Karol G and Anuel AA are making the best of self-quarantine in their new music video for “Follow.” The pair recorded the track while staying at home in Miami, and they filmed and directed the video themselves, offering up a snapshot of quarantine life: playing video games, taking bubble baths, …
Read More »Flashback: What the Hell Were the Rock Music Awards in 1975?
Five months after the 1975 Grammys, Elton John and Diana Ross drove onto the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium stage in a futuristic-looking golf cart to host a ludicrous awards show that has been forever lost to time. Producer-manager-impresario Don Kirshner, who had long since earned his bona fides as the …
Read More »Hear Jason Isbell's Songwriting Secrets
Jason Isbell, one of the greatest songwriters of his generation, sits down with host Brian Hiatt in a new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now to discuss his excellent upcoming album, Reunions (with his band the 400 Unit), his whole career, the challenges of sobriety, fatherhood, why he almost didn’t …
Read More »Florida Georgia Line Return to Party Mode With New Song 'I Love My Country'
Florida Georgia Line reaffirm their country credentials and party-friendly reputation in the new song “I Love My Country,” the first release from the duo’s upcoming fifth album. Penned by Corey Crowder (who also takes over the reins as producer), Ernest K Smith, and Charlie Handsome, “I Love My Country” is …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Waxahatchee, 'Oxbow'
Happy release day to Waxahatchee’s Saint Cloud, singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield’s best album yet. In it, she embraces Americana and country-rock, deviating from the thrashing indie-rock she became known for in her previous work and returning to her southern roots of Birmingham, Alabama, while citing Lucinda Williams and Linda Ronstadt as …
Read More »Selena Gomez Shares 'Dance Again' Clip, Announces New Merch Supporting MusiCares
Selena Gomez has released the music video for her Rare song “Dance Again.” The clip shows Gomez decked out in a Seventies-style wardrobe, dancing alone onstage to the disco-fueled track. To accompany the video, the singer also announced a new line of “Dance Again”-themed merch, with a portion of the proceeds …
Read More »Waxahatchee's 'Saint Cloud' Vividly Maps a Healing Path
Katie Crutchfield has always had a knack for noting subtle shifts in the weather. “I watch you anxiously/You paint it celestial, you paint it serene,” she sang over thrashing guitars on “Poison,” from 2015’s Ivy Tripp, making serenity sound like a death knell. On her latest album Saint Cloud, the …
Read More »RS Charts: Lil Uzi Vert's 'Eternal Atake' Repeats at Number One
Lil Uzi Vert enjoyed his second week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart thanks to Eternal Atake. The album’s performance was boosted by the release of an expanded version titled Eternal Atake (Deluxe) – Luv vs. the World 2 that added 14 new songs to …
Read More »Lizzo, Stevie Nicks, Gwen Stefani Ask Trump, Congress to Ease Music's 'Existential Threat'
Lizzo, Stevie Nicks, Gwen Stefani and a slew of other artists and executives have signed a letter from the Music Artists Coalition asking President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to provide financial relief to the music community and ease the “existential threat” posed by the coronavirus pandemic. (Per …
Read More »Flashback: Charley Pride Sings Hank Williams' 'Lovesick Blues' on 'Lawrence Welk'
Born March 18th, 1934, singer Charley Pride, left his birthplace of Sledge, Mississippi, at age 16 and later became one of the most successful country artists of all time. But that wasn’t exactly what he had first planned. The son of a sharecropper, Pride first left his family’s 40-acre cotton …
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