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Dinner with DJ Koze is delightful. He shows me to a Thai restaurant in central Hamburg, down some steps and into a curtained room bubbling with atmosphere and charm. He studies the menu as though searching for secret meanings, then orders the pho, which is what he always gets. Then …

It’s a little more than a decade since Benmont Tench released his debut solo LP, You Should Be So Lucky, but for the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist, it feels like a lifetime ago. There’s been a lot of joy in the intervening years, most notably his 2015 marriage …

Seventeen has 13 members, which means there are 78 possible pairings within the lineup. The hugely successful K-pop group is made up of three units — vocal, hip-hop, and performance — as well as two formally established sub-units: BSS, consisting of DK, Seungkwan, and Hoshi, as well as JxW, made …

Doechii’s post-Alligator Bites Never Heal ascendance into rap stardom isn’t a new dynamic. But it’s been a while since we’ve seen a rap-star ascendance that’s not paired with controversial allegations, a zest for riling the public into social engagement, or dog whistling to incels. Her appeal is mostly based on …

How does a truly terrible song end up an otherwise flawless album? Blame ego-appeasing band-politics concessions, drug-fueled studio experiments, songwriters working through a few too many personal demons, and artists who just ran out of songwriting steam a little too soon. Or maybe it all comes down to bad judgment. …

B y his own admission, Bob Mould is not a Zoom kind of guy, at least not in terms of the video aspect. During the early months of the Covid lockdown, he passed on doing any of those briefly in-vogue virtual concerts. “People were saying, ‘Oh, come on, you could …

On March 1, not quite five months after J-Hope had completed his mandatory military duty in the South Korean Army, the BTS rapper performed for another kind of ARMY — his fans. It was there that his recent military life converged with his omnipresent pop star status. At the second …

A year ago, Playboi Carti seemed poised to put an end to his penchant for mystery and drop his new album, reportedly titled I Am Music, in a timely fashion. By last January, he’d already shared a handful of well-received new singles and music videos, signaling the beginning of a …

When Lady Gaga started making her new album,Mayhem, she felt the dark, ominous energy of her first two albums —The Fame MonsterandBorn This Way—luring her back in. “It was really powerful,” she says on a recent call withRolling Stone.“Maybe the last four or so albums I’ve made, I moved away …

Lady Gaga ends Mayhem with love. On Friday, the pop singer will release her seventh studio album, Mayhem. On a recent call with Rolling Stone ahead of the album, she shared that the second-to-last song, “Blade of Grass,” is a track she wrote after her engagement to fiancé Michael Polansky …