Stereogum — Taylor Swift is the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend, fresh off the release of her latest album Lover . She'll appear alongside host Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who became an Emmys darling a few weeks ago for her show Fleabag. (Swift has ... more info

Dlisted — Justin Bieber’s wet nurse and pop music super-manager Scooter Braun bought the Big Machine record label back in June from founder and former CEO Scott Borchetta for $300 million. All of former Big Machine artist Taylor Swift’s songs came with the... more info

Consequence of Sound — Katy Perry, Lizzo, and Lil Nas X are also set to appear on the 12-city tour. Taylor Swift, BTS, Billie Eilish to play “Jingle Ball Tour 2019” Alex Young more info

Stereogum — Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Billie Eilish, and BTS are set to perform on the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour this holiday season. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — From Taylor Swift to Nick Jonas to Kacey Musgraves, pop stars are increasingly declaring themselves allies of LGBTQ fans, with varying degrees of success. more info

Chorus.fm — Matty Healy of The 1975 is on the latest episode of The Green Room podcast. He talks about wanting to produce a Springsteen-like Taylor Swift acoustic album among other topics. more info

Stereogum — Last year the major concert industry began embracing facial recognition technology. Ticketmaster invested in a company called Blink Identity with the goal of one day letting ticketholders associate their face with their ticket and walk into concerts ... more info

Dlisted — The increasingly brightly-hued Taylor Swift will no longer perform at Australia’s Melbourne Cup horse racing event. She pulled out after horsie rights protesters and her more equine-minded fans gave her a ration of shit over it due to the Cup alleg... more info

Stereogum — Taylor Swift has cancelled her upcoming performance at this year's Melbourne Cup, the Guardian reports. She was scheduled to sing two tracks from her new album Lover in what was being billed as her only show in Australia of the year. The Melbourne Cu... more info

Stereogum — Remember when a young Taylor Swift broke through with a song called "Tim McGraw"? Here is the indie rock version of that. more info