A wave of international Bluesfest 2026 artists have confirmed headline dates across Australia for March and April next year, in addition to their festival sets at Byron Bay’s Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm.

Among them are The Black Crowes, Sublime, Buddy Guy, The Pogues, Marcus King Band, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, and Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison and King Crimson’s Adrian Belew, who will perform their Remain In Light show with special guest Robert Randolph.

The announcement arrives days after Bluesfest confirmed its first artist lineup for 2026. While Split Enz and Counting Crows have already rolled out separate tour itineraries, the new additions round out a larger national offering, giving fans beyond Byron Bay a chance to catch exclusive one-night-only shows in capital cities and select regional centres.

Sublime will appear at Melbourne’s Festival Hall on April 1, followed by Bluesfest on April 2 and a final stop at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on April 4. The Black Crowes will tour extensively, performing at The Forum in Melbourne, Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, Newcastle Entertainment Centre, and Sydney’s Enmore Theatre, either side of their Byron Bay date.

Buddy Guy, who turns 90 in July 2026, will play the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne’s Palais Theatre. His appearances at Bluesfest mark what could be his final Australian performances. The Pogues, commemorating the 40th anniversary of their 1985 album Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, will headline shows in Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, with multiple performances also scheduled at the festival.

Additional sideshows include Marcus King Band touring Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide; Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band marking 30 years of Ledbetter Heights; and Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew performing their Remain in Light collaboration in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Presale access opens Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. AEDT via the Bluesfest Touring website, with general public tickets available from Thursday, Nov. 13. Tickets and full information are available via bluesfesttouring.com.au.

The Bluesfest sideshow rollout underscores the event’s growing national footprint as it continues to rebound from the pandemic era. Bluesfest 2025 welcomed more than 109,000 attendees — its biggest turnout since 2019 — and was described by festival director Peter Noble as “the third-biggest event we’ve done in the history of the festival.”

“We’ve worked hard to get here,” Noble said in April. “We’ve had the highest attendance of any Australian festival since pre-COVID… Festivals are back.”

Peach PRC is set to headline her biggest shows yet, announcing a string of arena and theatre dates across Australia and New Zealand for March 2026.

The Australian pop star will launch her Wandering Spirit tour in Melbourne on March 12 at the Palace Foreshore, followed by stops in Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. She’ll then make her New Zealand headlining debut with performances at Shed 6 in Wellington on March 28 and Powerstation in Auckland on March 29.

The tour follows a blockbuster two years for Peach, who released her debut EP Manic Dream Pixie in 2023. That project debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart and featured the breakout single “Perfect for You,” which went on to win Best Single at the 2024 Rolling Stone Australia Awards.

Earlier this month, Peach returned with her latest single “Miss Erotica” — a provocative, high-fantasy ode to strip clubs and the showgirls who shaped her early adulthood. Co-written in Los Angeles with Ryan Linvill and Maya Kurchner (Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan), the track marks a bold creative turn for the singer, ushering in what she has described as her most empowered era to date.

Across her catalogue, Peach PRC has racked up over 230 million global streams, alongside more than 2 billion social views and 27 million video views. Her early hits — including “Josh,” “God Is a Freak” and “Forever Drunk” — earned her a loyal online following, but her live presence has grown in tandem. The 2026 tour marks her most extensive run to date, following support slots for Yungblud and previous sold-out headline dates in Sydney and Melbourne.

Joining her on all Australian dates are New York pop singer Maude Latour — who released her debut album Sugar Water in 2024 and has appeared at major festivals including Lollapalooza and Governors Ball — and rising Sydney artist Salty, whose viral 2024 single “See U in 3” kicked off a new era of theatrical, emotionally rich pop.

Frontier Touring will host a members-only presale beginning 1 p.m. local time on Thursday, Nov. 13. General sale begins Friday, Nov. 14 at 3 p.m. local time.

Mark Hoppus is heading to Australia in 2026 — but this time, he’s not coming with Blink-182 or a bass guitar in hand.

Instead, the beloved frontman will take fans behind the scenes of his life and career for An Evening of Storytelling with Mark Hoppus, a spoken-word live tour that promises honesty, humour and vulnerability in equal measure.

Hoppus will perform two exclusive shows: one at Melbourne Recital Centre on Thursday, March 19, and another at the iconic Sydney Opera House on Saturday, March 21. The tour follows the release of his 2024 memoir Fahrenheit‑182, which offered fans an unfiltered look into his childhood, rise to fame with Blink, public cancer battle, and the emotional fallout from band drama and personal loss.

Presale access for the Live Nation–promoted event opens Thursday, Nov. 13 at 12 p.m. local time via livenation.com.au/register, with general on-sale beginning Friday, Nov. 14 at 1 p.m. local time.

Unlike a typical pop-punk concert packed with Blink classics like “What’s My Age Again?” or “All the Small Things,” this event will trade moshing for meaning. Fans can expect a raw account of Hoppus’ journey — from growing up in the California desert as a latchkey kid, to Blink-182’s meteoric rise, to the 2021 cancer diagnosis that almost ended everything. He’ll also share behind-the-scenes moments that never made it to the stage — from label fights to friendship fractures to finding a way back to music and purpose.

Hoppus’ memoir, which debuted on the New York Times Best Sellers list earlier this year, has been praised for its candid tone and dark humour. The book’s title — Fahrenheit‑182 — nods to both Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Blink’s own cheeky mythology, but the content is far more personal than Blink’s tongue-in-cheek origins.

The tour marks Hoppus’ first solo visit to Australia since Blink-182’s reunion tour wrapped earlier this year.

“Amazing!” That was just one of the many accolades being shouted out by fans exiting the Kia Forum on Sunday night after Brandy and Monica wrapped a two-night stopover in Inglewood, California, on their co-headlining The Boy Is Mine Tour.

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Since launching the highly anticipated 32-date tour in Cincinnati (Oct. 16), Brandy and Monica have been wowing their legion of fans from coast to coast. And L.A. was no exception. The R&B legends gave as good as they got from the elated audience, thanks to their estimable catalogs of hits and fan fave tracks during the sold-out show’s six-act rollout. From Monica’s “Don’t Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)” and Brandy’s “I Wanna Be Down” in Act I to their signature duet “The Boy Is Mine” that closes out Act VI — plus more musical touchstones in between, including a tribute to Whitney Houston — the two women indelibly underscored their enduring cultural impact and creative influence.

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An additional testament to that has been the revolving cast of star fans and surprise guests appearing at the various tour stops. Among the stars in the audience last night: Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Queen Latifah and actress Jenifer Lewis; watch the recap video here. Proving the ladies still love him, LL Cool J had women screaming their lungs out when he hit the stage to perform two songs, including “Luv U Better.” Also turning in surprise performances were O.T. Genasis, Blxst and Mario. The first night of the L.A. whistlestop boasted appearances by Kehlani, Ty Dolla $ign, 50 Cent and Miguel.

Overall, the final night of The Boy Is Mine Tour in L.A. was chock-full of boisterous sing-alongs, rigorous seat-dancing and lively shout-outs. Warming up the L.A. crowd both nights were powerful performances by Jamal Roberts, Muni Long and Kelly Rowland. In addition to her solo hits such as “Dilemma,” “Motivation” and “Like This,” Rowland peppered her segment with several Destiny’s Child numbers like “Bad Habit,” “Independent Women, Part 1” and “Girl” — no doubt leaving fans hoping for a DC reunion tour.

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Enhanced by creative staging, eye-catching visuals and an energetic dance crew, The Boy Is Mine Tour next pulls into Charlotte, North Carolina (Nov. 13). Subsequent stops include New York City (Nov. 20), Washington, D.C. (Nov. 30) and Atlanta again (Dec. 4) before completing its run in Jacksonville, Florida (Dec. 14).

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The Eagles have added more 2026 dates to their Sphere residency, extending their run as the artist with the most dates at the Las Vegas immersive venue to 56.  

The new shows will take place March 20-21 and March 27-28. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees had previously announced eight shows for next year: Jan. 23-24, Jan. 30-31, Feb. 20-21 and Feb. 27-28.

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Artist presale registration is available now. The  presale begins Wednesday, November 19 at 10:00 AM PT. Tickets start at $175 and include all taxes and fees.

The group includes Don Henley, the only original remaining who co-founded the band with the late Glenn Frey in 1971, as well as guitarists Joe Walsh and Vince Gill, bassist Timothy B. Schmit and Frey’s son Deacon.

The Eagles’ Sphere stint started in September 2024, and the band added dates a handful at a time, setting the record for the most shows with the announcement of the February dates in October at 52. The previous record belonged to Dead & Co. at 48 shows.

Billboard praised the Eagles show, writing after the Sept. 20, 2024, opening: “For more than 50 years, the Eagles have been painting vivid pictures with their music, from the dark desert highway of ‘Hotel California’ to the billion stars all around of ‘Peaceful Easy Feeling’ to the cold, cold city of ‘Life in the Fast Lane.’ On Friday night, those images came to intense life at Las Vegas’ Sphere, where the technology of 2024 finally caught up to the band’s enduring artistry and created a technicolor display worthy of their classic, illustrative songs from the 1970s and beyond.”

iHeartMedia struck a new partnership with TikTok that will see TikTok creators featured in long-form audio and video content across iHeart platforms, it was announced on Monday (Nov. 10).

The deal includes the launch of the TikTok Podcast Network, a slate of up to 25 podcasts from TikTok creators. Under the agreement, iHeartMedia will open co-branded podcast studios in Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta that will be set up for both audio and video content. The podcasts will be distributed by iHeartPodcasts and made available on the iHeartRadio app and other podcast platforms. Listeners will also be able to watch highlights and clips from the podcasts on TikTok.

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Another component of the deal is TikTok Radio, which will pair TikTok creators and established iHeartRadio personalities on iHeart broadcast radio stations across the U.S. and digitally on iHeartRadio. According to a press release, “TikTok Radio will feature not only TikTok’s hottest new songs, but also trend-driven storytelling and emotional context behind the music,” with segments including Behind-the-Charts, New Music Fridays and On the Verge.

iHeart and TikTok will additionally team up on iHeart events like the iHeartRadio Music Festival and iHeartRadio Jingle Ball, “empowering brands to activate with a dynamic network of content creators,” according to the release.

More details on the partnership will be announced in the coming months.

“This partnership connects TikTok’s cultural energy and creator community with the unmatched scale and reach of iHeartMedia,” said Rich Bressler, president, COO and CFO of iHeartMedia, in a statement. “We’re giving creators access to the biggest audio platforms in America — creating new ways to tell stories, entertain, and build deeper connections with fans. Together, we’re combining our vast networks to deliver relevant content on a massive scale. It’s a win for creators, fans, and brands alike.”

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“At TikTok, empowering creativity and connecting communities are at the heart of everything we do,” added Dan Page, global head of media and licensing partnerships at TikTok. “This partnership with iHeartMedia opens up exciting new opportunities for creators and brands to reach wider audiences, collaborate across platforms and extend their creativity beyond the TikTok platform. Together, we’re amplifying the connection between artists, creators and our community through the shared power of cross platform storytelling.”

TikTok and iHeart kicked off their partnership earlier this year with the singing competition Next up: Live Music, which was hosted exclusively on TikTok LIVE.


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