Leading up tothe Grammy nominations on Nov. 8, Rolling Stone is breaking down 13 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. Latin music keeps reaching new heights: This year, it’s already the fastest-growing genre on streaming, and …
Read More »Judeline Is the Rising Spanish Artist Who Will Enchant You With Her Haunting Voice
T he singer Judeline — whose real name is Lara Fernández Castrelo — has always let her imagination guide her. Growing up, she was a dreamy kid in a tiny, 200-person seaside town called Los Caños de Meca. There, she’d put on elaborate shows for her family, pretending to be …
Read More »Vybz Kartel Joins Major Lazer for Unearthed Single
Major Lazer are readying a deluxe reissue of their debut album Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do, dropping a previously unreleased collaboration with Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel on Friday as the project’s lead single. “Nobody Move” comes about three months after Kartel was freed from prison after his decade-old …
Read More »Jesse & Joy Hope New Ballad 'Inspires' Closeted Fans to Be 'Honest With Themselves'
Few Latin artists know how to sing a power ballad like Jesse & Joy. On Friday, the sibling duo released a sweet love song called “Cuando Estamos Solas” about Joy’s love story with Diana Atri in time for National Coming Out Day. “Today I give you ‘Cuando Estamos Solas,’ a …
Read More »Stevie Wonder Wows Madison Square Garden With Hours of Hits, Gentle Politics
Before singing “Can We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart,” the first song during a powerhouse, two-and-a-half–hour concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Thursday night, Stevie Wonder had a few things he needed to get off his chest. “Tonight I want us to celebrate the spirit of love,” he …
Read More »All-American Rejects Won't Play When We Were Young, Blame Fest Management
The All-American Rejects will no longer play at When We Were Young in Las Vegas. On Friday, the band revealed they bowed out of the event next week since the fest’s management “won’t be able to accommodate” them. “We have spent months tirelessly preparing a once-in-a-lifetime show that we were …
Read More »How the Marley Brothers Keep Their Father's Legacy Alive
You could feel it from a mile away, the beam of positive energy emanating from Forest Hills Stadium in Queens on this particular Sunday evening in September. Inside the 13,000-capacity tennis stadium, five of reggae legend Bob Marley‘s sons — Ziggy, Stephen, Julian, Ky-Mani, and Damian — are channeling their …
Read More »Peso Pluma Cancels Florida Concerts Due to Hurricanes, Says He'll Donate to Relief Funds
Peso Pluma is canceling his scheduled concerts in Tampa and Miami in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and Milton. In a press release Friday, the musician’s team announced that he would no longer be performing at the shows next week, and that Peso would be donating to relief funds. “[We] …
Read More »Killing Us Softly With Their Drama: 30 Years of Fugees Controversies
During an interview to promote Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit in 1993, one of its stars, 18-year-old Lauryn Hill, talked about the positivity she wanted to convey with her still-emerging group, the Fugees. “There are serious social ills in the community,” she said. “And I’d like to address …
Read More »Charli XCX Keeps the Brat Revolution Rolling With 'Brat And It's Completely Different But Also Still Brat'
From the ashes of Brat Summer, all hail the rise of But Also Still Brat Autumn. Charli XCX’s world conquest with her zeitgeist-seizing Brat just keeps surging on her fantastic remix album, recruiting a dream team of big names to admit that it’s obvious, she’s their number one. The auteur …
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