Music Features

On Sept. 19, 1969, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash walked onstage at the Fillmore East in New York City, took a seat on three stools, and launched into “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” without any introduction. It was just four weeks after they played their first ever show at …

Tyler, the Creator is speaking to the times on “NOID,” the newest single from his upcoming album, Chromokopia. The song is part of Tyler’s straight-to-the-point album rollout, where the music and visuals — not his characteristic outspokenness — have taken center stage. Last week, Tyler dropped “St. Chroma,” which featured …

On her remix of Charli XCX’s Brat hit “Club Classics,” the 24-year-old Barcelona-based rapper Bb Trickz arrives like she’s been there all along, rapping in a comfortable, laid-back Spanish with the cool swagger of a veteran—this despite only starting to release music in the past few years. Over Zoom, she …

“Rolling Stone” contributing editor Rob Sheffield has been a passionate Taylor Swift fan since he first heard “Our Song,” in 2007, and he’s chronicled her rise from teenage country prodigy to global pop megastar — reviewing her albums, celebrating the triumph of her concerts, even compiling a definitive ranking of …

Second chances are precious and often compel us to catapult further than before. That’s the case with PlayThatBoiZay, the South Florida rapper who dropped his long-awaited VIP album in September. The heavily Kwes Darko-produced project is right on time not just because of its eerie, Spooky SZN-ready soundscapes, but also …

When the AI-music start-up Suno recently introduced a feature that lets users upload audio of their own creation and have the software extend and endlessly reimagine it, one particular user took note. Legendary producer Timbaland quickly became obsessed with the process, deciding it was the future of music-making. He started …

In the late Eighties, Ernst Jorgensen, then an executive at a BMG affiliate in Denmark, raised an impertinent question in an international meeting. “How come we treat the Elvis Presley catalog so poorly?” The response from a U.S. label chief was immediate: “If you’re so smart, why don’t you do …

Benny The Butcher and 38 Spesh first connected on the word of the late DJ Shay, the producer who Benny and many other members of Buffalo, New York’s Griselda movement called a mentor. Shay’s Parkside Studios was a hub for upstate rappers where Benny recorded most of his early work. …

M CO Studios is a quiet, woodsy space tucked away in the leafy neighborhood of Anzures in Mexico City. With its sky-high ceilings and the bursting trees on the patio, it’s a site that reflects the beauty of the Mexican capital, and singers Leon Bridges and Natalia Lafourcade are immediately …

R aye, wearing a black, formfitting Versace dress, can hardly contain her smile as she thinks about that legendary Christina Aguilera riff in Burlesque. You know, the one at the end of her “Show Me How You Burlesque” number, where her voice does cartwheels up and down a scale? Yeah, …