It’s been a wild ride for KATSEYE. Just two years into their journey, the international girl group has crashed the Billboard charts, played Coachella, covered Vanity Fair, and appeared on late-night network TV. A sold-out arena tour awaits.

Today, Aug. 14, the pop act drops a third EP, WILD (via HYBE x Geffen Records), led by the Billboard Hot 100 hits “PINKY UP” and “Animal,” co-written by Ed Sheeran.

WILD is the followup to 2025’s BEAUTIFUL CHAOS, an EP that debuted in the top five of the Billboard 200 (at No. 4), and earned Grammy Award nominations for best new artist and best pop duo/group performance, for “Gabriela”. That song is one of the act’s six appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

KATSEYE will hit the road for THE WILDWORLD TOUR, which gets underway Sept. 1 at Dublin’s 3Arena, an expansive arena jaunt that takes the K-poppers into arenas in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. The itinerary includes two-night stands at The O2 in London, UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY, Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City.

For EYEKONS who can’t wait, the concert film KATSEYE: WILD HEARTS is currently playing at 1,700 cinemas across over 60 countries, reps say. Directed by Nadia Hallgren, the film captures never-before-seen footage, fan videos, and intimate interviews with the singers.

Physical releases (CD and vinyl) of WILD feature the individual band members and are available at Target and exclusively include the bonus track “Unloveu,” which KATSEYE’s member Lara Raj wrote and produced with Amy Allen (Harry Styles, Justin Bieber) and Ross Golan (Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez).

To celebrate the new release, KATSEYE will perform at the Citi Concert Series on NBC’s TODAY, just hours after returning to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for an interview and a performance of “Animal.”

WILD represents a new era of “maturity, growing up,” Lara told Fallon.  

Stream WILD below.

John Summit has added a Los Angles date to his upcoming CTRL ESCAPE tour, and it’s a big one. The producer will play the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which has a capacity of roughly 77,500, on Dec. 12.

A press release about the show advises that this will be Summit’s biggest headline show to date. It will also be the final show of the 20-date arena run, which begins Oct. 1 in Champaign, Ill., the city where Summit studied accounting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Organizers report that tour stops in Boston, Fort Worth and Brooklyn are sold out. See the complete tour schedule below.

“Over the years LA has made some of the most special moments of my career,” Summit wrote in his post announcing the show, referencing the pipeline of local venues he’s risen through. “From the Palladium to the Shrine, then BMI Stadium to Kia Forum.. we knew we had to end the album tour on the highest note in Los Angeles.”

Summit recently closed his 2026 Ibiza residency at [UNVRS] and headlined Lollapalooza on July 30.

CTRL ESCAPE Tour Dates

October 1 – Champaign, IL – State Farm Center
October 23 – Montreal, QC – Centre Bell
October 24 – Hamilton, ON – TD Coliseum
October 25 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
October 29 – Boston, MA – TD Garden (SOLD-OUT)
October 30 – State College, PA – Bryce Jordan Center
October 31 – Washington, D.C. – Capital One Arena
November 5 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
November 6 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
November 7 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena (SOLD OUT)
November 8 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena
November 13 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center
November 14 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center
November 15 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
November 20 – Miami, FL – Kaseya Center
November 21 – Miami, FL – Kaseya Center
November 24 – Chicago, IL – United Center
November 25 – Chicago, IL – United Center
November 27 – Philadelphia, PA – Liacouras Center
November 28 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center (SOLD-OUT)
December 4 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena
December 5 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena
December 12 – Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Even with all her fame and riches, Cardi B is still loyal to shopping at Old Navy. She became the face of Old Navy’s fall 2026 denim campaign, and the Grammy-winning rapper called the partnership a “full-circle” moment while recalling the days of shoplifting at the store as a kid.

“Thank you Old Navy for holding me down. In high school, I used to steal from you guys all the time. So it’s just a full-circle moment that I’m an ambassador for Old Navy,” she said during an Instagram Live on Wednesday (Aug. 12). “I used to steal all the time and I never got caught. If it wasn’t for you guys, I probably wasn’t the freshest bi–h in school.”

Cardi complimented Old Navy’s fit and denim cut, as the shape of the company’s jeans is BBL-friendly, unlike many denim brands she’s tried over the years.

“BBL bi–hes, it is so hard for us to find jeans. Chanel and the stuff like that, we can’t wear those types of jeans. The only big brand that kind of fit our bodies are Acme Studios,” Cardi explained. “This is the type of body I have, I’m 5’3″ and I’m skinny, I got no waist, but my ass and hips is the size of Uganda. They don’t make jeans for a bi–h like me.”

As the face of the fall campaign, Cardi starred in a Western-themed The Most Wanted ad alongside Wisdom Kaye and Quen Blackwell, which arrived Aug. 4. The high-waisted cuffed jeans Cardi’s sporting in the campaign are available in seven colorways onOld Navy’s website for $49.99.

“When you have a BBL it’s hard to find jeans… but Old Navy got everything for everybody,” she wrote on X in support of becoming an Old Navy ambassador.

Cardi returned to release her first single of 2026 with “Ah Ha,” which debuted at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. The 33-year-old Bronx native earned her fourth diamond song after the RIAA certified the Billboard Hot 100-topping “WAP” earlier in August.

Losing a child in a jam-packed music festival will strike fear in any parent, and director Jeremy Garelick brings that fear to life with the movie Rolling Loud.

Based on the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival, the upcoming comedy released a trailer for the flick on Thursday (Aug. 13) starring Travis Scott, Owen Wilson, Sexyy Red, Matt Rife, Christine Ko, Ski Mask the Slump God, Ty Dolla $ign and more.

The festival-themed movie, helmed by Rolling Loud and Live Nation, is set to hit U.S. theaters on Oct. 2. The trailer kicks off with Wilson’s 13-year-old son, played by Christian Convery, pleading with Wilson to take him to Rolling Loud.

In an attempt to play the “cool dad,” the Wedding Crashers actor gives in, and the chaos begins when Wilson loses his son in a sea of 60,000 sweaty rap fans on a bathroom trip at the Miami festival. All hell breaks loose in the search party, and Wilson ends up backstage explaining the situation to Sexyy Red and La Flame.

Amid the panic, Wilson ends up onstage during Scott’s headlining set (this scene was taped during Scott’s set at Rolling Loud Miami in December 2024) while he’s performing his rambunctious “FE!N” anthem.

“You’re the guy on the big screen that all the security’s looking for,” Sexyy says. “You jumped off a Ferris wheel, right?” To which Wilson clarifies, “No, I threw someone off a Ferris wheel.”

Garelick’s idea for the film was loosely based on true events when he briefly lost track of his son at a Rolling Loud festival in the past.

“The fact that we had this experience together, it bonded us and it really brought us together,” the film’s director told People. “It gave us those inside jokes, those secrets that we can’t tell anybody. And then to put it into a movie that’s coming out all over the world, it’s just incredible. I think parents should take their kids and enjoy it.”

Rolling Loud’s only 2026 U.S. festival took place in Orlando in May, which was headlined by Don Toliver, Ken Carson and Playboi Carti.

Watch the Rolling Loud trailer below.

Lionel Richie had something to say to the next generation of R&B stars during a recent show: They may think they’re breaking new ground, but the legends were doing it first. Moreover, according to Richie, they managed to stay out of jail while doing it.

During a stop on his Sing a Song All Night Long Tour with Earth, Wind & Fire, Richie brought up Usher and Chris Brown’s massive 2026 co-headlining stadium tour while speaking to the crowd. In a clip circulating online, the “All Night Long” singer jokingly compared the pair’s tour to his own partnership.

“Usher and Chris Brown… See, they try to do something new,” Richie said. “The Commodores with Earth, Wind & Fire, we were doing that back 40 years ago! Only difference is, between then and now, we didn’t go to jail.”

Richie laughed after delivering the punchline and continued to acknowledge the severity of the joke.

Brown clearly took the joke in stride, commenting on an Instagram clip of the concert with four laugh-cry emojis: “damn unk. We love ya paw paw.”

Brown and Usher are in the midst of The R&B Tour, a 2026 co-headlining stadium trek that began in June and is scheduled to continue through December. The run includes multiple stadium dates in major cities, including upcoming shows at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., and SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

Richie’s joke was clearly aimed at Brown’s well-documented legal history, including his 2009 guilty plea to felony assault following his attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna. More recently, Brown pleaded guilty in July stemming from a 2023 altercation at a London nightclub. He is scheduled to be sentenced in the U.K. on Oct. 26.

This unexpected dispute between the artists comes as Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire are on their own high-profile tour together. Their Sing a Song All Night Long Tour pairs Richie’s decades-spanning pop and R&B catalog with Earth, Wind & Fire’s funk and soul classics, a combination Richie himself invoked while making the comparison. The tour’s North American leg is scheduled to wrap Friday in Austin, Texas.

Watch the clip below.

The lineup for Damian Lazarus’ annual turn-of-the-year party in Tulum, Day Zero, was announced Thursday (Aug. 13).

The bill features scene mainstays including Tiga, Victor Calderone, Vintage Culture, LP Giobbi, Chloé Caillet and Mita Gami, along with a flurry of buzzy rising artists like Brunello and Midnight Generation in addition to Lazarus himself. Organizers also promise one “very special guest” whose identity is yet to be announced. See the complete lineup below.

Lazarus, who’s been putting on Day Zero in the jungle near Tulum since 2012, posted the lineup to his Instagram with a caption noting that “Another chapter of cosmic celebration is upon us for a night under the stars where mysticism and music converge. The curation is uncompromising. 30 artists spanning the full spectrum of underground electronic sound across 3 stages. Boundary-pushing performances from the most visionary minds carefully selected for this singular gathering. And one very special guest still emerging from the shadows. If you felt the magic last year, this edition raises it further.”

Day Zero Tulum 2027 happens in the Mexican resort town on January 9 and is the thirteenth edition of the party, which embraces the traditions of the local Mayan culture and goes from sunset until Lazarus’ traditional sunrise set. Tickets go on sale Aug. 25.

Day Zero hosted its debut Bali edition this past April, with the first edition in Brazil taking place this past January. An Israel edition of Day Zero happened near the Dead Sea in 2019.

Fatboy Slim’s Better Living Through Chemistry is celebrating its 30^th birthday, and we’re getting the presents.

The much-loved debut from Norman Cook’s house music alter ego will be reissued digitally on Sept. 25 via BMG, with special-edition LP and CD editions following on Oct. 2.

Released in 1996, Chemistry was the launch pad for Fatboy Slim, a spearhead for a golden era for British electronic music which included The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin and Underworld in its ranks.

The collection housed the singles “Everybody Needs a 303,” “Punk to Funk” (both released in 1996) and “Going Out of My Head” (1997). Although it only peaked at No. 69 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, the collection paved the way for Cook’s future commercial successes, and high-profile festival and headline spots around the globe.

Next up, Fatboy Slim’s You’ve Come A Long Way Baby dropped in 1998 and spent four weeks at No. 1 in the United Kingdom.

“Better Living Through Chemistry was basically me figuring out what I was doing,” comments Cook in a statement. “I was making music for the dancefloor, the bedroom, the afterparty and anyone who’d listen. Looking back, it’s got all the mistakes, experiments and madness of that time in it, but that’s probably what I love about it most.”

The project was inspired by Cook’s Big Beat Boutique club nights at Brighton’s Concorde, and its floppy disc-inspired cover art was both a nod to New Order’s “Blue Monday” 12-inch sleeve, and to technology’s evolution and its connection to the hip of electronic music.

Cook is a man of many music hats. By the time he introduced Fatboy Slim to the music world, he was established through his work with The Housemartins and Beats International, along with Freak Power, Pizzaman and Mighty Dub Katz.

“It was the beginning of the Fatboy Slim adventure, and I’m amazed that, all these years later, people are still discovering it, dancing to it and asking me about it,” Cook comments. “It feels pretty bloody good to give it another lease of life.”

Pre-save Better Living Through Chemistry here.

The White House isn’t done with trolling Taylor Swift, and she’s not having any of it.

Not for the first time, the White House TikTok account affiliated with Donald Trump has posted a video, soundbedded with TayTay’s music.

The latest post went live on Wednesday, Aug. 12, featuring clips of Donald Trump going about his day, swinging imaginary golf clubs, giving two thumbs up, clapping, walking red carpets, randomly pointing.

The clip’s audio is Swift’s vault cut “I Bet You Think About Me,” and it’s accompanied with the caption, “We know you think about us,” a reference to the song’s lyrics.

By early Thursday, Aug. 13, the sound was muted from the TikTok, although the title remains tagged.

Written by Swift and Lori McKenna in 2011, “I Bet You Think About Me” was left off the original Red album before enjoying a second life as a “From the Vault” recording, featuring Chris Stapleton. The release debuted at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2021.

It’s the latest in a bizarre game of musical whack-a-mole, played by the most powerful office on earth. Last week, Team Trump shared an edited clip of Donald and Melania Trump watching a fireworks show with Swift’s 2020 Folklore track “August” playing in the background. Text over the video read, “Mood because it’s August and Donald Trump is your president.”

The post’s caption added, “I’m sure @Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song! #taylorswift #maga #august.”

By Friday (Aug. 7), TikTok users in the United States noticed that “August” had been removed from the post, with a message explaining, “This sound isn’t available.”

A separate White House post featured Swift’s 2025 hit “Father Figure,” which too is no longer available. And a 2025 video on the White House’s official TikTok account leaning on her song “The Fate of Ophelia” has also been scrubbed.

After those songs were removed, the Team Trump account further antagonized Swift by using a live performance version of the title track from her 2012 album, Red. The post features Red-styled cover art with a mock-up of Trump’s profile over the letters and a fake “Red (Trump’s Version)” playlist.

“Did you know Taylor Swift wrote a whole album about the color of the Republican Party,” the post’s caption reads. The sound has since been wiped.

Trump has been critical of Swift since 2018, with tensions escalating after the singer endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Trump later responded by posting, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” on his Truth Social platform.

More recently, the White House mocked Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding on July 4, by posting an altered photo of their celebration venue, New York’s Madison Square Garden. On the doctored MAGA image, the MSG’s digital marquee reads: “Trump Is Your President.”

Swift has other matters on her mind. On Tuesday (Aug. 11), the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame announced the pop superstar would be inducted into the contemporary songwriter/artists category as part of the Class of 2026. Her induction, at age 36, makes her the youngest ever to receive the honor. She also achieved the feat in her first year of eligibility.

At the time of writing, Swift has yet to publicly comment on any of the White House posts.

When RÜFÜS DU SOL completes its current, ongoing tour, the lads will enjoy a well-deserved rest. A good, long break.

The Australian electronic music trio is in the home straight of a record-setting world tour, in support of the 2024 album Inhale / Exhale (via Rose Avenue Records / Warner Music Australasia).

Don’t expect to see the Sydneysiders on stage at a stadium or arena near you for several years, at least until the next release cycle gets underway.

While performing at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, for one of five shows at the venue, frontman Tyrone Lindqvist confirmed RDS’ immediate, post-tour plans. “So, we told ourselves before we walked out on stage we’ve got to make the most of this and we’ve got to take it in for this next month of shows,” he remarked during the Aug. 6 performance, as first reported by Beatportal.

“So, let’s really enjoy this because we’re not going to be touring for a solid amount of time until we have new music, and we can’t wait to share that with you, whatever that sounds like.”

The Sydneysiders completed their 2025 Australia tour last November with the third of three sold-out hometown shows at Afterpay Arena (then known as Qudos Bank Arena), the country’s biggest arena, for 150,000 tickets sold across the country, lifting their overall tally to 750,000 headline tickets for the year.

RDS’ Inhale / Exhale World Tour is one for the history books, one that began with a one-off exclusive outdoor performance at Sydney’s Fleet Steps back in October 2024. Along the way, the Grammy Award-winning act became just the second Aussie act, after AC/DC, and first electronic outfit to headline Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles; and played four nights at Madison Square Garden, again the most by an electronic artist.

Lindqvist and his bandmates Jon George and James Hunt will reach the end of the road this October with performances at Austin City Limits. Before that, RDS will complete its residency at The Forum on Thursday night (Aug. 13), followed by a run of twelve shows across the United States and Canada.

Following its release, Inhale / Exhale debuted at No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart, continuing a streak of podium finishes for all five RDS album releases in Australia. RDS have won four career ARIA Awards and six Grammy Award nominations, with a win in 2022 for best dance/electronic recording with “Alive.”