Scott Lapatine

Next month Stereogum will team up with Partisan Records for a live music showcase in Austin. The event is Friday March 15 at Cheer Up Charlies on 900 Red River St. In recent years Stereogum brought performances to this venue by acts like Militarie Gun, Ratboys, Rico Nasty, Hotline TNT, Black Midi, Fontaines D.C., and more, and we’re just as psyched about this year’s lineup. In the afternoon on the outdoor stage Stereogum will host the Armed, Horse Jumper Of Love, Snõõper, Kassa Overall, Tomato F…

This Friday March 15 Stereogum returns to Austin’s Cheer Up Charlies (900 Red River St.) for day and night parties with some of our favorite bands. Today we are announcing some lineup additions and the set times for both events.

New Linkin Park singer got milkshake ducked real fast. Hope you have a better weekend than them.

Jane’s Addiction recently launched a reunion tour with their classic lineup — Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins, and Eric Avery — with support from Love & Rockets. It’s already yielded their first new music together since 1990. Navarro has said an album is “more than likely.” But last night in Boston, their show ended early with band members fighting onstage. This is going to ruin the tour?

Another year of Morrissey playing shows, canceling shows, and not releasing an album is coming to an end. His self-proclaimed “best album” Bonfire Of Teenagers has been in the works since 2020, but he’s said no one will release it because of its controversial title track and because free speech is “criminalized.” He’s also been marding with Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, as the former bandmates exchanged statements about the notion of a reunion tour and a reissue. He also fired his management. And today Morrissey’s mad at Wikipedia.

“The album is god, period.” That’s Jack Antonoff on the And The Writer Is… podcast earlier this month. “There’s no brilliant artist that’s existed for a real period of time and changed things and has a real audience that isn’t based on albums. They don’t exist.” I bet you can think of some examples to dispute that claim, but we do love albums around here and probably you do too.

Earlier this week Timothée Chalamet was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for portraying Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. He’ll host and perform music (presumably a couple of his Dylan covers featured in the film) on SNL tonight too. Last night a different kind of Dylan tribute went down in Tulsa, Oklahoma as dozens of musicians gathered to celebrate his album Blood On The Tracks.

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — a nearly three-and-a-half-hour extravaganza produced by SNL creator/producer Lorne Michaels and Mark Ronson — took place at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall tonight. The event featured popular musicians young and old who have performed on NBC’s sketch comedy series over the decades, and the audience was filled with people who worked on the show in some form or another, so there were a lot of reaction shots of delighted celebrities. Even many of the commercials starred past SNL characters, and the show is just one part of the program’s 50th anniversary weekend festivities, which culminate with a prime time SNL50: The Anniversary Celebration special airing Sunday night.

Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary festivities have already given us Nirvana x Post Malone, a Joanna Newsom sighting, and the revelation that creator/producer Lorne Michaels once called Taylor Swift a “terrorist.”

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