Zora is a new voice from Minneapolis who’s got it all — she raps, sings, produces, and wants to bring down unjust systems of economic exploitation. Take “Runnitup,” the lead single from her upcoming debut LP, Z1, out May 20 on Philly punk label Get Better Records. Listen once and …
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Donald Fagen has denied Aimee Mann’s claim that she was dropped as the opening act for Steely Dan’s new tour because, as she speculated, “they thought their audience wouldn’t like a female singer-songwriter.” In a statement to Rolling Stone, Fagen explained, “Well, first of all, the idea that I would …
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SXSW‘s second day was all about diversity. There were revelatory sounds from Africa, Turkey, and the U.K., all of them shot through with a sense of pride for the respective artists’ homelands. In some cases, that meant Texas and Tennessee, too. Here’s what we saw on the stage, in the …
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Aaliyah’s eponymous album — her third and final studio LP originally released in July 2001 — will receive its first-ever vinyl pressing in April via Vinyl Me, Please’s Essentials Record of the Month subscription program. The exclusive offering for VMP Essentials subscribers arrives as a two-LP set pressed on red …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Katy Perry will be taking her show on the water this summer as part of a new partnership with Norwegian Cruise Line. The singer was announced as the …
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Phil Lesh and Friends, Khruangbin, the War on Drugs, Black Pumas, Kamasi Washington, Animal Collective, and Margo Price are among the lineup for Sacred Rose, a new festival taking place August 26-28 at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois, located about 15 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. The lineup featuring more …
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It’s been flat-out exhilarating to watch Charli XCX elude conventional stardom for so many years. Though she’s thrown some tracks into the commercial vortex, she’s been too much of a free-thinking weirdo to let her boundless creativity get crushed out by mainstream expectations. Instead, she found a way to feed …
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The Cactus Blossoms mine a classic soft-rock vibe on “Everybody,” an easygoing duet with Jenny Lewis that appears on their 2022 album One Day. Appropriately, the song’s new video finds the three performers in colorful, retro-futuristic surroundings. Singing siblings Jack Torrey and Page Burkum are set against a faded pink …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Your car’s charging port may have started out as a way to light up cigarettes while on the road, but since then it’s evolved to be more of …
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An Ohio winery now locked in a legal battle with Prince‘s estate has floated a novel defense for its “Purple Rain” trademark, saying the late musician’s famed aversion to alcohol means consumers would never link his legacy to its adult beverages. “To the extent Prince was famous, he was equally …
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