American Aquarium sells mostly prosaic items at their merch table each night, including T-shirts, tour posters and records. But fans of the alt-country band will also spot one random outlier: A $5 red and black beer koozie that reads “fuck your merch cuts.” That item is personal for the band’s …
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Ronnie Milsap will play his final Nashville concert Tuesday night, a guest-heavy salute to the piano player featuring Kelly Clarkson, Little Big Town, Sara Evans, Parker McCollum, Breland, Ricky Skaggs, and more. Milsap is 80 now and regarded as a pillar of country music —the Country Music Hall of Fame …
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The biggest story of this year’s International Bluegrass Music Association award show wasn’t that Billy Strings won his third consecutive Entertainer of the Year honor. Nor was it that Sierra Hull took home her sixth Mandolin Player of the Year trophy. And it wasn’t even that Molly Tuttle pulled off …
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On Friday, September 29, when Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested and charged with murdering Tupac Shakur (after 27 years), Dear Mama director Allen Hughes deemed it “the conclusion anyone in the know thought would come someday.” “For whatever reason, it sounds like [Davis] told the truth,” Hughes told Rolling …
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Randy Houser has never made explicitly political country music, instead choosing to sing about one-night stands, the cowboy way, and, to quote his biggest hit, how country feels. Despite the charged title of his new single —“Cancel” — Houser maintains that’s still the case. He says the song, released today, …
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Brooklyn-based MC Rome Streetz is handling business on a brisk fall Friday before he heads off to Vienna, Austria to begin his international Noise Kandy 5 tour. Clad in a sleek Sergio Tachinni sweatsuit, the Griselda signee visits the Rolling Stone offices for an interview where he says that the …
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Welcome to our weekly rundownof thebest new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Bad Bunny fearlessly dives into a new romance, Ed Sheeran muses about an English lover in a foreign setting, and Latto parties with BabyDrull. Plus, new music from Pink …
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One writer compared Madonna’s performance at the MTV Video Music Awards in September of 1984 to iconic music moments like Elvis Presley causing jaws to drop in living rooms across America with his “pelvic thrusts” on The Milton Berle Show in 1956, and the Beatles’ few minutes on The Ed …
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It’s easy to roll your eyes at yet another country music awards show, which are as numerous as bachelorettes on a Nashville Saturday night. But the inaugural People’s Choice Country Awards gives fans the power to celebrate the songs they actually listen to. (The CMT Music Awards are also fan-voted …
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For the past six years, Brenna Stevens has begun her birthday the same way: sobbing in the shower at midnight while listening to “Ribs” by Lorde. She first established the tradition when she turned 20 and suddenly found herself unraveling with anxiety about the future. “This dream isn’t feeling sweet, …
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