Taylor Swift has taken over four of the first five spots on the Billboard Hot 100, but there is plenty happening beneath her latest arrival at #1. Olivia Rodrigo has songs climbing and songs coming back, Corey Kent has made a huge move toward the Top 40, and Sienna Spiro has a new entry to go with a new peak.
The chart dated October 10, 2026, has 14 songs that were absent a week earlier: six first-time debuts and eight reentries. Those returning songs include Rodrigo’s duet with Robert Smith, while Swift’s four tracks are beginning their chart runs together.
Frank Carter made one thing very clear at the Sex Pistols’ Denver show: when he says the mosh pit is for women only, he means it.
During the band’s show at the Ogden Theatre (10/9), Carter stopped to confront a male fan who apparently entered a women-only pit. When the man appeared to argue that women could mosh whenever they wanted, Carter fired back that it was not his lived experience and eventually told him to leave.
Three years ago, Olivia Rodrigo gave four songs their first night out in a room considerably smaller than the arenas she's prancing around in today.
On a warm fall evening at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles (10/9/23), the singer joined her producer and collaborator Dan Nigro (piano, guitar), backing singers, and an additional keyboard player for an acoustic evening celebrating GUTS.
The legendary Boston rockers announced Wednesday that they will return to the Hollywood Bowl for two nights: October 29 and November 1, 2026, marking their first full-length concerts in more than three years.
For the first time in 19 years, Jason Isbell played an entire concert with his old band, Drive-By Truckers.
The six-time Grammy winner reunited with Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley at Shoals Fest in Florence, Alabama, on Saturday (10/3) for a performance of the band's 2003 breakthrough LP Decoration Day, played in its entirety for the first time, plus three additional songs.
Hayley Williams stepped onto the Hollywood Bowl stage on a sweltering Monday night (10/5) for what appears to have been her first performance there in any capacity: solo, with Paramore, or as someone else’s guest.
The beloved singer had played major outdoor stages around Los Angeles before, including Paramore’s headlining show at the Greek Theatre (9/26/17), not far to the east. But the Bowl represented a considerable jump in scale and, in many artists’ hearts, a beautiful milestone.
Blink-182 were lured out of their hibernation Saturday night (10/3) and accepted an invite to play a private gig at a luxurious resort eight minutes away from the Empire Polo Club where the Coachella festival is held.
The trio played a 9 song set of their hits in what is now their second private show of 2026, following their gig in May in Los Angeles thanks to Mercedes-Benz.
L7 will be adding a new tune to their farewell tour. The Los Angeles band released “Loma Linda” Monday (10/5), a day before kicking off the Last Hurrah tour at the Casbah in San Diego.
The new single has been waiting a while. Its original demo dates to 2003, when Janis Tanaka was playing bass with the band. Donita Sparks found the unfinished track in the archives, and L7 added new lyrics, vocals and other parts just before hitting the road. “It still sounded rather fresh and very L7,” Sparks said in the release announcement.
Leave it to an enthusiastic Gen Z singer to get fans crazy about Quiet Riot again.
John Torra hopped on stage Thursday (10/1) at Cherokee Casino in Oklahoma, tore off the band's sorta cheezy mask, and led the band that was formed in 1973 by Randy Rhoads through a 14-song set.
Turnstile made their Saturday Night Live debut on Saturday, (10/3), becoming the first hardcore band to perform on SNL in 45 years.
The popular and diverse Baltimore band wisely used its two musical appearances to bless the long-running late night show with four tunes via two blasts, starting with “T.L.C. (Turnstile Love Connection) / BIRDS” and returning later with “I CARE / DULL.”
At 57 years old, you'd have thought that Dave Grohl had already checked off everything on his bucket list.
Not only did he get to be in a band with one of the legendary voices of his generation, but he's been able to jam with a laundry list of rock & roll hall inductees and icons.
