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Last weekend, Drake and 21 Savage announced their joint project Her Loss, set to be released this Friday. The title hints that the album might lean more into Drake’s lovelorn wheelhouse than 21 Savage’s steely menace, and finds two of the rap world’s biggest artists expanding their musical synergy for …

Musicians on Musicians is the annual franchise where two great artists come together to talk about life, music, and everything in between. We’ll be rolling out each story inthis year’s seriesthrough November 2nd, and each one appears in the November issue of the magazine. You can also heara podcast versionof …

Brian Johnson has become used to extremes. In the past few months, the caterwauling AC/DC lead singer has both made a triumphant comeback after deafness forced him off the road in 2016 and huddled in his mother-in-law’s Florida attic with a candle while Hurricane Ian decimated nearby coastal towns. Then …

“I can say antisemitic things and Adidas can’t drop me,” the artist formerly known as Kanye West proclaimed on Drink Champs just over a week ago. “Now what?” he rhetorically asked, with the sneering audacity of a man whose millions of dollars, millions of fans, and substantial high-powered connections have …

After an electric performance in front of an eager crowd, the Nigerian singer Oxlade considered spending his last day in Cyprus exploring the island’s pristine beaches, but instead opted for some indoor bonding with old friends from back home that now live in the Mediterranean country. “I was like, nah, …

P inkPantheress is talking about the time she produced a beat for a friend and tried to make it “as Kaytranada-inspired as possible.” It’s a sweet story, especially since the person she’s telling it to is Kaytranada himself. “I want to hear it, I want to see how it turned …

It’s a hot late-summer Saturday at the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival outside Nashville, and Butch Walker has just jumped off the stage of the Americana Music Triangle tent and is wading into the crowd. About half the audience has never seen Walker perform before — he took an impromptu …

Meghan Trainor sure makes a comeback look easy. During the months leading up to the release of her LP Takin’ It Back, Trainor has connected with a new audience of Gen Z fans on TikTok, many of whom have connected to her bubbly and relatable personality and gone back to …

Taylor Swift titled one of her albums1989, but whenher new record Midnightsarrived this week, it really did feel like that year: Fans were able to buy it on LP, CD, and —find that old boom box —a cassette. But don’t ask Steve Stepp, owner of the Missouri-based National Audio Company, …

From the sonic and lyrical influence of the Lover track “The Archer” to the harrowing revelations of the “Dear John” sequel “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve,” the depths of Taylor Swift‘s new album Midnights deserve deep examination. That’s exactly what happens on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, in which …