Durand Jones & the Indications’ new single “The Way That I Do” reaches back several decades to capture the feeling of a precise period in popular music history, the years in the late Seventies and early Eighties when the popular R&B vocal ensembles turned toward the locomotion of disco and …
Read More »Khalid to Premiere New Song for Virgin Galactic Spaceflight Launch
Khalid has announced that he will be performing a brand-new song for the Virgin Galactic Spaceflight launch on Sunday, July 11th. Although the song, titled “New Normal,” won’t be officially released until July 21st, the singer will debut the track on stage following the Unity 22 crew’s landing of the …
Read More »'Ice Cold': Lil Yachty, Slick Rick Talk Hip-Hop and Jewelry in Docuseries Preview
Ice Cold, a YouTube docuseries about the connection between hip-hop and ostentatious jewelry, premieres tonight, July 8th. Ahead of the debut episode, Rolling Stone has a preview of what to expect from the four-episode series that features interviews with artists like J Balvin, Lil Baby, City Girls, Slick Rick and …
Read More »Ty Dolla $ign, Erykah Badu Join Lineup for H.E.R.'s Lights On Festival
H.E.R. and Live Nation Urban have unveiled the lineup for the second annual Lights On Festival, taking over the Concord Pavilion in Concord, California, on September 18th and 19th. The singer announced the second iteration of her 2019 festival Sunday night at the BET Awards. Erykah Badu, Bryson Tiller, Ari …
Read More »Are Cult Legends Sparks the World's Most Interesting Band?
Edgar Wright‘s new film The Sparks Brothers is one of the most entertaining music documentaries in years, chronicling the improbably twisty, decades-spanning, genre-defying adventures of Ron and Russell Mael, the siblings behind the cult band Sparks. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, the Mael brothers and Wright join host …
Read More »Hear Journey's First New Song This Decade, 'The Way We Used To Be'
Journey have shared a music video for “The Way We Used To Be,” which is their first new music since their 2011 LP Eclipse. It’s also the debut of Journey’s new lineup, which now features Narada Michael Walden on drums, Randy Jackson on bass, and Jason Derlatka on keyboards and …
Read More »See Pearl Jam Reminisce About Legendary 1993 Gig in 'Enormous: The Gorge Story' Clip
After the Covid-19 pandemic postponed its April 2020 release, Enormous: The Gorge Story,a film about the picturesque George, Washington, amphitheater, will finally be released to theaters for one day only on July 21st. Ahead of the documentary’s release, Rolling Stone has an exclusive clip focusing on one of the venue’s …
Read More »Metallica Plot 30th-Anniversary 'Black Album' Reissue With Massive Box Set, Covers Compilation
Metallica will mark the 30th anniversary of their 1991 self-titled classic — best known as The Black Album — with a special reissue and a compilation featuring 53 artists covering their favorite songs from the LP. Both will be released on September 10th. The official reissue will be released in …
Read More »Watch DaBaby's High School-Themed Video for New Single 'Ball If I Want To'
There’s a literal giant baby in DaBaby‘s self-directed music video for his new single, “Ball If I Want To.” The high school-set clip features a raucous cheer squad and a diaper-clad baby mascot as the backdrop for the rapper’s fast-talking, two-minute song. The video marks DaBaby’s directorial debut and was …
Read More »Read Jim Morrison's Unreleased Autobiographic Poem 'As I Look Back'
On Tuesday, June 8th, HarperCollins will publish The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts and Lyrics, a nearly 600-page, estate-approved collection that pulls together most of the Doors singer’s previously published work. It features everything from song lyrics to poetry, his posthumous poetry collections (Wilderness and The American …
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