{"id":803911,"date":"2020-02-06T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=949075"},"modified":"2020-02-06T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:56:36","slug":"snl-books-david-byrne-the-weeknd-for-upcoming-musical-guest-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/snl-books-david-byrne-the-weeknd-for-upcoming-musical-guest-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019 Books David Byrne, the Weeknd for Upcoming Musical Guest Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/weeknd-david-byrne.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/david-byrne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-byrne\" data-tag=\"david-byrne\">David Byrne<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-weeknd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-weeknd\" data-tag=\"the-weeknd\">the Weeknd<\/a> will serve as musical guests on upcoming episodes of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em>, the series\u2019 Twitter revealed Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Byrne will join host and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-news\/john-mulaney-david-byrne-sack-lunch-bunch-trailer-928270\/\"><em>Sack Lunch Bunch<\/em> co-star<\/a> John Mulaney on <em>SNL<\/em>\u2019s February 29th episode. The appearance \u2014 Byrne\u2019s first solo visit to <em>SNL<\/em> since performing two <em>Rei Momo<\/em> songs on a Woody Harrelson-hosted episode in 1989 \u2014 comes just weeks after the singer\u2019s <em>American Utopia<\/em> ends its five-month Broadway residency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The following week, on March 7th, the Weeknd will perform on an episode hosted by Daniel Craig. <em>Uncut Gems<\/em> star Abel Tesfaye recently made the late-night TV rounds to promote his new singles \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d and \u201cHeartless.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This weekend, Justin Bieber will be musical guest for an episode led by first-time host RuPaul, followed by a two-week hiatus before the Mulaney\/Byrne tandem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Season 45 has so far also featured musical guests Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Halsey, Lizzo, Harry Styles (who also hosted), Coldplay, Camila Cabello, Chance the Rapper (also host), DaBaby, Niall Horan, King Princess and, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/luke-combs-snl-946649\/\">most recently<\/a>, Luke Combs.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.5652173913043\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eothxLryGW\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eothxLryGW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saturday Night Live \u2013 SNL (@nbcsnl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/1225525316740952065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">February 6, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/snl-david-byrne-the-weeknd-john-mulaney-daniel-craig-949075\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Byrne and the Weeknd will serve as musical guests on upcoming episodes of Saturday Night Live, the series\u2019 Twitter revealed Thursday. Byrne will join host and Sack Lunch Bunch co-star John Mulaney on SNL\u2019s February 29th episode. The appearance \u2014 Byrne\u2019s first solo visit to SNL since performing two Rei Momo songs on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 12:11:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}