Nine Inch Nails doesn’t just arrive. Trent Reznor’s industrial metal act steams in, crushes, always leaves an impression.  

At the stroke of midnight, NIN delivered that full-body experience with the help of Boys Noize, by way of the collaborative album Nine Inch Noize.

Coming in at 46 minutes, with 12 mashups, the collection was announced ahead of their global debut performance as Nine Inch Noize at Coachella on Saturday (April 11), where reworked classic NIN cuts “Heresy” and others got the live treatment at the Sahara Tent at Coachella.

Nine Inch Noize drops like a hammer ahead of Coachella weekend 2, which should see a repeat performance of Reznor and Co. with the pioneering German techno producer on Saturday evening, April 18.

The collaborative album is a natural progression, and walks the tightrope of capturing the studio sound with the chaos of a concert; it’s both a club record and a beating with a metal club. Boys Noize (real name: Alex Ridha) has been the opening act for Nine Inch Nails’ 2025/26 Peel It Back tour, a 63-date international run during which the two acts also played a segment of the show together.

Previously, Ridha worked with Reznor and Atticus Ross last year when he remixed the duo’s lauded, techno-forward soundtrack to the film Challengers.

The Peel It Back tour concluded in March in Sacramento, CA., a show at which frontman Trent Reznor clarified a statement he’d made at an earlier show in Tulsa, OK, that suggested the band might no longer tour. “I don’t know if we’re going to be touring anymore after this,” he remarked in a fan-filmed video from the show, “but I’m proud of the show that we’re doing right now. And I’m f—ing grateful that you’ve chosen to spend your evening with us tonight. Thank you very much.”

That’s obviously not the case. “To be clear, I think I said something the other day that then got misconstrued into something that is not intentionally, necessarily true,” he later remarked. “What I said was, ‘This is the last show of this tour and we don’t have any shows booked and we don’t have any plans to book any shows anytime in the future, so far.’”

He continued, “that doesn’t mean we may not tour again. We may tour again. It won’t be next month, it won’t be this year. I never said we were intentionally stopping, and I never meant that.”

NIN has been prolific of late, and full of surprises. The heavy-edged act recently released a companion album to its Tron: Ares soundtrack, titled Tron Ares: Divergence. It’s the followup to TRON: Ares, the first-ever film score from Oscar-winning composers Reznor and Atticus Ross (credited under their Nine Inch Nails), which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Nine Inch Nails has landed eight songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and made 18 appearances on the all-genres Billboard 200, including two leaders: 1999’s The Fragile (one week at No. 1) and 2015’s With Teeth (one week). NIN was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.

Stream Nine Inch Noize below.

Iron Maiden’s forthcoming tour of Australian won’t be impacted by the band’s induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, Billboard can exclusively confirm.

The British heavy metal giants are tapped for the shrine’s class of 2026, following nominations in 2021 and 2023, and sitting near the top of most lists of Rock Hall snubs over the years.

Maiden is one of eight acts in the performer category that will be elevated during the annual induction ceremony on Nov. 14 in Los Angeles.

Small problem. The rockers will be in Australia at that time for their Run For Your Lives World Tour. Those shows get underway Nov. 11 at Adelaide Entertainment Centre, before hitting Melbourne’s AAMI Park (Nov. 13) and Sydney’s Allianz Stadium (Nov. 15) – marking the band’s first-ever stadium dates in this part of the world.

Those concerts won’t be affected, the band’s manager Rod Smallwood has confirmed.

“As the most observant have already noticed, the band will be on tour in Australia around the November date of the Induction ceremony for the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in Los Angeles,” Smallwood explains in an email to Billboard. “In accepting, Iron Maiden made it very clear to the R&R HoF that the fans always come first and that the shows will of course go on.”

Megadeth are special guests on the Australasian run, which starts Nov. 7 with the first of two shows at Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand. The Australia lap begins Nov. 11 at Adelaide Entertainment Centre and wraps-up Nov. 19 with a second, and recently-added, show at Brisbane Entertainment Centre. TEG Dainty is producing the seven-date, five-city trek.

The tour down under will mark Iron Maiden’s eighth, dating back to November 1982.

“We would like to assure all our fans in Australasia that the Australian and New Zealand dates will remain unaffected,” Smallwood adds, “and we look forward to bringing the Run For Your Lives Tour to them on the penultimate stop of our 50th anniversary celebrations.”

There’s no rust on Iron Maiden which, in addition to its Rock Hall induction and ongoing global tour, is the subject of a feature-length documentary, Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition, due out in cinemas May 7 through Universal Pictures International (UPI).

Formed in East London in 1975, Iron Maiden are titans of the heavy genre, with 17 studio albums, over 100 million records sold, and more than 2,500 performances across 64 countries. In September 2021, the band earned its highest charting album ever on the Billboard 200 as Senjutsu debuted at No. 3. 

“Run For Your Lives” Australia and New Zealand Dates

Nov. 7 — Spark Arena, Auckland

Nov. 8 — Spark Arena, Auckland

Nov. 11 — Adelaide Entertainment Centre

Nov. 13 — AAMI Park, Melbourne

Nov. 15 — Allianz Stadium, Sydney

Nov. 18 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre

Nov. 19 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre

Prosecutors argue in a new appeal that a judge was wrong to overturn the conviction of the man who allegedly shot and killed Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay in a Queens recording studio in 2002.

Karl Jordan Jr., the godson of the rap icon (Jay Mizell), was one of two men found guilty by a jury in 2024 for the long-unsolved murder. But a New York federal judge set aside that verdict and acquitted Jordan at the end of 2025, finding that there was no evidence of a motive for the then-18-year-old to kill his godfather.

The U.S. government is now appealing that ruling and urging the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate Jordan’s conviction. Prosecutors argue in a Thursday (April 16) brief that the judge unfairly expected them to produce a “smoking-gun” while ignoring reams of damning evidence against Jordan.

“These convictions were supported by the testimony of 38 witnesses, including witnesses who saw Jordan shoot Mizell, witnesses who knew of Jordan’s involvement in the narcotics conspiracy and witnesses who heard Jordan admitting to the murder,” reads the brief.

Jay’s shocking killing at the age of 37 was for years one of hip-hop’s famous cold cases, joining the unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. Though witnesses were in the room when the murder happened and police generated a number of leads, it wasn’t until 2020 that Jordan was charged alongside Ronald Washington, Jay’s childhood friend.

Government lawyers claim Washington guarded the door to a Queens recording studio while Jordan shot Jay in the head at close range. The alleged motive was a breakdown in the trio’s joint cocaine dealing operation; prosecutors say Jordan and Washington grew angry after being cut out of a lucrative drug deal in Baltimore.

U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall affirmed Washington’s conviction, ruling there was ample evidence to show he was disgruntled about the Baltimore deal and had a clear motive. However, the judge said Jordan was never part of this specific deal, and therefore, the prosecution’s motive for him was “impermissibly speculative.”

Thursday’s appeal brief argues that in making this acquittal decision, Judge DeArcy Hall “overlooked and minimized evidence that permitted the jury to find that Jordan had several narcotics-related motives to murder Mizell.”

“The jury could have reasonably inferred that Jordan killed Mizell as retaliation for failing to secure the lucrative Baltimore deal for him and Washington, or to eliminate Mizell to further his and Washington’s roles in their shared narcotics conspiracy,” write the prosecutors.

An attorney for Jordan did not immediately return a request for comment on the appeal on Thursday. He will eventually file an appellate brief of his own responding to the prosecution’s arguments.

Jordan remains in custody while awaiting another trial on separate drug charges, and there’s an ongoing court fight over whether he should now be granted bail. Charges remain pending against Jay Bryant, a third alleged co-conspirator in the Jam Master Jay murder, though recent docket entries suggest that he may soon plead guilty.

Jessie Ware is going large with her forthcoming tour in support of Superbloom.

The British pop artist’s trans-Atlantic tour is said to be her biggest to date, and includes her first-ever U.K. arena run. The Superbloom Tour gets underway in Toronto on Oct. 6, and includes stops in Toronto, New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre, before heading to Mexico City’s Teatro Metropolitan.

Then, in November, the jaunt heads to Continental Europe before culminating in a U.K. arena stretch with a hometown date at London’s The O2 Arena, and concerts in Glasgow and Manchester.

 “I am so excited to be performing my biggest shows ever. We made it to arenas,” she comments in a statement. “I am playing iconic venues around the world and I couldn’t be happier. The Superbloom Tour will be filled with celebration, dancing, theatre, cowboys and goddesses and of course a LOT of singing. Can’t wait to step into my garden where we all shall bloom!”

The presale starts next Tuesday, April 21 at 9am local time, and the general on sale follows on Thursday, April 23 at 9am local time.

But first, the release of Superbloom on Friday, April 17 via EMI Records. It’s the followup to 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? and 2023’s That! Feels Good!, both of which peaked at No. 3 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart. The London-born singer and songwriter announced her arrival with with her Mercury Prize-nominated debut album from 2012, Devotion, the first of five consecutive U.K. top 10 appearances.

According to a statement, the new collection “erupts into a glittering rush of Studio 54-inflected groove-pop, exploring themes of pleasure, intimacy, connection and transformation,” and houses the previously-released singles “I Could Get Used To This,” “Ride,” and “Automatic.”

Ware personally shaped the sound of the record, “firmly maintaining creative control,” reps say. Collaborators include Ford, Barney Lister, Karma Kid, Jon Shave (Charli XCX), and Stuart Price, while Ben Baptie (Sault, Little Simz, Adele) mixed the album.

“I’ve been trying out this fantasy world and escapism,” she enthuses.  I’m not the most by-the-book ‘pop star’, but I do like to play with dress-up, glamor, and fun, While I love dance music, I wanted to dig deeper with this record; to connect with real relationships and appreciate the love I have, and the fears I have of losing it.”

Pre-order Superbloom here.

The ‘Superbloom Tour’ 2026

Oct. 6 — HISTORY Toronto, Toronto, ON

Oct. 8 — Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY

Oct. 10 — The Anthem, Washington, DC

Oct. 11 — The Fillmore Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Oct. 13 — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL

Oct. 16 — The Warfield, San Francisco, CA

Oct. 20 — The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA

Oct. 22 — Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City, MX

Nov. 10 — Casino de Paris, Paris, FR

Nov. 12 — SaSaZu, Prague, CZ

Nov. 13 — Inside Seaside Festival, Gdansk, PL

Nov. 14 — Compensa Concert Hall, Vilnius, LT

Nov. 16 — Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin, DE

Nov. 18 – K.B Hallen, Copenhagen, DK

Nov. 20 — Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, BE

Nov. 21 — AFAS Live, Amsterdam, NL

Nov. 28 — The O2, London, UK

Dec. 1 — 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin, IE

Dec. 4 — OVO Hydro, Glasgow, UK

Dec. 5 — Co-op Live, Manchester, UK