The band Gorillaz – the iconic virtual band led by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett – during their performance at the Pulse of Gaia Festival, at the Universidad Autonoma, on September 20, 2025, in Madrid, Spain./(Photo By A. Perez Meca/Europa Press via Getty Images)
Gorillaz, The xx and The Cure are among the artists confirmed to play Primavera Sound Barcelona in June 2026.
The lineup also includes My Bloody Valentine, Role Model, Wet Leg, Lola Young, Father John Misty and Rilo Kiley.
Registration for fan sale tickets is open now, with tickets going on sale Sept. 29. A full lineup and more ticket information can be found at PrimaveraSound.com.
The 2025 Primavera Sound Barcelona lineup featured such performers as Wet Leg, LCD Soundsystem, Turnstile, TV on the Radio, Fontaines D.C., beabadoobee, Clairo and HAIM. Headliners included Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Charli XCX.
Cover of Bruce Springsteens ‘Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition’ /(Sony Music)
Bruce Springsteen has released another track from his upcoming box set, Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, dropping Oct. 17.
The latest is a live version of “Open All Night,” recorded inside an empty Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. The song is part of Springsteen’s first-ever performance of Nebraska in its entirety. A film of the performance, directed by longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, will be featured on the Blu-ray included in the box set.
“The one thing that we didn’t do on the Nebraska album was we didn’t play it live, so my first thought when we were talking about celebrating the record was there’s got to be a performance, singing these songs from top to bottom,” The Boss shares.
On Instagram he adds, “I knew that the way to do it was no audience and no speaking … You just present the record, play it through, then you’re done.”
Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition will feature a 2025 remaster of the album, as well as lots of previously unreleased material, including the long-rumored “Electric Nebraska.” There are also solo outtakes, including additional songs from Springsteen’s original Nebraska home recordings that didn’t make the album, as well as recordings from a 1982 solo studio session.
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Kings of Leon are ringing in the New Year in Las Vegas.
The “Use Somebody” rockers are set to headline two New Year’s Eve shows, Dec. 30 and 31, at The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas.
An artist presale kicks off Thursday, Sept. 25 at 10 a.m. PT, with other presales running throughout the week. Tickets go on sale to the general public starting Saturday, Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. PT.
Kings of Leon have a busy weekend ahead of them. They are set to play Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California, on Friday, and then head to Franklin, Tennessee, to play the Pilgrimage Festival, which runs from Saturday to Sunday.
Lionel Richie chats with ABC’s Robin Roberts on ‘Good Morning America’ (Matt Petit/ABC)
Lionel Richie‘s new memoir Trulyis out Sept. 30 and he sat down with ABC’s Robin Roberts on Good Morning America on Thursday to talk about the book, his life and career.
Sharing a story he said he has never spoken aloud until now, Lionel Richie revealed that he “grew up totally in fear.” Raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, Richie recalled feeling anxious and uncertain as a child.
“I didn’t know what ADHD was. ‘Can you play baseball?’ ‘Eh.’ ‘Football?’ ‘No.’ ‘Basketball?’ ‘No.’ ‘Tennis?’ ‘Kinda,'” he said. “You know, it was just everything was ‘kinda.’ I was very anxious about everything. And at the same time, I kept tryin’ to fake it. I kind of found some new areas of my life that I didn’t know I had in me.”
Music eventually became his refuge. While his grandmother was classically trained in piano, Lionel himself can’t read music. Asked how this could be, Lionel laughed, “Listen, I don’t know, and I’ve asked God that several times. And it was said to me by Marvin Gaye, ‘There is an answer to this. Don’t go lookin’ for it. Just accept it.'”
Despite early ambitions of being a priest, Lionel instead turned to music, paving the way for one of the most celebrated careers in pop music history, starting with his years in the chart-topping group The Commodores.
Lionel told Roberts that his favorite Commodores song is “Brick House,” even though he jokes that he thought his grandmother would “disown” him over its raunchy lyrics. “I thought it was kinda disgraceful myself,” he laughs. “Until it became a hit.”
After his “painful” split with the band, he launched a solo career, selling over 125 million albums worldwide and winning multiple Grammys, a Golden Globe, an Oscar and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He’s also been a judge on American Idol for eight seasons.
Lionel says of his memoir, “The stories are great. But what turned me into me was, the world said, ‘Hey, Lionel. I like what you’re doin’. Keep up the good work.'”
You can find more of Lionel Richie’s chat with Roberts on IMPACT x Nightline, streaming now on Hulu.
Since Jordan Davis has a hand in writing so many of his songs, he says he doesn’t get that many outside pitches.
But when he does, he has a process: He sends it to some people he trusts to see whether he should check it out or not.
Obviously his latest hit, “Bar None,” made the cut.
“I was on my way home,” Jordan recalls. “I listened to it. The hook is the first thing that grabbed me. I think as a songwriter, when you hear a hook like that, you’re kinda like, ‘Dadgummit, I wish I would’ve thought of that!'”
“And then I just, like, couldn’t stop listening to the song,” he continues. “I listened to it, got to my house, pulled on my street and was like, ‘Yeah, I need to take a few more blocks to keep jamming this one.’ And then woke up the next morning and was like, ‘Alright, I gotta record this song.'”
Jordan’s instincts have paid off, as “Bar None” is currently in the top five and climbing.
Bassist Carol Kaye plays an Epiphone hollowbody electric guitar in April 1966 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jasper Dailey/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
When the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees were announced earlier this year, Carol Kaye‘s name was on the list in the category of Musical Excellence. But the legendary bassist — who played on The Beach Boys‘ Pet Sounds, influenced Paul McCartney and contributed to thousands of pop songs — is boycotting the November ceremony in LA. In a new interview The New York Times, she explains why.
Kaye, who’s 90, tells the paper, “I don’t do things because other people want me to do them. I have to do things the way I see fit.” The way she sees it, she tells the Times, “First off, I’m not a rocker, I’m a jazz musician. And I’m not a soloist. I worked in the studio as part of a team.”
The “team” who Kaye’s best known for working with is the group of first-call session players known as the Wrecking Crew — a name she finds insulting. The Times speculates that Kaye may be skipping the ceremony because her recognition is overdue: Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine was inducted in 2000, as was fellow bass icon James Jamerson.
Kaye has also been called a crank for criticizing the 2008 Wrecking Crew documentary. She tells the Times, “When you get put on a pedestal, you better say the right things, or else you’re going to be known as nasty. … But I just tell people, listen, this is what happened. This is how I feel. If you don’t like it, I’m sorry.”
Whether she attends or not, Kaye’s legacy is secure. The late Brian Wilson once called Kaye “the best bassist in the world,” while McCartney tells the Times that hearing Carol’s work on Pet Sounds “really changed my style.”
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will stream live on Disney+ Nov. 8.
‘KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)’ deluxe version (Visva/Republic Records)
After helping to create the BTS hits “Butter” and “Permission to Dance,” Jenna Andrews and Stephen Kirk were tapped to write songs for KPop Demon Hunters. The two penned and produced two of the more emotional songs in the hit Netflix film: “What It Sounds Like” and “Free.” And according to Jenna, just because HUNTR/X and Saja Boys technically don’t exist, doesn’t make them any less real.
“They feel very real now … It’s like you forget that they’re animated,” Jenna tells ABC Audio. She laughs, “So like, what makes them less real than BLACKPINK? I mean, besides that they’re not real, but it feels like they’re so real in your brain, y’know?”
Initially, Jenna and Stephen were working on the song that HUNTR/X releases as their new single, but they were reassigned to write the big finale song, which ended up being “What It Sounds Like.” Meanwhile, other writers penned the single, and that ended up being the #1 hit “Golden.” But Jenna and Stephen say they don’t regret being reassigned.
“More than the numbers, it’s about … being a part of something that is influencing culture in a positive way,” Stephen explains. “…There’s so many generations of people who can enjoy this and pull from this. That’s what’s really important.”
Plus, Jenna notes, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack album, which includes their two songs, was also #1.
As for a possible sequel, Jenna and Stephen say they’d both like to see the return of Jinu.
“I don’t believe souls can die, so I hope that Jinu comes back. I think the Saja Boys need to turn good and absolutely help HUNTR/X fight evil,” Stephen says.
“I’m here for it, for 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 — they can make a Star Wars franchise. I’m watching all of them!”
Steve Jones performs with Sex Pistols & Frank Carter during the Tons Of Rock Festival on June 26, 2025 in Oslo, Norway. (Rune Hellestad – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
The Sex Pistols‘ 1977 debut album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, is perhaps the ultimate example of a singular artistic statement. It defined the punk genre and remains the only Pistols album nearly 50 years later.
While the Pistols reformed in 2024 with original members Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook alongside vocalist Frank Carter in place of frontman John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon, they don’t have any plans for a follow-up to Never Mind the Bollocks.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea, personally,” Jones tells ABC Audio of the idea of recording new Pistols tunes.
“I think to try and attempt to do new Pistols songs is, I mean, it’s so long ago,” he continues. “I can’t imagine it being good.”
Besides, Jones feels that fans generally aren’t interested in new material from veteran acts.
“No one’s interested when they go to see it live, they go to the toilet when they play a new song, no one cares,” Jones says. “I just think it would be the same with us if we did new songs.”
He does add, though, “But you never know, who knows?”
Similarly, there aren’t any plans to rerecord Never Mind the Bollocks with Carter.
“I dunno, I really don’t know about that,” Jones says. “I think it’s kind of blasphemy if you’re trying to do another version of Never Mind the Bollocks, I don’t know how you could make that better.”
As for what the reformed Pistols do plan to do, they were scheduled to launch their first U.S. tour since 2003 earlier in September, but the shows have been postponed due to Jones breaking his wrist. New dates will be announced once Jones has recovered.
SPECIAL FORCES: WORLD’S TOUGHEST TEST: Jussie Smollett. (Photo by FOX via Getty Images)
Jussie Smollett is one of the contenders on the fourth season of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, a competition series in which celebrities participate in military-like exercises. In an interview with People, he says he had a “very sobering” experience during his time on the show.
“It’s not always easy to be vulnerable,” he said, before touching on the physicality of the competition. “We’re not athletes, but we’re athletic. So it’s different. It’s very intense.”
He added that the hardest part were the mental battles he faced and overcame on the show. “Getting through that was really special,” he told People. “I hope that it’s the great equalizer and it’s also the great kind of reset of this is who I am and it’s all love.”
Special Forces marks Smollett’s return to television six years after he claimed he was the victim of an alleged hate crime in Chicago. He was starring in Fox’s Empire at the time, but was written out of the show’s final episodes following the allegations.
According to ABC News, Smollett filed a police report in January 2019 claiming he’d been attacked by two men yelling racist and homophobic slurs. The men later told law enforcement officials the actor had orchestrated the incident — an allegation Smollett’s attorneys denied.
Smollett was indicted on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report in March 2019, but the charges were dropped after he agreed to forfeit his bond and do community service.
He was indicted again in February 2020 on six felony counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly making false reports to police and was later found guilty on five of those counts. He was sentenced to 150 days in county jail but only served six; his release was grantedafter his lawyer filed an appeal.
The conviction was then overturned in November 2024. Smollett has consistently maintained his innocence.
Special Forces season 4 premieres Thursday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.
Sammy Hagar at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction/ Disney/Michael Le Brecht II
Sammy Hagar is looking back at a memorable Van Halen show from 30 years ago.
The band’s former frontman has shared video of the group performing the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge track “Poundcake” at their Sept. 20, 1995, concert at Denver’s Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre. What made it particularly memorable was that Van Halen had to play during a blizzard, which dropped 8 inches of snow in the area.
“I’ll never forget looking out and it looked like we were playing for 18,000 snowmen,” Sammy writes in the description of the clip. “Eddie (Van Halen) ended up playing half the show with gloves with the fingertips cut out if you could imagine!”
He adds, “We had giant heaters on stage you name it we did the whole show the craziest thing ever.”
Van Halen’s Michael Anthony adds, “The place was packed and everybody looked like a Q-tip out there. It was no big deal for the audience.”
“Poundcake” is one of the many Van Halen songs Sammy performs on his upcoming live album Sammy Hagar & The Best of All Worlds Band – The Residency, dropping Oct. 10. It captures performances from his 2025 Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM.
