Back in 2002, Toby Keith appeared on the very first episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling to perform his song “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)” —only to be interrupted midway through by the dastardly wrestler Jeff Jarrett. There is maybe no better metaphor for the …
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Cody Canada is ready to give a festival audience a heavy dose of Cross Canadian Ragweed. He just wants to make it clear that he’ll be doing so with the Departed. At a one-day festival called Spring Revelry, which organizers and artists confirmed to Rolling Stone will take place on …
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In late November 2023, Will Loftis was visiting his parents in Irmo, South Carolina, when he started plotting a series of dance moves from his childhood bedroom. Surrounded by colorful lights, candles, and crystals, he looked straight into the en suite bathroom mirror. With AirPods in his ears and clutching …
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“THE ROUTE I’M TAKING to being a farmer is ridiculous,” Brittany Howard says, sitting at the William Vale luxury hotel during her press trip to New York. She’s fantasizing about a potential future, one where she would maybe own a farm like the one she grew up on. It’s one …
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The world woke up Tuesday morning to the sad news that country icon Toby Keith died Monday night following a long battle with stomach cancer. He was 62. Keith last toured in 2021 and devoted much of his time over the past three years to his health, but in December …
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When Brandon Boyd thinks back on the spring of 2001, he’s amazed he wasn’t more stressed out. His band, Incubus, had just broken through with 1999’s Make Yourself, and their hit “Drive” was climbing the charts. “In retrospect, we probably should have felt more pressure to make a great follow-up …
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As Killer Mike was taken away in handcuffs after an alleged run-in with a security guard just before the start of the 2024 Grammys ceremony, executive producer Ben Winston was locked away in his production truck, dealing with his own pressing emergencies, thanks to stormy Los Angeles weather. “It was …
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When Freddy Wexler was a kid growing up in New York City in the Nineties, there was no artist he loved more than Billy Joel. The 37-year-old singer-producer — who has has written songs for everyone from Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande to Kanye West and Celine Dion — used …
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Kerry King moved on from Slayer, whose breakneck-paced declarations of destruction redefined metal for a generation, a long time ago. In 2018, as soon as frontman Tom Araya told him he was done with the band, King says he “shifted gears.” “I’m like, ‘Well, I’m not done,’” he tells Rolling …
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It was six years ago when former Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow told journalists backstage at the Grammys in 2018 that women needed to “step up” for their representation at the show after only men won out in the major categories. Phoebe Bridgers hasn’t forgotten. “I have something to say …
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