Music

It’s a new year with the same beef. On Wednesday, Drake upped the ante of the Great Rap War by filing a federal lawsuit against his label, Universal Music Group (UMG), for defamation and harassment for their support of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” UMG also distributes Lamar’s music through …

In the earliest days of MTV, few songs were more inescapable than Devo’s fractured New Wave classic “Whip It.” With hardly any bands making music videos when MTV launched in 1981, the fledgling network, desperate for content, played the song nearly every hour, turning “Whip It” into one of the …

Lucy Dacus plays a work of art in the music video for her latest single, “Ankles.” For a few hours, she’s allowed to slip out of the gilded frame holding her to the wall and experience the bustle of city life. Dacus returns to her painting in the end, but …

OK Go are back with a new single titled “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill,” which — per tradition — was paired with another clever music video from the always inventive band. The visual, co-directed by OK Go’s Damian Kulash and filmmaker Chris Buongiorno, uses 64 mobile phones to create a …

Liam Payne’s friend Roger Nores is suing the late singer’s father, Geoff Payne, for defamation. In a new federal lawsuit filed in Florida Wednesday and obtained by Rolling Stone, Nores alleges that Geoff made false and defamatory statements about him in sworn declarations to an Argentina prosecutor investigating Liam’s death, …

A little more than a year ago, Geddy Lee told Rolling Stone that he was trying to convince Alex Lifeson to agree to a tour that would put them back on the road together for the first time since the final Rush outing in 2015. “Alex has some concerns about …

My Morning Jacket are back, and their new album is is, their first studio LP in nearly four years. Jim James and the Lexington, Kentucky five-piece’s 10th studio album finds the band teaming with producer Brendan O’Brien for the 10-song LP, their first time working with an outside producer in …

Zach Bryan has teased an upcoming film that documents the recording of his “final major-label album.” On Instagram on Wednesday, Bryan dropped a voice memo — seemingly dictated by Matthew McConaughey, Bryan’s costar in the “Nine Ball” video — announcing Motorbreath, which shares its title with a still-unreleased song that …

Your Valentine’s Day just got sweeter. Father John Misty will release a 10th anniversary edition of I Love You, Honeybear, out Feb. 14 via Sub Pop. Tillman’s beloved second record, which recently landed on Rolling Stone‘s list of The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century, revolved around him meeting …

Pearl Jam, Kacey Musgraves, Lil Wayne with the Roots, Luke Combs, and Dave Matthews Band are among the headliners for the 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Haim, Lenny Kravitz, Santana, John Fogerty, Burna Boy, Cage the Elephant, and My Morning Jacket will also take the Big Easy stage …