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Sleep Token brought their sold-out arena tour to Philadelphia’s Xfinity Mobile Arena Wednesday night, and being one state over from New Jersey apparently gave them some inspiration for their set list.

Fan-shot footage posted to YouTube shows the U.K. metal band’s anonymous masked frontman Vessel behind the keyboards as he treats the crowd to a cover of New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 hit “Dancing in the Dark.” According to setlist.fm, the performance served as an intro to their song “Rain.”

“Dancing in the Dark,” from Springsteen’s #1 album Born in the U.S.A., peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The video for the song is notable for the appearance of a pre-Friends fame Courteney Cox. 

Sleep Token kicked off their U.S. arena tour in Duluth, Georgia, on Sept. 16. The shows are in support of their #1 album Even in Arcadia, which was released in May.

The tour hits Detroit, Michigan, on Friday. A complete list of dates can be found at Sleep-Token.com.

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Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Post Malone will headline the 2026 edition of Stagecoach, set to take place April 24-26 at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.

“I’ll never forget the first time I got the call to play Stagecoach,” Cody says. “We were on one of the smaller stages and I remember wondering if anyone would even know our songs. Now here we are invited back to headline the Mane Stage. What a ride. I hope y’all bring the energy … because it’s gonna get Western.” 

Bailey Zimmerman, Ella Langley, Nate Smith, Chase Rice, Wynonna Judd, BigXthaPlug, Josh Ross and Counting Crows all join Cody as part of the Friday night lineup.

Riley Green, Journey, Little Big Town, Bush, Teddy Swims, Corey Kent, Billy Bob Thornton and Chase Matthew will play Saturday night before Lainey takes the stage. 

“My first Stagecoach was in 2022 … at 2:30 p.m. in the afternoon,” Lainey recalls. “Look how far we’ve come y’all! I’m honored to headline this year. This is a career highlight and I can’t wait to see everyone there.”

Brooks & Dunn, Hootie & the Blowfish, Warren Zeiders, Brett Young, Max McNown, Hudson Westbrook, Eli Young Band and Jake Worthington will all play before Posty wraps things up on Sunday. 

Tickets go on sale Thursday, Oct. 2, at 11 a.m. PT.

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Major League Baseball has joined forces with Pharrell to launch the 2025 MLB postseason with October Hits Different, a brand campaign bringing music and baseball together. He stars in the spot with a 25-piece live orchestra comprised of students from the University of Miami and the Voices of Fire choir, whose song “Are You Ready?” soundtracks the video.

Also featured in the campaign are clips of MLB stars Aaron Judge, Kyle Schwarber, Cal Raleigh and more.

“Virginia taught me the power of music and community,” Pharrell said in a statement. “Bringing Voices of Fire to the Postseason stage shows how those same forces of unity can come alive through sport.”

October Hits Different will appear across MLB media outlets, other paid digital media sites and MLB social media platforms throughout the postseason, which starts on Sept. 30.

The announcement follows Pharrell’s performance at the Vatican alongside Voices of Fire, who recently released a new album, Ophanium. A Pharrell production, the album features “Are You Ready?” the official anthem of the 2025 MLB Postseason.

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After a breakup, some people get rid of — or even burn — everything that reminds them of that relationship. But evidently Miley Cyrus isn’t one of those people.

Speaking to Vogue, Miley explains that she’s in the process of creating what she calls “a legacy rack,” which she describes as “a couple of looks from every era that I would want to be remembered.” Among the items that she’s cataloging, she says, are some of the things she wore during her romance with her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth.

“I literally have a dress that I had on when I met my ex-husband, and then I have my dress that I wore on our first date, along with letters and things,” she tells Vogue. But don’t expect her to put all these mementos on display in a Miley museum.

“I want to savor these kind of beautiful moments of my life, but because these intimate moments have also been public moments, it’s a little bit tough to decide what piece I want to share and what I would ever allow to be seen,” she says. 

Miley and Liam met in 2009 on the set of the movie The Last Song and then began dating. The Hunger Games actor proposed in 2012, but the couple called off their engagement in 2013. Three years later they reconciled and eventually got married in 2018. They separated the following year, with Hemsworth subsequently filing for divorce, which became final in 2020.

“Everything I do in my life is a little bit intense, but it has to be holistic,” Miley says of cataloging the memories. “And that’s why my eras, they’re not a costume, they’re actually like a metamorphosis or a true evolution for me personally.”

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Amazon Music is staging a Grand Ole Opry takeover on Oct. 21.

Lainey Wilson, Russell Dickerson, Dan + Shay, Lauren Alaina, Carter Faith and more will play the special night celebrating October as Country Music Month. The show will be available to stream online.

Amazon is also marking the occasion by putting out several Amazon Music Originals, starting with the Game Day Version of Kane Brown‘s “2 Pair,” which features a marching band. 

“I love that my fans have made ‘2 Pair’ the song of the summer,” Kane says. “So how about a version for the football season with a drumline and marching band?”

“Hope this gets you pumped up. Go Dawgs!” he adds, which is a reference to University of Georgia football, of course. 

Tucker Wetmore‘s take on The Georgia Satellites‘ “Keep Your Hands to Yourself” follows on Oct. 10.

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After what was an incredibly obvious tease, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has confirmed that Taylor Swift will appear on the show Oct. 6.

The show initially posted an Instagram video with the caption, “Not a lot going on at the moment,” which is a phrase that Taylor has used in the past to indicate that she indeed does have something going on.

Jimmy Fallon is seen in the video staring at a roulette wheel before putting chips down on the numbers 10, 6 and 25 — indicating that Taylor would appear on the show on Oct. 6, 2025, three days after her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, drops. Then he spins the wheel, which stops on 13, Taylor’s lucky number.

After grimacing at his loss, Fallon shrugs and says, “Baby, that’s show business for you.” That was the caption of the Instagram post in which Taylor announced the new album.

And as if the post couldn’t get any more obvious, a crowd of showgirls then walks by Fallon, saying, “Excuse us, honey.”

The show then officially confirmed the news, as did the Taylor Nation Instagram feed, reposting Fallon’s video on its Story with the caption, “Our curtain call on Oct. 6 will be a bit late. Watch Taylor on @fallontonight @nbc.”

Taylor often makes The Tonight Show a stop when she’s doing press. She last appeared in 2022, after the release of Midnights.

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“Burning House” hitmaker Cam is planning a special “In the Round” show Oct. 11 at Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Cafe. She’ll be joined by longtime collaborator Tyler Johnson, known for his work with Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé. 

“We started writing songs together about 15 years ago,” Cam remembers. “Back then there were cockroaches in the kitchen and now here we are with GRAMMYs. What a dream to ride the ride with my musical brother – and now we get to celebrate all the art we’ve made on a magical night at the Bluebird.”

Cam picked up her first Grammy this year for her work on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album. Tyler most recently won record of the year for Miley’s “Flowers.”

Tickets for the Bluebird show go on sale Friday. 

Cam kicks off The Slow Down Tour Oct. 20 in New York City, promoting her third album, All Things Light. 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of her debut, Untamed, which features her quadruple Platinum breakthrough, “Burning House.”

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Anderson .Paak‘s latest venture benefits youth who play soccer in Ventura County, California. It’s a partnership with GOAL Projects, a new initiative from GOAL, for which he designed soccer kits for the Oxnard Eagles girls soccer teams. The kit includes a black soccer ball, T-shirt and a limited-edition soccer jersey featuring the font used for several of Paak’s album covers, the #86 in honor of his birth year, the GOAL logo on the front and “Yes Lawd” on the back.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Oxnard Eagles team, and will be used to provide scholarships and help cover expenses like rent, practice equipment and transportation.

“Man, you have an opportunity to uplift kids in the same streets where I made my way, you give me a call,” Paak tells Billboard. “When GOAL came to me with this idea, I was all in. It wasn’t just about a jersey; it was about connecting music and soccer — two things that bring people together everywhere.”

“And the fact that every jersey helps out the Oxnard Eagles, these amazing young girls from my hometown? That’s the part that made it a no-brainer,” he continued. “It’s bigger than sport. It’s about community and giving these kids the chance to shine.”

The Anderson .Paak x GOAL Projects collection is now available at online and will be sold in person at the .Paak House Festival, taking place Oct. 11 on the California State University Channel Islands campus.

“.Paak House has always been about giving my community a VIP experience, showing kids and families that they deserve the same love and spotlight as anybody else,” says Paak. “It’s about creating spaces where people can come together, celebrate and feel supported.”

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