The Kansas City Chiefs triumphed over the Indianapolis Colts at Arrowhead Stadium

Taylor Swift watches the game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.

Taylor Swift made sure everyone saw her wedding ring on Sunday during the Kansas City Chiefs match-up against the Indianapolis Colts. As her Travis Kelce scored his first touchdown of the season during the opening quarter, Swift jumped up, held up her left hand, pointed to her ring finger, and declared, “That’s my husband.”

Swift, who married Kelce on July 3 at Madison Square Garden, has been spotted at all of the Chiefs game so far this season. Last week, she was joined by Tom Cruise for team’s 31-10 win against the Denver Broncos.

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Cruise, who appeared on Kelce’s podcast New Heights to promote his movie Digger, told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that Swift spent the game “schooling” him on football. “She was bringing the football,” Cruise said. “First of all, she’s a genius. I’ve been following her since she was a kid. Everybody there, all their friends — they’re a beautiful couple and magical in their own right.”

He added, “I hadn’t been to a football game since pre-Covid, where I was working and everything. So to get to hang out there and have that moment, it was a lot. But she knows her stuff.”

Swift and Kelce took over Madison Square Garden for their wedding earlier this summer. The guest list packed nearly 1,000 attendees including Paul McCartney, Brad Pitt, Conan O’Brien, Gigi Hadid, Lena Dunham, and Zoë Kravitz. McCartney and Stevie Nicks attended and performed at the wedding while Adam Sandler officiated the ceremony.

“It’s a night we’ll never forget. Me and Taylor are so thankful for everybody that showed up,” said Kelce during a September episode of New Heights. “From the vows to seeing everyone to how much fun we had throughout the entire evening, and hearing that kind of be relayed through everybody’s stories of the night, and it was just so magical, man.”

Lisa, Shaboozey, and Gunna.

MTV has added several new artists to its lineup of performers for this year’s Video Music Awards. Gunna, Lisa, Raye, Shaboozey, Gener8ion, Sienna Spiro, and Yung Lean will now all perform at the ceremony, which will air on CBS and MTV at 7:30 p.m. ET on Sept. 26. The show will also be streaming on Paramount+ (premium) and available on Paramount+ and MTV on the 27th.

Lisa will perform her new single, “SaWaDiKa,” at the event, previewing her upcoming EP, Press Play, due Oct. 23. Shaboozey, meanwhile, will perform “Cowgirl” and get an assist from Gunna for a rendition of their collaboration, “High Noon.” Similarly, Gener8ion and Yung Lean will give a world premiere performance to their song “Storm II.”

Raye’s performance has not yet been revealed, but she’s nominated for her song “Where Is My Husband!” Sienna Spiro’s song of choice is also similarly not yet public.

MTV plans on announcing more performers in the week ahead. As previously announced, Snoop Dogg will host the event, which Madonna will open with her own performance. Elsewhere in the show, Nirvana will be honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.

Madonna, the VMAs’ perennial queen, is the most nominated artist at the 2026 VMAs with 11 nods including Artist of the Year and Video of the Year for “Confessions II — The Film.” “I like the idea of film, because I’m a ‘film-phile,’ a cinephile, and film has inspired a good part of my life,” Madonna said at the film’s Tribeca Film Fest premiere. “Somehow [the word] video seems cheap. It was good when it was just MTV and me.” Other artists with multiple nominations this year include Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and Sabrina Carpenter.

Olivia Rodrigo will never settle for being just another main pop girl. She demands to be your perfect all-American rock star. O-Rod has claimed her crown as the truest, realest, most shameless rock & roller of our moment. “There’s something so special about rock music made by women,” she said in December, in her conversation with Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame podcast. “There’s a different emotional quality to it. The pain and rage and vulnerability that a woman can express through a rock song is an entirely different category. Growing up, I was so inspired by that.”

This former Disney princess has always reveled in her rock moves, ever since her first tour in 2022, when she was covering Veruca Salt and Avril Lavigne. Early on, she joined No Doubt and Sheryl Crow onstage. But she takes special pride in celebrating the Nineties feminist-­punk explosion — and claiming her place in it. This is the girl who told Rolling Stone her mom used to wake her up every morning by playing the 1990s grunge queens Babes in Toyland. (“Vomit Heart” walked so “Drivers License” could run?)

Last year was Rodrigo’s ­festival era, rampaging around the world with her lethal all-­female band. She cranked up her ­fiercest arena-slaying bravado, belting “All-American Bitch” as the bloodthirsty rock & roll animal she was always meant to be. She dropped to her knees to worship the guitar heroes in her band, Daisy Spencer and ­Arianna Powell. She sang duets with her idols, from Weezer to David Byrne. Best of all, she shared the stage with the Cure’s Robert Smith at Glastonbury, calling him “the greatest songwriter to come out of England.”

But she’s always given it up to her rock inspirations. In June, when she made her surprise appearance at the Primavera Festival in Barcelona, she shocked the crowd by bringing out Robert Smith himself, who joined her to debut their then-­unreleased duet “What’s Wrong With Me.” She sang her Number One hit “Drop Dead,” with the line “You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them” — then she sang a duet with the man who wrote them.

Rodrigo obviously wasn’t ­kidding when she kept saying how her new tunes were inspired by goth bands like the Cure and Joy Division. You can hear that all over her blockbuster album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. She digs deep into Eighties and Nineties rock sounds: the synth buzz of “Maggots for Brains,” the electro-punk aggro of “My Way,” the post-punk guitar jangle of “U + Me = <3.” “The Cure” might be her greatest song yet, simmering in the 1990s mode of Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair. This summer, she joined the Pumpkins at ­Lollapalooza, singing the Mellon Collie banger “Thirty Three and a Third,” shortly before she was seen rocking out at a My ­Chemical Romance show.

She has made a bold ­statement with her Daisy Chain Fields festival, a wildly ­ambitious celebration of women in music, reaching back to legends like Stevie Nicks from the 1970s; Garbage, Bikini Kill, and the Breeders from the 1990s; and Karen O from the 2000s. The slate reached from ­Doechii to Katseye to Mitski, not to ­mention her old doughnut-­shop friend Chappell Roan. It’s fitting that she sang a ­triumphant duet with Sarah McLachlan, since she’s upholding the spirit of the pioneering Lilith Fair.

She keeps showing off her wide-ranging sense of rock history, with her producer-collaborator Dan Nigro, who came out of the Long Island emo scene with his band As Tall As Lions. (She’s said he suggested her joke on the album about her “yacht-rock music taste.”) Rodrigo’s unfiltered rockness is an achievement to celebrate. May she stay this unrelentlessly upset forever.

This story is part of our Reasons to Love Rock series, with all the sounds, trends, scenes, and artists that have us excited about rock music in 2026.

As anticipation builds for what's gearing up to be one of the most important releases in entertainment this decade, Rockstar Games is giving the music of Grand Theft Auto VI its very own release.

The company announced Thursday that Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, a 34-track collection of original songs created in partnership with Atlantic Records, will arrive November 19, the same day the highly anticipated game launches.

Six tracks have already been released, offering the first look at the unusually broad roster Rockstar has assembled for the project. The lineup includes Yung Lean with Future and Metro Boomin on "That's It," Travis Scott on "RHYNO," Morgan Wallen on "Last Thing You Need," Rauw Alejandro on "Macacoa 2000" and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards on "Bright Lights, Big City."

The album also features an unexpected collaboration on "Sexy Magic," which brings together CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and French electronic producer Etienne de Crécy. Travis Scott's "RHYNO" is produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, the Daft Punk co-founder.

Rockstar says the 34 songs were created to capture the energy of Vice City and Leonida, the fictional Florida-inspired setting of GTA VI. The remaining 28 tracks have not yet been revealed.

Importantly, the album does not appear to represent the entirety of the game's musical universe. Rockstar says more information is still coming about GTA VI's dynamic score and what it calls the "next evolution" of in-game radio. How the 34 original songs will be incorporated into the game has not yet been fully detailed. We also do not know whether the songs we heard in the Netflix exclusive trailer will be featured in the actual game.

The album will be released digitally on November 19, with CD and vinyl editions also available. A limited-edition vinyl set will feature transparent magenta records filled with blue liquid and exclusive artwork.

They might not be kids anymore, but the smash hit they released a quarter-century ago has earned them new audiences, generation after generation. Now, Montréal pop-punk vets Simple Plan are about to reach an even younger one.

The band announced yesterday the upcoming release of I'm Just a Kid, a children's picture book retracing the story of their career, which began in the mid-90s, when the members were attending Collège Beaubois, a high school in Montréal's Pierrefonds suburb. Since officially coming together in 1999 as Simple Plan, the band has sold millions of records and performed sold-out arena shows around the globe, in no small part thanks to their best-known track, I'm Just a Kid, from which the book takes its name.

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Now all parents themselves, the band members shared that this project meant a lot to them because ''reading bedtime stories to our kids was always one of our favourite and most sacred traditions.''

"When we started the band, our fans were young teenagers and our music helped them get through difficult times," Simple Plan says in the press release. "A lot of these fans are now becoming parents and it feels really special to connect with them in a whole new way as they enter this exciting new chapter of their lives."

Due out March 9, 2027, I'm Just a Kid was illustrated by award-winning children's book author and illustrator Jomike Tejido. 1$ from every copy sold will be donated to the Simple Plan Foundation, which helps children in need and offers music classes.

Macklemore; Robert Kraft.

Hours after Macklemore challenged Robert Kraft “to match” his $1 million donation to organizations supporting Palestinians, the billionaire New England Patriots owner responded. Earlier in the week, Kraft allegedly led a pressure campaign to force the Seattle rapper off of Ed Sheeran’s The Loop Tour, igniting a firestorm of backlash from artists and fans accusing Kraft of censoring Macklemore’s free speech.“I’ve dedicated much of my life to building bridges between all people. I believe deeply that all lives are worth protecting,” Kraft said in a statement on Gillette Stadium’s social media. (Kraft owns the venue.) “Earlier today, before Macklemore challenged me to match his donation, Ed called me and asked me to commit $2 million to match his donation to aid in the region to fight this humanitarian crisis. Ed now plans to reach out to other venue owners and our goal is to continue to work together to build bridges.”

A rep for Sheeran did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.

Kraft continued, “In addition, I’d like the people who are speaking in support of the Palestinian people to know that for decades, I have supported efforts that create opportunity for Palestinians and have brought young Palestinians and Israelis together to build businesses, create jobs, and forge relationships.” Kraft did not specify what efforts he supported in his statement.

On Monday, the company promoting Sheeran’s tour announced that Macklemore would be dropped from the trek after several venues told Sheeran they would not allow gigs to take place if he was still on the bill. The announcement arrived after pro-Israel groups criticized Macklemore’s performance at MetLife Stadium earlier this month, where he expressed solidarity with Palestinians, shouted “Free Palestine,” and shared images of the destruction from Israel’s war in Gaza.

Kraft, for his part, confirmed he would not let Macklemore perform at Gillette and stated his decision was based on the rapper’s “recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran’s shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community.” Kraft did not address Macklemore’s claim that he also “rallied” other stadium owners to follow suit.

Numerous artists and leaders across industries have voiced their support for Macklemore following his removal from the tour including Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kehlani, Finneas, Ms. Rachel, Rachel Chinouriri, Greta Thunberg, Pattie Gonia, and more. All artists supporting Sheeran’s tour withdrew following the news.

“Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed,” Finneas wrote on Instagram. “I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people.”