Cristina Scabbia Lacuna Coil performs live on stage during a concert at the Huxleys Neue Welt on November 3, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. (Pedro Becerra/Redferns)
Lacuna Coil has announced a U.S. tour for 2026 alongside Escape the Fate.
The trek kicks off March 24 in New York City and will crisscross the country before wrapping up back in the Empire State on May 1 in Albany, New York.
Presales are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit LacunaCoil.com.
Lacuna Coil will be touring in support of their latest album, Sleepless Empire, which dropped in February.
Along with the tour announcement, Lacuna Coil has premiered the video for the Sleepless Empire track “Hosting the Shadow,” which features Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe.
The clip, streaming now on YouTube, features footage from Lacuna Coil’s live performance of “Hosting the Shadow” alongside Blythe at the 2025 Aftershock festival.
American Disco and R&B singer Donna Summer (born LaDonna Gaines, 1948 – 2012) performs onstage at the Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, July 12, 1983. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
Disco queen Donna Summer has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Summer, who wrote her hits like “Love to Love You Baby,” “Bad Girls,” “On the Radio” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” was celebrated Monday at a ceremony in West Hollywood, California. Summer’s husband, Bruce Sudano, and their daughters Brooklyn Sudano and Amanda Sudano Ramirez were in attendance.
“It’s important to me because I know how important it was for Donna,” Bruce Sudano said at the ceremony. “The backstory is, with all the accolades that she received over her career, being respected as a songwriter was always the thing that she felt was overlooked. So for her to be accepted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I know that she’s very happy … somewhere.”
Summer passed away in 2012 at age 63. She sold an estimated 150 million records worldwide and was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
(DEXTER, Kan.) — Class is out early for one Kansas school this holiday season.
Dexter Schools USD #471 announced Monday that they dismissed students and staff three days early for winter break due to widespread illness. Classes are scheduled to resume Monday, Jan. 5.
“We are going through a tremendous amount of sickness right now and it seems to be spreading at a very high rate,” the Facebook announcement reads, in part.
“Not only are we concerned with student and staff sickness now we don’t want to continue to spread the sickness and end up with students taking it to their extended families (grandma and grandpa) over the holiday break,” the post adds.
K.B. Criss, the school’s superintendent and principal, told ABC News that the rural K-12 school has between 250 and 300 students, and he believed around 25% to 35% of students were absent within the first hour of school Monday morning.
“The phone was ringing off the wall of kids being sick,” he said. “I think by nine o’clock, we had between 40 and 50 families call, and that’s a large percent of our student body.”
Criss added that most of the illnesses seemed to be respiratory, but staff and students were experiencing a wide variety of symptoms.
“The symptoms were ranging from all over the place. We had staff that was not only throwing up, but had diarrhea. We had body aches, fevers, bronchitis, strep throat, and the one common thing with all of it was terrible headaches,” Criss said, adding that other leading symptoms included congestion, coughs, and fever.
Some students and staff were diagnosed with RSV and the flu, according to Criss.
According to the school’s website, free testing is available for Flu A/B, RSV, Strep A and COVID.
Kansas currently has a low level of respiratory illness across the state, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nationally, “the amount of acute respiratory illness causing people to seek health care is low,” according to the CDC, as is COVID-19 activity.
“Seasonal influenza activity continues to increase in most areas of the country,” according to the CDC, while RSV activity is increasing “in many Southeastern, Southern, and mid-Atlantic states.”
Dexter Schools USD #471 is located about 70 miles southeast of Wichita, near the Oklahoma border.
The movie about Bruce Springsteen’s efforts making his 1982 solo album, Nebraska, is set to hit digital platforms, including Amazon, Prime Video and Apple TV, on Dec. 23. It will also be released on 4K Blu-ray on Jan. 20, with the release including the four-act documentary Making Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.
The documentary’s four parts cover the process of adapting Warren Zanes’ 2023 book, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, for the big screen; a look at the album Nebraska; a deep dive into actor Jeremy Allen White’s process of becoming Springsteen for the film; and what it took to capture Springsteen’s New Jersey during the era of the movie.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, directed by Scott Cooper, opened in theaters in October.
Queens of the Stone Age on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ (Disney/Randy Holmes)
Queens of the Stone Age‘s Alive in the Catacombs is now streaming on YouTube.
The concert film was recorded during a July 2024 performance in the famed Catacombs of Paris. It was previously available for purchase via the QotSA website and screened in theaters.
Queens have also uploaded the accompanying behind-the-scenes documentary Alive in Paris and Before to YouTube.
After first premiering Alive in the Catacombs, QotSA embarked on the Catacombs U.S. tour, which featured special arrangements inspired by the Paris experience.
Kelsea Ballerini‘s touring year has come to a close with her Saturday night show Down Under.
“Brisbane, i couldn’t have asked for a better way to end the year and this life changing tour,” she posted on Monday. “thank you to all 11,000 of you for being one of the best crowds we had the honor to play for this year, and thank you for having cute animals to sit in parks with on off days.”
Of course, “I Sit in Parks” is the lead single from Kelsea’s new Mount Pleasant EP. One of the photos included in her post shows her on a green lawn in an area filled with kangaroos.
Kelsea went on to express her grief over the Sunday shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that left 15 dead and more than 40 injured.
“also want to say how truly heartbroken i am at the horrific attack at Bondi,” Kelsea’s post continues. “there just aren’t the right words, but my heart is with the families grieving the loss of their loved ones, and the hundreds of people grieving the loss of what once felt safe. praying for our world.”
So far, we don’t know much about Kelsea’s plans for 2026, as she hasn’t announced any tour plans beyond a couple shows in June.
You can check out her just-released video for the Mount Pleasant track “Emerald City” on YouTube now.
Janelle Monáe arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix’s ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 17, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Maya Dehlin Spach/WireImage)
Nonprofit Freedom Forum will launch the inaugural Freely Festival in April, and it has tapped T-Pain and Janelle Monáe, among others, to take the stage.
The festival will “celebrate the power of music and the constitutional rights that make creative expression possible,” according to a press release, via “purposeful entertainment, artist storytelling, and interactive experiences that bring free expression to life in a way that feels relevant and resonant.”
It will take place April 8, 2026, at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, also featuring performances by The Killers, Dominic Fike and Avery Anna. A presale for the show begins Thursday at FreelyFest.org, with a general sale to follow if tickets remain.
Freedom Forum is “one of the nation’s leading voices on the First Amendment and the five freedoms it protects,” as per the website.
Olivia Rodrigo attends the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction (Disney/Michael J. Le Brecht II)
Since she became a pop superstar, there have been many times that Olivia Rodrigo has gotten to meet some of her heroes — but she says one celebrity encounter in particular is probably her #1 “WTF moment.”
Olivia is the guest on the Dec. 16 episode of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s new Music Makes Us podcast, hosted by Kathleen Hanna of legendary riot grrrl band Bikini Kill. When Kathleen asks Olivia about her “WTF” moments, Olivia mentions having Lorde in the audience when she appeared on Saturday Night Live and performing with The Cure‘s Robert Smith at the Glastonbury Festival this year.
“Kinda the biggest one is, I used to write One Direction fan fiction when I was in elementary school,” Olivia said. “Many years later, I hung out with Harry Styles and we, like, got tea and we, like, walked around. And I got home and I was like, ‘What the f***?’ I feel like I, like, wrote that in a fan fiction and now I like lived it, like that is so crazy how that can happen in your life.”
“He’s so sweet,” she added. “If I told 10-year-old Olivia, she’d be like, ‘Shut the f*** up, you’re lying!'”
During the interview, Olivia also said that the album she goes back to when she needs to “reconnect” with herself is Alanis Morissette‘s Jagged Little Pill.
“For some reason that album, just, like, every part of what makes a human being a human being, it feels like it’s encapsulated in that record,” she said. “There’s so much anger and spite and jealousy but also so much joy and hope, all like intertwined into each other in such a beautiful way.”
Bon Scott performs with AC/DC at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, September 22, 1978. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
Queens of the Stone Age‘s Josh Homme and KISS‘ Gene Simmons are among the artists playing a tribute show to late AC/DC singer Bon Scott.
The concert will take place Feb. 3 at the Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles. It doubles as a 60th birthday celebration for comedian Dean Delray, who will be hosting the night and also handling lead vocals.
Other performers include Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk, Primus guitarist Larry “Ler” LaLonde, Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez, former Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee.
Scott died in 1980 at age 33. AC/DC then recruited vocalist Brian Johnson for their next album, 1980’s Back in Black. Johnson remains AC/DC’s singer today.
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