Random music news for Monday, May 18, 2026

It’s happening: ballmaxxing. Why? Music news for May 18, 2026, is much less gross. Mostly.

U2 has been invited by the government of Mexico City to perform in the city’s central square.
Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult is going to miss some shows because he underwent “non-life-threatening surgery.”
The guy is accused of murdering the frontman of a Detroit punk band called Cold As Life. He was arrested after being on the run for 30 years.
This guy really had a thing for stealing bass guitars. He nicked about 50 of them.
The estate of Johnny Cash is suing Coca-Cola over a commercial. The circumstances are interesting.
Meanwhile, Samsung denies that they didn’t do anything wrong over this lawsuit by Dua Lipa. Well, at least not intentionally.
Remember the woman who took shots at Rihanna’s house in LA? She’s having lawyer problems.
The start of the murder case of D4vd has been pushed back to June 29 following some really grisly new evidence.
The music industry has “a growing data overload problem.”
Here’s an update on the effort to save the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
Motley Crue trading cards? Yep.
Any Ozzy biopic probably won’t come out until sometime in 2028.
Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler helped rescue 1,500 beagles from animal testing lab in Wisconsin.
Paul McCartney says he doesn’t understand influencer culture. Neither do a lot of us, Macca.
Halsey is starring in and co-writing a horror movie.