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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Last year, the Waterboys released Life, Death And Dennis Hopper, 25 songs about the late Hollywood icon featuring Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple, Steve Earle, and more. The longstanding project of Mike Scott returned last month with a new b-sides LP containing 16 more songs about Dennis Hopper, and it had R. Crumb-ripoff AI-generated cover art. One of the singles also came with an AI-generated music video, and backlash ensued.

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Three days into January, Morrissey’s 2026 started with the first slate of what promise to be many show cancellations this year, as has become the former Smiths singer’s custom. But it seemed like things were actually picking up for Moz this time. After years of scrapped gigs and aborted album launches, this month he’s actually managed to share the lead single from new LP Make-Up Is A Lie and gotten back onstage. Now, the sad Morrissey news has resumed.

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On her new single “Nothing Comes Easy,” folk artist Joy Oladokun is here to remind us that we are human and getting hurt is a integral part of that. It’s normal. It will pass. We have time, and time heals all. “Don’t take it on you/ It’s just the cold truth,” she sings, embodying a…

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The LA band Host Family makes a noisy version of indie pop that sounds like every cool underground band from the ’80s put together. Their music probably made a lot of sense to audiences when they performed around town with acts like bar italia, Feeble Little Horse, and Mo Dotti. Host Family released their debut…

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