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Since moving from Barcelona back to Miami about a year ago, Shakira has traded tennis for water sports, Gap sweats for silky Amiri ones, and even regained bits of her Caribbean accent. It’s all part of a major process of rediscovery, she tells Rolling Stone, which she’s undergone since the …

Please, please, please let Meghan Trainor replace Katy Perry on American Idol. The singer is currently campaigning to take over the role as the long-time judge exits the show after seven years. During a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live, Trainor told Andy Cohen: “I have begged for this …

John Cale is on a formidable hot streak in his 80s. When the Welsh avant-garde legend released Mercy last year, it was his first album in a decade. But he’s already produced another gem with POPtical Illusion, a masterful tribute to his bleak imagination. Six decades into his career, Cale …

Metallica is set to play a virtual concert in Fortnite for the game’s Rock Band-esque Festival mode, the video game’s developer Epic Games announced on Wednesday. The band’s concert — called “Metallica: Fuel. Fire. Fury.” — will have the group performing six songs in the game, Epic said, with the …

F or six decades and counting, John Cale has lived on the edge of the avant-garde. A classically trained violist, he spent the mid-Sixties playing hours of drones with minimalist composer La Monte Young before co-founding the Velvet Underground with Lou Reed. The band transformed rock & roll into an …

A wise woman once asked, “Who needs guys, when you have sausages, dildos, and Sofi Tukker?” That woman was Heidi Klum — and it’s the sort of slutty, dancey energy Klum and the electro-pop duo are bringing this summer with the video for single “Spiral,” which debuts with Rolling Stone …

The lineup for this year’s Riot Fest includes Fall Out Boy, Beck, Slayer, Pavement, St. Vincent, the Offspring (performing their Smash album), and Public Enemy. NOFX, in the midst of their farewell tour, will play all three days at their own NOFX Worldsection of the fest, which will take place …

In an industry filled with hundreds of music festivals around the globe, a decade in, there’s still nothing else quite like Form. For one there’s the venue, the tiny experimental eco-city of Arcosanti, smack dab in the middle of the Arizona desert about an hour north of Phoenix. Then there’s …

Country star Jelly Roll has released his new single, “I Am Not Okay,” the musician’s first solo offering since his hit 2023 album, Whitsitt Chapel. The tender tune is centered around the pluck of an acoustic guitar but becomes massive with stadium-sized drums, atmospheric synths, and even some orchestral flourishes. …

Gladys Knight and the Pips were two decades into their career when they released their signature song. Formed in 1952, the legendary band comprised of Gladys Knight, her brother Bubba Knight and their cousins William Guest and Edward Patten were signed to Motown Records in 1966. However, they found their …