Music

On “Hiss,” Megan Thee Stallion made one thing clear: “I don’t give a fuck what y’all make trend. Bitch, I still win.” On Monday, she won. After nearly a week of Nicki Minaj corroding her legacy by attacking Megan over a seeming “Hiss” diss, the song hit No. 1 on …

The Grow, Unite, Build, Africa (GUBA) Enterprise and Rolling Stone hosted the second annual African Nominee Brunch on Saturday in Beverly Hills, celebrating a landmark year for African representation at this weekend’s Grammy Awards. The brunch is among the more vibrant events in all of Grammy weekend. This year’s celebration …

Ice Cube said he never expected to be onstage accepting a gilded gramophone with his fellow N.W.A members, but that’s what happened Saturday when he, MC-Ren, DJ Yella and the mother and son of late rapper Eazy-E received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy at the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards. “My …

Jennifer Lopez returned to Saturday Night Live first with a performance of “Can’t Get Enough,” the lead single from her upcoming album, This Is Me…Now. Lopez, who last appeared on SNL in late 2019 as host and most recently performed music on the late night show back in 2010, was …

The annual Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala is much like a Rolling Stones tour: For years, those who have been lucky enough to attend wonder if they just saw the last show. And yet somehow, a bit unbelievably, there’s always one more. Forty years in, the gala was back at the …

Uncle Waffles is taking DJing to another level, coming out from behind the decks to groove with her dancers — emphasizing performance along with specializing in the South African Amapiano genre. Before her set at the UnitedMasters event during Grammy weekend, the DJ from Eswatini spoke with Rolling Stone’s Delisa …

The visceral melodic pulse heard in the bass playing of Aston “Family Man” Barrett, who died on February 3, is most closely associated with anchoring the messages and providing the sonic heartbeat within Bob Marley’s music. In 1970, Family Man and his brother, drummer Carlton “Carly” Barrett, began playing with …

Joni Mitchell will have a lot of company when she takes the stage on Sunday for her first-ever Grammy Awards performance. Her friend and collaborator Brandi Carlile will be performing alongside her, as will Jacob Collier, Allison Russell, SistaStrings, Lucius, and Blake Mills, according to executive producer Raj Kapoor. As …

The wait is officially over: The biggest nightin music is finally here! On Sunday, the top names in music gathered for the66th Grammy Awards. The competition is fierce this year, with SZA leading all nominees this year with nine. Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, and Victoria Monét are also among the …

Fresh off Billy Strings and Chris Thile’s first collaborative concert, the Grammy-winning bluegrass artists reconvened once again for a television audience as part of CBS Saturday Morning’s Saturday Sessions. For the performance, the virtuosic guitar picker and the mandolin master delivered three traditional bluegrass classics: the oft-covered “I Am a …