No, it’s not a drill: Boards of Canada is all set to release an album of new material.

The electronic music act will crush a decade-plus drought next month with the release of Inferno, an 18-track double album that will spread across 70 minutes.

Inferno‘s tracklist, which can be seen below, doesn’t feature the meditative track “Tape 05,” which BoC and Warp Records dished up last week, an easter egg in an unexpected cryptic social media drip feed.  

For BoC’s long-suffering fans, Inferno is a bolt from the blue. The duo’s last album, 2013’s Tomorrow’s Harvest, proved to be their biggest commercial success, based on international chart placings.

Then, deafening quiet. Thirteen years of it.

Only the most hopelessly optimistic BoC fans would’ve anticipated a new era. And yet here we are, with confirmation coming by way of separate social posts, one combining dramatic, but minimal, BoC music, with hexagonal imagery and video cut from a simpler time. It’s sunburnt nostalgia, bottled.

Boards of Canada is comprised of Scottish brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin, a universe-building pair that is both enigmatic, secretive and adored by connoisseurs of minimal electronic music.

The siblings rarely give interviews, they’ve performed only a small handful of live shows, mostly in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and their official music videos can be counted on one hand.

BoC’s impact shouldn’t be measured in hits, or streams. Though their fourth and most recent album release, Tomorrow’s Harvest, did set career chart highs for the act. That collection peaked at No. 7 in the United Kingdom, for their first top 10 entry, and at No. 13 on the Billboard 200, their first appearance on the all-genres U.S. albums chart.

A comeback of sorts emerged in 2019 with “XYZ,” a previously-unreleased tune from their Peel Session of July 1998, which appeared on a new Warp Records 30th anniversary package, WXAXRXP Sessions.

Inferno is due out May 29 on special-edition limited red translucent 2LP vinyl in triple gatefold sleeve with 16-page booklet, standard black 2xLP vinyl, as well as CD and digital formats. Check out the Inferno tracklist, and latest BoC social posts below. Pre-order and pre-save at boardsofcanada.com.

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From the baseball field to Sabrinawood, Geena Davis and Madonna have reunited.

Thirty-four years after starring in A League of Their Own together, Davis and Madonna once again ended up on the same stage, this time at Coachella. The Queen of Pop and the Academy Award-winning actress were reunited when Sabrina Carpenter tapped them to make surprise appearances during her Coachella weekend 2 headlining set on Friday. Davis expressed her excitement over seeing her former co-star by sharing a new photo of the duo to Instagram on Wednesday (April 22). Of course, she referenced their film’s characters in the caption.

“Mae – so happy to see you again! Love, Dottie,” Davis wrote.

One fan won the comments section by writing of the photo: “I know there’s no crying in baseball but I’m literally crying.”

Both Davis and Madonna played pretty significant roles in the second Sabrinawood — Carpenter’s performance inspired by a reimagined Hollywood. Davis, with dyed blonde hair and in the driver’s seat of a vintage car, portrayed an older version of the “Espresso” singer. While at a fictional drive-in movie theater, “Older Sabrina” delivered a monologue reflecting on how her niece never got to see her as the youthful musician she once was. (In a fitting reference, Carpenter’s weekend 1 older self was portrayed by Davis’ Thelma & Louise co-star Susan Sarandon.)

Madonna’s role in Sabrinawood was very different from Davis’: The fellow blond diva took to the stage to perform the Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers “Like a Prayer” and “Vogue” and a yet-unreleased duet with Carpenter. The same day she hit the stage with the “Please Please Please” singer, Madonna released her new song “I Feel So Free,” the first taste of her upcoming album Confessions II.

James Valentine, the versatile Australian artist, author and broadcaster who was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame as a member of Models, and whose pivot to broadcasting earned him millions of fans and international awards, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 64.

“James passed peacefully at home surrounded by his family, who adored him,” Valentine’s family remarks in a statement, issued Thursday, April 23.

A talented saxophonist with an ear for jazz, Valentine was a prominent recording and touring artist through the 1980s with a string of Australian bands, including Models, Absent Friends, and the Wendy Matthews Band, Jo Camilleri, Stephen Cummings, Kate Ceberano, and others.

Valentine performed on the band’s fourth, and most commercially successful album, Out of Mind, Out of Sight, which peaked at No. 84 on the Billboard 200 in 1986, and logged 18 weeks on the chart. The collection yielded three domestic top 40 hits “Big on Love,” Barbados” and the title track, which reached No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986, and chalked up 13 weeks on the list.

When Models were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Sydney back in 2010, Valentine took his place on stage with his former bandmates. Just days later, co-frontman and bass player James Freud died by suicide, aged 51.

“We were probably a big deal in our heads,” Models drummer Barton Price tells the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “but James never took it that seriously.” Bandmate Roger Mason adds, “he was a very down-to-earth person. In fact, I’d have to say, annoyingly, he was the most mature one in the band.”

Valentine, it turned out, was a talent in the studio and was magic on the mic. He hosted radio and television programs across the ABC for 30 years, including 20-plus years presenting the 702 ABC Sydney Afternoons radio show.

His inquisitiveness and passion for exploring the matters that make us tick made his show a popular one well outside of Sydney; in 2020, he collected a Bronze Award for Best Two-Way Telephone Talk/Interview Show at the New York Festival’s Radio Awards.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led tributes to Valentine. “He was someone who was always worth listening to,” Albanese told 702 ABC Sydney. “He was so interesting and he was so full of life. All of our thoughts are with his family and his friends and, indeed, the ABC family today.”

ABC chair Kim Williams depicted Valentine as a “creative polymath,” while New South Wales premier Chris Minns recounted the late artist and presenter’s “quirky, unique way of talking with people in Sydney,” noting “he was both an interested and interesting person, which is unique. He will be hugely missed.”

Australia’s Governor-General Sam Mostyn has revealed that Valentine was last weekend made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), a prestigious award in the national honors system, recognizing exceptional service or achievement.

“His ideas were, as they were on radio, just lovely, gentle, sensible, really important things about how community comes together and how we all have a role to play,” Mostyn explains.

INXS bass player Garry Gary Beers recorded and played in Absent Friends with Valentine. “James was a truly great sax player and a very very decent guy,” he writes in a social post. “I will always remember him as the guy who was always smiling, always happy to be in the moment and a guy you could depend on.”

In March 2024, Valentine told listeners that he’d been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, and took a leave of absence to pursue treatment. He returned to the Afternoons slot in 2025, but left once more in June when scans revealed a tumor had been detected in his omentum.

Valentine is survived by his wife Joanne and their two children.

Several of D4vd‘s notable collaborations have been removed from streaming services.

His songs with Holly Humberstone (“Superbloodmoon”), Laufey (“This Is How It Feels”), Kali Uchis (“Crashing”) and Damiano David have all been scrubbed, with Damiano replacing his D4vd-assisted “Tangerine” with a solo version. While news of D4vd’s arrest on first degree murder charges broke last week, it’s unclear when each song was pulled from streamers.

Back in September of last year, Uchis told fans on Instagram that she and her team were working to get their song “Crashing” removed after news broke that the body of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas was found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to D4vd. “Not my friend i did a song with him which is currently in the process of being taken down given today’s disturbing news,” she told the fan that attempted to call her out about her connection to the singer. Also in September, figure-skating champion Alysa Liu announced that she was removing the Laufey/D4vd collab “This Is How It Feels” from her short form routine following the news of Rivas’ body being discovered.

D4vd’s song “What Are You Waiting For” was also reportedly deleted from the Madden 26 soundtrack, and he was dropped by his label Darkroom/Interscope last year as well.

The only collaboration that appears to still be available on streaming services at press time is a song with The Kid Laroi called “The Line” from Laroi’s 2023 album The First Time.

D4vd (real name: David Anthony Burke) was taken into custody last week and charged with the first degree murder of Rivas, with authorities alleging that the teen threatened to expose their inappropriate sexual relationship just as his music career was starting to take off.

“When she threatened to expose his criminal conduct and devastate his musical career, Burke allegedly murdered her, cut up her body and stuffed her body in two bags that were placed in the front trunk of his car,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a press release. “This horrific and gruesome murder committed by the charged sexual predator is shocking and appalling. To Celeste’s loved ones, we will get the justice you seek and deserve.”

The Rivas family shared a statement of their own saying that they want justice.

Billboard has reached out to D4vd’s team for comment.

KCON LA 2026 just got even more epic.

Last month, entertainment company CJ ENM announced that KCON will return to Los Angeles this summer, Aug. 14-16, as well as its lineup. To continue building excitement, the annual convention celebrating Korean music, beauty, food and culture announced Wednesday (April 22) a new set of artists joining the slate. Five new performers will hit the stage across the three-day convention.

Girl group H//PE Princess and debut members from PRODUCE 101 JAPAN SHINSEKAI will perform on Friday, joining the previously announced NCT 127, KickFlip, &Team and more. The next day, seven-piece boy band MODYSSEY will join acts like ZEROBASEONE, ILLIT and izna. Finally, EVAN — the K-pop solo artist formerly known as Heeseung and previously of ENHYPEN — and Korean and Japanese boy band NEXZ will take to the stage on Sunday alongside TOMORROW x TOGETHER and Allday Project.

KCON LA 2026 wil be EVAN’s first North American solo performance and H//PE Princess, MODYSSEY, NEXZ and PRODUCE 101 JAPAN SHINSEKAI’s first time at the convention. They all join a lineage of incredible KCON LA performers, including SEVENTEEN, RIIZE and aespa.

Since its 2012 debut, KCON has grown into the world’s largest K-pop fan and artist convention. KCON LA 2025 saw more than 100,000 fans for its three days of festivities. KCON LA 2026 will be held in Downtown Los Angeles’ Crypto.com arena and will feature showcases and interactive booths highlighting Korean culture.

Fans can buy tickets for KCON LA here.

UPDATE: On Wednesday (April 22), Taylor Momsen shared on update on Instagram, confirming that the spider that bit her on tour last week was a brown recluse. “NYC … So happy to be home for a minute…need a good book while my leg continues to heal…a week or two and I should be fine,” Momsen said in the caption of a photo taken outside New York’s Strand Bookstore. “Thanks to everyone for your concerns. Brown Recluse bites are no joke.”

PREVIOUSLY (April 15): Taylor Momsen knows the show must go on, even when dangerous spider venom is wreaking havoc on your body. The Pretty Reckless singer and Gossip Girl alum gave fans a health update on Tuesday (April 14) in the wake of the nasty arachnid bite she recently suffered while on tour opening for AC/DC in South America.

“Hospital today, show tomorrow,” Momsen, 32, wrote in an Instagram post in which she included a selfie showing off her mottled right leg and a close-up of the aftermath of the nip from an unspecified creature, which left her with angry red splotches up and down her shin and a nasty-looking bite mark just above her ankle.

“But the show must go on, see you tomorrow Mexico City!” she added along with three Mexican flag emoji and a pair of lightning bolts. The singer followed up on Wednesday morning (April 15) with a pair of hospital snaps in which she looked worse for the wear, after having to stay overnight for treatment. “Or I spend the night in the hospital,” she wrote alongside a picture of her wearing a black surgical mask and a white hospital gown while laying on a gurney and holding a bag of ice to her forehead. “Thank you to the amazing doctors who, well, they know [three heart emoji].” She signed off with three spider and three thumbs down emoji.

In an accompanying video, Momsen filmed herself being rolled through the unnamed hospital’s corridors with surgical booties on her feet and her rashy leg outlined in blue surgical marker.

The seeming turn for the worse came after Momsen said she was doing “f–king fine” in a backstage video before her band’s opening slot for AC/DC at Estadio GNP Seguros stadium in Mexico City on Saturday (April 11), laughing at the nod to lyrics from the recent Pretty Reckless single “When I Wake Up”.

“When I wake up … with a spider in the bed,” she said with a smile in a video to a post titled “AC/DC TONIGHT! I’M DOING FINE!” She followed up with a clip of the band on stage at the weekend show, writing, “MEXICO CITY NIGHT 2 Can’t wait for Wednesday!“

The bite that landed Momsen in the hospital took place more than a week ago, with the singer keeping up her graveyard humor at the time, writing, “When do my superpowers kick in? That’s what I want to know,” alongside an image of a doctor cleaning the wound while another member of the medical team gave her a shot in her left arm. To date, Momsen has not shared what kind of spider bit her.

In the caption to that post, Momsen noted that this isn’t her first time getting bitten whole on tour with AC/DC. “🕷️🕷️🕷️ So it wouldn’t be an AC/DC tour if I didn’t get bit,” she wrote. “This time a massive spider decided to take a chunk out of me and its venom did a number on my system so had to have the wonderful doctors in Mexico come and deliver quite the shot before the show last night…add it to the list!”

Momsen and Pretty Reckless last toured with the Australian hard rock legends in 2024, when she was bitten by a bat while on the road in Spain during a performance of “Witches Burn” from her band’s 2021 Death By Rock and Roll album. In a clip from the time, a bat landed on the singer’s thigh and she didn’t notice it at first. But after spotting some fans pointing at her she looked down and said, “There’s a f–king flying bat on my leg right now … I must really be a witch!”

A crew member removed the bat, but not before it had already bitten Momsen, which sent her to a hospital for treatment and two weeks of follow-up rabies shots.

While she had a good attitude about both bites — writing “Spider woman? Batgirl? 🕷️🕷️🕷️🦇🦇🦇 WTF 😬” last week — a spokesperson for the band had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment at press time on whether Momsen’s hospitalization would impact the band’s planned opening slot for AC/DC at Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City on Wednesday night.

After tonight’s gig, Pretty Reckless will take some time off before launching a European swing beginning with a June 5 show at the Rock Im Park festival in Nuremberg, Germany, then teaming up with AC/DC again in Charlotte, N.C. on July 11 for a North American summer stadium run in-between their own club shows.

Get in, girls. We’re going on a trip with Zara Larsson — who just announced that Shakira, PinkPantheress, Robyn and more leading ladies of pop will be featured on the upcoming deluxe edition of her breakout album Midnight Sun.

On Wednesday (April 22), just a few days after revealing that she’d be dropping Midnight Sun: Girls Trip this May, the Swedish pop star shared a video unveiling the names who will be joining her on the expanded project. In addition to her “Stateside” collaborator and the other previously mentioned names, “She Did It Again” duet partner Tyla, Kehlani, JT, Madison Beer, BAMBII, Margo XS, Emilia, Malibu, Eli and Helena Gao will also appear on the lengthened track list.

The clip shows Larsson walking into a gas station and picking out an assortment of kitschy keychains, each reading a name from her list of Girls Trip collaborators. “I’m so so so so so honored and excited for this,” she captioned the video. “And you know what’s crazy? This is just the beginning of girls trip!!! Like HELLO This summer is gonna be madness.”

Midnight Sun: Girls Trip will arrive May 1, building on the success Larsson has found in recent months with her fifth studio album and the success of its title track. She recently earned her first-ever top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 by guesting on PinkPantheress’ “Stateside,” which peaked at No. 6 in March.

On April 29, Larsson will accept this year’s Breakthrough Award at Billboard Women in Music. In a recent interview with Billboard about the honor, the singer said, “For the first time in a long time, I’m on the Billboard charts. I’m reaching so many new heights 10 years into my career, which is exciting and a testament to never giving up.”

See Larsson’s post below.

Josh Groban got engaged to his girlfriend of nearly four years, theater actress Natalie McQueen, at the happiest place on Earth. The “You Raise Me Up” singer posted pictures from his Disneyland wedding proposal on Tuesday (April 21), writing on Instagram, “MY BEST FRIEND SAID YES!!!” alongside a photo of the 45-year-old singer laying a big kiss on McQueen, 36, in front of a giant display of flowers in front of the Snow White Wishing Well.

“Sharing this life with you is my happiest place,” Groban added. “Thank you @disneyweddings for helping to make the best day of our lives (so far) so magical.” The happy couple share another kiss in a second pic, with a spinning carousel lighting up the scene in the background. The final picture is of their congratulations engagement cake, festooned with white frosting flowers and three red hearts, not to mention a shot of McQueen’s hefty ring.

They got lots of congratulations from their A-list friends, including Bernadette Peters (“Congratulations you two”), Michael Bublé (“Congrats to you both. What awesome news”), John Stamos (“Magical CONGRATS”) and Busy Philipps (“This is so exciting! Congratulations!”), as well as nice words from Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rita Wilson, The War and Treaty and others.

The pair reportedly started dating in 2022, around the time the veteran English singer and stage actress referred to Groban as her “boyfriend” in a hiking post from September of that year, though they didn’t make it Instagram official until Valentine’s Day in 2023. McQueen has appeared in a number of West End musical productions in her native England, including Chess, Wicked, Starlight Express, Kinky Boots and 9 to 5 The Musical.

The couple won’t have a ton of time to celebrate, as Groban has been tapped alongside with Teddy Swims to perform at the 2026 Grammy Hall of Fame Gala in tribute to their label, Warner Records, on May 8 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. That’s the same day Groban will drop his 10th studio album, the 10-track Cinematic, his tribute to movie music, which he recently previewed with a new version of the Elton John/Tim Rice The Lion King classic “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.” He is also gearing up to launch his GEMS North American tour with special guest Jennifer Hudson, slated to kick off on June 2 in Quebec, Canada at Place Bell.

RAYE’s career arc is better than any tale told in a Disney film.

Born and raised in London, the singer and songwriter is a former BRIT School student and nominee for BBC Music’s Sound award, an identifier of the next big thing. Then, she landed a record deal with Polydor, a frustrating era that boiled over when, in 2021, she tweeted that the major label wouldn’t let her release an album. Shelved, in the industry vernacular.

RAYE split with the music company and went independent, signing with distribution and artist services company Human Re Sources, a relationship that continues to this day.

Then, the magic happened. In January 2023, RAYE nabbed her first U.K. No. 1 single with “Escapism” (featuring 070 Shake) and went on make history. In March 2024, she collected a record haul of six BRIT Awards, including album of the year and artist of the year. That effort smashed the old record of four awards in one night, held jointly by Harry Styles (2023), Adele (2016) and Blur (1995).

In January 2026, she scored her second U.K. No. 1 with “Where Is My Husband?” It peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, the best placed of her three titles to impact the chart.

“Where Is My Husband” appears on her sophomore studio effort, This Album May Contain Hope, which dropped in March of this year. Hope debuted at No. 1 in the U.K., her first leader. In the United States, she bagged a career best No. 11 on the Billboard 200 chart, and she’s set to receive the Hal David Starlight Award at the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame gala. A headline spot awaits at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Before all that, RAYE returned to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night (April 21), three years after her performance of “Escapism.” This time, she delivered a double hit of live music. RAYE took the mic for a performance of “Clack Clack Symphony,” shot in black and white. And, in a bonus for guests at the Ed Sullivan Theater and late owls watching at home, RAYE doubled up with performance of “Joy,” dazzling in a yellow summer dress.

For both spots, RAYE was supported by a full band and an ensemble of backing vocalists, including her sisters Lauren (“Amma”) and Abby-Lynn (“Absolutely”).

Watch below.