Lil Wayne is speaking out about being regularly left out of major music events.

On Saturday (April 18), the 43-year-old rap legend took to social media to express frustration about being “uninvited & uninvolved” in annual events like the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and the Grammy Awards.

“It’s truly a humbling experience when events like Coachella & the Grammys come around & like clockwork,I’m uninvited & uninvolved,” Weezy 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. Iaintshitwithoutu.”

Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst jumped into the comments to offer his support. “Let’s start our own experience gathering and our own acknowledgment event to welcome all of the uninvited – i’ve got a couple ideas i’ve been working on for quite some while now – happy to elaborate if ever interested – sending good vibes,” Durst wrote.

Wayne’s post comes about a year after the Tha Carter VI rapper was passed over to headline the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show in his hometown of New Orleans. Kendrick Lamar was ultimately selected to perform at the Caesars Superdome following the momentum of his Billboard Hot 100-topping hit “Not Like Us.”

In September 2024, Lil Tunechi opened up about how painful it was to miss out on the Super Bowl halftime performance in his own city.

“That hurt. It hurt a lot. You know what I’m talking about. It hurt a whole lot,” the rapper said at the time. “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown. And for automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position. So I blame myself for that. But I thought that was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so it hurt. It hurt a whole lot.”

Months later, he told a crowd at Lil WeezyAna Fest in New Orleans, “I told myself I wanted to be on that stage in front of my mom, and I worked my ass off for that position. It was ripped away from me, but this moment right here… they can’t take this away from me.”

While Lil Wayne has never performed a solo set at Coachella, he did make a surprise appearance during G-Eazy’s set at the Indio, California, festival in 2016.

As for the Grammys, Weezy has received 28 nominations over the course of his career and has won five awards, including best rap album for Tha Carter III at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009. That same year, he made his Grammy stage debut performing “Swagga Like Us” alongside M.I.A., T.I., Jay-Z, and Kanye West (now Ye).

See Lil Wayne’s post on X below.

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For Record Store Day 2026, Victrola partners with Jack White‘s Third Man Records on a new set of limited-edition turntable and speakers for music fans who love the warmth and depth of analog audio.

Priced at $649.99 for the bundle, the Victrola Third Man Records Turntable Set comes with the audio company’s Wave turntable and a pair of Tempo bookshelf Bluetooth speakers in the record label’s eye-catching black and yellow colorway.

Although it comes in an all-in-one bundle, you can get the turntable and speakers separately too. The Victrola Wave was Billboard’s pick for best turntable at CES 2025 (Consumer Electronics Show), thanks to its premium audio, Bluetooth connections (Auracast) to speakers or headphones and minimal, yet modern design.

In addition, the Tempo speakers are a perfect companion to the turntable with precise sound reproduction and wireless connectivity. Audio is deep and rich with warm and clear tones, while bass is punchy and rumbly — which is best for all sorts of rock, blues, hip-hop and country music.

For pricing, the Third Man Records-branded Wave goes for $499.99, while the pair of Tempo Bluetooth speakers are priced at $249.99. Altogether, it would go for $749.98, but the set saves you $99.99, so it’s best to go with the bundle instead.

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Available right now at Victrola.com, the limited-edition Victrola Third Man Records Turntable Set is priced at $649.99. Learn more at Victrola x Third Man Records here.

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The road to WWE WrestleMania 42 leads to Las Vegas. The company’s epic two-night Super Bowl-esque spectacle has wrestling fans, celebrities and musicians flocking to “Sin City” to witness a jam-packed wrestling card and the resolution of shocking storylines.

The lineups for WrestleMania 42 are split between two nights. For night one, there are seven matches, headlined with Cody Rhodes defending his Undisputed WWE Championship title against Randy Orton. And for night two, there’s six matches scheduled CM Punk defending his World Heavyweight Championship title belt against Roman Reigns.

Here’s everything you need to know to tune in live on ESPN Unlimited.

When and Where Is WWE WrestleMania 42?

WrestleMania 42 kicks off on Saturday (April 18) and Sunday (April 19), beginning at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT each night. The two-night event takes place at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

How to Watch WWE WrestleMania 42 Online?

WWE WrestleMania 42 exclusively livestreams on ESPN Unlimited. Not a subscriber? You can get the sports streaming service for just $29.99 per month. It features every ESPN network, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, SEC Network, ACC Network, as well as ESPN on ABC, ESPN+, ESPN3, SEC Network+ and ACC Network Extra — all in one app. Sign up for ESPN Unlimited below.

Who’s Performing During WWE WrestleMania 42?

While there’s no word on who will perform for night one, Grammy Award-winner Joe Jonas, who is a longtime WWE fan, is set to perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” to open WrestleMania 42 on night two. Additionally, Tony Award-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda is scheduled to take the stage for the event’s cold open on night one.

What’s the Match Card for WWE WrestleMania 42?

Check out the full WrestleMania 42 match cards, below.

Night 1 Match Card (Saturday, April 18, 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT, ESPN Unlimited):

Night 2 Match Card (Sunday, April 19, 7 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT, ESPN Unlimited):

After strong winds forced the cancellation of his Coachella 2026 weekend one performance last Friday (April 17) Anyma returned for weekend two on a much stiller night that allowed for the world debut of his new show, ÆDEN.

Starting a bit late at approximately 12:15 a.m. on Friday night/Saturday morning, the producer walked onstage dressed in all white, with the massive screen running the entire length of the festival’s mainstage switching on behind him. While this screen would host a varied cast of characters during the performance, it was first populated by dozens of digitally rendered columns that crumbled to the ground before rising again.

Also rising was Anyma himself, with the platform on which he stood elevating and lowering at various points of the show, a cool effect that in moments made the producer appear to be floating, to positioned in the center of a swirl of fire and at the nexus of many other onscreen special effects.

The show soon introduced a character resembling Michelangelo’s David, who busted down the columns while robot-like elements showed from under his stone artifice. The performance would go on to incorporate other such characters from the worlds of ancient art and mythology, including a Medusa-like creature, the snakes emanating from her head hissing in time with the beat, a pair of spinning characters whose muscular bodies appeared to be rendered from tree roots, a female demon and eventually, an angel — but more on that later.

The interplay of the ancient and modern art is a core concept of the Anyma universe, and one that those who saw his End of Genesys residency at Sphere Las Vegas in late 2024 and early 2025 will well recognize. Along with all the new imagery, ÆDEN reintroduced visuals familiar to those who saw the Sphere show, with the bugging eyeballs from the “Voices In My Head” segment from Sphere (and the song’s corresponding video) showing up during this same song at Coachella, but with the eyes now rendered in black and eventually appearing to drip black blood.

As it was at Sphere, Ellie Goulding also made an appearance, with the vocalist’s image cast on the screen during her 2025 Anyma collab “Hypnotized.” But while at Sphere her face essentially shape-shifted, at Coachella she was made to look like a marble statue, in keeping with the show’s ancient art themes.

Typically at Coachella, the special guests show up for weekend one and then pack up and go home, but — perhaps because they didn’t get the chance to perform last weekend due to the cancellation — Anyma brought out a hos of guests including Muse‘s Matt Bellamy and Swae Lee. The biggest guest was also the one most people would have guessed was coming, LISA. Anyma and the K-Pop superstar released their collaborative single “Bad Angel” on April 8, and this show at Coachella saw them performing it publicly together for the first time.

LISA came onstage in a shimmery, diaphanous dress while imagery of her as the titular angel appeared on the screen behind her. As she walked down the stage’s runway, she declared that she’s “pretty pretty bad” for an angel, with those watching the performance via the livestream on YouTube at this point seeing a towering LISA hologram in the sky above her. For those of us in the crowd no such hologram materialized, but to be in such close proximity to the singer appeared to be thrilling enough for the people in the crowd whose hands were genuinely shaking as she walked by.

The final moments of the show featured an appearance by Joji, who came out to sing “Beautiful,” his Anyma collaboration released earlier this month. As Joji sang to the crowd out on the catwalk, a version of him rendered in stone appeared on the screen, once again juxtaposing new and old, human and digital, with “Beautiful” serving as the show’s closer.

All in, ÆDEN functioned as an expansion of the significant world-building Anyma has already accomplished, bringing in concepts of ancient art and culture and colliding them with the cutting-edge technology required to create a show of this size and scope. Presenting this show on the Coachella mainstage is certainly a win for Anyma, with having Anyma on the mainstage of one of the world’s biggest music festivals also marking a win for dance music itself.

Sabrina Carpenter‘s Coachella weekend two headlining set on Friday night became one of the festival’s most memorable moments in recent history, when Madonna crashed the stage for a show-stopping surprise appearance.

The Queen of Pop emerged during Carpenter’s performance of “Juno” — at the song’s iconic pose moment — as the track cut into Madonna’s “Vogue” medley, with the two pop stars performing the 1990 classic together to a frenzy from the crowd.

The pair then appeared to perform an unreleased track together, widely believed to be from Confessions II, Madonna’s long-awaited sequel to her 2005 dance landmark Confessions on a Dance Floor, due July 3 via Warner Records.

Before closing out with “Like a Prayer,” Madonna addressed the crowd directly, tying the moment to a personal Coachella milestone.

“20 years ago today I performed at Coachella — I was at the dance tent,” she said from the stage. “It was the first time I performed Confessions from the dancefloor. Same boots, same corsets… it’s like a full circle moment.”

She then noted the astrological significance of the evening: “I also want to point out it’s the new moon of Taurus. Seven planets lined up in Aries… avoid confrontations. In all circumstances — for the rest of the month — let’s try to get along, let’s try to be together, let’s try to avoid disagreements.” Carpenter, for her part, leaned into the moment: “She’s pointing to me because I’m a Taurus.”

Madonna’s 2006 Coachella performance served as a warm-up for the launch of her Confessions Tour, which went on to gross over $194 million from 60 shows and became the highest-grossing tour by a female artist at that time.

Her return to the same stage two decades later, performing the same era’s music ahead of its sequel, gave Friday night’s appearance a rare sense of full-circle weight that the crowd felt viscerally.

Confessions II — due July 3 on Warner Records — is produced by Stuart Price, who helmed the original Confessions on a Dance Floor, and will be released as a non-stop mix echoing the format of the 2005 album. It marks Madonna’s first full-length album in seven years and her first for Warner Records since Hard Candy in 2008.

Previously announced tracks include “I Feel So Free,” “Fragile,” “Forgive Yourself,” and “One Step Away.”

The appearance made for a considerably more musically star-studded set than Carpenter’s weekend one showing, where guest appearances were limited to actors Susan Sarandon, Will Ferrell and Sam Elliott.

The weekend, Actress Geena Davis also joined for a spoken word monologue — mirroring Sarandon’s cameo from the prior weekend — while Terry Crews appeared mid-set to poke fun at his iconic role in White Chicks and lightly sing “A Thousand Miles.”

Carpenter’s Coachella headline run concludes her blockbuster run behind her 2024 album Short n’ Sweet, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and produced the top five Hot 100 hit “Espresso.” Madonna, meanwhile, heads toward the July release of Confessions II — one of the most anticipated pop albums of the year.