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April 10, 2026 On the final day of their mission to the moon, the Artemis II crew wake up to "Free" by the Zac Brown Band. Brown relays a message to the astronauts, saying he hopes the song "helps start your day with the right kind of lift."
March 27, 2026 Raye drops her second album, This Music May Contain Hope. The 17 tracks are divided into four "seasons" representing the emotional stages that inspired them. The lead single, "Where Is My Husband!," is a #1 hit in her native UK and helps her break through in America.
March 18, 2026 A jury rules for Afroman in a defamation lawsuit filed by seven police officers involved in a raid on his home in 2022. The raid turned up nothing illegal, and Afroman used footage from his security system to mock the officers in videos like "Lemon Pound Cake," which shows one of them eying the dessert while searching for contraband. The verdict is a win for free speech and parody protection.
February 20, 2026 Mumford & Sons release their sixth studio album, Prizefighter. Produced by The National guitarist Aaron Dessner, the album boasts several collaborations with artists like Hozier on "Rubber Band Man" and Gracie Abrams on "Badlands."
December 5, 2025 Olivia Rodrigo becomes one of the few modern pop stars to release a big live album when she issues Live From Glastonbury (A BBC Recording), which documents her headlining set at the famed English festival the previous summer. The Cure frontman Robert Smith joins the singer on two covers of his band's songs: "Friday I'm In Love" and "Just Like Heaven."
October 30, 2025 Win Butler and Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire announce their separation after 22 years of marriage but push forward as bandmates, joining the ranks of Fleetwood Mac, Abba and The White Stripes as bands with divorced couples as members.
July 22, 2025 Seventeen days after his farewell concert with his band Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76. After launching his successful solo career in the '80s, he became the centerpiece of the metal community with the Ozzfest tour, which ran 1996–2008 and a few years thereafter. Ozzy tried retirement a few times (first in 1992) but always got bored and returned to action.
June 9, 2025 Sly Stone dies from COPD at 82. With his group Sly & the Family Stone he brought lively funk grooves to the charts with songs like "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" and "I Want To Take You Higher." The band fell apart in the mid-'70s when he battled drug addiction, and Stone remained reclusive and erratic the rest of his life, sabotaging various comeback opportunities.
June 5, 2025 The Velvet Sundown release their debut album, Floating On Echoes. Their songs quickly populate algorithm-driven playlists and amass millions of streams, even though nobody has heard of the band or any of its members. They're later revealed to be an AI-generated act, the first to garner big streaming numbers.More
April 14, 2025 Katy Perry does some space tourism, joining five other women (including journalist Gayle King) on a 10-minute suborbital flight aboard a Blue Origin rocket. "Space is going to finally be glam," she says before liftoff. "We are going to put the 'ass' in astronaut."More
February 2, 2025 The Beatles win the Best Rock Performance Grammy for "Now And Then," the first Grammy-nominated song made with help from AI, which was used to create John Lennon's vocal. It's their fourth post-breakup Grammy, matching their total from when the band was active.
November 20, 2024 Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson attend the funeral for their One Direction bandmate Liam Payne, who died a month earlier after falling from a balcony. Payne's death dashed hopes of a reunion for the group, which split up in 2016.
October 25, 2024 Phil Lesh, the bass player in the Grateful Dead for their entire run (1965-1995), dies at 84. His bass was often a lead instrument in the band, creating a distinctive sound that meshed with Jerry Garcia's guitar work.
October 19, 2024 Ozzy Osbourne, already in with Black Sabbath, is inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as a solo artist along with Mary J. Blige, Cher, The Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang and A Tribe Called Quest.
September 13, 2024 At a Boston show, Jane's Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell, upset over sound levels, takes a swing at guitarist Dave Navarro and has to be forcibly removed from the stage. The show abruptly ends and the band cancel the rest of their tour. It ends up being their last show; they officially call it quits in December 2025.
August 15, 2024 Great White lead singer Jack Russell dies of lewy body dementia at 63. The group was big in the '80s, with the MTV hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy." In the 2010s, Russell broke from the band and led a different version called Jack Russell's Great White, which remained active until months before his death.
August 13, 2024 Rocker Greg Kihn dies at 75 after a battle with Alzheimer's disease. He had a hit with "Jeopardy" in 1983, and later became a novelist and also a longtime DJ on the San Francisco Bay Area radio station KFOX.
August 11, 2024 Phoenix close out the Paris Olympics with a closing ceremony set that includes crowd-pleasers "Lisztomania" and "1901." The band, which formed in Paris but sing mostly in English, quickly win over the athletes and spectators. By the end of the set, lead singer Thomas Mars is in the crowd, being held aloft by Olympians.
May 15, 2024 The new professional hockey team in Athens, Georgia, is christened the Rock Lobsters in honor of the B-52s, who formed in the city and released their classic song "Rock Lobster" in 1979. The name was chosen in a fan vote that nearly went to Classic City Panic in honor of another Athens band, WideSpread Panic.
April 18, 2024 Longtime Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts dies at 80 after years of health problems. Betts wrote many of their most popular songs, including "Blue Sky," written about his girlfriend, Sandy "Bluesky" Wabegijig.
April 13, 2024 At Coachella, two of the biggest ska bands of the '90s reunite: Sublime and No Doubt. Sublime is fronted by Jakob Nowell, whose father Brad was the group's lead singer until his death in 1996. For No Doubt, it's their first show since 2015.
December 2, 2023 At Madison Square Garden, Kiss play their last show - in physical form, at least. At the end of their set, they play a video introducing their avatars. "The band deserves to live on because the band is bigger than we are," Paul Stanley says.
September 29, 2023 'N Sync release their first new music since 2002 with the single "Better Place," used in the movie Trolls Band Together.
August 16, 2023 Britney Spears' third husband, Sam Asghari, files for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. They started dating in 2017 after he played her love interest in the "Slumber Party" video, and got married in June 2022. Their divorce is finalized on May 2, 2024.
August 9, 2023 Robbie Robertson of The Band dies at 80.
June 30, 2023 After being cajoled into it on Twitter, Juvenile plays a NPR Tiny Desk concert that's so raucous, he has to reprise "Back That Azz Up" as an encore. His backing band includes fellow New Orleans native Jon Batiste, who flew in for the occasion.
June 16, 2023 Re-creating a scene from the "All The Small Things" video, Kourtney Kardashian announces her pregnancy with blink-182 drummer Travis Barker by holding up a sign reading "Travis I'm Pregnant" at the band's concert in Los Angeles.
March 10, 2023 Miley Cyrus releases her eighth album, Endless Summer Vacation. Some of the songs, including the #1 hit "Flowers," seem to take aim at her ex-husband, the actor Liam Hemsworth.
March 5, 2023 Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington dies at 71. He was last founding member of the band still alive.
January 20, 2023 Marshall Tucker, a blind piano tuner from South Carolina whom The Marshall Tucker Band was named for, dies at 99.
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