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A frenzied performance of “Let’s Go Crazy”? Check. A set that resembles the Minneapolis club First Avenue? Check. But a scene in which a woman is tossed into a trash bin against her will? Or saucy pickup lines? Hold the check. Early this year, plans for a stage musical based …

When the Who hit the road every couple of years, fans know exactly what they’re going to get when they buy tickets: All the big hits, a smatterings of songs from Tommy and Quadrophenia, and perhaps a single deep cut to appease the hardcores. When we asked Roger Daltrey about …

Rob Base never thought “It Takes Two” would become a massive hit. He and DJ E-Z Rock were just aiming to make a neighborhood party record, straight from the streets of Harlem, to get bodies moving in their local clubs and skating rings. But “It Takes Two” blew up into …

Last year, rapper Quavo and his family met with the Congressional Black Caucus to speak about the impact that gun violence has had on their lives. The Grammy-winning musician was still in the process of grieving the death of his fellow Migos member Takeoff, who was killed after being hit …

The admiration that Bruce Springsteen felt for New York City electropunks Suicide and their singer, the late Alan Vega, is well documented. The hushed, claustrophobic sounds of the group’s first two albums inspired Springsteen’s approach to some songs on his 1982 album, Nebraska, and he has recorded a cover of …

Phil Elverum was feeling blocked. Not in any dire way — just in the way artists sometimes get when things are particularly busy. There was Covid to contend with, as well as the house he’d been building in bucolic Anacortes, Washington. Plus, he’s a single parent, a full-time job. The …

Fleetwood Mac fans were delivered rather somber news Monday when Stevie Nicks told Mojo that there was “no chance” of the band reuniting at any future point. “Without Christine [McVie], no can do,” she said. “Without her, it just couldn’t work.” By the end of the day, the intro to …

Short n’ Sweet, the sixth studio album from Sabrina Carpenter, is still laying out in the sun in preparation for its late-summer release. The record will arrive on Aug. 23 bolstered by the relentless earworm singles “Espresso,” on which she works late because she’s a singer, and “Please Please Please,” …

Back in 2018, Lake Street Dive premiered a new song, “Shame, Shame, Shame,” that didn’t name names but was pretty much aimed at certain president in power at the time: “Bet you think you’re a big man now/But you don’t know how to be a good man too,” the band’s …

W elcome to the first installment of Rolling Stone’s new monthly indie–rap column ‘No Filler’ Rumors of hip-hop’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. All hip-hop fans need to do is push past the Top 40 bubble and find the under-the- radar artists who are making the rap world so interesting. …