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Hampshire’s Boomtown Festival has unveiled its lineup for 2026’s event, featuring names from all across the musical spectrum.
Next year’s edition will take place at the Matterley Estate in the south of England on Aug. 12-16. Since its inception in 2009, the festival has annually built itself around an overarching “Chapter” that plays out via themed on-site installations, with next year’s theme being “Chapter 5: Radical Redesign.”
Kneecap, Scissor Sisters, Skrillex, Four Tet, Ashnikko, Faithless, Scooter and Shaggy lead the way among the first names announced for 2026, alongside ska icons Madness and rapper Eve.
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Joining them on the lineup will be Antony Szmierek, Bad Manners, Big Special, Brutalismus 3000, Groove Armada, High Vis, Princess Nokia, Sampa the Great, Shy FX, Skindred, Vengaboys, Wilkinson and more.
Public transport tickets go on sale via Boomtown’s official website on Oct. 30, with general entry tickets going live the following day. More announcements are set to be made about the lineup and across the festival’s theater and immersive art offerings.
Previous performers at the event have included Maribou State, Overmono, The Prodigy, Peaches, Gorillaz and Ezra Collective.
In a press release, Boomtown cofounder Luke Mitchell spoke about the festival’s pivot toward a genre-spanning bill, whereas in the past, it focused on largely booking drum n’ bass acts. “While bass music has dominated in recent years and will always be at our core, we’re making a conscious move to keep Boomtown musically diverse and unpredictable,” he said. “Expect more live bands and more cross-genre adventures. That’s where Boomtown began, and it’s what keeps us on the truest path forward”
Kneecap released its debut album, Fine Art, in 2024 via Heavenly Recordings, and has since gone on to play major festivals including Glastonbury and Coachella. On Sept. 18, the Irish rap trio headlined London’s Wembley Arena, where it was joined by Massive Attack.
Scissor Sisters, meanwhile, are in the midst of a comeback campaign that has seen the group hit up arenas in the U.K. and Ireland, as well as take a co-headline tour with Kesha across North America this past summer.
See the 2025 Boomtown lineup below:
Billboard’s Live Music Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. For tickets and more information, visit the event’s website.
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Right before undergoing surgery, Tina Knowles got a live serenade from her two favorite singers: Beyoncé and Solange.
While speaking to People on Monday (Oct. 27) at the 27th Annual Angel Ball in New York City, the designer recalled the sweet way her two daughters cheered her up just before she had her procedure late last year to remove a tumor in her left breast. “Right before I was wheeled in to get the surgery, my girls sang a gospel song,” Knowles shared.
The mogul went on to reveal that the tune her two girls sang was called “Walk With Me,” which “I absolutely love,” Knowles said.
Bey and Solange also had their mom going into surgery in good spirits by showing her the highly quotable viral video of TikToker Jools Lebron reminding followers to always be “very demure, very mindful.”
“There was this woman who was saying, ‘You have to be demure,’ and they just kept saying this and showing me that video,” Knowles told the publication. “I went in there laughing and feeling so blessed — like everything was going to be OK. And it was. It so warms my heart.”
The Cécred cofounder has been open about her journey fighting cancer, both in interviews and in her April memoir, Matriarch. She’s also previously shared how present her daughters were throughout the process, writing in her book, “My girls became my team.”
“[Beyoncé] took it well, staying positive … I could already feel her mind racing, focusing on this as a task to tackle with precision,” Knowles also recalled in Matriarch of telling her daughters about her breast cancer diagnosis.
In an interview with People around the time the book came out, Knowles emphasized the importance of never skipping mammogram appointments. “You cannot play around with that,” she said. “I think as women, sometimes we get so busy, and we get so wrapped up and running around, but you must go get your test. Because if I had not gotten my test early, I mean, I shudder to think what could have happened to me.”
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On this week’s episode of The Hot 100 Show, Billboard‘s chart experts break down the surge of “Mutt” and Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” into the top 10, as well as Justin Bieber’s “Daisies” and Morgan Wallen making their way back in after a Taylor Swift-filled chart. They also share their thoughts on why they think the popularity of “Golden” and “The Fate of Ophelia” continue to hold steady.
Tetris Kelly: We have a couple of new top 10s as we find out if “Golden” can defeat Taylor Swift. Welcome back to another week of our little countdown show, where we’re figuring out if Taylor Swift, “Golden” or who’s gonna be at No. 1. But guess what? We do got some new entries this week you’re gonna want to check out, and we might have predicted them in our contenders, so let’s run it down. This is The Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated Nov. 1. Leon Thomas hits the top 10 with “Mutt.”
Leon Thomas: I think “Mutt” definitely resonated with the culture so much because it has a lot of essence of P Funk, Bootsy Collins. I feel like post pandemic, everybody got into their little toxic energy. So it’s like perfectly toxic.
Tetris Kelly: Morgan is back with “I Got Better.” Olivia Dean arrives with “Man I Need.” I feel like this is a really interesting top 10 because some of our contenders have finally made their way in. Let’s start with Leon Thomas and “Mutt.” How you guys feeling about his top 10 debut?
Delisa Shannon: Oh, wow. I’m so excited as a Nickelodeon kid — this is a really big moment for me to be able to see Leon Thomas and to see the way that he’s been, I mean, building his craft ever since he picked up that guitar on Naked Brothers Band back in the day. To see how he’s been able to craft a sound, to see it be celebrated in this way. I’m super, super proud and so excited that we’re getting to see it crack the top 10.
Xander Zellner: Also, it’s like exciting, because he has been around for years, not just like on Victorious and on Nickelodeon, but like he was producing and writing songs for Drake and Ariana Grande and SZA’s “Snooze,” like he’s been writing songs for a while, but it’s exciting to see him actually have a song of his own in the top 10 for the first time. So big moment for him.
Trevor Anderson: And the song has been around for a long time, too. I mean, that song came out in August 2024.
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Trending on Billboard K-pop group Monsta X will beam into movie theaters around the globe on Dec. 3 with the concert movie Monsta X: Connect X in Cinemas. The live concert film shot over three nights in July of this year during the group’s run of gigs at the KSPO Dome in Seoul, South Korea […]
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Fergie made her return to the stage in what Ludacris called her first performance in seven years when she appeared a special guest during his star-studded set at One Musicfest in Atlanta on Sunday night (Oct. 26).
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“We got Fergie out the muthaf—king house! Can y’all please make some noise?” Luda asked the raucous crowd. “She ain’t perform in over seven years and she came to Atlanta, Ga.!”
Fergie popped out through a riser in a denim bottom and furry jacket as she performed her “Glamorous” smash with Luda, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 back in 2007.
“They ain’t ready for this,” she teased, before leading into her “London Bridge (Oh Shit)” anthem, which saw the Hot 100 No. 1 hit’s producer, Polow Da Don, join her on stage to assist with ad-libs.
Fergie then gave Luda his flowers. “Thank you so much for being here for me every single time,” she said. “Everyone give it up for Luda!”
As VIBE points out, while it’s been nearly a decade since Fergie hit a festival stage, she did perform at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards with Jack Harlow.
Ludacris brought the stars to Atlanta for his memorable set, which he deemed to be his “favorite show ever.” The performance saw appearances from Jermaine Dupri, Jadakiss, Jeezy, Usher, Chingy, Shawna and LL Cool J.
“That was my favorite show ever,” Luda told VIBE. “It’s so dope to see hip-hop coming together from all walks, different generations, and [fans] just appreciating the art of what we’ve done — changing our lives. I’ve done a lot of shows over the last 25 years of my life, but I’m going to go ahead and put this one at the top, man.”
Billboard’s Live Music Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. For tickets and more information, visit the event’s website.
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California residents are still recovering after deadly wildfires swept through the Los Angeles area in January, so Dawes is working on a way to help out.
As announced Monday (Oct. 27), the band is teaming up with a number of famous friends for A Concert for Altadena, which will take place at the Pasadena Civic Center on the one-year mark of the disaster. Brandon Flowers of The Killers and Brad Paisley are also on the bill, as are Eric Krasno, Aloe Blacc, Jackson Browne, Judith Hill, Jenny Lewis, Mandy Moore, Stephen Stills, Everclear and Ozomatu.
Proceeds from the show will benefit the Altadena Builds Back Foundation, which works to recover and rebuild homes destroyed in the fires.
“January 7th marks a year to the day that our sweet town got ravaged by the Eaton Fire,” Dawes wrote on Instagram when sharing the news. “It’s gonna be a heavy night, but it’s going to be a beautiful one too.”
Bandmates/brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith have previously been open about how the wildfires impacted them personally. A few days after the blazes broke out — and weeks before the L.A. fire department would fully be able to contain them — the latter shared on Instagram that his family had “lost everything,” including their entire house, in the catastrophe.
Taylor was also hit hard, with the fires burning down his home studio and much of Dawes’ recording equipment. At the February Grammys, the band honored the city by opening the ceremony with a performance of “I Love L.A.,” joined by Paisley, John Legend, Sheryl Crowe, Brittany Howard and St. Vincent.
See the Concert for Altadena announcement below.
Billboard’s Live Music Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. For tickets and more information, visit the event’s website.
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Bad Omens are hitting the road early next year for a North American headlining tour with support from Beartooth and President. The hard-rocking Virginia band announced the dates for the arena swing on Tuesday morning (Oct. 28), with the outing slated to kick off on Feb. 22 at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Tickets for the tour from the “Specter” band will kick off with an artist pre-sale beginning today at 12 p.m. local time, with additional pre-sales running throughout the week ahead of a general on-sale beginning on Friday (Oct. 31) at 10 a.m. local time.
Earlier this month, the Noah Sebastian-fronted band made their quickest trip to No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, with “Specter” hitting the top on the Oct. 18-dated chart after rising two spots, landing the group their second leader on the tally. “Specter” reached the pinnacle in its eighth week, easily leap-frogging the 27 weeks it took their previous No. 1, “Just Pretend,” to hit the top in 2023.
Bad Omens’ most recent proper studio album was 2022’s The Death of Peace of Mind, which was followed by 2024’s guest-heavy companion to the Bad Omens — Concrete Jungle, Volume 1 graphic novel, Concrete Jungle.
The 20-date 2026 arena tour will hit Denver, Kansas City, Detroit, Minneapolis, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, Nashville, Dallas, Oklahoma City and Los Angeles before winding down on March 27 at Oakland Arena in Oakland, Calif. The band will then gear up for the North American tour by kicking off their Do You Feel Love European swing on Nov. 21 in Dublin, Ireland.
Check out the dates for Bad Omens’ 2026 North American arena tour below.
Feb. 22: Salt Lake City, Utah @ Delta Center
Feb. 24: Denver, Colo. @ Ball Arena
Feb. 26: Kansas City, Mo. @ T-Mobile Center
Feb. 28: Detroit, Mich. @ Little Caesars Arena
March 2: Minneapolis, Minn. @ Target Center
March 4: Rosemont, Ill. @ Allstate Arena
March 6: Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
March 8: Laval, QC @ Place Bell
March 10: Newark, N.J. @ Prudential Center
March 11: Boston, Mass. @ TD Garden
March 13: Philadelphia, Pa. @ Xfinity Mobile Arena
March 14: Baltimore, Md. @ CFG Bank Arena
March 16: Raleigh, N.C. @ Lenovo Center
March 17: Nashville, Tenn. @ Bridgestone Arena
March 19: Dallas, Texas @ American Airlines Center
March 20: San Antonio, Texas @ Frost Bank Center
March 22: Oklahoma City, Okla. @ Paycom Center
March 24: Glendale, Ariz. @ Desert Diamond Arena
March 26: Inglewood, Calif. @ Kia Forum
March 27: Oakland, Calif. @ Oakland Arena
Billboard’s Live Music Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. For tickets and more information, click here.
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“As you might know, this is the first night of the tour,” Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker told a buzzing, sold-out crowd at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Monday night. “That means it’s a pretty epic night, and there was nowhere more epic to kick this whole shit off than New York City, obviously.
“That [also] means anything can happen,” the Aussie psych-rocker-turned-arena-star continued. “And by that, I mean for the better, but also anything can fall apart at any moment – just so you know.”
Improbably, Tame Impala has become one of modern rock’s biggest live draws. But its catalog is littered with insecurity and loneliness – from 2010 breakout single “Solitude Is Bliss” to beloved 2012 album Lonerism to “Loser,” now a Hot 100 hit from the just-released new album Deadbeat – and even after headlining festivals, producing a Dua Lipa album, and winning a Grammy, Tame mastermind Kevin Parker still clearly has some imposter syndrome.
Five albums in, Tame Impala now has a large enough catalog that tough setlist choices must be made; always known for lasers and confetti, its stage production is more complex than ever, with far more audio and visual components to possibly malfunction. And prior to Barclays on Monday, Tame Impala hadn’t played a proper headlining show in two-and-a-half years.
But Parker – outside of a mildly worn voice he attributed during the encore to an unspecified ailment – had little to worry about. Critics haven’t embraced Deadbeat in the same way as the band’s past projects, but fans greeted freshly minted hits “Dracula” and “Loser” nearly as rapturously as Tame standards like “Let It Happen” and “The Less I Know The Better.” The excitement extended to other Deadbeat material (the setlist featured 10 of its 12 tracks), which the audience responded to even more than cuts from Tame’s first two acclaimed albums, Innerspeaker and Lonerism. The band’s stage production, meanwhile, was more elaborate than ever, while still channeling the colorful, psychedelic aesthetic that’s always been its calling card.
“The only one who’s really judging you is yourself – nobody else,” Parker sings on Innerspeaker deep cut “Alter Ego,” an unexpected inclusion on Monday’s setlist. As the dance-oriented Deadbeat‘s mixed reception has proven, that’s no longer quite true, at least for Parker. But the Barclays crowd on Monday was clearly in his thrall – as those at the next three shows Tame Impala has planned at the venue this week will also surely be.
Here are some of the best moments from Tame Impala’s first Deadbeat show – and when you’re done with that, here’s the complete setlist.
Billboard‘s Live Music Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. For tickets and more information, click here.
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Trending on Billboard Grammy-winning artist Kali Uchis, five-time Grammy nominee Kehlani, and KPop Demon Hunters’ songwriter, lead vocalist and rising star EJAE will be honored at the 17th annual ASCAP Women Behind the Music. The event is set for Wednesday, Nov. 12, in Los Angeles. Kehlani, a five-time Grammy nominee, received the Rule Breaker Award […]
Trending on Billboard Sometimes singers on The Voice move the celebrity judges with the power or emotion in their voice. But on Monday night (Oct. 27), Team Reba’s Aubrey Nicole got right to the heart of the matter for her crew’s leader by singing a tune whose lyrics hit home in the most personal way. […]
