{"id":620738,"date":"2026-10-04T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620738\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:12:10","slug":"turnstile-makes-snl-debut-with-host-dakota-johnson-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620738\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnstile Makes SNL Debut With Host Dakota Johnson: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTurnstile<\/a> made their Saturday Night Live<\/a> debut on Saturday (Oct. 4), performing three songs from their Grammy-winning album Never Enough on the Dakota Johnson<\/a>-hosted episode.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Baltimore hardcore band \u2014 appearing the night after a set at Austin City Limits \u2014 opened with \u201cBirds,\u201d 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 \u201cI Care\u201d and \u201cDull.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe appearance marked a milestone for the band, and for the genre: Turnstile are the first hardcore act to perform on SNL<\/a> since Fear\u2019s famously chaotic 1981 appearance. Host Dakota Johnson had teased the booking<\/a> in a promo earlier in the week, joking that she was ready to start a \u201cwall of death\u201d for the band.<\/p>\n

\n\tNever Enough, released in June 2025, is Turnstile\u2019s 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\u2019s first No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Alternative Airplay chart. The record earned the group five Grammy nominations \u2014 making Turnstile the first band ever nominated across the rock, alternative and metal fields in a single ceremony \u2014 and converted two of them, winning best rock album alongside \u201cBirds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

\n\tJohnson\u2019s 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<\/a>, with Rosal\u00eda<\/a> set to perform alongside host Shane Gillis on Oct. 10 and Gracie Abrams<\/a> booked for Oct. 31 with host Inde Navarrette.<\/p>\n

\n\tTurnstile\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turnstile made their Saturday Night Live debut on Saturday (Oct. 4), performing three songs from their Grammy-winning album…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,23029,156,111,139,69,8804,45415,437],"class_list":["post-620738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dakota-johnson","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}