This summer, one of England’s longest-running music festivals, Glastonbury, will welcome its first K-pop artist as a headliner: Seventeen. The group will headline the Pyramid Stage alongside Dua Lipa, Coldplay, SZA, Shania Twain, LCD Soundsystem, and PJ Harvey, among others. Billboard reports that the groundbreaking moment for K-pop fans follows …
Read More »Watch Kacey Musgraves Perform Acoustic Number 'The Architect' on 'Fallon'
Kacey Musgraves appeared on The Tonight Show to perform her recent song “The Architect” and to chat with host Jimmy Fallon about her new LP, Deeper Well. Musgraves took the stage with her band in old timey garb for an emotional performance of the album cut. Musgraves sat down with …
Read More »See Willie Nelson and Kermit the Frog Finally Perform 'Rainbow Connection' Together
In a much-anticipated duet more than 20 years in the making, Willie Nelson was finally joined onstage by Kermit the Frog to perform “Rainbow Connection” together Thursday at the Luck Reunion. The Oscar-nominated song was a hit for Kermit (and Jim Henson) after it featured in 1979’s The Muppet Movie, …
Read More »Hot Water Music Team With Turnstile Members, Thrice for New 'Vows' Songs
To give a taste of their upcoming album, Vows, Hot Water Music have chosen to highlight two collaborations with other punk bands. On “Remnants,” the band teamed with Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates and drummer Daniel Fang, and the musicians recorded “Fences” with Thrice. The album, which also contains collaborations with …
Read More »Flo Milli Rules the Stage at SXSW as Her Album Drops — Literally
On Wednesday night, Peso Pluma headlined a night of music that careened from música mexicana to urbano to Norteño-inflected folk at Rolling Stone’s Future of Music showcase, causing lines around the block. The next evening, the showcase pivoted in another, no less potent, direction, mixing up hip-hop with innovative sounds …
Read More »Meet the Grand Funk Railroad Keyboardist Who Spent 40 Years in Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »The Best of SXSW Day Three: Black Keys, Godcaster, May Rio, and More
SXSW 2024 is in full swing, complete with a new next-to-impossible ticket. The Black Keys continued the promo run they began Thursday afternoon with a keynote Q&A with Rolling Stone‘s Angie Martoccio by heading to Mohawk, a downtown club whose capacity is just a shade smaller than the arenas and …
Read More »The Black Crowes Sound Old as Hell (In a Good Way) on 'Happiness Bastards'
Back in the 1990s, the Black Crowes blew up out of Atlanta, playing soulful, swaggering classic rock in an era of alt-rock irony and grunge bellyaching. Even more impressively, the two guys at the heart of the band — singer Chris Robinson and his guitar-playing brother Rich — managed to …
Read More »Inventor of the First Karaoke Machine, Shigeichi Negishi, Dead at 100
Shigeichi Negishi, the Japanese engineer who gifted the world one of its greatest inventions — the karaoke machine — has died, The Wall Street Journal reports. He was 100. While Negishi’s death is just being reported now, he died of natural causes on Jan. 26 after a fall. His daughter, …
Read More »Kim Petras Says She Needed Therapy After 'Unholy' Success: It 'Felt Exposing and Scary'
When “Unholy” reached Number One in the U.S. and more than a dozen other countries, Kim Petras‘ life changed overnight. The success of the song, which she recorded with Sam Smith, led her to travel more to make appearances, and suddenly, “there were more eyeballs on me than ever before,” …
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