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Leading up tothe Grammy nominations on Nov. 8, Rolling Stone is breaking down 13 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. This year’s Best Rap Album race is poised to be a duel between Atlanta trap and …

Since Kamala Harris stepped up as the candidate to face off with Donald Trump in November, she’s sparked a wildly energetic response from the music world. Megan Thee Stallion, Quavo, and Olivia Rodrigo have all performed at Harris rallies or offered their support, and they are far from alone. Rolling …

Luke Combs and Eric Church look utterly exhausted. Beginning at 6:30 a.m. this morning, the North Carolina natives and country music stars have been sitting side-by-side in the Nashville office of Church’s management company doing a string of live TV hits, from CNN to Fox & Friends, to promote “Concert …

Lee Sasi attended the Nova music festival in the Re’im forest of Southern Israel where Hamas militants murdered 380 people on Oct. 7, 2023. In coordinated attacks, heavily armed fighters killed more than 1,200 Israeli civilians and soldiers and took 251 hostages across the region that day, marking the worst …

Leading up tothe Grammy nominations on Nov. 8, Rolling Stone is breaking down 13 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. In a genre where 30-track playlists are often presented as “albums,” country music had a banner …

Normally, Darren Nicholson would have a mandolin in his hands. But on this day, he’s gripping a chainsaw. High up on Utah Mountain in Haywood County, North Carolina — overlooking the Jonathan Creek valley with the Great Smoky Mountains in the distance — Nicholson is cutting through large trees that …

It’s Saturday night in Laughlin, Nevada, a resort town about 90 miles south of Las Vegas, and Jason Aldean is about to introduce the song that most everyone has come to hear. “I told you guys earlier we put out a brand new album last year called Highway Desperado, right?” …

Genre-hopping musician Jon Batiste started off his busy year with an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song, before popping up as a collaborator on Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter —and now he’s pulling double duty on the new movie Saturday Night, composing its score and playing the late musician Billy Preston. The …

On a solo tour last year, Nick Cave suddenly became self-aware. He built his career performing with bands — the Birthday Party, Grinderman, the Bad Seeds — but here he was with only a piano and Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood supporting him. As they worked their way through nearly two …

Opening for Johnny Cash at a venue outside Philadelphia in 1995, a concert sponsored by a local country station, Kris Kristofferson was in friendly territory. But not for long. During the show, he dedicated a song to Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Black journalist and former Black Panther who’d been convicted of …