Music

Last Friday, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit released Live From the Ryman, a collection of performances recorded during his six-night residency at the famed Nashville venue in 2017. Starting Monday evening, he returns to the Ryman for another group of six intimate shows, with support from singer-songwriter Amanda Shires …

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack held firm to the Number One on the Billboard 200 for the second straight week as the album added another 143,000 total copies to its tally. As Billboard notes, A Star Is Born is now the second Lady Gaga album …

Quincy Jones is one of the most recognized and rightfully acclaimed figures in American popular music. He has arranged or produced recordings by most of the most dazzling pop singers of the last sixty years, including Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson, and for that he has …

Coldplay are prepping a new concert film and live album to be released alongside their forthcoming career-spanning documentary. The complete set, which is being referred to as “the Butterfly package,” will arrive December 7th. The concert film and live album document two different stops on the South American leg of …

Popular musical rhythms are always skipping and skittering back and forth between Africa and its diasporic communities, from Jamaica to Brazil to Colombia and elsewhere. “That’s a process that’s been going on for a long, long time,” says musicologist Wayne Marshall, who teaches at Berklee College of Music. “What was …

Cardi B commandeered the 2018 BET Hip-Hop Awards with a performance of “Get Up 10” and her new track with Pardison Fontaine, “Backin’ It Up.” The annual awards show also featured a medley from T.I. and a bi-coastal collaboration from A$AP Rocky and YG. Cardi kicked off her performance with …

On October 6th, Rolling Stone held its first Morning Sessions during ACL Fest 2018 at Wanderlust Yoga in Austin. The intimate chat series included Elle King, the band Chvrches, Sharon Van Etten and Brandi Carlile, whose latest album By the Way, I Forgive You is being heralded as one of …

Billy McFarland, now infamous for co-organizing the disastrous Fyre Festival in 2017, was sentenced to six years in prison for multiple counts of fraud on Thursday, The New York Times reports. McFarland was facing charges related to the Fyre Festival — where he used popular celebrities to help him convince …

Cardi B, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello are among the artists set to perform during the 2018 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball tour. Each show on the 12-city arena tour will boast a different lineup. The overall list of participating artists also includes Calvin Harris, Alessia Cara, Bebe Rexha, the Chainsmokers, Khalid, …

Rolling Stone held its first Morning Sessions during ACL Fest 2018 on Saturday, October 6th, at Wanderlust Yoga in Austin. Hosted by Rolling Stone‘s digital director Jerry Portwood, the intimate chat series kicked off with singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, whose latest album By the Way, I Forgive You is being heralded …