One day after releasing “Downtown’s Dead,” his first single in 15 months, Sam Hunt sat with SiriusXM host Storme Warren to discuss the new song, which depicts a guy feeling the emptiness of his constant-party existence. “There’s that line in the bridge: ‘What am I doing with my life,’ where …

Devin Dawson likes to say he has a tendency to over-write his songs. It’s a slight perfectionist streak that’s been with him at least since his teenage years – back when he was playing bass in a heavy metal band called Shadow of the Colossus, working to master the intricate, …

One might assume someone with the studio studiousness of Donald Fagen – a man who infamously brought in seven session guitarists to attempt the solo on Steely Dan‘s “Peg” – would be approached to produce other people’s albums every other week. “Not so much,” the singer-keyboardist tells Rolling Stone. “And …

Andre 3000 marked Mother’s Day by releasing a pair of new songs, “Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)” and “Look Ma No Hands.” The tracks, which the Outkast rapper posted on his just-created Soundcloud account, are Andre 3000‘s first original songs as a solo artist outside of the Atlanta rap duo. …

Bad music is more than just a matter of taste for Jason Isbell. It’s a means to, or more precisely a hindrance to, understanding other peoples’ experiences of the world. So the Grammy winner says in his new conversation with Sam Jones in the latest episode of the online Off …

FKA Twigs revealed Monday that she has spent the past five months recovering following a battle with tumors. In December, the singer underwent laparoscopic surgery to remove six fibroid tumors from her uterus. “The tumors were pretty huge, the size of 2 cooking apples, 3 kiwis and a couple of …

Carrie Underwood, Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean lead all nominees with four each at the 2018 CMT Music Awards. The nominations for the annual show honoring outstanding achievement in country music videos were announced Tuesday morning. Little Big Town have been tapped to host the awards, set for Wednesday, …

Stormy Daniels made a cameo appearance as herself alongside Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump in the Saturday Night Live cold open, warning the president, “A storm’s a-comin baby.” The sketch features Ben Stiller reprising his role as Trump attorney Michael Cohen and frantically calling Trump and his new, contradiction-spewing lawyer Rudy …

Meek Mill spoke candidly about his battle with an opioid addiction while he was on probation during a press conference he held in Philadelphia. The rapper was released on bail from prison in April. “I think [there] should be a line drawn where you have a drug problem [and] where …

Claude Kelly, who has helped craft Grammy-nominated singles for Bruno Mars, Tamia and Ledisi, earned his first publishing deal as a songwriter in 2007. Around the same time, he started to notice dispiriting new constraints in R&B writing sessions. The genre was paring down rapidly to keep pace with hip-hop, …