Music

Blake Mills has the kind of CV, and accompanying reputation, that leaves little to quibble with. The 36-year-old Los Angeles musician is an ace producer (Perfume Genius, Feist, Marcus Mumford); an in-demand sideman and session player (Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Phoebe Bridgers); and an exceptional singer-songwriter in his own right. …

Britney Spears is speaking out after she filed a police report about an incident with a member of basketball player Victor Wembanyama’s security team. Spears alleges she was slapped by the security person Wednesday night at a Las Vegas restaurant. Rolling Stone confirmed that an incident occurred and a police …

Tupac Shakur’s self-designed crown ring, worn by the rapper during the last public appearance before his 1996 death, highlights Sotheby’s upcoming auction celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The gold, ruby, and diamond-encrusted ring is expected to receive bids up to $300,000 when the item hits the auction block starting …

One of the TBA names on the upcoming Barbie film soundtrack has been revealed! Billie Eilish officially has joined the stacked list of musicians on the film’s album, with her upcoming track “What Was I Made For?” — and she promises it’ll make listeners “sob.” “We made this song for …

Kanye West has involved Dov Charney — the controversial founder of American Apparel who’s been accused of sexual harassment by numerous women and printed West’s infamous “White Lives Matter” shirt — in his Yeezy business, Rolling Stone has learned. A source familiar with the situation tells Rolling Stone that Yeezy …

PBS held its annual Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C. last evening, tapping a vast group of performers to spearhead the festivities. Chicago, Boyz II Men, Belinda Carlisle, Babyface, Maddie & Tae, Charles Esten, Renée Fleming, and Adrienne Warren were among those to take the stage, and even Sesame …

The Grammy Awards are getting ahead of the curve when it comes to dealing with artificial intelligence in the music industry. A change to the ceremony’s guidelines last month opened the door for music created with AI to be eligible for awards, however, “a work that contains no human authorship …

A trio of trans artists, models, and actresses unite in a bare, industrial wasteland in the video for Anohni and the Johnsons’ “Why Am I Alive Now.” Hunter Schafer, one of the most prominent transgender actresses working today after portraying Jules Vaughn on HBO’s Euphoria, directed the clip for the …

Lil Uzi Vert‘s long-awaited album, Pink Tape, arrived last week and found the eclectic MC in decidedly new terrain. With features by everyone from Nicki Minaj to New York electro-pop duo Snow Strippers, Pink Tape is as inventive and untethered by convention as Uzi’s forward-thinking fashion sense. As such, reactions …