Phoebe Bridgers Makes Her Mark on ‘Saturday Night Live’ With Screaming, Guitar-Trashing Finale

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLive Nation has taken a timeline provided by the British government as an all-clear for the summer festival season, selling some 170,000 tickets this week to three major U.K.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn its earnings reports for the last quarter and full year of 2020, the year of the pandemic, Live Nation shows remarkable optimism for the projected return of live entertainment.Despite a devastating  year in revenue and ticket sales for the world’s largest live-entertainment company, Live Nation’s stock is actually higher than it was before the pandemic — at the time of this article’s publication, it was at 87.05 compared with 67.76 a year ago — and it reports

Awkward! Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page slipped into character as the Duke of Hastings during his Saturday Night Live debut to recreate the Netflix series’ steamy sex scenes.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTwo of Latin music’s biggest young stars, Bad Bunny and Rosalia, teamed up for a steamy duet on their song “La Noche de Anoche,” on “Saturday Night Live” on Feb 20.

Rege-Jean Page is making his Saturday Night Live debut!

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe gaming platform Twitch, which has had no shortage of music-copyright issues in recent months, cut off the audio for Metallica’s BlizzCon performance Friday due to legal concerns, replacing it with comically inappropriate instrumental folk music.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAnnie Lennox, Cage the Elephant and Black Pumas will join the line-up for the 34th Annual Tibet House US Virtual Benefit Concert on Wednesday night (February 17).

Saturday Night Live‘s Feb. 13 telecast, featuring Regina King in her hosting debut and musical guest Phoebe Bridgers, drew a 4.1 rating household Live+Same Day rating in the 44 metered local markets and a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMarisa Lauro-Norris, a 15-year veteran of Def Jam Recordings and its parent company, Universal Music, has been promoted to senior vice president of international marketing, it was announced today by interim chairman/CEO Jeff Harleston.  In her new role, Lauro-Norris will lead all inter­national marketing activities at the Def Jam label.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLike most art forms, recent music history is filled with artists whose music lots of people just don’t get — whether it’s the Grateful Dead or Tyler, the Creator, whether it’s Insane Clown Posse or Dave Matthews.Well, today Spotify is launching a podcast on that very subject: the awesomely titled “Bandsplain.” The Spotify Original show is hosted by Yasi Salek, who talks to music experts and journalists about cult bands and iconic artists and attempts to get to the

A true rock star! Phoebe Bridgers brought some high-energy chaos to the stage with her “Saturday Night Live” debut over the weekend.

Saturday Night Live‘s Feb. 6 telecast, featuring Schitt’s Creek‘s Dan Levy in his hosting debut and musical guest Phoebe Bridgers, drew a 4.2 rating household Live+Same Day rating in the 44 metered local markets and a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters.

A true rock star! Phoebe Bridgers brought some high-energy chaos to the stage with her “Saturday Night Live” debut over the weekend.

Phoebe Bridgers brought some high-energy chaos to the stage with her debut over the weekend.After the songstress delivered her first performance of the night, belting out «Kyoto» while rocking her famous skeleton ensemble, she returned later in the evening for her second set, and blew fans' minds.Donning an elaborate pearl necklace that evoked skeleton imagery, Bridgers delivered a beautifully muted performance of «I Know the End.» As the song built to a climax, Bridgers and her bandmates

Phoebe Bridgers rocked the Saturday Night Live stage!

Dan Levy might not be the subject of a Phoebe Bridgers song any time soon.

Dan Levy and Phoebe Bridgers are ready to take on Saturday Night Live!

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJason Flom’s Lava for Good Podcasts — whose “Wrongful Conviction” series brings to light the wrongful incarceration of innocent people — has joined forces with the content network and podcast listening service Stitcher for a series of new criminal justice-focused podcasts.

"Saturday Night Live" returned from its winter break with a slightly different approach to covering politics that many viewers immediately noticed. After spending four years relentlessly mocking Donald Trump each week, the popular NBC sketch show did not open with an impersonation of President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.That’s not to say that the episode shied away from politics.