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There’s a dark stage, with a few handfuls of dirt scattered here and there. But as the lights come up, what first looks like an empty landscape transforms into a perfect tableau of a Kentucky skyline at dawn. Thus begins Floyd Collins, the newest musical at the Lincoln Center’s Vivian …

John Mulaney has learned a few things about life from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. This sounds like the setup for a joke. But the comedian, late-night host, and low-key music obsessive has long been fascinated with the Cleveland institution, the artists it deems worthy for inclusion (or …

Warren Zevon’s son isn’t sure how his late father would feel about finally getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “By now he’d be 78,” Jordan Zevon tells Rolling Stone. “How would 78-year-old pop react to it? He could have been the crankiest, get-off-my-lawn-guy on the planet, …

Last year, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats began making the leap from theaters to arenas, culminating in a headlining show at New York’s Madison Square Garden two months ago. But as Rateliff tells it, fans almost didn’t see him there or anywhere else on the tour, which had been …

A bout a year ago, Lifeguard had an epiphany. They’d been hammering away on a 10-minute noise suite in their hometown of Chicago, layering waves of improvised cacophony into a fearsome slab of sound that they hoped would anchor their full-length debut. Then they realized they didn’t need it. “We …

Let’s raise a birthday toast to Bob Seger, who turns 80 today. He might be the only great American rock star who likes everybody in his songs. He’s not judging anyone in “Fire Down Below.” He hopes his crooked friend in “Still The Same” keeps getting away with it. He’s …

This Sunday will be Titania Davenport’s third Mother’s Day without her son, Kirshnik Khari Ball, the Migos visionary more widely known as Takeoff. Ball was shot dead as an innocent bystander, police say, when an argument broke out after a private party at a Houston bowling alley in November 2022. …

This year, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will induct acts including Soundgarden, Outkast, and the White Stripes —but some huge names from the ballot didn’t make it, most notably Mariah Carey (for the third time!), Oasis, and Phish. Carey is an undisputed pop legend; Oasis recorded some of …

Soundgarden are seen as a quintessential Nineties band, but they actually formed in 1984, and started releasing music three years later. That means they’ve been eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2012. Fans started giving up hope after they appeared on two ballots prior …

There’s an apocryphal story about John Prine deciding to start his Oh Boy Records after wearying of record label struggles. In 1981, the tale goes, Prine went out into the desert, put his hand on a rock, and declared, “I am a record label.” In 2020, Dave Hause did something …