On Nov. 19, Lainey Wilson will become the first woman to host the CMA Awards solo in 34 years. The last was Reba McEntire in 1991. Wilson, during an appearance on this week’s new episode of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, expressed disbelief at that statistic. “I looked it up …
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Ozzy Osbourne‘s life story has been told many times. In addition to his 2010 memoir, I Am Ozzy, there’s a 1998 episode of VH1’s Behind the Music, the 2011 documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, the 2020 documentary Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne, countless articles and books, and the …
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Leading up tothe Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. This year’s Album of the Year field isn’t lacking for front-runners: Any one of these eight …
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S ince debuting in 1991 with a feature on Main Source’s “Live at the Barbeque,” Nas has been intent on amplifying New York hip-hop. His first full-length album, Illmatic, was an evolution in hip-hop lyricism, and his top-tier penmanship has powered a catalog of 17 solo albums. He’s always paid …
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Ruston Kelly took his seat in the middle of the Bluebird Cafe, the tiny strip-mall bar-and-grill at the outer reaches of Nashville that serves as one of the most important proving grounds in the world of songwriting. His choices for a venue to release Pale, Through the Window in early …
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New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was once a rapper named Mr. Cardamom — and his rap career is still past tense. On Oct. 4, attorney Jim Walden, who recently backed out of his own independent mayoral campaign weeks before the November election, made an X post featuring an Apple …
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[Editor’s note: This guest column includes descriptions of death and violence that some may find triggering.] Today marks two years since Oct. 7, the single deadliest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, and strangely, there’s a love song playing in my head: “Die With a Smile” by Bruno Mars …
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Taylor Swift has dropped the year’s biggest album with The Life of a Showgirl. It’s also the year’s most polarizing album — but how would it not be? Something about Taylor will always trigger those over-the-top love-or-hate reactions from people. “I have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness,” she sings …
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When tens of millions of people around the world all stream the same album in the course of a few days, some of them are inevitably not going to like it. Such has been the case with Taylor Swift‘s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, and fair enough, as …
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Leading up tothe Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. This year’s Best New Artist field is a head-scratcher because it’s just so wide open. “A …
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