BTS are getting back in the game — literally. The K-pop superstars are set to return with new episodes of their beloved variety series Run BTS!, and a new teaser gives fans a first look at the group’s ideas for games, challenges and friendly competition.

Filmed in Toronto, the preview shows the seven members enjoying a BTS-style picnic as they revisit games they used to play during picnics. The nostalgic setup takes a competitive turn when the members take on a quick game of “speed walk” before moving on to “red light, green light.”

“Why are you so fast?” we hear Jung Kook say as he’s running around the picnic, before taking a tumble while the other members laugh.

The real competition doesn’t arrive until the group begins their long-awaited pickleball tournament. The stakes are raised when the group learns that the loser will have to take on some sort of punishment. The teaser shows a glimpse of the chaotic match, with the members cheering, shouting and reacting to shots flying across the court. The tournament fades to black as a Run BTS 2.0 title card appears, teasing and anticipating a new chapter for the series.

The return of such a candid series is particularly exciting for fans as the group just wrapped the North American leg of their ARIRANG World Tour, and are set to continue onto the South American leg pretty soon. Their latest album, ARIRANG, gave the group their seventh No. 1 album atop the Billboard 200 upon its release in April, remaining on the chart for 27 weeks and counting.

The first episode of the new Run BTS! era is set to premiere at 8 p.m. KST on Oct. 6, with the second episode following at 8 p.m. KST on Oct. 11.

Watch the teaser for Run BTS! below.

Aubrey O’Day has some thoughts about Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ life behind bars — and she doesn’t think his time in prison is exactly accomplishing its intended purpose.

The former Danity Kane singer reacted Wednesday (Sept. 30) to a new NBC News investigation into Combs’ reported conditions at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, where he is serving a 50-month sentence. Journalist Chloe Melas shared the investigation on X, writing, “My breaking exclusive on Sean Diddy Combs — we’ve obtained video of him using a cell phone in prison — and much more.”

O’Day quote-tweeted Melas’ post with a pointed response, saying, “Thank you, Chloe for doing this investigation. People should understand the difference between rehabilitation and a sh–ty vacation. The system is broken — this man will come back a worse criminal.”

NBC News’ report, which cited four men who spent time in the same unit as Combs, described what those sources characterized as an unusually privileged existence inside the low-security federal prison. According to the report, inmates have allegedly cooked and cleaned for Combs, handled his laundry and even given him Chinese-style massages.

The investigation also included photos and videos reviewed by NBC News that allegedly show Combs using a contraband cellphone. Sources told the outlet that he has also had access to alcohol and other prohibited items while incarcerated.

Combs’ spokesperson pushed back on the report, calling the continued attention to the details of his prison life excessive and saying the only significant news is that he “continues to serve his sentence” while awaiting the outcome of his appeal. A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson declined to comment specifically on Combs’ conditions, while acknowledging that contraband remains an ongoing challenge in federal facilities.

Combs arrived at Fort Dix in October 2025 after being sentenced to 50 months in prison following his conviction on two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution. He was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

O’Day, who was part of Danity Kane after the group formed through Combs’ reality series Making the Band, has remained outspoken about the music mogul throughout his legal proceedings.

Read the full statement from O’Day below.

Quavo and Offset have officially buried the hatchet. Quavo sat down with Complex’s Idea Generation and talked about how Takeoff’s untimely death helped mend his fractured relationship with their childhood friend and fellow Migos groupmate.

“I feel like it eased it a little bit,” he reflected after being asked how Takeoff’s death changed his relationship with Offset. “I felt like it it threw out all the things that I was upset about or that we had friction about. I don’t know on his end; I’m just talking for me. I feel like it was it was enough just for me to say, ‘All right, cool. Whatever.’ You know what I’m saying? ‘Whatever you going through, I go through it with you. And whatever I’m going through, I hope you understand what I’m going through.’ You feel me?’

He added: “And I think that, long as I understand whatever everybody be going through and that I can’t control or can’t be upset or emotional about that’s where I think that chrome outer layer come from. That part of me losing my brother and understanding that it can’t get no tougher than that. So, whatever that’s in front of me that I got to deal with to make my life more easier… and to give these fans what they want, I’m going to do it.”

He was also asked about the Migos album he and Offset have in the works and what would make them feel like they did right by their late brother Takeoff.

“Just to release it,” he said. “I want the fans to determine that, ’cause I’m going to put my all in everything and we going to always give it a thousand percent. You know, we’ve been in the studio cooking. We make sure we keeping everything just like it’s supposed to sound.”

Quavo’s solo album, QRÖMELIFE, will be fully produced by Pharrell and will feature a long-awaited reunion with Offset.

You can watch the full interview below.

Tinashe is having herself a moment.

The singer recently put out her eighth studio album, Popstar, to much critical acclaim and fanfare online, as her day one fans are taking a victory lap on social media. Tinashe took to X and Instagram and released a lengthy statement about often feeling like she’s been overlooked by the industry and some fans.

“This moment is a testament to never giving up on yourself,” he statement began. “For years I felt misunderstood, overlooked, the butt of the joke… but I just kept going. People would say, ‘She’s still making music? Why hasn’t she quit by now?’… but I never gave up on myself or my artistry. I just kept focusing on my passion and love of music and art and kept creating things I loved. I inevitably reached a place where I no longer craved the validation of accolades, awards, or even mainstream success because it was too painful to care anymore.”

She then added that she that her hard work over the years has paid off and that she finally feels validated.

“That’s why this means so much to me,” she continued. “Because after all of these years, to finally be here in this moment and seeing the praise for this project and finally feeling seeeeeen and heard is unbelievably touching. Like I really feel it’s healing a huge part of me in real time. (but lemme not cry rn) I am truly grateful for everyone who has been with me thru it all cuz babyyyy it has been a journeyyyyyyyy. Thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

Last week (Sept. 23), Tinashe sat down for a conversation with Call Her Daddy and gave fans a hint as to what Popstar was going to sound like. “I don’t subscribe to like one particular sound, one particular genre. I’ve made records on this project that feel like dance records, like hip-hop records, like pop records, like R&B records,” she said. “And I think they all, to me, fall under this umbrella of pop star. And I wanted to bring that question or like bring that conversation to the table of what does it mean to be a pop star?”

Dolly Parton was there for Kelly Clarkson in a tough moment, the “Stronger” singer revealed on the latest episode of the Las Culturistas podcast posted Wednesday (Sept. 30).

While speaking about her memories of the Queen of Country — who died in August at age 80 following a brief cancer battle — Clarkson revealed that she first met Parton at “a Reba [McEntire] tribute, years and years ago.”

The Dollywood founder became someone the American Idol alum “always ran into” after that, but Clarkson’s most treasured memory of the late icon came in 2022, when she was tasked with honoring Parton — who watched from the side of the stage — with a live rendition of “I Will Always Love You” at the ACM Awards. Just 30 minutes before going on, Clarkson said she learned her divorce from Brandon Blackstock had been finalized.

“I found out right before that performance,” she recalled, sharing how she ran into Parton backstage as she was getting ready to go out and shared with her what was going on. “She, kind of, caught me. I was like, ‘I’m sorry. It’s just kind of a wild moment for me.’ We just had this moment.”

Clarkson didn’t say what Parton told her in that moment, but she did emphasize that it helped her stay grounded at a time when her personal life was extremely difficult. It’s no secret that her relationship with Blackstock was tense, both in its final chapter and in the years that followed, with the pair engaging in a lengthy legal battle over alleged unpaid fees from Blackstock’s time as Clarkson’s manager, which they settled in 2024.

Blackstock died in 2025 at the age of 48 after battling cancer for three years. Clarkson has since departed from her Kelly Clarkson Show to have more time to spend with the two kids she shares with him, now that she’s their sole parent.

“She’s just one of those people you don’t have to know your whole life, but you can in one instance,” Clarkson added of Parton. “What she said backstage to me, it was just a really beautiful thing.”

Watch Clarkson’s full appearance on Las Culturistas below.

Sometimes a once-in-a-lifetime gig comes around a second time. That’s the case for the Foo Fighters, who will get another chance to share the stage with their hard rock heroes AC/DC on Friday night (Oct. 2) at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. after the “Back in Black” band was forced to cancel their gig at the venue on Sunday (Sept. 25) due to a nor’easter storm.

So, what was originally deemed a “one night only” is now a double-down. “Let there be rock,” the Foos wrote on Instagram. “See you October 2nd with @acdc!!!” The comments from fans said it all: “Lightning strikes twice! Twice in a lifetime, know,” wrote one, with another adding, “This makes up for rescheduling BIG TIME,” and a third saying, “Wow from a cancelled show to once and a lifetime time show.”

Tickets from the originally scheduled show on AC/DC’s PWR Up tour will be valid for the rescheduled gig, which comes less than a month after the Foos stepped up to open for AC/DC in St. Louis on Sept. 8. It was a rare opening slot for the Foos, who filled in for the tour’s booked opener, The Pretty Reckless; the Taylor Momsen band was unable to play the gig because the singer was in Seattle on Sept. 9 to join the surviving members of Soundgarden during the halftime show at the Seattle Seahawks’ home opener.

Before the first AC/DC opening slot, Foos singer Dave Grohl called the show at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis “literally a dream come true.” In a lengthy Instagram post, Grohl wrote, “I remember it like it was yesterday…. It was AC/DC’s 1980 concert film Let There Be Rock that truly introduced me to the raw, primal power of rock and roll performance for the first time,” he wrote. “Sure, I had Beatles records, I had Kiss posters, I had an old, broken acoustic guitar with a few strings that I would pretend to play in front of the hallway closet mirror when no one was home, but it wasn’t until that fateful night at the tender age of eleven years old that my best friend, Larry Hinkle and I went downtown to the Uptown theater in Washington D.C. and actually witnessed it on full display.”

Grohl said from that night on he was obsessed and 45 years after that day, he could not wait to share the stage with the Aussie legends. “And now, for the first time since that fateful night in 1980, my band Foo Fighters will share a stage with the gentlemen who are single handedly responsible for my determination to give every audience everything I have, every night,” Grohl thundered. “This is literally a dream come true. So…..if you want blood….you’ve got it. Let there be f–king rock, St Louis.”

The Pretty Reckless are booked to play the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento on Thursday (Oct. 1) and Tom Morello’s Power to the People Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. on Saturday (Oct. 3), which will also feature sets from the Foos, Dave Matthews, Bruce Springsteen, Public Enemy and many more.

The AC/DC show was one of many major gigs that were scuttled due to last weekend’s storm, a roster that included the Global Citizen Festival, CBGB Festival and All Things Go NY festivals in New York, all three days of the Oceans Calling Festival in Ocean City, Md. and two Ed Sheeran concerts in Foxborough, Mass.

Tom Morello isn’t done with raging against the machine.

The Rock Hall-inducted guitarist was the musical guest on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night (Sept. 29), and was given the honors of closing out the show.

Morello wielded the axe and took the mic for a powerful performance of “Soldier in the Army of Love,” lifted from his new solo collection, Everyone Gets Everything They Want (via Mom + Pop Music).

The rocker, wearing a cap and aviator glasses, was joined with a full band and backing vocalists for a protest song that drips in fury and anger. To his right, Morello’s teenage son Roman, who ripped out a solo with his electric guitar behind his back, the instrument daubed with a call to action for homeless rights. He’s clearly a chip off the old block.

Everyone Gets Everything They Want is stacked with anti-fascist songs. On “Soldier,” Morello sings: “Transforming motherf—ers like Saul into Paul / On the road to Damascus at the Westfield Mall / In the maquiladoras and at Carnegie Hall / In the grain elevator making fascists crawl.”

Morello has fought the power with Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, the “supergroup” Prophets of Rage, solo project The Nightwatchman, and, of course, as a founding member of Rage Against the Machine, which was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2023.

As a member of Rage, the guitarist notched seven entries on the Billboard 200, including two No. 1s: Evil Empire (1996) and The Battle of Los Angeles (1999). And as bandleader of The Nightwatchman, Morello has landed three additional titles on the all-genre national albums chart.

“I make anti-racist songs for anti-racists,” the politically outspoken musician said in a statement announcing Everyone Gets Everything They Want, his first-ever rock full-length as a soloist. “I make anti-fascist songs for anti-fascists. And I make anti-Nazi songs for anti-Nazis.”

Kimmel is currently broadcasting a special week of episodes from the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

Watch the late-night performance below.

Troye Sivan has admittedly spent a lot of his time onstage, in the studio, and at intense parties, but he’s always felt most at home getting ready for those events with the girls.

While sitting down with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in New York, the pop star opened up about the inspiration behind his forthcoming fourth studio album She’s the Best and why the project showcases a feeling he says has followed him throughout his life.

“I’m so comfortable and kind of like my happiest, honestly, when I’m existing in the orbit of like a woman,” Sivan told Lowe.

“Like the kind of safety and protection that I felt from women that I haven’t felt from men,” he elaborates. “During the songwriting process when we writing She’s the Best, I was like, oh, this has been, like, a constant in my life. From day one, those are the people that have really had my back.”

That realization became part of the album’s DNA, with Sivan pointing to several of the women who have occupied that orbit throughout his career. He mentioned his “duet with Ariana [Grande]” (which could reference their 2018 collaboration “Dance to This,” or their remix on Eternal Sunshine‘s “Imperfect for You”), his work with Lily-Rose Depp on The Idol, his SWEAT tour with Charli xcx and his collaborations with Nicole Kidman as examples of the world in which he feels most at home.

“I am just so, so, so comfortable in that world,” he said.

That feeling also takes Sivan back to a familiar teenage ritual: getting ready for house parties with his female friends.

“I would get ready in like five minutes at home early and then go and just like, watch the girls get ready,” he recalled. “We would just like talk and hang out and whatever, and it was always so much more fun than the parties.”

The parties themselves, though, were a different story. Sivan said he would arrive only to encounter boys being “homophobic,” underscoring the contrast between the spaces where he felt comfortable and those where he didn’t.

That sense of belonging now threads through She’s the Best, which arrives on Oct. 9. The album follows Sivan’s recently released single “Party,” which samples Madonna‘s 2000 hit “Music.” The project also features an eclectic roster of collaborators and appearances, including Charli xcx, Ian McKellen and Kidman.

Watch the full interview below.

Becca Hatch and Lewis Love are enjoying the RADAR treatment.

Hatch, the rising R&B artist of Kamilaroi and Samoan heritage, and Love, the country-leaning Australian singer-songwriter, are the latest acts from Australia and New Zealand tapped for Spotify’s global emerging artist program.

The announcement this week comes ahead of Hatch’s new EP Black Flower (via G.Y.R.O.), due out Feb. 3, 2027, and Love’s forthcoming album, his first through a new label deal with EMPIRE.

Hatch is coming off a hot run. In 2024, she was invited by Coldplay to perform her original verse on “We Pray” across two sold-out shows at Sydney’s Accor Stadium, and collected the 2024 NIMA Award for best breakthrough artist.

Then, in 2025, she was awarded the APRA Professional Development Award. She can add an ARIA Award to her growing collection, with a best soul / R&B nomination for her 2026 cut Garden (Bang Goes the Drum), and she’s named as ambassador for Support Act’s Aus Music T-Shirt Day fundraising campaign, which returns Nov. 26. A fourth track has dropped from Black Flower, “Extra Time.”

Over the next six months, both artists can expect to receive cross-platform support across Spotify’s editorial, marketing, and live events, including playlist covers, on-platform takeovers, social and editorial pushes and more.

“So excited to be a RADAR artist!! I love making music about feminine strength, being free, and growing into yourself,” comments Hatch in a statement. “It feels so special to have Spotify supporting me on this journey with Black Flower.”

Previous RADAR artists from these parts include Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, Blusher, Genesis Owusu, Larissa Lambert, Baker Boy, and Royel Otis, all of whom have gone on to receive nods for this year’s ARIAs.

“I’m so grateful to Spotify for making me a RADAR artist,” adds Love. “I’m really excited for the whole world to hear what we’ve been working on.”

To launch their RADAR promotions, both artists were the subject of billboard promos on Bourke Street in central Melbourne, from Friday, Sept. 25 to Sunday, Sept. 27.

Launched globally in 2020, RADAR AUNZ has served as a launchpad for local talent, and driving over 47 million discoveries, according to the streaming giant.

“Spotify partners with artists just as that heat is building, and we work deeply with the artist team to develop opportunities and fandom,” comments Leah Harris, artist & label partnerships lead at Spotify AUNZ. “Becca and Lewis are both on the edge of something big, and we want audiences here and globally to discover what we already know and love about them.”

BTS might not have been in the room when the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards handed out their Moon Person trophies on Sunday night, but j-hope made sure ARMY knew he was celebrating the wins.

Following BTS’ three wins at Sunday’s VMAs, j-hope took to Weverse to thank fans for helping the group bring home some awards during its long-awaited comeback year.

“ARMY!! I heard the news that we won a big award. It’s all thanks to you guys, I love you,” the rapper wrote in his translated message, followed by a purple heart emoji. He went on to remember how significant 2026 was for himself and the group, calling it a “meaningful year” because BTS reunited and spent time with ARMY again.

The group took home song of the year and best K-pop for “SWIM,” as well as best group, giving BTS a clean sweep of all three categories in which they were nominated.

The song of the year victory was pretty historic: “SWIM,” the lead single from BTS’ fifth studio album ARIRANG, made the septet the first K-pop group to win in the category. Additionally, the win for best group was their fifth win in the category, extending their record of previous victories in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

And, as j-hope so humbly mentioned, the awards are just another milestone to add to what has already been a massive year for the group. ARIRANG, released in March as BTS’ first full-length album in six years, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “SWIM” has also made plenty of noise on the charts on its own, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 upon its release.

j-hope made sure to recognize the wins, in the literal sense and in the figurative sense. “Since it’s a meaningful year where we made a comeback as BTS and spent time with you ARMYs, this year feels even more precious!!” he wrote. “I will wrap it up well until the very end!!”

And there’s still a lot to look forward to with BTS, as they are currently in the midst of their ARIRANG World Tour, with j-hope teasing that he’ll show fans “many great things” during the upcoming South American dates.

He signed off simply: “Luv you,” with a heart-sealed envelope emoji.