The Smashing Pumpkins will launch their Rats in a Cage tour in September. Each show will feature one set dedicated to the 1995 Pumpkins album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in honor of its 30th anniversary, as well as a second, career-spanning set.

"The Rats in a Cage tour is interesting, because I've made the choice that we're gonna play the Mellon Collie set first," frontman Billy Corgan tells ABC Audio. "Which means you're gonna have 15-18,000 people in a room wondering, 'OK, now what are they gonna do?'"

Indeed, the RIAA Diamond-certified Mellon Collie has some of the biggest Pumpkins hits, including "1979," "Tonight, Tonight," "Zero" and "Bullet with Butterfly Wings," which spawned the famed lyric that inspired the tour's name.

"We're planning something sort of different," Corgan says. "It'll be interesting 'cause some people will take the journey and other people will think, 'What are they doing? Because I came here to celebrate, and they're taking me through a funeral.'" 

The Rats in a Cage tour kicks off Sept. 30 in Columbus, Ohio.

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Phoebe Bridgers' new album, Lost Weekend, earned a coveted Best New Music distinction from Pitchfork, but it's also received a glowing review from perhaps an even more impressive source: Taylor Swift.

The pop superstar and 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee shared her thoughts on Lost Weekend Monday in an Instagram Story celebrating Bridgers' 32nd birthday.

"It's [Bridgers'] birthday but she gave us a gift," Swift wrote. "Haven't been able to stop listening."

"This album is an absolute triumph in every way," the "Shake It Off" singer continued. "To write about grief with such vulnerability and detail, and to trust the listener with this much honesty."

You may recall that Bridgers opened for select dates on Swift's massive Eras Tour.

Bridgers will launch a sold-out arena tour in support of Lost Weekend in September.

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The reunited Faith No More has added a show in Brazil as part of their 2027 live comeback.

The concert will take place Jan. 15, 2027, in Rio de Janeiro. System of a Down will also be on the bill.

Presales begin Tuesday at 10 a.m. Brasilia Time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at noon Brasilia Time. For all ticket info, visit FNM.com.

Faith No More announced in July that they were reforming, ending the band's 10-year hiatus. The "Epic" rockers haven't performed live in 2016, and subsequent attempts at returning to the live stage were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health issues affecting frontman Mike Patton. 

Faith No More's 2027 plans also include January and February dates in Australia and New Zealand, which will feature System of a Down, as well.

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Multiple artists shared updates on their upcoming albums over the weekend.

Queens of the Stone Age revealed that their next record, the follow-up to 2023's In Times New Roman..., is called Perfecth.

In a video skit posted to the band's Facebook, frontman Josh Homme says that the record will arrive Sept. 30 before then accidentally stabbing his band with a knife, causing blood to shoot out everywhere. The video ends with the date Sept. 30 crossed out and a voiceover teasing that the album is "coming soon sometime."

Meanwhile, Courtney Love announced that her long in-the-works solo album is done.

"It's kinda been done," Love said in a video posted to her Instagram. "It's a really good record, I put a lot into it."

Also in the video, Love said that she got really sick when she traveled to England in 2019.

"My body just exploded," she said. "I was in hospitals a lot, and almost died."

Love said that she's better and healthy now. In the post's caption, she writes, "When I made [the album] i believed this was my last record so I made the record I always wanted to make. I was in the hospital mostly but when I wasn't all I did was write & record it." 

She also thanked Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and her former Hole bandmate Melissa Auf der Maur for their support.

Finally, Fontaines D.C. announced the title of their next album: Dopamine Chamber. The follow-up to 2024's Romance is due out later in 2026, and a new song called "Marianne" will premiere Tuesday.

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Death Cab for Cutie is opening for Twenty One Pilots for an Oct. 17 show at Ohio Stadium in the "Stressed Out" duo's hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Frontman Ben Gibbard tells ABC Audio that the gig came together thanks to mutual admiration between the two bands.

"They've been big fans of our band for quite awhile, and they're great dudes, they're really great people," Gibbard says of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. "They asked us to play with them, and we were like, 'Yeah, hell yeah! Let's do it.'"

In opening for a band that came after them, Gibbard feels that Death Cab is continuing "part of a tradition of music."

"We're getting to that point in our lives where by the sheer fact of having been around for a long time, we're starting to see bands that grew up on our music the same way that we grew up on, like, The Cure and Fugazi and Built to Spill and that kind of stuff," Gibbard says.

As for how he thinks the Twenty One Pilots audience will receive Death Cab's set, Gibbard laughs, "I don't know how it'll go over."

"But those guys [Joseph and Dun] are happy, so that's all that matters to me," Gibbard says. 

Death Cab for Cutie recently wrapped a U.S. tour of their own in support of their new album, I Built You a Tower.

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Rise Against has premiered two new songs.

The tracks are called "Katy Bar the Door" and "Living Undercover." They follow Rise Against's 2025 album, Ricochet.

You can catch Rise Against live touring the U.S. with Alkaline Trio starting in September.

("Living Undercover" video contains uncensored profanity.) 

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Phoebe Bridgers has premiered the video for "I Can't Wait," a track off her just-released new album, Lost Weekend.

As a press release describes it, the clip "takes a bug-eyed view of a day in Los Angeles." You can watch it streaming now on YouTube.

Lost Weekend, Bridgers' third album and the much-anticipated follow-up to 2020's Punisher, dropped Friday. It also includes the single "Lost Boys."

Bridgers will launch a sold-out U.S. arena tour in support of Lost Weekend in September.

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It seems there's a new Fontaines D.C. album on the way.

The Irish band has posted a photo on Instagram captioned simply with the number 5, suggesting that they're working on their fifth studio effort.

Fontaines has also shared a clip of a new song called "Marianne," which they premiered live during a show in Spain earlier in August.

The most recent Fontaines D.C. album is 2024's Romance, which includes the single "Starburster." They followed that with a song called "It's Amazing to Be Young" in 2025.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced a vinyl reissue of the band's 2006 album, Stadium Arcadium, in honor of its 20th anniversary.

The four-LP set is due out Oct. 2. It'll be available in canary yellow and apple red vinyl at all retailers, brown smoke and orange smoke vinyl in independent record stores, and blue marble and ruby red marble exclusively through the RHCP webstore.

The original Stadium Arcadium marked the ninth Chili Peppers studio effort and spawned the hit singles "Dani California," "Snow (Hey Oh)" and "Tell Me Baby." It also marked their last album before guitarist John Frusciante's departure from the group in 2009.

Frusciante later returned to RHCP in 2019, and they put out two new albums in 2022: Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen.

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Derran "Derry" Brownson, keyboardist and sampler of "Unbelievable" band EMF, has died. He was 55.

"Late last night we started to hear the news that we have lost our Brother In Arms Derran Brownson," EMF writes in a Facebook post published Friday. "We are devastated, the only solace we can find is that we are eternally grateful Derry was able to join us on stage a couple times just a few short months back."

The bands adds, "Nothing will ever be the same again without our band mate and friend, fly high brother Derry."

Brownson was a founding member of EMF, which formed in 1989 in Gloucestershire, England. The band's debut album, 1991's Schubert Dip, spawned the hit "Unbelievable," which went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

EMF put out two more albums in the '90s before going on hiatus. The band reformed several times over the years before finally putting out their fourth album, Go Go Sapiens, in 2022. 

The most recent EMF release is the 2025 EP Reach for Something Higher.

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Linkin Park has shared a new clip from the band's upcoming documentary, Unshatter.

The clip, streaming on YouTube, features Mike Shinoda sitting in a studio alongside blink-182's Mark Hoppus as they listen to a recording of the song "Unshatter," which is featured on the deluxe version of LP's 2024 comeback album, From Zero. At one point, Hoppus shows Shinoda his arm covered in goosebumps.

"I was moved by that," Shinoda says. "Goosebumps, you can't fake."

Unshatter hits theaters on Sept. 30. The film follows Linkin Park's journey in reforming the band with new vocalist Emily Armstrong following the 2017 death of frontman Chester Bennington, featuring footage spanning from their 2022 studio sessions to 2024's From Zero album release concert in São Paulo.

An accompanying soundtrack will be released on Sept. 25.

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Dave Grohl has been all around the world touring with Foo Fighters and Nirvana, but he's somehow never been inside a Bass Pro Shops. Well, that's now changed thanks to Josh Homme.

The Queens of the Stone Age frontman brought Grohl to a Bass Pro Shops for the first time in between shows on Foo Fighters' ongoing North American stadium tour, which also features the "No One Knows" rockers on the bill.

A video of the visit, which is posted to QotSA's Facebook, shows Grohl and Homme excitedly making noises as they inspect all sorts of fishing and fish-themed products.

There's also a reference to the iconic Them Crooked Vultures "Fresh Pots" video.

Foo Fighters' tour with Queens continues Thursday in Philadelphia.

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Royal Blood has announced a new album called Dead Company.

The fifth studio effort from the "Figure It Out" outfit is due out Nov. 13. It's the follow-up to 2023's Back to the Water Below.

"After putting the Royal Blood engine in neutral for a couple of years, we've been building up the revs and are playing faster and harder than ever with this album," the band says. "Written and recorded with the stage in mind, we cannot wait to play it live for years to come."

The lead Dead Company single is called "Ten Over Ten." You can watch its accompanying video, which begins with an advisory for those with photosensitive epilepsy, on YouTube.

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Paramore's Hayley Williams has released a new EP with her Power Snatch side project.

The four-track collection, called EP2, is out now via Power Snatch's Bandcamp. A visual accompaniment combining all four songs into a single video is streaming on YouTube.

EP2 is the aptly titled follow-up to Power Snatch's debut EP, EP1, which dropped in February. The outfit has also released a number of one-off singles, the most recent of which being June's "Great" and "Training."

Williams officially launched Power Snatch in January, though online sleuths uncovered an Instagram profile relating to the project dating back to summer 2025. Power Snatch also features songwriter/producer Daniel James, who worked with Williams on her 2025 solo album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party.

Williams will launch her "Hayley Williams Show" solo tour in September.

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Cage the Elephant has premiered the video for the band's new single, "Beaches in Tennessee."

The clip, directed by frontman Matt Shultz, features the "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" outfit jamming together on a basketball court. You can watch it on YouTube.

The song "Beaches in Tennessee" premiered in July and marks the first new Cage material to follow their 2024 album, Neon Pill. It currently sits in the top five on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart.

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Bring Me the Horizon's Oli Sykes and Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox are set to collaborate on a new song called "If the Sun Burns Out Tonight."

The track, which was recorded with producer and EDM artist Grabbitz, will be the anthem for the 2026 Valorant Champions Tour, an esports tournament focused on the video game Valorant.

"I’ve always been drawn to projects that blur the lines between storytelling and music," Sykes says in a statement. "So working with [Valorant developer and publisher] Riot Games, alongside Grabbitz and Courtney, and becoming part of the Valorant World felt like a really natural fit."

"I cannot wait to release this song!" LaPlante adds. "Oli has given me the opportunity to perform live with BMTH many times over the years, and we're finally debuting something we worked on together. Grabbitz produced such a great atmosphere and a song tailored to all three of our voices, and Oli went in right away and made it a true collaboration."

"If the Sun Burns Out Tonight" is set to premiere in the fall. You can check out a preview now via the Valorant YouTube channel.

Both Sykes and LaPlante have experience working with the video game world. Bring Me the Horizon recorded the song "Ludens" for the 2019 game Death Stranding, while LaPlante released the theme for the game 2XKO in 2025.

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Kathleen Hanna and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz are taking their marriage to the studio.

The Bikini Kill vocalist and the Beastie Boys member, who wed in 2006, have released a cover of the 2016 single "Let Me Love You" by DJ Snake and Justin Bieber. The recording also features former Beastie Boys touring members Money Mark and Fredo Ortiz, as well as Frank Figueroa.

The cover is featured on an upcoming benefit compilation Contra-ICE Vol. 1: ICE OUT, put together by the organization Build Art Make Change.

"Contra-ICE is not only an album. It is not only a collective," says Build Art Make Change founder Dali Colorado. "It is a cultural infrastructure built to support frontline organizations, amplify immigrant voices, and mobilize creatives who believe that love is not passive; it's organized."

"It's not often you get to play music with your favorite people while working with a grassroots organization like Contra-ICE," Hanna adds. "They are passionately fighting against fascism and white supremacy, which is something none of us can afford to ignore."

Contra-ICE Vol. 1: ICE OUT will be released Oct. 2, and proceeds will benefit National Day Laborer Organizing Network and Unión del Barrioc. The album also features contributions from Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, former Dead Kennedy's vocalist Jello Biafra and Fishbone.

A pair of album release shows will take place Oct. 2 and Oct. 3 in Los Angeles.

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Steve Lacy has announced a North American tour for the fall in support of his new album, Oh yeah? 

The headlining trek launches Sept. 27 in Minneapolis and will wrap up Nov. 30 in Vancouver. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit WeAreSteve.net.

Oh yeah?, which was released in July, marks Lacy's third full-length album and the follow-up to 2022's Gemini Rights, which spawned his breakout hit, "Bad Habit." 

The Oh yeah? title track is currently charting on the Billboard Hot 100 following its placement in the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie.

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Mumford & Sons gave their fans something to "Believe" in during their show at New York City's Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.

Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis joined the "Little Lion Man" outfit onstage to perform the Apple TV series' theme song, which was co-written and performed by Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford.

Footage of the rendition was posted to Mumford & Sons' Instagram Story.

Mumford & Sons also have a song called "Believe" that, despite that word's prevalence in the show, has nothing to do with Ted Lasso, having been released five years before the series' premiere in 2020. However, according to Setlist.fm, the MSG set featured "Believe" performed right before the Ted Lasso theme.

Mumford & Sons are currently touring the U.S. in support of their new album, Prizefighter, which continues with two more shows at MSG taking place Wednesday and Thursday. 

In the meantime, we await the review of MSG night one from Trent Crimm, The Independent.

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Travis Barker was definitely feeling "Insane in the Brain" after smoking with Cypress Hill.

Speaking with Zane Lowe on Apple Music, the blink-182 drummer recalls when he and bandmate Tom DeLonge got high with the rap group during a tour with them in the mid-2000s.

As Barker tells it, the Cypress Hill members asked him to smoke with them between their set and blink's. While Barker would smoke after performances, he didn't like to get high before taking the stage. But since it was the last night of the tour and Cypress was leaving after their performance, they insisted that Barker join them in between sets.

"Dude, let me tell you, it was the longest f****** show, songs felt like they lasted forever," Barker tells Lowe. "It was like my body was working, but everything up here was silent." 

DeLonge, who also joined in the Cypress Hill smoke session, was feeling the effects, as well.

"Tom came to me halfway through the show and he was like, 'I wanna go home,'" Barker says. "I was like, 'Me, too.' It was so awful."

Barker's new documentary, Louder than Fear, will premiere on Hulu and Disney+ on Thursday.

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