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Sir Paul McCartney was the musical guest on the Saturday Night Live season finale on Saturday (5/16).
Backed by a band that included Red Hot Chili Pepper drummer (and Will Ferrell look-alike) Chad Smith, the McCartney performed a live debut of the touching "Days We Left Behind" in the dress rehearsal and then on the live show a few hours later.
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Either guitar hero and Gen X icon Billy Corgan has worked through his rage issues after years of therapy and worldwide adoration, or the dread of yesteryear has eased his sensitive Piscean soul from still feeling like an incarcerated rodent.
The Smashing Pumpkins, led by Corgan waltzed into a rarely used Hollywood Venue on Sunday (5/17), and rocked the American Legion Post 43 so hard to ensure the frontman's persona, Zero, was dead forever.
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Hayley Williams threw a three night bachelorette party in LA's Koreatown with a star studded guest list.
Across the trio of Wiltern shows Tuesday (5/12), Wednesday (5/13), and Friday (5/15), the Paramore singer gave love to her new LP, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, by playing every song on the record.
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On May 18, 20 years ago Lily Allen performed a short show at a small club that got the ball rolling on what would be an impressive career that is still skyrocketing.
Just 21 years-old at the time, Allen performed at the Notting Hill Arts Club in London during a short window between her online breakout and the release of her debut LP Alright, Still.
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Metallica's M72 World Tour enters its third year of traveling the globe shaking foundations and giving metal audiences in 23 different countries an outlet to band their collective heads.
Some of the dates were no-repeat weekends where the band would play a set on a Friday in a city and a totally different one on Sunday in that same city. This was done for fans who wanted to see both shows and hear entirely new jams from James Hetfield (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Kirk Hammett (lead guitar, backing vocals), Robert Trujillo (bass, backing vocals) and Lars Ulrich (drums).
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Matt Hansen is a Californian singer songwriter who cut his teeth covering rock bands in Northern California.
Matt began to gain a following on social media doing songs by the Goo Goo Dolls and Coldplay which earned him an audience of over 3 million followers on TikTok.
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Someone had the bright idea to release two albums on the same day back in early 2005 which means now they're both 21, and deserving of an amazing birthday party.
On January 25, 2005, Bright Eyes led by the prolific Conor Oberst convinced their record label Saddle Creek to drop the mostly-acoustic occasionally funny I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning (with guest stars Emmylou Harris and My Morning Jacket's Jim James) on the same day as the somewhat electronic Digital Ash in a Digital Urn.
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Dave Matthews got a jump on summer by kicking off his 2026 Summer Tour more than a month before the estival solstice, but who can blame him? When you have so much love to give and music to play, who can wait?
Likewise when you've performed over 300 tunes in your career, some of them are bound to be covers.
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Death Cab for Cutie wowed the WXPN NON-COMM 2026 on Wednesday (5/6) with a handful of live debuts from their forthcoming album, I Built You A Tower.
The indie darlings led by Ben Gibbard (vocals, guitar, piano), and accompanied by Nick Harmer (bass), Jason McGerr (drums), Dave Depper (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals) and Zac Rae (keyboards, guitar), performed 10 tunes on the second day of the NON-COMMvention, the station’s annual gathering for noncommercial Triple A radio outlets.
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Zach Bryan brought the With Heaven On Tour to Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland on Saturday (5/9), playing an epic stadium set 35-song set with a 20-minute encore of "Revival" with a special guest.
It was the 10th show of the tour so far, and the last of the first US leg, but it included six tour debuts, a live debut, and cover song he's only done twice previous.
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Des Rocs is the rock project of Danny Rocco, a Long Island singer songwriter who was first signed by Epic Records while in the duo Secret Weapons whose first record, As the Setting Sun Comes Crashing Down on Me, dropped in 2016. Secret Weapons also toured with Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy and Weezer which was a great trial by fire.
The first Des Rocs release was the EP Let the Vultures In (2018), which included “Let Me Live / Let Me Die,” “Used to the Darkness” and “Maybe, I.”
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Tame Impala’s London crowd got to see and hear one of their own on Thursday (5/7) at the O2 Arena in London when Dua Lipa joined the band for a pair of tunes.
The guest appearance was bit of a switcheroonie for Lipa who brought out a parade of special guests during her Radical Optimism Tour last year, including Lenny Kravitz in NYC and Charli XCX in England.
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