Hey, have you heard about Chappell Roan? Sorry, sorry, we know you were probably conscious at some point in the last six months, never mind. Her debut, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, came out last year, but the world wasn’t quite ready for it at the time. …
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If you couldn’t tell by the persistent glow of lime green on your timelines, this is Charli XCX’s year. Something shifted the minute she released Brat, her sixth album and a tribute to being a party girl in your thirties, dealing with all the anxieties that come with that age …
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For 30 years now, guitarist Mark Morton has been best known as the riff architect and lead guitarist for Lamb of God, the groove metal band that rose to mainstream prominence with the New Wave of American Heavy Metal in the mid-aughts. He has put out solo releases — 2019’s …
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O ne night last summer, Allegra Krieger woke up to an apartment full of smoke. Unable to unlock the fire escape, she stumbled out of her fifth-floor walk-up unit in New York’s Chinatown and into an even smokier stairwell. “I just took a deep breath and ran down the stairs, …
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The history of pop music is littered with crazy yarns, and Elvis Presley and his wild life weren’t exempt. But the ongoing saga of the Presley family took an especially strange turn last month, when a mysterious company announced a foreclosure sale of Graceland, the 14-acre home and property in …
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When Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell heard about plans for country greats like Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Chris Stapleton, and Dierks Bentley to honor the band’s music on the covers collection Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty, he felt it made perfect …
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Morgan Wade wasn’t trying to write a new record. Especially since her last release, 2023’sPsychopath, the last thing she wanted was to go through the public wringer again. “I was really struggling,” Wade says, calling from a West Virginia parking lot that she’s circling to get cell service. “I was …
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Welcome to ourweekly rundown ofthe best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, the theme is power-packed remixes and collabs as major stars join forces. Charli XCX and Lorde work out their miscommunication and serve up a banger about girlhood, Ariana …
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What do you do after you’ve made the first Afrobeats song to top U.S. radio, the first to earn more than a billion streams on Spotify as a track led by an African artist, and the first to cinch the MTV Video Music Awards’ Afrobeats honor (one they may have …
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Billie Eilish held nothing back in her most recent Rolling Stone cover story —and amidst her many personal revelations, she also went deep on the making of her new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. As Finneas, her brother, producer, and co-writer told Rolling Stone‘s Angie Martoccio — in a …
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