Turnstile made their Saturday Night Live debut on Saturday (Oct. 4), performing three songs from their Grammy-winning album Never Enough on the Dakota Johnson-hosted episode.

The Baltimore hardcore band — appearing the night after a set at Austin City Limits — opened with “Birds,” which won best metal performance at the 68th annual Grammy Awards in February. Later in the show, the five-piece returned for a medley of “I Care” and “Dull.”

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The appearance marked a milestone for the band, and for the genre: Turnstile are the first hardcore act to perform on SNL since Fear’s famously chaotic 1981 appearance. Host Dakota Johnson had teased the booking in a promo earlier in the week, joking that she was ready to start a “wall of death” for the band.

Never Enough, released in June 2025, is Turnstile’s fourth album and the follow-up to their 2021 breakthrough Glow On. It debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and topped the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, while its title track became the band’s first No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart. The record earned the group five Grammy nominations — making Turnstile the first band ever nominated across the rock, alternative and metal fields in a single ceremony — and converted two of them, winning best rock album alongside “Birds.”

In August, Turnstile followed up with Never Enough: Versions, a reimagined edition of the album featuring contributions from Elton John, Hayley Williams, Slayyyter, Julien Baker, Four Tet, Blood Orange, Faye Webster and Alex G, among others.

Johnson’s turn, which featured a surprise cameo from Taylor Swift, marked her third time hosting the show and arrived a day after the theatrical release of her new film Verity. Turnstile followed season 52 premiere guest KATSEYE, with Rosalía set to perform alongside host Shane Gillis on Oct. 10 and Gracie Abrams booked for Oct. 31 with host Inde Navarrette.

Turnstile’s tour resumes Monday (Oct. 5) in Oklahoma City, followed by stops in Lawrence, Kan.; St. Louis; Ventura, Calif.; and Las Vegas before the run wraps Oct. 18 in Santa Ana, Calif.

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After nearly 20 years of game play, the NFL returns to London for the 2026-27 season. The league has been growing American Football around the world with regular season games played in international cities, such as Rio, Mexico City, Melbourne, Berlin, Dublin and others.

For the week four matchup, two premiere NFL teams with the Colts and Commanders play against each other for domination on the field. Meanwhile, there might be one or two celebrity sightings during the game too with a special performances of the U.S. and U.K. national anthems by Jordyn Simone and Mimi Webb, respectively.

How to Watch NFL London Game 2026 Live Online, at a Glance:

When Does the NFL London Game 2026 Start?

The NFL London Game happens on Sunday (Oct. 4) with a matchup featuring the Indianapolis Colts (1-2) taking on the Washington Commanders (1-2) at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England, with a start time of 9:30 a.m. ET/6:30 a.m. PT.

What TV Network Features the NFL London Game 2026?

The Colts-Commanders game broadcasts on NFL Network, while the NFL game is available to livestream on ESPN Unlimited.

Which Celebrities Are Making Appearances During the NFL London Game 2026?

NFL games are known for celebrity sightings, so it’s likely there may be a number of famous actors, actresses and recording artists in attendance. Artists have been known to appear at games in the past, include English NFL fans, Idris Elba, Kit Harington, Prince William and others.

In addition, R&B singer and former-contestant on The Voice, Jordyn Simone performs “The Star-Spangled Banner,” while English pop star Mimi Webb performs “God Save the King,” ahead of kickoff.

Where to Watch the NFL London Game 2026 Live Online for Free

For cord-cutters, there are a few ways to watch the NFL London Game, if you don’t have cable, especially if you want to watch for free. DirecTV has a five-day free trial, while other streaming services, such as Fubo and Hulu + Live TV, also offer free trials, so you can watch Colts vs. Commanders for free.

A subscription to DirecTV gets you access to live TV, local and cable channels, including NFL Network, at $59.99 per month for the first three months of service ($89.99 per month afterward). The service even offers a five-day free trial to watch for free, if you sign up now. It comes with access to ESPN Unlimited too for even more ESPN networks.

Sling TV offers the Blue plan, which comes with NFL Network. With more than 40 channels, the streaming plan goes for $54.99 per month. All plans come with a free cloud DVR and an extra 600 or so free channels too. Please note: Pricing and channel availability vary from market-to-market.

Fubo starts at $63.99 for the first month ($88.99 per month afterward) with more than 230 channels, including local and cable networks, like NFL Network, that are streamable on smart TVs, smartphones, tablets and on web browsers. And with a five-day free trial, you can watch for free, if you act fast and sign up now.

For the NFL London Game: Colts vs. Commanders, the broadcast network NFL Network is available to watch with Hulu + Live TV. Prices for the cable alternative is on sale for $49.99 for the first month ($89.99 per month afterward) for more than 100 live channels, while each plan comes with Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN Unlimited at no additional cost. Hulu + Live TV might be best for those who want all of these streaming services together in one package.

ESPN Unlimited is the official streaming platform for NFL Network. A subscription includes instant access for $35.99 per month. However, you can save almost 17% off by purchasing an annual subscription for $359.99 per year. It features every ESPN network, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, SEC Network, ACC Network, ESPN on ABC, ESPN+, SEC Network+ and ACC Network Extra — all in one streaming service. It even comes with CW Sports for more livestream games.

In addition to live sports, ESPN Unlimited has original programming to stream on demand. Although the service doesn’t offer a free trial, you can still watch ESPN Unlimited with a clever workaround to watch online for free. Learn more about how to get a free trial to access ESPN Unlimited here.

On Sunday (Oct. 4), the NFL London Game 2026: Indianapolis Colts vs. Washington Commanders broadcasts on NFL Network. One of the best ways to watch the game live is with DirecTV.

Polaris‘ first new song in three years confronts a question that has followed the Australian metalcore band since guitarist Ryan Siew’s death in 2023: How do they make music together without him?

Released Sept. 3, “Without You” is the band’s first new music made after Siew’s death — and a marked contrast to 2023’s Fatalism, the final album the four remaining members recorded with him, which arrived just months after he died.

Speaking with Billboard of the release and ahead of their appearance at Australia’s Good Things Festival, Rick Schneider said the band wanted its first step forward to acknowledge both Siew’s place in Polaris and the impossibility of filling it.

“He is kind of, in many ways, irreplaceable,” Schneider said. “There is no quick and easy fix to get someone in there to replace what his significance was.” The years since his death, Schneider said, had given the band time “to acknowledge and contextualize the significance that he had on us as not only a bandmate but also a friend.”

For drummer Daniel Furnari, putting the track into the world has been “bittersweet” and “cathartic.” He said the members had spent years thinking about what their first new release would need to convey, knowing one song could not contain the full experience of their loss. “How do you say enough?” he asked. “How do you convey that loss and that pain and that grief and the weight of it all in the right way?”

“It’s really us just beginning to learn how to speak about this, both publicly and through our music,” Furnari said. He also described a sense of pride in the band’s survival. “There’s a sadness, and there’s also a real pride in the fact that we can look at each other and say, like, we’re still here, we’re still standing as a band,” he said. “We might not look the same, we’re missing somebody really important, but we still know who we are as artists.”

Whether Polaris would continue was never the central question, Furnari said. “This band is something we’ve kind of committed our lives to and committed our hearts to,” he said. “I don’t think there’s a part of any of us that ever would have let this go.” The uncertainty lay in how to care for themselves, honor that history and make space for a future. “Not if, but how and when.”

That resolve was tested almost immediately, as the band went ahead with the Fatalism tour after Siew’s death. Schneider said the members gave themselves space, then checked whether everyone felt comfortable returning to the stage. They all said yes.

“If we were to put the brakes on and put us on hold,” he said, “maybe it would have just been harder to come back.” The tour affirmed something they needed to know: “We are still here for each other, and we want to keep this going not only for each other but also for Ryan.”

Furnari said that in the years since, fans had often thanked the band for choosing to carry on — and that the phrasing gave him pause. “The strange thing is, I almost don’t feel like we had a choice,” he said. “This band is too much of a part of who we are as people. It’s so tied to all of our identities.” Stopping, he added, would have been unthinkable: “I think we knew Ryan would never forgive us if we stopped.”

The experience did not make writing “Without You” easy. Schneider said Siew’s absence felt like “a shadow in the room” during writing sessions. “You want to turn to someone for their opinion or their guidance or their assistance or their contributions, and they’re not there,” he said. When the song began to take shape — a heavy riff from Schneider, lyrics Furnari had written in the period after the loss — the members felt it could carry their first message back.

Furnari recalled that some of the song’s early music and lyrics came together quickly, but writing words that could do justice to their experience was another matter. “There is so much to say here, and I want to say it the best I can,” he said. “I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to say it enough.”

Singing its most direct expression of loss proved harder still. “I just couldn’t get through it without my voice cracking,” he said of an early demo. “I think I had to come back to it the next day because I just couldn’t handle it.”

The group has more music written and in progress, though they are resisting the expectation that a new album must follow immediately.

“This song needs some time to sit with people,” Schneider said. He wants its significance to settle before Polaris moves straight onto another release. Furnari said more music will come “in the not too distant future,” but the band does not want to rush the process. “For us to even be here in this moment and be finally releasing new music is such a significant thing,” he said.

Formed in 2012, Polaris broke through with 2017’s The Mortal Coil and 2020’s The Death of Me, both of which debuted in the Australian Top 10 and earned ARIA nominations for best hard rock/heavy metal album. Fatalism became the band’s first No. 1 on Australia’s ARIA Albums Chart in September 2023, and won best independent heavy album or EP at the 2024 AIR Awards. In the years since, Polaris made their Knotfest Australia debut in 2025, supported their self-described “lifelong heroes” Linkin Park on an Australian arena run in March and toured North America with Electric Callboy.

Polaris’ next Australian festival appearance offers another measure of that journey. At Good Things in 2022, the band played one of the smaller stages to a crowd Furnari remembered stretching to the back of the space — “one of the biggest crowds we’d ever played to at that time.” This December, Polaris is the highest-billed Australian act on the lineup.

“We’ve never actually played on a main stage for, you know, like a mainstay Australian festival,” Schneider said. “For this opportunity to be finally put on the main stage … it kind of gives you a chance to take stock.” The leap in four years from side stage to the highest-billed Australian band on the lineup, he added, is “incredible.” He credited the fans who packed that 2022 set and kept showing up since, thanking the wider Australian scene — especially the fans. “The punters rule.”

Good Things, led by Limp Bizkit and also featuring Simple Plan and Spiritbox, visits Melbourne on Dec. 4, Sydney on Dec. 5 and Brisbane on Dec. 6. For Polaris, the bigger slot arrives alongside a new song made on its own terms — a first step rather than a final word. As for the Good Things crowd, Furnari said: “Hope we can bring them something that’s just as special. We still know who we are as artists.”

Good Things Festival 2026

Dec. 4 — Melbourne — Flemington Racecourse (16+)

Dec. 5 — Sydney — Sydney Showground (16+)

Dec. 6 — Brisbane — Brisbane Showgrounds (16+)

Taylor Swift made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend, crashing host Dakota Johnson’s opening monologue.

Johnson, hosting for the third time on the eve of her birthday (Oct. 4), spent much of the monologue joking about her history of dating musicians, saying she has supportive friends who “don’t judge me for dating these men.”

She then introduced “my literal therapist” — cuing Swift, who walked on to correct her. “I’m not your therapist, actually,” Swift said.

“You just show up once a week at my house with an empty bottle of wine and ask if I want some.” She continued: “You flop on my couch and overshare, and every so often I just say, ‘Damn, that’s crazy.’” The bit ended with Swift noting she sends Johnson home with “a Pedialyte” and a security escort.

The monologue also worked in a nod to Swift’s husband, Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce, as Johnson referenced “England and parts of Ireland and Cleveland” among the places tied to her romantic misadventures — a wink at Kelce’s Cleveland-area roots — prompting a “Woo-woo!” from Swift.

The cameo reunited the pair weeks after they appeared together in the video for “Patient Zero,” the single from Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore that she directed and co-starred in. The clip, which premiered at the MTV Video Music Awards, stars Johnson and Colin Farrell as a wealthy couple whose marriage is unraveling, with Swift appearing as a spectral figure. Earlier Saturday, Swift released an expanded eight-minute version of the “Patient Zero” video exclusively on Apple Music.

It marked Swift’s first SNL appearance since October 2023, when she introduced musical guest Ice Spice; she has a long history with the show, having hosted in 2009 and appeared as musical guest multiple times.

The cameo caps a busy stretch for Swift, who released The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore — an expanded edition of her chart-topping 2025 album with four new tracks — on Sept. 25.

Describing the genesis of The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore in an Instagram post, Swift said, “About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history,” of the LP that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 thanks to a record-smashing 4.002 million album-equivalent units moved.