Robert Smith of The Cure performs at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre on May 20, 2023 in Chula Vista, California. (Harmony Gerber/Getty Images) Olivia Rodrigo at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
Robert Smith made a surprise appearance during pop star and noted Cure fanatic Olivia Rodrigo’s set at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, Spain, over the weekend.
The “Boys Don’t Cry” singer joined Rodrigo for the debut of her song “what’s wrong with me,” which will appear on her upcoming album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.
Rodrigo introduced the song by saying, “I can’t believe this song exists with the person that it exists with. I’m just so f****** over the moon.” She also mentioned that it’s the first time she’s had a feature on one of her albums.
After singing the first verse and chorus, Rodrigo said, “Ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome Robert Smith!”
“I feel like I’m gonna cry,” she said at the end of the song. “I can’t believe that that’s a thing that happened in the real world and not just a figment of my imagination.”
You seem pretty sad for a girl so in love also includes the single “drop dead,” in which she references the Cure song “Just Like Heaven,” as well as a track literally titled “the cure.” The record is due out Friday.
Smith previously performed with Rodrigo at Glastonbury 2025.
Ann Wilson of Heart performs onstage during the GRAMMY Hall of Fame Gala 2026 at The Beverly Hilton on May 08, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Ann Wilson, the lead singer behind Heart, is publicly speaking out about her cancer diagnosis for the first time.
“I had to have surgery and a bunch of rounds of chemotherapy and radiation,” Wilson told ABC News’ Lara Spencer in an interview that aired Monday on Good Morning America.
“It’s pretty scary,” she added.
The 75-year-old singer, who released her documentary, Ann Wilson: In My Voice, in May, was diagnosed with cancer in 2024.
At the time, the singer shared the news in an Instagram post, telling fans she “underwent an operation to remove something that, as it turns out, was cancerous.”
While she said that the operation was “successful” and that she was “feeling great,” her doctors advised her to “undergo a course of preventative chemotherapy” and also advised her to take a break from performing.
Wilson and her sister, Nancy Wilson, postponed their Royal Flush Tour so she could recover.
The “Alone” singer said that what helped her as she got through her cancer battle was music and how it was a “positive force” for her. She returned to the stage on Feb. 28, 2025.
“When I felt my energy come back, I went out on tour again and it was really great,” she said. “The first night we went out on stage, I just said to myself, well, you know what? I’m just gonna be who I am, I’m gonna take off the wig and just go out there in a wheelchair.”
She added, “This is who I am. And it was remarkably liberating for me to do that.”
With her new documentary and being back behind the mic, Wilson is allowing more people in to learn more about her.
“I’m something more than just that singer you see standing up there with the mic,” she said. “I wanted them to know about my life, my kids, my husband, everything.”
Wilson also reflected on her journey and her career performing alongside her sister. When they first came together as Heart in 1973, they entered a male-dominated rock ‘n’ roll world. They would continue to lead in the genre for more than 50 years.
“My sister and I just wanted to play guitars and we wanted to get out in front of people and we didn’t think we’re gonna break the glass ceiling,” she said.
The singer also highlighted the ups and downs of her relationship with her sister. Over the years, they faced creative differences and more, but have since reconciled.
When asked about how she and her sister are today, Wilson said, “We’re fine. We are about to go into a new project together.”
She added that fans can expect to see Heart on stage together again.
Looking back on her career, Wilson said the biggest honor — aside from performing “Stairway to Heaven” at the Kennedy Center Honors — is having a younger generation discover Heart for the first time and having lifelong fans continue to connect with the music.
“That is an honor, maybe the biggest honor is that people are coming still and they really have a great time,” she said.
Dua Lipa and Callum Turner attend the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 15, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)
Dua Lipa and her husband Callum Turner hosted a second wedding celebration in Sicily Saturday, after first tying the knot May 31 in London.
Vanity Fair reports the couple wed in Palermo at Villa Valguarnera, an historic 18th century mansion. Elton John, who flew in on a private jet, serenaded the couple with “Your Song” as they said their vows in a gazebo. A wedding banquet followed, featuring local Sicilian specialties, followed by dancing with superstar DJs David Guetta, Martin Garrix, Carl Cox and Peggy Gou manning the sound system.
According to Vanity Fair, the 200 guests included Donatella Versace, Charli XCX, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, actor Joe Alwyn, Mark Ronson and Olivia Dean.
The wedding weekend began June 5 with a party at the Gallery of Modern Art, where guests were treated to a private tour and cocktails, followed by a reception in a local piazza that had been decorated with vintage cars, lights and music. Also part of the decoration was a huge bookcase filled with real books, since the couple first connected over the fact that they were both reading the same book and were “on the same page,” literally.
As for why they chose Palermo as the site of the wedding, Vanity Fair reports that Dua and Callum spent several days on vacation in the city last year.
There’s no denying Riley Green is one of the hottest artists in country music right now, with two songs currently climbing the country chart.
The fun “Think As You Drunk” is the first radio single from his upcoming That’s Just Me album and borrows from 2005’s “As Good As I Once Was,” a hit from one of his heroes, Toby Keith.
“I don’t think I’ve ever written a song the same way twice,” Riley says. “Sometimes it’s something that comes to me and I write it in 20 or 30 minutes. Sometimes it’s an idea that I think, ‘Man, that’s a great idea,’ and I mull it over for a month and a half, and then it takes a while to write it. And sometimes I write with other people on a scheduled time and day.”
And if Riley could pick how his songs come together?
“The songs that are the easiest to write, certainly the ones I like the most, are ones that are about something I’m passionate about, you know, something that’s going on in my life,” he says. “‘I Wish Grandpas Never Died,’ I wrote when my granddaddy passed away.”
“It was a really personal song for me, and I think people find a way to make the lyrics about their own life,” he adds.
Riley’s currently on the verge of his next #1, as “Change My Mind” nears the top of the chart.
(L-R) Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards attend The Rolling Stones Album Launch Event at The Weylin on May 05, 2026 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
The Rolling Stones have released a visualizer for the Foreign Tongues track “Rough and Twisted.” In the clip, a businessman runs and dances on a city street in slow motion. It also includes clips of him slowly stripping out of his constricting suit.
“Rough and Twisted” was actually the first taste Rolling Stones fans got of the band’s upcoming album. The song was originally released on vinyl under the pseudonym The Cockroaches.
The track was part of a viral campaign in which posters popped up in London featuring a QR code that directed folks to a website run by Universal Music. Fans quickly guessed that The Cockroaches were really The Stones, since the name was an alias the band used in the ’70s when they wanted to play secret shows.
It was later confirmed that “Rough and Twisted” would appear on Foreign Tongues, due out July 10.
Speaking of “Rough and Twisted,” Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has posted a carousel photos and video on Instagram of his time in Italy, including a clip of him driving a small vehicle set to the song. There’s also another clip of him hiking up a mountain to a helicopter, set to the Foreign Tongues track “In The Stars.” Jagger captioned the post, “Working break in Italy.”
According to the publication, they are among the honorees, aka “the VIP of the Forbes Universe” — “leaders in finance, business, technology, media, entertainment and philanthropy that are changing the game in real time, disrupting their industries and challenging the status quo.”
Forbes only considered those who had previously appeared on one of its lists and ensured they had made a significant impact or disrupted their respective fields within the past two years before selecting the top 50.
Coogler, who previously made the Forbes 30 Under 30 All Star Alumni list and the 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list, was recognized as “one of Hollywood’s most influential filmmakers.” He’s directed movies that have grossed more than $2 billion worldwide, including Sinners, which won the 2026 Oscar for best original screenplay.
The Weeknd, who topped Forbes‘ Highest-Paid Musicians list in 2025 and appeared on the Celebrity 100 list in 2019, earned an estimated $298 million over the past year. His earnings increased after he sold his music catalog to Lyric Capital in a reported $1 billion deal. He also holds the record for the highest grossing tour by a male artist with his ongoing After Hours Til Dawn Tour.
Beyoncé, who just made Forbes‘ America’s Richest Self-Made Women list, is one of 10 women on the list. Among her accomplishments are becoming the fifth musician to reach billionaire status, winning album of the year at the 2025 Grammy Awards and making history as the first Black woman to win for best country album for Cowboy Carter. The supporting tour also became the highest grossing tour of 2025.
Adam Lambert has, so far, released two very different songs from his upcoming album, ADAM. “Eat U Alive” draws on ’90s alternative rock and electronica influences, while “Under the Rhythm,” released Friday, is a darker dance song that interpolates a 2000s club classic. Do these two songs represent what the album sounds like as a whole? Well, sort of.
“There is a through line [to the album], but it’s interesting because, you know, you start picking singles and it’s not necessarily — you know, they’re not next to each other on the album,” Adam told ABC Audio. Rather than jarring transitions between styles, Adam said, “There is the sequence. There’s a flow on the album.”
He notes there’s a reason he chose to lead the album with those two tracks. “I guess in terms of trying to find which songs to get out there it was like, I wanted to give people some of the range of the album,” he explained.
“Eat U Alive” represents a number of songs pretty well — there’s a lot of, like, darker industrial energy on the album, heaviness,” he said. “And then there is some levity, you know? There’s some danceability, like ‘Under the Rhythm.'”
ADAM arrives on July 10.
Meanwhile, Adam shared a few of his personal top LGBTQ anthems in honor of Pride month after Billboard compiled a list of them.
“Ooh, I mean, Sylvester … ‘Mighty Real,’ I mean, I did a cover of it for that reason, that’s a pretty bold one,” he told ABC Audio. “Anything George Michael, I love George Michael. I love, obviously, Freddie [Mercury], I mean, all the stuff I’ve done with Queen. Those all kind of feel like musicians that I can feel proud of, that I feel like reflect the spirit of Pride.”
Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine tour image (Katia Temkin)
Ariana Grande’s long-awaited Eternal Sunshine tour launched in Oakland, California, on Saturday night. And, as its name suggests, the set list was heavy on songs from that 2024 album, as well as tracks from the deluxe version, Eternal Sunshine: Brighter Days Ahead, which came out last year.
All the extra tracks from the deluxe version made it onto the setlist: “warm,” “twilight zone,” “past life,” “hampstead” and “dandelion.” She also performed multiple tracks from the original album, opening the show with “yes, and?” and also performing “supernatural,” “the boy is mine,” the title track, “we can’t be friends (wait for you love)” and “imperfect for you.”
Positions, the other album Ariana released since her last tour in 2019, was represented by three songs, including the title track. Only one song from her upcoming album, petal, made it onto the set list, the single “hate that i made you love me.”
As for Ariana’s classic hits, fans got to hear “Dangerous Woman,” “Thank U, Next,” “Break Free,” “Into You,” “Honeymoon Avenue,” her Lady Gaga duet “Rain on Me” and “7 Rings.”
According to Rolling Stone, the set design was inspired by the flooded and destroyed house in the Brighter Days Ahead short film. At the end of the concert, she’s lifted up towards a set of alien spaceship-looking lights, just like the film.
Olivia Rodrigo performs with Robert Smith of The Cure during the Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 29, 2025 in Glastonbury, England. (Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Olivia Rodrigo made a surprise announcement on Saturday that she’d be performing at Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain — and then used her set to debut a new duet with Robert Smith of The Cure.
The two songs Olivia’s already released fromher new album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, both refer to the legendary British post-punk band: “drop dead” name checks The Cure song “Just Like Heaven,” while the second single is literally called “the cure.” The duet Olivia premiered is called “what’s wrong with me.”
Olivia introduced the song by saying, “I can’t believe this song exists with the person that it exists with. I’m just so f****** over the moon.” She also mentioned that it’s the first time she’s had a feature on one of her albums.
After singing the first verse and chorus, Olivia said, “Ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome Robert Smith!!!” He walked out wearing his signature all-black outfit, lipstick, eye makeup and untamed hairstyle and took the second verse. The two then harmonized on the chorus: “My head is spinning and my stomach is sick/ Say I’m in love, so it’s hard to admit/ I can’t eat, I can’t sleep/ I think you’re what’s wrong with me.”
“I feel like I’m gonna cry,” Olivia said at the end of the song. “I can’t believe that that’s a thing that happened in the real world and not just a figment of my imagination.” The performance was streamed live on Amazon Music.
According to setlist.fm, Olivia’s set also included “drop dead” and “the cure,” as well as past hits “vampire,” “deja vu,” “drivers license” and “good 4 u,” among others.
Olivia and Robert first performed together in 2025 at U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival.
ack Antonoff of Bleachers performs at the Mojave Tent during the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 20, 2024 in Indio, California. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Coachella)
Bleachers are set launch their Bleachers Forever tour on Friday in Chicago, and to mark the occasion they have released a new concert video to YouTube.
The video was shot at Bleachers’ May 23 show at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey, which celebrated the release of their fifth studio album, everyone for ten minutes.
“The day after we released our album, the band and i played a free show at the stone pony for 900 fans,” frontman Jack Antonoff, who’s from the Garden State, writes on Instagram. “some of you flew across the country to be there, and others locals who have been coming to see us for over a decade.”
He adds, “from the second we stepped onto that stage, it was one of my favorite shows ever. thank god we filmed it.”
The concert featured performances of songs from everyone for ten minutes, including “you and forever” and “sideways,” plus fan favorites like “Rollercoaster” and their Lana Del Rey collab “Margaret.”
The Bleachers Forever tour kicks off with a two-night stand at The Salt Shed in Chicago. A complete list of dates can be found at bleachersmusic.com.
