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What’s better than weekly ? A TNF football game followed by exclusive live music performances, this time, with the Foo Fighters.
Amazon Music Live is back for a fourth season and the performances are hot. First up we had a barn-busting Shaboozey performance Oct. 23. This week, legendary band Foo Fighters will take the stage on Oct. 30 9pm PST, while the livestream will be available for our east coast folks on Oct. 31 at 12am EST. From their greatest hits to latest tracks, this is your chance to gain a front-row seat to one of rock’s most electrifying bands all from the comfort of your home. You can watch the act perform live on Prime Video, along with the Amazon Music Twitch channel.
Foo Fighters will honor Amazon Music’s “Alternative Hits” playlist, delivering a smattering of the iconic songs that have made them one of the most-streamed rock artists on the service. The performance will also be a key moment for the band’s newest member, former Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin, who joined Foo Fighters after the devastating 2022 death of Taylor Hawkins. The band has had 10 songs hit Billboard’s charts, the highest of them being “Best Of You,” a 2005 track from their album In Your Honor.
To stream the show on Amazon Prime Video, you’ll need a Prime subscription. If you don’t have one already, a membership to the service will run you $14.99 per month, or $139 a year. With a subscription to Prime, you’ll have access to Amazon Music, which includes their livestreams, along with a slew of blockbuster TV and film titles via Prime Video. Of course, you’ll also have access to Prime perks, including savings on groceries and fast, free delivery on eligible items.
Followed by the Foo Fighters performance, Mexican-American band Fuerza Regida will grace the stage with a medley of their Billboard chart-topping hits across a slew of genres, all grounded by their signature approach to regional Mexican music.
Finally, Aespa will close out the season with a Nov. 13 finale featuring the tracks that have made them mainstays on the service’s “K-Pop Now” playlist. At the top of 2025, aespa earned group of the year honors at Billboard Women in Music, marking the second year in a row that a K-pop group took home that award.
“[Shaboozey, Foo Fighters, Fuerza Regida, and aespa are] crafting a unique, unforgettable set that showcases why live music remains such a powerful force,” notes global head of content at Amazon Music Kirdis Postelle. “By uniting sports and music after Thursday Night Football, we’re creating an experience that puts fans at the center of culture.”
Actress and entertainer Liza Koshy, who presented at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, is also set to reprise her role as the official Amazon Music Live social host, bringing fans exclusive behind-the-scenes content with each week’s performer.
Past Amazon Music Live seasons have included performances by Post Malone, A$AP Rocky, Ed Sheeran, GloRilla, Keith Urban, Feid, Machine Gun Kelly and Offset. Fans can catch the season four premiere via Prime Video and the Amazon Music Twitch channel, immediately following Thursday Night Football.
If you know anything about Eminem it’s that he always reps his city. Which is why it made perfect sense that the sometimes reclusive MC came out during the grudge match between the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals last night (Nov. 16) to talk about a Motor City NFL great.
The surprise appearance came during a promo for an upcoming documentary on legendarily elusive Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders, who won the league’s MVP award in 1997 when he rushed for more than 2,000 yards during the regular season and also secured his second NFL Offensive Player of the Year hardware.
“I’ve seen every documentary on Barry Sanders that there is to see and I never walked away feeling like I knew why he walked away,” Em said in the brief clip from the film in which he talked about Sanders while sitting at the mixing console of a recording studio. “And I know that he walked away at a time when he could have broken every single record there ever was and ever will be.”
Sanders led the league in rushing yards four times during his 10-season career before shocking fans by retiring from football in 1999 at 31, at a point where he was 1,457 yards short of overtaking Chicago Bears great Walter Payton for the all-time rushing record. His shock decision to pull the plug is the subject of the film promoted during the Em appearance, the new sports doc Bye Bye Barry, which will world premiere at Detroit’s Fox Theatre on Friday night (Nov. 17).
“We had the greatest running back that ever played the game,” Em says in the official trailer for the film, which probes Sanders’ shocking decision to leave the league, still at his peak
According to the Detroit News, tickets for the screening will be available to Lions season ticket holders only, with Sanders expected to walk the red carpet along with Lions coach Dan Campbell, QB Jared Goff and other current team members. In addition to Marshall Mathers, the film features interviews with actor Jeff Daniels and a number of sports luminaries, including Jalen Rose, Calvin Johnson, Herman Moore, Chris Spielman, Patriots coach Bill Belichick, Emmitt Smith and ESPN’s Dan Patrick.
Bye Bye Barry will debut on Prime Video on Nov. 21.
Watch Eminem talking Sanders and watch the Bye Bye Barry trailer below.
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NFL fans seem to have mixed feelings about all the coverage Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s relationship is getting across various sports broadcasts, but Thursday Night Football announcer Al Michaels is all for it.
“We love it, man,” Michaels told Jimmy Kimmel on Monday night, during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Swift attended last week’s Thursday night game between Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos, once again making headlines for sharing a suite with Travis’ mother, Donna Kelce, and hugging Brittany Mahomes, wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
“We had to be judicious,” Michaels told Kimmel about figuring out how best to address Swift’s presence on the Prime Video broadcast. “We had the game last Thursday night in Kansas City. We knew she’d be there. So how much do you show her? She’d been on twice, and football fans were going, ‘Enough.’ But we were praying she’d come into the booth and sing for us,” he said with a laugh.
Kimmel played a clip of Michaels fumbling his words while trying to describe Swift on the broadcast, as he settled on calling her Kelce’s “good buddy and girlfriend.”
“So is she his good buddy or his girlfriend, Al?” Kimmel said, ribbing the announcer. “You can’t be both!”
“You know, you’re doing a game like that, I know the Internet’s gonna blow up,” Michaels said. “Page Six is waiting for whatever I say. You know what I really wanted to say? ‘Fiancee.’ I didn’t because I figured Travis would beat me up at the end of the game. … Or [Swift] would have beat me up.”
In the end, Michaels and company wanted to make sure football came first in the broadcast. “It’s hard because people tune in to watch a football game,” he said. “I’m not doing Access Hollywood.”
Following Thursday’s game, Swift and Kelce confirmed their long-rumored relationship by attending the Saturday Night Live afterparty over the weekend hand-in-hand. (Find a full timeline of their relationship so far here.)
Watch Michaels’ Kimmel appearance below:
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Amazon Music Live returns for season 2 with performances by Ed Sheeran, Lil Durk, Feid and more, Amazon Music announced Thursday (Aug. 31). Hosted by 2 Chainz, Amazon Music’s weekly livestreamed concert series after Thursday Night Football will have performances starting Sept. 21 at 9 p.m. PT. Amazon Music Live will broadcast live from Los […]
A$AP Rocky announced that his new album is finished before taking the stage to perform some new songs at Amazon Music Live Thursday night (Dec. 8).
He made the PSA during on Amazon Prime Video. “Thursday night football. Amazon. My first time back on the stage. Album’s finished, Don’t Be Dumb. Let’s go!” the rapper exclaimed. Rocky later returned to the screen for those watching Amazon Music Live at home, the streamer’s live concert series hosted by 2 Chainz, to perform four unreleased songs from Don’t Be Dumb as well as some fan-favorite classics such as “Everyday,” “Yamborghini High” and “Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye 2 (LPFJ2).”
Rocky ended the concert on a solemn note when he gave a heartfelt speech about the rappers who’ve lost their lives, before debuting Same Problems,” one of his new songs. “Rest in peace to everybody we lost in hip-hop throughout the years. You gotta know that we the highest statistic of losing people, no other genre loses rockstars, pop singers and country artists. Hip-hoppers, we get killed and shot every day,” he said. “Overdoses, all type of unfortunate events. So this next song is dedicated to everybody we lost and anybody who ever lost somebody, you know what I’m saying.”
Images of Takeoff, PnB Rock, Young Dolph, The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, Juice WRLD, XXXTentacion, Pop Smoke, A$AP Yams and more flashed on the screens on either side of him while Rocky repeatedly asked “How many problems get solved?” over an eerie piano beat.
His partner Rihanna, Tyler, the Creator, Snoh Aalegra, Buddy, Earl Sweatshirt and more stars were in attendance. Rocky also brought out rapper $NOT to perform “Doja,” AWGE hip-hop duo THOTTWAT for their joint “Shirt” performance, and host 2 Chainz to run back their Billboard Hot 100 No. 8 hit “F–kin’ Problems,” which also features Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
Watch A$AP Rocky’s performance of “Same Problems” above.
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