Lola Young is ready for everything to begin again.

The Grammy-winning artist announced her 17-date Everything Begins North American Tour on Monday (Oct. 5), which will send her across the U.S. and Canada next spring for some of the biggest headline shows of her career. The tour kicks off April 6 at Nashville’s Pinnacle and includes some epic stops at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre.

The Everything Begins title is a nod to Young’s “Everything Ends” tattoo, with the new name showcasing a fresh chapter for the British artist.

The trek will undoubtedly celebrate the flourishing career she’s had, especially since her breakout hit “Messy.” The track reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, charting in December 2024 and remaining on the chart until February 2025.

Young’s momentum also carried into the 2026 year with the Grammy Awards, where she won best pop solo performance for “Messy” and received a nomination for best new artist. She later brought the song to the Grammy telecast, giving the track an even bigger stage.

The Everything Begins Tour arrives after Young’s second album, I’m Only F**king Myself, released in September 2025. The project features songs including “One Thing” and “Dealer,” and marked another step forward for the South London-born singer-songwriter’s emotionally candid, rock-inflected pop sound.

More recently, Young teamed up with James Blake for “From Down Here,” her first new music following the album. The collaboration arrived as Young continued bringing her live show to major festival stages, including Rock in Rio, Reading Festival, All Things Go in Washington, D.C. and Austin City Limits.

Soon, she’ll take that live energy into some of the largest rooms she’s headlined in North America. The Everything Begins Tour will visit Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, Vancouver, San Francisco and more before wrapping later in the spring.

A presale begins Wednesday (Oct. 7), with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday (Oct. 9) at 10 a.m. local time via Young’s official website.

View the full list of tour dates below.

Frequency of Love, the new album from Victoria Monét, tops this week’s new music poll.

Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (Oct. 2) on Billboard, choosing Monét’s sophomore full-length LP as their favorite new music.

The album topped new Friday music releases from Noah Kahan, Miranda Lambert, Drake and more. By the poll’s closing time on Sunday, Monét pulled in 40% of the vote.

Fans first got a taste of Frequency of Love, Monét’s follow-up to Jaguar II, through three early singles, “Let Me,” “Reach Out” and “Juicy.” The 22-track collection officially arrived on Oct. 2.

The album has a number of intriguing features, including one from her own daughter — who got a special shout-out from the singer on social media this weekend for her contribution to the song “You Mean the World to Me”: “Thank you for your patience and understanding and unconditional love while mommy was in school, while I made this album, every time I had to step out of the door without you and when work didn’t end once I got back home!” Monét wrote to 5-year-old Hazel on Saturday. “I am so honored to have you as a feature on this album (you sound soooo beautiful) and I am so proud of your growth in every way, your natural empathy, your humor, your respect, the way you love and your undeniable talent! Forevemore, it’s you and me baby.”

“You Mean the World to Me” also features Leon Thomas. Also on Monét’s new album: Lucky Daye, SZA, Bryson Tiller, Chlöe and Bruno Mars, whose Romantic Tour recently had Monet booked as a supporting act.

Following her spot as an opener on the road with Bruno Mars, she’s embarking on her own headlining Frequency of Love Tour this month, starting Oct. 27 in Raleigh, N.C., and running through mid-December.

Trailing behind Frequency of Love on the poll are Noah Kahan’s new single “Draw You Out,” with 29% of the vote, Miranda Lambert’s Crisco album, with nearly 7% of the vote, and Drake’s HABIBTI (FOMO) deluxe release, with almost 6% of the vote.

See the final results of this week’s poll below.

Polaris‘ first new song in three years confronts a question that has followed the Australian metalcore band since guitarist Ryan Siew’s death in 2023: How do they make music together without him?

Released Sept. 3, “Without You” is the band’s first new music made after Siew’s death — and a marked contrast to 2023’s Fatalism, the final album the four remaining members recorded with him, which arrived just months after he died.

Speaking with Billboard of the release and ahead of their appearance at Australia’s Good Things Festival, Rick Schneider said the band wanted its first step forward to acknowledge both Siew’s place in Polaris and the impossibility of filling it.

“He is kind of, in many ways, irreplaceable,” Schneider said. “There is no quick and easy fix to get someone in there to replace what his significance was.” The years since his death, Schneider said, had given the band time “to acknowledge and contextualize the significance that he had on us as not only a bandmate but also a friend.”

For drummer Daniel Furnari, putting the track into the world has been “bittersweet” and “cathartic.” He said the members had spent years thinking about what their first new release would need to convey, knowing one song could not contain the full experience of their loss. “How do you say enough?” he asked. “How do you convey that loss and that pain and that grief and the weight of it all in the right way?”

“It’s really us just beginning to learn how to speak about this, both publicly and through our music,” Furnari said. He also described a sense of pride in the band’s survival. “There’s a sadness, and there’s also a real pride in the fact that we can look at each other and say, like, we’re still here, we’re still standing as a band,” he said. “We might not look the same, we’re missing somebody really important, but we still know who we are as artists.”

Whether Polaris would continue was never the central question, Furnari said. “This band is something we’ve kind of committed our lives to and committed our hearts to,” he said. “I don’t think there’s a part of any of us that ever would have let this go.” The uncertainty lay in how to care for themselves, honor that history and make space for a future. “Not if, but how and when.”

That resolve was tested almost immediately, as the band went ahead with the Fatalism tour after Siew’s death. Schneider said the members gave themselves space, then checked whether everyone felt comfortable returning to the stage. They all said yes.

“If we were to put the brakes on and put us on hold,” he said, “maybe it would have just been harder to come back.” The tour affirmed something they needed to know: “We are still here for each other, and we want to keep this going not only for each other but also for Ryan.”

Furnari said that in the years since, fans had often thanked the band for choosing to carry on — and that the phrasing gave him pause. “The strange thing is, I almost don’t feel like we had a choice,” he said. “This band is too much of a part of who we are as people. It’s so tied to all of our identities.” Stopping, he added, would have been unthinkable: “I think we knew Ryan would never forgive us if we stopped.”

The experience did not make writing “Without You” easy. Schneider said Siew’s absence felt like “a shadow in the room” during writing sessions. “You want to turn to someone for their opinion or their guidance or their assistance or their contributions, and they’re not there,” he said. When the song began to take shape — a heavy riff from Schneider, lyrics Furnari had written in the period after the loss — the members felt it could carry their first message back.

Furnari recalled that some of the song’s early music and lyrics came together quickly, but writing words that could do justice to their experience was another matter. “There is so much to say here, and I want to say it the best I can,” he said. “I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to say it enough.”

Singing its most direct expression of loss proved harder still. “I just couldn’t get through it without my voice cracking,” he said of an early demo. “I think I had to come back to it the next day because I just couldn’t handle it.”

The group has more music written and in progress, though they are resisting the expectation that a new album must follow immediately.

“This song needs some time to sit with people,” Schneider said. He wants its significance to settle before Polaris moves straight onto another release. Furnari said more music will come “in the not too distant future,” but the band does not want to rush the process. “For us to even be here in this moment and be finally releasing new music is such a significant thing,” he said.

Formed in 2012, Polaris broke through with 2017’s The Mortal Coil and 2020’s The Death of Me, both of which debuted in the Australian Top 10 and earned ARIA nominations for best hard rock/heavy metal album. Fatalism became the band’s first No. 1 on Australia’s ARIA Albums Chart in September 2023, and won best independent heavy album or EP at the 2024 AIR Awards. In the years since, Polaris made their Knotfest Australia debut in 2025, supported their self-described “lifelong heroes” Linkin Park on an Australian arena run in March and toured North America with Electric Callboy.

Polaris’ next Australian festival appearance offers another measure of that journey. At Good Things in 2022, the band played one of the smaller stages to a crowd Furnari remembered stretching to the back of the space — “one of the biggest crowds we’d ever played to at that time.” This December, Polaris is the highest-billed Australian act on the lineup.

“We’ve never actually played on a main stage for, you know, like a mainstay Australian festival,” Schneider said. “For this opportunity to be finally put on the main stage … it kind of gives you a chance to take stock.” The leap in four years from side stage to the highest-billed Australian band on the lineup, he added, is “incredible.” He credited the fans who packed that 2022 set and kept showing up since, thanking the wider Australian scene — especially the fans. “The punters rule.”

Good Things, led by Limp Bizkit and also featuring Simple Plan and Spiritbox, visits Melbourne on Dec. 4, Sydney on Dec. 5 and Brisbane on Dec. 6. For Polaris, the bigger slot arrives alongside a new song made on its own terms — a first step rather than a final word. As for the Good Things crowd, Furnari said: “Hope we can bring them something that’s just as special. We still know who we are as artists.”

Good Things Festival 2026

Dec. 4 — Melbourne — Flemington Racecourse (16+)

Dec. 5 — Sydney — Sydney Showground (16+)

Dec. 6 — Brisbane — Brisbane Showgrounds (16+)

Paul McCartney, who performed “I Want to Hold Your Hand” at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, has shared some inside details three months after the event — like how he ended up onstage.

Though McCartney’s wedding appearance was reported soon after the July 3 reception at New York City’s famous Madison Square Garden, the Beatle confirmed it himself on Friday’s (Oct. 2) episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live.

“Did you know you were gonna sing going in?” Kimmel asked, getting the scoop for the general public, whose curiosity about the wedding still lingers.

“Yep. She asked me to do it,” McCartney said, verifying that the song he sang was the 1964 Beatles classic “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

“That was her request? Or she asked you to pick a song?” was Kimmel’s next question.

“Yeah, it was, yeah,” McCartney answered, then added that he’d hoped Swift would join in on the performance since she was on the stage already.

“I said, ‘You should sing along. You should sing to…” McCartney recounted, then paused. “Your man.”

Seemingly forgetting the name of Swift’s husband for a moment, after a quick laugh from the audience and a nudge from Kimmel he came back with: “I know. Travis.”

“Seems like reasonable advice,” Kimmel quipped of McCartney’s idea for a live wedding-day collab with Swift, and then wrapped the interview.

Wedding attendees have mostly remained tight-lipped about any specifics from the ceremony and reception, including the bride and groom, who’ve not shared a single wedding portrait.

Swift’s close friend (and “Patient Zero” music video co-star) Dakota Johnson recently gave a simple answer — “no” — when asked whether she thought any photos would ever come out from the day. “She’s surprising, isn’t she?” said BBC Radio 1’s Greg James, who was interviewing Johnson (and who was also a guest at the wedding, after Swift invited him during her last interview with him). “She is. Sneaky girl,” Johnson replied.

Kelce did share some comments about the wedding on his New Heights podcast with brother Jason last month, saying it was a “night out we’ll never forget.” Kelce shared, “Me and Taylor are so thankful for everybody that showed up, from the vows to just seeing everyone, to how much fun we had, throughout the entire evening, and hearing that kind of be relayed through everybody’s stories of the night. And it was just so magical, man. I wish it could’ve lasted even longer than it did. It felt like it just happened in the blink of an eye.”

Of the venue choice, Kelce explained, “We wanted do it somewhere where we could have a very intimate and genuine setting without a lot of distractions. We needed it to be a private feel. MSG went above and beyond to give us that. I can’t thank everybody enough that showed up, but [who] also put the show on.”

See McCartney’s interview with Jimmy Kimmel below. Besides his invite to the wedding, he chats about his grandchildren (“They’re great kids. I did it all!”), the release of The Boys of Dungeon Lane: Special Edition, getting rejected from a Grammys party and more.

AC/DC welcomed a special guest onstage for the final show of their Power Up Tour.

During their concert Friday (Oct. 2) at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, the iconic Australian rockers brought out Dave Grohl to join them for “Highway to Hell.”

“Hey everybody, we got something to tell you. You better listen up close now. A very good friend of ours asked us today if he could come up and join us on the stage for ‘Highway for Hell.’ And we said, ‘Yes Dave, you can.’ David Grohl!” AC/DC’s Brian Johnson told the roaring audience as he hugged the Foo Fighters frontman.

AC/DC’s show at MetLife was originally scheduled for Sept. 25, but a nor’easter storm forced the band to cancel the gig. Days later, the concert was rescheduled for Oct. 2, with Foo Fighters announced as the surprise opening act.

During the Foos’ opening set Friday, Grohl told the New Jersey crowd about the important role AC/DC has played in his life and why he was thrilled to open for the band for a second time.

“When I was 11 years old and I went to a midnight movie, and I saw the Let There Be Rock movie in the f—king movie theater, at 11 years old, I didn’t know that rock n’ roll could be like that. I didn’t know that rock n’ roll was sweat and blood and f—king tears and every ounce of energy you had,” Grohl told the crowd.

He continued, “I saw that movie, I was 11 years old, I said, ‘I want to do that for the rest of my f—king life.’ So here we are… I’m going to live my childhood dream again, tonight.”

Nearly a month earlier, Grohl and company opened for AC/DC in St. Louis on Sept. 8, stepping in for the tour’s scheduled opener, The Pretty Reckless, due to scheduling conflicts involving singer Taylor Momsen.

Friday’s MetLife show marked the final date of AC/DC’s Power Up Tour in support of the band’s 2020 album, Power Up, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

AC/DC has not announced additional dates beyond the Power Up Tour. At the end of their show, Johnson told the audience, “Good night, hope we’ll see you again.”

Taylor Swift is giving fans a peek behind the curtain of her new music video “Patient Zero.”

On Saturday (Oct. 3), the 36-year-old pop superstar took to her Instagram Stories to share a link to the “Patient Zero (Expanded Video)” on Apple Music. The clip takes fans through the making of the music video from start to finish, with Swift breaking down her creative process, directing scenes and sharing funny moments with the video’s stars, Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell.

“I’ve been wanting to make this video my entire life,” Swift says at the start of the eight-minute clip, describing her love of “sleek” films set in a “monochromatic” world. “You don’t quite understand the world, and you don’t understand what’s wrong with this couple until you do. Meets ghost story, meets true crime, meets a lot of the plot lines I’ve seen on Dateline.”

Directed by Swift, “Patient Zero” — which premiered at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 27 — follows Johnson as a woman whose health begins to deteriorate while she’s married to Farrell’s character. Swift appears as the ghost of Farrell’s former wife, warning Johnson about her husband and revealing the dark truth behind his past.

Apple Music’s Patient Zero (Video Bundle) features the song, the original music video and an eight-minute behind-the-scenes version of the video.

The exclusive Expanded Video” also finds Johnson discussing what it was like to collaborate with Swift on “Patient Zero.”

“Sometimes when you work with your friends it can really go south, and it will affect your friendship,” the Verity star says. “But she and I work really well together.”

The clip then shows the two friends goofing around on set as they discuss and practice their underwater sequence, in which they wear matching black swimsuits in an outdoor pool overlooking Los Angeles.

The “Patient Zero (Expanded Video)” shows Swift looking very giddy and comfortable behind the camera as she directs Johnson and Farrell. The clip also features the singer giving major props to the music video’s cinematographer, Emmanuel “El Chivo” Lubezki.

“His name is Chivo. They call him that because it means goat, ’cause he’s the f—king goat,” Swift says.

Farrell, who describes his character in the video as successful and ambitious “narcissist” and “psychopath,” also chimes in about Swift’s talents behind the camera.

“The joy she has with her creative engine, which is a really significant creative engine, the joy she has with it is really quite humbling, actually. It’s very moving,” the Fantastic Beasts actor says.

“Patient Zero” is one of four new songs Swift unveiled this week as part of an unexpected release tied to her The Life of a Showgirl album. In addition to “Patient Zero,” The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore features the bonus track “Cleveland!” as well as “Pink Clouding” and “Babylon.”

Jimmy Barnes has paid tribute to his late friend Angry Anderson, releasing a cover of Rose Tattoo’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Is King” following the Australian rock icon’s death.

Anderson, the longtime Rose Tattoo frontman born Gary Anderson, died on Sept. 21 at age 79, weeks after suffering a heart attack.

“It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Gary ‘Angry’ Anderson on the eve of Monday 21 September 2026, surrounded by his loved ones here in Australia,” his family said in a statement. “Angry was a devoted father, and much-loved bandmate, friend, and member of the wider music and entertainment community.”

Barnes had recorded his version of “Rock ’n’ Roll Is King” — originally from Rose Tattoo’s 1981 album Assault & Battery — before Anderson’s death, having intended it for his most recent album. He decided to release it as a tribute after his friend’s passing, with all proceeds going to Australian music-industry charity Support Act.

In a lengthy statement, Barnes reflected on a friendship that dated back to his early days in Cold Chisel, when the two bands crossed paths constantly.

“We shared stages, we shared crew members, we even shared equipment at times. Rock’n’roll was king and we were all young, taking on the world together,” he wrote, calling Anderson “my friend; my brother in arms.” He described Rose Tattoo as “the ultimate rock band,” adding: “They showed those so-called hard rock bands overseas how it was REALLY done.”

Barnes said he had spoken to Anderson about covering the song before his death. “I spoke to Angry about covering that song for my last album and he was excited,” he wrote.

“I couldn’t wait to sit down with Angry and play it to him because the song takes on a whole new meaning for me now, looking back through all those years and all those gigs.” He closed: “I won’t keep any money it makes, I just want to tip my hat to my mate… Turn it up f—ing LOUD. Angry’s gone to the Big Gig upstairs but I bet he’ll be listening.”

Anderson fronted Rose Tattoo from the band’s 1976 formation in Sydney, leading them through albums including their 1978 self-titled debut and Assault & Battery.

Though never major chart forces in the U.S., the band left a lasting mark on American hard rock: Guns N’ Roses covered their song “Nice Boys” on the 1986 EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide — later reissued on 1988’s G N’ R Lies — and cited Rose Tattoo as an influence.

Anderson also reached American audiences on screen, playing Ironbar, enforcer to Tina Turner’s Aunty Entity, opposite Mel Gibson in 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Rose Tattoo were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2006, and Barnes’ son Jackie, a drummer, played with Anderson in the band after joining in 2018. Barnes, a dual ARIA Hall of Fame inductee with Cold Chisel and as a solo artist, holds the record for the most No. 1 albums on Australia’s ARIA Albums Chart of any homegrown act.

After months of back-and-forth, two planned stadium gigs by Ye at Gazprom Arena in St. Petersburg, Russia have reportedly been canceled. Ye (formerly Kanye West) was slated to perform on Oct. 10 and 11 at the venue, though the reportedly sold-out shows were in question from the time they were announced.

On Aug. 24, the venue posted on social media that the 80,000-capacity stadium “did not sign any contracts for the stadium rent for the event.” The post adamantly stated that there was “no such agreement” for the shows and that they would not take place at the venue. That came despite the venue hyping the shows on Instagram just a week earlier.

“Kanye West is at Gazprom Arena! Whaaat??? The legendary artist will be coming to Russia for the first time, performing a world-shaking show at the blue-white-and-blue stadium,” read the post earlier post. “This is no joke! Kanye West, the most influential music artist of our time, will perform two exclusive concerts at Gazprom Arena in St. Petersburg on October 10th and 11th as part of his record-breaking world tour.”

According to a Reuters report, the Moscow-based promoter Say Agency expressed its “sincere regret” about the cancellation in a message on Telegram, adding, “The Ye concerts in St Petersburg will not be able to take place on the scheduled dates.”

At press time, spokespeople for promoter Say Agency and touring agency Access Opera had not returned Billboard‘s request for confirmation on the cancellation of the concerts.

If the shows had gone on as planned, Ye would have been the first Western rap star to perform in Russia amid a global cultural boycott enacted in response to the launch in 2022 of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.

Newsweek, citing Russian media reports, said that the decision to pull the plug on the Ye shows was made by Russian authorities, with the Kommersant newspaper reportedly saying that the organizers of the gigs were being investigated for fraud. It also said that local media reported that government officials had not approved the shows and that some politicians had expressed outrage at Ye’s past embrace of Nazi symbols and support for Adolf Hitler, which is a criminal offense in the country.

West has not said much this year as he’s mounted his ambitious stadium show across the world, playing gigs in Turkey, the Netherlands, Georgia, Albania, Portugal, Spain and Kazakhstan this year, as well as U.S. shows in Los Angeles, Tampa Bay, San Antonio, New Orleans and Chicago. Despite playing to huge crowds, West is still dealing with the backlash from years of antisemitic remarks and an embrace of Nazi symbolism and rhetoric which began in 2022 and led to the meltdown of the rapper’s once-formidable music, fashion and design portfolio.

As part of the lingering unease with booking Ye, this year he’s had concerts in France, Poland and the Czech Republic canceled, as well as a headlining set at London’s Wireless Festival; dates in Italy and India were also waved off citing “security concerns.”

There’s some sort of public love triangle brewing between Drake, Karol G and Bruno Mars. It appears to be playful and not anything serious, as the trio are fans of one another, but fans are wondering: Could this all be leading up to a seismic blockbuster collaboration?

Earlier this week, Bruno cast Karol G to play his love interest in the romantic “Dance With Me” music video, which saw the 6 God pop up with a response on Instagram.

“Holy this guy works fast,” he quipped Thursday. The comment has amassed more than 34,000 likes, while Bruno’s post itself has north of a million.

This all heated up pretty quickly this week. Drake made a guest appearance at Karol G’s Houston show on Sunday, which saw him passionately dancing with the Colombian superstar as he performed his 2016 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “One Dance.”

They also teamed up for the live debut of their “Ahí” collaboration, which reached No. 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Hot Latin Songs chart in August.

Bruno was left a little jealous after seeing what transpired at Reliant Stadium. The Grammy-winning artist posted a photo from his private jet looking out into the clouds, vowing to make a play to one-up Drizzy and win Karol G back.

That happened to be the steamy “Dance With Me” video, which Bruno knew he had up his sleeve and ready to launch on Thursday. He gushed about Karol G in his heartfelt caption, championing her work ethic and called her the “Juliet” to his Romeo.

“Watching you work has been so inspiring. For those that don’t know this beautiful woman works so hard and loves her fans so much. She calls me and tells me how blessed we both are and reminds me to never forget that,” Bruno wrote on IG. “I’m honored to say we made music together, performed together and now starred in a high drama telenovela together. The world needs your light and your voice Carolina. Thank you for being my Juliet in this music video.”

There could be something in the works, or perhaps this was all a marketing ploy leading up to the “Dance With Me” visual and Drake just played along. A collaboration would be a first from the trio, and boast some of the most potent star power a song has seen, while taking artists from different genres.

Like Drake, Bruno Mars also appeared on Karol G’s No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto album in August, as the duo tangled on “Still,” which peaked at No. 41 on the Hot 100. Bruno hit the stage at Karol G’s Aug. 15 show in L.A. at SoFi Stadium, where they performed the live debut of “Still” as well as his The Romatic opener “Risk It All.”