After teasing their comeback last week, Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields’ Dead Man’s Bones finally rose from the crypt on Monday (Oct.26) with the release of the haunted rocker “Lost in the Night.”

The spectral song featuring Project Hail Mary star Gosling’s deadpan vocals and spidery guitar finds him singing, “Shadows growing longer in your dust/ The darkest dawn is on the rise for us/ Chase it all away/ Chase it all away/ Lost in the night/ Lost in the night with you.” The song, which revs up midway through thanks to a spare, driving beat reminiscent of 1970s synth punk pioneers Suicide, also features a chorus of echoey background vocals and was written by Gosling and Shields and co-produced by the duo and longtime collaborator Tim Anderson.

The accompanying black-and-white video stars Hamnet’s Noah Jupe and The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Rain Spencer dancing their way out of a cemetery through the night, laughing, hugging and staring deeply into each other’s eyes as if they were the only two people left on Earth.

Gosling and screenwriter/producer Shields (Krampus) teased their first new music in 17 years last week with a spooky post that was amplified by Gosling’s wife, actress Eva Mendes, who hyped the comeback on her Instagram feed. After the teaser posted, Mendes reposted it on her feed and bragged, “He came through on this promise to me. 🖤.”

Gosling’s 10-track debut solo album, Angel With Tatooed Wings, came out in 2000, and then he and Shields formed Dead Man’s Bones, whose self-titled 2009 debut featured backing vocals from the Silverlake Conservatory’s Children’s Choir. In addition to lead vocals, Gosling played piano, guitar, synthesizer, percussion, cello and bass on that album.

According to a release, after trying to record their sophomore collection in a couple of different Los Angeles studios and not finding the sound they wanted, “the duo took two guitars, two drum machines, and two synthesizers to a farm outside the city and recorded the song in a day. The result is a shadowy but undeniably hopeful homemade anthem that hints at an exciting new direction for the duo.”

Watch the “Lost in the Night” video below.

Cade Mower continued his run on The Voice Monday night (Oct. 26), advancing through the Battle round after taking on the Red Clay Strays’ “Wondering Why” with fellow Team Riley contestant Brayden Howell.

The 35-year-old singer from Bluffdale, Utah, first turned all four chairs during the Blind Auditions with his performance of Zach Bryan’s “Something in the Orange,” and his latest appearance again drew praise from the coaches.

Mower and 19-year-old Howell were paired by coach Riley Green for the Battle, with Carly Pearce joining Team Riley as a guest adviser.

Ahead of the performance, Mower spoke about the difficulty of being away from his wife, Lindsey, and their two children while filming the competition. “It’s been a massive sacrifice, but if I can go and win this Battle, that’s one step closer towards making this massive sacrifice worth it,” he said.

“She’s not just along for the ride, she’s my biggest fan,” he added of his wife.

The pair then performed “Wondering Why,” the breakout song from Alabama rock band the Red Clay Strays.

Kelly Clarkson, who had been surprised during Mower’s audition to learn that he works full-time as a wealth adviser, again singled out his voice after the performance.

“Your vocals are insane,” Clarkson told him.

Queen Latifah was similarly enthusiastic, telling Mower that his Blind Audition had stuck with her.

“Cade, you have been on my brain since you came on this stage,” the first-time coach said, adding that she wished he had landed on her team.

But Latifah also acknowledged the strength of his opponent.

“I felt like your voice was so unique, but I gotta tell you, Brayden gave you a run for your money today,” she told the pair.

“Amen,” Mower replied.

Green ultimately selected Mower to advance, praising the singer for already having a clear understanding of his musical identity.

“One of the best things about you is that you know what you are and what you do well and what you want to do,” the country star told him.

Mower has spent nearly 15 years pursuing music alongside a full-time career. According to NBC, he began playing guitar at age 12 and started singing shortly before turning 21, later performing regularly at his uncle’s bar in Salt Lake City and playing thousands of shows while living in Austin and Nashville.

His Blind Audition has also emerged as one of Season 30’s most-watched performances, drawing more than 3 million views on The Voice’s official YouTube channel, according to the Deseret News.

Mower’s song choices so far have placed him firmly in the contemporary country and roots-rock lane.

Zach Bryan’s “Something in the Orange,” which Mower performed during his Blind Audition, became one of Bryan’s breakthrough hits and has remained a fixture on Billboard’s country charts years after its release. “Wondering Why,” meanwhile, helped propel the Red Clay Strays to a wider audience and has logged an extended run across Billboard’s country rankings.

The Battle win sends Mower into the newly introduced Cut Week as one of seven remaining artists on Team Riley.

“One step closer to the end goal,” he said after advancing. “I’m excited.”

Since 1970, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame has honored more than 250 of Music City’s top weavers of words and melodies, recognizing their talent, songcraft, and enduring impact on musical culture by welcoming them as members.

On Monday night (Oct. 26), the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame welcomed six new members into its ranks, when the 56th annual Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala was held at Music City Center. Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame executive director Mark Ford and Board chair Rich Hallworth ushered in the evening by welcoming the audience.

Taylor Swift joined the Hall’s Class of 2026 in the songwriter-artist category. Her fellow honorees were J.I. Allison (in the legacy category), Bruce Channel (veteran songwriter category), Lyle Lovett (veteran songwriter-artist category), and Shawn Camp and Lee Thomas Miller (both in the songwriter category).

Brad Paisley inducted Swift (“at your core, you’re a songwriter,” Paisley told Swift) while Lainey Wilson honored Swift with a rendition of Swift’s “Love Story.” Swift reflected on the meaning behind the words Nashville, songwriters and fame.

“I knew from the time I wrote my first song that even if it couldn’t be my career, it would be my passion,” she told the audience. “It would be what I centered my entire life around.” She recalled being a teen just starting her career, balancing school and songwriting, and how working with writers and producers including Liz Rose and Nathan Chapman helped her further refine her songwriting skills.

“I think you truly learn a craft when you do it over and over and over,” Swift said. “And that is what the magnificent songwriters that work in this amazing town do.” She said the Nashville’s songwriters “in a lot of ways, raised me and guided me through my formative years.”

Her induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, at a gala held in downtown Nashville, comes just after the 20-year anniversary of the release of Swift’s debut album, which included her first hits such as “Tim McGraw,” “Picture To Burn” and “Teardrops on My Guitar.” She gave credit to Nashville’s songwriting community for helping her develop the ability to traverse various musical styles, collaborations and approaches to writing throughout her career.

“The only reason that I’ve been able to have that kind of dexterity in my creative process is because of the fundamentals and the foundation that I learned here in Nashville,” Swift said. “And I never forget that for a single second.”

Journalist/music historian Robert K Oermann recognized Allison, known for penning classic songs such as “That’ll Be The Day” and “Peggy Sue.” BR5-49 frontman Chuck Mead performed a rendition of “That’ll Be The Day,” while Joanie Allison accepted the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame honor on behalf of her late husband. “Today is your day,” she said.

Kix Brooks honored inductee Channel, known for songs including John Conlee’s “As Long As I’m Rockin’ With You.” Lee Roy Parnell performed a rendition of Channel’s Billboard Hot 100 hit “Hey! Baby.”

“He was multi-faceted in his writing,” Brooks recalled of first getting to know Channel. Meanwhile, Channel thanked many in the Nashville community for their contributions to his career, including music publishing executive Don Gant, saying, “He helped everybody he came across,” and recalling how Gant helped him get the song “Party Time” recorded by T.G. Sheppard; the song became a No. 1 country hit.

The evening also saw George Strait honored with the career maker award. During Strait’s more than four decades in the country music spotlight, he has recorded 264 songs written or co-written by 72 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame members—44 of whom were not in the Hall when he first cut their songs.

After members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame had taken the stage, Strait joined them, led by Dean Dillon, and thanked them for their music.

“First of all, congratulations to the new 2026 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees,” Strait said, before going on to note that he felt that receiving an accolade called a career-maker award seemed “turned around…’cause they made my career. I didn’t make theirs. That’s the way I see it…Nashville has shown me a lot of love over the years…I’ve always loved coming to Nashville, being here and recording here and being around these guys. I just want to say thank all of you who send songs my way and made my career. I appreciate it very much.”

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame songwriter Pat Alger presented Lovett as one of the Class of 2026 inductees, describing his music “uniquely Lyle Lovett songs…As a songwriter, that’s something you want people to say about you.” Kathy Mattea performed a version of “If I Had A Boat,” a song that exemplifies Lovett’s vivid songwriting and eclectic musical style. Lovett is also known for songs including “Cowboy Man,” “Why I Don’t Know” and the Grammy-nominated “She’s No Lady.” Lovett expressed gratitude for the honor, while also thanking his peers, but also his parents for their steady support, saying, “They gave me every opportunity they could.”

Verlon Thompson and Emmylou Harris honored Camp with a performance, while Jim Lauderdale inducted Camp, known for songs including “How Long Gone” (recorded by Brooks & Dunn), “Would You Go With Me” (Josh Turner), “My Love Will Not Change” (The Del McCoury Band) and “River of Love” (Strait).

“Unbelievable,” Camp said after taking the stage, soaking in the moment. He called Lauderdale one of his songwriting heroes, and noted that the honor was as much about anyone that had ever co-written with him as it was about Camp. He also honored the late John Anderson, saying he was “always going above and beyond to help me in this business.”

The evening’s final inductee was Lee Thomas Miller, known for his work on songs including “The Impossible,” “You’re Gonna Miss This,” “In Color,” “It Ain’t My Fault,” and “Southern Girl.” Jamey Johnson performed a powerful acoustic rendition of “In Color,” while Alabama’s Randy Owen presented Miller as a member of the newest Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame class.

Miller offered up one of the evening’s most powerful speeches, congratulating his fellow inductees and calling it a “great honor to share this night with you.” His speech focused on honoring his family, his co-writers and those who, like Miller, advocate in Washington, D.C. for the rights of songwriters. He took listeners through his journey of how loving baseball as a child evolved into finding his creative light in music. Most of all, he encouraged the songwriter community, saying, “These are the people who write the songs. These are the people who make the world make sense.”

Even as the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala ushered in a new class of inductees, the evening also took time to honor those who have passed away since last year’s event. There was a tribute to 650 WSM AM’s Bill Cody, the gala’s longtime announcer, who passed away in June. Grand Ole Opry announcer Kelly Sutton stepped in for Cody as the show’s “voice” for the evening. The segment also remembered eight Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame songwriters who have passed away since last year’s ceremony, including Walt Aldridge, John Anderson, Rory Bourke, Steve Cropper, Jim McBride, Joe Melson, Dolly Parton and Don Schlitz. Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame songwriter Rivers Rutherford performed “When I Get Where I’m Going” (which he co-wrote with George Teren) to honor those who have passed away.

Disturbed are heading back to Australia and New Zealand in 2027 for their first headline tour of the region in more than a decade.

The seven-date arena run will begin April 22 at Auckland’s Spark Arena before heading to Christchurch, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, wrapping May 9 at Perth’s RAC Arena.

Each night will feature two Disturbed sets. The first will see the band perform their 2000 debut album, The Sickness, in full, while the second will draw from more than two decades of hits.

The Australia and New Zealand dates follow the band’s The Sickness 25th-anniversary tour across North America, the U.K. and Europe, where Disturbed have been revisiting the album that launched their career.

Released in March 2000, The Sickness peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 and became one of the defining hard-rock releases of the early 2000s. The album has since been certified five-times platinum by the RIAA. Its best-known track, “Down With the Sickness,” remains one of Disturbed’s signature songs, while the band later found another major crossover moment with their 2015 cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence.”

That track became Disturbed’s highest-charting entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and helped introduce the band to an even broader audience more than 15 years after their debut. Disturbed also put together an unusually consistent run on the Billboard 200 following The Sickness. Beginning with 2002’s Believe, the band scored five consecutive No. 1 albums: Believe, Ten Thousand Fists, Indestructible, Asylum and Immortalized.

Their most recent studio album, Divisive, arrived in 2022 and debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200. It also produced several rock-radio hits, including “Hey You,” “Unstoppable” and “Don’t Tell Me,” the latter featuring Heart’s Ann Wilson.

The upcoming tour comes as Disturbed continue releasing new music beyond Divisive. In 2025, the band returned with “I Will Not Break,” their first new single since that album cycle.

Disturbed’s touring business has also continued to grow. Billboard previously reported that the band’s 2023 Take Back Your Life tour grossed $17.4 million and sold 336,000 tickets, with average attendance rising significantly from their previous headline runs.

The 2027 dates will bring the anniversary production back to Australia and New Zealand after the band’s recent international run, giving fans the chance to hear The Sickness front to back before a second set spanning the rest of their catalog.

DISTURBED — AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 2027

April 22 — Auckland, New Zealand @ Spark Arena

April 24 — Christchurch, New Zealand @ Wolfbrook Arena

April 28 — Brisbane, Australia @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre

May 1 — Sydney, Australia @ Afterpay Arena

May 3 — Adelaide, Australia @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

May 5 — Melbourne, Australia @ Rod Laver Arena

May 9 — Perth, Australia @ RAC Arena

Taylor Swift was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on Monday night (Oct. 26), using her acceptance speech to revisit the Music Row writing rooms, publishers and collaborators who shaped her earliest years as a songwriter.

Brad Paisley inducted the 14-time Grammy winner at the organization’s 56th annual gala at Nashville’s Music City Center, prompting an opening joke about a tour prank that apparently still hadn’t been forgotten.

“I’m really surprised to see you here, actually, because we’ve been estranged since 2007,” Swift joked.

The singer-songwriter recalled Paisley filling her tour bus with thousands of live crickets during their time on the road together. “For months, I couldn’t sleep. Just chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp all night,” she remembered, before deciding his introduction had been good enough to let “bygones be bygones.”

From there, Swift broke the Hall of Fame honor down into three words: Nashville, songwriters and fame.

“I knew from the time I wrote my first song that even if it couldn’t be my career, it would be my passion,” she told the room. “It would be what I centered my entire life around.”

Nashville, meanwhile, was “the place that I went to in my middle school daydreams” — somewhere the young songwriter imagined all of the lessons and wisdom she wanted to acquire existed in one place.

Fame came later, Swift noted.

“Fame, you know, that’s sort of a byproduct of my love for music,” the pop superstar explained. “It’s kind of like songwriter plus Nashville equals fame.”

With that success came what she described as “daily random doses of chaos.” When life starts to feel strange, Swift returns mentally to her earliest memories of arriving in Nashville, signing a publishing deal at 14 and writing songs every day.

“I was like a sponge,” she joked. “And I had really curly hair and it was yellow, so I kind of looked like a sponge too.”

Those formative years taught her that songwriting was a craft built through repetition.

“I think you truly learn a craft when you do it over and over and over,” the songwriter reflected. “And that is what the magnificent songwriters that work in this amazing town do.”

“There is no music community like this music community,” she added. “I know, I checked all the communities.”

Swift also credited Nashville’s writing community with teaching her some of the less glamorous realities of collaboration: how to push through creative blocks, which ideas are worth fighting for and when to let something go.

“I learned how to accommodate when your co-writer has a hangover, or when they’re going to need to talk about their divorce for a really long time before we write anything,” she joked.

Those writers, the newly inducted Hall of Famer explained, “in a lot of ways, raised me and guided me through my formative years.”

One memory she revisited in detail dates back to December 2005.

Her mother would pick her up from Hendersonville High School and drive her to Jody Williams Music, an independent publisher housed in a small Craftsman-style home. At the front desk was Katherine — whose boyfriend at the time, Swift revealed to the room, was Eric Church.

“Things have gone great for them,” she joked. “They’ve got a couple kids, married like 20 years now. His full name is Eric Church, just for clarity.”

From there, the then-teenage songwriter would run upstairs to a red-painted room to work with Liz Rose.

“I’d be like, ‘Liz, this happened in school today,’” Swift recalled. “And she’d get her notebook, and we’d just write so fast.”

After those sessions, she would head into a garden shed behind the building, where demo producer Nathan Chapman recorded her songs and played every instrument.

“He interpreted my music so intuitively that later on I would fight for him to produce my entire first album,” she recalled. “And it was our first album, both of us.”

Her self-titled debut celebrated its 20th anniversary on Oct. 24, just two days before Monday’s induction.

The “Love Story” singer also looked back on writing at Nashville’s Sony Fire Hall, where she could hear other songwriters working through the walls.

“I just kind of liked to pretend that I was in the real building,” she told the audience.

Looking back across the two decades that followed, Swift credited the foundation she built in Nashville with giving her the freedom to move between genres, collaborators and creative approaches.

“The only reason that I’ve been able to have that kind of dexterity in my creative process is because of the fundamentals and the foundation that I learned here in Nashville,” she said. “And I never forget that for a single second.”

“I’m so incredibly honored to be inducted into this sacred club, especially at this point in my life,” the newly minted Hall of Famer continued. “It’s not lost on me how crazy this is.”

She closed by describing Nashville as the place that “honed and polished” the part of herself she is most proud of.

“It just feels like one of those amazing Nashville moments I’m going to revisit on a rainy day,” Swift concluded.

Taylor Swift was inducted alongside Lyle Lovett, Shawn Camp, Lee Thomas Miller, Bruce Channel and the late J.I. Allison. Lainey Wilson performed a bluegrass rendition of “Love Story,” which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, while George Strait received the Career Maker Award.

From halftime producer to headliner: Jay-Z is set to headline the 2027 Super Bowl halftime show.

The news was announced during Monday Night Football (Oct. 26) after ESPN teased a “special announcement” heading into halftime. A teaser soundtracked by “Public Service Announcement (Interlude),” off 2003’s The Black Album, plays across a black-and-white video of Jay-Z in stadium seats, kicking off with the famous line: “Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name HOV — H to the O-V.” The tease was posted to social media after.

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The video includes the caption “GOAT’s out of the bag” since this became an open secret when it was reported first by Puck that Jay-Z — who’s been producing the halftime show alongside Roc Nation since 2020 — had given himself the nod to headline the 2027 Super Bowl set.

In fact, the rapper was expected to announce the news over the weekend, when he played a pair of shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, which will host the 2027 Super Bowl, on Friday and Saturday. Those shows came and went without an announcement, as did a full day of NFL games on Sunday, but now the news is official.

Given the Feb. 14 date of next year’s Super Bowl, fans are hopeful that Jay might be joined by his superstar wife Beyoncé for an unconventional Valentine’s Day celebration on the football field, among other possible special guests the rapper has collaborated with over the years.

Jay-Z, under his birth name Shawn Carter, has received six consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations as an executive producer of the Super Bowl halftime show, in the category of outstanding variety special (live). He won for two of those shows — the all-star hip-hop show in 2022 starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent, and this year’s Latin spectacular starring Bad Bunny. Carter won a third Primetime Emmy in 2023 for co-directing the halftime show starring Rihanna, in the category of outstanding directing for a variety special.

Last year’s Super Bowl halftime show — presented by Apple Music — was headlined by Bad Bunny, with special appearances from Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, as well as celebrities hanging out in his on-field casita.

Macklemore kicked off his Free Palestine benefit concert series in Dublin on Monday night (Oct. 26), bringing out Hozier, Kneecap and a stacked bill of guests at a sold-out 3Arena.

Joining the Seattle rapper onstage were Irish folk band Beoga, singer-songwriter Lina Makoul, M1 of Dead Prez and DJ Habibeats. Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham, activist and psychotherapist Nadia Greenspan and artist and organizer Samir Eskanda spoke as special guests, while Mark Ruffalo, The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, Cynthia Nixon, Ilana Glazer and Natasha Rothwell made remote appearances.

The three-city run is raising money for organizations that provide humanitarian relief, medical care, education and advocacy for Palestinians, according to organizers. When the series was announced in September, Live Nation named beneficiaries including Anera, Medical Aid for Palestinians, the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, Jewish Voice for Peace and UNRWA USA.

The shows grew out of Macklemore’s abrupt exit from the North American leg of Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour in September. During a stop at MetLife Stadium, he told the crowd “Free Palestine” and voiced support for people in Gaza and the West Bank. Macklemore later said New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft pushed for his removal, and Kraft confirmed he had barred the rapper from Gillette Stadium, citing those comments and what he called “a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery.” Sheeran said the decision was made by his promoter, not him.

The fallout spread quickly. Several support acts quit the tour in response, among them Beoga, who had been performing with Sheeran every night before landing a spot on Monday’s Dublin bill. Macklemore has also pledged his $1 million in net earnings from the tour to Palestinian aid groups.

Dublin came just days after Macklemore played his first show since leaving the tour, a 17-song set at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Oct. 22, where he again called for a “free Palestine” and spoke about Sudan, Congo, Lebanon, Haiti and people affected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Macklemore has topped the Billboard Hot 100 twice, both alongside Ryan Lewis in 2013 with “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us.”

The series moves to Paris’ Accor Arena on Thursday (Oct. 29) and wraps at London’s OVO Arena Wembley on Friday (Oct. 30). All three dates are sold out.

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Looks like LISA has her eyes on your next outfit, with the BLACKPINK star’s new PlayStation merch featuring her distinctive gaze.

Designed in collaboration with LISA, the first merchandise drop accompanying her PlayStation collaboration is now available exclusively through her official Amazon store. The collection expands on the partnership behind the limited-edition LISA × PlayStation DualSense wireless controller, bringing her own style to PlayStation-inspired apparel and accessories.

Fans can also preorder a second merch drop directly through the PlayStation Store ahead of its expected release later this month — with PlayStation yet to confirm an official release date. The upcoming drop features a black “LISA” beanie, a tote bag and graphic T-shirts with a fresh spin on the original designs. The PS5 controller, which opened for preorder on Oct. 2, is scheduled to release on Oct. 30. All merchandise are available exclusively in the U.S.

The full LISA x PlayStation collection features t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, hats, tote bags, keychains/bag charms, stickers and a DualSense controller carrying case. Product availability may vary by retailer, with the first drop available now on Amazon and a second lineup available to preorder through PlayStation.

The collaboration builds on PlayStation’s first PS5 campaign with LISA last year and arrives alongside her EP “Press Play,” released on Oct. 23. In a press release, LISA shared her excitement about creating the collection and adding personal details for fans to appreciate.

“Gaming is something I do whenever I have time to relax, so getting to create this collection with PlayStation was very exciting,” the K-pop star said. “I had a lot of fun adding in little details that I knew my fans would notice, and I wanted the fans to have something they can connect with. I’ve always loved expressing myself through music and fashion, so this collaboration gave me a new way to be creative and show a different side of myself. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do.”