At the start of 2020, Courtney Barnett was looking forward to a year of open-ended songwriting, with just one proviso. “It’s important to remember to live and to experience and to have something real to write about,” she told Rolling Stone in an interview that January. “Not just to sit …
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Roy Acuff was synonymous with the fiddle. It was his constant companion, and when he wasn’t playing it on songs like “Night Train to Memphis,” it was in his hand. Or sometimes, balanced on his chin. On Wednesday, the Country Music Hall of Fame received one of Acuff’s fiddles for …
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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 …
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In 1990, Prince, who was as competitive as he was virtuosic, made a rare admission of vulnerability: “To this day, [the Time] are the only band I’ve ever been afraid of.” Prince had initially helped nurture the Time, a group of crack musicians from his hometown of Minneapolis that he …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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It’s easy to judge a book by its cover, especially when the photos are being served up by Wonho. But K-pop’s leading man is out to prove that he’s more than just mop top and muscles, as he leaves his boy-band roots behind for an exciting solo career. Wonho first …
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