Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Good 4 U” tops the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs Chart for a sixth straight week, surpassing Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B (“WAP”) and Mariah Carey (“All I Want For Christmas Is You”) as the female artist with the most consecutive weeks at Number One. “Good 4 …
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The latest episode of CMT’s new series Campfire Sessions featured artists performing intimate acoustic versions of cover songs. Kelsea Ballerini had a standout performance on the July 1st episode, adding a little country twist to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” a 1977 song that went viral last year thanks to a TikTok …
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The Beach Boys will celebrate their favorite season with a summer-only Sirius XM channel dedicated to the band. Good Vibrations: The Beach Boys Channel — which launched July 1st on the satellite radio’s channel 105 — will broadcast the band’s biggest hits and solo songs, as well as rarities that …
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Singer-songwriter Richard Marx shares a surreal and scary story of a concert gone dangerously awry in Taiwan in a new excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Stories to Tell, out July 6th via Simon and Schuster. In the chapter, “The Tale of Taipei,” Marx recounts his adventures in Southeast Asia, where …
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Most writers are intimately familiar with the near-impossible task of writing a compelling lede — the first few lines of a story designed to hook the reader and draw them in. Yet in 2015, a former Hooters waitress from Detroit logged onto her Twitter account and did it in seconds. …
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After recording the unfinished songs of the late, great Gary Stewart on last summer’s Touch of You – The Lost Songs of Gary Stewart, Mike and the Moonpies return with a new original song. “Paycheck to Paycheck” is a hard-charging blast of Texas boogie and barroom country that calls to …
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Nashville-based pop rock outfit the Band Camino have released a new song, “Know It All,” from their upcoming self-titled debut, out September 10th via DBLBLK/Elektra. “Know It All” is a break-up track that combines spare, pop-oriented verses with a booming arena rock chorus, and even a hair metal guitar solo …
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Conan O’Brien closed out his late-night run with a sweet reflection on how he’s tried to build a career out of blending smart with stupid on the final episode of Conan Thursday, June 24th. “I have devoted all of my adult life to pursuing this strange, phantom intersection between smart …
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Joy Oladokun appeared from the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville, Tennessee, for a performance on The Late Show. Armed with only a guitar and a microphone, the singer gave an emotional, intimate rendition of her song “Sunday.” “I had the pleasure of filming my performance at the …
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This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July/August 2021 issue of the magazine. When Twitter banned @real-donaldtrump on January 8th, it short-circuited the 45th president’s hard-wired connection to the nation’s consciousness, silencing his anytime platform to threaten, cajole, insult, troll, and terrify the …
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