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I t happened earlier this month the same way it always happens. Jesse Welles was scrolling on his cell at home in northwest Arkansas — Siloam Springs, population 21,000 — when he came across a recruitment ad for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE to most of us). …

Gavin Adcock is on quite a tear. Earlier this week, he called out Charley Crockett for the Dollar a Day singer’s post about authenticity in country music, and also said he felt that Zach Bryan “puts on a big mask in his day-to-day,” during an interview on Rolling Stone’s Nashville …

Pete Townshend plans to do a run of solo shows after the Who’s latest trek ends. The band is currently on their farewell tour in the US. In an interview with AARP, the guitarist revealed his future plans. “I plan to experiment with some one-man shows,” he said. He also …

The U.K. band Wolf Alice have been making eclectic pop-rock for a decade, specializing in textural music that swings big emotionally while moving within different sonic settings, proving what a guitar band can do to stay on its game in a post-guitar world. They’ve never put it together with the …

In recent weeks, California Governor Gavin Newsom has given his press office free rein to go full all-caps troll mode on X. Almost all of the account’s posts right now are mimicking Donald Trump’s distinct tweeting style, replete with condescending nicknames, weirdly formal phrasing, and multiple-exclamation-point bluster. On Monday, the …

Morgan Wallen is ensuring his streak of never receiving a solo Grammy nomination continues by declining to submit his latest album, I’m the Problem, for consideration. Wallen’s team confirmed the news to Rolling Stone, after it was first reported by Hits Daily Double and Billboard. Not only will Wallen not …

Carter Faith isn’t into a man with a long-term plan in her new video for “Bar Star.” And who can blame her when her paramour in the clip is the charming, albeit “always getting Keystoned” Billy Bob Thornton. In the visual, Faith is in a bar singing about and to …

The man accused of fatally shooting longtime American Idol music supervisor Robin Kaye and her husband during a daylight burglary of their Los Angeles residence appeared in court wearing a “suicide gown” Wednesday and was deferred to mental health court for evaluation. Raymond Boodarian, 22, did not enter a plea …

The outspoken musician and activist Tom Morello has assembled a wide array of artists for a playlist in protest of President Donald Trump and his Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s attacks on immigrants. Trump’s administration is looking to ramp up its widespread detention and deportation of immigrants, utilizing tens of …

Days after Florence and the Machine confirmed their long-awaited sixth studio album, Everybody Scream, the band dropped the title track and its accompanying music video Wednesday. In the spellbinding visual, Florence Welch appears in a crimson-red dress as she stomps through an eerie landscape before barging into a room, sending …