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Omar Apollo is looking at himself through Zoom as he tries on the beige Sherpa jacket he just bought. “You fuck with it?” he asks. It’s hard not to fuck with everything the Mexican American alt-R&B star does. Apollo dropped his debut album, Ivory, in April 2022, then blew up …

Over the past two decades, Coachella has evolved from its roots as an indie rock haven into a celebration of some of the biggest sounds around the world. Last year’s event showcased superstars including Bad Bunny and Blackpink as headliners, and this year’s lineup is keeping the momentum going with …

For the past six months, Burton Cummings, founding singer and songwriter of classic rock group the Guess Who, has been in a bitter legal dispute to wrest control of his old band’s legacy. Now he’s adopting an aggressive and relatively unheard of approach to make that happen: giving up on …

“I say all sorts of shit,” says Modest Mouse‘s Isaac Brock, and thankfully, he’s not wrong. He recently sat down for a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and deep interview with our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast on the tumultuous creation of his band’s 2004 major-label breakthrough, Good News for People Who …

For the majority of John Oates’ professional career, solo work was a means to keep busy and creatively fulfilled between the Daryl Hall & John Oates projects that took up most of his time. But now that the duo has hopelessly fractured after more than 50 years of partnership, Oates …

Just last year, many experts believed an AI model capable of generating complete, high-fidelity songs from text prompts wouldn’t arrive anytime soon,but now, an arms race is on between competing music-making models that do just that.Suno‘s v3 model, released to the public just weeks ago, was a remarkable breakthrough, particularly …

Like him or not, Morgan Wallen is one of the biggest music artists in the world at the moment, in any genre. The country singer’s relatively young career has been a roller-coaster ride, to say the least, from the genuinely inspired to the boneheaded, and, in one case, shameful. Here’s …

Before she dropped her song “Karma” on Friday, JoJo Siwa spent several weeks letting the world know that she was done with bows and glittery-y pastels. In March, she posted a parental advisory message on her Instagram grid — teasing a new (and more explicit) era. It became clear immediately …

As J. Cole put a bow on this year’s Dreamville Festival, he worked an apology heard-’round-hip-hop into the introduction to one of his biggest and most sentimental songs, “Love Yourz.” “The past two days have felt terrible,” he said, earnestly admitting he’s lost sleep over “7 Minute Drill,” his nuanced …

Taylor Character attributes her early exposure to house music legends like Frankie Knuckles and CeCe Peniston to her late mother. When Character, known professionally as HoneyLuv, decided to leave her Navy drone mechanic job in 2020 and pursue music full time, she says her mother was skeptical at first. But …