TikTok has announced TikTok GO, a new feature that lets users in the United States discover and book hotels, attractions, and tours directly inside the app. Built into the platform that more than 200 million Americans use, TikTok GO surfaces lodging and experiences through videos, search, and location pages, with booking completed in just a few taps.
Launch partners include Booking.com, Expedia, Viator, GetYourGuide, Tiqets, and Trip.com, covering tens of thousands of properties and experiences across thousands of destinations worldwide. The feature is available to users 18 and older.
For creators, TikTok GO connects local storytelling to a direct revenue stream. Creators who feature hotels, attractions, and local services can earn through commissions and creator campaigns tied to completed bookings, turning recommendation content into a tangible business opportunity.
For local businesses and travel operators, the feature opens direct access to TikTok’s discovery ecosystem at the moment a user’s interest is highest. As GetYourGuide co-founder and CEO Johannes Reck put it, the partnership is about “collapsing the time between inspiration and action,” giving smaller operators access to a massive, travel-ready audience they couldn’t previously reach at scale.
TikTok GO follows the same logic as TikTok Shop, extending the platform’s discovery infrastructure into real-world transactions. The company describes this as the beginning of a broader effort to connect users with the places and businesses they find on the platform. It’s a significant expansion of what TikTok is, moving well beyond entertainment into commerce and travel booking in a single, integrated experience.
Brandi Carlile has released “Life On The Run,” a new single written with Aaron Dessner and produced by Carlile, Dessner, and Andrew Watt. The song finds Carlile turning inward with a renewed sense of discovery and adventure, and it arrives alongside the launch of a meaningful new partnership with the National Park Foundation.
The NPF partnership is built to generate real impact. $1 from every ticket sold at next weekend’s “Echoes Through the Canyon” at The Gorge Amphitheatre goes directly to the National Park Foundation, with NPF representatives on the ground across all 3 days of the event. The Gorge run features performances from Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt, I’m With Her, Sara Bareilles, The Highwomen, and more. Carlile’s Looking Out Foundation, which has raised over $9 million for grassroots causes to date, is also part of the collaboration. Donations and further information are available at NationalParks.org/Brandi.
Carlile explains the connection between the song, the wilderness, and the work: “Our national parks are the heart and soul of our nation. Even in our darkest days when we need a North Star, we need to look no further than the Olympic Peninsula, Yosemite, or the Canyonlands. The wilderness calls on us all to return to ourselves, and the National Park Foundation reminds us that we have a shared duty to protect these sacred spaces.”
“Life On The Run” is the latest release from Carlile’s album ‘Returning To Myself’ (Interscope Records/Lost Highway), produced by Carlile, Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner, and Justin Vernon. The album debuted at number 7 on the all-genre Billboard 200, hit number 1 on Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums, Top Rock Albums, and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts, and has been called “one of the best albums of the year” by Variety. It follows ‘Who Believes in Angels?,’ the Grammy-nominated collaborative album with Elton John that debuted at number 1 in the UK and top 10 in the US.
2026 has been a landmark year for Carlile by any measure. She performed “America The Beautiful” at Super Bowl LX, was honored as one of TIME’s 2026 Women of the Year, launched “The Human Tour” across arenas in North America, the UK, and Europe, and will be inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame later this year. An Oscar nominee, 11-time Grammy winner, and 2-time Emmy winner, Carlile has built one of the most consistently celebrated careers in contemporary music.
“The Human Tour” continues through the fall with stops at Red Rocks Amphitheatre (3 nights), Bridgestone Arena, Dickies Arena, Moody Center, Rogers Arena, and headlining slots at Newport Folk Festival on July 26, All Things Go NYC on September 26, and All Things Go DC on September 27, before heading to the UK and Europe in October. The full tour runs into January 2027 with Girls Just Wanna Weekend 8 in Riviera Maya, Mexico.
Brandi Carlile Upcoming Tour Dates:
May 29 /// George, WA /// The Gorge Amphitheatre* (SOLD OUT)
May 30 /// George, WA /// The Gorge Amphitheatre† (SOLD OUT)
May 31 /// George, WA /// The Gorge Amphitheatre‡
June 6 /// Greenville, SC /// Peace Center Concert Hall‡‡ (SOLD OUT)
June 7 /// Charleston, SC /// College of Charleston Cistern Yard (SOLD OUT)
June 9 /// Savannah, GA /// Johnny Mercer Theatre‡‡
June 10 /// Asheville, NC /// Thomas Wolfe Auditorium‡‡ (SOLD OUT)
July 23 /// Montauk, NY /// Montauk Point Lighthouse
July 26 /// Newport, RI /// Newport Folk Festival (SOLD OUT)
August 13 /// Portland, ME /// Cross Insurance Arena+
August 14 /// Uncasville, CT /// Mohegan Sun Arena+
August 16 /// Bethel, NY /// Bethel Woods Center for the Arts+
August 18 /// Lenox, MA /// Tanglewood – Koussevitzky Music Shed+
August 20 /// Canandaigua, NY /// CMAC#
August 21 /// Rochester Hills, MI /// Meadow Brook Amphitheatre#
August 23 /// Grand Rapids, MI /// Acrisure Amphitheater#
August 24 /// Madison, WI /// Breese Stevens Field#
August 26 /// Highland Park, IL /// The Pavilion at Ravinia#
August 29 /// Nashville, TN /// Bridgestone Arena^
September 1 /// Charlotte, NC /// Spectrum Center§
September 3 /// Duluth, GA /// Gas South Arena§
September 5 /// Fort Worth, TX /// Dickies Arena§
September 6 /// Austin, TX /// Moody Center§
September 11 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks Amphitheatre||
September 12 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks Amphitheatre|| (SOLD OUT)
September 13 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks Amphitheatre||
September 17 /// Vancouver, BC /// Rogers Arena**
September 19 /// Stanford, CA /// Frost Amphitheater**
September 20 /// Santa Barbara, CA /// Santa Barbara Bowl** (SOLD OUT)
September 22 /// San Diego, CA /// The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park**
September 26 /// Forest Hills, NY /// All Things Go NYC
September 27 /// Columbia, MD /// All Things Go DC
October 15 /// Dublin, Ireland /// 3Arena††
October 18 /// Manchester, U.K. /// Co-op Live††
October 19 /// Glasgow, U.K. /// OVO Hydro††
October 21 /// London, U.K. /// The O2††
October 23 /// Paris, France /// La Seine Musicale††
October 24 /// Zurich, Switzerland /// The Hall††
October 26 /// Dusseldorf, Germany /// Mitsubishi Electric Halle††
October 27 /// Amsterdam, Netherlands /// AFAS Live††
October 29 /// Oslo, Norway /// Spektrum††
October 30 /// Stockholm, Sweden /// Annexet††
November 1 /// Lisbon, Portugal /// Sagres Campo Pequeno††
January 14-18, 2027 /// Riviera Maya, Mexico /// Girls Just Wanna Weekend 8
*with Indigo Girls and I’m With Her
†with Bonnie Raitt and Sara Bareilles
‡with The Highwomen, Sheryl Crow, Wynonna Judd and Brittney Spencer
Apple TV has announced “The Dynasty: UConn Huskies,” a three-part docuseries premiering globally on Friday, August 21, 2026. Directed by Emmy Award winner Matthew Hamachek and Emmy Award nominee Erica Sashin, the series spans 40 years of the most dominant program in the history of NCAA Division I basketball, built and sustained under Hall of Fame head coach Geno Auriemma.
The numbers are staggering. In 1985, UConn women’s basketball had just one winning season to its name. What followed was 12 national championships, more than any other program, men or women, in NCAA Division I history. No program in college basketball has come close to replicating what Auriemma built in Storrs.
The series features exclusive interviews with the 2025 National Championship team, including number 1 overall 2025 WNBA Draft pick Paige Bueckers, number 1 overall 2026 WNBA Draft pick Azzi Fudd, 2026 collegiate National Player of the Year Sarah Strong, KK Arnold, and Jana El Alfy. Voices from across generations of UConn basketball fill out the portrait, tracing the lineage from Rebecca Lobo and Swin Cash through Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore, and Breanna Stewart.
The series doesn’t shy away from the full complexity of what sustained dominance actually requires. Auriemma’s vision and intensity are central to the story, and so are the demands, tensions, and personal costs that come with operating at that standard year after year for four decades. This is not a highlight reel. It’s a full accounting.
Never-before-seen archival footage, intimate player access, and interviews spanning generations give the series the depth the subject demands. Produced by Skydance Sports for Apple TV, with Learfield Studios and Revue Studios executive producing, “The Dynasty: UConn Huskies” arrives August 21 on Apple TV.
Gráinne Duffy has released ‘What Am I Supposed To Do,’ her new album, alongside the title track and its accompanying video. The Irish blues-rock artist recorded the album at 64 Sound Studio in Los Angeles, co-produced by Justin Stanley and Marc Ford of The Black Crowes, and the results are the most expansive work of her career.
The title track sets the tone immediately. Built on a driving guitar riff and emotionally charged lyrics, the song moves between personal unrest and the chaos of the wider world. Duffy explains the duality directly: “There is a sense of reflection here between the madness outside in the world and something that is also in flux or in need of repair on the inside emotionally.” The opening line, “Whole world is crazy, fallin’ down outside,” was written while wildfires swept through Los Angeles during the January 2025 sessions. Context shaped the song in real time.
Legendary drummer Kenny Aronoff, whose credits include John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul McCartney, performs on the record and described the title track as “a mix of U2 and The Rolling Stones.” That framing captures the album’s ambition: expansive rock energy rooted in genuine blues and soul. The full lineup is formidable, with bassist Jørgen Carlsson of Gov’t Mule, keyboardist Peter Levin, Ford, and Duffy’s longtime collaborator Paul Sherry all contributing.
Raised in County Monaghan, Ireland, Duffy came up on Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, B.B. King, and Fleetwood Mac. Those influences don’t compete in her music; they coexist naturally, which is what makes her sound so difficult to replicate. She released her debut ‘Out of the Dark’ in 2007, with The Sunday Times calling her “a blues singer of real integrity.” Subsequent albums ‘Test of Time’ (2011) and ‘Where I Belong’ (2017) built her following across Europe and North America.
Her 2020 release ‘Voodoo Blues’ broke into the UK IBBA Top 10 and the U.S. Roots Music Report Top 50, earning her the Independent Blues Award for Best Modern Roots Artist in 2021. ‘Dirt Woman Blues’ (2023) went to number 1 on the U.S. Roots Music Report and held that position for 7 consecutive weeks. The trajectory has been consistent and deliberate.
‘What Am I Supposed To Do’ is the natural next step from an artist who has never chased trends or reinvented herself for the sake of it. Duffy follows instinct, emotion, and song. The album is out now.
The Polaris Music Prize is doing something it has never done before. For the first time in the award’s history, the 2026 Album Long List reveal will take place as part of a festival, with Polaris teaming up with NXNE to announce the 40 nominated records on Thursday, June 11 at NXNE’s Artist House at Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation, 192 Spadina Avenue. The event is open to NXNE artists and VIP and Platinum pass holders based on capacity.
The Long List announcement kicks off a full season of key Polaris dates running through September, culminating in the Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony on September 22 at Massey Hall, returning to that stage for the fourth consecutive year. The night will feature a genre-spanning, one-night-only lineup of performers, to be announced in July. Tickets are on sale now through the Massey Hall box office, with 15% off available using the promo code POLARIS15.
The Polaris Prize has a track record that speaks for itself. Past Album Prize winners include Yves Jarvis (2025), Jeremy Dutcher (2024), Debby Friday (2023), Pierre Kwenders (2022), Cadence Weapon (2021), Backxwash (2020), Haviah Mighty (2019), Lido Pimienta (2017), Kaytranada (2016), Tanya Tagaq (2014), Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2013), Feist (2012), Arcade Fire (2011), and Patrick Watson (2007), among others. The list maps twenty years of the most vital Canadian music made.
Pop Montreal has also dropped its first wave of 2026 performers, with Polaris alumni and community members well represented, including Think About Life, Chad VanGaalen, Plants and Animals, Spencer Krug, La Sécurité, Charlotte Cornfield, Julie Doiron, Klô Pelgag, Basia Bulat, Shad, and more. With NXNE running June 10 to 14 across 30-plus Toronto venues and Pop Montreal to follow, the argument for a Toronto-to-Montreal road trip this summer is strong.
Key 2026 Polaris Dates:
Thursday, June 11 – 40 Album Long List announced at NXNE
Wednesday, June 24 – 20 Song Long List announced
Thursday, July 9 – 10 Album Short List announced
Wednesday, July 29 – 5 Song Short List announced
Wednesday, August 5 – Heritage Prize nominees announced, public voting opens
Friday, August 21 – Heritage Prize public voting closes
Tuesday, September 22 – Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony at Massey Hall
Throughout September – Polaris Festival (programming to be announced)
Rhiannon Giddens has announced the Biscuits & Banjos Foundation, a new nonprofit organization celebrating the African diaspora’s role in creating American identity and culture through music, literature, food, and community. The Foundation envisions a world where the full story of American music, literature, food, and culture is told—and where the communities that created it are resourced, visible, and thriving.
Giddens revealed the Foundation during her sold-out hometown performance at DPAC in Durham, NC on April 27—a concert that also marked the one-year anniversary of the Biscuits & Banjos festival, which brought thousands to Durham in 2025 for a citywide celebration of Black music, art, and culture.
Building on the mission-oriented work that has defined Giddens’ career, the Biscuits & Banjos Foundation will serve as a long-term home for cultural work that is too often unpaid or underfunded—investing in Black-led traditions and the artists, culture bearers, educators, and communities who sustain them.
The Foundation curates programming that traces the roots of American music and culture back to the people and communities of the African diaspora—contributions that have been erased, exploited, or forgotten. Through concerts, community gatherings, educational projects, funding initiatives, and partnerships with artists and organizations across the country, the Biscuits & Banjos Foundation creates opportunities for audiences to engage with a fuller, more honest history of American culture, while taking meaningful action to support the communities it comes from.
As an initial initiative, the Foundation will provide Black music education organizations with banjos, expanding access to instruments and supporting the next generation of players and tradition-bearers; invest directly in Black-led artistic programming, with a focus on traditions rooted in folk, old-time, country, and roots music; support cultural education through grants, sponsorships, and partnerships with mission-aligned artists and teachers; produce and support community engagement events that pair music with food, storytelling, and dialogue—experiences rooted in place and designed to strengthen connections between audiences and local communities; partner with organizations doing parallel work in cultural preservation and community resourcing.
Biscuits & Banjos traces back to the 2005 Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, NC—the event that led to the origin of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and where Giddens met and learned from legendary fiddler Joe Thompson, who passed down songs, traditions, and stories he received from elders before him.
That gathering underscored the vital contributions of Black voices in American roots music—contributions that have long been subject to attempts at erasure. Combating that erasure has been central to Giddens’ work from the beginning, honoring and uplifting Black artists, storytellers, authors, and culture bearers.
For the twentieth anniversary of the Black Banjo Gathering, Giddens curated the inaugural Biscuits & Banjos Festival in Durham in 2025. Over three days, the city hosted performances, workshops, jam sessions, culinary events, films, readings, square dances, and panels—with the centerpiece being a reunion of the Carolina Chocolate Drops for the first time in over a decade. The Biscuits & Banjos Foundation carries that spirit forward year-round.
The Biscuits & Banjos Foundation was launched with the generous support of partners who believe in this work and helped make the 2025 founding event possible. Major support for the launch of Biscuits & Banjos was provided by WMG BFF Social Justice Fund, Ford Foundation, North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, Duke Arts and Duke Community Affairs, Tejemos Foundation, Harper House Music Foundation, Red Light Management, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Danielle Rose Paikin Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, City of Durham, and Durham County, along with a host of additional generous individual donors, foundations, sponsors, and civic partners.
TikTok’s Add to Music App has crossed 6 billion track saves in the past 12 months, and the numbers behind that milestone tell the story of how music discovery actually works in 2026. The feature, which allows users to save songs discovered on TikTok directly to streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music, has become one of the most consequential tools in the modern music industry.
Topping the global list of most-saved tracks over the past year is “Die On This Hill” by Sienna Spiro, a full-scale phenomenon driven entirely by the TikTok community. The track generated over 6 million user creations, 16 billion video views, and 385 million streams on Spotify. It charted at number 9 on the UK Official Singles Chart and number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, with high-profile covers from P!nk and Demi Lovato, and a duet with Sam Smith adding further reach.
At number 2 is “Raindance” by Dave featuring Tems, one of the defining UK tracks of the past year with over 475 million Spotify streams. The track reached number 1 in the UK, made Dave the UK rapper with the most number ones this decade, and broke into Brazil’s Spotify Top 100, making him the first UK rapper to ever accomplish that. It’s also climbing the Billboard Hot 100 while Dave is currently on tour in the US.
The full Top 20 list spans BTS, Taylor Swift, Radiohead, Frank Ocean, Sabrina Carpenter, Tyler the Creator, Dominic Fike, and more, a cross-genre snapshot of how discovery on TikTok translates directly into mainstream chart performance and streaming revenue.
Tracy Gardner, Global Head of Music Business Development at TikTok, framed the milestone plainly: “Generating over 6 billion track saves, and many multiples more in streams, in a single year shows how powerful our platform is at driving music discovery among our community, and how seamlessly we are converting intent into streaming, chart success, and revenue for artists and their partners.”
TikTok Add to Music App, Global Top 20 Most-Saved Tracks (April 2025 to April 2026):
Die On This Hill – SIENNA SPIRO
Raindance – Dave (ft. Tems)
SWIM – BTS
The Fate of Ophelia – Taylor Swift
I Thought I Saw Your Face Today – She & Him
So Far So Fake – Pierce The Veil
Shake It to The Max – MOLIY & Skillibeng & Shenseea
resh off the heels of their new song “heaven and hell,” South Korean indie rock band wave to earth confirms an extensive global tour and album are on the way.
“the pieces tour,” promoted by Live Nation, will begin September 4 in Vancouver, with stops in 21 cities across North America including Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Austin and more, with stops at New York City’s iconic Radio City Music Hall and Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre.
The tour will also see shows in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and more across Asia this November. Complete list of dates below.
Fans can sign up now HERE to access the Seated registration pre-sale beginning on Wednesday, May 20 at 10am local time. The general on-sale will begin Thursday, May 21 at 10am local time at livenation.com.
The acclaimed band—a trio of Daniel Kim, John Cha, Dong Q—confirm a new album is on the way this summer. Stay tuned for further details.
The trio debuted in 2019 and have gone on to captivate a global audience—selling out shows across North America, Europe, and Asia. Their latest single “heaven and hell” is the first taste of new music since play with earth! 0.03 (2024). The EP debuted at #5 on Spotify’s Top Albums Debut Global Chart and found the band on a fully sold-out tour across North America.
They have released EPs wave 0.01 (2020) and summer flows 0.02 (2020), and their first full-length album, 0.1 flaws and all (2023) arrived following signing to independent label, WAVY. The much-lauded album included breakout single “bad” which soared to #1 on Spotify’s Viral 50 Global Chart. The band has gone on to accumulate over 7 million monthly listeners on Spotify, more than 500 million streams of their hit “seasons,” and perform hundreds of shows around the world, including Lollapalooza in Chicago, Chile and India.
WAVE TO EARTH the pieces tour
September 4 /// Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre /// Vancouver, BC September 5 /// WAMU Theater @ Lumen Field /// Seattle, WA September 8 /// The Theater at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium /// San Francisco, CA September 9 /// Greek Theatre /// Los Angeles, CA September 12 /// Arizona Financial Theatre /// Phoenix, AZ September 15 /// Pepsi Center WTC /// Mexico City, MX September 18 /// The Union Event Center /// Salt Lake City, UT September 19 /// Fillmore Auditorium /// Denver, CO September 21 /// The Armory /// Minneapolis, MN September 22 /// Aragon Ballroom /// Chicago, IL September 25 /// The Theatre at Great Canadian Toronto /// Toronto, ON September 26 /// MTELUS /// Montreal, QC September 27 /// MGM Music Hall at Fenway /// Boston, MA September 29 /// Radio City Music Hall /// New York, NY October 2 /// The Anthem /// Washington, D.C. October 3 /// The Met Philadelphia presented by Highmark /// Philadelphia, PA October 6 /// Coca-Cola Roxy /// Atlanta, GA October 7 /// Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre /// Charlotte, NC October 9 /// 713 Music Hall /// Houston, TX October 10 /// ACL Live at the Moody Theater /// Austin, TX October 11 /// The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory /// Dallas, TX November 12 /// UOB Live /// Bangkok November 15 /// SM Mall of Asia Arena /// Manila November 18 /// AsiaWorld-Expo Hall 10 /// Hong Kong November 20 /// Singapore Indoor Stadium /// Singapore November 22 /// Idea Live Arena /// Kuala Lumpur November 24 /// Taipei International Convention Center (TICC) /// Taipei November 26 /// BIGCAT /// Osaka November 27 /// Zepp DiverCity /// Tokyo
Apple TV has ordered “Disavowed,” a new action thriller starring and executive produced by Emmy and Golden Globe nominee James Marsden. Created by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, the writing team behind “Iron Man” and “Uncharted,” the series follows Brad Griffin, a legendary CIA Case Officer who gets fired mid-mission during a global hunt for an assassin who killed his colleague. Disgraced and cut off from the intelligence world, Griffin goes rogue and chases the $15 million federal bounty on the assassin himself. Marcum, Holloway, Tom Spezialy, and Marsden executive produce, with Blue Marble Pictures (Apple’s critically acclaimed “Pachinko”) producing alongside executive producers Theresa Kang and Caroline Garity. No premiere date has been announced.
When Rivers Meet have released the video for “Caught In The Middle,” the third single from their forthcoming album ‘Rhythm Rust & Static,’ due June 19, 2026. The husband-and-wife duo of Grace and Aaron Bond have built a track that lives exactly where its title suggests, caught between knowing better and doing it anyway.
Grace explains the lyric directly: “It’s about being pulled between knowing you should walk away from something and still feeling drawn back to it. It sits right in that tension between your head and your heart.” Aaron adds that the music mirrors that feeling deliberately: “The groove keeps pulling you back in, almost like you can’t quite escape it. It feels dark and hypnotic at the same time.” Both descriptions are accurate.
“Caught In The Middle” follows “The Script,” which won Classic Rock Magazine’s Track of the Week, and “The Tide Is Turning,” named Red Hot Track of the Week by Rushon Rock. ‘Rhythm Rust & Static’ has already earned a 5/5 from Music-News, which called it “ragged and glorious. Absolutely essential.” The album arrives June 19 due to a brief vinyl manufacturing delay, a decision the band made to ensure everything arrives exactly as it should.
Three-time UK Blues Awards Band of the Year winners, When Rivers Meet go their own way and always have. A full UK tour runs through the summer and fall. Tickets are available at whenriversmeet.co.uk/tour.
