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A couple months ago, My Chemical Romance announced a huge run of shows for 2026, continuing their The Black Parade tour. That wasn’t quite all they had in store, though, as today (November 18), they’ve added two special shows to the run.

They’re both at the Hollywood Bowl, making it five straight performances there, which makes MCR the first band to perform five shows there. The concerts go down on Halloween and the day before. The October 30 show will be with The Used while the October 31 performance will be with Thrice. A press release notes these will be the final shows of the tour.

For tickets for the news shows, there’s an artist pre-sale, and those interested can sign up before November 19 at 11:59 a.m. PT here. The general on-sale starts November 21 at 9 a.m. PT, here.

Check out the full list of dates below.

My Chemical Romance’s 2026 Tour Dates: The Black Parade 2026

01/22/2026 — Bogotá, Colombia @ Vive Claro
01/25/2026 — Lima, Peru @ Estadio Nacional
01/28/2026 — Santiago, Chile @ Estadio Bicentenario
01/29/2026 — Santiago, Chile @ Estadio Bicentenario
02/01/2026 — Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Estadio Huracán
02/05/2026 — São Paulo, Brazil @ Allianz Parque
02/06/2026 — São Paulo, Brazil @ Allianz Parque
02/13/2026 — Mexico City, Mexico @ Estadio GNP Seguros
02/14/2026 — Mexico City, Mexico @ Estadio GNP Seguros
04/18/2026 — Incheon, South Korea @ Paradise City Culture Park
04/22/2026 — Bangkok, Thailand @ Impact Challenger Hall
04/25/2026 — Bulacan, Philippines @ Philippine Arena
04/28/2026 — Singapore, Singapore @ Indoor Stadium
04/30/2026 — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia @ National Stadium Bukit Jalil
05/01/2026 — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia @ National Stadium Bukit Jalil
05/03/2026 — Jakarta, Indonesia @ Hammersonic Festival
05/10/2026 — Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome to Rockville
05/14/2026 — Columbus, OH @ Sonic Temple
06/30/2026 — Liverpool, United Kingdom @ Anfield Stadium
07/04/2026 — Glasgow, United Kingdom @ Bellahouston Park
07/08/2026 — London, United Kingdom @ Wembley Stadium
07/10/2026 — London, United Kingdom @ Wembley Stadium
07/11/2026 — London, United Kingdom @ Wembley Stadium
07/15/2026 — Florence, Italy @ Visarno Arena
07/18/2026 — Madrid, Spain @ Iberdrola Music
08/09/2026 — New York, NY @ Citi Field (with Franz Ferdinand)
08/13/2026 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium (with Pierce The Veil)
08/18/2026 — Washington, DC @ Nationals Park (with Modest Mouse)
08/21/2026 — Detroit, MI @ Comerica Park (with Iggy Pop)
08/24/2026 — Minneapolis, MN @ Target Field (with Sleater-Kinney)
08/27/2026 — Denver, CO @ Coors Field (with The Breeders)
08/30/2026 — San Diego, CA @ Petco Park (with BABYMETAL)
09/06/2026 — Phoenix, AZ @ Chase Field (with Jimmy Eat World)
09/12/2026 — San Antonio, TX @ Alamodome (with The Mars Volta)
09/18/2026 — Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life
10/21/2026 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
10/23/2026 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
10/24/2026 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
10/30/2026 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl (with The Used)
10/31/2026 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl (with Thrice)

Today (November 18) has been big for music festival lineup reveals. Kilby Block Party unveiled its 2026 roster and so did Welcome To Rockville. Also on that list is Iowa’s Hinterland Music Festival, hosted just outside of Des Moines in St. Charles.

Headlining the four-day fest, which runs from July 30 to August 2 next year, are Katseye, Lorde, Mumford & Sons, and Kali Uchis. Also featured are Jessie Murph, Geese, Wet Leg, Suki Waterhouse, Beabadoobee, Ashnikko, Audrey Nuna, Jane Remover, Frost Children, Porch Light, Muna, Snow Strippers, Paris Paloma, Sofia Isella, Saint Avangeline, The Format, Santigold, CMAT, Waylon Wyatt, Amble, Julia Wolf, Young Miko , Audrey Hobert, Samia, and Haute & Freddy.

Those interested can sign up now to receive a pre-sale code via the festival website. The pre-sale starts November 20 at 11 a.m. CT, followed by the general on-sale on November 21 at 11 a.m. CT. The fest also boasts a “90 Degree Guarantee,” meaning if it’s 90 degrees or hotter outside, ticketholders can receive a refund.

Check out the daily lineup below.

Hinterland Music Festival 2026 Day-By-Day Lineup

Thursday, July 30
Katseye
Beabadoobee
Ashnikko
Audrey Nuna
Jane Remover
Frost Children
Porch Light

Friday, July 31
Lorde
Muna
Snow Strippers
Paris Paloma
Sofia Isella
Saint Avangeline

Saturday, August 1
Mumford & Sons
Jessie Murph
The Format
Santigold
CMAT
Waylon Wyatt
Amble
Julia Wolf

Sunday, August 2
Kali Uchis
Young Miko
Geese
Wet Leg
Suki Waterhouse
Audrey Hobert
Samia
Haute & Freddy

As the cold of winter prepares to set in, it’s not to early to start planning for next festival season. If you’re looking to make a trip out to Salt Lake City, Kilby Block Party is as good a reason as any. The 2026 edition of the festival is set to go down from May 15 to 17, and today (November 18), the lineup was announced.

The top line of the poster features Lorde, The xx, and Turnstile. Beyond them are Hayley Williams, Modest Mouse, Alex G, Blood Orange, Lucy Dacus, Father John Misty, Japanese Breakfast, Magdalena Bay, Flipturn, The Last Dinner Party, Beach Bunny, American Football, Snail Mail, Grandaddy, Nilüfer Yanya, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Wild Nothing, Kevin Morby, Dehd, Jane Remover Quadeca, This Is Lorelei, Hotline TNT, Folk Bitch Trio, and more.

Early Bird tickets for the festival already sold out, but the general on-sale begins with Tier 1 pricing starting November 19 at 10 a.m. MST. Three-day passes start at $249, with payment plans starting at $49 down. These are all-in prices, meaning there will be no added fees or taxes at the end of the checkout prices. The Tier 1 prices are only available until November 26 or while supplies last. More information can be found on the festival website.

Kilby Block Party’s 2026 Lineup Lineup Poster

Kevin Parker has made some tweaks to the aesthetic of his Tame Impala music over the years, but Deadbeat is one of his pivots yet, as the project is more heavily indebted to dance music than anything he had done before. This had been a long time coming, as for years, dance music was a “guilty pleasure” for him, he revealed.

In a new interview with Russh, Parker said:

“It’s always been a love of mine, even before it was obvious, even before it was imaginable that I could make that kind of music. It was a guilty pleasure for so long. I came from the rock world, you know, where anything that wasn’t guitar-based was ‘less than,’ you know? So yeah, this time I just thought, f*ck it.”

He also spoke about the meaning behind the album title, saying, “[‘Deadbeat’] was just a word I’d written down in a notebook. I stumbled across it weeks later and had no idea why I’d written it. […] It just spoke to me. It felt perfect, despite the negative connotations. Someone disconnected. Someone lost. When I realized how many of the songs carried that energy, it just… fit. […] The word ‘beat’ being right there. It felt right, like drawing a circle around everything. A word that holds the chaos together.”

Find the full feature here.

Waxahatchee (Katie Crutchfield) and MJ Lenderman are clearly buds. Lenderman featured on Waxa’s 2024 song “Right Back To It,” and he also performed on the new album from Snocaps, the duo of Crutchfield and sister Allison Crutchfield.

The pair are continuing their friendship, and professional relationship, next year: Today (November 17), they announced a joint tour for 2026. On the 18-date run, the two will perform solo as well as together. The run kicks off in Atlanta in April and from there, will run through to early May.

For tickets, a pre-sale starts November 19, followed by the general on-sale at November 21 at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets will be available here.

Find the tour dates below.

Waxahatchee And MJ Lenderman’s 2026 Tour Dates

04/13/2026 — Atlanta, GA @ Symphony Hall
04/14/2026 — Asheville, NC @ Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
04/15/2026 — Richmond, VA – Altria Theater
04/17/2026 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
04/18/2026 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
04/19/2026 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
04/20/2026 — New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre
04/22/2026 — Boston, MA @ Wang Theatre
04/23/2026 — Buffalo, NY @ UB Center for the Arts
04/24/2026 — Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Theatre
04/25/2026 — Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
04/27/2026 — Chicago, IL @ The Auditorium Theatre
04/28/2026 — Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theatre
04/29/2026 — Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre
05/02/2026 — Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
05/03/2026 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
05/05/2026 — San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
05/06/2026 — Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Charli XCX is contributing some songs to the Wuthering Heights movie, which we’ve known for a little while now. Last week, though, she revealed that she’s actually doing an entire album.

Part of the project is last week’s “Chains Of Love,” which fans excitedly compared to the True Romance era. Now there’s a video, in which Charli finds herself laying on a long table in the middle of a ballroom. As she sings and dances, some surreal elements start to take over, which shift physics and reality.

Charli recently wrote of her experience making music for the movie:

“In early December 2024 I got a text from an unknown number that turned out to be Emerald Fennell. […] I began to sink into this reimagined world of Wuthering Heights and I suddenly began to feel… inspired. I was immersing myself in a story that was not my own, a story that was steeped in history, a story that had existed since 1847 (tysm Emily Brontë). [..]

I called Emerald and asked her what she was hoping for from my read of the script. She coyly suggested ‘A song?’ and I suggested ‘An album?’ because why not? I wanted to dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar.”

Watch the “Chains Of Love” video above.

Charli XCX’s Wuthering Heights Album Cover Artwork

Wuthering Heights is out 2/13/2026 via Atlantic Records. Find more information here.

FKA Twigs always brings it with her videos, which are frequently high-concept and/or have some incredible choreography. She has a new one out now, for “Hard,” and once again, she doesn’t disappoint.

The black-and-white clip starts with Trigs singing to the camera before she starts dancing around her desert environment. She’s later joined by other dancers, creating a menagerie of beautifully moving bodies.

Lyrically, Twigs starts the sexually charged song, “Wet thighs, I’m ecstatic, chemistry was automatic / Don’t touch, there’s no rush / I gotta know something about you / Just tell me, would you do it hard?”

Twigs first announced the new album on stage in the Netherlands, saying, “New music — I am full and abundant and ready to give birth. Her name is Afterglow. And my labor shall commence next month.” When announcing “Perfectly,” she also noted, “and so the offerings begin again… if EUSEXUA was the tip of the tongue, PERFECTLY is the oesophagus… i wonder what lays in the belly of the beast.”

Watch the “Hard” video above and find the Eusexua Afterglow cover art and tracklist below.

FKA Twigs’ Eusexua Afterglow Album Cover Artwork

FKA Twigs’ Eusexua Afterglow Tracklist

1. “Love Crimes”
2. “Slushy”
3. “Wild And Alone” Feat. PinkPantheress
4. “Hard”
5. “Cheap Hotel”
6. “Touch A Girl”
7. “Predictable Girl”
8. “Sushi”
9. “Piece Of Mine”
10. “Lost All My Friends”
11. “Stereo Boy”

Eusexua Afterglow is out now via Young Recordings/Atlantic. Find more information here.

I’m not the first person to be wildly charmed by spas (though, as with everything, Uproxx was riding this cultural wave early). Done well, they’re just such a perfect combination of health-meets-fun and relaxation-meets-vibezzzzzzzzzzz. But in becoming a spa connoisseur (spa-nnoisseur?), I’ve seen a lot of bricks.

Sometimes they’re too quiet. Others, they don’t feel new/clean enough. And others still, they are so strict in their pursuit of serenity that the whole experience becomes cold and sterile. And yes, I know spas aren’t specifically designed to be sexy, but they shouldn’t veer so far away from that as to become boring.

On a recent trip to my home city of Portland, I was overjoyed to find that Cascada Thermal Springs + Hotel doesn’t make any of these mistakes. In fact, the team behind the property understood the assignment perfectly — balancing their quiet spaces and social areas to create an environment that feels safe, stylized, and sensual.

Steam feathering off a subterranean hot tub. The local creative class connecting over a fire pit. Music and lighting turning a swimming pool into a health-rave of sorts. Every detail was bang on. And it was all right in the middle of my favorite US city (a homer pick, I know).

Cascada takes a full Alberta Arts District block and turns it into a city-side retreat — upstairs, you have clean-line suites; downstairs, you get Portland’s first underground thermal springs. But we’re not talking “cave” underground. It’s a stylish sanctuary: dark stone, soft light, and smart little touches at every turn (I loved the crushed ice dispenser outside of the steam room).

It’s sensual without losing the healing piece — date-night friendly and genuinely restorative. Also, it’s deeply rooted in music. And as we said on Instagram a few weeks ago, Spas are the new clubs:

WHY IT’S AWESOME

The cadence is dialed. Check in, drop a bag, and slip straight to the waters.

Cascada builds the day around three-hour thermal sessions for guests 21+, which keeps things unhurried and crowd-controlled. Inside the underground Sanctuary space, voices drop to library levels; you rotate through mineral pools at different temperatures, plus a dry sauna, a steam room, and a cold plunge. Up in the glassed-in Conservatory, the mood loosens at an 82° year-round pool ringed with daybeds and tropical plants. Outside, there’s a social sauna, fire pits, another hot tub, and a cold shower.

The property keeps a steady cadence of events on the calendar. There are cold plunges, breath work sessions, sound baths, and (increasingly) music events that balance healing and the energy of good music.

IN-HOUSE FOOD & DRINK

Terra Mae — This is the property’s headlining restaurant, and it’s quickly becoming a PDX (even national!) darling. The menu is “Portuguese meets Japanese” — but in truth, the menu seems to be chef-driven more than any attempt to insist that everything is a strict “fusion.” That’s a good thing — it’s inventive and clever at every turn.

Some stone-cold standouts:

• The milk buns. This is the most irresistible bread course I’ve reviewed this year. Just the most lush, pillowy, yet earthy and flavorful bites of gluten you’ll ever taste.
• The bluefin sashimi. They say you’re only supposed to eat bluefin once every five years, to keep them from going extinct. If you’re following that rule, which I do, make this the spot you try it. The fish is treated with the delicacy it deserves — touch lightly with serrano tamari and shiso. Just a mind-blowing bite.
• The mentaiko udon. This really reads as “stylized carbonara” and… well, culinary-wise, that’s my sweet spot. I actually went back for this dish two more times during my stay.
• Dumplings. These are not overly complicated — they’re just a perfect execution of a pork dumpling dish.

The plating is precise without turning fussy. Cocktails play in the same register: clean profiles, not sugar bombs. The room’s warm light and generous spacing make it an easy “let’s stay a while” reservation.

Alberta Street Coffee — This is your spot for a daytime refuel in the building: a wellness-leaning grab-and-go that’s clutch pre- or post-soak. Their grab and go soups are fantastic.

AMENITIES

• Thermal Springs + Saunas (21+) — Timed 3-hour entries; clearly marked silent (Sanctuary) and social (Conservatory) zones; mineral pools, dry sauna, steam, and cold immersion. As I said above, this is paradise in spa form.

• Wellness touches — Robes and sandals at the ready; tea/water stations; a thermal-cycle primer that helps first-timers sequence hot–cold–rest like veterans.

• Location — Right in the Alberta Arts District with downtown and PDX nearby. Most of what you need (galleries, bars, indie shops) is at your doorstep, including longtime Uproxx fav restaurant, Eem.

ROOM TYPES

Suites are the default. Expect full or mini-balconies, king all-natural mattresses, a proper kitchenette with induction ovens, in-unit washer/dryer, automated sheer/blackout curtains, and floor-to-ceiling tile baths.

Two-bedroom options step up to ~1,000 sq. ft. with gourmet kitchens and view balconies — useful for long weekends or wellness mini with friends. The throughline is apartment-style living paired to spa access, which makes the “dip in, dip out” cadence feel easy.

BEST THINGS TO DO WITHIN A 15-MINUTE WALK

Make it an Alberta loop. Start west on NE Alberta for murals and small galleries; cut back for coffee; time your soak for late afternoon (the underground light gets cinematic), then walk upstairs for a Terra Mae dinner you don’t have to Uber to.

If you want one last scene, do a slow lap along the street’s storefronts after dessert — color, neon, and people-watching in a few tight blocks — and you’re home in minutes.

BED GAME

Firm-meets-forgiving mattress, cool linens, curtains that actually black out, and whisper-quiet HVAC. After a steam and a cold plunge, sleep lands fast.

Rating: 9/10

SEXINESS RATING

Downstairs in the spa is silent and upstairs is more social. The entire experience connects you to your body. And being connected to your body is sexy.

Rating: 9/10

VIEWS & PICS SPOTS

Frame the Conservatory pool from a corner daybed — and if musicians are playing, it’s even better. Obviously, shots of you looking amazing and contemplative in the public (upstairs) sauna are a pre-req.

Rating: 8/10

BOTTOM LINE

This is the pinnacle of urban onsens that I’ve seen in my travels. It’s also Portland’s best hotel, full stop. You have sleek suites, deeply considered spa areas, a truly exciting restaurant, and an Alberta Arts address that lets you toggle between contemplative and social — all without starting a car.

It will be my default stay in Portland from here on out.

RATES

Check Cascada’s booking page for current room and spa packages. Rooms start at $299. You can also buy spa day passes for $100.

We got a new Bon Iver album, SABLE, fABLE, earlier this year. Unfortunately, it could end up being the final Bon Iver album, as Justin Vernon indicated in an interview.

In a chat with The Times, Vernon said, “I’m tapped into the emotion of music — the blue part. I have that in me thanks to the thousands of musicians I’ve absorbed, and they’re just in there. But I don’t know how much is left. I’ve expelled a lot of it.”

When asked if that means there will be any more Bon Iver albums, he said:

“I would be very surprised. For the first time since I was 12, I’m not writing songs. There aren’t any in here [his heart]. I have been writing since puberty and this is unfamiliar territory — but I am accepting it. It’s scary sometimes, but I’m just letting it happen.”

Of course, this mindset could just be a symptom of how Vernon was feeling at the moment. SABLE, fABLE, after all, arrived six years after the previous Bon Iver album, so he has seemingly felt creatively tapped out for extended stretches before, or has at least been OK with not releasing new LPs for years at a time.

Earlier this year, over a thousand artists came together to release the album Is This What We Want?. Per the project’s website, it was made in response to proposed copyright law changes in the UK, which would “allow artificial intelligence companies to build their products using other people’s copyrighted work — music, artworks, text, and more — without a licence.”

The gimmick is that the whole project is recordings of empty studios and performance spaces, “representing the impact we expect the government’s proposals would have on musicians’ livelihoods.” Now, a vinyl edition is coming out, and Paul McCartney has contributed an also-silent bonus track.

The Guardian notes the song is two minutes and 45 seconds “of an almost completely silent recording studio,” and that all can be heard is “only quiet hiss and the odd clatter.”

In a BBC interview earlier this year, McCartney said of AI, “You get young guys, girls, coming up, and they write a beautiful song, and they don’t own it. They don’t have anything to do with it. And anyone who wants can just rip it off. The truth is, the money’s going somewhere. Somebody’s getting paid, so why shouldn’t it be the guy who sat down and wrote ‘Yesterday’?”

McCartney seems to not be completely against AI, though, as it was used to bring “Now And Then,” the “final” Beatles song, to life in 2023. He said at the time, “[Peter Jackson] was able to extricate [John Lennon’s] voice from a ropey little bit of cassette. We had John’s voice and a piano and he could separate them with AI. They tell the machine, ‘That’s the voice. This is a guitar. Lose the guitar’ So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles’ record, it was a demo that John had [and] we were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI. Then we can mix the record, as you would normally do. So it gives you some sort of leeway.”