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Why Is ‘Saturday Night Live’ Suddenly Booking So Many Older Rock Bands?

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJack White. The Strokes. Foo Fighters — that lineup of “Saturday Night Live” musical guests could easily have come from 2002 instead of 2020 … and in fact, all three of those artists did perform on the show that year or in 2003 (with White as frontman of the White Stripes).

For a show that in recent years has leaned heavily on very current pop, hip-hop, R&B and alternative, it’s a head-spinning shift of genre and generations.

What’s going on?Obviously, due to COVID, it’s an unprecedented season and an unprecedented time. But not only has rock music has been at a low ebb for most of this century — the White Stripes and the Strokes are the last two galvanizing acts in memory — those three acts don’t even have new.

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