7 Highlights From 2025 Musicians on Musicians Concert Starring Hayley Williams, Jack Antonoff, Role Model & María Zardoya

Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians took over the Beacon Theatre in New York City Thursday (Oct. 23) night for its third annual edition. Hosted by Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson (whom you know for his spot-on impersonations of President Trump), the night brought the magazine’s latest issue – which features 10 musicians paired off in twos having frank, revealing conversations with each other about art and the music industry – to life on stage. Of the pairings who hit the stage at the Beacon were RS cover stars Hayley Williams and Jack Antonoff as well as Role Model and María Zardoya of the Marías. Each musician-on-musician duo sat down for a chat (the stage was done up to resemble a living room—chairs, coffee table, even a potted plant) before picking up their guitars and ripping through five-or-so songs apiece.

Zardoya’s ethereal, assured voice was a revelation in the venue’s recently improved acoustics, and Role Model’s band did justice to the Marías’ songs in the absence of her bandmates. Role Model himself was reserved and coy in the conversation portion of the night, but he had the audience on its feet and eating out of the palm of his hand when he grabbed the mic.

Hayley Williams—whose solo album Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party dropped in late August—continued to demonstrate why she’s one of our most versatile, effortless rock stars, sharing the stage with Jack Antonoff/Bleachers for the evening’s raucous finale. The long-time friends have an easy rapport, with the Paramore frontwoman adding her voice to Bleachers tunes and Antonoff rocking out on Williams’ solo cuts—including one which received its live debut.

Here are seven highlights from Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians 2025 event, presented by Sonesta International Hotels.