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Joy Williams will undertake a U.S. tour in February in support of her upcoming album Front Porch. While no release date has been set for the LP, she has shared the tracks “Canary” and “The Trouble With Wanting,” and this week unveiled a live cover of a Nineties gem: Depeche …

Taylor Bennett pulled out a slew of rockstar tricks while performing his new single, “Streaming Services,” on The Late Show Monday. The new track finds Bennett taking stock of the music industry and his place in it as an independent artist. On The Late Show, the young singer-rapper breezed through …

Hip-hop dominated music streaming in 2017, leading to some eye-popping record deals for rising stars — $8 million for Lil Pump, $10 million for XXXTentacion before his death, another $15 million for Brockhampton. That wasn’t a one-year spurt in listening, according to the new year-end report published on Thursday by …

Hip-Hop‘s New Generation Takes Over The year in hip-hop made one thing blindingly clear: The old guard is, well, old. Kanye West executive-produced five albums over the summer, but it took a Lil Pump feature to get him any traction on streaming services. Nicki Minaj needed a duet with embattled …

R&B as a genre distinction is mostly meaningless at this point. There are a host of reasons — the popularization of the rapper-singer, the broadening of what is considered R&B and pop co-opting the sound without taking on the classification — but artists are still down to argue over a …

Broken Bells, the group featuring the Shins’ James Mercer and producer Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton, have shared their new song “Shelter,” the duo’s first new recording in four years. Touted as the first time Broken Bells have “combined their unmistakable melodies, lyrics, vocals and singular composition style with samples,” the …

Hootie & the Blowfishseem to have a lot of fun on the road, which includes hazing and apparently leaving a bandmate behind, as the group revealed during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday. Their appearance, which included a performance of their classic hit “Only Want …

Meek Mill addressed Jay-Z‘s headlining-generating “What’s Free” verse during a recent CNN interview, explaining that the guest rapper wasn’t shaming Kanye West for frequently wearing one of President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats. On the track, which appears on Mill’s recently issued fourth LP, Champions, Jay-Z rhymes, “No red …

D ’Angelo is a morning person, of sorts. When he’s working in the studio, as was often the case in the 14-year interregnum between 2000’s Voodoo and 2014’s Black Messiah, he quits his all-night recording sessions just in time to greet each day’s sunrise. “I’m definitely on the night shift,” …

This story was originally published in the July 31, 2000, issue of Rolling Stone. Upstairs in his bedroom, trying to sleep, Ozzy Osbourne has just about had it with all the goddamn noise floating in from outside his window. He tosses and turns, frets and stews, moans and groans, and …