Over the weekend at Glastonbury, British rap-punk outfit Bob Vylan made their pro-Palestine stance abundantly clear. Their stage backdrop read, “Free Palestine. United Nations have called it a genocide. The BBC calls it a ‘conflict,’” and member Bobby Vylan led the crowd in a “Free Palestine” chant, before asking: “Have you heard this one, though?: Death, death to the IDF!” The BBC, who was broadcasting certain festival sets, called the chant “deeply offensive,” and Glastonbury organizers also said they were “appalled.” Afterwards, local police also said they were assessing some Glastonbury performances “to determine whether any offences may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation,” and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that “there is no excuse for this kind of appalling hate speech.” Meanwhile, Bobby was at home happily eating ice cream and hanging out with his daughter.

For a decade now, minus a pandemic-induced break, Jack Antonoff has been throwing a music festival called Shadow Of The City in Asbury Park, NJ. We interviewed him about it a lifetime ago (in 2017). This year there’s a West Coast edition of the fest taking place in October, but the original East Coast version took place Saturday at Asbury Park’s famed Stone Pony. After performances from Joyce Manor, Dora Jar, Mike Birbiglia, Ben Kweller, Skullcrusher, and Cassandra Coleman, Antonoff’s band Bleachers took the stage and busted out a new song for the occasion. The new tune, “Blood Brothers,” features some luscious saxophone action, and you can catch fan-made video of its debut performance below.

Last month Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis and Survivor: Panama contestant Shane Powers announced a “concert-friendly” canned coffee brand called Jolene. It’s been a minute since Stereogum reviewed any unexpected artist product so today we are launching a new video series for that purpose.

If any Glastonbury attendees somehow didn’t know about the Cure before the festival this weekend, they probably do now. On Friday, Gracie Abrams did a cover of their 1987 classic “Just Like Heaven,” describing it as one of her “favorite songs ever” and that she wish she wrote it. Tonight’s headliner is Abrams’ former tourmate Olivia Rodrigo, who earlier this month brought out David Byrne to do Talking Heads’ “Burning Down The House” together during her headlining Governors Ball set. Rodrigo is a Cure fan, too, and also did a cover of “Just Like Heaven” at Glastonbury along with “Friday I’m In Love.” Oh, and Robert Smith joined her.

With Glastonbury in the books, Charli XCX has completed yet another massive Brat festival set. You’d think audiences in her home country would be most receptive to her over-the-top presentation, but apparently, some UK boomers were not pleased with Charli’s exaggerated use of AutoTune and her lack of a backing band. (I guess I’ve trained my algorithm to filter out the Charli slander.) She shared some thoughts on the matter in a short series of tweets today following her Saturday night headlining set. She wrote:

In case you missed it, most of the Stereogum staff went to Barcelona earlier this month for Primavera Sound. We’ve already fawned over all the best performances we saw on stage. Behind the stages — or, more accurately, in the festival’s designated press areas — we were keeping our ears to the ground and picking the brains of some of those very performers.

Some fans in the pit at the first Houston show of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour almost got an extra up-close and personal experience. There’s a moment in the set where Bey is suspended above the crowd in a prop car as she sings “16 Carriages.” Last night, in the middle of that song, the car stopped unexpectedly and began to tilt sideways — not enough for her to totally fall out, but enough that she had to grip the cables for extra support. Beyoncé continued to sing for a minute, seemingly unbothered, before the fear sunk in and she repeatedly called for the music to stop. She was dangling above the crowd for a while there before being safely lowered into the pit. “If ever I fall, I know y’all catch me,” she told the hometown audience, as she got back up onstage to finish the song without a prop vehicle (call that “0 Carriages”).

Marilyn Manson has been on The One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 Tour since last summer, which marked Manson’s first full shows in nearly five years. Now the disgraced metal singer’s opening concert for the UK leg in Brighton has been canceled following pressure from campaign groups and an MP.

After many festival cancelations due to Kneecap’s pro-Palestine activism and a terrorism charge for member Mo Chara, the Irish-language rap trio made it to Glastonbury and performed a successful set that featured disses of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Rod Stewart.