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Amazon Music Live is continuing throughout the NFL season, and revealed on Wednesday (Oct. 30) that TWICE and Gunna have joined the lineup. The show takes place after Thursday Night Football on Prime Video, and will continue on November 14 with a performance from Gunna, fresh off the road from his One Of Dem Nights tour. In May, the rapper released […]
Coldplay have notched a lot of firsts on their current Music of the Spheres world tour. But on Wednesday night (Oct. 30) in Melbourne, Australia the group did something they’ve never done in their entire quarter century run together: they played a show without one of their four founding members.
In an Instagram post that went up after the gig at Marvel Stadium, the band announced that bassist Guy Berryman was forced to sit out the gig, noting, “Tonight was the first time in our band’s history that we’ve played a show without all four members onstage. Guy was taken ill unexpectedly just before the show. Thank you for carrying us through it.”
So, instead, singer Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland and drummer Will Champion carried on, with Martin telling the crowd before the gig properly began, “I have to say, thank you so much for coming to our show today. It’s a shame but we waited for the last minute to tell you that our beautiful bass player Guy is very, very sick. And will not be (playing) for the first time. I’m sorry for you guys down here who are waiting to see Guy. He’s not going to be able to play today. We’ll have a slightly different show and we’ll do our best to make it amazing, and I know that it will be amazing because we’re in Melbourne with all of you beautiful people.”
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He added, however, that if the crowd noticed some “mistakes, and some problems, it’s because we don’t have our bass player. And we only had about an hour to figure it out. And we have figured it out. We have a strange, alien, weird friend character playing bass, or looking like he’s playing bass. So you’ll hear Guy, but you just won’t see him. Because he’s vomiting.”
Instead, Martin revealed that the band’s co-producer and engineer, Bill Rahko, would be subbing in while wearing on the signature space helmets that are part of the eye-popping spectacle that has criss-crossed the globe for nearly three years to date, grossing more than $1 billion.
Coldplay recently celebrated their first Billboard top 200 No. 1 album in 10 years. After wrapping their four-night stand at Marvel Stadium, Coldplay will move on to four nights at Accor Stadium in Sydney and three nights at Eden Park in Auckland, N.Z. before taking time off and re-booting the tour in January with gigs in the United Arab Emirates and India on their way to wrapping up the outing with a 10-night stand at Wembley Stadium in London.
Check out fan footage of Rahko on stage in Melbourne.
Next year’s emo-tastic lineup for the annual When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas has yet another stacked lineup of all your Hot Topic faves. Just weeks after this year’s event swept up all its glitter and guyliner, organizers revealed that the October 18, 2025 edition will feature the return of Panic! At the Disco, who announced their split in early 2023 and played their final shows in early 2024 in Europe.
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Not only that, but the band will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their beloved 2005 debut album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out in its entirety, regaling the crowd with renditions of classics including “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage,” “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and “But It’s Better If You Do.”
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Other acts lined up to hit the Las Vegas Festival Grounds for the show include: Weezer, Blink-182, Avril Lavigne, The Offspring, All Time Low, The Used, Knocked Loose, Yellowcard, Simple Plan, Taking Back Sunday, Jack’s Mannequin, The Story So Far, Alexisonfire, Bad Religion, The Gaslight Anthem, I Prevail, Ice Nine Kills, Motionless in White, Plain White T’s, Straylight Run and many more.
Sign-up for the presale beings on Friday (Nov. 1) at 10 a.m. PT., with the general onsale kicking off on Friday at 2 p.m. PT.
This year’s WWWY fest took place on Oct. 19-20 and featured My Chemical Romance playing their landmark album The Black Parade, as well as sets from Nada Surf, 3OH!3, Neck Deep, New Found Glory, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Atreyu, Saves the Day, Silverstein, Coheed and Cambria and many more.
See the full lineup and Panic’s announcement below.
Even though he wrapped his Love on Tour outing two years ago and hasn’t released a new album since 2022’s Harry’s House, Harry Styles has definitely still got it. For proof just look at People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive 2024 Readers’ Choice Poll, which saw almost 350,000 votes cast in what the mag said was […]
Olivia Rodrigo is likely still on a sugar high after wrapping up her sold-out 95-show Guts world tour. So, naturally, on Tuesday night (Oct. 29) when she visited the Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon asked her to talk about two of the wildest things that happened to her on the road.
After holding up a copy of the Touring Issue of Billboard magazine with Rodrigo on the cover, Fallon dug right in on the singer’s intense road run-in with some border cops. “I got in trouble with the law for the first time in my life,” Rodrigo admitted. “We were going from Canada to, like, Portland or something. We were at border control, I give them my passport, and they’re like, ‘OK, whatever.’ And they knock on the door and they’re like, ‘We need Olivia.’”
Thinking it might be a border agent wanting an autograph for their daughter, Rodrigo came out of her bus at 3 a.m. to see what the problem was. “I’m delirious, and they take me to a room—and it’s an interrogation room, and there’s like, a big cop [with] a gun,” she recalled. “He’s like, ‘Have you ever been arrested?’ I’m, like, ‘No, I haven’t been arrested.’ He’s like, ‘Are you sure?’ I’m like gaslighting [myself]. I’m, like, Oh, my God, maybe I was, like, arrested and I didn’t know it,” she said breathlessly.
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After being warned she could go to jail for lying to a federal officer, Rodrigo said she started to freak out, worrying she would not be let back into the U.S. “Like, I’m so scared. I’m, like, having a panic attack,” she said. After a 30-minute interrogation, the border agent looked at her again and asked her to spell her last name. “[I said] ‘Olivia Rodrigo, like, R, O, D, R, I, G, O,’ And he’s, like, ‘Oh, there’s a girl who looks just like you, that’s your same age, that’s been arrested multiple times, and her name’s Olivia Rodriguez.’”
Fallon also asked Rodrigo, 21, to run down some highlights of the tour, which she said included going to the Philippines for the first time, which was special for her due to her Filipino heritage. “Yeah, it was so special and everyone was so great. [And] such good singers!,” she said, remembering how her fans there sang all her lyrics back to her perfectly on pitch and in key.
Jimmy also just had to bring up one of the most embarrassing moments from the tour, a mishap in Melbourne, Australia where Olivia went crashing through a trap door in the stage. After playing the clip of Rodrigo handling the trip-and-fall like a pro, the singer said it was actually “really scary. Watching the video back is pretty terrifying. I mean, show must go on, that’s showbiz, baby.”
That said, Rodrigo said it was actually kind of a “beautiful” accident in hindsight because she had just been in the Philippines and she’d been thinking about her family and heritage and after getting shaken up by the fall she went to the hospital to make sure she hadn’t sustained a concussion. While there, she was treated by a Filipino nurse who had the same name as the singer’s grandpa, who passed earlier this year.
“And so I was like ‘wow that was him looking out for me,’” she said. “Making sure I didn’t get hurt and so I’m really happy it happened. I think it’s a beautiful story.”
Rodrigo also plugged her new Netflix concert special Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour and stuck around to play a fun game of “What’s Behind Me.”
Watch Rodrigo on The Tonight Show below.
Almost 12 years to the day since they embarked upon an indefinite hiatus, New York City pop rock outfit Scissor Sisters may be teasing their long-awaited return.
News of a potential return has come by way of the group’s activity on social media, which has seen them update their Facebook, X, and Instagram profile pictures with an image of television static. One user has even noted the presence of something square hidden within the static, potentially hinting at a single or album.
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In addition to the confusion of their social media reports from fans throughout the U.K. have also pointed toward the band’s logo appearing on the side of Manchester’s Co-op Live arena, possibly suggesting a live return as well.
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Currently, the band have made no official statement in regard to a return, instead letting the rumor mill run rife.
Scissor Sisters first formed in 2000, going on to release a total of four records between 2004 and 2012, with 2010’s Night Work becoming their highest-charting record in the United States, reaching No. 18 on the Billboard 200 (its predecessor Ta-Dah hit No. 19 in 2006). In the U.K., however, the group received a far stronger response, with their first two albums reaching the top of the Official U.K. Albums Chart, and Night Work and 2012’s Magic Hour reaching No. 2 and 4, respectively.
In October 2012, the group announced their hiatus while performing in England, with a performance in Italy on Nov. 1, 2012 being their last live appearance to date. In 2017, the group reconvened somewhat, collaborating with MNDR on the track “Swerlk” to honor the one-year anniversary of the Orlando nightclub shooting.
In 2019, frontman Jake Shears reflected on the demise of the group, telling GayCities that the band’s decision to split came following the success of 2012’s “Let’s Have a Kiki”, which became their third song to top the Dance Club Songs chart.
“I didn’t know what the f— to say after that song, quite honestly,” Shears said in 2019. “When that song came out and did what it did … I was just like, ‘Well, there it is, I guess we did it.’
“I thought, we’ve been recording and touring for 10 years, and I felt like it was time,” he added. “This wasn’t what anybody in the band had planned to do. So I thought it would be fun to end on a high note.”
During his interview, Shears did hint at the future of the band, noting that the uncertainty of their hiatus would eventually be ended by an eventual return.
“That’s not to say we’re never going to do anything again,” Shears said. “The Scissor Sisters will be back.”
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Primus fans have been left reeling after the band’s longtime drummer, Tim “Herb” Alexander, made an unexpected exit from the band.
In a message shared on social media on Oct. 29, Les Claypool and Larry LaLonde revealed that Alexander had resigned suddenly on Oct. 17 via email “effective immediately”, citing a “loss of passion for playing”—a reason that Claypool and LaLonde admitted “came as a complete shock.”
“On the heels of a wonderful spring & summer of touring and some fabulous plans ahead, it has been a bit bewildering for us that Herb would so abruptly opt out,” Claypool and LaLonde said.
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“After several attempts to communicate with Herb, his only response was another email stating that he has ‘lost his passion for playing.’ As disappointing as that is, we respect his choice and it’s forced us to make some tough decisions.”
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Primus will move forward with their New Year’s Eve show in Oakland, California, enlisting members of Claypool’s other projects, Holy Mackerel and Frog Brigade, for a “special, one-time event.”
Additionally, for their upcoming Dominican Republic festival date, they’ll be joined by Tool drummer Danny Carey. Heading into 2025, Primus will begin a search for “the Greatest Drummer on Earth” to join them for the second leg of Maynard James Keenan’s Sessanta tour.
Alexander’s exit marks the end of an era for Primus, whose musical legacy is peppered with chart-topping moments and fan-favorite tracks that have kept them thriving since the ’90s.
Primus’s journey in the music world is as bold and unpredictable as their sound. They made their Billboard breakthrough with Sailing the Seas of Cheese in 1991, and by 1993, their offbeat style had firmly resonated with fans. Their third studio album, Pork Soda, debuted at an impressive No. 7 on the Billboard 200, proving that there was a place for Primus’s funk-infused rock in the mainstream. The success didn’t stop there—Tales from the Punchbowl hit the top 10 on Billboard as well.
Singles like “My Name Is Mud” and “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver” brought even more attention to the band, becoming alternative radio and MTV staples. And despite their unconventional style, Primus pulled in platinum certifications from the RIAA for Sailing the Seas of Cheese and Pork Soda.
Bruce Springsteen and John Legend have both thrown their support behind Kamala Harris once again, with the acclaimed artists appearing at the Democratic nominee’s rally in Philadelphia on Sunday (Oct. 28).
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Taking place just one day after Donald Trump’s much-maligned Madison Square Garden rally in New York City on Saturday (Oct. 27), the tone of the Democratic rally was one less centered on division and rhetoric, and instead focused on unity.
Alongside speeches from Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, and former President Barack Obama, the event at Temple University’s Liacouras Center also featured a handful of songs performed by Legend and Springsteen.
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Legend’s performance featured four songs, including the likes of “Ordinary People”, “Glory”, a cover of Harold Melbin & The Blue Notes’ “Wake Up Everybody”, and Legend’s own version of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”.
“We face a once in a lifetime, once in a generation opportunity right now,” Legend told the crowd. “A chance to choose something better, bolder, brighter, to choose progress and healing.”
Springsteen’s own three-song acoustic set followed, opening with a rendition of his 1978 single “The Promised Land”, and featuring a version of 2001’s “Land of Hope and Dreams”. Springsteen closed his performance with a rendition of “Dancing in the Dark,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984 and marks the highest-charting song of his career.
Prior to his performance of the latter, Springsteen gave a special mention to Legend, noting that he “does the most beautiful version of this song I have ever heard”.
“I understand folks have different opinions about things, but this election is about a group of folks who want to fundamentally undermine our American way of life,” Springsteen told those in attendance at the rally. “Donald Trump doesn’t understand this country, its history, or what it means to be deeply American.”
Springsteen’s appearance at the Philadelphia rally took place just days after he appeared at Harris’ rally in Georgia, wherein he told supporters that while Harris is “running to be the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump is running to be an American tyrant”.
Richard Andrew, the drummer for award-winning Australian Underground Lovers, died Wednesday (Oct. 30). He was 58 years old.
News of Andrews’ passing was shared by both his family and his bandmates, who both took to social media to confirm the news. Andrews himself had taken to social media just one week earlier to reveal he had been diagnosed with stage IV metastatic lung cancer.
“Our beautiful Richard John Andrew died at around 5.25am, this morning” the musician’s family wrote. “His death, as he was in life, was epic. He left this world, face to face with his wife, Nicolette, as she sang their song ‘Do You Realise’ by The Flaming Lips. We are all heartbroken though relieve that our sweet prince is finally free.”
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“It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our charming beautiful force of nature Richard John Andrew,” Underground Lovers echoed on social media. “We are numb with grief and sadness. He passed peacefully in his sleep at home this morning with his wife Nicolette at his side.”
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Andrew first rose to fame as a member of the Underground Lovers in 1988. He joined the group as their drummer shortly before they changed their name from the initial GBVB after founding members Glenn Bennie and Vincent Giarrusso.
Throughout his initial tenure with the group, Andrew was on hand to share in their sole ARIA Award win for Best New Talent in 1992, and performed on three of the group’s studio albums, including 1994’s Dream It Down, which peaked at No. 55 on the national charts.
Leaving the group ahead following the release of Dream It Down, Andrew went on to perform with a number of different bands in Australia, including kinderland, Red Textas, Registered Nurse, and others.
Though Underground Lovers would initially disband in 2002, Andrew took part in their reunion in 2009, going to perform on albums such as 2013’s Weekend, 2017’s Staring At You Staring At Me, and 2019’s A Left Turn.
In his post on social media announcing his diagnosis last week, Andrew shared a dictated message reflecting on his imminent passing.
“I am completely reconciled to whatever the future is, however, that future is probably quite limited and I’m in the process of preparing to pop this mortal coil and return to the trees, as it were,” he wrote. “I cannot overstate enough what an honour and a privilege it has been to know you all over the last 58 years, and to have lived the most incredible, incredible life.”
