Artwork for Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ‘Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou’ playlist/(Concord Records)
Looking for some music to soundtrack your Halloween? A new playlist may just help set the mood.
Concord Records has released a digital collection of Creedence Clearwater Revival classics with titles that seem perfect for Halloween. Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou includes such songs as “Bad Moon Rising” and “Born on the Bayou,” as well as “Tombstone Shadow,” “Pagan Baby,” “Graveyard Train,” “Sinister Purpose” and more.
Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou is now available on all digital outlets and on YouTube.
In August, Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty released the album Legacy, featuring a track list made up of newly recorded versions of his classic CCR tunes. He returns to the road on Oct. 31 with a show in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A complete list of dates can be found at JohnFogerty.com.
Joe Jonas of DNCE performs at the Capital Pride concert and festival, Washington, D.C.; June, 2022 (Brian Stukes/Getty Images)
Jonas Brothers‘ current tour, Greetings From Your Hometown, is all about nostalgia. But if watching JoBros play a couple of songs by Joe Jonas‘ side project DNCE during their set isn’t enough for you, you’ll be happy to hear that the group is going to do an actual gig.
The “Cake by the Ocean” combo will be performing at a Halloween party on Oct. 31 at FPL Solar Amphitheater in Miami. The group, which also includes guitarist JinJoo Lee and drummer Jack Lawless, promises “a mischief-filled night of tricks, treats and their fan-favorite hits.”
“This is going to be the ultimate Halloween party,” Joe says in a statement. “We have a lot of tricks up our sleeve and can’t wait to see Miami all dressed up, dancing with us all night long.”
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. ET via Ticketmaster.com. A fan presale begins the same day, but one hour earlier.
DNCE is squeezing in the gig between Jonas Brothers tour dates: JoBros are performing Oct. 29 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Nov. 1 in Lexington, Kentucky.
The JoBros set list includes “Cake by the Ocean” as well as another DNCE song, “Toothbrush.”
Robert Smith and Simon Gallup of The Cure perform during Riot Fest 2023 at Douglass Park on September 17, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images)
The Cure has shared an update on the progress of their next album, the follow-up to 2024’s Songs of a Lost World.
In the newly updated “Bio” section of their website, the “Just Like Heaven” outfit reveals, “In March 2025 the band went back into Rockfield Studios to record 13 more songs for a follow up album.”
Frontman Robert Smith spoke about the status of new material in a December interview with the U.K.’s Absolute Radio, during which he said that a “companion piece” to Songs of a Lost World was “pretty much ready to go.” He also said there was another “completely different” Cure record in the works.
Whenever a new Cure album arrives, it appears we won’t have to wait as long this time around. Prior to Songs of a Lost World, Smith and company hadn’t released a new record since 2008.
“As the Sky Is Falling Down” single artwork. (Chloe Trujillo)
For the Trujillos, music continues to be a family affair.
Chloe Trujillo, wife of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, has released a new single called “As the Sky Is Falling Down.”
“The song is about spiritual transformation through chaos,” Chloe says. “It discusses the fall of material illusions and reveals a deeper truth. There’s a saying, ‘True liberation is not in escaping chaos, but in no longer being disturbed by it.’ I wasn’t allowing the craziness of the world to affect me. Instead, I was creating a lot of art and music.”
A video for “As the Sky Is Falling Down” will premiere Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. The track is also set to appear on an upcoming EP called Rebirth, due out in early 2026.
Along with Robert and Chloe, the couple’s son, Tye Trujillo, is a musician and plays in the band OTTTO.
Pras Michel attends Gold Bar on October 19, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images)
Pras Michél has teamed with Mark Wahlberg for a documentary about his journey from member of the Grammy-winning Fugees to a target in the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.
The case alleges he laundered money that financier Jho Low stole from Malaysia’s state-owned investment fund, 1MDB, to support the reelection campaign of Barack Obama in 2012 and convince the U.S. government to send Guo Wengui back to China, The Associated Press reports. He was also accused of using millions of dollars to bribe Donald Trump‘s administration into dropping an investigation into Low’s embezzlement.
“Everyone is fascinated by all the twists and turns, like it’s some kind of thriller,” Pras says to Variety. “But for me, this is just my life — the real, messy, complicated truth of what I’ve been living through.”
Wahlberg says he’s “rooting for Pras and excited to tell his story,” which co-producer Archie Gips describes as a “surprising mix of pop culture and geopolitical intrigue that feels like a spy thriller come to life.”
Tortuga Music Festival 2026 lineup (Rock The Ocean/Live Nation)
Kenny Chesney will return to headline the Tortuga Music Festival in 2026.
This will be the superstar’s fifth Tortuga performance, starting with the inaugural beachfront gathering in 2013.
“I love everything about Tortuga, starting with that very first year!” Kenny says. “To be on the Atlantic Ocean with all that beach, the sea to one side and A1A to the other is everything this music is made of—and the people who’ve been coming out every time we’ve played there are my kind of people.”
“Work hard, play harder and have fun while loving everyone in the space is a good way to be, and I can’t wait to get there next April,” he adds.
Post Malone and Riley Green are the other headliners for the April 10-12 festival in Ft. Lauderdale, with Chayce Beckham, Ashley Cooke, Russell Dickerson, Tyler Hubbard, Dustin Lynch, Josh Ross, Clay Walker, Dwight Yoakam and many more set to play as well.
‘Quarantième: Live à Paris’ album artwork. (Inside Out Music/Sony Music)
Dream Theater has shared a live version of their song “Barstool Warrior,” recorded for the band’s upcoming live album, Quarantième: Live à Paris.
The set captures Dream Theater’s performance in Paris during their 40th anniversary tour, which marked the prog-metal outfit’s first live outing following the return of founding drummer Mike Portnoy in 2023.
The original “Barstool Warrior” appears on Dream Theater’s 2019 album, Distance Over Time, one of five studio records they put out during Portnoy’s absence from the band.
You can watch the Quarantième: Live à Paris performance of “Barstool Warrior” on YouTube.
Quarantième: Live à Paris is due out Nov. 28.
Dream Theater is currently touring the U.S. in support of their latest studio effort, Parasomnia, which marks their first with Portnoy in 16 years.
Taylor Swift, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ cover image (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot)
How do you get young people to take an interest in art? Make sure there’s a Taylor Swift connection.
The German news agency dpa reports that The Museum Wiesbaden, in Wiesbaden, Germany, recently welcomed a flood of visitors — hundreds more than usual — who all wanted to see a specific painting. Why? They believe it inspired the opening sequence of Taylor’s video for “The Fate of Ophelia.”
The painting by Friedrich Heyseris called Ophelia. It depicts the character from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet moments after she’s drowned, wearing a white dress with her hair spread out behind her, and surrounded by greenery and flowers.
In the opening shot of “The Fate of Ophelia” video, the camera zooms in on what looks like a painting of a drowned woman in a white gown in a very similar pose. But the woman in the “painting” turns out to be Taylor, who then gets up and out of the painting and begins singing.
Taylor hasn’t confirmed that this was the painting that inspired the scene, but museum director Andreas Henningtold dpa, “We’re surprised and happy that Taylor Swift chose this painting from the Museum Wiesbaden as a model for her video. This is, of course, a great opportunity to introduce people to the museum who don’t yet know us.”
Henning says the museum has tried to contact the singer, adding, “I would love to show Taylor Swift the original painting sometime.”
Initially a different painting, also titled Ophelia, by Sir John Everett Millais was thought to have inspired the scene in the video, but the Heyser painting is a closer match. Millais’ painting is in the Tate Britain in London, which attempted to attract visitors by pointing out the similarities.
Janelle Monáe attends Human Rights Campaign’s 2025 Los Angeles Dinner Honoring Ashley Park And Hannah Einbinder at Fairmont Century Plaza on March 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Janelle Monáe‘s love for Halloween has manifested itself into Wondaween 2025, a series of events taking place in Los Angeles to celebrate the spooky holiday. The schedule features a festival, movie screenings, a concert, game night and more.
Kicking the fun off is Janelle’s Monáe Manor, a haunted house open now through Nov. 2. The Brains Behind the Bloods will follow on Oct. 20, featuring Danny Elfman, Akela Cooper and Janelle’s costuming team Sasha Glasser and Alex Navarro as they talk with Janelle about “horror, sound, prosthetics, and spectacle.”
A ’70s disco-themed game night is scheduled to go down on Oct. 23. Danny will then return for back-to-back nights of the Nightmare Before Christmas in concert, Oct. 25 and Oct. 26, where he, Janelle, Keith David, Riki Lindhome and John Stamos will sing as different characters from the film.
“WONDAWEEN, a Halloween festival, brought to you by @wondaland and yours truly!” Janelle wrote on Instagram. “It is a scream come true to curate 1 of 1 experiences during the month of October! WONDAWEEN is for us by us, true Halloween lovers!”
Tickets and more information can be found on wondaween.com.
The Black Crowes at Analog/(Photo Credit: Dokk Savage Photography)
The Black Crowes are featured in a new episode of Recorded Live at the Analog, with the band celebrating their 1994 album, amorica.
The Nashville concert had the band, led by brothers and founding members Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson, playing the album in its entirety. The set included songs like “Wiser Time,” “A Conspiracy” and more, along with an encore of the Southern Harmony and Musical Companion hit “Remedy.” They also shared some stories behind the songs with the audience.
“Revisiting amorica in Nashville felt like coming home … A chance to reconnect with a record that defined a chapter for us,” Chris Robinson says. “It was great to be able to share it with fans in a way that felt so personal.”
The concert is now streaming for free on YouTube. It will also air on public television stations across the country.
The performance comes ahead of The Black Crowes’ upcoming super-deluxe reissue of amorica, which drops Nov. 14 as a five-LP or three-CD set. There will also be two-LP and one-CD editions.
