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Serial ‘90s rock legend collaborator Olivia Rodrigo added another notch to her belt at Lollapalooza over the weekend. On Friday (July 31) at the Chicago music festival, she made an appearance during the Smashing Pumpkins’ headlining set to sing “Thirty-Three,” off of the band’s 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Watch her take on the track below.Rodrigo wasn’t the only special guest to pop up during the performance. Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur, who was also briefly in the Smashing Pumpkins, joined the group on Machina/The Machines of God’s “The Everlasting Gaze.” At the beginning of the show,…

“You Get What You Give” band’s “One Night Only (Break Loose Break Free!)” appears on soundtrack for upcoming film New Radicals, of Nineties hit “You Get What You Give” fame, have released their first new song in nearly 28 years, with the group’s “One Night Only (Break Loose Break Free!)” appearing on the soundtrack for the upcoming rom-com One Night Only. With the film, “about searching for love on the least romantic night of the year,” due out August 7, a portion of its soundtrack was released Friday, including the New Radicals track, King Princess’ cover of the disco hit…

Tori Amos has paid tribute to the late Glen Hansard by covering The Swell Season’s ‘Falling Slowly’ in Boston – watch footage below. Hansard, the frontman of The Frames and one half of The Swell Season, died following a motorcycle crash in Dublin in Wednesday (July 29). He was 56 years old. A number of major names in the music industry have paid tribute to him in recent days, including Bruce Springsteen, Bono and Billie Eilish, and now Amos has performed a musical dedication to him during a show at the Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston, Massachusetts on Friday night (July 31). She played a touching, tender piano rendition of the song that…

A rthur Brun was pulling off Kaumualii Highway with a Walmart bag full of meth resting on the shotgun seat when he saw the flashing lights of a police cruiser in his rearview mirror. He took a breath and pulled in front of the Lihue post office, across the street from the palm-lined lawn of the historic county building where he worked Wednesdays as a council member. He had a meeting there in a couple of hours. The officer walked up to his car. Brun recognized him, a barrel-chested haole lieutenant named James Miller. Kauai, Hawaii, is a small island,…

Olivia Dean surprised the Lollapalooza crowd by bringing out Sam Fender for ‘Rein Me In’ – check out footage of their performance below. READ MORE: Olivia Dean live in Glasgow: a new popstar’s victory lap Dean headlined the third night of Lollapalooza at the T-Mobile stage on Saturday (August 1), drawing a large crowd who she often paused to address throughout the set, reflecting on the impact of her latest album, ‘The Art of Loving’. “This album has just completely changed my life, and it’s been so healing, and I’m so proud. It’s been crazy,” Dean said. “The whole point of…

Wargasm have announced they have signed to Hopeless Records, and have shared the frenetic new single ‘Get Down’ – listen below. The track is the first release from the duo of Milkie Way and Sam Matlock through their new label, and their first single since the dystopian ‘Small World Syndrome‘ in July last year. ‘Get Down’ sees them combine pulsing, hyperactive electronic beats and effects with distorted guitars and a huge, anthemic chorus, as the duo explore themes of “isolation, mortality and escapism”. Check out the first track from the new era of Wargasm here: The duo will also support Scene Queen on a…

Roger Waters has shared a “reimagined” version of Pink Floyd‘s ‘Comfortably Numb’ with Palestinian singer Mona Miari – check it out below. ‘Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined’ transforms the song from 1979’s ‘The Wall’ into a nine-minute tribute to the Palestinian people, featuring new English and Arabic lyrics and a video with footage filmed in Gaza. The original refrain of “I have become comfortably numb” has been adapted by Waters and Miari into: “I will never become comfortably numb.” A new section written by Miari, titled ‘Hind’s Lullaby’, has also been added, inspired by the story of Hind Rajab, the six-year-old Palestinian girl killed alongside members…

Fiddlehead and Walter Schreifels joined forces to cover Sick Of It All‘s ‘It’s Clobberin’ Time’ in tribute to the late Lou Koller – check it out below. Last week, (July 24), it was announced that Koller, the frontman and co-founder of the New York hardcore band, had died at the age of 59, two years after he was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma, a form of oesophageal cancer, in 2024. On Friday night (July 31), Fiddlehead played The Warsaw in Brooklyn, and were joined by Quicksand‘s Walter Schreifels to play a cover of 1995’s ‘Live in a World Full of Hate’ track…

Lollapalooza was hit with a series of delays, with severe flooding pushing back several artists’ sets for the 2026 edition. The Chicago event kicked off on July 30, with Olivia Dean, Charli XCX, Tate McRae, Lorde and The xx among those at the top of the bill, joined by John Summit, Jennie and The Smashing Pumpkins. This year’s line-up spans multiple genres and eras, with some of the other big names including Geese, Wet Leg, Ethel Cain, Turnstile, Lil Uzi Vert, CMAT, Little Simz, Zara Larsson, Clipse, The Neighbourhood, Yungblud, Beabadoobee, Sombr, and Wolf Alice. The latter band played last night (August 1), however festival organisers announced on the day that the festival had been pushed…

That volatile combination of pummeling instrumentals and strange, weaselly storytelling proved winning. Primus’ Bay Area cult following snowballed into a deal with Virgin offshoot Caroline Records for their studio debut, 1990’s Frizzle Fry, which established Primus as irresistible genre iconoclasts. All three musicians played virtuosically, and all three wielded their astounding dexterity to drag against the grain of pop appeal. This was music with both an archetypically ’90s slacker ethos (see “Spegetti Western,” a spacey jam about lazing in front of the TV in the wee hours of the morning while a Leone jaunt unspools) and an absolutely dizzying rate…