Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. Dave Hause featuring Amythyst Kiah …
Read More »Music at Home: Songs for Your Plants
Since May, Rolling Stone has brought you “Music at Home,” a weekly playlist series for the pandemic era. Whether it’s feel-good pop jams, songs for lonely nights, or a collection of classics from October 1980, these playlists are meant to ease isolation and make you forget that your daily consumption …
Read More »Seattle Police Reclaim Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Seattle police announced Wednesday that they would begin the process of evacuating the city’s CHOP — the Capitol Hill Organized Protest that became the epicenter of Seattle’s George Floyd protests — following a string of violent incidents in the autonomous zone. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan also issued an executive order …
Read More »Alanis Morissette Shares 'Smiling' Video With 'Jagged Little Pill' Cast
Alanis Morissette is getting cathartic in quarantine in the new video for “Smiling,” one of the original songs she wrote for the jukebox musical based on her work, Jagged Little Pill. Filmed by Morissette and the cast of the Broadway show, the video shows everyone getting freaky in their own houses, …
Read More »Why Chief Justice Roberts Upheld Abortion Rights
When Donald Trump ran for president, he promised to appoint justices to the United States Supreme Court who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. His running mate, Mike Pence, vowed the same. Today, it seems that the president may have followed through with his promise … but was stopped …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Greenland,' 'Hamilton,' 'Little Voice' and More
All I Can Say Comprised of the late singer’s self-recorded video footage, the new film’s trailer shows Blind Melon‘s Shannon Hoon laying down vocals for the bands 1992 hit, “No Rain.” Part historical record and part diary, the film shows some of Hoon’s milestone moments – including the birth of …
Read More »Charlie Wilson Honors the Four Tops With New Single 'One I Got'
Charlie Wilson pays tribute to the Four Tops in “One I Got,” a new single the R&B veteran released on Thursday at midnight. The track sits easily next to the rest of the Gap Band singer’s recent catalog: It’s beaming, optimistic, and besotted, with plenty of room for forceful, melismatic …
Read More »Pearl Jam Deliver First Performance of 'Dance of the Clairvoyants' for COVID-19 Relief Concert
Pearl Jam performed their Gigaton track “Dance of the Clairvoyants” live for the first time during the All in WA COVID-19 relief concert Wednesday. The socially distanced performance not only found each member of Pearl Jam recording from home, but there was a little bit of lineup movement as well, …
Read More »Amy Heckerling and Darren Criss Break Down 'Royalties'
Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor and songwriter Darren Criss and director Amy Heckerling (Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) discuss their new Quibi show Royalties on the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The Breakdown. Royalties tells the tale of two songwriters (Criss and Kether Donahue) trying to write music …
Read More »Black Eyed Peas Get Lost on 'Translation'
With every successful cultural movement, you’re bound to have bandwagon jumpers. As a plurality of reggaetoneros, traperos, and pop singers from across Latin America enjoy unprecedented albeit overdue global success, tourists like DJ Khaled, DJ Snake, and Tyga have inevitably glommed onto their sound, with varying degrees of success. None …
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