 album, 8.
‘Bread of Angels’ book cover. (Courtesy of Random House)
Patti Smith details discovering the identity of her biological father in her new memoir, Bread of Angels.
According to People, Smith writes that she “wept” after learning that she and her sister were actually half sisters upon taking a DNA test in 2012.
“The results of our test put a great strain on my thought processes and for some time, I was unable to write,” Smith says. “Every morning, without fail, I had sat in a local café with my notebook and coffee, now I was obliged to question the validity of what I had written.”
Smith’s parentage had been questioned throughout her life — her maternal great-grandmother maintained that her son, Patti’s great-uncle, was actually her father.
“I had all but accepted the fact that I was fathered by my mother’s Uncle Joe,” Smith writes.
Smith then turned to her daughter, who she’d given birth to at age 20 and placed for adoption before reconnecting years later, for help in tracking down her biological father. They learned that his name was actually Sidney.
“I knew he was my father before I saw his face,” Smith writes.
Smith never got to meet Sidney, as he died young. His widow, who lived into her 90s, had also passed.
“I wasn’t sure what to do with this information, because I wanted the book I was writing to be very truthful, and all of a sudden, I had a parallel truth,” Smith tells People. “And I felt if I didn’t write about it, then it felt like truth was compromised.”
Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless performs on stage during a concert for the Power Up tour at Murrayfield Stadium on August 21, 2025 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)
The Pretty Reckless will be opening up for AC/DC once more.
Taylor Momsen and company have confirmed that they’ll be on the bill for the newly announced 2026 leg of the “Back in Black” legends’ Power Up tour. They previously provided support on the 2024 and 2025 Power Up legs.
As previously reported, the 2026 U.S. Power Up dates begin July 11 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and will wrap up Sept. 29 in Philadelphia. Tickets go on sale beginning Friday at 10 a.m. local time; select dates go on sale Friday at noon local time.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit ACDC.com.
The Pretty Reckless released a new holiday EP on Friday. They also have a new, non-holiday single out, “For I Am Death,” which is currently #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
Jonny Buckland and Chris Martin of Coldplay perform at Stadio San Siro, on June 25, 2023 in Milan, Italy. (Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images for ABA)
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland have announced an intimate benefit concert taking place Dec. 3 at Hackney Church in London.
The show will raise funds for charities Crisis and War Child, which work to support those experiencing homelessness and children living through military conflict, respectively.
Tickets are available only to residents of the U.K. and Europe and will be raffled off to randomly selected winners. If you’re eligible, visit Coldplay.com for entry info.
Martin and Buckland previously performed at Hackney Church together in 2024 and raised over $450,000 for Crisis.
Coldplay played much larger venues on their Music of the Spheres tour, which came to U.S. stadiums over the spring and summer.
Ciara has entered the 40 club, and her goal is to improve in life while making it a point to enjoy the decade. She tells Entertainment Tonight she just wants to “make the best” of her 40s rather than focusing her actual age.
“I think that you do get better with time, and that’s a concept that I really had to race along the way because I think sometimes, numbers can throw you off, and you can kinda think like, ‘Oh my gosh, what does that mean?'” Ciara explains. “And it’s like life is somewhat just beginning or it’s still early.”
With that mentality, the singer says she desires to “level up in every aspect of my life.”
“I just hope to live life to the fullest, you know, as a mom, as a wife and in my businesses,” Ciara shared. “I hope that I keep leveling up. That’s the overall goal.”
Ciara turned 40 on Oct. 25 and celebrated with loved ones at a surprise party hosted by husband Russell Wilson. She admits she’s not fond of surprises but says they’re okay when they’re coming from her man.
“Honestly, I don’t like surprises like that, but I do like his surprises,” Ciara tells ET. “I’m like if he’s ever doing anything that I don’t know about, I trust it. I let him play QB.”
She previously expressed her gratitude for the party on Instagram alongside a few photos from the event.
“Baby thank you for always making me feel on top of the world and for throwing the best surprise birthday party!” she captioned the dump. “You always make every moment for me, big or small, feel special and important!”
“You are the best!!” Ciara continued. “I love you soooooo much @DangeRussWilson.”
