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The roar starts before the lights go down — a low, collective thunder that shakes the arena floor. By the time the five members of Tomorrow X Together (TXT for short) appear, not from the stage but through the pit doors, weaving past the barricades and into the sea of …

There are moments across Taylor Swift’s newly released album, The Life of a Showgirl, that revel in the theatrics of public spectacles and high drama, something she knows well. Her 12-album discography has no shortage of friends, foes, lovers, and skeptics playing key characters in her music, but her new …

When I FaceTime with Mike Dean, he tells me he’s coming off the longest break from music of his career — a whopping three weeks. The prolific producer took time off after embarking on the After Hours Til Dawn North American tour with the Weeknd, where he played 84 sets …

Ruel locked in so intensely while working on his second studio album that he sort of blacked out in the process. Whenever he finished one song, he’d jump into making another. When that one was done, the next was underway. This went on and on, in different studios with different …

Leading up tothe Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. This past eligibility season saw young, hot stars like Leon Thomas, Givēon, and Coco Jones put …

Ellie Goulding credits Dr. Jane Goodall with turning her “private obsession” with environmentalism into a lifelong mission. Over the years, the two crossed paths several times, with Goulding even serving as an ambassador for the Jane Goodall Institute in the U.K. She’s since become a Global Environmental Ambassador for the …

Leading up tothe Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. The Grammys won’t have an easy time this year picking the nominees for Best Rock Album …

It’s been a rough few months for Young Thug. His latest album, Uy Scuti, was met with a fairly lukewarm reception from fans, despite being his first project since his release from jail last year after spending over 900 days behind bars. You can see it in his demeanor in …

In Hamlet Act III, Scene I, Shakespeare’s titular character tells Ophelia, “God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” His accusation comes at the end of an epic crashout, where he claims he never loved her. Later, after Ophelia drowns in a creek surrounded by flowers, Hamlet …

Spotify launched in 2008 as a problem solver. Napster, the peer-to-peer music service that allowed users to download songs illegally, was in the rearview, and Apple’s iTunes stepped in to give legitimacy to a new consumption method: buying tracks. Music fans then, like in the decades before — spanning everything …