North West took the stage in Chicago for her first solo show with her parents in the crowd showing their support.

On Saturday (Sept. 5), the 13-year-old rapper headlined at The Vic Theatre in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, with Ye and Kim Kardashian watching proudly from opposite sides of the audience.

The performance came about a month after North’s debut headlining tour with rapper Molly Santana was canceled. The 14-date North American Molly x North Kimokawaii tour was originally scheduled to launch Aug. 5.

In fan-captured footage from the Chicago concert, Kardashian and Ye (formerly Kanye West) were seen arriving separately. The SKIMS founder took a seat in the VIP section, while the superstar rapper filmed his daughter’s performance from a balcony section.

West, a Chicago native, nodded along to the music while the Kardashians star cheered on their daughter. Both shared footage from the theater on their respective Instagram Stories. “SO PROUD,” Ye captioned a video from the performance.

North also shared a variety of clips from the concert and thanked her fans for their support.

“My first solo headlining show ily guys so much for showing love seriously means the word to me,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories. “This is what I’m meant to do.”

North’s debut headlining show was in support of her debut EP, N0rth4evr, which dropped in early May. She previously tested the waters in music, making waves with appearances on Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures and FKA twigs’ EUSEXUA album. The young rapper-producer released her “Piercing on My Hand” single in February and also made an appearance at Ye’s SoFi Stadium shows in Los Angeles in April.

Earlier in the week, Ye was in Chicago for a two-night homecoming at Soldier Field on Sept. 3-4. During the shows, he brought out numerous guests and touched on every era of his career, from The College Dropout through 2026’s Bully.

Radiohead are returning to Australia for the first time in 15 years, announcing a 16-show arena tour for 2027 — part of a run that will be the band’s only concerts anywhere in the world next year.

The tour opens with a four-night stand at Perth’s RAC Arena from May 3, before six-show residencies at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena and Sydney’s Afterpay Arena, wrapping June 1. Rather than a traditional national run, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Philip Selway and Ed O’Brien will settle into each city for multiple nights.

The Australian dates, presented by Frontier Touring, will be followed by five shows in Saitama, Japan, and the band has confirmed there will be no additional 2027 concerts elsewhere.

The run marks Radiohead’s first Australian tour since 2012 and follows a series of European residency shows in late 2025 — the band’s first performances after several years away from the road, during which its members pursued solo and side projects. Speculation about a return had been building for months, stoked in part by O’Brien, who told Rolling Stone earlier this year that the band hoped to make it back. “We’d love to come to Australia,” he said. “It’s just a question of when.”

Given the anticipated demand, tickets will be distributed through a registration system covering both general and accessible tickets rather than a conventional first-come sale. Registration is open now and closes at 5 p.m. AEST on Thursday, Sept. 10, with Frontier Touring saying every entry submitted during the window will be treated equally. Each ticket will include a $2 donation directed to Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Australian Marine Conservation Society.

One of the most acclaimed and influential rock bands of the past three decades, the Oxford, England, group broke through in 1993 with “Creep,” which remains their highest-charting Billboard Hot 100 single at No. 34 and was later certified platinum in the U.S. Though the band has only three times reached the Hot 100 — the others being “High and Dry” and “Nude” — they have been a dominant force on the album chart. Radiohead have scored four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 with Hail to the Thief (2003), In Rainbows (2007), The King of Limbs‘ successor era and 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool, their most recent studio album, alongside landmark records including OK Computer and Kid A. Six-time Grammy winners, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

RADIOHEAD — AUSTRALIA TOUR 2027

May 3, 4, 6, 7 — Perth — RAC Arena

May 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20 — Melbourne — Rod Laver Arena

May 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, June 1 — Sydney — Afterpay Arena

Carrie Underwood surprised the crowd at Iowa’s Velocity Festival on Saturday (Sept. 5) with a run of nu-metal covers spanning Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and Papa Roach, capping her headlining set at the Field of Dreams Movie Site in Dyersville with a costume change to match.

Underwood worked through Collective Soul’s “Shine,” Papa Roach’s “Scars” and Linkin Park’s “One Step Closer” before closing the block with Limp Bizkit’s 1999 hit “Break Stuff,” for which she donned a backward red baseball cap in a nod to frontman Fred Durst.

Fan-filmed footage of the performance circulated widely online, drawing a mixed reaction: some praised the detour into late-’90s rock, while others pushed back on the song choice given its explicit lyrics, which Underwood largely sang around, letting the crowd fill in the words instead.

Underwood topped Saturday’s bill at the 2026 Velocity Festival, a three-day event that expanded this year following the success of its 2025 debut. She was joined on the day’s lineup by Default, Maggie Rose and Danny Worsnop, while Shinedown headlined Friday alongside Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Creed closed the weekend Sunday with Nate Smith and Filter.

The genre-blending, rock-heavy bill tracks with the festival’s identity since its inaugural year, when Tim McGraw and Nickelback headlined its first two-day run at the same site — the 193-acre Iowa farm made famous by the 1989 film Field of Dreams.

The covers aren’t a new direction for Underwood, who has repeatedly leaned into her rock and metal influences over the years, previously sharing stages with acts including Guns N’ Roses and Papa Roach. Earlier this year, during the May 11 finale of American Idol — where she serves as a judge — Underwood joined Mötley Crüe for performances of “Home Sweet Home” and “Kickstart My Heart,” earning a standing ovation from the studio audience.

“Home Sweet Home” carries added history for Underwood, who recorded her own version of the Mötley Crüe ballad in 2009 for use as the farewell song during American Idol Season 8.

Kid Cudi‘s reunion on stage with Kanye West in Chicago — which marked the pair’s first live performance together in years — was celebrated by many hip-hop fans, but not everyone was thrilled by the enthusiasm for Ye.

Ye brought Cudi out for three songs toward the end of his three-hour set at Soldier Field on Friday (Sept. 4), the guest-filled second night of two homecoming concerts. The two rappers, whose relationship spans two decades (Yeezy signed Cudi to G.O.O.D. Music in 2008, a few years after meeting him), delivered “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1” and “Ghost Town,” plus “Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare),” in one of the show’s most unforgettable moments.

Following the show, Cudi reacted to several positive comments coming through on social, from fans reveling in the surprise appearance — which appeared to be a reconciliation between the once-frequent collaborators, who’d even released a joint album in 2019 (Kids See Ghosts).

He also responded to criticism of realigning with Ye.

It’d been a minute since anyone had seen the pair together in public, as Cudi had distanced himself from Ye in recent years amid the star’s erratic rants, antisemitic remarks and hate speech, for which West has since apologized. This wasn’t their first fallout.

Cudi quoted a post from New York radio personality Peter Rosenberg on X this weekend; Rosenberg expressed disappointment that “a lot of people I love are being openly lame about Kanye” on his feed during West’s weekend in Chicago. Rosenberg continued, “I am not saying no one deserves forgiveness or empathy but this man sang Heil Hitler ONE YEAR AGO.”

“I understand ur frustration Peter, I f—s w u, but I dont really care if ur disappointed in me,” Cudi wrote in response on X on Saturday (Sept. 5).

“That man is my brother,” Cudi said of Ye. “U dont have a relationship w him like I do. Damn near 2 decades of art and friendship. U not family. So I get it. Ive been around Ye, and I can honestly say talking to him now is how it use to be when I first signed to him, but even better. He was dealing w mental health struggles for years and now hes good. Everyone deserves some grace when they family. I was the hardest on him out of anybody. I held him accountable. He apologized and it was sincere. But like I said, u not family so I get it.”

Rosenberg replied, “well i wasnt disappointed in you @KiDCuDi (i meant fans) but if you saw me running out to support an artist a year after they made a song called “all hail the klan” you would prolly feel a way. I am ALL for forgiveness and empathy but this man is being hailed as a HERO … f that. go get real help and sit down for a few years then lets talk before im going to run to put money in ur pocket.”

In 2025, Kid Cudi spoke of his fractured relationship with Ye in an interview with CBS, noting that West had said some things that “there was no coming back from.” He added, “I’m done with you. And it breaks my heart because I loved Kanye. I really loved him. He was part of my life changing and at some point, he was a really good friend, but the man that he has become … I just don’t know that guy anymore.”

Ye, who suffers from bipolar disorder, apologized for his actions in early 2026, referencing his mental health struggle. In a full-page ad taken out in the Wall Street Journal in January, Ye wrote, “You don’t think you’re sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you’re seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you’re losing your grip entirely … One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type-1 are the disconnected moments — many of which I still cannot recall — that led to poor judgment and reckless behavior that oftentimes feels like an out-of-body-experience. I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did, though. I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people.”

Over the summer, Cudi revealed they were rebuilding their friendship.

After this weekend’s reunion with Ye on stage, he wrote on X, “Tn was just another epic night on a list with many other epic nights w my big bro,” adding, “love u Chicago.”

In another note posted after performing at Soldier Field, Cudi said, “Love u big bro. Family s—tt.”

Andy Williams, the founding guitarist of metalcore band Every Time I Die and a professional wrestler, has died. He was 48.

Williams, a former All Elite Wrestling (AEW) wrestler known as “The Butcher,” died Saturday night (Sept. 5), hours after collapsing following an independent tag-team wrestling match at Mr. Small’s Theatre in Millvale, Pennsylvania, according to TMZ.

“Andy collapsed at the end of his match this evening,” Enjoy Wrestling, the event’s promoter, wrote on X Saturday. “Our doctors on staff tended to him immediately, administering CPR until the ambulance arrived.”

A specific cause of death was not immediately available at press time.

Williams and his longtime wrestling partner, Jesse “The Blade” Guilmette, faced TME at the Enjoy Wrestling event, which organizers canceled following the incident.

Before beginning his professional wrestling career, Williams was the founding rhythm guitarist of New York metalcore band Every Time I Die. He played with the group from its formation in 1998 until its breakup in 2022, appearing on all nine of the band’s studio albums.

Every Time I Die announced its breakup in early 2022, following the release of its ninth and final studio album, 2021’s Radical.

Williams began wrestling professionally in the 2010s while still performing with Every Time I Die. He joined AEW in 2019 as “The Butcher” and remained under contract with the promotion until June 2026.

“All Elite Wrestling is saddened to learn of the passing of Andy Williams, aka The Butcher,” the wrestling company wrote on Instagram. “A trailblazing musician with ETID and Atomic Rule, Williams made a successful transition into the world of professional wrestling and was incredibly respected by his peers both in and out of the ring. Our condolences go out to Williams’ family, friends and fans.”

After Every Time I Die broke up, Williams joined Atomic Rule and continued making music while pursuing his wrestling career. Shortly before his death Saturday, he appeared in a video shared on the band’s Instagram account, saying Atomic Rule was working on new music.

More than a dozen concertgoers were hospitalized following The Chainsmokers’ recent Bay Area show.

Fourteen people were transported to local hospitals during and after the electronic duo’s outdoor concert at Discovery Meadow in San Jose, California, on Friday (Sept. 4), according to police and the San Jose Fire Department (SJFD).

“At 8:22 p.m. on Friday, September 4, the San José Fire Department responded to an outdoor concert at Discovery Meadow for reports of multiple patients requiring medical attention,” the SJFD wrote on X.

The fire department continued, “SJFD immediately requested an Ambulance Task Force, two additional advanced life support fire units, and a Battalion Chief to manage the incident and provide additional medical resources. A total of 14 ambulances responded, and 14 patients were transported to local hospitals.”

At least 10 attendees were taken to the hospital during the final 30 minutes of the show, according to ABC 7. Paramedics treated other concertgoers at the venue as the medical response continued through the end of the concert.

The SJFD did not specify why concertgoers required medical attention, but police told NBC Bay Area that those hospitalized were experiencing a variety of medical concerns, including “suspected alcohol intoxication and drug-related issues.”

No arrests were reported, according to SFGate.

The Chainsmokers had not publicly addressed the situation at press time. Billboard has reached out to the group’s representatives for comment.

The Chainsmokers’ Alex Pall and Drew Taggart released the five-song EP LOVE IS KIND in May and had a busy summer, with appearances at EDC Las Vegas, Lollapalooza, Tomorrowland and Palm Tree Music Festival.

The pair took the stage at Wynn Las Vegas’ Encore Beach Club on Saturday morning (Sept. 5) as part of their long-term residency at the venue.

System of a Down has made “Johnny” available on streaming platforms for the first time, part of a wider rollout marking the 25th anniversary of Toxicity.

The track had previously surfaced only on international editions of the album and a U.K. 7-inch pressed alongside “Chop Suey!,” never receiving its own standalone release until now.

Toxicity arrived Sept. 4, 2001, produced by Rick Rubin, and became one of the defining metal albums of its era, fusing heavy riffing with Armenian folk influences and pointedly political lyrics addressing the environment, protest movements and U.S. foreign policy.

The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — a chart run that fell in the week of the Sept. 11 attacks, a coincidence that shadowed the record’s early rollout, as “Chop Suey!” was pulled from radio playlists over lyrics some deemed sensitive in the moment. Lead single “Chop Suey!” nonetheless became the band’s first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, part of a run that saw all three of the album’s singles — “Chop Suey!,” “Toxicity” and “Aerials” — reach the chart, with “Aerials” eventually topping both Billboard’s Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock tallies.

Critics and fans connected immediately with the album’s unusual fusion of heavy riffing, progressive structure and Armenian musical heritage, delivered alongside lyrics tackling the environment, protest movements and U.S. foreign policy. Toxicity has since been certified seven-times platinum in the U.S. and two-times platinum in the U.K., with an estimated 15 million units sold worldwide. “Chop Suey!” alone has surpassed 2 billion Spotify streams as of this past May, cementing its status as the band’s signature song.

The anniversary rollout centers on a new vinyl reissue pressed on red smoke-colored vinyl, bundled with a bonus one-sided 7-inch featuring “Johnny” on the A-side and a custom “25” etching on the B-side.

The reissue also corrects a longstanding tracklist error: the hidden closing track, long informally known among fans as “Arto,” is now officially credited as “Der Voghormia,” a traditional Armenian hymn. The package additionally includes a custom double-sided poster, and the reissue is available now for preorder.