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Taylor Swift and the two songwriters who accused her of copyright infringement on “Shake It Off” have agreed to dismiss the lawsuit a month before it was set to head to trial. The decision was announced in court filings Monday, Dec. 12, with all parties involved asking the judge for …

Caroline Polachek will hit the road as soon as she drops her new album. On Monday, the pop star announced that she’s set to travel the country to promote her upcoming album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You in the new year, as she released the video for “Welcome …

On Thursday, around 9 p.m. Pacific Time, SZA’s highly-anticipated sophomore album SOS appeared on streaming services, exactly five years and six months from the day her deeply beloved debut, CTRL, was released. Jay Versace, who produced two songs on the new album — including the first and titular track, a …

Angelo Badalamenti, the Grammy-winning composer whose synthy soundtracks for Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet ushered dream pop into the mainstream, has died. Rolling Stoneconfirmed the composer’s death with his manager, Kraft-Engel Management. He was 85. “Angelo Badalamenti was a composer, loving husband, father, and grandfather,” his family tells Rolling Stone …

From superstar pop, hip-hop, and Afropop, to indie-rock, K-pop, reggaeton, R&B, and reggae, Rolling Stone‘s list of the Top 100 albums of 2022 may well be our most musically diverse year-end round-up ever. In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we zero in on that list’s …

Warren Haynes is taking a breather in his dressing room at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center in Asheville, North Carolina, after powering through a wicked jam of the Allman Brothers Band’s “Melissa” with country duo Brothers Osborne. He’s due back onstage in an hour for another inspired collab: performing Charlie Daniels …

Opening statements in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting case will finally begin today, well over two years after Tory Lanez allegedly shot the rapper in her feet. It’s an incident that’s loomed large over Megan’s meteoric rise, and one that left both physical and emotional scars, as she told Rolling …

Sheryl Crow performs and gets her flowers in the upcoming second half of the 48th season of Austin City Limits, which returns Jan. 7, 2023. The special episode of the long-running live-music program will feature Crow’s induction into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame and is highlighted by a …

Three of the biggest stars in the pop pantheon — Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Lady Gaga — will be competing against each other not at the Grammys next year, but at the Golden Globes, for Best Original Song. The category is led by Swift’s “Carolina” (for Where the Crawdads Sing), …

I n the parking lot of Anderson Memorial Park in Carson, California, just south of Compton and north of Long Beach, Ab-Soul chain-smokes Newports and speaks gently. We’re close to the houses he grew up in alongside his mother, aunts, and paternal grandparents. “I kinda like to call it the …