Music Features

It’s taken a few months, since he lives in the Netherlands, but Eric Andersen finally found time to watch A Complete Unknown. And the troubadour legend, who haunted those same Village clubs during that same time, was…a bit underwhelmed. “It seemed a little sugarcoated,” he says. ”It was a little …

In 2013, Renée Elise Goldsberry had everything she wanted. She was finally a mother with two young children and a successful theater and television career. She was content. Then she got a call to audition for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new project. At first, she said no. The project, it turned out, …

To get her music back, first Taylor Swift had to re-record it. After a consortium led by Scooter Braun bought the rights to the masters for her first six albums in 2019, much to Swift’s displeasure, she hatched a simple, if wildly labor-intensive plan: Make new Taylor’s Versions of her …

The post-industrial town of Macclesfield, England, has a rather unfortunate reputation due to its tiny size, perpetually grey skies, limited employment opportunities, and lack of even a single movie theater. At a low point in 2004, the Local Futures Group called it the “least cultured” place in England. When tourists …

L ast spring, Lily Seabird was walking through downtown Burlington, Vermont, around 1 a.m., singing to herself. Still a little buzzed from a night out, her phone long past dead, she sang the words out loud as they came to her: “We walk these streets we’ve come to know/Memories live …

There’s a bridal shower just a few tables away from Marina as she sips a berry smoothie in the sun-dappled courtyard of a Los Angeles hotel. She tells me she’s trying not to protect her heart quite so carefully these days. “I think part of why this album has felt …

This weekend, Governors Ball returns to NYC’s Flushing Meadows Corona Park for another packed festival weekend — and the 2025 edition marks its 15th anniversary. Headliners Tyler, the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo, and Hozier are gearing up to create some memorable moments, as will the burgeoning acts who might just have …

Writer-director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners – an R-rated, original horror-action-period-piece in a field of films based on time-tested brands – is the year’s second highest-grossing movie in the U.S., just behind one of those kid-friendly IP goldmines. The first must-see film of the summer is finally coming to digital services on …

Radiohead‘s hiatus definitely hasn’t kept Thom Yorkeout of the studio —he’s released three great albums with the Smile, and earlier this month, he dropped the excellent Tall Tales, a long-in-the-works collaboration with veteran electronic producer Mark Pritchard. In the new episode ofRolling Stone Music Now, Pritchard breaks down the long …

These past few weeks have been a very trying time for Who fans. The difficulties started in April when word slipped out they’d fired longtime drummer Zak Starkey, calmed down a bit when Pete Townshend reversed the decision, and then went into overdrive when they announced they were calling it …