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Dua Lipa can’t stop staring at the giant printout of her Radical Optimism album cover art. The red-haired pop star is sitting in a hotel conference room, getting glammed up before some interviews and a YouTube video with drag queen Trixie Mattel to promote the album. She starts to hum …

W hen singer-songwriter SiR started growing his dreadlocks in 2010, he didn’t know the level of maintenance it would require. He was initially enthused by the Rastafarian concept of locs and their spiritual significance, finding meaning behind the now-popular hairdo. Although not as invested anymore, he realizes how his loc …

I ’m just a soul trapped in this circuitry.” The voice singing those lyrics is raw and plaintive, dipping into blue notes. A lone acoustic guitar chugs behind it, punctuating the vocal phrases with tasteful runs. But there’s no human behind the voice, no hands on that guitar. There is, …

A t the end of her spring 2023 touring run, Cari Fletcher knew something was wrong. She felt deeply run down — and it wasn’t just the usual aches and pains of life on the road. The singer, who performs as Fletcher, went to the doctor and learned she had …

It was 4 a.m. when Carlos Contreras showed up at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas—more than 16 hours beforecover-starPeso Pluma took the stage for Rolling Stone’s second annualFuture of Music SXSW showcase. The avid concert-goer arrived early to make sure he was the first in line,and it paid off. …

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …

F aye Webster is kicking my ass at tennis. We’re at the Altadena Town & Country Club in L.A. on a late-January afternoon, playing a very loose set amid pouring rain. One of us is really good; the other (me) has never picked up a racket in her life. But …

Welcome to ourweeklyrundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Cardi B gets “better and better-er” in a self-assured single and appears alongside SZA on a sugary new Flo Milli remix, Kacey Musgraves has an existential crisis, and …

In a move as strategic for her as it is exciting for us, Flo Milli only gave hours notice that a remix of her first song to hit the Hot 100, “Never Lose Me,” would hit streaming with features from two of the biggest women in music – SZA and …

B y the time you figure out where a song by New York rapper and producer Xaviersobased is coming from, it’s usually already over. On 2021’s “115 & LSD,” which the 20-year-old cites as a creative breakthrough in his music, he builds up a cacophony of exotic-bird whistles, overlapping hums, …