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I T’S HOURS AFTER A SUDDEN RAINSTORM one afternoon in September, and Rosalía is standing with her eyes trained on the placid shore of Puerto Rico’s Bahia Beach. She’s still for just a few seconds, but her mind is stuck on the pure chaos of the previous night. “Dios mio, …

U NA TARDE DE SEPTIEMBRE, HORAS DESPUÉS DE UN REPENTINO TEMPORAL, Rosalía fija los ojos en las plácidas aguas de la playa de Bahía de Puerto Rico. Se queda inmóvil unos segundos, pero no para de pensar en el caos absoluto que se vivió la noche anterior. “Dios mío, fue …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …