{"id":7554,"date":"2025-12-21T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/finn-wolfhard-asap-rocky-snl\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:43:00","slug":"finn-wolfhard-asap-rocky-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/finn-wolfhard-asap-rocky-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn Wolfhard, A$AP Rocky Tapped For \u2018SNL\u2019 \u201926 Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/03\/MickeyPierre-Louis-%40itchyeyephotos-ASAPROCKY-02012.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>A$AP Rocky at Rolling Loud California in March 2025 (photo: Mickey Pierre-Louis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Stranger Things<\/em> star Finn Wolfhard will host the first episode of NBC\u2019s <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> of 2026, with musical guest A$AP Rocky joining the fun on Jan. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky\u2019s long-awaited new album, <em>Don\u2019t Be Dumb<\/em>, will be released the day before by A$AP Worldwide\/RCA. It\u2019s the follow-up to 2018\u2019s <em>Testing<\/em>, which debuted at No. 4 on the <em>Billboard <\/em>200.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/finn-wolfhard-george-harrison-video\/\">Finn Wolfhard Animates George Harrison\u2019s \u2018Earth\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/finn-wolfhard-replacements-film\/\">Finn Wolfhard Turning Replacements Bio Into Film<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2023\/07\/asap-rocky-pharrell-riot-rowdy-pipen\/\">A$AP Rocky Shares New Single, \u2018Riot (Rowdy Pipe\u2019n)\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The project has been preceded by the tracks \u201cHighjack\u201d featuring Jessica Pratt, the J. Cole-assisted \u201cRuby Rosary,\u201d \u201cTailor Swif\u201d and \u201cPray4DaGang.\u201d Rocky has previously tipped Pharrell, Mike Dean, Metro Boomin, the Alchemist and Danny Elfman as production collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSWBU-KjHfW\/\" target=\"_blank\">cover art<\/a> for <em>Don\u2019t Be Dumb<\/em> was created in collaboration with filmmaker Tim Burton, who says, \u201cI loved working with an artist like Rocky \u2014 it was a great collaboration. He spoke to me about his alter egos and I just drew my interpretations of them. He told me he wanted to make being a dad cool again, which was beautiful, even though I\u2019ve never been able to achieve that myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Wolfhard, his first <em>SNL<\/em> hosting appearance will come just after the fifth and final season of Netflix\u2019s <em>Stranger Things<\/em> concludes on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Having recently signed on to direct a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/finn-wolfhard-replacements-film\/\">film version<\/a>\u00a0of the Replacements biography\u00a0<em>Trouble Boys<\/em>, he also directed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/finn-wolfhard-george-harrison-video\/\">first music video<\/a> for the classic 1973 George Harrison single \u201cGive Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth),\u201d which was released last week.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A$AP Rocky at Rolling Loud California in March 2025 (photo: Mickey Pierre-Louis) Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard will host the first episode of NBC\u2019s Saturday Night Live of 2026, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,3975,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aap-rocky","category-finn-wolfhard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}