Music Features

Finneas and Ashe would like to reintroduce themselves. Earlier this week, the duo announced the formation of their new band, the Favors, and their forthcoming debut album, titledThe Dream, set to release Sept. 19. The record’s first single and video for “The Little Mess You Made” dropped on Friday, giving …

E ric Church has a story he wants to tell me. It’s mid-May, a month since the country superstar first sat down for what will become his Rolling Stone Interview, and a lot has happened in that time. For one thing: Bruce Springsteen heard Church’s new album, Evangeline vs. the …

It’s a late May afternoon in Nashville, and the Doobie Brothers are holed up in a nondescript, black-curtained rehearsal space along the banks of the Cumberland River working on a live version of a new song titled “Angels and Mercy.” It’s a song about overcoming demons, and Patrick Simmons, who …

One day in 2009, George Baer Wallace was at the New York City apartment of J.D. Martignon, the onetime owner of Midnight Records. The Chelsea storefront, known for its stellar bootlegs section, had closed several years earlier, but Martignon still sold records out of his apartment. Wallace began rifling through …

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Sabrina Carpenter is back with a clever, country-pop takedown of a TK, Lil Wayne meditates on the state of hip-hop, and Addison Rae goes searching for …

Fletcher has a few revelations to make. In fact, the singer born Cari Elise Fletcher has 11 of them, manifested as tracks on her third studio album, Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?, out July 18. All 11 songs are secrets spilled in one form or …

I n the late 1970s, many of music’s top tastemakers felt sure Garland Jeffreys would become the next big thing. Rolling Stone named him the “most promising artist” of 1977. The prestigious PBS program Soundstage predicted he would become “the next performer to lay claim to superstardom.” And powerful radio …

In the movies, one of the primary rules of time travel is that you don’t do anything that could cause a tear in the space-time continuum. Plot lines that move between the past, present, and future emphasize the fragility of choice. Back in 2021, Taylor Swift started building an alternate …

J OHN SLAVIN WAS IN THE GREEN ROOM when he heard some great news that made no sense. An old buddy of his was playing a show in Austin, and the scraggly-bearded Slavin, also a musician, showed up. But all the friend wanted to talk about was Slavin’s old indie …

Legendary producer Timbaland has taken his fervent embrace of AI music production to a new level, launching a new AI entertainment company, Stage Zero — and an AI-generated “artist,” TaTa, who will be dropping a debut single soon. Timbaland, who co-founded the company with his current creative partner, Zayd Portillo, …