It took Stromae nine years to return to music. The reason, he says, was simple: “I needed to get inspired by normal stuff.” After seeing international success with his 2010 club-pop single “Alors on Danse” and making history as the first French-singing performer to sell out Madison Square Garden, in …
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BST Hyde Park London will host a history-making set in 2023 when Blackpink headlines the British Summer Time festival, crowning the four-piece as the first K-pop act to lead a major UK festival. Blackpink are scheduled to perform on July 2 at the festival presented by American Express. General sale …
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Balenciaga has officially cut ties with Kanye West following the rapper’s string of antisemitic and offensive remarks. Following its third-quarter earnings report Thursday, the fashion label’s parent company Kering said in a statement to WWD, “Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this …
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W elcome to Rolling Stone’s 2022 Musicians on Musicians package, the annual franchise where two great artists come together for a free, open conversation about life and music. Each story in this year’s series will appear in our November 2022 print issue, hitting stands on Nov. 1st. “My Capricorn sis!” …
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Ketchup and mustard are two of the least likely words to pop up in a songwriting session. But on the latest episode of the Jennifer Hudson Show, the host and her guest Babyface prove that no phrase is too outlandish to be made into a smooth R&B song. Using lyrical …
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Dame Judi Dench has called on Netflix to add a disclaimer to The Crown to note that the royal family series is a “fictionalized drama” that otherwise presents “an inaccurate and hurtful account of history.” After praising the series as the “brilliant but fictionalized account of events that it is,” …
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Taylor Swift flashes forward to her funeral to watch her bratty kids bicker over her estate in the wild new music video for her Midnights track “Anti-Hero.” The interstitial skit is just one facet of an endearingly goofy clip that, as Swift explained on Twitter, allowed her to let her …
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Three hours after releasing her album Midnights, Taylor Swift kept the surprises coming by dropping Midnights (3 a.m. Edition), an extended version of the LP that features seven additional songs. Swift had been promising that something “special” and “very chaotic” was coming and she delivered, calling these “3 a.m. tracks,” …
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The Beatles could pack an emotional punch like no other band. Their 1966 masterpiece Revolver is full of moments where John, Paul, George and Ringo reach right for the heart. But not “Yellow Submarine.” Until now. The world has always cherished this song as a cheerful kiddie novelty, something the …
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No one wants to see your thang-a-lang without consent. On Thursday night, the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Gale released “D Pic,” her edgy pop-rock single about receiving nasty, unsolicited sexts from men — and how they gotta fucking stop. The video for “D Pic” follows Gale (pronounced gah-leh) and a group …
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