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.
Phoebe Bridgers has revealed the track list for her upcoming album, Lost Weekend.
The record consists of 16 songs, including the previously released single, "Lost Boys." Along with a song called "Lost Parade" and the the title track, plus the closing cut, "Lost Weekend (Reprise)," there are four songs with the word "lost" in the title.
Other track names include opener "The Outside," "The Governor's Waltz," "Never Going Back!" and "I Can't Wait."
"This got leaked so here it is !" Bridgers writes in an Instagram post.
Lost Weekend is due out Aug. 14. It marks Bridgers' third album and the much-anticipated follow-up to 2020's Punisher.
Here's the Lost Weekend track list: "The Outside" "Lost Boys" "Kill Me" "The Governor's Waltz" "Bobby" "Lost Weekend" "Haunted" "Panorama" "Still Standing" "Liberty Tree" "Never Going Back!" "Other Plans" "Lost Parade" "I Can't Wait" "As Above" "Lost Weekend (Reprise)"
Jeff Ament attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament has announced a new photo book called Since Forever.
The book, due out Sept. 25, consists of over 250 black-and-white photographs "accompanied by wry insights, observations, and personal reflections from Ament," a press release reads.
"At once a visual memoir, and a behind-the-scenes chronicle, the book reveals how relationships, travel, joy, and need contribute to the creative process," the release continues. "Since Forever reveals Ament's unique perspective as both participant and observer of a defining time period in music and American culture."
"Ninety percent of these photos have never been seen before," Ament says. "Anybody who's a PJ fan or a fan of what was going on in the 90s will dig it."
Ament plans to celebrate the Since Forever release with a run of book of events, the details of which will be announced soon. He'll also be speaking about it at bandmate Eddie Vedder's Ohana Festival, taking place Sept. 25-27 in Dana Point, California.
Ohana will also feature a headlining set from Pearl Jam, which is set to mark the debut of the band's new drummer. Longtime drummer Matt Cameron announced his departure from the group in 2025.
'Everyone Gets Everything They Want' album artwork. (Mom + Pop Music)
Tom Morello has announced a new solo album called Everyone Gets Everything They Want.
The record is due out Sept. 25. It will mark the fourth full-length effort released under the Rage Against the Machine guitarist's own name, though it is described as his "first solo rock album."
Morello's first three solo albums, 2018's The Atlas Underground, and 2021's The Atlas Underground Fire and The Atlas UndergroundFlood mixed electronics and EDM elements with heavier music, and featured guest vocalists on each track.
Everyone Gets Everything They Want does feature some guests, including System of a Down's Serj Tankian and Beartooth on the songs "Adjourn It" and "Everything Burns," respectively.
The latest track released off the album, though, is all Morello. The song is called "Date Night," which, given that title, may not seem in keeping with Morello's famously political output, but is indeed very much in his wheelhouse.
"The song tells the true story of three young Dutch girls who served as spies, saboteurs, and assassins against the Nazis during World War II," a press release reads. "Sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen and their close friend Hannie Schaft used their youth and innocent appearances to slip through checkpoints, to smuggle weapons, to sabotage rail lines, and to help hunted Jewish children escape persecution. Most famously, they acted as underground assassins, seducing Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them."
"I make anti-racist songs for anti-racists," Morello says. "I make anti-fascist songs for anti-fascists. And I make anti-Nazi songs for anti-Nazis. 'Date Night' is really a 'which side are you on?’ song. If any of that offends you, do the math."
Morello will host his Power to the People Festival on Oct. 3 in Columbia, Maryland.
Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins 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)
Lollapalooza isn't the only palooza coming to Chicago.
The Smashing Pumpkins have announced "Pumpkinpalooza" in celebration of the band's upcoming headlining set at their hometown festival. It'll mark the first time the Pumpkins, which formed in Chicago, have headlined Lolla since it moved to the Windy City's Grant Park in 2005.
"Pumpkinpalooza" will kick off with a sold-out underplay show Wednesday at Chicago's Rivera Theatre. From Wednesday through Friday, fans can visit a Pumpkins pop-up shop offering exclusive merchandise, located at 900 S. Wabash Ave.
Lolla attendees can stop by Madame Zuzu's Celestial Lounge, described as an expansion of frontman Billy Corgan's Madame Zuzu's teashop, which he runs in Highland Park, Illinois, with his wife, Chloé Mendel Corgan.
For even more Pumpkins festivities, you can visit the Chicago bar The Aviary to try its limited-edition specialty cocktail, Infinite Mellons, named after the band's classic 1995 album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
"As a Chicagoan, born and raised, I take great pride in contributing to our city's immense and colorful cultural fabric," Corgan says in a statement. "And so this year's already historic Lollapalooza is that chance to make new memories, new friends, and have a bit of Midwest fun, too as only we might."
Lollapalooza 2026 takes place Thursday through Sunday; the Pumpkins take the stage on Friday. The bill also includes Lorde, The xx, Turnstile, sombr, Empire of the Sun, Wet Leg, Yungblud, The Neighbourhood and beabadoobee.
Primus has premiered the video for "The Ol' Grizz," a song off the band's new EP, A Handful of Nuggs.
The half-animated clip follows the adventures of an old-timey prospector, mixed with live footage of the "My Name Is Mud" outfit. It was directed by Cage Claypool, son of frontman Les Claypool.
You can watch the video for "The Ol' Grizz" streaming now on YouTube.
A Handful of Nuggs was released in May and also includes the Maynard James Keenan collaboration "Little Lord Fentanyl," as well as a live cover of Dio's "Holy Diver" and a live recording of "Duchess (And the Proverbial Mind Spread)."
The EP features new drummer John Hoffman, who joined in 2025 following the departure of Tim "Herb" Alexander.
Julian Casablancas of The Strokes performs at MetLife Stadium on August 17, 2022 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
The 2026 Outside Lands Festival will stream live on Amazon Music.
The San Francisco event takes place Aug. 7-9. The lineup includes The Strokes, Turnstile, The xx, Djo, Empire of the Sun, Death Cab for Cutie, Geese, Modest Mouse, Wet Leg, Lucy Dacus, Not for Radio and The Temper Trap.
You can watch the stream via the Amazon Music channels on Twitch and Prime Video, the Amazon Live Channel on Fire TV and Samsung TV Plus, starting at 3 p.m. PT each day.
Faith No More performs on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' at Rockefeller Center on May 13, 2015 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/NBC/Getty Images for 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon')
Faith No More has announced the band's first live shows in over 10 years.
The long-defunct "Epic" rockers are set to play a run of four shows in Australia and New Zealand in January and February 2027. The bill will also include System of a Down.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit FNM.com.
Faith No More hasn't performed live since 2016. They were originally set to return to the road in 2020, but those dates were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Then in 2021, Faith No More canceled all of their touring plans due to mental health issues affecting frontman Mike Patton, who later shared he'd been diagnosed with the anxiety disorder agoraphobia.
Patton since returned to the road with his band Mr. Bungle, while Faith No More remained inactive. In separate 2025 interviews, drummer Mike Bordin said he felt Patton demonstrated that he was "unwilling to do shows with us," while keyboardist Roddy Bottum said he doesn't "think anyone's sort of up for [a reunion] at this point."
Then in June, Faith No More surprised fans with a post teasing a return in 2027, which bassist Bill Gould confirmed.
Michael Stipe attends Apple TV's "Shrinking" special FYC event at Quality Italian on May 02, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by John Nacion/Getty Images)
Michael Stipe fans have been patiently waiting for his long-in-the works solo album, and it appears as though he’s giving them a preview of what's to come.
The R.E.M. frontman has just debuted a new song, “Hum Desiderata,” on the sound exhibition platform Joyfully Waiting.
According to the description, the song “combines Stipe’s recitation of the poem Desiderata by Max Ehrmann from his installation at ICA Milan" with an instrumental track by Stipe and Andy LeMaster. It also features additional vocals from artist Elizabeth Hatmaker.
Stipe talked about his solo album during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in April, sharing that it is finally set to be released at the end of 2026. He also debuted a song from the record, "The Rest of Ever,” backed by the Colbert house band, Louis Cato and The Great Big Joy Machine.
Stipe also released the song "I Played the Fool," which he recorded with producer Andrew Watt, in March. It's the theme to the HBO series Rooster.
Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins performs at Irving Plaza on September 22, 2022 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
Lollapalooza has announced its 2026 livestream lineup.
Among the artists you'll be able to watch from the comfort of your own home are The Smashing Pumpkins, Lorde, Yungblud, The xx, Wet Leg, Turnstile, Geese, Wolf Alice, The Neighbourhood, sombr, Empire of the Sun, beabadoobee and Not for Radio.
The Lollapalooza 2026 livestream will air via Disney+ and Hulu. For the full streaming lineup, visit Lollapalooza.com/livestream.
Lollapalooza 2026 takes place July 30 through Aug. 2 in Chicago.
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Here are some of the new songs released by alternative artist on this New Music Friday:
Mod Sun has premiered a new track called "2am," which follows his May single, "Mirror."
"I made '2am' on my first trip to Nashville before I officially moved there," Mod says. "I wrote it about one of my first nights out when I fell in love with the city. I met a girl who dragged me around her favorite spots. We had the greatest time, but when the lights went on, she was gone, and I never saw her again."
Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has released a song called "Ophelia," a track off his upcoming album, The Age of Everything, due out Oct. 2.
"Ophelia" is not a Taylor Swift cover, but, like her "The Fate of Ophelia," Marr's song is inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet character.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O is featured on a new song by the electronic outfit The Avalanches called "Blue Shadows."
"The Avalanches frequency is high, I'm so happy to be asked to slide into it," O says.
GAYLE has premiered a song called "loving you is." It'll appear on her upcoming album, Observing Chaos, arriving Sept. 18.
"I wrote 'loving you is' about coming to terms with the fact that I didn’t know how I deserved to be treated," the "abcdefu" singer says. "After taking five million steps back, I realized how frustrated I am for accepting behavior that no one should have to go through and I'll never let that happen to me again!"
Almost monday has released a song called "better late than never," a track off their upcoming album, THANK GOD IT'S ALMOST MONDAY. The record will be released Sept. 9.
M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold performs during the Rock In Rio Festival at Cidade do Rock on September 16, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Wagner Meier/Getty Images)
Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte are about to hit the road together on a U.S. tour, and to celebrate, both bands have put out new releases.
The "Bat Country" metallers have dropped an EP called STATICA, featuring four new songs. The tracks lean into a much heavier electronic direction than you would expect from M. Shadows and company, and includes a lot of effects-laden vocals.
Meanwhile, "The Anthem" outfit has released a live version of "We Are Done," a song originally recorded by Joel Madden and Benji Madden's side project, The Madden Brothers. The performance was recorded during Good Charlotte's tour of Australia and New Zealand earlier in 2026.
Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte's tour launches Saturday in Ridgedale, Missouri.
Josh Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet performs live on stage during Lollapalooza Brazil at Autodromo de Interlagos on March 24, 2024 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images,)
Greta Van Fleet has announced an intimate underplay show at Chicago's Metro venue.
The "Highway Tune" rockers will play the 1,100-capacity room on July 31, the same day their new single, "Saw You Stand," is set to drop.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 2 p.m. CT. For more info, visit MetroChicago.com.
Greta Van Fleet played a similarly small show at New York City's Bowery Ballroom in May around the release of their song "Play Your Games."
The most recent Greta Van Fleet album is 2023's Starcatcher.
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