Music Features

In 2021, Alejandro “A. Chal” Salazar walked away from everything he thought he always wanted. Up until then, the Peruvian-born singer-songwriter and producer had spent three years signed to Epic Records under Sony Music. He established his hazy, rap-meets-R&B sound on bilingual releases like 2016’s Welcome to Gazi, 2017’s On …

When Eric Church announced his plans in 2022 to open a bar in Nashville’s Lower Broadway entertainment district, it was easy to be cynical and assume the venture would follow the homogenized honky-tonk playbook: lease a building, brand it with the name or likeness of a (mainstream, often male) country …

With his Instagram posts of old Thrasher magazine covers, flyers of seminal post-hardcore group Jawbox, and pictures with Neko Case, Matt Jencik is not your stereotypical Taylor Swift target. The 50-year-old, long-haired, bespectacled longtime buyer for Chicago’s legendary Reckless Records admits he’d probably be listening to Van Halen at home. …

The past six months of Laufey’s life have been nothing less than surreal. Last September, the 24-year-old multi-intrumentalist and singer released her elegant dream-world of a second album, Bewitched. In February, that record landed Laufey her first Grammy, for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. “I was just like, ‘What the …

It’s not often that Luke Hemmings finds himself on his own. For the better part of the past 12 years, the 27-year-old singer and songwriter has shared the stage with his three bandmates in 5 Seconds of Summer. The Australian pop-rock band has built its career around being a relentless …

Their album isn’t out yet, but the boys of Wallows are ready to play it live. In arenas. Rolling Stone can exclusively announce that Wallows — the alt-rock band made up of Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, and Cole Preston — will release its third album Model on May 24. On …

Last spring, Selena Gomez lived in Paris for two months to film the musical Emilia Perez with Zoe Saldana. The multi-hyphenate couldn’t quite shake how good her life felt there, and she infused her love for the city into the rollout for her new single “Love On.” “I felt like …

Welcome to the Beatles Cinematic Universe. Continuing the current wave of music biopics —which just saw its most recent box-office triumph with Bob Marley: One Love — director Sam Mendes (Skyfall) has signed on to helm not one, but four separate Beatles biopics, all due in 2027. The movies, set …

During her three decades in Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon helped redefine the possibilities of rock & roll, from her unsettling voice and subway-rumble bass playing to the way she integrated her feminism and art-school background into the band’s lyrics and philosophy. Today, Gordon is pondering another road ahead as she …

Almost immediately after its founding in 1955, the Village Voice became the most raucous, irreverent and important alternative newspaper in America. At one point the Voice was the most read weekly in the country, serving as Andy Warhol put it “the entire liberal thinking world.” In her excellent new book …