Music Features

For four decades and counting, Carl Cox has commanded the decks at Ibiza residencies, headlined music festivals, and curated classics at underground raves. The veteran British DJ has developed a pre-show regime over the years: He eats nutrient-rich salads or fish-based dishes, drinks more water than alcohol, and occasionally clears …

Take a peek around the current pop landscape, and you’ll notice the persistent, surprising influence of two 2012 albums. No, it’s not some combination of Taylor Swift’s career-defining Red, nor Kendrick Lamar’s opus good kid, m.A.A.d city, nor Frank Ocean’s breakthrough Channel Orange, all of which came out that year. …

Metallica‘s members are all in their 60s, and their music is way more physically demanding than anything their classic-rock forebears have had to tackle onstage — but lead guitarist Kirk Hammett tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that he doesn’t see retirement on the horizon. “As long as we …

Kirk Hammett is hard at work on his first-ever full length solo album, and unlike his debut solo EP, 2022’s Portals, it will likely feature guest vocalists, he reveals in the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. He also has a massive collection of brand-new riffs for …

Rhiannon Giddens has been talking for quite some time when she stops to apologize. “Sorry, I had caffeine,” the singer-songwriter, banjoist, and founding member of the soon-to-be reuniting Carolina Chocolate Drops says on a recent Zoom. The apology comes after Giddens spent an hour sharing pointed critiques, reflective musings, and …

Lollapalooza today is a sleek, reliably well-oiled pop music festival. But it was born of chaos. On the festival’s first date — July 18, 1991, at Chandler, Arizona’s Compton Terrace — nearly everything that could go wrong did. The sweltering weather fried Nine Inch Nails‘ gear, Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell …

When I interviewed Rema for his Rolling Stone recent cover story in February, he was excited about his new single, “Baby (Is It A Crime).” It had just dropped hours before. “I just had the biggest debut in my career,” he told me of the song that earned nearly 3 …

If Jason Boland sounds as if he’s holding up a mirror to his quarter-century-plus career in The Last Kings of Babylon, it’s because he’s feeling all kinds of introspective these days. “As a songwriter, I have found that — for bands that record and write most of their own music …

J essica Simpson is sitting on a thrifted green banquette in her Nashville music room, wondering if Sister Rosetta Tharpe is trying to send us a message. We’d been talking about the late godmother of rock & roll, who Simpson just described as “the most badass” of all potential badasses, …

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco share a vulnerable highlight from their new collaborative album, Jessica Simpson makes a triumphant return to music with a country pop …