Music Features

Welcome to ourweeklyrundownof the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, SZA looks to outer space in search of a better world, Selena Gomez channels a flirty French alter ego, and Quavo returns with his first single of 2024. Plus, new …

The moment Amigo the Devil realized his life was entering its next phase came when his 1979 Ford E-150 van burst into flames and burned to the ground last December in a Nashville parking lot. “This was only two and half weeks after I bought it,” the singer-songwriter, also known …

A year and a half after three men were arrested for allegedly conspiring to sell handwritten lyrics to Eagles songs without the band’s consent, their trial finally began yesterday — along with its share of allegations, backstage tidbits, and a cliffhanger worthy of a fictional TV trial. On Wednesday, the …

The last time Tim Commerford stood in front of a large audience, Rage Against the Machine were wrapping up their truncated 2022 reunion tour with a five-night stand at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In the 18 months since that show, the Rage bassist has gone off the grid, and …

B y the mid-2010s, Daymé Arocena had become a household name in her native Havana. She’d been called “the world’s next jazz phenomenon,” and her work with the Cuban-Canadian jazz band Maqueque helped win a 2015 Juno Award. When she’d walk down the street, people would stop her, recognizing her …

The Rutz is like any great pub in Belfast, or anywhere in Ireland for that matter: kind of dingy, people stumbling out of the bathrooms, wiping powder off their faces, traditional Irish music playing loud on the speakers. “It’s one of those places where you never go for one pint …

It’s about 2,100 miles from Graham Sharp’s home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina to the bright lights, incessant noise, and chaos of humanity along the Las Vegas Strip. Tonight, Sharp and his band, the Steep Canyon Rangers, will take the stage in front of a packed …

Ariana Grande has built such a mighty pop legacy over the past decade as one of the most consistently kicky hitmakers around — but also as one of the weirdest minds in the game. “Yes, And?” is her Number One comeback, a disco rage-queen anthem that raises expectations for her …

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 …

Only one train goes to Canarsie. Private houses with driveways and backyards line most blocks in the remote Brooklyn neighborhood, nestled in the southeast corner of the borough, overlooking the waters of Jamaica Bay. Late 20th-century white flight turned this 19th-century suburban getaway into a predominantly West Indian lower-middle-class neighborhood. …