While many millennial R&B lovers are likely familiar with Grammy-nominated singer Snoh Aalegra, who became beloved stateside around 2018 with stylish wedding-core love songs like “I Want You Around” and “Find Someone Like You,” she’s earning a new generation of fans as her 2021, Neptunes-produced single “In Your Eyes” explodes …
Read More »Haim Announce Fall 'I Quit' Tour
Haim‘s first album in five years, I Quit, drops June 20, and the sister act just announced they’ll be taking it on the road this fall in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. The band played tracks from the album live for the first time last week at the L.A. club …
Read More »How Jeff Goldblum Got Ariana Grande to Sing on His Jazz Album
How did Jeff Goldblum get one of the world’s biggest pop stars to sing on his new jazz album? As he explains on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Ariana Grande‘s lovely take on “I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)” on Goldblum’s Still Blooming, recorded with his …
Read More »Gigi Perez Overcame Her Lowest Moment — and Found Her Voice
For many, Gigi Perez seemed to burst out of thin air last year. Her independently released single “Sailor Song” became a hit on TikTok, enamoring listeners with the swooning timelessness of the folksy tune, before climbing to Number One in the UK, Ireland, and Latvia. But like many of her …
Read More »'I Was Taken Hostage': How an American Metal Rocker Landed in Russian Prison
O ne minute, Travis Leake was trying to decide which movie he and his fiancée should watch in his rented apartment on the outskirts of Moscow. The next, he was lying face down on the floor in a small pool of his own blood. On that early June afternoon in …
Read More »Hear the Song that Sammy Hagar Wrote With Eddie Van Halen in a Dream
About a year after Eddie Van Halen died in 2020, Sammy Hagar had a dream that they were sharing a chill moment together. “He had a guitar around his neck and we were having a love fest since we hadn’t seen each other in a long time,” Hagar tells Rolling …
Read More »David Thomas Was Pere Ubu's Heart of Darkness
Here’s a long goodbye to David Thomas of Pere Ubu, one of the most defiantly eccentric and uncompromising voices in American rock. He made history with Pere Ubu, a garage band of Cleveland art-noise crackpots sending out a roar from the mid-Seventies’ Midwest industrial wasteland. In his early days, he …
Read More »Lorde, Young Thug, Haim, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Lorde returns with a hypnotic synth-pop stunner, Young Thug taps Future on his first solo single since his release from jail, and Haim make leaving a …
Read More »Imogen Heap Just Went Viral With 'Headlock' — Now She's Letting You Borrow Its Vibe Via AI
Imogen Heap, whose 2005 track “Headlock” just became her biggest hit ever after a belated viral surge on TikTok, is now letting fans legally borrow its vibe for their own songs via generative AI. Heap is the first artist to sign on for a new feature from AI-music platform Jen …
Read More »Lola Kirke Wrote Her Memoir, Filmed a Vampire Movie, and Made a Must-Hear Country Album
While she’s currently getting blood-spattered in Ryan Coogler’s vampires-in-the-Mississippi-Delta horror film Sinners, singer-actress Lola Kirke has also released one of the sleeper country albums of the year. Trailblazer, the follow-up to her 2024 LP Country Curious, is a combination of woozy, mesmeric country songs elegantly paired with indie vibes. It …
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