Poison haven’t performed together since their 2022 stadium tour opening for Mötley Crüe, but the hair metal hit-makers had been teasing a big anniversary outing this year tied to the 40th anniversary of debut album Look What the Cat Dragged In. It’s not going to happen, and if drummer Ricki Rockett is to be believed, Bret Michaels is to blame.

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Wilco threw their Mexican resort music festival Sky Blue Sky this past weekend at the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya. Though Cameron Winter had to drop out, presumably to get ready to play SNL with Geese this coming Saturday, the lineup was still stacked with all your indie dad-rock faves. The headliners and MJ Lenderman both made good use of Dinosaur Jr.’s presence at the event, with each act welcoming J Mascis to the stage for a Neil Young cover.

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Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day across the US, but in Tennessee it’s also Dolly Parton Day. The music icon, actor, theme park owner, and philanthropist turns 80 today. In honor of her birthday, Gov. Bill Lee signed a proclamation Thursday declaring today Dolly Parton Day.

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Ten years ago, just two days after releasing his final album Blackstar, David Bowie passed away. Over the weekend the national library in North London hosted a tribute event called David Bowie In Time, during which there were a few musical performances. Jehnny Beth, the ex-Savages frontperson who’s covered Bowie a handful of times over the years, participated by covering two highlights from Blackstar: “Dollar Days” and “Girl Loves Me.”

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Bob Weir died earlier this month at 78. The San Fransisco-born guitarist was best known for co-founding the Grateful Dead, but he also played with a few of its offshoot groups including Dead & Company, whose lineup includes John Mayer. (Weir’s final live performances, in fact, were a three-night run with Dead & Company last August at Golden Gate Park.) Over the past decade, the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple” has been a staple of Dead & Company’s live shows, and Mayer has also performed the 1970 song a few times during his own shows. Last night at Weir’s public hometown memorial, Mayer performed an acoustic rendition of “Ripple.” He did the song solo, but there was a whole group of friends, family, and admirers up on stage with him.

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Actor/musicians Finn Wolfhard and A$AP Rocky were the stars of the first Saturday Night Live of 2026. It was host Wolfhard’s SNL debut, though the Stranger Things star and indie rocker did once play an NBC page in the 2024 movie Saturday Night. He was also referenced in a Stranger Things song by cast member Jane Wickline during Weekend Update last month (she sang, “Finn Wolfhard is the devil to me” in that). A$AP Rocky had never performed on SNL before tonight, but he did cameo in the Migos parody “Friendos” with host Donald Glover in 2018.

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The Mr. Bungle reunion has been in full swing since 2020. There have been some bumps, like when Mike Patton had to cancel for mental health reasons and when he tried to take out a drone at Knotfest Chile. But they’ve been having fun and even covering Grease songs. On Thursday, the band pleased audiences in Zapopan, Mexico by (partially) performing “Retrovertigo” for the first time since 2000.

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Last week, Cate Le Bon and St. Vincent released “Always The Same,” a collaboration made during the sessions of the Welsh singer’s latest album Michelangelo Dying. Last night Le Bon performed at New York’s Irving Plaza and brought out Annie Clark to sing the duet.

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The Beaches had fun on their latest album, last year’s No Hard Feelings. Now, the quartet is having even more fun by covering A Flock Of Seagull’s 1982 hit “I Ran (So Far Away),” a true new wave banger and one of my favorite songs to put on at the bar. Their take is true…

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