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Saturday Night Live went hardcore. Last night's episode was hosted by Dakota Johnson with musical guest Turnstile. As pointed out in the episode promos, Turnstile are the first hardcore band to play Saturday Night Live since the infamous Fear performance 45 years ago this month. (Though then-Jesus Piece drummer Luis...Read more

Mike Patton brought Mondo Cane — his project covering Italian pop songs from the ’50s and ’60s — to Mexico for the first time Thursday (Oct. 1). The post Mike Patton Performs With Mariachi Gama 1000 For Mondo Cane’s Mexico Debut appeared first on Stereogum.Read more

Charli XCX headlined the first night of Austin City Limits on Friday (Oct. 2), and as usual, she brought a surprise. After co-headlining The Sweat Tour with Troye Sivan last year, the British pop star brought out the Australian singer, who releases his new album She's The Best next week....Read more

On Friday (Oct. 2) in New Jersey, Foo Fighters filled in for the Pretty Reckless for a second time on AC/DC's Power Up tour. When the Australian rock legends played their hit "Highway To Hell," they brought out Dave Grohl for help. The post Dave Grohl Joins AC/DC For “Highway...Read more

Last month, Macklemore was kicked off Ed Sheeran's tour after Robert Kraft, the owner of Massachusetts' Gillette Stadium, was unhappy with the rapper's pro-Palestine activism during his performances. Sheeran has subsequently faced lots of backlash for his persistent refusal to take a stance on genocide, whereas Macklemore announced a Free...Read more

I'm not sure how or why this happened, but the nation of France has developed its own take on oi, the chant-along street-punk style that once seemed definitively British. French bands like Syndrome 81, Prisonnier Du Temps, Oi Boys, and Rancoeur have developed an echo-drenched take on oi that combines...Read more

Up until this very afternoon, I'd never heard of Jules de Corte, a blind Dutch singer-songwriter who won some European prizes in the '60s and who died in 1996 at the age of 71. I'd also never heard of the improvisational Belgian quartet Linus. I had, however, heard of beloved...Read more

Six-string master Shane Parish has been in these (web)pages a fair amount in recent years, both for acoustic ventures like translating Autechre and Aphex Twin songs to guitar and electric pursuits like the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet. We also caught up with him last month at Philadelphia's Making Time ∞...Read more