Foo Fighters ’ smattering of confirmed live dates should be just the beginning of another massive tour.

The Rock Hall-inducted stadium fillers have been off the road since September 2024 and is set to return to the stage with upcoming shows in Indonesia (Oct. 2), Singapore (Oct. 4), Japan (Oct. 7, 8, 10) and Mexico (Nov. 12, 14).

“Stay tuned,” reads a new message from the band, posted late Tuesday, Sept. 16. “There’s more to come.”

Dave Grohl and Co. dropped the cryptic clue in a goofy “Keeping It Real” video, which sees the bandmates delivering their lines with all the gusto of cartoon robots, and generative AI hogging the visuals.

A separate message from the band leaves little doubt about their plans to mount another monster trek. “Thank You!!!,” it reads. “Where Will We See You Next???”

The rockers released their 11th and latest studio album, But Here We Are, in 2023, marking their first new music following the death of longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins.

The band celebrated its 30th anniversary in July with the release of a new track titled “Today’s Song,” and made a surprise performance on Saturday (Sept. 13) for an all-ages show at the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, California.

That show served as a coming out party for the Foos new drummer Ilan Rubin, who appears in the new social video with, count them, 10 arms. “Wait ‘till you meet our new drummer,” quips Grohl.

Bonnie Raitt‘s political and social leanings are no secret, and she’s certainly rankled by what’s transpired during the first nearly nine months of the current administration in Washington, D.C.

But as the 15-time Grammy Award winner and 2024 Kennedy Center Honoree continues touring to support her 2022 album Just Like That…, Raitt says she’s doing her best to make her concerts something of an antithesis to the turmoil.

“I never proselytize on stage about my positions, politically, but I do acknowledge the suffering and cruelty and anxiety that we’re feeling,” says Raitt, who routinely contributes lobby space at her concerts to non-profits involved in social and environmental causes.

“I don’t assume that everybody in the audience is politically aligned with me, but I think we all agree there’s a lot more discord and dissension and unhappiness and stress, to put it mildly.”

Raitt spoke with Billboard ahead of a recent Detroit concert, where she had a warm reunion with Nick of Time producer Don Was, in town rehearsing with his Pan-Detroit Ensemble, on his 73rd birthday.

“We’re all suffering, I think,” she continues. “But aside from announcing which grassroots groups have a table in the front lobby — it’s clear I like to support the environmental and voter registration and humanitarian kind of efforts — I keep it pretty general.

“And it’s a great uplift for the audience, and for me, in tricky and very stressful, anxious and upsetting times to have this time to come together and celebrate our great history in these songs, and these songwriters and our affection for each other. I can’t think of a better place to be during these difficult times.”

The topic does come up during points of the show, Raitt allowed. She generally precedes Oliver Mtukudzi’s spiritual “Hear Me Lord,” which she recorded for 2002’s Silver Lining by “saying I know we’re all feeling a lot of anxiety,. and some of us are more depressed than others, but let’s just sort of all on…we need all the help we can get.’ And that’s just very uplifting.” Raitt does acknowledge, however, that it’s probably a good thing she received the Kennedy Center Honor when she did.

“The chances of me and the Grateful Dead getting honored with this current situation would’ve been impossible,” she acknowledged, “so I’m really glad…Not only was it a wonderful event, but it was really timely.”

Raitt is currently winding down her latest North American tour, which wraps Sept. 24 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. On tap after that, she said, “I don’t have plans for anything other than a serious break.”

“This is our fourth year of touring; we’ve been pretty steady on the road since the record came out,” she says. And breaks have been used to appear at benefit concerts and appearing at awards shows — with three Grammys for Just Like That…, including song of the year, and an Icon Award at the 2022 Billboard Women In Music Awards. She’s also filmed appearances for a number of documentaries about “at least nine people I really love.”

“I’m glad I got to know them, and to be able to talk about them from having known them for 40 or 50 years, and what their music means to me,” Raitt says. “I’m happy to be an elder that’s been around and do that, but it really cuts into the time thinking about my own new music. Other requests can be overwhelming, to put it mildly.”

Raitt says she’s looking forward to “having more than five weeks at home for the first time in five years,” and she won’t hazard a guess about when she’ll start approaching a follow-up to Just Like That… “I’m not that motivated to suit up for a whole new album and promotion cycle because I haven’t had a break,” Raitt explains. “We don’t usually do four years of touring like we have on this (album). I don’t know how people write whole new albums while they’re out there. I can’t…so I’m trying to leave time free so that my own project and my own downtime can be fit in. I always have a little bit of a stash of songs I love so much that I’ll have to (record) them.

“So I’ll have to get in the studio — but not before there’s been some time off.”

Ozuna adds his 33rd chart-topper on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Airplay chart as “Sirenita” lifts 4-1 on the Sept. 20-dated chart.

“Sirenita” was released June 5 on Nibiru/Sony Music Latin and takes the lead on its ninth week, with six of those in the top 10. For the tracking week of Sept. 5-11, the steady gainer enjoyed a 10% growth in audience impressions in the United States, registering 7.2 million, according to Luminate.

With his newest Latin Rhythm Airplay No. 1, Ozuna continues to hold the third-highest number of chart-toppers since the list launched in 2005, surpassed only by J Balvin with 38 and Daddy Yankee with 35. Here’s a recap of those winners:

38, J Balvin
35, Daddy Yankee
33, Ozuna
29, Bad Bunny
20, Maluma
20, Wisin
20, Wisin & Yandel

The radio increase across Latin rhythm stations in the U.S. aligns with the song’s 6-3 lift on the overall Latin Airplay chart, adding to Ozuna’s robust catalog of 37 career songs which reached No. 3 or higher — 35 of those have hit No. 1. So far, “Sirenita” and “Te Boté” (his collab with Casper Mágico, Nio García, Darell, Nicky Jam, and Bad Bunny) are Ozuna’s only two songs, of his 37 top three-charted songs, that have not reached No. 1. “Te Boté” peaked at No. 2 in 2018.

Elsewhere, “Sirenita” becomes the Hot Shot Debut of the week on the Hot Latin Songs chart, arriving at No. 42. In addition to its 7 million impressions during the tracking period, the song generated a 7% gain streaming activity.

“Sirenita” also makes its entrance on the Hot Latin Rhythm Songs chart, at No. 22, Ozuna’s third entry since its launch in April. The list combines streaming data, digital sales and radio audience into its formula.

Producer Sidney “Omen” Brown has died at age 49. According to NBC News, Omen was found in his Harlem apartment on Saturday by his sister, Nicole Iris Brown.

“He was holistic and healthy. So we don’t know of him being sick, so this is all pretty sudden,” Omen’s sister said in a statement to NBC News. “I hope people will remember that he was willing to help the younger generation.”

Brown continued: “He was always big on helping younger people start their careers and get themselves into the game. It was about just the music, no matter who the artist was.”

Omen began making a name for himself in hip-hop around the turn of the century as he aligned with Roc-A-Fella. He earned production credits on Memphis Bleek’s Coming of Age debut as well as Fabolous’ Street Dreams album cuts “Change You or Change Me” and “Why Wouldn’t I” in 2003.

Brown crafted the score behind Roc-A-Fella’s Paper Soldiers movie in 2002, which served as Kevin Hart’s acting debut and saw a cameo from Jay-Z.

He produced “Tell It Like It Is” for Ludacris‘ Release Therapy, which won best rap album at the 2007 Grammy Awards.

Omen floated into the Young Money orbit when teaming up with OVO’s Noah “40” Shebib to produce “Shut It Down” featuring The-Dream on Drake’s Thank Me Later debut in 2010. He collaborated with Shebib again to co-produce Lil Wayne’s “I’m Single,” which reached No. 82 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Continuing his work with 40, Omen is credited as a songwriter on Beyoncé’s 2013 hit “Mine,” which also peaked at No. 82 on the Hot 100.

Omen went on to compile a talented list of collaborators, as he earned production credits with Mya, Redman and Action Bronson over the years.

Billboard has reached out to the New York Police Department and the Medical Examiner’s Office for comment.

On Tuesday (Sept. 16), concert promotion company Goldenvoice released the lineup for the 2026 Coachella festival, with headliners Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G and Justin Bieber topping a packed bill that also includes Turnstile, Teddy Swims, Devo, David Bryne, Young Thug, Iggy Pop and a set by electronic artist Anyma.

The lineup for this year’s festival was announced far earlier than in past years and reflects a growing trend in the festival business to get on sale early — passes for next year’s edition go on sale Friday (Sept. 19) — and sell as many tickets as possible. Like Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, Coachella is essentially on sale year-round. Less than two weeks after the 2025 festival wrapped on April 20, early bird tickets went on sale for Coachella 2026.

Many fans buy Coachella tickets in advance, knowing they’ll attend no matter who plays the festival. But sales for the event, for which GA tickets are priced at $549 per person, really ramp up after the lineup is announced. For most of the 2010s, the festival’s lineup wasn’t announced until the first week of January. That forced other festivals with artists on their lineup who were also playing Coachella to hold back their lineup announcements until Coachella organizers announced theirs.

That began to change after the pandemic, beginning in 2024, when the lineup was announced one week later than normal, on Jan. 16. Unfortunately, the lineup — which featured headliners Tyler, the Creator, Lana Del Rey and Doja Cat — didn’t click with fans and tickets to the first weekend, which had previously sold out in hours, took weeks to sell through. Ultimately, approximately 160,000 tickets were sold for Coachella in 2024, or 80,000 per weekend, according to a report from government officials in Indio.

For the 2025 festival, headlined by Lady Gaga, Green Day and Travis Scott, Coachella organizers put tickets on sale in mid-November and came far closer to reaching capacity, with sales of 120,000 tickets per weekend, sources tell Billboard.

This year, Coachella organizers are doubling down on their ticketing strategy for the 2025 festival — when tickets went on sale six weeks ahead of New Year’s — by putting them on sale nearly three and a half months earlier than previous years. One booking agent who has booked several acts to play Coachella says the longer lead time is just a reflection of today’s consumer landscape.

“Coachella is still the biggest festival in the world and a massive platform for the biggest artists in the world, but there’s just a lot more competition for consumer dollars,” the booking agent source, speaking on background, tells Billboard. “The sooner festivals like Coachella can go on sale to consumers, the sooner they can start ticket sales and work towards selling the tens of thousands of tickets it takes for each weekend to sell out.”