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Goldenvoice is again launching a new dance music concept on the San Francisco waterfront, with the company announcing a forthcoming “seasonal club experience” called Club Darc.

The event will happen on select weekends from Friday, Feb. 27, through Saturday, May 16, at Pier 48, a waterfront space near the San Francisco Giants’ home of Oracle Park. These shows will be the first-ever electronic events to happen at Pier 48’s Shed A warehouse.

The first four announced Club Darc lineups feature a spate of house and techno artists including Chris Stussy, Peggy Gou, Michael Bibi, Mau P, The Martinez Brothers, Armand Van Helden, DJ Tennis playing b2b with DJ Seinfeld, a DJ set from Neil Frances, Ben Stirling, Silva Bumpa and Miguelle & Tons. Each night will feature four artists on the bill. See the schedule below.

Tickets for Club Darc shows go on sale here on Jan. 28 at 10 a.m. PT.

Goldenvoice, which also produces Coachella, has been heavily focused on San Francisco since 2022, when the company launched Portola on Pier 80. The festival has quickly become a new favorite of the U.S. dance circuit, with the company also recently producing standalone shows by Skrillex and Four Tet, John Summit and Swedish House Mafia at Pier 80’s warehouse space over New Year’s Eve.

“We’re very excited to bring yet another new dance music experience to the Bay Area with Club Darc,” says Danny Bell, Club Darc’s founder and the SVP talent Buyer at Goldenvoice. “Shed A at Pier 48 is the perfect venue to bring this vision to life — we’re going to transform the warehouse into our ideal club environment. Working alongside our partners at the SF Giants, our goal is to further the mission of making San Francisco a global hub for electronic music. We have a great lineup for our first season, and it’s going to be a blast!”

“We’re incredibly proud to see Pier 48’s Shed A evolve into a true music destination on San
Francisco’s waterfront,” adds the senior vice president of the San Francisco Giants Sara Grauf. “Club Darc marks an exciting opportunity to activate the historic Pier 48 with vibrant and diverse new programming.”

The Core, XG‘s first full-length album, tops this week’s fan-voted music poll.

Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Jan. 23) on Billboard, choosing the Japanese vocal group’s fresh arrival as their favorite new drop.

The Core arrived in a week that also saw new music streaming in from two former One Direction members — Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles, with separate solo releases (an album for Tomlinson and a single for Styles) — plus Arctic Monkeys, Fred Again.. and Young Thug and more. XG ultimately held steady in the lead, bringing in more than 50% of the vote.

The Core is a long-awaited collection from XG, one that their team described via press statement as “a defining artistic statement” for the Japanese seven-piece upon its release. The group (Jurin, Chisa, Hinata, Juria, Cocona, Maya and Harvey)’s new single from the 10-track album, the song “Hypnotize,” was accompanied by a music video on Friday.

In an interview about XG in the fall, executive producer JAKOPS (SIMON) told Billboard Japan that the goal with The Core was to “create the greatest record in the world.”

XG will soon hit the road for a tour in support of The Core, kicking things off in early February in Yokohama, Japan.

Among the new releases trailing behind The Core are Louis Tomlinson’s How Did I Get Here? album (with 46% of the vote) Harry Styles’ single “Aperture” (with 2% of the vote).

See the final results of this week’s poll below.

As Bad Bunny gears up for his headlining slot at this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, many are wondering what the Puerto Rican superstar will wear on stage.

About two weeks ahead of Super Bowl LX — set for Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California — rumors circulated online that the 31-year-old “DtMF” hitmaker could be sporting a dress during his highly anticipated performance.

It wouldn’t be a surprise. Known for his bold and confident fashion choices, Bad Bunny has previously donned dress-like outfits on numerous occasions, including a pink dress for a Jacquemus campaign in 2022.

“My style influences what my music is and everything that surrounds me within it,” he told Billboard in 2019. “The way you dress is, to say the least, a type of art. Everyone must dress, and use their creativity, express themselves in that way, their feelings, their way of thinking. Everyone must be free in that area and let the mind flow.”

But as the rumors swirled ahead of the 2026 Super Bowl, production sources told TMZ that Bad Bunny will not be wearing a dress during his halftime performance. Billboard has reached out to Bad Bunny’s representatives for further comment.

Still, the idea of Bunny flaunting a dress could have added even more controversy to the Latin star’s already highly discussed selection for the halftime show. He addressed some of the criticism during the opening monologue of Saturday Night Live’s season 51 premiere in October 2025.

“You might not know this, but I’m doing the Super Bowl halftime show and I’m very happy,” he told viewers. “I think everyone is happy about it — even Fox News.”

The segment cut to a satirical montage of Fox News clips, edited to make it appear as though the hosts were praising the artist and declaring, “Bad Bunny is my favorite musician, and he should be the next president.”

“I’m really excited to be doing the Super Bowl. I know that people all around the world who love my music are also happy,” he continued, before switching to Spanish to speak directly to his community.

“Especially all of the Latinos and Latinas in the world here in the United States who have worked to open doors,” he said. “It’s more than a win for myself, it’s a win for all of us. Our footprints and our contribution in this country, no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it.”

Bunny closed the monologue with a playful note in English, saying, “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

During a recent interview in the Oval Office, U.S. President Donald Trump also weighed in on the Super Bowl 2026 musical lineup, which includes Green Day performing at the opening ceremony.

“I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,” Trump said, according to a report from the New York Post.

U.S. President Donald Trump didn’t hold back from sharing an opinion on Super Bowl 2026’s musical lineup during a recent interview in the Oval Office. Bad Bunny headlines the halftime show and Green Day will kick off the game’s opening ceremony at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Feb. 8 — both of which Trump has thoughts on.

“I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,” Trump said, according to a report from the New York Post.

Green Day’s put the Trump administration on blast for nearly a decade, dating back to the American Music Awards in 2016, when they led a chant of “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist U.S.A.”

Most recently, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong openly expressed his disdain at the band’s Jan. 17 concert in Los Angeles, where he swapped lyrics in protest song “American Idiot” to denounce “the MAGA agenda.” And with “Holiday,” he pledged support “to our brothers and sisters in Minnesota” amid Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda and the chaos its unleashed in ongoing ICE raids across Minneapolis this month; Armstrong told the crowd at Kia Forum, “This song is anti-fascist. This song is anti-war.”

Green Day’s set to start Super Bowl LX with a pre-game, opening ceremony performance of “their most iconic rock anthems,” the NFL said last weekend. The opening ceremony is celebrating MVPs and 60 years of Super Bowl history.

And in a trailer for his Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show last week, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny teased that when he takes the field, “the world will dance.” “What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,” Bad Bunny said in a statement when his headliner status was announced. “It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown … this is for my people, my culture and our history. Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el HALFTIME SHOW DEL SUPER BOWL.”

Meanwhile Trump, who attended last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, announced he’d be skipping the 2026 NFL championship game altogether — though he says it’s not due to the performers booked, “it’s just too far away.”

He said there’s “great hands [at] the Super Bowl. They like me.”

“I would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter,” said Trump, presumably of the distance from the White House to the West Coast.

Though Trump was apparently asked only about Bad Bunny and Green Day, Super Bowl Sunday’s traditional pre-game schedule also brings Charlie Puth performing the national anthem, Brandi Carlile singing “America the Beautiful” and Coco Jones singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Dolly Parton celebrated her milestone birthday with laughs and new music.

To celebrate her 80th birthday on Monday (Jan. 19), the iconic singer-songwriter shared a new version of her 1977 song “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” and some laughs in a video on Instagram.

“Well, hey there! It’s Dolly, and I’ve made it! I’m 80 years old,” Parton said. “Can you believe that? Anyway, what do you give somebody that’s 80 years old? Well, you don’t take gifts. You give things.”

She added, “I’m gonna give you the gift of a bunch of friends that stopped by to help me sing on a song called ‘Light of a Clear Blue Morning,’ a song I wrote years ago. In fact, it’s 50 years old. We did a new version of it, Kent Wells producing it, and then I’m giving you the gift of Queen Latifah, Reba McEntire, Miley Cyrus and Lainey Wilson, with David Foster playing the piano.”

Her original recording of “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” appeared on her 1977 album, New Harvest… First Gathering, and reached No. 11 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart that June.

In the Instagram clip, Parton said the new version “really lifts us up this day and time,” noting, Lord knows we could use that, right?”

She also joked about her age, saying, “Anyway, thank you for all the birthday wishes. And I hope I live another 80 years, but I hope I’ve still got my plastic surgeons in line.” With a laugh, the “Jolene” singer added, “Oh Lord, I’ve outlived so many plastic surgeons. Well, happy birthday to me!”

Net proceeds from “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” and its music video will benefit the pediatric cancer research program at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville.

Parton previously spoke about her plastic surgery in a 2020 interview with 60 Minutes, according to People.

“I’ve had about all the nips and tucks I can have,” she said. “The good part with me though, I have my own look. I look kind of cartoonish and cartoons don’t really age that much.” She added, “Even when I’m 90, I’ll probably look about the same way — just with thicker make-up and bigger hair.”

Watch Parton’s comical 80th birthday message on Instagram below.

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Harry Styles is going back on tour in 2026 with all new music.

The newly announced tour, called Together, Together, features 50 dates in a total of seven cities with Styles visiting Europe, North America, Latin America and Australia. The tour is in support of the British artist’s upcoming fourth solo LP, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, due for release on Mar. 6 via Columbia. The first show kicks off in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on May 16 and is slated to conclude in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 13.

The first stop in America is in New York on Aug. 26 at Madison Square Garden and will end in the same place, Madison Square Garden, on Oct. 31. That’s a 30-night stint at the iconic New York venue, giving American audiences plenty of time to see the star before he heads to Melbourne. A slew of big names will be making appearances on Styles’ tour, including Robyn, Shania Twain, Fcukers, Jamie xx, Jorja Smith, Fousheé, Skye Newman and Baby J.

As mentioned, Styles’ fourth solo LP Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally will come to audiences in March. The first single from the album, titled “Aperture,” is set for release Thursday evening (Jan. 22) at 7 p.m ET, giving fans a taste of what’s to come. If you’re looking to get tickets to Style’s 2026 tour, keep reading to find out when presale and general sale start and where you can get the tickets of your dreams.

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An artist presale will commence on Jan. 28 via AMEX with full details and times for each date available on Styles’ official website. To participate in the artist presale, fans must sign up at Ticketmaster before Jan. 25 11:59 p.m. ET. For dates in Europe and Australia, hopefuls must pre-order the new album from Styles’ U.K., E.U. or AU stores before Saturday, Jan. 24, at 11:59 p.m. local time to access. General sale will begin on Jan. 30.

It’s likely that getting tickets will be tricky, given that Love On Tour, Style’s last tour spanning from 2021 to 2023, was a massive commercial success. The tour grossed over $617 million from 169 shows and became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. Safe to say you’ll want to have your wits about you while shopping, prepping yourself by going in with a game plan to get the seats of your dreams.

The ticketing site also recently announced that they’re barring fans and brokers from operating multiple accounts on its platform. They also plan to shut down its long-criticized TradeDesk ticket uploading application and start requiring ticket brokers to hand over their Social Security numbers in order to sell tickets on Ticketmaster’s resale platform, further making sure your tickets are secure.

If you’re not willing to wait to grab tickets to Styles’ Together, Together 2026 Tour, they’re are already available to buy on third-party sites including Stubhub, Vivid Seats, Gametime and SeatGeek. It’s not the most reliable option, given that these sites don’t have the tickets in their posession just yet because they act like a secondary marketplace for buying and selling. Prices aren’t always going to be fair or affordable, but these sites usually have some sort of guarantee that ensures you’ll get your money back if your tickets aren’t legit. Again, this is a plausible option but one we’d advise you to take advantage of with caution.