If you’re in the band Nickelback, or if you’re responsible for operating the band Nickelback’s social media accounts, you’re going to have to be OK with people making fun of you. It’s part of the job. Nickelback are quite possibly this century’s biggest, most obvious popular music punching bag. So when movie star and Tenacious D leader Jack Black goes semi-viral with a spirited, off-the-cuff butchering of Nickelback’s signature song, the band can’t really get mad about it.

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And now we turn our attention to 2026 with Stereogum’s annual preview of what we’re excited to hear next year. This time, I’ve broken the list into sections to provide context around which inclusions are realistic. The usual ground rules apply: no reissues, deluxes, live albums, EPs, or maxi-singles (even if they have 11 tracks).

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The tense legal saga between South Korean record label ADOR and K-pop group NewJeans has been ongoing for over a year. Earlier this year, the group changed their name due to ongoing litigation. The latest development follows the court ruling from October 30 that NewJeans’ contracts were valid, and that all five members remain bound to them until their expiration in 2029. The court also dismissed NewJeans’ accusation of workplace harassment against BELIFT LAB’s girl group ILLIT manager involving NewJeans member Hanni. Since then ADOR and NewJeans members have engaged in intense discussions regarding the group’s future.

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Over two decades since its release, Wolf Parade’s indie rock classic “I’ll Believe In Anything” is getting its viral moment thanks to a pivotal scene in the sports romance show Heated Rivalry. Created, directed, and written by friend of the band Jacob Tierney, the Crave series follows two rival hockey players who — spoiler alert — have a romance off the ice. “I’ll Believe In Anything” plays during the eponymous fifth episode named after the track, in which another hockey player publicly comes out as gay by kissing his partner in the middle of the rink after winning the MLH Cup.

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Vinnie Vincent was not one of the KISS members recently honored at the newly-renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, but that isn’t keeping the band’s former guitarist from trying to cash in. This holiday season, for example, he decided to sell a limited run of autographed CD singles for a whopping $225.

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Brigitte Bardot, the French former actress, singer, and model who became a pop culture icon during the sexual revolution, died today, December 28, at her home in Saint-Tropez. She was 91, leaving behind an immediately-recognizable but troubled legacy. “A tireless advocate for animal rights, she is a legend who helped shape our imaginations, without ever allowing herself to be confined by them,” France’s Minister Of Culture Rachida Dati said in a statement. “Wildly free and, ultimately, so very French.”

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Earlier this month, it was unexpectedly announced that the Kennedy Center was getting renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center. Musician Chuck Redd protested by canceling his Christmas Eve performance at the venue, and now he’s getting threatened with legal action.

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Diplo — the mega-famous DJ with several allegations of distributing revenge porn — is hanging out with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now. The Health And Human Services Secretary reportedly attended Diplo’s concert at the Snow Lodge at the St. Regis in Aspen, CO on Dec. 20. Then he and his family also hit the slopes with his “friends” Diplo and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

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It seems the Jane’s Addiction drama is wrapping up. The band has been a mess since frontman Perry Farrell started an onstage fistfight with his bandmates during their reunion tour last year, causing Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins to quit the band and work on music without him. They sued Farrell for assault and battery, and he sued back. But last week Farrell apologized for the brawl, and now a settlement has been reached and the lawsuits have been dismissed.

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