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Follow all of our Sean Combs trial coverage When Sean Combs was acquitted of two sex trafficking charges after harrowing testimony from R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a more recent ex-girlfriend who testified under the pseudonym Jane, some surmised the jury simply didn’t believe the women. But there’s another …

Wandering through the streets of Detroit, Debby Friday sensed an absence around her. “There’s this very ghostly feeling,” the Nigerian-Canadian musician tells Rolling Stone over Zoom from her home in Toronto, “because you could feel that it was built for more people than live there now.” She was in town …

Every band member cried when they got the news. Guitarist Desi Scaglione heard first and told lead singer and bassist Alithea Tuttle; their manager taunted drummer Cooper Ladomade with a few hints before finally spilling; guitarist Baron Rinzler was at a bar when the rest of the band filled him …

The floods that brought destruction and heartbreak to the Texas Hill Country, and Kerr County in particular, since July 4 have rippled through the independent Texas music community. According to authorities, at least 111 people have died, with more than 170 still missing. Hardest hit was Camp Mystic for Girls, …

Ovrkast is an accomplished producer and rapper who has laced tracks for everyone from Drake to Earl Sweatshirt. But his calm demeanor belies his place in an indie rap scene that’s currently holding hip-hop on its back. When I speak with him at the Rolling Stone office, he’s getting ready …

Andy Chase and Dominique Durand needed to see what was left of their band. It was 2021, a decade after the last album they’d made with the acclaimed indie-pop group Ivy, and a year after the sudden, tragic death from Covid of the band’s third member, Adam Schlesinger. So Chase …

As Sudanese-American rapper Bas was prepping the release of Melanchronica, his somber joint album with London duo the Hics, one major hiccup stood in the way. The sample on “Four Walls,” a break-up ballad and the first song the three of them created for the LP eight years ago, kept …

IT’S ONLY A few hours before Alex Warren plays a crowded room in downtown Los Angeles in early June, and the chart-topping singer behind the massive hit “Ordinary” just passed out from an I.V. experience gone wrong. “This girl didn’t know what she was doing, and she stuck it in …

In the liner notes for Nirvana’s 1992 compilation, Incesticide, Kurt Cobain wrote about how he was so obsessed with the post-punk group the Raincoats that he once traipsed through London to find “the very-out-of-print first Raincoats LP.” An explosion of artsy violin, unusual rhythms, and ear-turning harmonies, the album was …

Last week, Jon Bauman paused in the middle of a Zoom call with Rolling Stone, put on his glasses and glanced up at a TV screen in his home. “You and I are right now in the middle of the vote on the Big Ugly Bill,” he said as the …