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In 1981, Devo’s “Whip It” music video — a deliberately offensive and over-the-top send-up of Reagan-esque cowboy machismo, featuring singer Mark Mothersbaugh sadomasochistically whipping a stuntwoman on a rowdy dude ranch — was in high rotation on MTV. But just a year later, when the new wave band released the video for “That’s Good,” MTV, which at that point was ironically saturated with sexy videos featuring plenty of female flesh, strangely refused to play it without a re-edit.

The reason? An animated scene of a French fry being inserted into a donut’s hole was deemed too suggestive by network censors.

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Director Rob Reiner has never made a sequel in his long career, and he hadn’t ever contemplated a follow-up to the most beloved rock comedy ever made, 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap. But then Harry Shearer, who plays Tap bassist Derek Smalls, fought a yearlong battle to reclaim ownership of the film — and won. ”We sat and we said, ‘Well, what do we do?'” Reiner says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “We got the rights back. What do we do with this? And so at first we said,...

Midway through his set at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York, on Saturday night, Neil Young sat at the piano and performed his Reagan-era protest song “Long Walk Home” for the first time since 1989.

The lyrics were largely faithful to the original version on Young’s 1987 LP Life with one crucial difference. “From Vietnam to old Beirut/If we are searching for the truth/Why do we feel that double-edged blade/Cutting through our hand” from the album was changed to “From Canada to Old Ukraine/We broke...

Shoegaze-influenced band Hotline TNT has become the latest in a series of musicians to pull their music from Spotify. In a statement posted to the group’s Instagram, founder Will Anderson wrote: “We are leaving the Spotify streaming service. The company that bills itself as the steward of all recorded music has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that it does not align with the band’s values in any way. A cooler world is possible.”

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“I have a question,” Zoë Kravitz posed to her Caught Stealing co-star Austin Butler and Rolling Stone film critic David Fear while playing a Nineties trivia challenge game recently. “How old you were when you when you realized what Pearl Jam means? It’s jizz, dude.”

“I’ve also heard that it was a jam that Eddie Vedder’s grandmother made where it was an hallucinogenic jam,” replies Fear. “You’d take it and have visions.”

Their confusion about the origin of Pearl Jam’s name is understandable. In the early days of the band,...

For a genre so predicated on specific markers, it's kind of amazing what a seemingly endless shelf life the Western has — maybe because the skeletal structure of a Western can, as film history has frequently demonstrated, be applied to myriad subgenres, time periods, countries, cultures, and stories.

The selection of Westerns available for viewing on Netflix is a testament to that versatility and renewability. The strongest Western films and TV shows in the streamer's U.S. catalogue range from goofy comedy to dark fantasy, from the 18th century to the present day, and from South Korea to Canada. Here, for your convenience, is a ranking of the 15 best and most worthwhile.

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Released in 2014, "A Million Ways to Die in the West" is the second feature film directed by Seth MacFarlane. Scripted by MacFarlane,...

Neil Young performed at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage on Sunday night, and he kicked off the encore by mocking the venue’s corporate name with his 1988 screed “This Note’s For You.” It was the first time he played the song since 1997 in any concert setting.

Young wrote “This Note’s For You” at a time when everybody from Eric Clapton and Madonna to the Rolling Stones and Genesis were licensing their songs to commercials, appearing in the ads themselves, or allowing corporations to sponsor their tours. The title is...

Neil Young is ditching Facebook. The iconic rockstar’s official Facebook page will go dormant, an administrator for the page confirmed Thursday, citing a recent report from Reuters regarding the social media giant’s internal policies on artificial intelligence chatbots’ communications with children.

“At Neil Young’s request, we are no longer using Facebook for any Neil Young related activities,” a post on Young’s Facebook reads. “Meta’s use of chatbots with children is unconscionable. Mr. Young does not want a further connection with Facebook.”

Reuters reported Thursday on internal documents the outlet had obtained regarding policies on Meta’s AI chatbot behavior, which included permissions for AI chatbots to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual.” Per Reuters, the document included several example prompts for a chatbot and specified what would make them acceptable or not.

The document said that “it is acceptable to describe...

Ashley Monroe may be one of the most country of country artists, with a natural vocal twang and a gift for writing the type of rich story-songs that define the genre, but on her new album Tennessee Lightning, the east Tennessee native doesn’t paint in only one color.

Over the LP’s 17 songs, Monroe touches on the sounds of Americana, country-rock, gospel, and even indie and alt-rock. The song “Hot Rod Pipe Dream,” in particular, evokes powerful women-fronted bands like Veruca Salt and the Breeders.

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Neil Young has taken his latest ideological stand by ceasing all activities on his official Facebook page. The move was in response to a Reuters report revealing that Meta’s AI chatbots have been permitted to have “romantic or sensual” conversations with minors.

“At Neil Young’s request, we are no longer using Facebook for any Neil Young-related activities,” reads a statement from the page’s administrator. “Meta’s use of chatbots with children is unconscionable. Mr. Young does not want a further connection with Facebook.”

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The Reuters report was based on an internal Meta Platforms document, which detailed that it is “acceptable” to describe a child “in terms that evidence their attractiveness,” but unacceptable to “indicate they are sexually desirable.”

In an example, the document noted that a bot would be permitted to respond to a shirtless eight-year-old with, “Your youthful form is a work of art.

Neil Young is done with Facebook. An admin for the musician’s official account shared a statement stating that the profile would no longer be active going forward for reasons related to recent reports that the website’s AI technology allowed for chatbots to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” per Reuters.

“At Neil Young’s request, we are no longer using Facebook for any Neil Young related activities,” the statement read. “Meta’s use of chatbots with children is unconscionable. Mr. Young does not want a further connection with Facebook.

Robert Plant and his new band Saving Grace will release their debut LP, Saving Grace, on September 26. It’s a collection of covers by a diverse range of songwriters, including Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley, Blind Willie Johnston, the Low Anthem, and Martha Scanlan.

They’ve already shared their take on Low’s “Everybody’s Song,” and now they’ve dropped their rendition of the early 20th century African American spiritual “Gospel Plough.” Over the years, it’s been covered by everyone from Duke Ellington and Bob Dylan to Old Cow Medicine Show and Charlie Parr.

“I knew I had done something remarkable,” John Fogerty says of his years with Creedence Clearwater Revival in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “In a sense, I did what the Beatles did, but I did it all by myself. I didn’t have two other guys to write songs with me.”

For his new album, Aug. 22’s Legacy: the Creedence Clearwater Revival years, Fogerty rerecorded classics (from “Born on the Bayou” to “Have You Ever Seen the Rain”) with his sons Shane and Tyler filing in for the long-since-split band.

Earlier this year, Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th anniversary with a star-studded prime-time special that featured just about every living cast member either on stage or in the audience. However, there were a few notable absences, including Bill Hader. Hader recently sat down with onetime SNL colleague Seth Meyers on Late Night to discuss his absence, which he chalked up to anxiety. Ironically, the sketch was to have been about the anxiety associated with performing on the show.

In the sit-down, Hader discussed how Andy Samberg called him up with the proposal for the short, which was to have Samberg convince him that he's not alone in suffering anxiety over performing on the nerve-racking live comedy institution. Hader, thanks to his actual anxiety, turned him down, much to Samberg's displeasure, which Hader recreated with one of his signature impressions. The sketch did air as part of the special, with...

About four years ago, Lukas Nelson made a life change. He gave up drinking and smoking weed, got in shape, and even earned his pilot’s license. But the singer, songwriter, and guitarist stops short of saying he’s “sober.”

“I wouldn’t call it sober completely, because I’ll still do mushrooms. Once a year, twice a year, I’ll do mushrooms and check in with myself,” Nelson told Rolling Stone during an appearance on its country podcast Nashville Now.

He also opened up about the juxtaposition of being...

Bill Hader joked about the numerous afflictions and anxiety-induced maladies he suffered while a cast member on Saturday Night Live during a new interview with his old coworker, Seth Meyers, on Late Night.

Hader has spoken before about how anxious he was during his time on the show, and this was ostensibly part of the reason he chose not to participate in the SNL 50 special earlier this year. While a rep also said he had a “longstanding scheduling conflict,” Hader did reveal on Late Night that he declined Andy Samberg...

Bill Hader has finally revealed the real reason he skipped the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary show, saying his crippling anxiety prevented him from participating in the primetime special. (A representative for Hader previously told Variety he had a “longstanding scheduling conflict.”)

On “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” Hader revealed that Andy Samberg called him about an idea for a digital short about how everyone at “SNL” has anxiety. Hader said he wasn’t sure he wanted to be in the sketch, and when Samberg asked why, Hader responded: “Because I’m anxious!”

Hader said Bowen Yang ended up playing the part Samberg had conceived for him, and “he was great.”

“I was really shaky and everything. I was really anxious,” Hader said of his time on the NBC sketch comedy show. Hader was an “SNL” cast member from 2005 to 2013, and he came back to host twice. In the years since,...

When Lukas Nelson issued his album American Romance earlier this summer, it marked the first release under his own name. Up until then, the singer, songwriter, and guitarist fronted the group Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, which eventually went on to back Neil Young for nearly five years.

The band announced they were going their separate ways, at least for a little while, in 2024. “After 15 unforgettable years, Promise of the Real has decided to take a well-earned hiatus, and begin a new creative chapter in all of our lives,...

When Ozzy Osbourne brought Metallica on tour in 1986, he noticed his young opening act blasting Black Sabbath in their dressing room and covering his old band’s songs in soundchecks. Osbourne’s first assumption, he said later, was that Metallica were mocking him. He was stunned to learn they were actually displaying their hero worship, and trying to coax him onstage with them.

As discussed in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Osbourne — who died July 22 at the age of 76 — could be touchingly insecure for a beloved and wildly influential metal legend.

The Outlaw Music Festival began nine years back as a single event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, featuring Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Chris Robinson, and Lee Ann Womack. It’s slowly morphed into a traveling fest that brings Nelson and a rotating cast of top-grade support acts to amphitheaters across America every summer, and they leveled up significantly last year by placing Bob Dylan in the penultimate slot every night of the run.

They repeated the successful Bob/Willie formula this summer for a 36-show trek, and sprinkled on acts like Wilco,...

The 19th edition of Sarajevo Film Festival’s training program, Talents Sarajevo, has unveiled its mentors, who include Isaure Pisani-Ferry, co-creator of Disney+’s “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld.”

The program will be attended by 63 up-and-coming film professionals, drawn from 17 countries. They will be grouped into eight labs: Acting Studio, Directors Summit, Script Station, Camera Studio, Producers Summit, Editing Studio, Talent Press and Pack and Pitch. Each is led by distinguished mentors.

Croatian actor Goran Bogdan is the mentor for Acting Studio. He is known for his roles in “Fargo,” “Father” and “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent,” winner of the 2024 Palme d’Or for best short and Oscar nominated.

The newly reimagined Directors Summit introduces the “One Day From Competition” concept, bringing together filmmakers whose work is featured in the competition program of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival. Through sessions with Kukla (“Fantasy”), Vladimir Tagić (“Yugo Florida”), Stefan Đorđević, Georgi M. Unkovski...

Canadian treasure Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts are one week away from the North American leg of their Love Earth world tour.

The European leg of the tour kicked off on June 18, and Young and the band have made stops in Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands, concluding the series of performances on July 8 at Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart, Germany.

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From there, Young and the Chrome Hearts are slated to come to the U.S., kicking off the North American leg of the tour on August 8 in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the Pnc Music Pavilion. They will play a string of performances across the country, making stops in cities such as New York, Chicago and Denver, before ending the tour on September 20 at the Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Young debuted the Chrome Hearts band during a show last year...

2025 Country Music Hall of Fame electee Kenny Chesney is set to make his fourth Farm Aid appearance at this year’s annual music and food festival at Huntington Bank Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 20.

Wynonna Judd and Steve Earle have also joined the all-star lineup, the organization revealed today.

“We’re excited to have Kenny Chesney back on the Farm Aid stage this year,” said Jennifer Fahy, co-executive director of Farm Aid. “He’s one of many artists who have returned to Farm Aid, generously donating their travel and performances to raise awareness about the family farmers who grow good food for all of us. Kenny’s appearance, along with the...

With strong albums from veterans Alex G, Japanese Breakfast, and Car Seat Headrest, and killer debuts from newcomers like Lifeguard, 2025 has been packed with great indie rock. In the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we look back at the year in indie so far, with Simon Vozick-Levinson joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below.)

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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are yanking their catalog from Spotify, the Australian rock band confirmed on Friday, citing founder Daniel Ek’s investment in a military defense company.

“Hello friends, A PSA to those unaware: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests millions in AI military drone technology,” the band wrote in an Instagram Story on Friday. “We just removed our music from the platform. Can we put pressure on these Dr. Evil tech bros to do better? Join us on another platform.”

King Gizzard is most likely referring to Helsing, a German defense technology company that Ek’s investment firm Prima Materia led a $700 million investment round on last month. Ek is also chairman of Helsing.

King Gizzard is pulling an extensive catalog of nearly 30 albums; as of this story’s publication, King Gizzard had about 1.5 million monthly Spotify listeners. At press time, just 2022 EP Satanic Slumber Party is left on the platform.

In 1975, the Grateful Dead found themselves at Bob Weir’s home studio in Mill Valley, California, recording a new album. This time, though, was a bit different than their previous sessions: they recorded almost entirely without any pre-written material. “The whole idea was to get back to that band thing, where the band makes the main contribution to the evolution of the material,” Jerry Garcia said.

The result was the experimental Blues for Allah — an album that’s jazzy, otherworldly, and at times straight swamp-rock — that arrived after a rare hiatus from the road.

In between standing on business in paparazzi clashes and dodging endless rumors about his personal life, it turns out Justin Bieber was busy in the studio, making a genuinely interesting album. Swag is full of well-chosen collaborators — Gunna, Sexyy Red, Cash Cobain, Lil B, Dijon — confessional lyrics, and even surprisingly self-aware skits recorded with Druski.

In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we break down the last few years of Bieber’s life and career, with Jeff Ihaza (who wrote a smart piece on Bieber’s...

Luminate’s 2025 midyear report has arrived, and it has some surprising data: Rock is back.

According to the report, rock came in second in the top U.S. core genre, ranked by on-demand audio streaming. It sits with 123.3 billion, behind hip-hop and R&b at 171.1 billion. But that’s not all: Rock experienced the highest growth compared to the same timeframe as 2024, with Latin, country, and Christian/gospel following. The Sinners soundtrack — and the adjacent activity of featured artists — caused a spike in the blues.

Meanwhile, Becoming Led Zeppelin landed at No.

For some, the mere thought of being seen is like standing alone on a dark road as a car’s bright lights lock onto you. Will the person in the car notice you in time or will they strike you? A similar tension jolts through Alex G’s 10th studio album—and major label debut—Headlights. It doesn’t shy away from the glare, but rather steps into it.

Naturally, there’s a question of whether a bigger platform might sand away the lo-fi scuzz and elusive storytelling that made Alex a cult figure. The gorgeous but strange Headlights, though, resists that flattening at every turn. Alex keeps the curtains open just enough to let us observe the weirdness that still dwells within. He lets the light cast across the mess—the cracks in the drywall, the splintering wooden floor, and uneven paint—not out of reluctance, but with the...

Dua Lipa and Callum Turner were all loved-up, sharing romantic gestures during a festival in London, delighting their fans.

The 29-year-old British singer and the 35-year-old actor, known for his role in the ‘Fantastic Beasts‘ series, were spotted enjoying a tender moment during a recent outing in London. The couple attended the BST Hyde Park music festival on Friday, 11 July, where Neil Young headlined the event.

The pair, who recently confirmed their engagement, didn’t go unnoticed as they exchanged affectionate gestures in front of the cameras. Their public appearance reaffirms the positive phase they are going through, following months of rumours and speculation about their relationship.

Dua Lipa is currently promoting her Radical Optimism Tour, which will begin its North American leg with two dates in Toronto on 1 and 2 September. The tour will continue across the US and Canada until 16 October, and will head to Latin America in November and December,...

Dua Lipa and Callum Turner are such a cute couple!

The 29-year-old singer and the 35-year-old actor were spotted flaunting some cute Pda while stepping out for a music festival Friday (July 11) in London, England.

Dua and Callum attended the BST Hyde Park music festival, which was headlined by Neil Young that evening.

Later this summer, Dua will be bringing her Radical Optimism Tour to North America, kicking off with two shows in Toronto on September 1 and 2. She will be touring the U.S. and Canada through October 16 and will wrap up the tour with Latin America dates in November and December.

Last month, Dua confirmed that she is engaged to Callum and opened up about how they met.

For those who don’t know, Callum is an actor best known for the Fantastic Beasts movies and the limited series Masters of the Air.

On July 13, 1985, the world’s biggest music stars gathered for Live Aid, a massive benefit concert to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. In a new original series, CNN and BBC go behind the scenes on how Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof and singer-songwriter Midge Ure organized the legendary effort that brought in more than $127 million and drew in about 1.5 billion viewers around the world.

Premiering on Sunday, July 13, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt, Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took Over the World celebrates the 40th anniversary of the multi-venue event that featured special performances by Tina Turner with Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan with the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood and Sting with Phil Collins and Branford Marsalis. The docuseries will feature interviews with Geldof, Bono, Lionel Richie, Patti Labelle, Sting, Phil Collins and others, and will include archival footage of the event that took place...

Sabrina Carpenter is as good as any current pop star at cultivating controversy and attention — the latest evidence was the now-subsided furor over her absurd Man’s Best Friend album cover, which seems to take cues from Spinal Tap’s Smell the Glove. “She’s leaning into it and laughing about it at the same time,” says Angie Martoccio, who profiled Carpenter for her recent Rolling Stone cover story — which revealed that image aside, the singer’s true obsession is music.

“I wasn’t aware that she was a full-on music nerd,...

There are many, many ways that pop-culture fans have discovered shapeshifting rocker/actor Michael Des Barres over the decades. Some may know him from his big-screen debut at age 17 in the 1967 Sidney Poitier film To Sir, With Love; or as the frontman of the Deep Purple- and Led Zeppelin-associated bands Silverhead and Detective; or as the cowriter of Animotion’s 1983 hit “Obsession”; or as the longtime host of the Little Steven’s Underground Garage morning show on SiriusXM; or as iconic MacGyver villain Murdoc; or for his many other television appearances on shows like Roseanne, Seinfeld, Melrose Place, Northern Exposure, Frasier, and Nip/Tuck.

But if you’re one of the Gen X kids among the estimated 1.9 billion people (nearly 40 percent of the world population at the time) who watched the global Live Aid concert broadcast 40 years ago, on July 13, 1985, then you might best know Des Barres as the...

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Building your dream record collection takes serious dedication, time, and plenty of shelf space. And once you’ve collected enough of your favorite albums on vinyl, you’ll also find that it takes some serious cash to fill up the empty spaces on your console, too. Good news: Amazon has slashed the price on some of our favorite vinyl records, just in time for Prime Day.

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“I haven’t played this in like 100 years,” Neil Young told the crowd Tuesday evening at the very beginning of his show at Drafbaan Stadspark in Groningen, The Netherlands. “We’ll see what happens.”

He was talking about “Ambulance Blues,” the stunning, nine-minute On The Beach classic that many Young aficionados consider one of his finest achievements. (Rolling Stone placed it #2 on our 2021 list of Young’s 100 best songs, topped only by “Powderfinger.”)

To be fair, it hadn’t quite been 100 years since the song surfaced in concert. He last...

Charli Xcx headlined The Other Stage at Glastonbury on Saturday, and she’s since fired back at online “boomer” commenters who criticized her use of autotune and her decision not to perform with a traditional band.

Following her Brat–heavy set — where she literally burned a massive Brat flag onstage — Charli took to Twitter the next day to call out the negative comments from attendees and livestream viewers.

“Really enjoying these boomer vibe comments on my glastonbury performance. it’s super fascinating to me,” she wrote, followed by a more specific indictment: “Like the idea that singing with deliberate autotune makes you a fraud or that not having a traditional band suddenly means you must not be a “real artist” is like, the most boring take ever. yawn sorry just fell asleep xx”

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Charli Xcx is hitting back at the “boomers” critiquing her use of autotune during Saturday night’s Glastonbury set.

The British superstar started her raucous set at the U.K. musical festival with a burning Brat sign towering over her shoulder before obliging thousands of fans with album favorites like “365” and “Von Dutch,” as well as old-school hits, including “Party 4 u” and “I Love It.”

She had the entire festival torn in two as Charli, performing on the Other stage, clashed with headliner Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts late in the evening.

On Sunday, the singer posted to X (formerly Twitter) about getting comments that her performance was less than for using autotune. “Really enjoying these boomer vibe comments on Glastonbury performance. It’s super fascinating to me.”

She continued in a series of posts: “Like the idea that singing with a deliberate autotune makes you a fraud or...

What if Bruce Springsteen had followed up his synth-and-drum-machine-driven 1994 hit “Streets of Philadelphia” with a whole album largely in that vein? What if he’d dropped an album of Great American Songbook-style ballads instead of 2017’s Western Stars? Springsteen’s just-released boxed set Tracks II: The Lost Albums is packed with seven albums’ worth of alternate realities and musical surprises, offering a reminder of just how much he’s capable of outside of his stadium-shaking work with the E Street Band.

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Charli xcx and Neil Young had Glastonbury split in two Saturday night.

Many of the festival fans were supporting Young and The Chrome Hearts on the Pyramid stage late in the evening, but as the performances clashed, an even bigger proportion wanted to witness the culture-defining Brat set.

Charli started her set with a burning Brat sign towering over her shoulder, before thrilling with album favorites like “365” and “Von dutch.” She continued delighting the thousands of fans watching on with some of her old school hits including “party 4 u” and “I Love It.”

“I know I’m meant to have a heart of stone,” the English star said from the Other stage, “but this is very fucking emotional right now… Thank you so much, you’re fucking cool as fuck. But not as cool as me, bitch!”

Among some of the highlights from the set included Gracie Abrams — on Worthy...

The BBC tried to skirt controversial Irish band Kneecap by not showing the group’s Glastonbury set as part of its live wall-to-wall Glastonbury coverage today.

However, a group the corporation streamed on iplayer instead of Kneecap had some contentious comments of their own.

British duo Bob Vylan led thousands of crowd-members in chants of “Death, Death To The Idf” [Isreal Defence Force] and “Free, Free Palestine” during their set. The packed crowd was studded with Palestinian flags.

The punk duo, who merge grime, punk rock and hip hop, also reiterated the controversial slogan: “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be, will be, free.”

The group had a large message for fans on stage: “Free Palestine. United Nations have called it a genocide. The BBC calls it a “conflict”.”

The BBC has yet to comment on the performance, which has inevitably sparked both outcry and applause on social media.

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Neil Young’s flip-flopping with Glastonbury continued Saturday as the BBC announced the rocker’s headlining set tonight at the festival will in fact be live-streamed.

Earlier this week, the British broadcaster released its Glastonbury schedule, and Young’s set was noticeably absent; a spokesperson for the BBC confirmed that “at the artist’s request, we won’t be live streaming” Young and the Chrome Hearts’ Saturday set.

However, in the days since, Young apparently had a change of heart as the BBC revealed Saturday that his Pyramid Stage set will livestream after all.

The BBC has revealed how it plans to show Kneecap’s Glastonbury performance later today.

The corporation has confirmed that the performance will not be streamed live but will be shown on-demand.

“As the broadcast partner, the BBC is bringing audiences extensive music coverage from Glastonbury, with artists booked by the festival organisers,” a spokeswoman said. “Whilst the BBC doesn’t ban artists, our plans ensure that our programming meets our editorial guidelines. We don’t always live stream every act from the main stages and look to make an on-demand version of Kneecap’s performance available on our digital platforms, alongside more than 90 other sets.”

The controversial Irish hip-hop trio will take to what will likely be a packed West Holts Stage in less than two hours. We wrote earlier this week about how the BBC was facing a dilemma over its Kneecap coverage, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer...

Neil Young’s on-off relationship with the BBC and Glastonbury appears to have been resolved, for now, and the singer’s set will be shown live tonight on the national broadcaster.

Yesterday, the BBC said the iconic singer’s performance on the Pyramid Stage would not be available to watch at Young’s request, with the BBC planning to instead show Charli Xcx’s performance from the Other Stage.

As of the past few minutes, this has been reversed.

“We are delighted to confirm that Neil Young’s headline set from Glastonbury on Saturday will be broadcast live to audiences across the UK on the BBC,” said a spokeswoman. “It will be on iPlayer’s Pyramid Stage stream from 10pm, as well as BBC Two and Radio 2. Our on-demand plans continue to be finalised.”

Young’s relationship with Glastonbury and the BBC has been rocky for months.

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Matty Healy was his usual, charismatic self on the Pyramid Stage Friday night as The 1975 kicked off the Glastonbury Festival headline sets.

The Brit spoke earnestly alongside his fellow band members as they thrilled the 100,000+ audience with hits like “Chocolate,” “About You,” and “Somebody Else” from their varied discography.

Healy was, as always, poking fun at himself and others as he began the hour-and-a-half show with a pint of beer in one hand.

“I know I’m meant to be a rockstar, but this is really scary and I’m really nervous,” he admitted about performing at the U.K.’s crown jewel of music festivals. “It’s difficult to tell when I’m being sincere on stage… But what this moment is making me realize is that, yeah, I probably am the best. I probably am the best songwriter of my generation,” he joked.

He candidly continued: “It’s...

New Zealand musician Lorde had Glastonbury-goers racing to the Woodsies area on Friday as the singer made a surprise appearance at the U.K. music festival.

The two-time Grammy winner had initially said she was “pretty keen” to return to the fest, with some interpreting that to mean that she might pop up at some point over the weekend.

She thrilled attendees at Worthy Farm in Somerset when word spread that she was about to kick off a performance on Friday morning, the same day of the release of her album Virgin.

“This is fucking sick,” she said, playing most songs from her new album. “This is the release, I’m releasing it right now! After the show, then the album’s out, you know?”

She also added: “This record took me a lot, I didn’t know if I would make another record to be honest — but I’m back here and completely free.

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Glastonbury has finally kicked off, 55 years since it first rocked Somerset back in 1970. This year, Charli Xcx, Olivia Rodrigo, Doechii, Rod Stewart, and Noah Kahan fans are in for a treat this weekend, as the artists headline Glastonbury 2025. The 1975, Gracie Abrams, Alanis Morissette, and Raye are also among those playing the annual British music festival this year, which will livestream on the BBC.

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Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts will headline Glastonbury this coming Saturday, but breaking from tradition, the performance will not broadcast on the BBC.

Back in January, after Young was among the first artists named for the 2025 Glastonbury, the rocker announced he was pulling out of his headlining gig due to the festival’s partnership with the BBC.

“We were told the BBC was now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot for things we were not interested in. It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate...

Lukas Nelson appeared on “The Howard Stern Show” on Tuesday, June 24, to perform live and discuss his music, his legendary father (Willie Nelson), playing with Neil Young, and much more. Check out the full show on the SiriusXM app and web player.

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Last I saw Willie Nelson, on the Outlaw Music Festival tour, he gave well-earned solo space to son Lukas Nelson, who just released his first solo album. It’s high time. Dude’s a lifelong utility player — rock solid on guitar and vocals with the family band, while Willie circles the beat, and a team player with frequent Neil Young backing crew Promise of the Real. He’s become a go-to duet partner, notably with fellow next-gen icon Sierra Ferrell. Ferrell’s cameo on ­Nelson’s new American Romance is “Friend in the End,...