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It was the winter of 1967–68, andJimi Hendrix was looking for a recording studio in New York. His second album, Axis: Bold as Love, was an FM-radio favorite and he had a road case full of tapes he had recorded in London that he was ready to rework. Warner/Reprise had …

Franz Ferdinand made one of the greatest debuts of all time back in 2004 with their self-titled LP – 11 tracks of flawless disco-punk that could’ve been a lesser band’s greatest-hits package. They’ve never been daunted by the mixed blessing of having started so strong – not even now, as …

Camila Cabello is lounging backstage in Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., eating spicy Takis corn snacks and trying to figure out what to do with a rare bit of free time. In three hours, 2017’s fastest-rising pop star will be gyrating onstage in knee-high boots and a corset, but …

Tommy Chong, one half of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong, was certainly pleased to hear the latest Eminem single. “Untouchable,” a Revival track on which Em addresses the way African-Americans are mistreated culturally in America, relies heavily on a sample of his group’s 1974 rock-star sendup “Earache My Eye.” …

Kinky Friedman has performed with Bob Dylan, traveled with Led Zeppelin and partied with John Belushi. When his cocaine habit nearly killed him, he returned to Texas and wrote 30 books, including 18 detective novels and memoirs featuring Willie Nelson and Billy Bob Thornton. More than 547,000 Texans voted for …

Back in 2015, Shamir Bailey had the world at his fingertips. He had signed to XL, the label that helped turn artists like Adele, Vampire Weekend and FKA Twigs into megastars. His debut album,Ratchet, and viral electro-pop single “On the Regular” had earned him serious buzz. But between then and …

In 2015, Jorge Fonseca, a veteran A&R for Sony Music Latin, made a trip to Puerto Rico in search of new sounds. “When you go to the island, the streets speak to you,” he tells Rolling Stone. “You hear the kids with the cars, and they tell you what’s happening.” …

In her Fans to the Front column, Brittany Spanos dives into what’s happening in fan culture on the Internet. Before Harry Styles‘ tour kickoff gig in San Francisco last month, hundreds of fans were equipped with homemade pink construction-paper hearts. During the singer’s performance of recent solo single “Sweet Creature,” …

‘I’d always liked the stage and even more so, the theater,” Bob Dylan wrote in his memoir, Chronicles. “It seemed like the most supreme craft of all craft.” But for nearly five decades, the idea of a Dylan musical has been as elusive as the songwriter himself. In the late …