Music

Performing rights organization SESAC has named Luke Combs’ hit ballad “Even Though I’m Leaving” its Song of the Year for its 2020 Nashville Music Awards, which went online this year due to the pandemic. SESAC affiliate songwriter Wyatt Durrette III, who also helped pen Zac Brown Band’s “Chicken Fried,” co-wrote …

The National‘s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon, who collaborate under the name Big Red Machine, covered Aimee Mann‘s “Wise Up” as part of the Eaux Claires Festival voting initiative “For Wisconsin.” Dessner fronts the studio take, full of electronic drums, brass, harmonies, layered guitars and Vernon’s prominent backing …

Stevie Wonder spoke in support of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Saturday at a drive-in rally in Detroit, where the singer also performed a short set that included his first new songs in 15 years. “The only way we’re going to win this fight, a fight against injustice, is by …

Killer Mike discussed his hopes for the 2020 election and the future of the progressive movement in a conversation with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders as part of Rolling Stone’s Fridays for Unity event. In the lead-up to Election Day, the rapper said he felt encouraged by early voting turnout, especially …

Luke Combs rattles off a list of things that eventually lose their shine in his viral new love song “Forever After All”: trucks break down, blue jeans fade, and, for some unfortunate reason, beer bottles all end up empty. For the entirety of his 30 years, Combs just accepted these …

Ahead of the November 27th release of Zappa — a documentary about the unclassifiable rocker, composer and guitar god Frank Zappa — Rolling Stone is premiering the latest trailer for director Alex Winter’s long-in-the-works film. The documentary — the first made with the approval and cooperation of the Zappa estate …

The story of the Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, one of rock’s great rabble-rousers, is the focus of the upcoming documentary Crock of Gold. Ahead of the film’s December 4th premiere, Rolling Stone is dropping the trailer for the film about the Irish rocker that the Clash’s Joe Strummer called “one …

Evan Dando — Lemonheads frontman, one-time alternative rock “it” boy, and notorious hedonist whose career was the very definition of sex, drugs, and rock & roll — is set to tell his life story in an upcoming memoir. Titled Rumors of My Demise — a tongue-in-cheek nod to the seeming …

Karol G has released a new single, “Bichota,” with a glammed-out music video. “‘Bichota’ is a celebration for all women and men who choose to be fearless and fabulous,” Karol G said in a statement. “We are all Bichotas in our own special way and I hope this song provides …

Selena Gomez, Jeff Tweedy, Stacey Abrams, Bernie Sanders and more will participate in Rolling Stone’s new get-out-the-vote music and conversation series, “Fridays for Unity.” The two-part virtual event will take place October 16th and 30th and feature a mix of unique conversations, musical performances and special guest appearances. Each event …