Hey, we made it to TMZ! Ten days ago, Stereogum published a We’ve Got A File On You interview with Duff McKagan. In our chat, the Guns N’ Roses bassist reiterated a claim from his autobiography: that he was the inspiration for Duff Beer on The Simpsons. Here’s how he explained it to our Michael Tedder:

Metalcore veterans Botch played a pair of farewell shows over the weekend. Founding members Brian Cook, Dave Knudson, Tim Latona and Dave Verellen took over the Showbox in Seattle, celebrating their legacy with what they called “A Weekend Of Dead Ends.”

Taylor Swift recently performed the 100th show of the Eras Tour and revealed the record-breaking run is coming to an end in December. On Friday, the pop star played her second night in Liverpool and sang Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s 2016 hit “This Is What You Came For” for the first time since 2017 and third time ever.

The Killers are having fun this month. While celebrating 20 years of their seminal debut Hot Fuss, the band covered “Maps” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Gov Ball and “A Little Respect” by Erasure the evening before at Bowery Ballroom. On Friday during the second night of the Rebel Diamonds Tour, they performed the Kinks&#...

It’s been about 40 years since the 16-year-old Queens rap hyena LL Cool J released “I Need A Beat,” his classic debut single, on the newly founded label Def Jam Recordings. It’s been eight years since LL released his most recent single — “You Already,” a collaboration with the...