Music Features

Sky Ferreira has been taking her time— more than five years, to be exact. That’s how long it’s been since her 2013 debut,Night Time, My Time,a riotous alt-pop dream that raised major expectations for her long-promised follow-up. Her new single, “Downhill Lullaby,” is our first glimpse of the album she’s …

Twenty-nine years ago, Yes lead singer Jon Anderson abandoned a half-finished solo album called Uzlot that he’d been been recording in Big Bear, California, with his bandmates Chris Squire and Alan White. Yes were gearing up for a massive reunion tour and he simply put the master tapes in his …

Pop radio program directors, the men and women whose decisions govern the casual consumption of 100 million listeners every week, are currently buried under an avalanche of Ariana Grande songs. “I’ve got three currents and another two in recurrent [rotation],” says Nathan Graham, program director for the Philadelphia Top 40 …

You’ve probably seen Tayla Parx before. Subtract the chin-length, always-changing hair, and she’s the precocious Little Inez from the 2007 film adaptation of Hairspray. Or maybe you saw that same face in the background on Gilmore Girls and Everybody Hates Chris, or during her recurring role on True Jackson, VP. …

On Sunday night, George Cook, the Director of Operations, Program Director and Brand Manager for a pair of rap and R&B radio stations in Dallas, organized a crucial conference call with members of his team. Surviving R. Kelly, a six-part docuseries on Lifetime that alleged that the singer had committed …

Here’s to what didn’t even come close to sucking in 2018: the music. These are my 25 favorite songs of the year (though some gems are over on the albums list, to avoid duplicating all the same artists). Including, but not limited to: hits, flops, obscurities, guitar ragers, pop thrills, …

30 years later, 1988 still stands as rap’s greatest year. The lyrical molotovs of Nation of Millions and Straight Outta Compton, the post-modern (and pre-lawsuit) free-for-all of sampling, the national spotlight of a new show called Yo! MTV Raps and much more. To celebrate 30 years, Rolling Stone’s Best of …

With the combined musical voices of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley —all formidable artists on their own —the Pistol Annies have been fearless about exploring complex emotional territory in their songwriting. On their first two albums, Hell on Heels and Annie Up, they envisioned women longing to break …

Pop music as we know it and hear it wouldn’t sound the same if it weren’t for Robyn. The sweeping success of herBody Talk series with its body-crushing synths and soul-choking storylines of loneliness, vulnerability and infidelity looked directly to the future. From Taylor Swift to Lorde to Carly Rae …

Heading into the 2004 SNL appearance that culminated in a now-notorious lip-sync snafu, Ashlee Simpson knew she was in trouble.“During that time, I’d gotten two nodes, and I woke up and I couldn’t talk,” the singer, actor and reality-TV star tells Rolling Stone. In retrospect, she would have handled everything …