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It’s been nearly three years, but Lizzo is still apologizing to Seth Meyers’ dad for calling him a b–ch during the pair’s epic “Day Drinking” segment in December 2022. The singer/rapper dropped by Late Night on Wednesday (April 9) to chat about her upcoming album and recall the bad old times when she had to do anything she could to get her early, meager audiences to love her. But mostly she wanted to make up for insulting Larry Meyers.
The host replayed a bit of the drinking segment, in which he called up his dad and asked an innocuous question about whether he was going to watch the game the next day, then handed the phone over to the “Truth Hurts” star, who playfully growled, “Bye b–ch!!” to Seth’s shock and horror.
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Afterwards, Meyers revealed, Lizzo managed to get his dad’s address and sent flowers to his parent’s house with the note, “Dear Larry, I’m sorry I called you a b–ch.” And, because it’s late night TV, of course Meyers called up his dad again, with Lizzo promising, “I’ll call him, but I won’t call him a b–ch.”
“Hey, I love you so much, um, this is Lizzo,” she told the elder Meyers, adding, “I miss you so much and, um…” jokingly whispering to Seth that this time he should hurl the same insult at his dad. “She called you a b–ch backstage,” Meyers quickly blurted before taking the phone away from Lizzo. “No, you said b–ch!” she protested.
Meyers also recalled that he saw Lizzo at the Met Ball in 2023 shortly after the initial boozy segment, when the after effects of their day of drinking was still so fresh she just wagged a finger at him when he said hello. “You were not ready to see me,” Meyers said. “I think you were still a little bit hung over.”
“I was probably drunk. I probably never, ever recovered,” she said.
The singer who will make her fourth appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend began her chat with Meyers by charging into the stands and slapping hands with the studio audience and doing a twirl to show off her “nearly-naked” bodysuit from her Yitty brand. “I’m scared,” she admitted about performing on SNL again, joking, “It’s live television! In front of, like, 50 people by the way, who can see up your nose and see if you got lipstick on your teeth. 20,000 people? I’m a bad b—ch. 150 people? You can smell me, b–ch!”
Noting that she took a few years off recently, Meyers asked Lizzo what she’d learned about being famous in the interim. “People conflate fame and rich, which is just not true,” Lizzo explained. “Some people are famous and they are not rich. Some people are rich and they don’t have fame. I have both. So to be honest with you I can’t complain.”
She also talked about working her way up from playing biker bars in Oklahoma, turning “haters into congratulators” every single night on her way to global fame. Lizzo recently revealed that her upcoming album, Love in Real Life, is officially complete, though no released date has been announced yet.
Watch Lizzo on Late Night With Seth Meyers below.
The 2025 Montreux Jazz Festival revealed the stacked lineup for its 59th edition on Thursday (April 10), with Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, Noah Kahan, RAYE, Alanis Morissette and Diana Ross slated to perform.
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The beloved festival set on the picturesque shores of Lake Geneva will take place between July 4-19 and feature an opening night celebration of the late music icon Quincy Jones by soul legend Chaka Khan (“To Quincy With Love”), as well as a set marking Kahn’s half-century of music-making, with the Casino stage hosting a James Blake solo piano set that same night.
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“I feel honored to be returning to open the Montreux Jazz Festival this year, joining so many world class artists,” Khan said in a statement. “I’m equally proud to be bringing some special guests with me, to pay musical tribute to my friend Quincy Jones; one of the best friends that music and Montreux ever had.”
The always eclectic programming will then bring Argentinian rapper Trueno and Colombian superstar J Balvin to the stage on night two, while Brazilian singer/songwriter Seu Jorge will share a bill with fellow Brazilians Anavitória. Among the other acts slated to perform this summer are: Brandi Carlile, Royel Otis, Samara Joy, Dianne Reeves, London Grammar, Rüfüs Du Sol, Leon Thomas, Jorja Smith, Lionel Richie, Portishead singer and solo artist Beth Gibbons, Shaboozey, Yseult, Jamie XX, Leon Bridges, Pulp, Bloc Party, Finneas, FKA Twigs, Benson Boone, Sam Fender, The Black Keys, Santana, Sigrid and many more.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday (April 11) at 12 p.m. CET here; each order is limited to four tickets per concert and a minimum of 10 tickets total.
See the full lineup below.
Britpop legends Pulp have shared news of their first album in 24 years. The new LP, More, will be released on June 6 via Rough Trade, and will end their fan’s long wait for a follow-up to 2001’s We Love Life.
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The Jarvis Cocker-led band made the announcement on Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6 Music show on Thursday morning (Apr. 10) and shared the first taster in lead single “Spike Island.” Take a listen below.
Rumours of a new album had swirled in recent years following their reunion shows in 2023. The band split for the first time a year after 2002’s We Love Life, then reunited for a string of shows between 2011 and 2013, before another decade-long hiatus. During the tour they began playing new songs titled “Hymn of the North,” “Background Noise,” “Spike Island,” “My Sex,” and “Farmer’s Market,” all of which will appear on More.
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In late 2024, the band announced they had signed a record deal with Rough Trade, following their time on Island Records. The group released a standalone single, “After You,” in 2013.
In an accompanying statement, Cocker said, “Well: when we started touring again in 2023, we practiced a new song called ‘Hymn of the North’ during soundchecks & eventually played it at the end of our second night at Sheffield Arena. This seemed to open the floodgates: we came up with the rest of the songs on this album during the first half of 2024. A couple are revivals of ideas from the last century.”
He added, “The music for one song was written by [former Pulp member] Richard Hawley. The music for another was written by [All Seeing I band member] Jason Buckle. The Eno family sings backing vocals on a song. There are string arrangements written by Richard Jones and played by the Elysian Collective.
“The album was recorded over 3 weeks by James Ford in Walthamstow, London starting on November 18 2024. This is the shortest amount of time a Pulp album has ever taken to record. It was obviously ready to happen.” He added in a closing note that “no A.I. was involved during the process.”
The band is currently made up of Cocker, Candida Doyle (keyboards), Nick Banks (drums) and Mark Webber (guitar). Longstanding bass player Steve Mackey, who performed on their hit albums His N Hers (1994) and Different Class (1995), died in 2023 following a short illness.
In the coming months Pulp will play a number of shows in the U.K. including arenas in Glasgow, London, Birmingham and Manchester. They will co-headline a number of shows with LCD Soundsystem later this year in North America.
Pulp’s More tracklist
“Spike Island”“Tina”“Grown Ups”“Slow Jam”“Farmers Market”“My Sex”“Got to Have Love”“Background Noise”“Partial Eclipse”“The Hymn of the North”“A Sunset”
Billy Idol is feeling nostalgic about his wild New York City nights — and so is Drew Barrymore.
The punk legend appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show this week, where he and the actress reflected on their shared experiences in the 1980s club scene. Though Barrymore was still a child at the time, she grew up frequenting legendary venues like Studio 54 and Limelight — often in the company of musicians like Idol.
“Please, control room, tell me you have the picture of me and Billy at Limelight, the club,” Barrymore said, as a black-and-white photo of the two from 1986 appeared onscreen. “Yes! I mean, Billy, that is where I see us when I think of you in my mind is back in the old club days. What the hell do you remember from those days?”
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“Not very much,” Idol replied with a laugh, prompting Barrymore to joke, “Me neither — I was hoping you could color stuff in for me.”
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Even if the memories are hazy, Idol said he remembers the freedom of the era vividly. “It was a really incredible time. I really enjoyed those ‘80s years. New York was kind of bankrupt so anything kinda went. It was like post-apocalyptic… you felt like the end of the world had sort of happened.”
Barrymore smiled as she recalled how much the rocker meant to her growing up. “The only thing I knew was that I loved you, I got to hang out with you, we were obviously playful and silly.”
The two reunited years later when Idol made a memorable cameo in 1998’s The Wedding Singer, which Barrymore starred in alongside Adam Sandler. “I was so excited to be together again,” she said. “It felt like, ‘Oh! Just yesterday we were like, out in the clubs together!’”
As their conversation came to a close, Barrymore became visibly emotional. “I’m really in a very nostalgic sort of avalanche in my mind,” she said. “It just doesn’t feel like any time has gone by. I feel like we’re back in the club, we’re at The Wedding Singer, we’re doing our thing. You don’t look any different. You look good!”
She added, “God, I miss dancing so much. I miss the clubs! And those places played, as we said, every type of music, but you really pushed through and… changed the world. We all thank you for that.” Idol added, “It was a super fun time.”
In his new memoir Fahrenheit-182, Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus recalls a surprising moment with one of his biggest musical influences, The Cure’s Robert Smith, that left him stunned and, in hindsight, amused.
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Hoppus writes that the incident happened after a 2004 show at Wembley Arena, where Blink-182 had brought Smith onstage to perform their collaborative track “All of This.” Later that night, at an afterparty, Hoppus says Smith leaned in and tried to kiss him.
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“My wife and I are like, ‘Alright, we’re out. See you later,’ and then Robert tries to kiss me,” Hoppus said in an interview with Us Weekly, adding that only members of Blink-182’s road crew witnessed it. “He was my hero. I grew up listening to this guy’s music and it changed my life forever. Then he tries to kiss me at a party and I’m like, ‘I should have done that. Why not?’ It’s a much better story than he tried to kiss me and it was awkward. It would’ve been rad to be like, ‘Yeah, made out with my hero.’”
Hoppus says he didn’t tell Smith in advance that the story would be in the book. “I should have called him or given some kind of warning or something,” he said. “But I don’t know — how do you have that conversation? ‘Hey, remember when you tried to make out with me?’ Because we’ve never addressed it.”
Despite that, Hoppus says they’ve run into each other several times since and “it’s been totally cool and nobody’s talked about it.” He clarified, “I wasn’t bummed in the slightest. I was more, like, flabbergasted that nobody else saw it.”
Fahrenheit-182, released April 8, chronicles Hoppus’ cancer battle, complicated family history, and friendship with longtime bandmate Tom DeLonge, who reunited with the band in 2022. Blink-182’s latest album, One More Time, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in October 2023 and marked their first full-length LP with the classic lineup since 2011.
The reunited band will be sharing stages with fellow punks Alkaline Trio, whose singer, Matt Skiba, filled in for DeLonge during his second hiatus from the group from 2015-2022 and recorded two albums (2016’s California and 2019’s Nine) with Hoppus and Barker. Tickets for the tour will go on sale on Friday (April 11) at 10 a.m. local time here. There will also be a Citi pre-sale beginning today at 12 p.m. ET through Thursday (April 10) at 1 p.m. local time here.
Travis Scott is used to fans approaching him, but he didn’t expect an Oscar-winning actor to be among them.
In a new Complex cover story published this week, the Utopia rapper recalled a recent run-in with Adrien Brody during Paris Fashion Week, where the actor surprised him not only by being a supporter of his music, but by revealing he’s also a beatmaker.
“I sat next to him and I’m like, ‘F***, I don’t even know if this dude knows who I am,’” Scott said. “And the first thing he tells me is, ‘Yo, bro, I f*** with your s***.’ And I’m like, ‘What the f***?’”
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Brody, who recently won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in The Brutalist, went on to tell Scott that he produces music. “You know, I make beats and s***,” Brody said, according to Scott. “I’m like, ‘You got to send me some beats!’ So we chopped it up. Man, that f***ed me up. That’s crazy.”
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Scott told Complex the encounter stuck with him — not just because he’s a fan of Brody’s acting work, including roles in Wes Anderson films, but also because of the unexpected creative overlap. “That movie is hard as f***,” he said of The Brutalist. “I hope he wins Best Actor. That’s my dog.”
Brody’s musical side isn’t new. In a 2024 interview with the Los Angeles Times, he revealed that his early beatmaking dates back to the mid-’90s after working on Angels in the Outfield.
“I hung out with some kids in The Bay in Oakland who were producing and rapping… I started producing tracks with these guys and learned how to do it and went back to LA, and this was before the internet.”
Scott, whose album Utopia debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2023, continues to blur the lines between hip-hop, art, and pop culture. His Coachella set this weekend marks his first time headlining the festival, where he’ll join fellow headliners Lady Gaga, Green Day, and Post Malone.
Patti Smith is readying the release of a new memoir, with Bread of Angels set to arrive in November.
Described as Smith’s “most intimate” memoir, the book follows on from the likes of 2010’s Just Kids, 2015’s M Train, and 2019’s Year of the Monkey, and is scheduled to release on Nov. 4 via Random House
“It took a decade to write this book, grappling with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime. I’m hoping that people will find something they need,” Smith said in a statement. According to a synopsis, the book focuses on Smith’s teenage years, her foray into the world of poetry, and the recording of seminal works such as her Horses and Easter albums.
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The volume also traces Smith’s marriage to MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith, and their move to Michigan as they embark upon “new adventures as they start their family.” Notably, the Nov. 4 release date coincides with Smith’s 1994 passing, and the 1946 birthday of Smith’s late friend and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
“As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again—the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope,” the synopsis reads.
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In February, Smith announced a run of European, U.K., and U.S. tour dates in support of the 50th anniversary of Horses. The singer will be joined by longtime side men guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, who both played on the seminal 1975 LP.
These tour dates were announced only days after the singer collapsed on stage in São Paulo, Brazil, on Jan. 29. Smith took to social media the next day to give “post migraine dizziness” as the reason, while assuring fans she was perfectly fine. “With all the strife in the world, this explainable incident does not merit so much attention,” she wrote.
Patti Smith – Horses 50th Anniversary Tour
Oct. 6 – Dublin, Ireland @ 3ArenaOct. 8 – Madrid, Spain @ Teatro RealOct. 10 – Bergamo, Italy @ ChorusLife ArenaOct. 12 – London, U.K. @ London PalladiumOct. 13 – London, U.K. @ London PalladiumOct. 15 – Brussels, Belgium @ Cirque RoyaleOct. 16 – Brussels, Belgium @ Cirque RoyaleOct. 18 – Oslo, Norway @ Sentrum SceneOct. 20 – Paris, France @ L’OlympiaOct. 21 – Paris, France @ L’OlympiaNov. 10 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount TheatreNov. 12 – Oakland, CA @ Fox TheatreNov. 13 – San Francisco, CA @ The MasonicNov. 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert HallNov. 17 – Chicago, IL @ The Chicago TheatreNov. 21 – New York, N.Y. @ The Beacon TheatreNov. 22 – New York, N.Y. @ The Beacon TheatreNov. 24 – Boston, MA @ The Orpheum TheatreNov. 28 – Washington D.C., The AnthemNov. 29 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
Prolific Australian collective King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have officially announced the release of their forthcoming album, Phantom Island.
While the new record – the group’s 27th – has been officially detailed by the band, they’re yet to unveil a specific release date. However, while discussing the new ten-track LP, the band noted that on Tuesday (April 15), physical pre-orders will be made available via their own own (p)doom Records, alongside the release of the music video to new track “Deadstick,” and an AMA (‘Ask me anything’) thread on Reddit.
According to a social media post announcing the record, the new project has been in the works for two years, and features the band backed by an orchestra. “HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!!!” wrote vocalist and guitarist Stu Mackenzie. “A lot of love and time and energy and patience and growth went into this one. Can’t wait to grow wings and fly with all of you.”
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Previously, King Gizzard had unveiled the album’s title track in October, giving fans a taste of what to expect from their next release. “So our last album was 10 songs. Except we recorded 20 in that session. Here’s a track from the other set of 10,” Mackenzie explained. “It’s even more maxxed out than the last one. There’s a whole fuckin’ orchestra on there. Hahahahahah!
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“But for real, what a joy to be alive. A privilege to be making music for a living and to be here still after all these years. If you’ve been listening to Gizz for a long time, thank you. We love you so much. If you’re just tuning in, welcome to the cult.”
King Gizzard formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2010 and swiftly became one of the country’s most prolific groups, with both 2017 and 2022 seeing the band release five albums within the span of a year.
Despite their extensive output, the band have not yet topped the charts in their homeland (though they would hit No. 2 on four separate occasions). In the U.S., the band peaked at No. 64 on the Billboard 200 with 2019’s Infest the Rats’ Nest, while their voracious fanbase has also seen the majority of their releases chart on the Top Album Sales chart.
In January, King Gizzard were also listed on the lineup for the 2025 edition of Bonnaroo, performing three sets over three days as part of the inaugural ‘Roo Residency.
Globetrotting rockers Amyl and the Sniffers, acclaimed producer Dom Dolla, and Indigenous hip-hop supergroup 3% were all among the winners on Wednesday night (April 9) at the 2025 American Apparel Rolling Stone Australia Awards.
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Handed out at the Ivy in Sydney, the awards were hosted by radio host and passionate Australian music lover Nic Kelly, with some of the country’s most prominent and revered names in contention at this year’s event.
Amyl and the Sniffers led the pack, taking home two awards on the night. In the best LP/EP category, their third studio album Cartoon Darkness beat out the likes of RÜFÜS DU SOL, Amy Shark, Missy Higgins, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, while their win as best live act saw them triumph over Tones and I, Parkway Drive, Confidence Man, and Dom Dolla.
While Dolla couldn’t attend the awards physically, he didn’t go home empty-handed. Despite three nominations, he only emerged victorious in one category, with the Rolling Stone global award seeing him beat out a talented range of nominees, including Kylie Minogue, Empire of the Sun, and Amyl and the Sniffers.
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“I’m absolutely shattered I can’t be there tonight to accept the Global Award, but very fitting considering the title of the award that I’m touring in America,” said Dolla, who will also headline the opening night of Bonnaroo alongside Luke Combs this June. “Thank you so much for considering me and for the award!”
Meanwhile, Indigenous Australian artists also took out two major categories at the event. For best single, Gamilaraay woman, musician and creator, Thelma Plum was recognized for her 2024 track “Freckles,” while best new artist was awarded to 3%, a hip-hop supergroup comprising Angus Field, Nooky and Dallas Woods. Their debut album, Kill the Dead, had previously won best hip-hop/rap release at the 2024 ARIA Awards.
For the readers’ choice category, Keli Holiday (who is also known as Adam Hyde from ARIA Award-winning electronic duo Peking Duk) took out the honor, with the hotly-contested category seeing him triumph over names such as Pond, Gut Health, SPEED, Delta Goodrem, and Crowded House, who were the recipients of 2024’s ‘Icon’ award.
This year, it was ICEHOUSE who were given ‘Icon’ status, with frontman Iva Davies on hand to share an acceptance speech.
“Thank you very much indeed, an amazing thanks to Rolling Stone, incredibly unexpected, I have to say,” Davies said in a speech. “I’ll name one person here tonight, the co-founder of Flowers and Icehouse bass player, Keith Walsh. Also, all the former members of the crew, and a special shout out to the man who put this all together, our production manager who has been working with us since 1986 – Mr Larry Ponting. Thanks for having us here.”
Icehouse first formed in Sydney as Flowers in 1977, issuing their debut album Icehouse in 1980 before adopting the name from then on. The record hit No. 4 in Australia, and No. 82 on the Billboard 200, while fifth album – 1987’s Man of Colours – hit the top of Australian charts and peaked at No. 43 on the Billboard 200. That record also boasted some of the group’s biggest internationally-successful singles, with “Electric Blue” and “Crazy” hitting No. 7 and 14 on the Hot 100, respectively.
In 2006, the group were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, while 1982 single “Great Southern Land” has often been considered an unofficial national anthem by Australian music lovers.
“There was a time when there was a band doing the rounds that were described as the highest earning unsigned act in the country, and they were called Flowers,” said presenter Richard Wilkins as he introduced the award. “We couldn’t help ourselves but fall in love with them, and all that changed when Flowers became ICEHOUSE and they went on to have massive hits all over the world. They are one of the greatest bands ever to come out of this great southern land.”
Rolling Stone AU/NZ is published by Vinyl Media, part of The Vinyl Group. “Tonight was a fantastic celebration of Australian music and the remarkable artists this country produces,” said editor-in-chief Neil Griffiths.
“All our nominees have been doing their bit to showcase the strength of Australian music on a global stage, and this was our opportunity to give something back.”
The fifth annual awards welcomed multiple new and returning sponsors this year, with headline partner American Apparel on board alongside Shure and JMC Academy.
2025 American Apparel Rolling Stone Australia Awards Winners
Rolling Stone Icon Award
ICEHOUSE (WINNER)
Best Single
Thelma Plum – ‘Freckles’ (WINNER)Amyl and the Sniffers – “U Should Not Be Doing That”Empire of the Sun – “Changes”Dom Dolla – “girl$”CYRIL – “Stumblin’ in”Baker Boy – “KING”
Best New Artist
3% (WINNER)CYRILBecca HatchMia WrayGut Health9lives
Best LP/EP
Amyl and the Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness (WINNER)RÜFÜS DU SOL – Inhale/ExhaleLime Cordiale – Enough of the Sweet TalkMissy Higgins – The Second ActAmy Shark – Sunday SadnessNick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Wild God
Best Live Act
Amyl and the Sniffers (WINNER)Confidence ManTones and IDom DollaParkway DriveTeen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
Readers’ Choice
Keli Holiday (WINNER)Radio Free AliceThelma PlumSPEEDPondGut HealthG FlipThe RionsDelta GoodremCrowded House
Rolling Stone Global Award
Dom Dolla (WINNER)Kylie MinogueAmyl and the SniffersConfidence ManNick Cave and the Bad SeedsEmpire of the Sun
