In March, Slayyyter unleashed WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, which topped our list of the best albums of the year so far. Now, the sleazy star is announcing its brother album, Wor$t Man In America, out in December.

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Last year, Queen discussed new music and a potential Sphere residency. The legendary band unearthed the previously unreleased Christmas song “Not For Sale (Polar Bear)” for the holidays, and now Roger Taylor released a new solo album called Violence Insane In A Beautiful World. Meanwhile, Brian May says Queen’s done with touring and that he’s wary of doing an avatar show because of the AI usage that would be involved.

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Tom Morello’s Power To The People took place at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, on Saturday (October 3). Proceeds from the one-day event benefit VoteRiders and HeadCount, and it was livestreamed on MS NOW’s YouTube channel. But while PTTP was billed as non-partisan, just as the festival began, Rolling Stone published a new interview in which Morello said he did not vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Morello is one of the most recognizable left-wing musicians in America, and the revelation prompted plenty of surprise online. He said he can’t remember the last time he voted for a Democrat for president, and linked his decision to US policy toward Gaza and his opposition to “corporate Democrat” candidates. The guitarist also pointed out that he lives in California, where “it may not have moved the meter.”

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Saturday Night Live went hardcore. Last night’s episode was hosted by Dakota Johnson with musical guest Turnstile. As pointed out in the episode promos, Turnstile are the first hardcore band to play Saturday Night Live since the infamous Fear performance 45 years ago this month. (Though then-Jesus Piece drummer Luis Aponte did play with Charli XCX on the show in 2021!)

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Mike Patton brought Mondo Cane — his project covering Italian pop songs from the ’50s and ’60s — to Mexico for the first time Thursday (Oct. 1) as part of Festival Internacional Cervantino’s Circuito CDMX-INBAL.

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Charli XCX headlined the first night of Austin City Limits on Friday (Oct. 2), and as usual, she brought a surprise. After co-headlining The Sweat Tour with Troye Sivan last year, the British pop star brought out the Australian singer, who releases his new album She’s The Best next week.

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On Friday (Oct. 2) in New Jersey, Foo Fighters filled in for the Pretty Reckless for a second time on AC/DC’s Power Up tour. When the Australian rock legends played their hit “Highway To Hell,” they brought out Dave Grohl for help.

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Last month, Macklemore was kicked off Ed Sheeran’s tour after Robert Kraft, the owner of Massachusetts’ Gillette Stadium, was unhappy with the rapper’s pro-Palestine activism during his performances. Sheeran has subsequently faced lots of backlash for his persistent refusal to take a stance on genocide, whereas Macklemore announced a Free Palestine Tou that sold out. On Friday (Oct. 2), country superstar Zach Bryan wore a Free Palestine shirt at his Gillette Stadium show.

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I’m not sure how or why this happened, but the nation of France has developed its own take on oi, the chant-along street-punk style that once seemed definitively British. French bands like Syndrome 81, Prisonnier Du Temps, Oi Boys, and Rancoeur have developed an echo-drenched take on oi that combines the original music with goth and post-punk, creating a dank, mysterious, and incredibly cool sound. Its influence is spreading, as bands like Quebec’s Béton Armé and Edmonton’s Home Front seem to be drawing from some of the same same wells.

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Up until this very afternoon, I’d never heard of Jules de Corte, a blind Dutch singer-songwriter who won some European prizes in the ’60s and who died in 1996 at the age of 71. I’d also never heard of the improvisational Belgian quartet Linus. I had, however, heard of beloved roots-music weirdo Bonnie “Prince” Billy, so the news that he’s making a Jules de Corte tribute album with Linus demanded further investigation.

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