Grammy-nominated singer Duncan Sheik is hospitalized in critical condition while battling an undisclosed ailment, according to a statement posted by his family on Instagram on Wednesday (Sept. 16).

“We would like to share an update with Duncan’s fans and the public,” read the statement. “Duncan is currently receiving medical care and remains in critical but stable condition. Out of respect for Duncan and our family, we will not be sharing any further medical details at this time. We kindly ask for privacy during this incredibly difficult time and will provide updates when appropriate. Thank you for the continued love and support.”

At press time it was unknown why Sheik was in the hospital, but on Sept. 6 the 56-year-old singer posted a selfie on Instagram, reporting, “Sorry for the selfies. But I’m still bored in hospital. Do you like (good) magazines?” It appears as if “Barely Breathing” singer has been in a hospital for nearly a month judging by an Aug. 20 post of Sheik in a medical gown with the caption, “I would prefer to be home making music. But a bit of reflection is not too bad … boring hospital stays have their benefits (outside the obvious.)”

Subsequent posts from Aug. 23 and appeared to show the view from inside a hospital room of a sunrise and, on Aug. 26, a TV mounted on a wall. On Sept. 7 he posted yet another selfie, writing, “out of here in 60 hours.”

A number of fellow musicians sent their best wishes in comments on Wednesday’s post, including Lisa Loeb (“Sending love”), Matt Nathanson (“sending big love”), Broadway star Tyce Green (“Buddy you’ve got this. You’ve got this. !!!!!”) and Lizzo.

At press time a spokesperson for Sheik could not be reached for comment on his condition, but the latest news comes just before the opening of the manga novel adaptation Memoirs of Amorous Gentleman, a musical for which Sheik wrote the score; the off-Broadway show is slated to open on Oct. 15 at the Night Egg at the Culture Club.

Sheik is best known for his Grammy-nominated 1996 Billboard Hot 100 No. 16 debut single, “Barely Breathing,” as well as his Tony Award for best original score and best orchestration for the 2006 coming-of-age rock musical Spring Awakening. In the years since, he wrote the music for Alice By Heart, the 2013 musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis horror novel American Psycho as well as the 2013 musical adaptation of Because of Winn-Dixie. His most recent album was 2022’s Claptrap.

Beloved Dutch trio Noisia are reuniting after seven years apart.

The group — Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger — announced Thursday (Sept. 17) that they’re reforming the project. A press release about the reunion notes that after spending the last seven years focused on their respective solo projects, the three guys missed “the exchange of ideas between them, and the feedback loop that begins when their music meets a crowd.”

Crowds won’t have to wait too long to see them again, as Noisia will play its first show back on Dec. 4 at Amsterdam’s Melkweg, where they played during their farewell tour, which extended into 2022 due to the pandemic. Information about additional shows will be announced in time.

Additionally, the trio teased their reunion with the Sept. 10 release a 27-minute documentary, Vlucht, directed by Farhad Khodadadzade. Watch the documentary below.

“It’s a risk we’re taking, to put an end to something we’ve built for two decades,” the trio told Billboard in a joint 2019 interview about their breakup. “We’re saying it now, because we have made the final decision only recently. We took time to think about it. It’s painful, but it is absolutely the right thing to do.”

Over the last seven years, Roos continued developing his bass project Sleepnet, then launching Ring Noord with Former, while also working across projects including the house duo Body Ocean, production, scoring and audio technology. De Vlieger continued his work as Thys through collaborations with Amon Tobin, composing for film, contemporary dance and fashion and writing for instrumental ensembles and electronic music projects. Van Sonderen continued with the duo Zonderling, alongside writing and production work across house, melodic techno, pop and hip-hop under his producer name, NSR. The guys will continue working on these respective projects amid the Noisia re-launch.

“What do I want to do? Something I can’t do on my own,” van Sonderen says in a press release about the reunion. “Getting a rough idea from the guys and letting my own ideas loose on it. That already feels exciting again. Maybe exactly because it doesn’t have to feel exciting.”

“For me, doing the farewell tour actually planted the seed of the idea that Noisia can be what we want it to be, not what we think it has to be,” adds Roos. “When the subject surfaced again, it felt much lighter and surprisingly fun to talk about. Feeling the others’ excitement about it is what really fuelled that for me.”

“What I’m most excited about,” continues de Vlieger, “is to see what the relationship, what the meeting of minds, can bring creatively again. It’s really exciting to redefine this relationship and this friendship on new terms that align with who we are and who we want to be.”

Roos van Sonderen and de Vlieger met in the late ’90s in the northern Dutch town of Groningen, first as graffiti artists who began working together on electronic music. The trio blew up with their drum & bass productions before expanding into electro, house, pop and beyond, gaining prestige for the complexity and meticulousness of their productions. In 2014, their track “Tommy’s Theme” spent 18 weeks on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, peaking at No. 44.

They also graced this same chart during their hiatus with “Supersonic (My Existence)” from Skrillex’s 2023 album Quest For Fire. Made by Skrillex (who was mentored by Noisia during his come-up), Josh Pan, Dylan Brady and the trio, the track expands on Pan and Brady’s 2019 song “Supersonic” and spent 11 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 13.

If life feels like a blur right now for Yes Boone, there’s good reason.

The stage was all set for a triumphant home win when the DJ and producer was shortlisted for breakthrough artist of the year at the 2026 AIR Awards in Adelaide.

It wasn’t to be as Folk Bitch Trio scooped the category, part of a hattrick of wins on the night.

Yes Boone didn’t shed any tears; he has other important matters on his mind. That coveted indie newcomer is now a major label artist with a debut album in the works, thanks to a new record deal struck with Warner Music and Warner Records US.

Now based in Sydney, the electronic music creator’s first release through the partnership is “Nosebleeds,” a hard thump in the chest that he wrote during a stint in London and Paris. Its theme, the infatuation and uncertainty of a relationship’s honeymoon period, its title a discrete nod to his hometown heroes, Hilltop Hoods, the South Australian hip-hop trio that enjoyed a domestic smash with the 2003 song “The Nosebleed Section.”

The rising artist premiered the track last month at WMA’s annual Listen Up Showcase, as he spun a surprise set at the wheels of steel.

On the night, Dan Rosen, president, Warner Music Australasia and Southeast Asia, enthusiastically told the industry gathering that the music company’s latest signing, “we’re going to take him to the world.”

Yes please.

Like so many of his compatriots, Yes Boone isn’t afraid of a long haul.

The Aussie took notes, and inspiration, from a recent, first trip to Europe where he worked with several electronic music producers. “I was a little awestruck at first,” he said of a writing trip in France, an experience that gave him the direction for his first artist album. The work-in-progress captures elements of French house, British post-punk energy and a “timeless sound,” he tells Billboard over Zoom.

Yes Boone is coming off the release of his debut 2025 EP Best I’ve Found and the club weapon “All I Really Want,” which crashed ARIA’s Top 20 Australian Singles Chart and entered the top 10 on AIR’s Independent Singles Chart (peaking at No. 9).

A major label deal isn’t the only big change in his life. “Nosebleeds” features Yes Boone’s own vocals. Expect to hear more from where that came from on his debut LP, which doesn’t yet have a release date. “I’m definitely becoming more comfortable with it,” he says of his singing voice. “It took a little while to find my voice, to sing on my own tracks, and to put my own words to the music for the first time.” He also edited the official video, which was shot and directed by Have You Stopped Growing? and can be seen below.

The Australia festival circuit beckons, and the world awaits. Yes Boone is booked for the Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong on Oct. 4, then travels with the Split Milk festival for shows in Canberra (Dec. 12), Gold Coast (Dec. 13), Geelong (Dec. 19) and Perth (Dec. 20).

He runs with a world-class Australian electronic and dance music community, a scene that counts Dom Dolla, Confidence Man, VASSY, Ninajirachi, Alison Wonderland, FISHER and labelmates RÜFÜS DU SOL within its ranks.

Looking ahead, building a bridge to the United States is on his wishlist. An invite to a writing camp in the United States in the following months could pave the way for many future trips to the world’s biggest music market. “Next year I hope to get out there and start playing some shows,” he enthuses. “It’s quite exciting.”

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Big sound doesn’t always have to come in a big package. Soundboks is putting that idea to the test with its new Rider speaker, the smallest and lightest model in the brand’s lineup.

The Soundboks Rider arrives Sept. 17 for $599 and weighs 14.3 pounds, making it considerably more portable than the brand’s larger party speakers. Despite its smaller frame, it can reach up to 118 decibels and is designed to bring high-volume listening to outdoor settings, from tailgates and beach days to backyard parties and weekend getaways.

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It’s also built with outdoor listening in mind. The Rider has an IP66 rating for water and dust resistance, so it can handle more than just a spot on the living room floor. Soundboks also says the speaker is designed to withstand drops and impacts, making its relatively compact size more practical for taking it on the move.

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Listeners can customize the sound through the Soundboks app, which offers preset sound profiles for different environments alongside custom EQ controls. The app can also control volume, manage connections and deliver firmware updates.

The Rider is designed as a standalone speaker rather than an addition to an existing multi-speaker setup. That distinction matches its overall pitch: Instead of planning an entire party around your sound system, you can grab the speaker and take the music wherever the day goes.

For her next solo EP, LISA wants BLINKS to soak up the experience, sit back, and relax. Just like at the movies.

The superstar BLACKPINK singer stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a glimpse behind the curtain of her forthcoming collection, PRESS PLAY, due out Oct. 23.

“This EP is about my journey from my roots to where I am right now today,” the Thailand-born artist tells Fallon. “There’s a lot of Thai elements in the songs as well, in the EP. And every single song has their own character, their own vibe and we combine it together. It’s like a movie. So you just press play.”

The first of six tracks lifted from PRESS PLAY is “SaWaDiKa,” or “Hello” in her mother tongue. “SaWaDiKa” dropped earlier this month and notched more than 70 million views on YouTube in just 24 hours, “crazy” numbers she admits in her late-night interview, which aired Wednesday night, Sept. 16. “SaWaDiKa” crashed the Billboard Hot 100, with a peak position of No. 69.

The full tracklist for PRESS PLAY has yet to be announced, although LISA admitted track four is the next single and begins with the letter T. Thailand perhaps? “It’s a surprise for my fans,” she teases.

Like many of us, LISA had a fallback in case her K-pop career didn’t pan out. Her Plan B, she recounts to Fallon, was to be a dance teacher or to work as a performer, perhaps in a princess costume, at Disneyland.

No need. LISA’s Plan A is very much working out.

Aside from her dynamite pop music career, LISA is the subject of the feature documentary Always Lalisa. Directed by Sue Kim, Always Lalisa will open in global cinemas and IMAX on Oct. 12 before it heads to streaming on YouTube Premium later in the year. Tickets for the screenings will go on sale Sept. 9 via the film’s website.

Also, LISA made history as the first K-pop artist to hold a Las Vegas residency, with her four-show VIVA LA LISA run at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, from Nov. 13–14 and Nov. 27–28, 2026. Tickets reportedly sold out in fewer than 10 minutes. She hasn’t yet begun rehearsals, she tells Fallon, “but I’m going to start soon. I can’t wait.”

This is LISA’s year. She graced the stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony where she hit “Goals” alongside Anitta and Rema, becoming the first female K-pop and Thai artist to perform at soccer’s showpiece tournament. She also covered Vanity Fair’s Summer 2026 issue; served on the 2026 Met Gala host committee as the first K-pop artist in that role; presented at the 2026 Golden Globes; made her acting debut in HBO’s The White Lotus; and is confirmed for two Netflix projects, one sees her starring in and executive producing the action film TYGO, the other an untitled romantic comedy currently in development.

Watch LISA’s interview on NBC’s The Tonight Show.