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William Shatner appears to have revealed that he and his new heavy metal band The *uckers will perform at Coachella 2027. The 95-year-old Star Trek star is preparing to appear at Riot Fest in Chicago next month, where he will preview material from his forthcoming album with the new group, ‘What The F Is Heavy Metal’. Now, in an interview with CNN, Shatner has leaked the band’s apparent booking for next year’s Coachella, despite the fact that no artists have been officially confirmed for the California festival at this stage. Explaining his new venture into metal, he said: “It isn’t so much, ‘When do I come in?’, but I’ve got to feel the music and then come in…

A food stall at Truck Festival 2026 has been shut down after dozens of attendees reported falling ill. Festival-goers shared posts on social media claiming that they had become unwell after eating food from the Yorky Roast stall at the Oxfordshire event last weekend. Truck Festival said it was first alerted on Sunday morning (July 26), when its on-site medical team received reports from “a number of attendees with similar symptoms”. “Our health and safety team launched an immediate investigation and identified a third-party food vendor as the suspected source,” a festival spokesperson said. They added that the stall “was removed from operation…

Warren Ellis has shared the story of a guitar gifted to him by his late friend Glen Hansard, noting that “everyone Glen crossed in life was richer for the experience”. Hansard, the Oscar-winning Once star and frontman of The Frames, died following a motorcycle crash in Dublin on Wednesday (July 29). He was 56 years old. In the days since, Ellis has shared a series of tributes remembering their long friendship, including an anecdote about Hansard unexpectedly sending him a Gibson tenor guitar around a decade ago. “So Glen calls me ten years back,” the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds musician wrote on Instagram. “Asked what’s…

Days after nostalgic MSG run, jam band provides Fenway Park with the biggest “bust out” in Phistory Fresh off a Madison Square Garden run that saw Phish performed a handful of songs live for the first time since the mid-Nineties, the jam band unleashed the biggest “bust out” in their long history Friday in Boston, playing their cover of XTC’s “Melt the Guns” live for the first time since 1987. Midway through the band’s second set at Fenway Park, Trey Anastasio plucked out the opening notes of XTC’s English Settlement anti-gun classic, which Phish transformed into a 15-minute jam odyssey:…

Boy George has parted ways with his record label manager after he refused to release the singer’s pro-Israel song ‘We Will Dance Again’. The Culture Club frontman shared the controversial pop reggae track on social media last week (July 26), but it has yet to appear on traditional streaming platforms. Its opening line, “You say genocide, I say war“, rejects descriptions of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as genocide, and the song goes on to criticise musicians who have publicly shown support for the people of Palestine. In the days since, George has withdrawn from an upcoming run as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium, and has…

Patti Smith has met with Pope Leo XIV during a 40-minute private audience at the Vatican. The punk icon was welcomed to the Apostolic Palace yesterday (July 31), with the Vatican later sharing photographs and footage of the meeting on social media. Smith was accompanied by her longtime friend Reverend Antonio Spadaro, who serves as the Vatican’s Undersecretary for Culture and Education. He said that Smith was initially almost speechless in the Pope’s presence, but before long the two struck up a rapport. “When that door opened, something happened,” Spadaro wrote on X. “A spark was lit – one that came…

Australian legends reunite onstage for first time since 2019 to perform their Murder Ballads duet Two Australian legends reunited in Brighton, England as Kylie Minogue joined Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds onstage during the band’s concert on Friday. Midway through the Bad Seeds’ set at Preston Park, the pop singer appeared alongside Cave to perform their Murder Ballads duet “Where the Wild Roses Grow.” The duet marked the first time the two Australian singers had sung the track live since 2019, when Cave was the guest at Minogue’s Glastonbury set. Prior to that, Cave and Minogue performed “Where the…

Some of WWE’s biggest names are battling in Minneapolis this weekend. Here’s how to watch the two-day event online If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. One of the year’s biggest WWE events is going down in Minneapolis this weekend with WWE SummerSlam 2026 taking over US Bank Stadium on Saturday and Sunday. At a Glance: How to Watch WWE SummerSlam 2026 Online Stream: ESPN Unlimited, DirecTV, Fubo TV channel: NA (streaming only) Dates, start times: Saturday & Sunday, Aug. 1–2 at 6 p.m. ET…

The Smashing Pumpkins brought out Olivia Rodrigo, Yungblud and Melissa Auf der Maur during their headline set at Lollapalooza 2026 – see footage and setlist below. The Chicago alt-rock veterans topped the bill on the festival’s Bud Light Stage last night (July 31), marking their first performance at Lollapalooza since they headlined its travelling 1994 edition. Billy Corgan and co. delivered a 17-song hometown set that saw them joined by Yungblud for ‘Luna’ from their 1993 album ‘Siamese Dream’, with the Doncaster singer, who had performed his own set earlier in the day, telling the crowd: “This is a fucking dream come true!” Later, Corgan told the crowd: “And now…

Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV on Friday at the Vatican, with the singer and the pontiff, two Chicago natives, sitting down for a 40-minute conversation  Just days after Smith performed in Rome, she visited the pope in a meeting arranged by Rev. Antonio Spadaro, undersecretary in the Vatican’s culture ministry and a friend of Smith’s. “This is a moment that shall forever produce a smile,” Smith wrote on Instagram of the encounter. Upon first meeting, Smith greeted Pope Leo XIV with “Hi, hi,” uttered in the same way she said it on her 1979 song “Wave,” a track that…