If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The young adult fantasy Children of Blood and Bone thrust Tomi Adeyemi into the spotlight, debuting at number one on the New York Times’ YA best-seller list. The …

Quavo and Ty Dolla $ign, assemble! On Friday, the pair of musicians linked up with Brian Tyler‘s Are We Dreaming for “If I Fall” — a futuristic, rock-rap “synergistic” anthem from the upcoming Transformers One soundtrack. “I’m in my prime, Optimus (Optimus), I’m goin’ big, Megatron,” raps Quavo in the …

Travis Scott‘s team is disputing the recent placement of his mixtape Days Before Rodeo behind Sabrina Carpenter‘s Short ‘n Sweet on the Billboard 200, calling Billboard and Luminate’s sale measurement “unreliable and incomplete.” They allege that nearly 1,300 units sold ahead of the cutoff were not counted toward the first …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. September’s film and television highlights begin with a tale of sports and crime, and the month ends with the devil. In between, well, there’s more sports and crime, …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. John Mellencamp is lending his name — and mug — to a new whiskey release, that gives both fans and spirits aficionados a chance to own something truly …

At typical political fundraising dinners, enormous sums of money are funneled toward a candidate or cause, and not, perhaps, to the waitstaff bustling around with trays of food and drinks. Looking to make those typically underpaid workers the star of an event, One Fair Wage — an advocacy group representing …

On his first album in nearly a decade, Dwight Yoakam is getting a little help from a musician who wasn’t even a country artist when his last album came out. “I Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom),” the first single from Yoakam’s forthcoming Brighter Days, features …

Katy Perry’s album 143, which is out Sept. 20, has been a long time coming, marking her first LPsince 2020’s Smile. The singer officially launched her 143 era in June when she dropped the lead single “Woman’s World.” The song immediately faced pushback for its stereotypical imagery — which Perry …

Scant months after Q-Tip publicly debated the dubiousness of an “adult-contemporary hip-hop” category on social media comes a completely Tip-produced new album by his Queens neighbor LL Cool J — the 56-year-old rapper-actor’s 14th since his 1984 debut as a teenager. In a year when both Rakim and Masta Ace …

Van Morrison and Robin Swann, the former Northern Ireland Minister of Health, have settled their defamation battle. The dispute stemmed from disagreements over Covid-19 safety precautions, including an opinion piece Swann published in Rolling Stone critical of Morrison’s opinions on the coronavirus and lockdown measures. As the BBC reports, the …