For all those dreading the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday, Future has dropped a new single just for you. “Worst Day” finds the rapper spending his first release of 2022 lamenting the expectations of the romance-driven day — and the track’s accompanying video features controversial “professional image consultant” and dating advisor …
Read More »Sting Hopes to Do a 'Good Job' Singing en Español at Premio Lo Nuestro
Should we call himPica now? Sting is headed to Univision’s Premio Lo Nuestro later this month to premiere his new completely-in-Spanish single “Por Su Amor,” Rolling Stone can exclusively announce. The 17-time Grammy winner says that the track, originally titled “For Her Love” and featured on his recent album The …
Read More »Inside Whitney Houston's Final Days
By the early 2010s, Whitney Houston wanted to turn her life around and save her career. Despite years of mental personal struggles and drug addiction, she was still an R&B superstar with an enormous, devoted fanbase, as well as many impassioned supporters in the music industry, most prominently RCA Records …
Read More »Glance, Don't Stare: Why 'Brighten the Corners' Is the Ultimate Pavement Album
Happy birthday to Brighten the Corners, Pavement’s slyest, funniest, most underrated masterpiece, released on Feb. 11, 1997. It’s their pinnacle of rockness, full of majestic guitar bravado and stupid-beautiful melodies, with room for terrible jokes, instrumental detours, gossip about Geddy Lee and Conrad Hilton. Brighten is their turning-30 album, as …
Read More »A Pastor Went Viral by Singing in Walmart. He Wants the Buzz to Last
Donzell Taggart was the youngest pastor in his Arkansas church — so popular that members of the congregation used to ask him to sign their Bibles — when Covid hit. To that point, Taggart’s extracurricular life had been hyper-focused: Singing rehearsals with the choir could start as late as 10 …
Read More »Drake Has 1.25 Million Reason$ to Root for the Rams in Super Bowl LVI
Drake is betting big that the Los Angeles Rams are victorious in this Sunday’s Super Bowl, putting roughly $1.25 million in bitcoin on the outcome of the game. The rapper revealed his Super Bowl picks — and his enormous bets — on Instagram Thursday, placing $600,000 Canadian dollars on the …
Read More »Aly and AJ Cope With a 'Near-Death Experience' on Deluxe 'A Touch of the Beat'
A Touch of the Beat Gets You Up on Your Feet Gets You Out and Then Into the Sun… but make it deluxe. On Friday, Aly and AJ released four additional songs on the refreshed version of their sun-kissed album originally released last year. Included on the tracklist are songs …
Read More »Nothing But Respect for Our Blood Pact Cult Leaders Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama
Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama are now united by a blood pact. And we’re here for it. On Friday, the pop princess pair released the video for their collab “Beg for You,” which follows the women in a Power Rangers fight scene-esque backdrop as they lead some of their cult …
Read More »Jay Wheeler Simps About His Girlfriend in Outer Space in New 'EaZt' Video
Jay Wheeler misses his girlfriend: On Friday, the singer released the music video for his simpy ballad “Eazt” from his new album De Mi Para Ti. The clip follows the lonely Puerto Rican star in outer space as he sings to his love, seemingly back on Earth. Wheeler croons the …
Read More »Bob Marley Authorized Biopic Finds Its Star: Kingsley Ben-Adir
Kingsley Ben-Adir is set to play Bob Marley in the upcoming authorized biopic of the reggae legend, Variety reports. The British actor was cast after a year-long search to fill the role. Neither a title, nor any plot details or other cast members have been announced, but the film will …
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