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Since 2022, Fred Again.. has been in the middle of releasing USB, a continually evolving album that periodically gets new songs. The project is about to enter a busy stretch, as today (September 25), Fred announced that ten songs will be added.

In an announcement video shared on social media today, Fred stands in front of a large building as somebody off camera instructs Fred to hold the big button he’s holding in the air and press it after a brief countdown. When Fred hits the button, a banner unfurls and drapes over the side of the building behind him. It reads, “USB002, 10 weeks, 10 songs, 10 cities.” Fred also captioned the post, “this is us for the next 77 days.”

Per a press release, the location of each of those shows will only be revealed the weekend before. The first show is set to be announced soon, on September 28.

The release also says Fred has been teasing some of the new songs lately, including during his recent performance on a fan’s roof, which took place right after a more traditional concert. Fred explained, “After a show i never quite know what to do. like you go from being filled with the most adreneline ever, to suddenly being like alone or basically alone. Often I just play songs im working on and jam on my keyboard to try ideas out to try n calm down and stuff, cos i cant really be social often. So when i saw fedde commenting on a post that he had a rooftop that overlooked the show i thought wow this could be like my dream afters.”

Coachella unveiled its 2026 lineup last week, and now, Goldenvoice’s country counterpart festival is readying for next year, too. Today (September 25), the lineup for Stagecoach 2026 — which runs from April 24 to 26 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California — was announced.

Some of the more notable names include Post Malone, BigXthaPlug, Bailey Zimmerman, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, and Teddy Swims.

Elsewhere on the poster are Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters, Brooks & Dunn, Bush, Counting Crows, Diplo, Hootie & The Blowfish, Journey, Ludacris, Noah Cyrus, Pitbull, Third Eye Blind, and The Wallflowers.

Passes go on sale beginning October 2 at 11 a.m. PT via the festival website.

Check out the full lineup in alphabetical order below.

Stagecoach 2026 Lineup

Adrien Nunez
Amos Lee
Avery Anna
Bailey Zimmerman
Bayker Blankenship
Benjamin Tod
BigXthaPlug
Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters
Brandon Wisham
Braxton Keith
Brett Young
Brooks & Dunn
Bush
Cameron Whitcomb
Charles Wesley Godwin
Chase Matthew
Chase Rice
Cody Johnson
Corey Kent
Counting Crows
Diplo
Eli Young Band
Elizabeth Nichols
Ella Langley
Gabriella Rose
Gavin Adcock
Guy Fieri
Hannah McFarland
Hootie & the Blowfish
Hudson Westbrook
Ink
Jake Worthington
Josh Ross
Journey
Julia Cole
Kameron Marlowe
Kevin Smiley
Lainey Wilson
Lane Pittman
Larkin Poe
Little Big Town
Ludacris
Lyle Lovett
Marcus King Band
Max McNown
Michael Marcagi
Nate Smith
Neon Union
Noah Cyrus
Noah Rinker
Ole 60
Pitbull
Post Malone
Redferrin
Red Clay Strays
Riley Green
Ryan Hurd
S.G. Goodman
Sam Barber
Something Out West
Tayler Holder
Teddy Swims
The Road
The Wallflowers
Third Eye Blind
Treaty Oak Revival
Tyler Braden
Ty Myers
Warren Zeiders
Willow Avalon
Wyatt Flores
Wynonna Judd
Zach John King

Check out Bailey Zimmerman’s Sound Check episode below:

Check out BigXthaPlug’s VISIONARIES performance below:

When Cardi B name-checks Latto on her Am I The Drama? standout “Errtime,” she perfectly tees up a guest appearance that never materializes. It’s a disappointing omission, but as always, Cardi had another trick up her sleeve. On Wednesday, she announced a revamped release of her second album, the “Errtime Edition,” adding her “Put It On Da Floor” collaborator for a knockout verse that elevates the club fight song to a new plateau of electrifying excitement.

“G lock in my hip, I walk around with a switch / I know this ho ain’t talking sh*t with broke n**** on her lips,” Latto taunt. “Like, how you let a rapper hit that ain’t even got no hits? / Man, my thick ass went to fashion week, them dresses couldn’t even zip.”

The verse is Latto’s second surprise collaboration of the year after she hooked up with former rival Ice Spice on “Gyatt,” officially putting their feud to rest and giving fans a glimpse of her potential follow-up project to 2024’s Sugar Honey Iced Tea. Meanwhile, Am I The Drama? finds Cardi reuniting with other past collaborators, such as Kehlani, on songs like “Safe.”

You can listen to Cardi B’s remix of “Errtime” featuring Latto above.

Am I The Drama? is out now via Atlantic Records. You can find more info here.

For one weekend every summer, the Primavera Sound festival makes Barcelona the center of the music world. Now, next year’s fest is coming into focus. Today (September 25), organizers have announced the 2026 lineup.

The biggest names on the poster (literally, in terms of font size) are The Cure, Doja Cat, The xx, Gorillaz, Massive Attack, Addison Rae, My Bloody Valentine, PinkPantheress, Skrillex, and Peggy Gou.

Also included among the 150 names revealed today are Lola Young, Mac DeMarco, Little Simz, Big Thief, Ethel Cain, Dijon, Role Model, Wet Leg, Jade, 2hollis, Alex G, Amaarae, Ashnikko, Blood Orange, Father John Misty, Men I Trust, Ravyn Lenae, Rilo Kiley, Cameron Winter, Cara Delevingne, Fcukers, Geese, Panda Bear, Touché Amoré, and Water From Your Eyes.

Furthermore, the festival is set to reveal a “parallel programme” that will extend the festival to a full week.

The festival is going down from June 3 to 7. As for tickets, registration for the fan sale is open now until September 28 at 11:59 p.m. CEST. The sale will then be active for 24 hours, or until tickets sell out, beginning September 29 at 11 a.m. CEST. The general on-sale will follow on September 30 at 11 a.m. CEST. More information is available on the Primavera Sound website.

ASAP Rocky has been in press a bit lately, as he promotes his movies, Highest 2 Lowest and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, while his partner (possibly wife?) Rihanna also popped up in the Smurfs movie earlier this year. While fans’ have been champing at the bit to get albums from both, they’ve got a different announcement today: Their third child, Rocki, has arrived.

Rihanna shared a loving photo of herself with Rocki on Instagram, alongside a caption revealing her full name (Rocki Irish Myers) and birthdate (she was technically born about a week ago, on September 13). A second slide captures an adorable, tiny pair of pink boxing gloves tied with ribbons; it sounds like this one is a fighter.

The couple first revealed their third pregnancy just ahead of the Met Gala in May, telling reporters at the event they were “tired” of keeping it a secret. “It feels amazing,” Rocky said on the blue carpet. “We were tired of holding that, and it was time to show the people what we was cooking up. I’m glad everybody’s happy for us, because we’re definitely happy.”

Meanwhile, at the same event, Rihanna told reporters that the pregnancy would not delay her long-awaited ninth studio album, saying, “I can still sing.” Now that the baby has arrived, though, it looks like any further announcements may have to wait as they dote on the newborn.

Coco Jones chooses between hits from rappers like Doechii and Doja Cat, alt bands, and more in this week’s episode of Sound Check With Jeremy Hecht. While we’ve had some R&B singers before, even longtime fans of the actress-turned-hitmaker might be surprised by some of her choices. While Coco is best known for songs like “Other Side Of Love” and “Toxic,” her tastes run the gamut of genres, proving she has the range.

Here’s how it works: Jeremy plays two songs for the guest artist, who has to choose one and explain their choice, giving Jeremy a chance to learn their musical taste. Jeremy then has to guess the artist’s life anthem, the song they’d take to a desert island, which the guest wrote down earlier on a piece of paper. Our production team has also given him a decoy song, and Jeremy has to guess which is correct based on what he’s learned in the previous rounds.

When it comes to R&B, Coco’s more of a Jazmine Sullivan “Pick Up Your Feelings” girly than a SZA “Kill Bill.” Meanwhile, her pop palate runs more Justin Bieber than it does One Direction, and hey, when it comes to Doechii vs. Doja, she’s got a little more Swamp Princess in her than Tarzana troublemaker.

Watch Coco Jones take on the Sound Check challenge above. New episodes of Sound Check drop every Wednesday at noon ET/9 a.m. PT on Uproxx’s YouTube.

Everybody Scream, the first Florence + The Machine album since 2022’s Dance Fever, is set to come out next month, on October 31.

So far, we’ve heard the title track, and today (September 24), Florence Welch offers “One Of The Greats,” an epic rocker made with Aaron Dessner and Idles’ Mark Bowen.

In a statement, Welch says of the song:

“I don’t really know how to explain myself with this one, it was sort of a long poem about the cost of greatness. Who gets to decide what that is? Why do I even want it? Why am I never satisfied?

I feel like I die a little bit every time I make a record, and kind of literally nearly died on the last tour. Yet I always dig myself up to try again, always trying to please that one person who doesn’t like it, or finally feel like I made something perfect and I can rest.

Early in my career, I was consistently ridiculed and derided for the bigness of my expression. I was thrust into the spotlight but also told again and again I didn’t deserve it, or that because it wasn’t to their taste it wasn’t good. So maybe this is a 15-year outpouring of frustration. But also, a lot of the lines I just left in because I thought they were funny.

Me and Bowen from IDLES wrote it in one take. He played the guitar and I just sang it straight from the page. We meant to re-record it but the first take just had this amazing energy.

Then Aaron Dessner helped us take it to a truly transcendent place. I wanted it to feel like you were disintegrating into nothing at the end. Which is sometimes what the creative process feels to me. Death and resurrection over and over.”

Listen to “One Of The Greats” above and check out the Everybody Scream cover art below.

Florence + The Machine’s Everybody Scream Album Cover Artwork

Everybody Scream is out 10/31 via Polydor. Find more information here.

The All Things Go festival is celebrating a decade with All Things Go: 10 Years, a benefit compilation benefiting Jack Antonoff’s charity the Ally Coalition. Bartees Strange is doing his part by contributing a new song, “DCWDTTY.”

The track is inspired by DC post-hardcore icons Smart Went Crazy, specifically their song “DC Will Do That To You.” It’s not a cover, though, but a new song Bartees made with Antonoff. In a statement, Bartees explains:

“One of my favorite songs from people in this part of the world is ‘DC Will Do That To You’ by Smart Went Crazy. Content-wise, this song doesn’t have much to do with theirs, other than I feel like a big part of who I am is because of DC and what I feel like it did to and for me. This song is just me, wandering through the DMV — things seen and heard in a uniquely lovely and upside down place.”

Listen to “DCWDTTY” above and find Bartees’ upcoming tour dates below.

Bartees Strange’s 2025 Tour Dates

09/27 — Columbia, MD @ All Things Go
09/28 — Saugerties, NY @ AutoCamp Catskills
11/10 — Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater
11/12 — San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
11/15 — West Hollywood, CA @ The Peppermint Club
11/18 — Grand Rapids, MI @ St. Cecilia Music Center

Philadelphia has always been a city of grit and resilience. From the corner bodegas to the arena stages, that hustle mentality runs through its veins, and few embody that spirit like Fridayy. The Grammy-nominated singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer has already carved out his place on platinum records and hit collabs with DJ Khaled and Lil Baby, and landed hooks with Chris Brown and Swae Lee. He’s earned the attention, admiration, and respect of legends (JAY-Z, Drake) and from audiences worldwide — a payoff following a marathon of patience and commitment to excellence that echoes the aging process of Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. That’s what makes Fridayy the perfect person to represent for Philly on Uproxx and Rémy Martin’s Sound of My City series.

Fridayy’s story begins far from the spotlight, in a home where his father, a pastor, kept a piano in the family room, and a 10-year-old kid found his voice singing gospel in church. That mix of discipline and faith has shaped Fridayy’s sound – a versatile blend of gospel, Afrobeats, Kompa, and R&B that refuses to stay in a single lane.

“I always wanna go left when people box me in,” he tells UPROXX spirits expert Frank Dobbins III over a cocktail inspired by his work-in-progress legacy. The pair sat down for the latest episode of Sound of My City series to celebrate his years-long grind.

From late nights writing in Philly basements to long stretches in L.A. honing his craft, Fridayy’s journey has been about putting in the time, trusting the process, and letting the results speak loudly and proudly. Now, he’s ready to raise a glass to Philadelphia’s resilience, celebrating heritage, home, and the refusal to stop pushing boundaries.

Watch the full episode above.

It looks like Coi Leray is gearing up for a proper return to the spotlight. After taking some maternity leave earlier this year, she delivered a stunning new single, “Pink Money,” alongside Bktherula and G Herbo last week. And now, just a few days later, she’s got a music video for the ballistic missile of a track, which finds her throwing ass and throwing cash at a strip club with her new compatriots.

The biggest beneficiary of the song might not even be Coi herself, though. Bktherula has come a long way from the first time we wrote about her back in 2021. She’s since found a niche and supporte from fellow women-in-a-male-dominated-industry Coi and Rico Nasty, and thanks to these co-signs from those pioneering peers, it might not be too much longer before we see her take a leap to a new level of stardom.

In the meantime, “Pink Money” suggests that Coi Leray might well be back on cycle for the follow-up to her last album, 2023’s Coi. While she did release a couple of EPs since then — Lemon Cars last May and What Happened To Forever? this February — the time is ripe for her to drop a new full-length LP.

You can watch Coi Leray’s “Pink Money” video featuring Bktherula and G Herbo above.