Duffy is set to return to the stage for the first time in over 15 years.

The Welsh singer announced via Instagram on Friday (June 6) that she will perform a “secret intimate gig” in London on July 5, debuting new music as part of her tentative return to public life following years of withdrawal from the industry.

“I’m doing a secret intimate gig in London on the 5th July, next month, and I would love nothing more than for some of you to attend,” Duffy wrote on Instagram Stories. “It’s only small capacity so we can only select a few, but really looking forward to it. I will sing some new songs.” The show will be ballot-only, with fans invited to apply via her social channels.

The performance marks one of the most significant moments in Duffy’s gradual reemergence. Last month, the singer shared a black-and-white image from a recording studio with the caption: “If only I could find the right words to explain how much I’ve missed you all. Working on coming back to you.”

Earlier this year, Disney+ announced an upcoming Hulu Original documentary in which Duffy will tell her full story in her own words for the first time — covering her upbringing in Wales, her early 2000s breakthrough, her decade-long retreat and the harrowing assault that prompted it.

Born Aimée Anne Duffy in Bangor, Wales, the singer rose to global fame in 2008 with her debut album Rockferry, which became the UK’s best-selling album of that year and earned her three BRIT Awards, a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, and an Ivor Novello Award.

Lead single “Mercy” peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2008 and reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, where it spent five consecutive weeks at the top. Rockferry itself peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and remains certified five-times platinum in the UK. She released her second album Endlessly in 2010 before stepping out of the public eye, with only two new songs released since — the 2020 ballad “River in the Sky” and radio-only single “Something Beautiful.”

In 2020, Duffy broke her silence on the reason for her decade-long absence, revealing in an Instagram post and a longer personal essay that she had been drugged at a restaurant while celebrating her birthday, then transported to a foreign country where she was held captive and raped by an unnamed assailant.

She has said the ordeal left her suicidal and that “utterly no-one” knew what had happened until she chose to share her story. To date, no arrests have been made public in connection with the case.

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Olivia Rodrigo previewed “What’s Wrong With Me,” a song with The Cure‘s Robert Smith from the second act of her highly anticipated new album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, live at Primavera Sound 2026. The unveil of their duet came just hours after Rodrigo made a surprise announcement she’d play live at the Barcelona, Spain, music festival Saturday night (June 6).

At track 10, the song falls on the “you seem pretty sad” side of her upcoming LP’s story. It marks the first time Rodrigo’s featured another artist on an album track.

“II can’t believe this song exists with the person that it exists with. I’m just so f—ing over the moon,” Rodrigo said of song partner Smith when introducing “What’s Wrong With Me” to the crowd at Parc del Forum’s Occident Stage. By the end of Rodrigo and The Cure frontman’s duet — right after hugging her musical hero-turned-friend (and now, officially, collaborator) — the pop star admitted, “I feel like I’m gonna cry … I can’t believe that that’s a thing that happened in the real world and not just a figment of my imagination.”

The lyrics of “What’s Wrong With Me” have her “spiraling.” “I’m not feeling like myself, and nothing ever seems to help,” Rodrigo sings in the pre-chorus, leading up to “Went to the doctor and she said I was fine/ But every movie that I’ve seen makes me cry/ It’s like somebody put a weight on my chest/ I should talk to a friend, but I can’t get out of bed/ My head is spinning and my stomach is sick/ Say I’m in love, so it’s hard to admit/ I can’t eat, I can’t sleep/ I think you’re what’s wrong with me.”

Verse two brings in Smith, who echoes Rodrigo’s relationship rumination: “Head just keeps on pounding with the simple thought/ ‘What if this isn’t what I want?’”

They layer their vocals over the chorus from that point on, and through the song’s bridge and outro.

You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is only a week away; the full album will be available Friday, June 12 via Geffen Records.

Rodrigo popped online with a quick Instagram Story earlier on Saturday to share the news of her previously unannounced Primavera set, which was slotted for 10:25 p.m. local time, though she remained mum on the Smith’s part until showtime. “Surprise!!!” she’d captioned a snapshot of herself giving a thumbs up on the festival’s grounds. “See you tonight primavera_sound … I’m excited.”

The pair previously played live together last year, at Glastonbury, where they delivered The Cure’s “Friday I’m In Love” and “Just Like Heaven” together.

Rodrigo’s admiration of Smith keeps going: on “Drop Dead,” the lead track of You Seem Pretty Sad… (which launched as a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1), she playfully works the song title of “Just Like Heaven” into the opening verse.

Rodrigo and Smith’s unexpected live set Saturday night at Primavera Sound came months ahead of the singer-songwriter’s sold-out arena tour kickoff. Rodrigo launches her Unraveled Tour in September in Hartford, Conn., embarking across North America and Europe in support of her third studio album. The tour’s name references a lyric from her latest single, which happens to be called “The Cure,” and which arrived at No. 1  on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart and No. 5 on the Hot 100 in its first week.

Beyond the premiere of “What’s Wrong With Me,” Rodrigo’s Primavera Sound set included performances of both of the musician’s most recent singles (“Drop Dead” and “The Cure”), plus hits from Sour and Guts.

Saturday marked day three of Primavera Sound, which saw severe weather conditions opening night that shut down many of of Thursday’s performances, including Doja Cat and Massive Attack’s headlining spots. The fest was back to business for day two, with  The Cure, Skrillex, PinkPantheress and more taking the stage as expected on Friday.

“A video seems…cheap,” Madonna told Anderson Cooper and a sold-out Beacon Theatre on Friday (June 5) night, shortly after the world premiere of Confessions II, a 13-minute visual project centered around her upcoming album Confessions II. The pop icon was explaining why her short film occupied the space between a mere music video and a full-length visual album (“Guy [Oseary, her manager] is always yelling at me to save money”) to a throng of diehards at Tribeca Festival. “It was good when it was just MTV and me,” she recalled of the music video’s golden era. “Those days are over.”

During a candid, freewheeling, no-phones chat with Cooper (who was subbing in for Jimmy Fallon, who dropped out of the event last-minute) and directors David Toro and Solomon Chase (TORSO) – whom Madonna described as “from another planet” – the Queen of Pop talked about everything from her early days in NYC to the previous evening’s Times Square pop-up performance to the many cameos in her Confessions II project.

The Confessions II film is centered around the first six tracks on Confessions II, her hotly anticipated July 3 album which reunites her with Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) producer Stuart Price. As astute fans will know, that means this visual project offered approximately 2,800 folks the opportunity to hear four unreleased Confessions II songs: “Good for the Soul,” “One Step Away,” “Danceteria” and “Read My Lips.”

A wild visual project that features paparazzi SWAT teams, forest people with green lasers shooting out of their lower orifices (“I wanted to try it but apparently it gets quite hot” Madonna drily quipped), a car crash, aerial flips over a dancefloor and loads (ahem) of hot hookups in a public restroom while Benedict Cumberbatch dances outside the stalls, the film demands multiple viewings – and sure enough, the evening was book ended with screenings of Confessions II.

Aside from Cumberbatch, the visual features, among others: Sabrina Carpenter, who crawls and writhes around the dancefloor with Madonna during their duet “Bring Your Love”; Colombian singer Feid, who joins Madonna on the collaborative “Read My Lips”; Debi Mazar, who swings by “Danceteria” – a nod to their shared past, as pre-fame Mazar and Madonna hung out at the iconic, now defunct NYC club Danceteria and made out together “to attract boys” and help get the DJ to play Madonna’s cassette; Arca, who is credited on “I Feel So Free” with additional production; Honey Dijon, who produced a Billboard Dance Club Songs-topping remix of Madonna’s “I Don’t Search I Find” from her 2019 album Madame X; genre-pushing British artist Shygirl; actress Julie Garner, who pops up looking very much like Madonna circa 1987; and Madonna’s daughter, Lourdes Leon, who gets the final line of the film: “Cut, b-tch.”

Madonna shared that the project took about a month to film, while the album itself was the product of a year-and-a-half of work with Price while she waited for that long-gestating Netflix miniseries about her life to come to pass.

Only two songs from the film – “I Feel So Free” and Carpenter collab “Bring Your Love” – are officially released, and it’s not yet known if the four unreleased songs in the Confessions II film will hit DSPs prior to its official July 3 release. The Confessions II project will, however, debut on YouTube on Monday (June 8). The sublime “Love Sensation,” which came out Thursday (June 4) shortly after the Queen of Pop’s surprise pop-up performance for 50,000 fans in Times Square, is not featured in the visual project. Of that performance, Madonna told Cooper it felt like a beautiful full-circle moment for her, as she famously showed up to NYC in 1978 and headed straight to Times Square with nothing but ambition in her gut and $35 in her pocket.

She admitted to having some nerves, however, particularly when she swung her leg over the Plexiglas barrier that separates pop-out venue The Square from the Times Square traffic several stories below. “When I went to put my leg over the barrier I was like hmmm,” she mused with a smirk. “I don’t know if I love my fans that much.” Fair enough, particularly given that Madonna’s next stop after the Beacon Theatre was the Hamptons to see her 95-year-old father to celebrate his birthday: if she can be with us that long, there’s no sense in risking the Queen’s time on earth on a piece of Plexiglas.

Confessions II drops on July 3; on July 19, Madonna, BTS and Shakira will headline the first-ever halftime show for the World Cup at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

Morgan Wallen was forced to cancel a scheduled Pittsburgh tour stop due to severe weather threats.

On Saturday afternoon (June 6), the 33-year-old country star took to social media to announce that he would no longer be performing that evening at Acrisure Stadium as part of his Still the Problem Tour.

“After talking with local officials and my team, there is no choice but to cancel tonight’s show due to severe weather conditions expected throughout the rest of the day and night,” Wallen wrote in a statement shared on Instagram. “Safety for my fans and crew is the highest priority.”

The “Last Night” singer concluded his message by informing fans that refunds would be available through their original point of purchase.

The cancellation came one day after Wallen’s first of two scheduled Pittsburgh shows. During Friday night’s (June 5) concert at Acrisure Stadium, the country superstar was joined for his signature walkout by former WWE star and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle.

Saturday was designated a KDKA First Alert Weather Day as forecasters warned of potentially strong to severe storms. The weather system was expected to move through the Pittsburgh area during the evening hours, with the greatest threat occurring between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., according to CBS News.

Wallen is currently on his headlining Still the Problem Tour, with upcoming stadium dates scheduled in Chicago (June 19-20), Clemson, S.C. (June 26-27), and Baltimore (July 17-18).

The tour supports his latest studio album, I’m the Problem, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release in May 2025. The album went on to spend 13 nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart.

Olivia Rodrigo is making a surprise appearance at Primavera Sound.

On Saturday (June 6), the 23-year-old pop star took to social media to reveal that she’ll perform an unannounced set later that evening at the Barcelona festival.

“Surprise!!!” Rodrigo captioned a photo shared to her Instagram Stories showing the singer giving a thumbs up amid a large festival crowd. “See you tonight primavera_sound … I’m excited.”

The “Vampire” hitmaker is scheduled to take the Occident Stage at 10:25 p.m. local time.

“Spilling our guts,” the festival wrote in its own Instagram post alongside a photo of Rodrigo.

The surprise performance comes less than a week before the release of Rodrigo’s third studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, which arrives June 12. The project’s first two singles, “Drop Dead” and “The Cure,” debuted at No. 1 and No. 5, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Rodrigo was last in Spain in early May for her Billions Club Live show in Barcelona. The one-night-only event brought together 1,500 of the singer’s most devoted Spanish fans at the historic outdoor venue Teatre Grec. During the intimate performance, Rodrigo sang eight of her nine Billions Club tracks, along with fan favorites from her first two albums and her OR3 lead single, “Drop Dead.” Billions Club Live with Olivia Rodrigo: A Concert Film premiered on Spotify on May 27.

The singer also announced in late April that she’ll be hitting the road in support of You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. The 65-date Unraveled Tour will feature multiple-night arena engagements across North America, Europe and the U.K. beginning Sept. 25 at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, Connecticut.

The global trek is scheduled to conclude with a two-night stand at Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi on May 1 and 2.

Meanwhile, headlining sets from Doja Cat and Massive Attack at Primavera Sound on Thursday (June 4) were canceled due to extreme weather in Barcelona.

Thursday marked the opening day of the three-day festival, but severe conditions forced organizers to shut down programming early. After Geese performed through a chaotic rainstorm, sets by Alex G, Mac DeMarco and Bad Gyal were also canceled, along with the night’s headlining performances.

Primavera Sound resumed as planned on its second day, featuring performances from The Cure, Skrillex, PinkPantheress, Ethel Cain, Role Model, My Bloody Valentine and others.

Electric Callboy have released their new single “Let the Good Times Roll,” featuring The Offspring‘s Dexter Holland — the latest preview of their forthcoming album TANZNEID, due August 7.

The track pairs Electric Callboy’s genre-blurring electronicore — metalcore breakdowns colliding with glowstick-ready techno drops and grin-inducing pop hooks — with Holland’s unmistakable tenor, the kind of voice behind “Come Out and Play,” which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1994, and “Self Esteem,” which peaked at No. 4 on the same chart.

The collaboration marks a full-circle moment for the German band, who cite The Offspring as a foundational influence. “The Offspring have been one of the bands that shaped us from the very beginning,” Electric Callboy said in a statement. “Their music was part of our lives long before Electric Callboy even existed, so having Dexter on this song honestly feels surreal.”

Holland was equally enthusiastic about the pairing. “When Electric Callboy sent us the track, it immediately put a grin on our faces,” he said.

“It’s energetic, unpredictable and doesn’t take itself too seriously — exactly the kind of spirit we’ve always loved about punk and rock music. I had a blast being part of ‘Let the Good Times Roll.’”

The single arrives as Electric Callboy kick off their European festival season, with major appearances at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park this week. The TANZNEID World Tour also includes an Australian leg in September, presented by Destroy All Lines, with Ice Nine Kills and Coldrain as special guests.

The run opens at RAC Arena in Perth on Sept. 4, followed by AEC Arena in Adelaide on Sept. 6, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Sept. 8, Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on Sept. 10, and Riverstage in Brisbane on Sept. 12 and 13 — with the Sept. 12 date already sold out. Tickets are on sale now via destroyalllines.com.

Formed in Germany in 2010, Electric Callboy have grown into one of heavy music’s most genre-defying global acts on the strength of viral hits including “Hypa Hypa,” “We Got the Moves” and “RATATATA” featuring BABYMETAL. Their 2022 album TEKKNO amassed hundreds of millions of streams worldwide. TANZNEID is pre-order available now.

Watch the video for “Let The Good Times Roll” below.

Nine years after Lorde last played the Governor’s Ball in New York City, the New Zealand native returned Friday (June 5) to close out night one of the 2026 festival. And with the time she had on the main stage, she chose to deliver a powerful set that both expanded her Virgin universe and, more importantly, reminded her fans just how much they’re worth in her eyes.

Ever the unorthodox pop star, Lorde kicked off the program by seemingly debuting a snippet of an unreleased song. While manning a scratchy synth board to the side of the stage, she sang, “Don’t look for me now that I’m gone/ Don’t look for me, I’m gone.”

With that self-possessed energy locked in, she went on to play some of the boldest tracks in her discography back to back, starting with Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Royals” and Virgin lead single “What Was That.” Her latest headlining performance comes just a few weeks shy of the one-year anniversary of Virgin, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 last summer — but while she’s spent the past several months on the Ultrasound World Tour in support of the project, this marked the first time she’s played a revamped festival version of the show.

“This is the most nervous I’ve been for a show in a while,” she confessed to the crowd midway through. “Partly because we’ve never done this show before, and partly because I’m obsessed with you, and I can’t even pretend that isn’t the case.”

The overall unvarnished, techy, raw-materials aesthetic of the show was still very much Virgin-coded, but all four of her albums got their moments throughout the night. Solar Power was the least represented, with Lorde playing only “Oceanic Feeling” from the project after running her hands through a drinking-water fountain. Live footage of her singing from creative angles captured by hidden and handheld cameras all over her stage projected on the big screens behind her during Pure Heroine classics such as “Buzzcut Season” and “Team” and Melodrama fan-favorites “Perfect Places,” “The Louvre” and “Liability.”

“Don’t you feel like so much has changed in the last nine years?” Lorde told the crowd before diving into the latter, reflecting on how she last played Gov Ball when she was promoting Melodrama. “To me, the world is unrecognizable compared to where we were in 2017 … There’s a loss of dignity that I feel. Our world feels increasingly unjust. And it feels harder and harder to arrive at your own definitions of beauty and truth and what is real. But I really feel this is real, all of us in this field.”

At that point, she urged fans to “show yourself” to the world, or in other words, let their real personalities “hang out.” “If we show ourselves — all the broken bits, all the jagged edges, all the filth — I really believe we will start f–king going somewhere,” she added earnestly.

Possibly the best two-song run of the set was “Man of the Year” followed by “Girl, So Confusing,” the 2024 Charli xcx remix that reunited the two pop savants after personal tensions divided them. (No, Charli did not make a cameo in NYC, with Lorde flying solo on their duet.) While the first track delves into Lorde’s embrace of masculinity, the second — which Lorde did not perform on the main Ultrasound trek — is all about her complicated relationship with femininity, making the pairing a perfect juxtaposition.

But by the end, Lorde made sure to turn the focus back on her audience. Her penultimate number was “David,” which she dedicated to “anyone who knows what it’s like to be under a boot.” As she sang, an enormous banner unfurled over the crowd for fans to hold onto together, literally unified under the mantra: “I don’t belong to anyone,” which big-screen footage from birds-eye cameras in the sky revealed to be printed on the fabric.

To close out the show, Lorde traveled to a B-stage deep in the crowd to belt out “Ribs,” far enough away from the stage for her to be able to turn around and watch her own fireworks go off in the background. “Look after each other,” she urged the audience in her final message of the night. “Let’s go Knicks.”

The musician will presumably continue playing the revamped show on her upcoming festival stops this summer, including All Things Go in Toronto on Sunday (June 7) and Mad Cool Festival in Spain, NOS Alive in Portugal and Festival de Nîmes in France in July. The first night of Gov Ball also featured sets from Baby Keem, KATSEYE and Pierce the Veil, with Stray Kids and A$AP Rocky set to headline Saturday and Sunday.

See Lorde’s setlist at the 2026 Governor’s Ball below.

The Black Crowes‘ Chris Robinson has spoken out following controversy sparked by comments he made during the band’s May 31 performance at Tampa’s MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre as part of their Southern Hospitality tour.

The incident occurred when, following the band’s performance of “Soul Singing,” a portion of the crowd broke into chants of “U-S-A!” — reportedly prompted by the appearance of the band’s Black Crowes mascot dressed in Uncle Sam garb on the screen behind them.

Robinson responded from the stage: “Thanks for the geography lesson. I don’t know what you’re so proud of right now.” He continued: “Some of us have real faith. For those of you f—–g booing us, some of us are not afraid. And we most assuredly are not f—–g ignorant.”

The exchange resulted in numerous crowd members walking out on the show, according to a video shared by the outlet on X.

Speaking to Ultimate Classic Rock this week, Robinson sought to provide context. “I think the whole thing was, of course, blown out of context so people can get clicks and people can stir up the animosity,” he said.

“But be most assured — in a week, something else will come up that stirs up the hornets’ nest.” He was also careful to draw a distinction between his broader outlook and any perceived slight toward the military. “No matter what I ever would say or do or feel about things, there’s no way I would disrespect our veterans,” Robinson said.

“For the people who’ve put their lives on the line and made that sacrifice and dedication, I wouldn’t do that. But I have to speak my mind. I don’t have an agenda or anything — I’m just trying to make a soulful connection with people.”

The comments drew added scrutiny given the performance took place just days after Memorial Day. Robinson has previously stated he is “not interested in politics,” telling Mojo in March: “I’m more interested in poetry and art and people and experience. But a song doesn’t have to be like an overt political statement. I know what’s right and wrong — and this s–t going on right now is wrong.”

The Black Crowes released their new album A Pound of Feathers in March, shortly after receiving a nomination for the 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — though the band was ultimately not selected for induction. The Southern Hospitality tour continues with upcoming dates in Augusta, Ga., and Charlotte, N.C.

Lizzo returned Friday (June ) with her first album in four years, BITCH, hitting streaming services. Shortly after the project’s arrival, the Detroit native shared an alternate edition of the LP’s title track, which seemingly finds her taking aim at Nicki Minaj.

Lizzo reposted a screenshot of Minaj’s tweet from Feb. 1, which saw the Queens rapper mocking Lizzo’s weight loss and upcoming album.

“Fat Lizzo lost 300 lbs just to sell 300 albums,” Minaj wrote at the time alongside a photo of a Chucky doll. “So now she has loose skin AND a flop album, AND a weird charge. Sheesh.”

Lizzo put the audio of the remixed version of the album’s title track over the screenshot of Minaj’s tweet with the caption, “Since I’m blocked.”

“Used to be the biggest fan, then I lost weight/ Wait, wait, let me fixate,” she raps. “Paid to keep the peace, I don’t even like beef/ Crazy thing is you knew me you would like/ I’m praying for our sisters, I want to see us all in our bag.”

As of press time, the “Super Bass” rapper is yet to respond to Lizzo.

Lizzo’s BITCH is her first album since 2022’s Special, which contained the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “About Damn Time.”

“Reclaiming the word ‘bi—’ is power. It’s taking a label once used to diminish women and turning it into a declaration of confidence and unapologetic self-love,” the “Truth Hurts” artist said in a statement. “So many incredible women in music have used the word for positivity like Meredith Brooks and Missy Elliott. It was only fitting to name my album BITCH because it has become my favorite word when using it on my own terms, and because I am 100% that bi—!”

Billboard has reached out to reps for Minaj for comment.