With 10 people dead — including a nine-year-old boy — and over 25 serious injuries, the crowd crush during Travis Scott‘s set at Nov. 5’s Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas stands as one of the worst concert tragedies in history. The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now takes an …
Read More »'I Don't Want A Hit!' And Four Other Things We Learned From Brandi Carlile
Brandi Carlile talks about her powerful new album, InThese Silent Days, her friendship with Joni Mitchell, the lessons of her rough childhood, why she was “triggered” by recording country music, why she’s never wanted a hit single, and much more in an in-depth interview in the new episode of Rolling …
Read More »Lil Baby, Drake, Megan Thee Stallion: Hear Our Podcast on 2020 in Hip-Hop
From Black Lives Matter protests soundtracked by the late Pop Smoke‘s “Dior” to the continued triumphs of Megan Thee Stallion to the Drake album we still haven’t heard, we look back at 2020 in hip-hop on the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now – while also taking a look …
Read More »Hear a Podcast Tribute to John Prine and Bill Withers
The latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now honors two legends, gone too soon, with a never-before-heard interview with Bill Withers (conducted by senior writer Andy Greene, who spent time at Withers’ home for a 2015 feature ), along with intimate memories of John Prine from senior writer Patrick Doyle, …
Read More »Inside the Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Western Stars' Movie
“It was two guys hanging out in a kitchen making a movie,” says Thom Zimny. The two guys in question happened to be Bruce Springsteen and Zimny himself: They co-directed the new movie Western Stars, which captures powerful live performances of Springsteen’s latest album in its entirety, along with pensive …
Read More »Listen to Duff McKagan: The Rolling Stone Interview
“I’m in a band right now that’s playing the biggest rock songs in the biggest places, and I love it,” Duff McKagan says on a recent episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “That’s what I meant to do. I was born to play in Guns N’ Roses.” But …
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