Music Features

This summer, hip-hop channel On The Radar was on everyone’s radar as it rose to become one of the internet’s finest purveyors of freestyle videos and interviews, reaching a new high with a Drake appearance featuring buzzing U.K. rap star Central Cee. Both traded bars at the show’s New York …

When Teezo Touchdown popped up on two songs on Drake‘s For All the Dogs —“Amen” and the wild falsetto outro of “7969 Santa” —they were just the latest in a series of high-profile, attention-grabbing guest spots for the Texas-born singer/rapper. That’s him crooning in a cartoonish British accent on “Modern …

Last week, buzzing St. Louis rapper Sexyy Red became the latest entertainer to rankle the public by openly supporting former President Donald Trump. During an appearance on Theo Von’s This Past Weekend web show, she said, “Yeah, they support [Trump] in the hood. At first, I don’t think people was …

Westside Gunn’s critically acclaimed album Pray For Paris came out of a creative stream that took hold of the Griselda co-founder during Paris Fashion Week 2020. He tells Rolling Stone that his new album And Then You Pray For Me, the sequel to Pray For Paris coming on October 13th, …

The Turnpike Troubadours are coming home again for two nights, and so is “King of Oklahoma.” Turnpike will play January 19-20 at Oklahoma City’s Paycom Center, joined by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. Together, they represent two of the hottest acts in independent music and two of the most …

One week after his unannounced appearance at Farm Aid, where he stunned the crowd by playing three 1965 classics with 3/5th of the Heartbreakers, Bob Dylan resumed his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour at the Midland Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. And even though he was back with his standard …

T he night before Paramore released their sixth studio album This Is Why, they shared a list of all the things they were thinking about while working on the LP: Agoraphobia. Cabin fever. American Psycho. One point read: “Confused about the difference between selfishness and self-preservation.” “Making This Is Why …

For Teezo Touchdown, his sound started with his look. When the Beaumont, Texas singer/rapper went into the studio in 2019 to record what became the Panic at the Disco-sampling track “100 Drums,” he surprised himself by leaning hard towards rock influences —an approach that would become the template for his …

Noah Kahan had just played the Alaska State Fair and was about to fly across the continent, back to Boston, when he got to hear Kacey Musgraves sing one of his songs. “It was crazy. I knew she was cutting it, I knew there was a possibility it could happen, …

We’ve transitioned from a very 6 God summer to an Aubrey Graham autumn with Drake’s massive It’s All a Blur tour coming to an end (sort of) ahead of the release of his seventh studio album, For All the Dogs. The album was actually slated for last month, and while …