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Dawn Richard, Second Line R&B artist Dawn Richard has taken a winding path through her nearly 20-year career. Now, she finds herself on the North Carolina indie-rock label Merge with her sixth LP,Second Line. It may be an unexpected place for her, but the record feels like a culmination of …

Taylor Swift stopped by The Late Show to put some rumors about her song “Hey Stephen” to rest. The singer, who recently released Fearless: Taylor’s Version, spoke with host Stephen Colbert about the song, confirming that, unfortunately, it’s not about him. “No, Stephen,” Swift said in response to Colbert questioning …

In the the second episode of our new podcast on Amazon Music, Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums, we tackle one of the best and most important albums of the past decade: Taylor Swift‘s 2012 pop masterpiece Red. Swift joins hostBrittany Spanos to discuss why this is her “one true break-up …

UPDATE (10/29): Following the publication of this story, Sean Hall, one of the plaintiffs in the case, released the following statement to Rolling Stone:“We are happy the court unanimously sided with us. We simply refuse to sit still and have our creative work be culturally appropriated as if it never …

Taylor Swift is serving double duty in the forthcoming new film version of Cats. In addition to her role as Bombalurina, Swift collaborated with lauded composer Andrew Lloyd Webber for a new song called “Beautiful Ghosts.” In a video about the song, Swift, Lloyd Webber and director-screenwriter Tom Hooper discuss …

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 …

Sugarland will release their first new studio album in eight years on June 8th. Titled Bigger, the LP reunites core members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, who took a five-year hiatus after concluding their last tour in 2012. Bigger includes 11 new songs, 10 of them written by Nettles and …

Bruce Springsteen‘s team was cautiously optimistic on August 30th, as the first round of tickets went on sale for “Springsteen on Broadway,” a run of 79 solo acoustic shows in a small theater in New York. Springsteen knew demand for tickets would be enormous, and wanted to make sure they …