Losing a child in a jam-packed music festival will strike fear in any parent, and director Jeremy Garelick brings that fear to life with the movie Rolling Loud.

Based on the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival, the upcoming comedy released a trailer for the flick on Thursday (Aug. 13) starring Travis Scott, Owen Wilson, Sexyy Red, Matt Rife, Christine Ko, Ski Mask the Slump God, Ty Dolla $ign and more.

The festival-themed movie, helmed by Rolling Loud and Live Nation, is set to hit U.S. theaters on Oct. 2. The trailer kicks off with Wilson’s 13-year-old son, played by Christian Convery, pleading with Wilson to take him to Rolling Loud.

In an attempt to play the “cool dad,” the Wedding Crashers actor gives in, and the chaos begins when Wilson loses his son in a sea of 60,000 sweaty rap fans on a bathroom trip at the Miami festival. All hell breaks loose in the search party, and Wilson ends up backstage explaining the situation to Sexyy Red and La Flame.

Amid the panic, Wilson ends up onstage during Scott’s headlining set (this scene was taped during Scott’s set at Rolling Loud Miami in December 2024) while he’s performing his rambunctious “FE!N” anthem.

“You’re the guy on the big screen that all the security’s looking for,” Sexyy says. “You jumped off a Ferris wheel, right?” To which Wilson clarifies, “No, I threw someone off a Ferris wheel.”

Garelick’s idea for the film was loosely based on true events when he briefly lost track of his son at a Rolling Loud festival in the past.

“The fact that we had this experience together, it bonded us and it really brought us together,” the film’s director told People. “It gave us those inside jokes, those secrets that we can’t tell anybody. And then to put it into a movie that’s coming out all over the world, it’s just incredible. I think parents should take their kids and enjoy it.”

Rolling Loud’s only 2026 U.S. festival took place in Orlando in May, which was headlined by Don Toliver, Ken Carson and Playboi Carti.

Watch the Rolling Loud trailer below.

When RÜFÜS DU SOL completes its current, ongoing tour, the lads will enjoy a well-deserved rest. A good, long break.

The Australian electronic music trio is in the home straight of a record-setting world tour, in support of the 2024 album Inhale / Exhale (via Rose Avenue Records / Warner Music Australasia).

Don’t expect to see the Sydneysiders on stage at a stadium or arena near you for several years, at least until the next release cycle gets underway.

While performing at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, for one of five shows at the venue, frontman Tyrone Lindqvist confirmed RDS’ immediate, post-tour plans. “So, we told ourselves before we walked out on stage we’ve got to make the most of this and we’ve got to take it in for this next month of shows,” he remarked during the Aug. 6 performance, as first reported by Beatportal.

“So, let’s really enjoy this because we’re not going to be touring for a solid amount of time until we have new music, and we can’t wait to share that with you, whatever that sounds like.”

The Sydneysiders completed their 2025 Australia tour last November with the third of three sold-out hometown shows at Afterpay Arena (then known as Qudos Bank Arena), the country’s biggest arena, for 150,000 tickets sold across the country, lifting their overall tally to 750,000 headline tickets for the year.

RDS’ Inhale / Exhale World Tour is one for the history books, one that began with a one-off exclusive outdoor performance at Sydney’s Fleet Steps back in October 2024. Along the way, the Grammy Award-winning act became just the second Aussie act, after AC/DC, and first electronic outfit to headline Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles; and played four nights at Madison Square Garden, again the most by an electronic artist.

Lindqvist and his bandmates Jon George and James Hunt will reach the end of the road this October with performances at Austin City Limits. Before that, RDS will complete its residency at The Forum on Thursday night (Aug. 13), followed by a run of twelve shows across the United States and Canada.

Following its release, Inhale / Exhale debuted at No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart, continuing a streak of podium finishes for all five RDS album releases in Australia. RDS have won four career ARIA Awards and six Grammy Award nominations, with a win in 2022 for best dance/electronic recording with “Alive.”

Just in time for fall, The Neighbourhood have hit a big milestone: The California rock band has joined YouTube’s Billion Views Club with their 2012 alternative hit “Sweater Weather.”

The Jesse Rutherford-fronted band released “Sweater Weather” as the lead single from their 2013 debut studio album, I Love You. The album peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard 200, while the track reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. A previous indie music video was released alongside the song when it dropped, but that version was unlisted after they signed with Columbia Records. 

The official music video was uploaded to YouTube in March 2013, during the era of Tumblr aesthetics, at a moment when “indie sleaze” and soft-grunge subcultures were found on the platform.

The track’s milestone lands The Neighbourhood among other record-holders including Bad Bunny — who is in the lead globally with 20 music videos with more than 1 billion views — as well as J Balvin, who is the artist with the second-most entries. PSY’s “Gangnam Style” was the first video to ever reach 1 billion views on the platform in 2012. 

Following its initial release, “Sweater Weather” later became an anthem for LGBTQIA+ groups because of lyrics such as “One love, two mouths/ One love, one house.” The track experienced a resurgence in 2020 when TikTok users turned the song into code language for the queer community, and various creators used it to come out as bisexual to their followers on the platform. The popularity of “Sweater Weather” that year and its use on the platform brought a streaming resurgence that led to it debuting on the Billboard Global 200 more than eight years after its release, scaling the list for four weeks before peaking at No. 134 on the chart dated Nov. 7, 2020.

SYDNEY, Australia — Olly Arkins, chief executive officer of the Australian Festival Association, will depart from the trade body later this month.

AFA chair Adelle Robinson pays tribute to Arkins for leading the AFA through “one of the most consequential periods for the festival industry,” a chapter than included the fallout from the pandemic, the effects of which are still being felt by festival organizers.

Under Arkins’ leadership, the AFA has worked with members, governments and industry partners “to secure greater recognition of festivals as an essential part of Australia’s cultural infrastructure,” Robinson comments in a statement.

Arkins’ last day with the AFA is next Friday, Aug. 21. Speaking with Billboard, Arkins points to the opportunity to rewrite the Music Festivals Act in New South Wales, resulting in significant reforms passed by the state parliament in September 2024, as her “biggest achievement” in five years with the AFA.

Also, Arkins advocated for the federal government to establish and then increase Revive Live funding, including dedicated support for music festivals; helped secure the introduction of drug-checking services at music festivals in both Victoria and New South Wales; renegotiated the OneMusic licence scheme to secure improved terms for music festivals; and more.

“Olly arrived at a time when festivals were still trying to work out whether we had a future. She leaves the AFA with governments listening to our industry and festivals firmly at the table in music industry-wide advocacy,” Robinson remarks.

“She has taken the needs and aspirations of festival promoters directly to decision-makers and turned advocacy into increased funding, legislative reform and stronger working relationships with the agencies that regulate festivals.

“On behalf of the AFA board and our members, I want to thank Olly for her relentless commitment to ensuring Australia has a thriving and sustainable music festival sector.”

The AFA was unveiled in December 2018, representing festival organizers, suppliers and stakeholders across Australia’s music festival sector. Its mission, to advocate the festival industry, promoting best-practice safety and operational standards, providing a unified voice, and facilitate policy reform and investment.

Today, its members include Fuzzy, CMC Rocks, Live Nation, Hardware, Laneway, Groovin’ The Moo, Lost Paradise and many others.

“I am incredibly thankful for the opportunity the AFA board gave me to advocate for our members and this remarkable industry. It has been the experience of a lifetime,” Arkins comments in a statement.

“I will always cherish the support I received from Adelle and the entire team, including the support they gave me as I transitioned during my time at the AFA.

“Together, we all made the case that festivals are major employers and tourism drivers. Importantly for me, they also give Australian artists some of their first opportunities to perform on a major stage and allow more fans to discover them.

“Festivals provide formative cultural experiences and help create lifelong music fans, benefiting the entire industry. I know this because I am one.

“I am incredibly proud of what we have achieved over the past four years. Our association is stronger, the industry has an influential voice with government and in the media, and there is now a much deeper understanding of the cultural and economic value of festivals.”

NCT 127 is officially kicking off its next chapter as a quintet.

On Tuesday (Aug. 11), the Seoul-based group released an energetic and upbeat video for their track “Piñata.” With this, the group is giving fans a first taste of their seventh studio album, BLINGY, out Aug. 24. The project will feature nine tracks and marks the group’s first full-length album in two years. 

“Piñata,” released via SM Entertainment and Virgin Music Group, brings NCT’s experimental edge, where sounds of heavy rock guitars, a funky bass groove and breakbeat percussion fuse together and end up in a unique and catchy hip-hop sound. The video shows a cinematic take of NCT 127 in the heart of Seoul during a late-night outing, depicting the members as “streetwise fixers,” according to a press release, navigating the city and fearlessly taking on anything that crosses their path. 

To celebrate their upcoming album, the group is bringing their new music directly to fans by headlining KCON LA on Friday, so listeners can get an early preview of BLINGY before it hits streaming platforms. That’s not all: The official “NCT 127 7th Album [BLINGY] Comeback Live Party” will take place on Aug 25, where the group will perform all the songs of the album, as well as sharing behind-the-scenes stories from the making of the album. 

The album marks a transformative era for Johnny, Taeyong, Yuta, Jaehyun and Haechan, as it’s their first release as a five-member group — for the time being — since Doyoung and Jungwoo are currently serving in the military.

In 2024, after Tael was removed from the group, the septet spoke to Billboard following the release of their album WALK., which debuted at No. 117 on the Billboard 200. They opened up about working and collaborating together as a smaller group. “We were in a different mindset, for obvious reasons,” Mark told Tetris Kelly. “We’re not all together with nine members. From that point on, picking out the songs for the entire track list, we were very prudent with each and every decision.”

In April 2026, Mark parted ways with SM Entertainment and in July 2025, Winwin also exited the group after concluding his contract.

Watch the video for “Piñata.”