The "Santeria" outfit's 1996 self-titled album has passed 10 million certified units by the RIAA, officially making it Diamond.
The album Sublime spawned the singles "Santeria," "What I Got," "Wrong Way" and "Doin' Time." It marked the band's final record with frontman Bradley Nowell, who died just months ahead of its release.
While the Sublime offshoot Sublime with Rome would go on to release several albums, the self-titled record remained the final Sublime statement. That is, until the band reformed in 2023 with Bradley Nowell's son, Jakob Nowell, on vocals and guitar.
With Jakob Nowell stepping into his father's role, Sublime released their first new album in 30 years, Until the Sun Explodes, in June.
Sublime will be performing in New York City's Central Park as part of ABC's Good Morning America Summer Concert series on Aug. 14.
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean accept the Song of the Year Award with Mastercard for “Rein Me In” on stage during The BRIT Awards 2026 at Co-op Live on February 28, 2026 in Manchester, England. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
With "Rein Me In," Sam Fender and Olivia Dean have reined in history.
The track, a collaborative recording of a cut off Fender's 2025 album, People Watching, has spent its 19th week at the top of the U.K.'s Official Single Chart, breaking the record for the longest-running #1 song across the pond.
The previous record of 18 weeks was set 73 years ago in 1953 by singer Frankie Laine's song "I Believe."
"Completely lost for words, thank you so much to Olivia Dean and the fans for making this song the juggernaut that it is," Fender tells Official Charts. "Can't believe we broke the UK record!"
The version of "Rein Me In" with Dean is included on the deluxe version of People Watching. It currently sits at #25 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart.
Simon O'Connor of Modest Mouse performs at Oxbow River Stage on September 15, 2023 in Napa, California. (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)
Modest Mouse guitarist Simon O'Connor won't be joining the band on their upcoming U.S. tour dates, the "Float On" outfit announced Friday.
The news comes after a fan alleged that O'Connor, who joined Modest Mouse in 2021, sent them inappropriate messages. In a Reddit post purportedly written by O'Connor, he said, "I would like to just state that I unequivocally oppose any sexual behavior towards minors, as a human and a parent it disgusts me."
O'Connor wrote that he'd messaged someone a "tasteless meme" by accident thinking they were someone else.
"I unsent the messages and immediately ceased communication," O'Connor wrote. "I'm genuinely sorry to the person who received those messages. They didn't deserve to be put in that position, and I'm sorry for the stress and attention this has brought them."
Modest Mouse's tour kicks off Aug. 4 in Ojai, California. It supports their new album, An Eraser and a Maze.
Wolf Alice poses with the Group of the Year award during The BRIT Awards 2026 at Co-op Live on February 28, 2026 in Manchester, England. (Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
Wolf Alice has premiered a cover of "Hammond Song," originally by the sister trio The Roches.
The cover features guest vocals by Julia Cumming and Bria Salmena, who join Ellie Rowsell in recreating the original song's harmonies.
"We love this song by The Roches, the guitar work and the vocal treatment, we actually referenced in Blue Weekend but it stuck around as something that inspired us for The Clearing too," Rowsell says. "Recording in LA, where both Bria and Julia were living, it just seemed like a really fun thing to do to learn those harmonies and sing them with 2 of our [favorite] singers."
The "Hammond Song" cover is included on Wolf Alice's upcoming release, The Clearing: B Sides, due out Aug. 21. It follows the band's 2025 album, The Clearing.
Wolf Alice is set to perform at Lollapalooza on Saturday.
Greta Van Fleet 'Palace for the People' (Republic Records)
Greta Van Fleet has announced a new album called Palace for the People.
The fourth full-length effort from the "Highway Tune" rockers is due out Oct. 9. It's the follow-up to 2023's Starcatcher.
"As much as it is a Greta Van Fleet record and a rock and roll record at its core, in its heart, it's a very modern record," says guitarist Jake Kiszka in a statement.
"We love each other just as much as ever, if not more, because we've got to spend quality time together off of the road," adds vocalist Josh Kiszka. "We've grown closer, and we have more to say and share than ever."
Palace for the People includes the previously released single "Play Your Games." A second cut, titled "Saw You Stand," is out now alongside a video, which you can watch streaming on YouTube.
Greta Van Fleet is celebrating the album announcement with a sold-out underplay show at Chicago's Metro Friday night.
Joe Newman of alt-J performs onstage on February 18, 2023 in Huntington Beach, California. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Netflix)
Back in 2016, Spider-Man officially joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America: Civil War, which introduced Tom Holland as Peter Parker. A decade later, Holland is now starring in his fourth solo film as the web-slinging hero, Spider-Man: Brand New Day. And for that, we have to credit Alt-J at least a little bit.
You may recall that Alt-J's song "Left Hand Free" was playing in the background when Holland first appears onscreen in Civil War. Speaking with ABC Audio, frontman Joe Newman remembers his reaction to that moment while watching the film at its London premiere.
"It wasn't until I was at the premiere where I was like, 'Ah s***, this is f****** cool,'" Newman says. "I mean, this is huge."
He continues, "I processed it, I was like, this is the first time they're introducing Tom Holland as the new Spider-Man, he looks about 12, and there's something really exciting about this."
For Newman, providing the soundtrack to a star-making movement for one of the world's most famous actors is perhaps the crowning achievement of the unexpected legacy of "Left Hand Free."
"'Left Hand Free' has been really good to us," Newman says. "It's the quickest song that we wrote, it took 25 minutes to write that song. It's the song that sounds like us the least, and it's been our most successful song."
He adds, "The top of that pile of achievements for that song is definitely the Captain America film, for sure."
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is out now in theaters.
Newman, meanwhile, has a new album out called The Canyon, which he released under his solo moniker, JJerome87.
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Sugar's Bob Mould performs at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on August 25, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
The reunited Sugar has announced a mini documentary celebrating the band's history and their return.
The 20-minute film, titled Changes: The Story of Sugar, is set to premiere Aug. 6 at noon ET via the band's YouTube channel. It follows the history of Sugar from their early practice sessions in the '90s to their comeback shows in May at New York City's Webster Hall, which marked their first live performances in over 30 years.
"I tend to be identified most with Hüsker Dü and my solo albums, but few know the half of how much fun I had with Sugar," says frontman Bob Mould.
Sugar's reunion tour will resume Aug. 11 in Denver. They've also put out three new songs since reuniting: "House of Dead Memories," "Long Live Love" and "Keep Looping."
Alice in Chains' 'Unplugged' album artwork. (Columbia Records)
Alice in Chains is reissuing the band's 1996 Unplugged live album on vinyl in honor of its 30th anniversary.
The LP is available to preorder now via Alice's webstore. It marks the first time the album has been available on vinyl in the U.S.
Alice in Chains recorded Unplugged as part of the MTV Unplugged series. The set includes stripped-down performances of songs including "Rooster," "Down in a Hole," "Would?" and "Angry Chair."
Alice went on hiatus for months following the Unplugged performance, and vocalist Layne Staley died in 2002. The band reformed in 2006 with new singer William DuVall.
Julian Casablancas of The Strokes performs at Nissan Stadium on August 12, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Former President Barack Obama has unveiled the 2026 edition of his annual summer playlist.
Among the included songs are The Strokes' "Going Shopping," Noah Kahan's "Doors," Coldplay's "Charlie Brown," Mumford & Sons' Hozier collaboration "Rubber Band Man" and Temper City's "Self Aware," which is currently the #1 single on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart.
The playlist begins with the track "Song of Good Hope" by Glen Hansard, who died Wednesday at age 56.
"Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer," Obama writes in a social media post. "It starts with a song [former first lady] Michelle [Obama] and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family."
Billy Corgan performs onstage during the 2026 Songwriters Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at The New York Marriott Marquis on June 11, 2026 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for for Songwriters Hall Of Fame)
Here's the story of a lovely Smashing Pumpkins show, which featured two surprise guests, including a member of The Brady Bunch.
Barry Williams, who played the eldest Brady son Greg Brady in the classic '70s sitcom, joined Billy Corgan and company onstage during their pre-Lollapalooza concert in Chicago on Wednesday. They rocked a rendition of the very Brady classic "It's a Sunshine Day" with Williams on lead vocals.
The collaboration comes after Williams guested on an episode of Corgan's podcast, The Magnificent Others. And that's the way they became the Smashing Bunch-kins.
As for the concert's other guest, that would be former Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, who reunited with the band to play "The Everlasting Gaze," a track off their 2000 album, Machina/The Machines of God.
Auf der Maur played in the Pumpkins from 1999 to 2000 following the departure of original bassist D'arcy Wretzky. She previously reunited with Corgan during his 2025 Machines of God tour.
The Smashing Pumpkins will perform a headlining set at Lollapalooza on Friday night, marking the first time they've played the festival since it moved permanently to the band's hometown of Chicago in 2005. You can watch their performance via the Lollapalooza livestream on Hulu and Disney+.
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Key Art for 'Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour Live,' featuring Billie Eilish streaming on Paramount+, 2026. (Paramount+)
Billie Eilish's HIT ME HARD AND SOFT concert film will soon be streaming hard and soft.
The movie is set to debut on Paramount+ on Aug. 6.
BILLIE EILISH – HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR was filmed during the "bad guy" artist's world tour in support of her latest album, 2024's HIT ME HARD AND SOFT. It was co-directed by Eilish alongside famed Titanic and Aliens director James Cameron.
The film premiered in theaters in May and was released to digital platforms in June.
In related news, Eilish paid tribute to late Irish singer-songwriter and Oscar-winning Once star Glen Hansard, who died Wednesday at age 56.
"Devasted... wouldn't be who I am today without glen," Eilish wrote in an Instagram Story.
'Everybody Scream' album artwork. (Polydor Records/Republic Records; Credit: Autumn de Wilde)
Florence + the Machine's 2025 album, Everybody Scream, is among the nominees for the 2026 Mercury Prize.
The prestigious award honors the best album of the year by a U.K. or Irish act.
Other nominees include Paul McCartney's The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Olivia Dean's The Art of Loving and the War Child benefit compilation HELP(2), which included contributions from Arctic Monkeys, The Last Dinner Party, Depeche Mode, beabadoobee, Fontaines D.C., Wet Leg, Foals, Damon Albarn and Portishead's Beth Gibbons.
The 2026 Mercury Prize winner will be announced during a ceremony held Oct. 22 in Newcastle, England. For more info, visit MercuryPrize.com.
Billy Corgan attends the Songwriters Hall of Fame 55th Annual Induction and Awards Gala at Marriott Marquis Hotel on June 11, 2026 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
It took a couple decades, but The Smashing Pumpkins are finally headlining Lollapalooza in their hometown of Chicago.
While the "1979" outfit previously performed at Lolla back in 1994 when it was a touring festival, they have never played it since it permanently moved to Chicago in 2005. Not only that, but the Pumpkins have never performed at the festival's site, Grant Park, either.
"We were banned by the mayor of Chicago at the time, Richie Daley, who basically banned us from playing the park, ever," frontman Billy Corgan tells ABC Audio.
That will finally change when the Pumpkins take the stage at Grant Park during Lolla 2026 as a Friday night headliner.
"For us, it's very meaningful," Corgan says of the set. "We've had a lot of ups and downs and it's gonna be really a beautiful night in our incredible, crazy, up-and-down history."
Lollapalooza 2026 takes place Thursday through Sunday. You can watch the Pumpkins' set and many others streaming live via Hulu and Disney+.
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The Offspring performs during Lollapalooza 2024 at Parque Cerrillos on March 16, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)
The Offspring is bringing their 'Just the Punk Stuff' show to the U.S.
As previously reported, the "Come Out and Play" rockers announced a pair of concerts in Quebec, Canada, for August focused on older material and deep cuts. They've now added a third 'Just the Punk Stuff' show taking place Sept. 18 in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
"We're going to play only the punk stuff, the old stuff, the songs dear to us—our roots, the place we came from," The Offspring said.
Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. For more info, visit Offspring.com.
Jared Leto arrives at the premiere of 'Tron: Ares' at TCL Chinese Theatre on Oct. 6, 2025, in Hollywood, California. (Maya Dehlin Spach/WireImage via Getty Images)
Jared Leto has responded to allegations of sexual misconduct from several women made in a new BBC report and documentary.
The BBC spoke to 10 women for its new documentary, Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret, with nine of the women speaking out publicly for the first time, according to a companion report published Wednesday.
Five women alleged that they received sexual phone calls from the actor, the BBC reported. Of those, four allege they were teenagers at the time, the report states.
ABC News has not independently verified the allegations in the BBC report.
Leto responded to the allegations in a statement to ABC News on Wednesday.
"I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life," he said. "These claims are absolutely and categorically false."
The allegations of sexual misconduct against Leto in the report include allegations he sexually assaulted a girl in a motel bathroom when she was 17 years old, a threat of sexual assault against a 19-year-old and an allegation that Leto groomed a girl by making sexually explicit phone calls to her when she was 16. Another woman included in the report accused Leto of statutory rape, saying she was 17 years old at the time of the alleged assault, which she alleged took place in California, where the age of consent is 18.
One woman included in the report described an alleged interaction with Leto in which she claimed he made an inappropriate sexual remark to her at a music festival when she was 14 years old. The woman claimed Leto made the comment in front of her mother, who confronted him about the comment, which she said he dismissed, according to the BBC report.
All of the women in the BBC report said their alleged encounters with Leto occurred between 2002 and 2016.
Leto has faced allegations of sexual impropriety previously. In 2025, Air Mail reported allegations from nine women who claimed Leto had acted in a sexually inappropriate manner with them or made sexually explicit remarks to them that made them feel uncomfortable. Leto "expressly denied" the accusations in a statement to the outlet through his representative.
ABC News also reached out to Leto for comment on the allegations detailed in Air Mail's report.
Leto has been acting since the early '90s and most recently appeared in the film Masters of the Universe. He earned an Academy Award in 2014 for his role in Dallas Buyers Club, in which he starred opposite that year's best actor Oscar winner, Matthew McConaughey.
Beyond acting, Leto has found success with his rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, which he formed with his brother, Shannon Leto, in 1998.
Bono and Bruce Springsteen are among the artists paying tribute to Oscar-winning Irish singer Glen Hansard, who died Wednesday in a motorcycle accident in Dublin. He was 56.
Bono would often take part in Hansard’s Christmas Eve Busk in Dublin, which raised money for the homeless community. He shared his thoughts on Instagram Wednesday, alongside a video of him performing “Invisible” with Hansard.
“Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed,” Bono wrote. “Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence… A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces.”
Bono ended his lengthy post with, "[A]nd I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case. May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.”
“Here on E Street, we are heartbroken over the death of Glen Hansard,” Springsteen wrote in his tribute on Instagram. “We met in Ireland many years ago and he was always nothing but a great musician, a good friend and a generous and gracious man. Always positive, smiling and ready to sing. God bless him and his loved ones.”
The day before his death, Hansard’s social media posted a video of him performing “Drive All Night” with Springsteen in Ireland.
“This week in 2013 Glen had the honor of joining Bruce @springsteen & the E Street Band on stage in Kilkenny for 'Drive All Night', which Glen released his own version of later that year,” the post read. “Were you there?”
Hansard’s version, which featured backing vocals by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and saxophone from The E Street Band’s Jake Clemons, appeared on Hansard's 2013 EP, also titled Drive All Night.
Jimmy Eat World attends YouTube + Coachella 2025 at Empire Polo Club on April 19, 2025 in Indio, California. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for YouTube Music)
Jimmy Eat World has announced a joint show with The Format taking place Nov. 7 at the famed Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
The concert will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jimmy Eat World's 2001 album, Bleed American, and the 20th anniversary of The Format's 2006 album, Dog Problems, and will feature performances of both records in their entirety.
Presales begin Thursday at 8 a.m. PT, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. PT.
Bleed American marked Jimmy Eat World's fourth album and spawned the band's signature hit, "The Middle." It also includes the songs "Sweetness," "A Praise Chorus" and the title track.
Dog Problems was the second Format album and their last before the duo, made up of Nate Ruess and Sam Means, went on hiatus. Reuss then went on to create the band fun. The Format reunited in 2025 and released their comeback album, Boycott Heaven, in January 2026.
Myles Smith appears on ABC's 'American Idol' (Disney/Christopher Willard)
Some artists cancel shows hours before they're set to take the stage, but Myles Smith has canceled one of his performances a week in advance.
In a lengthy Instagram Story message, Myles explains why he's scrapped his Aug. 4 show in Vancouver. "There has been a major family health issue at home, and important appointments are taking place on that date," he writes. "I simply can't not be there. Family has to come first, and this wasn't a decision I made lightly."
He goes on to reassure fans that "as thing stand," the rest of the shows on his tour will go ahead as planned.
"I would never cancel a show unless I absolutely had to," he continues, noting that in the past four years and 400 shows, only four have ever been called off for "reasons completely outside of my control." He also says he's "truly sorry" and he understands the "frustration and disappointment" he's seen online from fans.
"If you'd booked time off, travelled or spent money to be there, I'd feel exactly the same," he writes. "I'm not asking anybody to feel sorry for me! I just wanted to give you as much information as I could, because that's what you deserve. Whilst trying to maintain the privacy of circumstances back home."
"Thank you for continuing to support me," he concludes. "It means more than you'll ever know."
Myles has been balancing headline dates supporting his debut album, My Mess, My Heart, My Life,with opening slots on Ed Sheeran's LOOP Tour.
Glen Hansard performs with The Frames at the Sydney Opera House on March 25, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
Irish singer Glen Hansard, Oscar winner for the song “Falling Slowly” from the movie Once, has died, the singer’s management confirms to ABC Audio. He was 56.
"With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard in the early hours of this morning,” reads a statement from ATC Management. “We are still dealing with the shock of it all, so we kindly ask that the privacy of Glen’s family, colleagues and friends is respected at this difficult time.”
According to The Irish Times, Hansard was killed in a motorcycle crash in Dublin.
Hansard, who quit school in his teens to busk on the streets of Dublin, was the founder of the Irish rock band The Frames, who released their debut album, Another Love Song, in 1991. That same year, Hansard had a role in the Alan Parker-directed film, The Commitments, playing guitaristOutspan Foster.
The Frames would go on to release seven studio albums, including 2004’s Burn the Maps, which would hit #1 in Ireland, and 2006’s The Cost, which hit #2.
In 2007, Hansard starred opposite singer Czech singer Markéta Irglová in the John Carney-directed film Once, about two struggling musicians in Dublin. The pair wrote many of the songs on the soundtrack, including the ballad “Falling Slowly,” which would go on to win an Academy Award for best original song.
Hansard and Irglová, who briefly dated, formed the band The Swell Season, releasing their self-titled debut album in 2006. Their follow-up, Strict Joy, peaked at#15 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. They released their last album, Forward, in July 2025.
In 2011, Once was turned into a musical, featuring the music of Hansard and Irglová. It opened on Broadway in 2012, and won eight Tony Awards, including best musical. It also earned Hansard a Grammy for best musical theater album.
Hansard launched a solo career in 2012, with the release of Rhythm and Repose, which hit #21 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. He released his most recent solo album, All That Was East Is West of Me Now, in October 2023. A natural storyteller, Hansard was known for his magnetic live performances, and released the live album, Don’t Settle (Vol. 2 Transmissions West), in June.
Hansard was also the organizer behind what became known as the Christmas Eve Busk, impromptu Christmas Eve performances on Grafton Street in Dublin to raise money for the homeless community. Started in 2010, over the years he would be joined by several of his fellow Irish musicians, including U2 frontman Bono.
In 2021, when Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder released his third solo album, Earthlings, Hansard became a member of Vedder’s backing band, dubbed The Earthlings. The pair became good friends when Vedder reached out to Hansard after a concertgoer committed suicide at a Swell Season show in Saratoga, California, in August 2020. Hansard would go on to open for Vedder several times on his solo tours, and opened for Pearl Jam on tour, as well.
In October 2022, Hansard became a first-time father, when he and his partner, poet Maire Saaritsa, welcomed a son.
My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James has premiered a new song called "Wowed Out," the title track off his upcoming solo album.
"Lately I've been really into music like Alice Coltrane's spiritual recordings, where it's just her and organ praying together, and there's no major event," James says in a statement. "I wanted these songs to feel like a journey that takes you somewhere rewarding, without always trying for some big dramatic payoff like a massive chorus or a huge guitar solo."
You can watch the video for "Wowed Out" on YouTube.
The album Wowed Out, James' first solo effort in eight years, drops Aug. 28. It also includes the single "Come Again."
My Morning Jacket's most recent album is 2025's is.
