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Longtime Paul McCartney drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. has joined Pearl Jam behind the kit during a surprise performance at Ohana Festival. The appearance came last night (September 25) during a festival headline slot that had been billed as “Eddie Vedder and Friends” at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, California. Instead, Vedder was joined by his Pearl Jam bandmates, who opened with ‘Corduroy’ before running through ‘Hail, Hail’, ‘Scared Of Fear’, ‘Wishlist’ and ‘Dark Matter’, with Laboriel making his debut behind the kit. The show marked Pearl Jam’s first live performance since Matt Cameron announced that he was leaving the…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews are getting the Farm Aid crew back together. Farm Aid returns Saturday, Sept. 26, for another marathon of live music benefiting family farmers, this time taking over Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Willie Nelson and Family, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds lead the bill, alongside Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, and more. At a Glance: How to…

Blossoms frontman Tom Ogden joined Niall Horan on stage in Manchester last night for a surprise performance of ‘Charlemagne’ – watch footage below. Horan brought his ‘Dinner Party Live On Tour’ to Co-op Live yesterday (September 25), and welcomed Ogden to the stage seven songs into the set for Blossoms’ breakout hit. ‘Charlemagne’ was originally released in 2015 and later appeared as the opening track on Blossoms’ self-titled debut album, which reached Number One in the UK in 2016. Footage from the arena shows Horan and Ogden sharing vocals as the crowd loudly sings back the song. Watch the collaboration below.…

Olivia Rodrigo has kicked off her huge ‘Unraveled’ world tour in Connecticut – check out the full setlist below. The singer began the tour at Hartford’s PeoplesBank Arena last night (September 25), with Wolf Alice serving as special guests. The two-hour show was based around six seasonal acts – ‘Spring’, ‘Summer’, ‘Summer Twilight’, ‘Autumn’, ‘Winter’ and a second ‘Spring’ section – and drew heavily from Rodrigo’s third album, ‘You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love’. She opened with the album’s lead single ‘Drop Dead’, followed by ‘U + Me = <3’, before early hits ‘So American’ and…

It’s official: Wounds are healing. Olivia Rodrigo kicked off her Unraveled Tour last night in Hartford, Connecticut, with an opening-night triumph that proved she might be feeling unraveled, but totally unvanquished. What a night — O-Rod held the stage for nearly two hours, going on at 8 p.m. sharp to storm through 23 songs, without an encore or a dull moment. She did nearly every song from her new You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love — it was a barrage of one killer tune after another, from her three already-classic albums. Flowers. Rain. A dissolving dress.…

Ed Sheeran’s two shows at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium have been cancelled due to “severe weather warnings” – bringing an unexpected end to weeks of controversy around whether the gigs would go ahead without Macklemore. The ‘Loop’ tour dates had been scheduled to take place at the Foxborough, Massachusetts stadium yesterday and today (September 25 and 26), but promoter Messina Touring confirmed shortly before the first show that both had been scrapped. “Due to the severe weather warnings in place in Boston and across New England throughout the weekend and following consultation with local officials, we have made the difficult…

Singer’s “House Tour” video partner Margaret Qualley will portray Adele Astaire in estate-approved film Sabrina Carpenter will return to her acting roots when she plays the role of Ginger Rogers in the upcoming Fred Astaire biopic starring Tom Holland. Carpenter’s “House Tour” video cohort Margaret Qualley will also portray Fred’s sister and dance partner Adele Astaire in the long-in-the-works film, director Paul King announced Friday; while Fred Astaire and Rogers made Hollywood history together as a dancing duo, the Astaire siblings’ pioneering work on the stage is often forgotten. “I am thrilled and honored to have been entrusted with telling…

Peter Gabriel confronts the inevitability of death on his new song “Face the Wall,” the latest track off the singer’s upcoming studio LP o\i. Like all previous songs from o/i — and its predecessor, Gabriel’s 2023 album i/o — the track was recorded with both a “Bright-Side Mix” and “Dark-Side Mix”; fittingly, for a song about dying, Gabriel has provided the “Dark-Side Mix” of the Tchad Blake-produced “Face the Wall”: “The lyric is partly about getting older, facing illness, and it’s looking death in the face, which I think we don’t do enough of. I know I’ve talked about this…

Dave Mustaine physically showed fans the reason why Megadeth are calling it quits during a book launch event for his recently released memoir, In My Darkest Hour, in New York earlier this month. When the moderator, Rolling Stone Senior Writer Kory Grow, asked him if his fans should believe him when he says his band was calling it quits, Mustaine held up his left hand for the audience to see. “I have an injury to my hand,” he showed the 200-or-so people at New York’s Kaufman Music Center. “Some of you can see it. I’ve got what’s called Dupuytren’s contracture.…

For most of Lawrence Rothman’s career, the singer-songwriter and producer has eschewed any notion of a genre. But the longer they have spent in Americana spaces, whether on their own projects or producing for the likes of Amanda Shires or Maggie Rose, the more Rothman comes around. “Americana, to me, in 2026, is everything that’s associated with great American music, all rolled into one ball,” Rothman says. “It’s soul, R&B, singer-songwriter, folk, country, rock. You even got a little bit of punk rock. For me, it’s the place to identify with the way that I create.” Rothman’s creative impulses turned…