Hootie and the Blowfish Hit Big on Their Return to the AMAs Stage With Medley
Hootie and the Blowfish made a notable return to the American Music Awards stage, performing a medley of their hits. The band, featuring original members, delighted the audience with their classic songs. Darius Rucker is set to receive the Veterans Voice Award during the ceremony for his advocacy work for veterans and their families.
- ▪Hootie and the Blowfish performed a medley of 'Hold My Hand' and 'Only Wanna Be With You' at the 52nd American Music Awards.
- ▪The band reunited in 2019 after years on hiatus and has since toured and performed at various festivals.
- ▪Darius Rucker will receive the Veterans Voice Award at the AMAs for his work on behalf of veterans.
Rolling Stone files mainly under music. We currently carry 240 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Rolling Stone |
| Canonical URL | https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hootie-and-the-blowfish-performance-amas-2026-1235567854/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 00:38:33 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T01:07:40.934Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T01:07:40.934Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Vew2t1BOVeKa |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
AMAs 2026 blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'inlineoop', 'gpt-rslogo-140-article-dsk-tab-uid3' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', 'rslogo140' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("music\/article\/logo") .addSize([[1,1]]) ; }); Hootie and the Blowfish Hit Big on Their Return to the AMAs Stage With Medley The Nineties hitmakers performed a medley of “Hold My Hand” and “Only Wanna Be With You” at the 52nd American Music Awards By Brian Hiatt, Jaeden Pinder May 25, 2026 Hootie & the Blowfish perform at American Music Awards on May 25, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Rolling Stone.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Rolling Stone
