Bang Si-hyuk, the creative force behind BTS and chairman of K-pop powerhouse HYBE, appeared before the Financial Crimes Investigation Unit of the Korean National Police Agency on Monday (Sept. 15), marking a major development in his first-ever investigation by authorities.

Bang is suspected of deceiving investors in 2019 by claiming he had no plans to hold an IPO for HYBE, before allegedly inducing them to sell their shares in the company to a private equity fund associated with him. After HYBE went public, the fund reportedly cashed out. Under a pre-arranged shareholders’ agreement, Bang received 30% of the profits — around 190 billion KRW (approximately $13.7 million) — in what police describe as unjust gains. Bang’s representatives have flatly denied the allegations, insisting that no false information was given to early investors and that the profit-sharing terms were proposed by the investors themselves.

The current fraudulent trading allegations began in 2024, with police receiving intelligence on the case late last year before launching an investigation. In late July, police raided HYBE’s headquarters in Yongsan, Seoul, and chairman Bang returned to South Korea on Aug. 11, where he has remained since.

Speaking briefly with reporters outside the agency on Monday, Bang apologized for “causing concern” about the matter, adding, “I will fully cooperate with the investigation today.”

Before his return to the U.S., Bang sent an internal company email stating: “I am fully aware that I cannot allow my personal issues to continue burdening the company and the industry. I will continue to cooperate sincerely with the ongoing investigation and provide a thorough account once again. I hope that this process will clarify the facts, and I will humbly await the authorities’ judgment.”

On the day Chairman Bang was summoned by police, HYBE’s stock closed at 286,500 KRW (approx. $206), down 5,500 KRW from the previous day, showing little significant fluctuation. It still boasts the highest stock price among K-pop entertainment companies, surpassing SM Entertainment’s stock price (141,600 KRW) by more than twofold. HYBE reached its all-time high of 421,500 KRW (approx. $300) on November 16, 2021.

Founded as Big Hit Entertainment, the agency behind BTS, HYBE now operates under a multi-label system. Its roster includes leading groups such as SEVENTEEN, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, and ENHYPEN, as well as NewJeans, which is currently embroiled in a legal dispute over its exclusive contract.

Meanwhile, many Korean media outlets and members of the public focused on Chairman Bang’s noticeably slimmer appearance as he stood before the photo line, showing keen interest in his first police questioning.

Musical Christmas has come exceptionally early, with Coachella dropping its 2026 lineup on a seemingly unremarkable Monday night (Sept. 15) in September.

This surprisingly early Coachella talent announcement includes its regular roster of pop superstar headliners, with Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G taking top billing among dozens of other genre spanning acts.

And as always, there’s a long list of electronic artists playing the festival. Names in the biggest font include Anyma, whose mention is floating at the bottom in a position that in previous years has been reserved for artists including Travis Scott, Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia. Boys Noize, who’s been opening for Nine Inch Nails on their current Peel It Back tour, will play alongside the industrial lords as Nine Inch Noize. Major Lazer will play Coachella for the first time in years and Kaskade, Disclosure and Solomun will also get big looks, with their names on the lineup’s upper levels.

Dance acts typically play across most of Coachella’s myriad stages, composing the entire daily lineups for the club-focused Yuma tent, getting marquee spots in Sahara and often also playing on the Outdoor Stage, the Mojave and Gobi tents and occasionally the mainstage as well.

Additionally, the Quasar stage that debuted at Coachella in 2024 and hosts extended b2b sets typically announces its lineups (which in the past two years have been different for each weekend of the festival) much closer to the event in April, as does the the Do Lab stage, an electronic music nexus that’s been a Coachella staple since the festival’s earliest years.

Coachella returns to Indio, Calif., over two weekends April 10-12 and 17-19, 2026. These are all the electronic artists currently on the lineup.

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A final Soundgarden album is coming, but we’re not likely to hear anything from it this year, and certainly not before the Seattle band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction on Nov. 8.

“There’s not a set release date or anything as of yet,” drummer Matt Cameron, who will become a two-time inductee after getting in with Pearl Jam during 2017. “There were a couple schools of thought, like, ‘Hey, let’s put out a single.’ I think eventually we decided we want to make sure the whole thing is completed before we start releasing singles. I’m excited for people to hear it.”

Cameron, who announced his departure from Pearl Jam on July 7, is understandably excited about his Rock Hall distinction. “It’s a huge honor,” he acknowledges. “I haven’t really wrapped my head around it, and it’s not lost upon me that it’s pretty real to get in there two times. I’m feeling great about everything.” He has happy memories about the 2017 ceremony, including David Letterman’s induction speech for Pearl Jam as well as watching Yes perform and meeting original drummer Bill Bruford, one of his heroes. “Overall it was a pretty amazing time,” Cameron recalls. “It wasn’t really too stressful for me other than to make sure the performance was dialed in, because it was a big TV event. But other than that, it was a great evening.”

Getting into the Rock Hall with Soundgarden, however, will mean something different to Cameron, who joined the group in 1986 and was part of all of its recordings.

“They’re both huge honors, of course,” he says. “For me, personally, I helped build Soundgarden from the ground up, and I helped create the sound, I think, a little bit more than I did with Pearl Jam, which was definitely more of an established thing that I came into. So in that sense (Soundgarden’s induction) is a little more meaningful for me as an artist and musician and songwriter to go in with a band that I helped (to) establish itself.”

And while Soundgarden hails from a decidedly alternative scene that hasn’t always given credence to established institutions such as the Rock Hall, Cameron says that “there was never really a reluctance to acknowledged this honor. I think we’re always happy to be recognized by any established entity in the music industry…It felt like even from the early days, fellow musicians noticed what we were doing, and the music industry definitely took notice, so…it was nice to be recognized by the Grammys and whoever else.”

Soundgarden’s induction follows two previous nominations, in 2020 and 2023. The group finished sixth in the fan vote with 233,205.

Cameron is sending the Yamaha drum kit that he used to record the first three Soundgarden albums, as well as his first Keplinger snare drum. Soundgarden is planning to perform at the ceremony in Los Angeles — which will be aired live via Disney+ — but has not yet announced how the late Chris Cornell’s vocals will handled. “I think that’s above my pay grade,” says Cameron, who last December performed at a benefit concert for Seattle Children’s Hospital — billed as Nudedragons — at which guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Ben Shepherd were joined by Seattle vocalist Shaina Shepherd (no relation). He did, however, reveal that original bassist Hiro Yamamoto, with whom he recently performed in Seattle, will be involved in the ceremony, while an inductor is still being determined.

“It’s just been really exciting to gather up all these people we worked with over the years that helped us create the band, create our legacy, and it’s going to be a really great night,” the drummer predicts.

In the meantime, Cameron, Thayil and Shepherd are working to finish the eight remaining songs they started working on with Cornell before he committed suicide after a performance in Detroit during May of 2017. “We’re definitely over halfway done with it,” Cameron says. “Kim is in the process of finishing his guitar parts; he wants to make sure they get exactly the way he wants them.”

Soundgarden — whose most recently release, 2012’s King Animal, was its first new album in 16 years — began working on the material back in 2015; finishing them was delayed until legal issues between the band and Cornell’s widow Vicky Cornell could be settled.

“Emotionally it’s been extreme highs and extreme lows,” Cameron says of working on the material. “Hearing (Cornell’s) voice on these powerful hard rock songs is the most empowering thing in the world for me. Then I listen to his voice soloed up when I’m working on stuff, or if Kim or Ben is working on something, and it all comes back to the fact that he’s not with us and he left us in a way that has so many questions. It’s been gut-wrenching but at the same time very empowering.”

The Soundgarden album is just one of the endeavors Cameron’s been up to since, and before, announcing his departure from Pearl Jam — which he says was amicable. “I definitely gave them a lot of notice,” he notes. “I’ve spoken with Jeff (Ament) and Stone (Gossard) a little bit…It’s been fine. Hopefully we’ll get back together at some point and have a beer or something.”

He maintains, as he did in his original announcement, that “I’m at a point in my life where I want to redirect my time and energy in a way that is a little bit based on what I want to pursue as an artist at this point.” That includes a new band, Is This Real?, in which he’s serving as frontman and guitarist; it began as a Wipers tribute but is “also recording original music I’ve been writing over the years,” with an album of mostly original material I’ve been writing over the years” expected in the near future.

He and Thayil, meanwhile, continue to work in the all-star 3rd Secret (with Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Void’s Jon “Bubba” Dupree and others), with hopes of possibly taking that band on the road.

“I was having some issues with (Pearl Jam’s) three-hour shows and constant touring and stuff,” Cameron adds. “That’s definitely an art form unto itself, to be able to do those types of shows…I’m at a point now where I want to do a face-melting 70-minute set, and that’s kind of what I’m focusing on right now.”

Following the death of music manager Brandon Blackstock last month at age 48, his former stepmother Reba McEntire offered a family update on Sunday’s Emmys red carpet.

McEntire was married to Brandon’s dad, Starstruck co-founder Narvel Blackstock, for 26 years and is the mother of Brandon’s half-brother Shelby. When Brandon married Kelly Clarkson in 2013, McEntire all of a sudden became family with Clarkson, a singer she had performed with before the marital connection. (Reba and Narvel divorced in 2015, while Kelly and Brandon ended their marriage in 2022.) Before his death, Brandon Blackstock had four children: Savannah and Seth from a previous marriage and River Rose and Remy with Clarkson.

At Sunday’s Emmys, an Entertainment Tonight reporter asked McEntire how the whole family is holding up following Brandon’s death.

“Well, we miss him. We miss him every minute,” McEntire said. “The kids are doing well. They’re all bonding together and hanging out with each other and taking it one day at a time. We know God’s got this.”

The reporter also asked how Reba’s son is doing, to which she replied: “Shelby’s doing great, thank you for asking.”

Brandon Blackstock died on Aug. 7 after battling cancer for three years.

Also on Sunday’s Emmys red carpet, McEntire revealed that she’s engaged to her Happy’s Place co-star Rex Linn after dating for five years. McEntire was previously married to Charlie Battles from 1976 to 1987 and to Narvel Blackstock from 1989 to 2015.

When E! News asked her last year if she would consider getting married a third time for Linn, Reba said: “If that’s something he feels totally strong about, that’s fine with me. He’s never been married before. So, if he wants to experience that, I’m OK with that.”

Nick Cannon now believes deciding to have 12 children was a response to trauma.

While sitting down with The Breakfast Club, Cannon spoke on his mental health journey and admitted that he was dealing with trauma after going through his divorce with Mariah Carey. And when he was asked by co-host Charlamagne Tha God if the Wild-N-Out creator thought having 12 kids with six different women was a response to his trauma, he said yes.

“I’m learning that now, and it wasn’t like I was acting out,” Cannon said. “It was more of being careless, being frivolous with my process, because I could do it, because I had the money, because I had the access to whoever and however I wanted to move. Opposed to doing a mature thing and saying, ‘Hey, well, it probably makes more sense to do this.’ And then, obviously, life happens as well. So it wasn’t like, ‘Well, I’m gonna go have 12 kids.’ It was more about, like, ‘Yo, I’mma just live life and have fun and whatever happens, happens, I can handle it.’”

He added: “Being almost 45 now, I can sit back and be like, ‘If I would have thought the process through a little bit more and took time to actually do the inner work, things might’ve been a little different in certain scenarios.’”

Co-host Loren Lorosa then asked if he still would have had 12 kids, to which Nick responded that he wasn’t sure. “I don’t know … I’ve always said this: Every child that I had was made out of love and they was strong relationships,” he answered. “If I would’ve did the work and the healing after getting divorced, I probably would’ve took my time in a lot of other scenarios. And for whatever reason, I thought that was the answer a lot of times. It was like, ‘Oh, I’mma figure it out over here. I’mma figure it out over here,’ opposed to like leaving trauma every step of the way, instead of fixing it from its origin and then being able to present itself. But concepts like monogamy, I still feel the same way.”

Back in 2022, Nick Cannon revealed that he practices consensual non-monogamy, and in 2024, he said that he had been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder.

You can watch the full episode below.