Music Features

Earlier this month, Morgan Wallen became the first artist to have three singles reach Number One on both the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Hot 100 charts, capping off a year that’s seen the popularity of country music rise to its biggest moment in decades, if not ever. The face-tattooed …

I f you’ve watched any of D.C. rapper Noochie’s Live From the Front Porch YouTube performance series, you’ve seen his front steps, where stars like the Lox, Chance the Rapper, and Robin Thicke have all performed with live instrumentalists to the tune of more than six million views. But upon …

During the making of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, due Dec. 25, Timotheé Chalamet complimented director/co-screenwriter James Mangold on a particular piece of dialogue. “Bob put that in,” Mangold replied. As Rolling Stone‘s new cover story reveals, Dylan and Mangold met multiple times before production began. “I felt …

“We’ll carry on,” Gerard Way insists on My Chemical Romance’s 2006 album The Black Parade. For fans, this lyric in particular became many things: a rallying cry, a promise, a comforting reminder that it was possible to face personal struggles like depression and grief. Since then, The Black Parade’s themes …

M any 20-year-olds count down until they can flash an ID in exchange for a drink on their 21st birthday. For the artist Lexa Gates, turning 21 marked the first day of her sobriety. “I just started feeling like, ‘That’s actually lame as fuck now that it’s legal,’” the cat-eyed …

The Beatles invaded America in early 1964, and the nation was never the same. Even as their plane was landing in New York, mobs of screaming fans stormed the airport. The night they played The Ed Sullivan Show, on February 9, they blew the minds of 73 million viewers. Beatlemania …

Foreigner‘s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year was the culmination of a nearly two-decade lobbying effort that roped in everyone from Mark Ronson and Slash to Dave Grohl, Jack Black, and Paul McCartney when they finally made the ballot this year. And when it …

When Nickelback‘s Get Rollin’ tour hit Nashville last year, the Canadian rock stars went all out — and Nashville gleefully rolled out the red carpet for them in return. Their headlining gig at Bridgestone Arena was full of special guests, many of whom grew up listening to the massive — …

The Red Clay Strays are arguably the hottest new act on the scene when it comes to Americana and rock music, but despite their ripping electric guitars and rockabilly swagger, the Alabama band are often classified as country. Lead singer Brandon Coleman can’t seem to figure out why. “I don’t …

Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week Rauw Alejandro enlists Bad Bunny to lure a past lover into another rendezvous, Shawn Mendes shares the intricacies of his quarter-life crisis, and FKA Twigs offers an explosive …