Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Public Enemy, Little Steven Van Zandt, Sheryl Crow, Jackson Browne, David Sancious, and more performed across two nights of the Music America: The Songs That Shaped Us concerts at Monmouth University this week, with the second night on Friday (June 5) featuring a particularly notable return — Bon Jovi’s first public performance in New Jersey since 2018.

The two-night concert series serves as the cornerstone event for the opening of the new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, which officially opens to the public June 13.

Springsteen opened Friday’s show with a roaring rendition of Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock,” followed by Presley’s “Burning Love,” backed by the Disciples of Soul under music director Marc Ribler. Bon Jovi then took the stage for Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” — his first public vocal performance in his home state since 2018, when he stepped back from touring due to vocal cord issues.

The performance came as Bon Jovi’s full band prepares for a nine-show residency at Madison Square Garden next month. Santelli framed the Berry selection with a pointed historical note from the stage, observing that while Berry is considered the true King of Rock ‘n’ Roll by many, “he could never get to the same point where Elvis was for the simple reason he was Black.”

The night continued through eras of American music: Jackson Browne represented the 1970s singer-songwriter era with his own “For America,” while 86-year-old Dion delivered “The Wanderer” alongside a stirring “Abraham, Martin and John.” Mavis Staples performed The Band’s “The Weight” to represent the activist sounds of the 1960s while Public Enemy closed out with “Fight the Power.”

The night closed with group performances of “Further On Down the Road,” “Raise Your Hand” and “I Don’t Want to Go Home,” before Springsteen ended with a solo rendition of “Land of Hope and Dreams.”

Thursday’s opening night, which traced American music up to World War II, featured Springsteen alongside Kenny Chesney, Rosanne Cash, Dropkick Murphys, Keb’ Mo’, Brian Fallon, Tony Trischka, Sister Sadie, Shemekia Copeland, Trombone Shorty and the New Breed Brass Band, Valerie June and more.

The 30,000-square-foot Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University opens June 13, featuring multiple exhibit spaces, state-of-the-art archives, a 250-seat Dolby soundstage and over a dozen interactive experiences spotlighting both Springsteen’s career and the broader history of American music. More information is available at springsteencenter.com.

Charlie Puth has canceled Saturday’s (June 6) show in Orlando, Florida, citing an illness that’s lasted a few days and a recommendation to rest in order to recover for the remainder of his Whatever’s Clever! World Tour.

“I am so devastated to do this, but I have to cancel tonight’s show,” he wrote in an Instagram Story note Saturday afternoon. “I’ve been sick for the last few days and am now being instructed to rest or else risk canceling more dates on this tour.”

Puth’s statement continued, “Performing for you all each night means everything to me, and you all deserve the best. I’m heartbroken, but I physically am unable to perform. Without a voice, I can’t give you guys the show you all deserve.”

“I’m so sorry, this was not an easy decision to make but I hope to see you all soon when I am well again,” he wrote.

Orlando’s Addition Financial Arena shared Puth’s statement on social media and provided additional details for ticket holders: “Sorry for the delay as we here at the Arena were awaiting final decision. Charlie Puth’s Whatever’s Clever tour scheduled for tonight is canceled with no rescheduled date. Please refer to your original point of purchase for refunds.”

Puth’s schedule currently has him set to play Nashville on June 9 before heading over to Texas. The European leg of his tour is next up, once his U.S. dates wrap.

He recently graced the stage of Madison Square Garden in New York City, bringing several special guests up to the stage with him: Art Garfunkel, Jimmy Fallon, Busta Rhymes and Kirk Franklin.

Duffy is set to return to the stage for the first time in over 15 years.

The Welsh singer announced via Instagram on Friday (June 6) that she will perform a “secret intimate gig” in London on July 5, debuting new music as part of her tentative return to public life following years of withdrawal from the industry.

“I’m doing a secret intimate gig in London on the 5th July, next month, and I would love nothing more than for some of you to attend,” Duffy wrote on Instagram Stories. “It’s only small capacity so we can only select a few, but really looking forward to it. I will sing some new songs.” The show will be ballot-only, with fans invited to apply via her social channels.

The performance marks one of the most significant moments in Duffy’s gradual reemergence. Last month, the singer shared a black-and-white image from a recording studio with the caption: “If only I could find the right words to explain how much I’ve missed you all. Working on coming back to you.”

Earlier this year, Disney+ announced an upcoming Hulu Original documentary in which Duffy will tell her full story in her own words for the first time — covering her upbringing in Wales, her early 2000s breakthrough, her decade-long retreat and the harrowing assault that prompted it.

Born Aimée Anne Duffy in Bangor, Wales, the singer rose to global fame in 2008 with her debut album Rockferry, which became the UK’s best-selling album of that year and earned her three BRIT Awards, a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, and an Ivor Novello Award.

Lead single “Mercy” peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2008 and reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, where it spent five consecutive weeks at the top. Rockferry itself peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and remains certified five-times platinum in the UK. She released her second album Endlessly in 2010 before stepping out of the public eye, with only two new songs released since — the 2020 ballad “River in the Sky” and radio-only single “Something Beautiful.”

In 2020, Duffy broke her silence on the reason for her decade-long absence, revealing in an Instagram post and a longer personal essay that she had been drugged at a restaurant while celebrating her birthday, then transported to a foreign country where she was held captive and raped by an unnamed assailant.

She has said the ordeal left her suicidal and that “utterly no-one” knew what had happened until she chose to share her story. To date, no arrests have been made public in connection with the case.

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Olivia Rodrigo previewed “What’s Wrong With Me,” a song with The Cure‘s Robert Smith from the second act of her highly anticipated new album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, live at Primavera Sound 2026. The unveil of their duet came just hours after Rodrigo made a surprise announcement she’d play live at the Barcelona, Spain, music festival Saturday night (June 6).

At track 10, the song falls on the “you seem pretty sad” side of her upcoming LP’s story. It marks the first time Rodrigo’s featured another artist on an album track.

“II can’t believe this song exists with the person that it exists with. I’m just so f—ing over the moon,” Rodrigo said of song partner Smith when introducing “What’s Wrong With Me” to the crowd at Parc del Forum’s Occident Stage. By the end of Rodrigo and The Cure frontman’s duet — right after hugging her musical hero-turned-friend (and now, officially, collaborator) — the pop star admitted, “I feel like I’m gonna cry … I can’t believe that that’s a thing that happened in the real world and not just a figment of my imagination.”

The lyrics of “What’s Wrong With Me” have her “spiraling.” “I’m not feeling like myself, and nothing ever seems to help,” Rodrigo sings in the pre-chorus, leading up to “Went to the doctor and she said I was fine/ But every movie that I’ve seen makes me cry/ It’s like somebody put a weight on my chest/ I should talk to a friend, but I can’t get out of bed/ My head is spinning and my stomach is sick/ Say I’m in love, so it’s hard to admit/ I can’t eat, I can’t sleep/ I think you’re what’s wrong with me.”

Verse two brings in Smith, who echoes Rodrigo’s relationship rumination: “Head just keeps on pounding with the simple thought/ ‘What if this isn’t what I want?’”

They layer their vocals over the chorus from that point on, and through the song’s bridge and outro.

You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is only a week away; the full album will be available Friday, June 12 via Geffen Records.

Rodrigo popped online with a quick Instagram Story earlier on Saturday to share the news of her previously unannounced Primavera set, which was slotted for 10:25 p.m. local time, though she remained mum on the Smith’s part until showtime. “Surprise!!!” she’d captioned a snapshot of herself giving a thumbs up on the festival’s grounds. “See you tonight primavera_sound … I’m excited.”

The pair previously played live together last year, at Glastonbury, where they delivered The Cure’s “Friday I’m In Love” and “Just Like Heaven” together.

Rodrigo’s admiration of Smith keeps going: on “Drop Dead,” the lead track of You Seem Pretty Sad… (which launched as a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1), she playfully works the song title of “Just Like Heaven” into the opening verse.

Rodrigo and Smith’s unexpected live set Saturday night at Primavera Sound came months ahead of the singer-songwriter’s sold-out arena tour kickoff. Rodrigo launches her Unraveled Tour in September in Hartford, Conn., embarking across North America and Europe in support of her third studio album. The tour’s name references a lyric from her latest single, which happens to be called “The Cure,” and which arrived at No. 1  on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart and No. 5 on the Hot 100 in its first week.

Beyond the premiere of “What’s Wrong With Me,” Rodrigo’s Primavera Sound set included performances of both of the musician’s most recent singles (“Drop Dead” and “The Cure”), plus hits from Sour and Guts.

Saturday marked day three of Primavera Sound, which saw severe weather conditions opening night that shut down many of of Thursday’s performances, including Doja Cat and Massive Attack’s headlining spots. The fest was back to business for day two, with  The Cure, Skrillex, PinkPantheress and more taking the stage as expected on Friday.

Peso Pluma and Kenia Os have called it quits. The Mexican artists shared a joint statement via Instagram Stories on Saturday (June 6), confirming that they have ended their relationship.

“Through this message, we want to share that we have decided to end our relationship, which comes to a close with love, respect and on the best terms,” the statement reads. “We have always prioritized our privacy and integrity as people, and we deeply appreciate the love we’ve received throughout this time. We ask that you respect our decision and privacy during this personal moment. Thank you, Kenia & Hassan.”

The breakup closes the chapter on a high-profile relationship between two of Mexico’s biggest young music stars. Peso Pluma and Kenia Os were first linked professionally through “Tommy & Pamela,” their collaboration on Peso Pluma’s 2024 album Éxodo. The flirtatious team-up — whose title nods to one of pop culture’s most famous couples, Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson — arrived months before the pair went public with their romance.

The reggaetón-leaning track arrived during a key stretch in Peso’s crossover push, as Éxodo showcased his range beyond música mexicana. It debuted at No. 40 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart and later peaked at No. 20.

Kenia later referenced Peso during Billboard Latin Music Week 2024, saying that the collaboration had led to new opportunities to work with Mexican artists like Peso Pluma, with whom she recorded the hit “Tommy & Pamela.”

Neither artist offered additional details beyond Saturday’s statement. Read their full message on the second slide below.

“A video seems…cheap,” Madonna told Anderson Cooper and a sold-out Beacon Theatre on Friday (June 5) night, shortly after the world premiere of Confessions II, a 13-minute visual project centered around her upcoming album Confessions II. The pop icon was explaining why her short film occupied the space between a mere music video and a full-length visual album (“Guy [Oseary, her manager] is always yelling at me to save money”) to a throng of diehards at Tribeca Festival. “It was good when it was just MTV and me,” she recalled of the music video’s golden era. “Those days are over.”

During a candid, freewheeling, no-phones chat with Cooper (who was subbing in for Jimmy Fallon, who dropped out of the event last-minute) and directors David Toro and Solomon Chase (TORSO) – whom Madonna described as “from another planet” – the Queen of Pop talked about everything from her early days in NYC to the previous evening’s Times Square pop-up performance to the many cameos in her Confessions II project.

The Confessions II film is centered around the first six tracks on Confessions II, her hotly anticipated July 3 album which reunites her with Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) producer Stuart Price. As astute fans will know, that means this visual project offered approximately 2,800 folks the opportunity to hear four unreleased Confessions II songs: “Good for the Soul,” “One Step Away,” “Danceteria” and “Read My Lips.”

A wild visual project that features paparazzi SWAT teams, forest people with green lasers shooting out of their lower orifices (“I wanted to try it but apparently it gets quite hot” Madonna drily quipped), a car crash, aerial flips over a dancefloor and loads (ahem) of hot hookups in a public restroom while Benedict Cumberbatch dances outside the stalls, the film demands multiple viewings – and sure enough, the evening was book ended with screenings of Confessions II.

Aside from Cumberbatch, the visual features, among others: Sabrina Carpenter, who crawls and writhes around the dancefloor with Madonna during their duet “Bring Your Love”; Colombian singer Feid, who joins Madonna on the collaborative “Read My Lips”; Debi Mazar, who swings by “Danceteria” – a nod to their shared past, as pre-fame Mazar and Madonna hung out at the iconic, now defunct NYC club Danceteria and made out together “to attract boys” and help get the DJ to play Madonna’s cassette; Arca, who is credited on “I Feel So Free” with additional production; Honey Dijon, who produced a Billboard Dance Club Songs-topping remix of Madonna’s “I Don’t Search I Find” from her 2019 album Madame X; genre-pushing British artist Shygirl; actress Julie Garner, who pops up looking very much like Madonna circa 1987; and Madonna’s daughter, Lourdes Leon, who gets the final line of the film: “Cut, b-tch.”

Madonna shared that the project took about a month to film, while the album itself was the product of a year-and-a-half of work with Price while she waited for that long-gestating Netflix miniseries about her life to come to pass.

Only two songs from the film – “I Feel So Free” and Carpenter collab “Bring Your Love” – are officially released, and it’s not yet known if the four unreleased songs in the Confessions II film will hit DSPs prior to its official July 3 release. The Confessions II project will, however, debut on YouTube on Monday (June 8). The sublime “Love Sensation,” which came out Thursday (June 4) shortly after the Queen of Pop’s surprise pop-up performance for 50,000 fans in Times Square, is not featured in the visual project. Of that performance, Madonna told Cooper it felt like a beautiful full-circle moment for her, as she famously showed up to NYC in 1978 and headed straight to Times Square with nothing but ambition in her gut and $35 in her pocket.

She admitted to having some nerves, however, particularly when she swung her leg over the Plexiglas barrier that separates pop-out venue The Square from the Times Square traffic several stories below. “When I went to put my leg over the barrier I was like hmmm,” she mused with a smirk. “I don’t know if I love my fans that much.” Fair enough, particularly given that Madonna’s next stop after the Beacon Theatre was the Hamptons to see her 95-year-old father to celebrate his birthday: if she can be with us that long, there’s no sense in risking the Queen’s time on earth on a piece of Plexiglas.

Confessions II drops on July 3; on July 19, Madonna, BTS and Shakira will headline the first-ever halftime show for the World Cup at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

Carlos Alberto Solari, the Argentine singer-songwriter known as “the Indio” who led Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, one of the country’s most popular and influential rock groups, died Friday (June 5). He was 77.

Solari, who had struggled with Parkinson’s disease for at least a decade, was found dead near an indoor pool at his house in the provincial town of Ituzaingó, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) west of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, authorities said, without identifying a cause of death.

His family confirmed his death on social media, saying they would hold a public funeral to allow people to bid farewell to the rock legend. Fans began gathering at his home, with some bearing flowers and wearing T-shirts printed with his nickname. Crowds filled a large plaza in downtown Buenos Aires to mourn, commune and sing Solari’s hit songs. People wept. Strangers hugged.

Eros Ruarte, 19, said he woke up Friday to his mother breaking the bad news.

“‘I said, no, mom, you can’t say that.’ I couldn’t believe it, that the Indio had died. … He is the biggest idol in the world. I grew up listening to him,” he said from the impromptu wake. “I heard his songs from my mom, my uncle.”

As the lead singer of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota — known more simply as “Los Redondos” — Solari became a countercultural icon for disaffected Argentines coming of age as their country transitioned from a bloody military dictatorship to a democracy characterized by newfound freedoms but also instability and hyperinflation in the 1980s.

During the consumerist frenzy that gripped Argentina the 1990s, under the free-market policies of then-President Carlos Saul Menem, Solari’s classic rock anthems, punchy dance tunes and cryptic lyrics gave voice to a spirit of rebellion against the excesses of capitalism and influences of foreign powers. Los Redondos released 10 studio albums, eschewing major record labels to maintain artistic independence.

The band broke up in 2001, but Solari found continued success as a solo artist, releasing five more albums under his own name that mixed mainstream rock and electronic influences and drawing hundreds of thousands of fans to parks and stadiums across Argentina.

At a massive concert in 2016, he announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. “Mr. Parkinson is nipping at my heels. But here I am,” he said. The crowd went wild. He later retired from touring, speaking candidly in interviews about the debilitating effects of the disease.

Tributes poured in from politicians, artists and soccer stars across the country.

The Argentine Soccer Association said Solari’s voice “became a popular rallying cry” and “echoed in the stands” of the soccer-crazed country.

The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, a prominent activist group which sought to find relatives who had been killed or “disappeared” by the 1976-83 dictatorship, said the singer “inspired society as a whole to doubt, to question and to think critically.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s former president who is serving a corruption sentence under house arrest, posted one of his famous lyrics on social media, popularized as a call to live courageously: “Just living costs you your life.”

Solari is survived by his wife, Virginia Mones Ruiz, and 25-year-old son Bruno.

Morgan Wallen was forced to cancel a scheduled Pittsburgh tour stop due to severe weather threats.

On Saturday afternoon (June 6), the 33-year-old country star took to social media to announce that he would no longer be performing that evening at Acrisure Stadium as part of his Still the Problem Tour.

“After talking with local officials and my team, there is no choice but to cancel tonight’s show due to severe weather conditions expected throughout the rest of the day and night,” Wallen wrote in a statement shared on Instagram. “Safety for my fans and crew is the highest priority.”

The “Last Night” singer concluded his message by informing fans that refunds would be available through their original point of purchase.

The cancellation came one day after Wallen’s first of two scheduled Pittsburgh shows. During Friday night’s (June 5) concert at Acrisure Stadium, the country superstar was joined for his signature walkout by former WWE star and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle.

Saturday was designated a KDKA First Alert Weather Day as forecasters warned of potentially strong to severe storms. The weather system was expected to move through the Pittsburgh area during the evening hours, with the greatest threat occurring between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., according to CBS News.

Wallen is currently on his headlining Still the Problem Tour, with upcoming stadium dates scheduled in Chicago (June 19-20), Clemson, S.C. (June 26-27), and Baltimore (July 17-18).

The tour supports his latest studio album, I’m the Problem, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release in May 2025. The album went on to spend 13 nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart.