Music

The ongoing de-platforming of Kanye West following weeks of antisemitic and anti-Black rhetoric has already cost him numerous business deals (including his lucrative partnerships with Balenciaga and Adidas) and his representation in Hollywood. Now, Apple Music has taken the lead as the first streaming giant to take tangible action in …

R OGER DALTREY WALKS through Kore Studios near London’s Shepherd’s Bush, opening doors and looking for Yungblud. “Is he here?” the Who frontman asks. Yes, he is. “A young musician on time! Unheard of,” Daltrey booms. Everyone within earshot laughs. This location was chosen for its familiarity (Daltrey has recorded …

Killer Mike is “Talk’n That Shit!” on the rapper’s second single since reigniting his solo career after a decade with Run the Jewels. After leading a battalion on the battlefield against an army of Nazis, secessionists, and confederates earlier this year in the video for “Run” — his first solo …

One more week has been added to the countdown for Her Loss, the collaborative record from Drake and 21 Savage that was scheduled to arrive this Friday, Oct. 28. The Toronto rapper took to Instagram to share that the album will now be released on Nov. 4 after his powerhouse …

In the way it avoided a conventional timeline or stories behind the making of some of his best-loved albums, Bob Dylan’s 2004 book Chronicles: Volume One wasn’t a remotely traditional memoir. And let’s not even start on the whirligig prose in his Sixties head-scratcher Tarantula. Next to them, his third …

Kanye West returned to Instagram Thursday after an eventful and career-ruining three weeks to proclaim that he lost “2 billion dollars in one day.” After scrubbing his Instagram page of almost all the posts that preceded his restriction from the platform earlier this month — only a photo of his …

When Giovannie Yanez was writing the brooding ballad “The Letter” for the new album by his band Giovannie and the Hired Guns, he kept hearing the voice of Seventies country crooner Freddy Fender in his head. Yanez wanted to sing a verse of his song in Spanish and he figured …

Little Mermaid, who? Harry Styles has shared the visual for his Harry’s House opener “Music for a Sushi Restaurant,” and if you’ve ever wondered if the singer could pull off a full beard and a merman’s tail, the answer is yes. Styles transforms into a brawny merman who has washed …

With Coldplay, Jin is a sky full of stars. Ahead of the band’s live stream of their show in Argentina, Rolling Stone can exclusively premiere footage of Chris Martin and Jin rehearsing the BTS star’s new single, “The Astronaut.” The clip captures a smiley Jin high-fiving the Coldplay frontman and …

When rising pop star Chappell Roan left Missouri for Los Angeles, she thought she hit the jackpot. Born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz in the town of Willard, Missouri, she’d grown up feeling stifled by her small, conservatively Christian upbringing. “I felt so out of place in my hometown,” the now-24-year-old recalls. …