It’s happening. Last month, Oasis announced a run of 2025 reunion shows in the UK and Ireland, and people got very excited. For the past week or so, Oasis have been stoking rumors that they’ll also head over to North America next year, and those reports have now been confirmed. The reunited Britpop giants will play a run of stadium …

Music giant Kris Kristofferson, one of the great songwriters and show-business figures, has died. According to a statement from his family, Kristofferson died peacefully at home in Maui, surrounded by family. No particular cause of death has been reported. Kristofferson was 88.

Nearly a year ago, we named the UK metalcore upstarts Heriot a Band To Watch. Today, they’ve released their debut album, which bears the sufficiently metallic title Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell.

Last week, Kylie Minogue announced her new album Tension II, which serves as the sequel to last year’s Tension and features Diplo, Bebe Rexha, and more. Now, the pop veteran is offering a taste with the single “Lights Camera Action.”

Earlier this month, The Weeknd and debuted seven new songs in São Paulo, Brazil to build the excitement for his new record Hurry Up Tomorrow, which still doesn’t have a release date. One of the songs was a Playboi Carti collab called “TIMELESS,” and now that’s officially out.

Stevie Nicks is playing SNL this fall, and it looks like she’ll have some new music to perform. Nicks wrote “The Lighthouse,” her first new song since 2020’s “Show Them The Way,” with Magnus Birgersson and Vincent Villuis, and she produced it with Sheryl Crow and Dave Cobb. (Crow also contributes bass, electric guitar, and background vocals.) “The Lighthouse” is …

Next week the musical/thriller Joker: Folie à Deux premieres in theaters and it stars Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel/Harley Quinn. In advance of its opening the idiosyncratic pop visionary has now shared its companion album titled Harlequin. Gaga announced the project only two days ago and previewed it yesterday with a video for “The Joker” that saw her giving Joker …

In November, U2’s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb — the one with “Vertigo” — will turn 20 years old. I’m not sure if we’ll give that album a proper retrospective (we did just revisit a more notorious U2 x Apple collab), but the band itself is marking the occasion with a whole new album of songs from the Atomic …

Smashing Pumpkins and Deftones come from different mini-generations of American alt-rock, but they have a lot in common. Both make heavy, catchy guitar music that’s influenced by shoegaze without actually being shoegaze. Both are huge influences on the new generation of heavy shoegaze bands out there. Both are still capable of touring huge venues. (Smashing Pumpkins are direct support on …

They did it! After years of rumors and innuendo, the Cure are back with new music! And more importantly, it sounds like the Cure! The legendary band has been plenty active as a touring act over the past decade and a half, and they’ve been debuting new songs live. Next week, they’ll release a couple of those new live tracks …