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Fifty years ago this month, Rod Stewart‘s “Maggie May” knocked Donny Osmond’s “Go Away Little Girl” out of the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the biggest song in America. At the same time, it was charting high everywhere from Ireland and New Zealand to Canada and …

Blast Radio, a free audio platform that boasts unannounced broadcasts from artists, has revealed a new artist-grants program featuring upcoming broadcasts from Animal Collective and Spencer Tweedy, among others. “We really like the potential for being able to jump on to share something new, old, plannedm or improvised, whatever, whenever,” …

A new concert documentary on Carole King and James Taylor‘s creative partnership and decades-long friendship is in the works via CNN Films and HBO Max. Carole King & James Taylor: Just Call Out My Name is slated to premiere on CNN. The Frank Marshall-directed and co-produced film revisits footage of …

Judas Priest‘s Rob Halford has revealed he was treated for prostate cancer, and it is now in remission, Heavy Consequence reports. “I had my little cancer battle a year ago, which I got through and that’s in remission now, thank God,” he said in an interview with the outlet. “That …

Courtney Barnett has penned the theme song for upcoming Apple TV+ series Harriet the Spy. The track, a punky two-minute number called “Smile Real Nice,” will appear over the credits of the new animation adaptation of the children’s story. “I don’t wanna be/You don’t wanna be/We don’t wanna be told …

Adele revealed some details about her anticipated-but-not-yet-announced new album, likely called 30, in a new interview with Vogue. According to the singer, while the album was largely written and recorded during the period in her life where she was separating from her ex-husband Simon Konecki, the LP is more of …

Chris Brown won’t face any criminal charges for allegedly striking a woman during an argument in June. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office rejected the misdemeanor case “this week,” a spokesman for the office confirms. “It was rejected because of insufficient evidence,” spokesman Rob Wilcox tells Rolling Stone. He declined …

Foo Fighters, Tame Impala, and St. Vincent will take a swing on stage at the fourth annual Innings Festival, taking place at Arizona’s Tempe Beach and Tempe Arts Park on February 26th and 27th, 2022. The bill for the two-day event will also include My Morning Jacket, Black Pumas, Billy …

UPDATE (9/30): Taylor Swift took to Instagram to announce a new release date for her re-recorded version of Red: November 12th. “Can’t wait to celebrate the 13th with you and our new/old autumn heartbreak album,” she wrote on Stories. *** Taylor Swift will release a re-recorded version of her 2012 …

Rolling Stone’s brand-new list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time got the whole world talking (including Carson Daly, who was super-mad about a perceived lack of classic rock). On the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we begin what will become a multi-part discussion of …