Music Features

Comic book fame could not prepare Todd McFarlane for music fans. “I found out that rock & roll groupies are way different than comic-book groupies,” says the man who created Spawn and illustrated one of Marvel’s most iconic Spider-Man covers ever. His success led Pearl Jam to ask him to …

On Thursday, around 9 p.m. Pacific Time, SZA’s highly-anticipated sophomore album SOS appeared on streaming services, exactly five years and six months from the day her deeply beloved debut, CTRL, was released. Jay Versace, who produced two songs on the new album — including the first and titular track, a …

From superstar pop, hip-hop, and Afropop, to indie-rock, K-pop, reggaeton, R&B, and reggae, Rolling Stone‘s list of the Top 100 albums of 2022 may well be our most musically diverse year-end round-up ever. In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we zero in on that list’s …

I n the parking lot of Anderson Memorial Park in Carson, California, just south of Compton and north of Long Beach, Ab-Soul chain-smokes Newports and speaks gently. We’re close to the houses he grew up in alongside his mother, aunts, and paternal grandparents. “I kinda like to call it the …

Upsahl doesn’t need to add anyone on Co-Star so they see herastrologicaltraits, she’ll just be able to hand them her new EP. On Friday, the singer released her EP Sagittarius, a five-track project that encapsulates “every part of myself: the good and the bad.” “If somebody asked me to explain …

The line outside S.O.B’s is a long one as fans wait to see Ambré perform on a rainy night in Manhattan. Umbrellas and coats cover the heads of the fans who line up around the block, sparking blunts outside the dimly-lit club. The vibe is calm yet charged, dark and …

For the past decade, Babyface Ray and Lil Durk have steadily crafted two of the best bodies of work in rap. Both went from cult heroes to a stature where one can’t talk about street rap without mentioning them early in the conversation. Yet, the two midwest artists have never …

When Electronic Arts asked A$AP Rocky to be part of its latest racing game, Need for Speed Unbound, the answer came quickly. “I grew up on Need for Speed, so I just felt like it was only right, you know?” the rapper says. “That was one of those things that …

Much of the discussion around producer-helmed rap albums favors the so-called boom-bap variety. Where fans clamor for their favorite lyricists to lock in with one producer, like Nas and Hit-Boy, Gibbs and Madlib, or Black Thought and Danger Mouse on Cheat Codes. It makes sense that the classic two-person dynamic …

Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few …