Christopher Lennertz takes home Emmy 2025 for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics on The Boys

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At the 2025 Creative Arts Emmys held last weekend (September 7 and 8), Christopher Lennertz won the award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for his song “Let’s Put the Christ Back in Christmas” from The Boys. He came out ahead of nominees Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road” (Agatha All Along); Nicholas Britell and Tony Gilroy for “We Are the Ghor (Planetary Anthem)” (Andor); Adam Sandler and Dan Bulla for “Adam Sandler’s Song: 50 Years” (SNL50: The Anniversary Special); and Sean Douglas, Kristen Wiig, and Josh Greenbaum for “Harper and Will Go West” (Will & Harper). The honor marks Lennertz’s first Emmy win and his third overall nomination.

Lennertz’s award should not be mistaken for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score), which went to Theodore Shapiro for Severance, or Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie, or Special (Original Dramatic Score), which was awarded to Mick Giacchino for The Penguin.

A wide range of musicians earned Emmy nominations this year, including Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Kamasi Washington, Caroline Shaw, Hamilton Leithauser, Mark Ronson, Hans Zimmer, Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh, and the Roots’ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. Last week, Lamar picked up his second Emmy, winning the Creative Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction for The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar, which was nominated for seven awards.

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Guns N’ Roses Debut Nothin’ And Atlas At Tour Opening Show

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Guns N’ Roses have officially begun their 2026 tour and treated fans to the first ever live performances of Nothin’ and Atlas. You can find videos and the full setlist from the night below.

The concert took place at Parque Fundidora in Monterrey, Mexico on Saturday March 28 and marked the opening night of the band’s 2026 tour schedule. It follows a busy stretch of concerts last year, which concluded in October.

This tour also marks their first since drummer Frank Ferrer exited the group in 2025 after close to two decades. Just a day before the show, keyboard player Melissa Reese also shared that she would not be joining the upcoming dates due to personal matters.

Like many of their concerts, the band began the night with major fan favourites including Welcome To The Jungle and Mr Brownstone, later adding classics such as Paradise City, Don’t Cry, Civil War, November Rain, and their take on Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door as the show continued.

Along with their well known version of the Bob Dylan song, Axl Rose and the rest of the band also performed several other covers during the night. These included Black Sabbath’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Wings’ Live And Let Die, Velvet Revolver’s Slither, The Damned’s New Rose, and UK Subs’ Down On The Farm.

The Monterrey performance also included the first live performances of their newer songs Nothin’ and Atlas, which were originally released in December. See the full setlist and clips from the show below.

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Guns N’ Roses’ setlist was:

‘Welcome to the Jungle’
‘Mr. Brownstone’
‘Bad Obsession’
‘Live and Let Die’ (Wings cover)
‘Slither’ (Velvet Revolver cover)
‘Chinese Democracy’
‘Pretty Tied Up’
‘It’s So Easy’
‘Yesterdays’
‘Double Talkin’ Jive’
‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ (Black Sabbath cover)
‘Nothin’’ (live debut)
‘Dead Horse’
‘Perhaps’
‘Civil War’
‘Atlas’ (live debut)
‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ (Bob Dylan cover)
‘Sweet Child o’ Mine’
‘November Rain’
‘Patience’’
‘New Rose ‘(The Damned cover) (Duff on vocals)
‘Down on the Farm’ (UK Subs cover)
‘Don’t Cry’
‘Nightrain’
‘Paradise City’

These two tracks also represent the group’s first new releases in two years, following Perhaps and The General which arrived in 2023.

After the Mexico show, Slash and the rest of the band will continue the tour in April with nine major concerts scheduled across Brazil. In May, they will head to Florida for two performances before moving on to a European run across June and July. That leg begins with two dates in Poland, followed by a performance in Dublin and an already confirmed appearance at the UK’s Download Festival.

Additional stops include concerts in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Belgium, before they return to North America for another round of shows. Those dates begin in North Carolina on July 23 and conclude in Georgia on September 19. Buy US tickets here, European tickets here, and see the full list of dates below.

In other news, guitarist Slash recently suggested that the band may not perform at the Las Vegas Sphere and also hinted that new Guns N’ Roses material could be on the way, saying that “everybody [in the band] is thinking about it”.

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