When Amanda Knox was locked away in an Italian prison in 2007 for a murder she didn’t commit, she’d find solace in singing. “Most of the people in prison knew my voice before they knew who I was,” she says; she favored sad songs by folks like Joanna Newsom and …

Lil Wayne said he will never play the Super Bowl after being snubbed for the 2025 halftime show in his hometown of New Orleans: “They stole that feeling,” he tells Rolling Stone in a new cover story. “I don’t want to do it. It was perfect.” For Wayne, the Super …

Bruce Springsteen has shared his unreleased song “Blind Spot,” the “thematic center” of his Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, one of the seven LPs that have been unearthed for the upcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums. Informally known as the “Drum Loop” album and inspired by contemporary music like hip-hop at …

Pam Bondi, the attorney general of the United States, was asked what should have been a pretty simple question during a Fox News appearance on Monday night. “Is that legal?” Jesse Watters wondered, referring to Donald Trump musing earlier in the day about sending “homegrown” American citizens to El Salvador. …

When Kilo Kish began writing her new song “Negotiate,” she had been feeling the constant pressure that many artists face to continually produce and move at breakneck speeds in a digital era, where it seems like music and new releases charge ahead in double time. “The speed of technology moves …

Until just a couple of years ago, Adam Larson was pretty sure that his reality television days were long behind him. That chapter of his life started in 2001 when he appeared on MTV’s Road Rules: The Quest, and continued through 2007 on Road Rules: Viewers Revenge and various seasons …

Rosemary Woodruff Leary was once a one-named media heroine married to one of the most infamous men of all time, the ex-Harvard psychologist and high priest of LSD, Timothy Leary. Now she’s a footnote — barely acknowledged if mentioned at all in the history of the counterculture and psychedelic renaissance …

I t’s 5 a.m. in Georgia, and Tree Sound Studios is quiet. I’m in a side room of the vast, oaky complex near Atlanta, preparing to be the first person outside of Lil Wayne’s circle to hear Tha Carter VI, the album he’s been working on for six years. On …

Randy Newman returned to late-night television with a performance of his 1972 song “Political Science” on Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney. The legendary singer-songwriter also played a rendition of his oft-covered “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today” on the Netflix show, Newman’s first late-night performance since a Covid-era virtual …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The ongoing debate over President Trump’s tariffs has moved into the fashion circles, with viral videos coming out of China purportedly revealing just how high markups will be …