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Coachella ’26 featured a star-studded lineup, but Lil Wayne failed to make the cut. In a post to social media Saturday, he reflected on his latest music industry snub while showing love to his fans.

“It’s truly a humbling experience when events like Coachella & the Grammys come around & like clockwork, I’m uninvited & uninvolved,” he wrote on X. “I appreciate my position or space I hold in ya heart & mind if so bc you’re the humbling experience that’s timeless & 4dat I thk u. Iaints***withoutu.”

Wayne performed at Coachella in 2016 as a surprise guest on G-Eazy’s set. He’s been vocal about his place in the industry, most notably the NFL’s choice to make Kendrick Lamar headliner of the 2025 Super Bowl in Wayne’s hometown of New Orleans. 

Weezy has since vowed to never play the event. He’s been holding fans down via a tour celebrating 20 years of his Tha Carter mixtape series, recently adding more dates to the run. The new leg kicks off in June.

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Violet Grohl played her first official solo concert on Saturday in celebration of Record Store Day.

The daughter of Dave Grohl took the stage at Fingerprints Music in Long Beach, California, to perform songs off her upcoming debut solo album, Be Sweet to Me.

“We just know that this event will become one of those brags like, ‘I was there when Violet Grohl played her first live show…,'” reads a post on the Fingerprints Music Instagram.

It seemed that Violet’s dad attended the show — the Foo Fighters Instagram posted a photo of Dave outside Fingerprints alongside famed DJ and “Weird Al” Yankovic mentor Dr. Demento.

Be Sweet to Me is due out May 29. Violet’s upcoming tour plans also include sets at the U.K.’s Reading & Leeds and Atlanta’s Shaky Knees festivals.

Dave, meanwhile, is set to release a new Foo Fighters album, Your Favorite Toy, on Friday. The Foos will play a one-off show in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on April 28, followed by headlining sets at the Welcome to Rockville and BottleRock Napa festivals in May. They’ll launch a full North American stadium tour in August.

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Scorpions have canceled their upcoming tour of India due to medical reasons.

The four-city Coming Home tour was supposed to begin Tuesday in Shillong, but the band announced on social media that it will no longer go on as planned “due to unforeseen medical circumstances affecting the band members.”

“We apologise for the inconvenience and disappointment caused to fans,” they wrote. “The band are very keen to perform in India when possible and within their schedule.”

Fans with tickets will receive automatic refunds within seven to 10 days.

Scorpions’ next scheduled tour date is May 3 in Abu Dhabi. They launch a European tour on June 16 in Malta, and will headline a new Las Vegas residency at the PH Live at Planet Hollywood starting Sept. 17.

A complete list of dates can be found at the-scorpions.com.

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Miranda Lambert is laying the groundwork for new music, and this time, it’ll be on MCA.

As part of the announcement, label mate Reba McEntire presented Miranda with the belt buckle the company gave her when she signed with MCA in 1975. 

“Throughout my life and career, I have found that the common thread in every chapter is finding the right people – songwriters, musicians, collaborators and team members – to match the moment,” Miranda says in a news release. “I am honored to join a roster and a team with such a rich history of championing artistry. I look forward to sharing this new music with the world under their banner.”

2024’s Postcards from Texas was a partnership with Republic/Big Loud, following Miranda’s two-decade, career-launching relationship with Sony. She’ll continue her involvement with Big Loud Texas, which she founded.  

To date, Miranda has seven #1 albums and 10 #1 singles to her credit, and is the most-awarded artist in the history of the Academy of Country Music.

She has 8 nominations at May’s 61st ACMs, second only to Megan Moroney’s nine.

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Billie Eilish’s guest appearance during Justin Bieber’s Coachella set Saturday night was so important to her, her mother took to Instagram to thank him.

Billie shared a closeup of her face on her Instagram Story with the caption, “Can’t stop crying,” referring to the moment Justin brought her onstage and serenaded her with his hit “One Less Lonely Girl.” A longtime Bieber superfan, Billie first met Justin in 2019 and later teamed up with him on a remix of “bad guy.”

Now, on Instagram, Billie’s mom Maggie Baird has posted a video of Billie literally crawling onstage to reach Justin, along with photos of her crying while standing in the audience.

“One of the most touching moments ever. It sounds crazy, but we watch our children develop these deep deep connections to artists who move them and usually there’s nothing in our power to do,” she wrote.

“But we buy them records and maybe buy them a ticket to a concert (or a movie of a concert in our case because we couldn’t afford to see an actual concert),” she added. “Watching this crazy unimaginable dream come true over many years is so incredible.”

“I’m so grateful to Justin Bieber for the kindness he has shown Billie and to our whole family and to Hailey [Bieber] who makes so many things wonderful and possible,” Maggie concluded, referring to the fact that Hailey encouraged Billie to join Justin onstage.

Hailey responded in the comments, “[Love] you guys!” and “so special.”

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Eagles wrapped their Sphere Las Vegas residency on April 11, but apparently, guitarist Joe Walsh couldn’t get enough of the venue.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer revealed on Instagram that he returned to the state-of-the-art venue Saturday night to catch Phish’s residency.

“Taking a night off with my amazing wife Marjorie to enjoy @phish at @spherevegas – gonna feel different on this side of the stage!” Walsh wrote.

He later posted a photo of him meeting Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, along with video of Phish performing “Walk Away,” a song from Walsh’s band the James Gang.

“@phish played the hell out of my song. I wasn’t expecting that,” he wrote. “A serious honor. What great jobs we have. What great guys.”

While the Eagles don’t have any more Sphere dates booked for 2026, they still have shows on the schedule. They will play New Orleans’ Jazzfest on May 2, followed by shows in Atlanta; Nashville; Arlington, Texas; and Hollywood, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at Eagles.com.

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Guns N’ Roses performed the live debut of their cover of The Runaways song “Black Leather” during a show in Brazil over the weekend.

The rendition, which featured bassist Duff McKagan on lead vocals, comes 33 years after GN’R originally released “Black Leather” for their 1993 covers album, “The Spaghetti Incident?” 

“Black Leather” was originally written by Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols, before The Runaways recorded the song for their 1978 album, And Now… The Runaways.

“The Spaghetti Incident?” marked the final Guns N’ Roses album to feature McKagan and Slash, who left the band in 1997 and 1996, respectively. They later reunited with Axl Rose in 2016, and GN’R has since put out a number of one-off singles, including 2025’s “Nothin'” and “Atlas.”

Guns N’ Roses will play two more shows in Brazil before returning to the U.S. for a show in Hollywood, Florida, on April 30. They’ll launch a full U.S. stadium tour in July.

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Zara Larsson confirmed the release of a deluxe version of her album Midnight Sun, over the weekend, and now, we know at least one of the featured guests.

Zara joined her “Stateside” partner PinkPantheress onstage at Coachella on Saturday to perform a remix of her song “Midnight Sun.” “Thank you my queen @pinkpantheress for having me on stage! I love the version of midnight sun that you made and I can’t wait for the world to hear your verse on may 1st,” she wrote on Instagram.

May 1 is when Midnight Sun: Girls Trip arrives; it’s now available for pre-order. To promote the album, Zara posted a photo of her holding up a map of the world marked with 12 flower icons spread across various countries. Fans have theorized that each flower corresponds to the home country of an artist featured on the album.

Earlier this month, The Guardian reported that Zara was “putting the finishing touches” on a deluxe edition of the album featuring “all-women guest stars. We’ll have to wait and see who else is included on the project.

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Newly announced Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Billy Idol made a surprise appearance during weekend two of the Coachella festival in Indio, California.

The rocker and his longtime guitarist and collaborator Steve Stevens were the surprise guests during Sombr’s set Saturday night, joining the alt-pop singer for his Idol’s hit song “Eyes Without A Face.”

“Thanks to the legends @billyidol & @stevestevens for joining me,” Sombr wrote on Instagram. “Thank you for having @stevestevens and I,” Billy wrote in the comments.

Both Idol and Stevens are set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony happening Nov. 14 in Los Angeles and airing in December on ABC and Disney+.

Idol is heading out on the road this summer for a new leg of his It’s A Nice Day To … Tour Again! tour, which kicks off Aug. 7 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He will also headline the weeklong Hot in the City Las Vegas residency at the Fontainebleau from Aug. 28 to Sept. 5.

A complete list of Billy Idol dates can be found at BillyIdol.net.

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