A little cold weather is no match for ARMY — especially if it’s in the way of seeing BTS live.

After returning from a hiatus with their new album Arirang on Friday (March 20), BTS put on their first U.S. show in four years at Manhattan’s Pier 17 on Monday (March 23). The performance was part of an invite-only event put on in collaboration between the band and Spotify called “Spotify x BTS: Swimside.”

Though New York City experienced some unusually warm weather the week leading up to the show, by Monday, temperatures were in the 40s (Fahrenheit) and below. An outdoor rooftop venue overlooking Manhattan’s Seaport neighborhood, Pier 17 is particularly vulnerable to any drops in temperature. Tack on light rain and fog, and the conditions for Swimside certainly weren’t favorable.

Despite the less-than-stellar weather, after ARMY learned about the show’s location earlier in the day, many of them queued up outside the venue hoping to snag a spot close to the stage. In the end, 1,000 fans lucky enough to be invited braved the cold and rain and made their way to the Seaport to see their favorite K-pop group. In return, they were treated to a Q&A with BTS hosted by British singer-songwriter Suki Waterhouse and a live performance of three of BTS’ new tracks.

Although they were under bright stage lights for the show, BTS was not immune to the cold weather that their fans endured for them. On Tuesday (March 24), Jimin sent out a message via Hybe’s social platform Weverse acknowledging the low temperatures and thanking fans for coming out anyway.

“I thought I was too cold during yesterday’s concert, so I was worried,” the singer wrote before saying he’s sure that fans were also cold and apologizing. “Thank you so much for waiting for us.” He closed with a final word of gratitude to the fans: “Thank you ARMY.”

BTS will embark on a massive world tour next month, putting on 79 concerts across 34 regions. While we hope that the weather conditions are perfect for each show, we know that either way, ARMY will show up and show out.

Bandsintown, the live music and event discovery platform, has announced an integration with Apple Music to bring concert listings directly to the streaming platform. The new service, announced on Tuesday (March 24), will be available with the iOS 26.4 update, appearing on Apple Music artist pages and in a new Concerts tab within the search feature.

Artists who publish their events via Bandsintown and connect their Apple Music profiles to the platform will have their upcoming concerts appear directly on the streaming service. Venues, festivals and promoters utilizing Bandsintown Pro will also see their events featured on the platform.

Artists can easily link the two platforms by connecting their Apple Music artist page URL within the Bandsintown for Artists dashboard. After being connected, events will sync to Apple Music within 48 hours on both artist pages and in the Concerts search tab.

Fans on Apple Music will be able to view event details, including direct ticketing links, venue information and setlists. Apple Music will also send notifications to users when artists they follow have upcoming shows happening nearby.

According to a press release, more than 700,000 artists and 65,000 venues utilize Bandsintown for their events, with the platform publishing 2.3 million events annually. Since first launching in 2012, the company has formed strategic partnerships with YouTube, Google, Spotify, Apple, Shazam and Microsoft Bing. The company’s fan app and website generate more than 400 million personalized concert recommendations per month, the release adds.

For iOS 26.4 users, concert listings are available in public and developer beta, with a broader release available soon.

To move anyone to tears with song is an incredible feeling. To do so to none other than Keke Palmer? That’s the stuff dreams are made of.

On the Monday (March 23) episode of American Idol, guest judge and mentor Palmer was visibly moved by a contestant’s rendition of “With a Little Help From My Friends” during a mentorship session.

“I’m a big fan of Keke,” said contestant Keyla Richardson before she sang. “To see myself in front of her, I’m like, ‘Mom, I made it!’”

Not long after, the feeling became mutual. After explaining to the singer-actress why this song was important to her, Richardson began to sing.

“Hearing her sing, I didn’t know what to expect,” said Palmer of Richardson’s performance in the session. “And when her voice came out, it was just awesome. It felt so truthful.”

As Richardson continued to sing the classic Beatles song — which reached No. 71 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1978 — Palmer began to tear up. Fellow guest mentor Brad Paisley, who worked alongside Palmer for the mentorship session, was also entranced by Richardson’s performance.

“She seemed like, ‘Oh, this is a perfect singer,’” said Paisley of the performance.

When Richardson concluded her song during the session, Palmer was speechless, wiping her tears away.

“Such a special voice,” Palmer said, her own voice breaking, before pulling Richardson in for a long embrace. “That voice was ancestral, girl. What you’re doing is more than just singing. You’re embodying spirit through song.”

Palmer wasn’t the only judge moved by Richardson’s cover. When it came time for the hopeful’s stage performance, all four judges were brought to their feet when the contestant began to sing. At one point, Lionel Richie was so excited by the showing that he stormed across the judges platform with a smile on his face and his hand in the air. Toward the end of Richardson’s performance, the judges were all giddy, holding on to one another and waving their hands in the air.

“Oh, that was great,” Paisley could be heard saying over the cheering of the audience.

Season 24 of American Idol airs every Monday 8 p.m. ET on ABC and is available for streaming the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.

Watch Richardson’s full performance of “With a Little Help From My Friends” below.

The 2026 Head in the Clouds Music & Arts Festival will feature headliners KATSEYE, who will be performing at the showcase for Asian bands at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. on Aug. 8.

The “Gnarly” group will be joined by Japanese hip-hop group XG, as well as South Korean rapper Dabin.kr (making his U.S. debut under his new stage name), R&B singer-songwriter UMI, K-pop boy band LNGSHOT, South Korean girl group KiiKiii and others.

Passes will go on sale on Thursday (March 26) at 11 a.m. PT, with fans encouraged to register for access here. The event put on my music and media company 88Rising and L.A. concert promoter Goldenvioice will return to the same location as the 2025 edition, which featured sets from G-Dragon, 2NE1, Dean and DPR Ian. In addition to music, Head in the Clouds will also featured a curated lineup of Asian food vendors.

Among the other acts slated to take the stage this year are: Rich Brian, Gia Fu, no na, Tiffany Day and Warren Hue. Head in the Clouds launched in 2018 at Los Angeles State Historic Park and has since expanded to events in New York, Jakarta, Manila and China.

The August date will cap a summer of festival stops for KATSEYE’s Yoonchae Jeung, Sophia Laforteza, Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj and Megan Skiendiel — member Manon Bannerman is currently on hiatus — who will kick things off on April 10 with the first of two stops at this year’s Coachella Festival in Indio, Calif., followed by a spot at the Governors Ball Festival on June 5 in New York and the Hinterland Music Festival in Saint Charles, Iowa on July 30.

Check out the full lineup for the 2026 Head In the Clouds Festival below.

The peak boy band era of the late 1990s and early 2000s was a rush of teen hormones, screaming fans, massive first-week sales and sold-out arena tours. From *NSYNC to the Backstreet Boys, Boyz II Men, 98 Degrees, O-Town and LFO, the glittering bands from those golden years seemed to have it all: fame, fortune, adoring fans and all the perks you could imagine.

Except oftentimes, they didn’t.

“This is a scam,” 98 Degrees singer Nick Lachey says in the one-minute trailer for Investigation Discovery’s upcoming two-part exposé on the high cost of fame, Boy Band Confidential: A Hollywood Demons Event. “I mean, where the hell’s that f–king money?,” asks *NSYNC’s Joey Fatone — an executive producer on the show — in the trailer of the piles of cash the Justin Timberlake-led group generated that seemingly didn’t trickle down to him and his bandmates in their early years.

A release announcing the show — which will air four one-hour episodes on April 13 and 14 from 9-11 p.m. ET on ID —  promises it will reveal “how the industry transformed young performers into marketable commodities while exposing untold stories of abuse, addiction, and financial manipulation. Through raw, unfiltered interviews with some of the biggest names in pop, Boy Band Confidential exposes the secret machinery of manufactured superstardom and the devastating human cost of the era’s glossy perfection.”

The trailer opens with O-Town singer Ashley Parker Angel describing sitting on the balcony of his 38th floor apartment in New York contemplating “jumping off” due to his despondency about his tumultuous ride in the “Liquid Dreams” group. “The industry can be wonderful and cruel at the same time,” says Fatone, who is joined in the special by bandmate Lance Bass, Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean, Lachey, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men, O-Town’s Angel and LFO’s Brad Fischetti.

“Being in a boy band was one of the greatest experiences of my life but it also came with challenges we didn’t always understand at the time,” Fatone said in a statement. “This project gave all of us a chance to reflect, to be honest, and to share what really happened behind the spotlight.” 

In the clip, Fatone encourages his fellow boy banders to open up about the rare opportunity the now grown men from those groups got to experience at a formative age, with a number talking about financial malfeasance, intense pressure and the danger of succumbing to the allure of drugs and alcohol.

“Boy Band Confidential goes beyond nostalgia. It’s an honest, unfiltered look at a cultural phenomenon that shaped an entire generation,” said ID president Jason Sarlanis in a statement. “With Joey Fatone bringing together a who’s who of artists from the era’s most iconic boy bands, we’re illuminating the pressures, vulnerabilities, and surprising realities of life at the height of pop stardom with a level of access rarely achieved in music documentaries.”  

In addition to the band members themselves, the series features interviews with managers, insiders and the people close to the singers who witnessed the “pressure, the power struggles and the darker realities behind the scenes.”

Check out the trailer for Boy Band Confidential below.