Next year’s edition of Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party will feature headliners Deftones, The Strokes, Jungle, Fontaines D.C., Slayyyter and Lil Yachty. The three-day event at Utah State Fairpark will take place from May 14-16 and also feature Two Door Cinema Club (playing the 2010 album Tourist History in full), IDLES, Spoon, Weyes Blood, Phantogram, Hot Chip, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Kim Gordon, Julien Baker, Wednesday, Silversun Pickups, Joyce Manor, Wunderhorse, Atlas Sound, Wolf Parade, Mercury Rev, Iceage, Frankie & the Witch Fingers and more.

The festival also teased a bunch of other as-yet-unannounced acts with a series of question marks, with a promise of a “phase 2” name roll-out soon. Tickets will go on sale today (Oct. 29) at 10 a.m. MT; click here to sign up.

The event that has grown from a one-day block party in 2019 will also feature sets from Grace Ives, Caroline Rose, Porches, Westside Cowboy, Ratboys, Lip Critic and Current Joys, among others.

This year’s Kilby Block Party featured a similarly stacked lineup topped by Turnstile, The xx and Lorde, alongside IDLES, Phantogram, Hot Chip, Hayley Williams, Modest Mouse, Alex G, Lucy Dacus, The Last Dinner Party, Blood Orange, Father John Misty, Japanese Breakfast, Ritt Momney and Joyce Manor, among others.

According to an impact report from festival organizers, the event is a huge economic engine for the city, with the 2026 edition drawing 16,000 out-of-state visitors who spent nearly $25 million in Utah, contributing $33.5 million to the state’s GDP, creating 419 jobs for Utah residents.

Check out the full poster for the 2027 Kilby Block Party below.

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Even after 30 years of getting it done, the Foo Fighters can still rock the house. That house is typically a stadium, although this week the rockers scaled down and got back to their roots for a four-night musical residency on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

On night one, it was a performance of “Window” from the rock act’s 12th and latest studio album, Your Favorite Toy. Then, on Tuesday night, an old favorite with “This Is A Call,” lifted from the Foos’ debut self-titled album from 1995.

For their third trick on the late-night show’s Halloween takeover week, another new number. Dave Grohl and Co. ripped through a performance of the title track from Your Favorite Toy, which unwrapped in April and debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart, the Foos’ eighth leader.

The Foos got down to business for the type of loud, old school, no-fuss expression of rock that the band was built on. And they did it in a studio with a capacity they outgrew back in the mid-‘90s. A serious win for any fan who scored a pass.

Your Favorite Toy was “the most fun we’ve had making a record in years,” Grohl told Classic Rock ahead of its release. The Rock Hall-inducted group approached it with “no rules, no pressure — just the joy of plugging in and seeing what happens.”

The Foos’ world tour has this year taken the Rock Hall-inductees through North America, across Europe, and next week kicks off in Australia and New Zealand.

In a chat with Kimmel which aired earlier in the week, Grohl recounted how he poached Taylor Hawkins, his late drummer and friend, from Alanis Morissette; praised the music talents of his daughter Violet; and talked-up the band’s headline spot at KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas event, set for Dec. 12 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

The first time the Foos played the radio station’s fest was 1995, on a bill with Morissette, Porno For Pyros, Sonic Youth, Presidents of The United States of America, Garbage, No Doubt and Radiohead. “Those were the days,” Grohl remarked. “That was such a great time for music, you know. The ‘90s…everyone was young and excited and inspired and shows like that brought everyone together. It was really like a community.” The Foos’ latest late-night spot had that community spirit.

Watch the performance of “Your Favorite Toy” below.

EYEKONS, there’s more KATSEYE to come.

The international girl group’s Wildworld Tour expands with the addition of 11 new shows across Asia, Australia and New Zealand early next year. 

Promoted by Live Nation, the new leg will get underway Jan. 27 at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan, then heads to Manila, Hong Kong, Seoul, Cebu, Singapore, Bangkok and Taipei. Following a 10-day break, the group returns to Australia for concerts in Sydney and Melbourne before wrapping things up March 5 at Auckland’s Spark Arena.

KATSEYE are making good on their promise of a prompt return to Australia. The two-time Grammy Award-nominated pop act made a whistlestop trip to these parts earlier in the year, where the singers participated in an exclusive fan Q&A experience and an industry showcase in Sydney, then performed for superfans in Melbourne. Bandmate Lara Raj went on to tell Australia’s Nova network “we love it here,” and “it would make us very happy to come back and spend a lot of time here.”

There’s no confirmation, however, on what the lineup will look like for those new shows. Specifically, if Sophia Laforteza would be back with the band.

Earlier this month, the group’s label, HYBE x Geffen, stated that Laforteza would return to the stage in January, which would be sweet timing for the Asia run.  

Then, at the 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Lara Raj, Megan Skiendiel, Yoonchae Jeong and Daniela Avanzini gave the first timeline for Laforteza’s return from a temporary hiatus. The label announced Laforteza’s break in April to allow the singer to focus on her mental health and wellness.

KATSEYE are in the midst of their first-ever arena tour of North America. Those dates are in support of WILD (HYBE x Geffen Records), which blasted to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in August for the group’s first leader. WILD was the followup to 2025’s Beautiful Chaos, which peaked at No. 4 on the all-genres albums survey.

The general onsale for next year’s concerts in Asia, Australia and New Zealand begins Friday, Nov. 6 at 2pm local time at katseye.world. In the meantime, the documentary KATSEYE: WILD HEARTS is now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally.

KATSEYE’s 2027 Asia / Australia / New Zealand Dates

Jan. 27 – Yokohama – Yokohama Arena

Jan. 29 – Manila – SM Mall of Asia Arena

Feb. 1 – Hong Kong – AsiaWorld–Arena

Feb. 4 – Seoul – KSPO Dome

Feb. 7 – Cebu – SM Seaside Cebu Arena

Feb. 10 – Singapore – Singapore Indoor Stadium

Feb. 12 – Bangkok – IMPACT Arena

Feb. 14 – Taipei – Messe Taoyuan

Feb. 24 – Melbourne – Rod Laver Arena

Feb. 28 – Sydney – Afterpay Arena

March 5 – Auckland – Spark Arena

Upcoming 2026 North America Dates

Oct. 30 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre

Nov.  1  – Hamilton, ON – TD Coliseum

Nov. 3 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena

Nov. 5 – Chicago, IL – United Center

Nov. 7 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center

Nov. 10 – Austin, TX – Moody Center

Nov. 11 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center

Nov. 14 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena

Nov. 17 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena

Nov. 19 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena

Nov. 21  – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena

Nov. 22 – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena

Nov. 24 – Phoenix, AZ – Mortgage Matchup Center

Nov. 27 – Mexico City, MX – Palacio de los Deportes

Nov. 28 – Mexico City, MX – Palacio de los Deportes

Zach Bryan’s Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts, and No. 2 on the Billboard 200, earning 65,000 equivalent album units in the United States in its first week, Oct. 16-22, according to Luminate.

The set is Bryan’s fifth to top those three tallies. It follows January’s With Heaven on Top, 2024’s The Great American Bar Scene, 2023’s self-titled release and 2022’s American Heartbreak. With Heaven on Top and Zach Bryan also led the all-genre Billboard 200.

Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs likewise makes an immediate splash at the song level. All eight of its tracks debut on Hot Country Songs and Hot Rock Songs, led by the Lana Del Rey-featuring “Lies,” which enters at No. 1 on the latter, becoming their fourth and first leader, respectively, and No. 2 on the former. The haul swells one of the deepest catalogs in the style, as Bryan has now charted 106 titles on Hot Rock Songs and 97 on Hot Country Songs.

Few artists open in the Hot Country Songs top 10 like Bryan. With “Lies” and “Lodi When” bowing at Nos. 2 and 9, he has now debuted 14 of his 17 career top 10s directly in the tier. That’s the third-most top 10 debuts among all acts since the chart adopted its multimetric methodology in October 2012, trailing only Morgan Wallen (34) and Taylor Swift (17). Bryan’s two No. 1s are “Something in the Orange” and his Kacey Musgraves collaboration “I Remember Everything,” which ruled for six and 20 weeks, respectively.

On the Billboard Hot 100, “Lies” enters at No. 4, becoming Bryan’s fourth top 10 and Del Rey’s third.

The streaming numbers also put Bryan’s reach in perspective. During the tracking week, he ranked fourth among all artists in the U.S., drawing 151.3 million official streams. He trailed only Drake (298.6 million), Wallen (204.2 million) and Swift (183.1 million).

SINGAPORE — With its combination of speed, glamor, artistry and science, Formula 1 is a spectacle that travels at a speed and sound nothing else can match.

It was Red Bull’s Max Verstappen who bagged the 2026 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix earlier this month with a pole-to-checkered flag win, an historic deed for the flying Dutchman who finally conquered a race that had eluded him for a decade.

If Verstappen was the king of the track, The Killers, Janet Jackson, Split Enz, JJ Lin and Lana Del Rey were the stars of the live show, a music festival that pumps away when the racing pauses.

With its flashy street circuit and three-day live music festival, the Singapore GP has a speed and sound quite unlike any other race on the calendar. Established in 2008, senior music industry executives are now calling it the premier annual music festival in Asia.

Billboard was there to catch the action Oct. 9-11, both on track and across the event’s 11 live entertainment stages.

Coachella of Asia

Concert promoters pray for sunshine. The team behind the Singapore GP’s music festival did just that, and their prayers were mostly answered.

Slippery conditions for a Formula One Grand Prix aren’t just a bummer, they can be downright dangerous. When these rockets on wheels fly around bends and top speeds of 230 mph on the straight, grip is paramount.

Neil Finn performed with Crowded House at the Singapore F1 GP last year, and returned this time with the reunited art-rock legends Split Enz. Finn always brings the weather with him, not a talent that’s ideal for these circumstances. So, for the Enz’ opening night set at the Wharf stage, in Zone 1, the New Zealand songsmith sent out a message of good luck “to all the drivers and all the teams. Let’s hope they go real fast. And stay real safe.”

Singapore in October is hot and humid, even through the evening. And this year, hazy, thanks to a bushfire crisis in neighboring Indonesia. Gloomy reports from the BBC on the eve of showtime warned that due to poor visibility and air quality, restrictions might be placed on the entertainment.

Promoting live entertainment, there’s never a dull moment.

Mother Nature didn’t go and spoil the fun. Rain fell prior to the Sprint Race, Saturday, Oct. 10, which meant for some adjustment to the start times of the following stage lineup, but the event and entertainment proceeded as planned, organizers say.

The weekend action occupies downtown Singapore and is within walking distance of roughly 25,000 hotel beds. It’s partly for this reason that international visitors account for half the GP’s 100,000-person daily attendance.

There’s no doubt that the sport of F1 is the main drawcard. But in Singapore, the music program is no passenger. “Singapore GP has become one of the most significant events in the region, often referred to internally at WME as the ‘Coachella of Asia,’” explains Brett Murrihy, head of Asia Pacific & partner agent, William Morris Endeavour (WME).

This year, WME brought as many as 12 clients to what is essentially an entertainment festival, with F1 as the headline act. When the driving stops, multiple stages around the circuit rev up. “No other festival in Asia possesses comparable buying power or influence,” Murrihy continues.  

The Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2026 welcomed 301,294 spectators, including Kim Kardashian, who was there to support her boyfriend, Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton. That was the second-highest attendance in the event’s history, and the highest since the Marina Bay Street Circuit layout was revised in 2023, pipped only by the event in 2022, when 302,000 spectators filed through the gates.

This year, the Singapore GP team booked and curated a lineup of 43 acts. That’s after the 2025 edition that featured performances from Elton John, Foo Fighters, Lewis Capaldi, The Smashing Pumpkins, Alan Walker, G-Dragon and more.

“While Formula 1 is the star of the show, we’ve always seen the event as more than a race and the concerts ensure that our race fans are entertained when F1 is not on-track,” explains Adam Firth, executive director, Singapore GP, an Australian expat who has called Singapore home for more than 10 years. “We want our crowds to have a total entertainment experience and feel they have received value for money.”

Firth’s team works throughout the year to identify artists and acts that “we believe will resonate with our fans” and complement the atmosphere and the diverse crowd. “We try to create a diverse lineup, one that appeals to a teenage Singaporean girl but also might appeal to a general middle-aged motorsport fan visiting from Europe,” he says.

Right on Track

What played out this time was a lineup that included regional stars CORTIS and JJ Lin, veteran U.S. rockers The Killers and Goo Goo Dolls, R&B super Janet Jackson, rising stars Zara Larsson and James Arthur, DJ sets, a slew of Australasian acts, and a closing headline spot by Lana Del Rey.

For the first time, organizers floated the Barge stage, which hosted back-to-back sets from the likes of DJ Snake, Major Lazer Soundsystem, TOKiMONSTA, Rev Run, Flight Facilities, Mark Ronson and ZHU. The cars aren’t the only assets that are tinkered with in the off-season.

“This has been my favorite F1,” Ronson told the crowd as he finished his set with the double punch of Amy Winehouse’s cover of “Valerie” and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk.” “Everyone says this is the best F1, it really is.”

Del Rey drew a massive crowd for her own set at the Padang Stage, the largest of the spaces with an audience of 60,000, with the U.S. singer and songwriter delivering her first major concert in this city-state. And she gave long-suffering fans a treat, with the live debut of new music — and the hint of a return.

Lana, The Killers and other major international acts “have leveraged the festival as their exclusive engagement in the market, reinforcing its strategic importance as a premier live music platform,” Murrihy says. “This exclusivity has not only driven significant consumer demand locally but has also helped build audience momentum and strengthen fan engagement across the broader Asian region, amplifying the festival’s influence and commercial impact beyond a single market.”

The touring landscape across Asia has expanded significantly over the past decade, explains Murrihy, who joined WME in 2015 when the talent and media agency acquired Artist Voice, which he co-founded with Matt Gudinski, now CEO of Mushroom Group. Major international artists, from Bruno Mars, Dua Lipa, Coldplay, The Weeknd and Olivia Rodrigo now regularly incorporate the region into their touring schedules, with many performing multiple region and stadium dates. It was at Singapore’s National Stadium where, in March 2024, Taylor Swift played six shows, her only dates in the region.

This year’s Singapore GP took off, despite competing directly with Austin City Limits Music Festival’s 25th anniversary in Texas, a sprawling, two-weekend music extravaganza whose performers, insiders say, can fill about 30 U.S. dates around that festival.

“Asia has become an essential and highly valuable market within the global live entertainment ecosystem, both commercially and strategically,” Murrihy continues, nothing that Indonesia, India and Philippines have emerged as “particularly important growth territories.” It’s an “exceptionally dynamic and exciting period for the live music industry in Asia.”

A Whole of Government Approach

Without support from the Singapore government, there’s no show. “It’s critical to this event,” Firth explained during a keynote for All That Matters 2026 at the Hilton Singapore Orchard, a multi-stream conference that raises the curtain on the GP. “There’s almost no agency that doesn’t touch the event” in the nine months that goes into building and tearing down the circuit, including police, transport, environment and customs.

In 2022, when rain delayed the race, a conversation with the government minister at 9pm on a Sunday night enabled organizers to extend the trains by more than an additional hour to about 1:30am, so that the event could proceed without shortening entertainment. “It’s really a whole of government approach to the event,” Firth admits.

Coachella doesn’t have an F1 race, but its live stream keeps music fans glued to their devices. “It’s definitely something I’ve been thinking about,” Firth says of a streaming element. One of the issues is “we are, first and foremost, a Formula 1 race. Formula 1 has the TV rights, so that would need to be part of the discussions, alongside discussions with artists. Currently a key aim is to bring visitors to Singapore, so we prioritize building in-circuit audience. Streaming has been a strong brand-building tool for other major festivals.”

After a pause for some much-needed downtime, the team will get cracking on its wishlist for next year’s show. “Obviously, you hope that everyone is safe and has a good time,” Firth says. “There are so many things outside your powers, you just hope to run an event that’s good enough to meet fan expectations and better than the one you did last time.”