In the past few weeks, rap fans have celebrated legendary mixtapes from Lil Wayne and Rick Ross being uploaded to streaming platforms, but their time on these services may be cut short. A source close to Wayne told Rolling Stone that his Dedication and Da Drought mixtapes, recently removed from …
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Before Fergie came on board, Black Eyed Peas were an earnest, politically aware hip-hop group, complete with a song called “Positivity.” (Even their breakthrough hit, 2003’s “Where Is the Love?,” still bore traces of those origins, slipping a line about “terrorists here livin’ in the USA, the big CIA” onto …
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Welcome to Drummergeddon 2025, when the entire music world wants to know: What the hell is going on with the drummers? There’s an epidemic of high-profile bands dumping their drummers, or getting dumped by them, and nobody has any clue why. It’s not just the Who or the Foo Fighters. …
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After more than two decades, Eli Young Band is finally having a full-circle moment. The four-piece released Strange Hours, its seventh studio album, on Aug. 1 and the project marks the group’s return to independent music for the first time since their 2005 debut, Level. It made sense, then, that …
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Amaarae has nothing but praise for her Black Star collaborator PinkPantheress. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the Ghanaian American star — who featured PinkPantheress on “Kiss Me Thru the Phone Pt. 2” — opened up about their love for UK garage music and why she connected with her …
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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Gunna drops his final release with YSL records, Lucy Dacus unearths intimate Forever Is a Feeling B-sides, and Ethel Cain delivers a quietly haunting LP. Plus, new …
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Hayes Carll is ready for you to hear his new record. Opening up about it, however, is another matter. “Talking about it and discussing it has always been problematic for me. I’ve always approached it with some dread and anxiety,” Carll says. We’re staring out the window of a room …
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Author and historian Dennis McNally has written extensively on the Grateful Dead, including the 2002 authorized biography “A Long Strange Trip.” In his new book, “The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” McNally (who also served as the Dead’s publicist in the 1980s and 1990s) …
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The next chapter of Atlanta rap is shaping up to be something of a return to form. Projects from Metro-Boomin and Anycia, as well as a crop of young rappers, are reprising the “Old Atlanta” feel. In July, Anycia droppedGrady Baby,the firstGangsta Grillzproject from a woman rapper from Atlanta. Playboi …
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For her third LP, A Matter of Time, Laufey had a clear image in mind. “The whole album to me is just that moment when Cinderella finds out it’s struck midnight and she’s running,” says the Icelandic pop star, 26. “The heartbeat that she has, that’s the album.” It’s the …
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