Month: January 2026

The first 100 showcasing artists and 50 showcase presenters confirmed to perform at this year’s South by Southwest music festival were revealed, with the lineup representing genres and countries from around the world. The event will take place from March 12 to March 18 in Austin, TX.

The All-American Rejects will kick off SXSW 2026 at the Music Festival Opening Party on March 12 at Stubb’s Amphitheater in Austin, Texas. The festival, celebrating its 40th anniversary next year, will run March 12–18 across the city.

SXSW VP of Music Brian Hobbs shared in a statement: “SXSW has been the premiere destination for music discovery for 40 years, helping push pioneering acts like Kendrick Lamar, The White Stripes, Wet Leg, PinkPantheress, Tyler, The Creator, and Billie Eilish, to the next level. By bringing the global music industry to Austin, from labels and A&R to publicists to influential journalists and critics, SXSW is a unique opportunity for showcasing artists to build their careers, enter new markets, and learn from fellow artists and industry voices. With an extra night of showcases this year, 2026 is shaping up to be better than ever for artists, industry and audiences.”

The full lineup of showcasing artists are available on the official SXSW website.

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The lineups for next year’s Lollapalooza Chile, Lollapalooza Argentina and Lollapalooza Brasil will feature headlining sets from Sabrina Carpenter, Tyler, The Creator and Chappell Roan.

The full lineups for their 2026 editions will also all include headliners Deftones, Skrillex, Lord, Doechi, Turnstile, Lewis Capaldi and Paulo Londra.

Lollapalooza Chile will run from March 13–15 at Parque Bicentenario de Cerrillos in Santiago. The festival will feature artists including Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Tyler, the Creator, Lorde, Deftones, Turnstile, Skrillex, Doechii, Lewis Capaldi, Interpol, Los Bunkers, Tom Morello, Katseye, Addison Rae, Kygo, 2Hollis, Royel Otis, HorsegiirL, Men I Trust, Viagra Boys, The Dare, MARINA, and TV Girl, among others.

Lollapalooza Argentina, also scheduled for March 13–15, will take place at Hippodromo de San Isidro in Buenos Aires. The lineup includes performers Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Tyler, the Creator, Lorde, Deftones, Turnstile, Skrillex, Doechii, Lewis Capaldi, Interpol, Paulo Londra, Kygo, Peggy Gou, Addison Rae, DJO, Katseye, MARINA, Lola Young, Royel Otis, 2Hollis, The Dare, Men I Trust, Viagra Boys, Ratones, and more.

Lollapalooza Brasil closes out the South American run from March 20–22 at Autódromo de Interlagos in São Paulo. The bill includes Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Tyler, the Creator, Lorde, Deftones, Turnstile, Skrillex, Doechii, Lewis Capaldi, Cypress Hill, Interpol, Addison Rae, Katseye, Lola Young, DJO, MARINA, Men I Trust, 2Hollis, Viagra Boys, HorsegiirL, Peggy Gou, Kygo, Ben Böhmer, and many others.

Tickets to all three festivals are on sale now.  Meanwhile, organizers announced that the festival’s flagship Chicago edition is expected to return sometime in August 2026.

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ZZ Top and Dwight Yoakam will co-headline The Dos Amigos Tour, traveling across the Midwest, South, and East Coast this spring. The tour is scheduled to officially kick off in late March 2026 and run through Memorial Day weekend.

Yoakam’s social media posted: “Dwight Yoakam is hitting the road with ZZ Top for the Dos Amigos Tour next year! First access to tickets is available now at the link in bio. -D Team ”

Both Yoakam and ZZ Top also have separate tour dates scheduled for early 2026; head to their their websites for information.

Tickets for The Dos Amigos Tour can be found – HERE.

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From Ashes to New wrapped up 2025 with the release of their new single, “Drag Me. ”

Singer Matt Brandyberry shared: “We wanted to create a song about feeling trapped in a war with yourself, when your inner demons pull harder than your better intentions can push. Every good thought gets buried beneath the bad, and you start to realize the real fight isn’t against the world, it’s against the reflection staring back at you. ‘Drag Me’ came from that place…the feeling of being pulled straight into hell by the parts of yourself you could never escape.”

“Drag Me” is the follow-up to “New Disease,” which was released last summer, marking the band’s first new music since “Live Before I’m Dead (Hours)” – which one of the six bonus tracks that appeared on the June 2024 release of the Blackout Deluxe album, the extended version of their No. 1-charting album Blackout (2023).

Watch the visualizer for ‘Drag Me’ – HERE.

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As I Lay Dying have shared the new single, “If I Fall.”

The musics comes following the premiere last fall of their comeback single, “Echoes”, which introduced the band’s new lineup – Chris Clancy (bass, clean vocals), Bill Hudson (guitar), Don Vedda (guitar), and Tim Yeung (drums) – the band has now dropped a second strike.

Frontman Tim Lambesis shared about “If I Fall”: “I wrote the first version of ‘If I Fall’ before the new lineup even came together, and I knew the song had real potential. As each musician joined the process, that potential only grew — everyone brought something that elevated what I’d already started. Musically, it hints at what’s possible with this refreshed energy, and lyrically it reflects the kind of people I want around me for this next and best chapter.”

The new band formation follows the exodus of the previous lineup, who departed in late 2023 citing personal morals, unhealthy working conditions, and concerns about Lambesis’ behaviour.

See the video for “If I Fall” – HERE.

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Grateful Dead founding member and guitarist Bob Weir has died at age 78.

Weir death was shared in a family statement posted on his social media: “It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir.  He transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could. Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues.” The note added that Weir’s “final months reflected the same spirit that defined his life. Diagnosed in July, he began treatment only weeks before returning to his hometown stage for a three-night celebration of 60 years of music at Golden Gate Park. Those performances, emotional, soulful, and full of light, were not farewells, but gifts. Another act of resilience.”

Weir’s daughter Chloe Weir said in an announcement on her father’s website: “for over 60 years, Bobby took to the road, whose unique artistry reshaped American music. His work did more than fill rooms with music. It was warm sunlight that filled the soul, building a community, a language and a feeling of family that generations of fans carry with them. Every chord he played, every word he sang was an integral part of the stories he wove. There was an invitation: to feel, to question, to wander and to belong.  His daughter called her dad a “man driftin’ and dreamin’, never worrying if the road would lead him home. A child of countless trees. A child of boundless seas. There is no final curtain here, not really. Only the sense of someone setting off again. He often spoke of a three-hundred-year legacy, determined to ensure the songbook would endure long after him. May that dream live on through future generations of Dead Heads. And so, we send him off the way he sent so many of us on our way: with a farewell that isn’t an ending, but a blessing. A reward for a life worth livin’.””

Known to fans as “Bobby,” Weir was born in San Francisco, and met the late Jerry Garcia in 1962, who taught him guitar. They later started a band called McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, which evolved into the Warlocks, and finally became the Grateful Dead. Weir played rhythm guitar and sang lead vocals for the entirety of the Grateful Dead’s 30-year tenure. The band developed a loyal fanbase of “Deadheads” who followed the band while it toured across the country. While the band never had any No. 1 hits, they won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 2007; another for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package for its boxed set of Madison Square Garden performances that were recorded from 1981-1983; and the best music film award in 2018. The Dead’s only Billboard Top 10 hit was “Touch of Grey” in 1987.

Weir also founded and played in several other bands including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, RatDog, and Furthur. He released his first solo album, Ace, in 1972, followed by 1978’s Heaven Help the Fool. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995 after Garcia’s death, Weir performed with other former members of the band in a group called the Other Ones (later known as the Dead); and he continued playing with Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, along with John Mayer, in an outfit called Dead & Company, who concluded their “final tour” in July of 2023. Dead & Company then returned to the stage for two extended residencies at the Sphere in Las Vegas (in 2024 and 2025). His last solo LP, 2016’s Blue Mountain, featured contributions from members of the National.

Weir is survived by his wife of 26 years Natascha Münter, and their two daughters, Monet and Chloe.

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