Music

On an overcast afternoon in New York City, Jessie Ware is ready to close out a whirlwind 48-hour trip in the city. While having her lunch in a hotel room with huge windows overlooking the Lower East Side, she ticks off the growing list of things she will need to …

After a career-spanning set in Coachella Valley, Calvin Harris is switching coasts and linking up with Kygo for the third annual Palm Tree Music Festival in Westhampton, New York, on June 24. The one-day festival will be curated by fellow electronic star Kygo and his manager Myles Shear and organized …

Mark Stewart, the hulking and dynamic vocalist who shouted, whispered, and squealed over the Pop Group‘s dubby, deconstructionist post-punk, died early Friday morning. A rep confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone but did not disclose any additional details. He was 62. “Mark was the most amazing mind of my …

Over the past few years, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan have played just about every stadium on the planet with their respective bands. But on Friday night, they scaled down drastically at the 1,100-seat Regent Theater in Los Angeles to serve …

Skrillex, Fred Again.. and Four Tet will play a special set to fill the closing slot for Coachella‘s Weekend Two on Sunday night, Rolling Stone has confirmed. The three acts will play the 10:25 TBA slot currently listed on Coachella’s Sunday lineup after Blink-182’s headlining set, both slots replacing Frank …

Raye shared a remix of her standout single “Flip a Switch” featuring rapper Coi Leray on Thursday. The new track features a hard-hitting verse from the Trendsetter artist, complimenting Raye’s stunning vocals from the original, and was co-produced alongsideMike Sabath andDi Genius. “Flip a Switch”comes off theBritish Ghanian singer-songwriter’s recent …

Florence and the Machine has shared a new song, “Mermaids,” which is part of the “universe” of the group’s recent LP Dance Fever. The track, produced by Dave Bayley, is a darkly layered pop tune that sees Florence Welch singing about the grey English weather, Britney Spears and “cheerful oblivion.” …

The Kid Laroi has released a new single, “Where Does Your Spirit Go,” following its debut at Coachella last weekend. The emotive song reflects on the death of his friends Juice WRLD and Saiko and grapples with how to deal with loss. “This wasn’t in the release plans but I …

Ed Sheeran has shared an emotional new single, “Boat,” along with a music video for the track. The song, off the singer’s forthcoming album Subtract, was written by the English seaside in winter and honestly reflects on depression, with Sheeran using a boat as a metaphor for attempting to keep …

The late Frank Zappa‘s “vaultmeister” has unearthed 23 previously unreleased and rare recordings that Zappa may have been considering for a sequel to his beloved jazz-rock masterpiece, 1969’s Hot Rats. The apocrypha, which totals three-and-a-half hours of music, will finally come out on June 30 via a three-disc set titled …