Rhiannon Giddens has announced a European autumn tour running from September through December, with a run of dates across the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the UK, and Ireland, followed by a Reflektor residency at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, November 25 to 29, where Giddens will both perform and curate several events at the hall. The tour closes with 3 nights in London, Edinburgh, and Gateshead in early December.
The tour supports ‘What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow,’ Giddens’ 2025 Grammy-nominated album recorded with former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson. Produced by Giddens and Joseph “joebass” DeJarnette, the album features Giddens on banjo and Robinson on fiddle across 18 North Carolina tunes, many learned from their late mentor Joe Thompson and one from the late Etta Baker. The pair recorded outdoors at Thompson’s and Baker’s North Carolina homes, accompanied by 2 simultaneously emerging broods of cicadas that had not appeared together since 1803. That recording exists nowhere else.
Rhiannon Giddens European Tour:
Sep 22 /// De Oosterpoort /// Groningen, Netherlands
SIENNA SPIRO first started to use TikTok to build her audience in 2024 when she released ‘MAYBE.’, which generated over a million creations. She followed this up in 2025 with ‘You Stole the Show’, which generated over 2 million creations and over 3 billion video views on TikTok, becoming her real breakthrough moment, and putting her firmly on the world stage.
She then released ‘Die On This Hill‘, which became an unequivocal global sensation, driven by the TikTok community, with over 6 million creations and 16 billion video views. It was the most-saved track over the last 12 months worldwide on TikTok, and sparked a wave of performance-led trends, inspired by the power of her lyrics and emotional storytelling, including memory montages and high-profile covers, with performances by P!NK, Demi Lovato, and SIENNA’s own duet with Sam Smith.
Fueled by this momentum, “Die On This Hill” translated into significant off-platform success, generating more than 385 million streams on Spotify and charting at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100. SIENNA has garnered critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, Wonderland, Dazed, V Magazine, The New York Times,and many more, been tipped as an “Artist to Watch” for 2026 from the likes of Billboard, Stereogum, Pigeons & Planes, and shortlisted for the BRIT Awards’ highly esteemedCritics’ Choice of 2026 award. She was recently named on Forbes “30 Under 30” Europe list and received two American Music Awardnominations for Best Vocal Performance and Breakthrough Pop Artist.
SIENNA’s most recent fan-demanded hit single, ‘The Visitor‘, further built on that momentum. The track has been used in over 2 million TikTok creations and generated more than 3 billion video views, while her headline “The Visitor Tour” was met with widespread praise and sold out across North America, the UK, and Europe.
Behind The Breakthrough is a documentary-style series that captures TikTok breakout artists reflecting on how their music and careers have been transformed by the platform and its community. The series has already featured Gigi Perez’s ‘Sailor Song’, Malcolm Todd’s ‘Chest Pain (I Love)’,and Alex Warren’s huge hit smash ‘Ordinary’.
Apple TV has renewed “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” for a second season, with the Season 1 finale having debuted globally on May 20. Created and written by multi-Emmy Award winner David E. Kelley and based on Rufi Thorpe’s bestselling novel, the series earned a Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has been called “one of the best shows of the year” since its debut.
The cast is formidable. Elle Fanning stars as Margo, a recent college dropout and aspiring writer navigating a new baby, mounting debt, and a family that defies easy description. Michelle Pfeiffer plays her ex-Hooters waitress mother. Nick Offerman is her ex-pro wrestler father. Nicole Kidman, Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Kinnear, Michael Angarano, Rico Nasty, and Lindsey Normington round out an ensemble that critics have praised for “immaculate performances.”
Fanning, who also executive produces, described bringing the project to screen as “one of the greatest joys of my life,” and confirmed season two delivers “a wild, messy and beautiful ride.” Kelley was equally direct: “I fell in love with Rufi’s world and unpredictable characters, and it’s been rewarding to see audiences embrace this series.”
Eva Anderson joins as co-showrunner for season two. The series is produced for Apple TV by A24, with executive producers including Fanning, Nicole Kidman and Per Saari of Blossom Films, and BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Dearbhla Walsh, who directed the pilot. “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” is streaming now on Apple TV.
Paul McCartney and actor Paul Mescal are sitting down together for “The Boys of Dungeon Lane,” an intimate conversation premiering exclusively on Amazon Live and Amazon Music today, Monday May 25. Set inside the fictional Dungeon Lane Cafe, the two Pauls trade stories behind the songs in a format that sounds as warm and unhurried as the setting suggests. McCartney teased it simply: “When McCartney met Mescal.” Amazon Music responded with equal economy: “We love Paul.” That about covers it for everyone’s view.
A women’s choir from the Emsland region of Germany performing “Chop Suey!” by System of a Down with a live band at a sold-out Stadthalle in Papenburg sounds like a fever dream, but Schola Surwold pulled it off with full commitment. Arranged by Jetse Bremer and directed by Patrick Schütte, the performance features violin, piano, guitar, bass, and drums alongside the choir’s full polyphonic vocal treatment, turning one of metal’s most visceral songs into something cinematic, ominous, and genuinely stunning.
Bose has announced the general availability of the Lifestyle Collection, a new modular home audio lineup that scales from a single speaker to a full 7.1.4 home theater configuration. The collection includes 3 products: the Lifestyle Ultra Speaker ($299), the Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar ($1,099), and the Lifestyle Ultra Subwoofer ($899). All three are available now at Bose.com and select retailers in Black or White Smoke finishes. The Lifestyle Ultra Speaker is also offered in a limited-edition Driftwood Sand finish with a solid white oak base for $349.
The system is built around flexibility. A single Lifestyle Ultra Speaker handles everyday room-filling listening. Two can be paired for stereo. Add the Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar and Subwoofer alongside 2 additional speakers and the system expands into a full 7.1.4 multichannel home theater. Multi-room grouping is supported via Google Cast and Apple AirPlay, including with compatible speakers from other manufacturers. Bluetooth, Spotify Connect, and built-in Alexa+ round out the connectivity options.
The Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar represents the first major soundbar redesign from Bose in over a decade. Six full-range drivers, 2 up-firing and 4 front-facing, plus 2 proprietary PhaseGuide drivers and a center tweeter deliver Dolby Atmos-ready three-dimensional audio from a single enclosure. SpeechClarity technology uses AI-driven processing to isolate and enhance dialogue. CustomTune (formerly ADAPTiQ) analyzes the room’s dimensions and acoustics via a smartphone microphone and optimizes playback accordingly.
The Lifestyle Ultra Speaker uses a 3-driver design, 2 front-facing and 1 up-firing, with Bose’s TrueSpatial audio processing and CleanBass technology delivering deep low-frequency performance from a compact enclosure. The Lifestyle Ultra Subwoofer connects wirelessly and completes the system with controlled, cinema-grade bass at any volume.
Design across the collection features sculpted silhouettes, textured knit fabric, and curved frames with premium glass accents on the Soundbar and Subwoofer, built to sit naturally in living spaces rather than dominate them. The updated Bose app handles setup, equalization, source selection, and room optimization across the full system.
Cécile McLorin Salvant’s With Every Breath I Take is due June 26, 2026, on Nonesuch Records. The album, Salvant’s first with orchestra, features The Netherlands’ Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley. Salvant and the ensemble perform timeless songs newly arranged by composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue. The album’s title track, written by Cy Coleman and David Zippel, is available today along with a lyric video, which may be seen here. Salvant tours internationally throughout the summer and fall.
Salvant, who has performed with orchestras regularly over the last decade-and-a-half and intended to make an album with one sooner in her career, but logistics and her abundant creative ideas led to other new projects intervening. Having finally found time to make this album, With Every Breath I Take is a different sort of record than it might have been even ten years ago.
“It is a rare opportunity to be able to make an album at this scale, which has been a dream of mine for many years,” Salvant says. “Darcy James Argue wrote stunning arrangements and the Metropole Orkest, conducted by the extraordinary Jules Buckley, gave these stories a cinematic dimension. We overcame quite a few obstacles to even get into the recording studio for this project; it took almost four years for us to do so, and I am so incredibly proud to share it.
“I did not choose these songs because they are beautiful, but because they are crucial to me,” she adds.
Cécile McLorin Salvant, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, is a singer and composer bringing historical perspective, a renewed sense of drama, and an enlightened musical understanding to both jazz standards and her own original compositions. Classically trained, steeped in jazz, blues, and folk, and drawing from musical theater and vaudeville, Salvant embraces a wide-ranging repertoire that broadens the possibilities for live performance.
Salvant’s performances range from spare duets for voice and piano to instrumental trios to orchestral ensembles. Her unreleased work Ogresse is an ambitious long-form musical fairy tale that is being made into a feature length animated film. She has performed at national and international venues and festivals such as the Newport Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Village Vanguard, and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Her previous Nonesuch albums, Ghost Song (2022), Mélusine (2023), and Oh Snap (2025) received critical accolades; the former two were both nominated for Grammy Awards. Salvant is also a visual artist, and Oh Snap was named a best album of 2025 by the Guardian, Jazzwise, JazzTimes, and the Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll.
The Metropole Orkest, founded in 1945, regularly performs on well-known Dutch music stages such as Tivoli Vredenburg, Melkweg, and the Concertgebouw, as well as many other venues across the country and neighboring countries. Internationally, the Metropole Orkest is a sought-after guest at major festivals including the BBC Proms and Musikfest Bremen. It is also a regular guest at events like ADE, North Sea Jazz, and the Holland Festival. The orchestra has also performed at Pinkpop, Lowlands, Noorderslag, and the 3FM Awards, making it well known and loved by a younger audience.
The orchestra has shared the stage with legends such as Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny, Brian Eno, Herbie Hancock, and Bono. It also collaborates with contemporary talents like Kovacs, Within Temptation, Snarky Puppy, Gregory Porter, Jacob Collier, Cory Wong, and DOMi & JD BECK. Together with chief conductor Jules Buckley, the orchestra explores the boundaries of contemporary symphonic pop and jazz. In addition to the many concerts, the orchestra regularly records albums with international artists. It has also contributed to thousands of radio and TV broadcasts. Over the years, Metropole Orkest has received no less than twenty-four Grammy nominations and worked on four Grammy-winning productions.
Composer, orchestrator, and conductor Jules Buckley is a musical pioneer who pushes the boundaries of contemporary genres. In 2004 he co-founded the Heritage Orchestra, a flexible chamber ensemble, dedicated to performing new music with a daring approach to crossing and linking musical genres. Buckley has led numerous successful projects as a guest conductor with the Metropole Orkest since 2007; he was appointed chief conductor in 2013. At Metropole Orkest, Buckley has led projects with Snarky Puppy, Laura Mvula, Gregory Porter, Tori Amos, Markus Stockhausen, Michael Kiwanuka, Jonathan Jeremiah, and UK house music duo Basement Jaxx.
Darcy James Argue, “one of the top big band composers of our time” (Stereophile), is best known for Secret Society, an eighteen-piece group “renowned in the jazz world” (New York Times). Argue brings an outwardly anachronistic ensemble into the 21st century through his “ability to combine his love of jazz’s past with more contemporary sonics” and is celebrated as “a syncretic creator who avoids obvious imitation” (Pitchfork). Acclaimed as an “innovative composer, arranger, and big band leader” by the New Yorker, Argue’s accolades include multiple Grammy nominations and a Latin Grammy Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Doris Duke Artist Award, and countless commissions and fellowships.
Dynamic Maximum Tension, Argue’s latest album with Secret Society and his label debut on Nonesuch Records, has been called “his best to date: a work of stunning eclecticism and complexity, but thoroughly accessible, elastic with swing” by Fred Kaplan of Slate, and “simply some of the most exciting music being made right now” by Stereogum’s Phil Freeman. Dynamic Maximum Tension was named one of the best albums of 2023 by DownBeat, NPR, and numerous other outlets, and earned Argue his fourth consecutive Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.
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.
