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The family of Lauren Smith-Fields intends to sue Bridgeport, Connecticut over city authorities’ handling of the 23-year-old’s untimely death, the family announced at a news conference Sunday. The family is also asking that an independent agency be brought in to handle the investigation of the death. Smith-Fields’ body was found …

After Blackpink’s buzzed-about set at Coachella 2019, hopes were high for more K-pop acts to be announced for this year’s festival, which returns after two years off due to Covid. Unfortunately, no K-pop artists made the bill for Coachella 2022, although the lineup does include Korean hip-hop trio Epik High, …

A victim advocate formerly assigned to the Special Forces at Fort Bragg, North Carolina was placed on administrative leave, investigated for two years, and ultimately fired after she raised questions about the military’s handling of a Delta Force soldier accused of rape. The victim advocate, Lindsey Knapp, was a civilian …

W elcome to Rolling Stone’s 2021 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 2021 print issue, hitting newsstands on November 2nd. Willow Smith has …

Lorde will release her long-awaited third album, Solar Power, on August 20th via Republic Records. The album announcement arrives a couple of weeks after Lorde released the album’s title track, which marked her first new music since the arrival of her last record, 2017’s Melodrama. Lorde co-wrote and produced “Solar …

UPDATE (9/17): The Smashing Pumpkins, Patti Scialfa and Matt & Kim have been added to the lineup of the Sea.Hear.Now Festival, which will take place September 18th and 19th, 2021. Next year’s festival will primarily feature artists that were already slated to play it this year, before it was ultimately …

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards went on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music show this week to promote the new Rolling Stones single, “Living in a Ghost Town,” which also gave them an opportunity to respond to Paul McCartney’s recent claim that the Beatles were a better band than the Stones. “[The …

Storied British Invasion outfit the Hollies will embark on their first full tour of the United States in 18 years this summer. The Road Is Long tour will launch July 8th at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California, and over the next month, the Hollies will criss-cross the U.S. stopping …

Juicy J and DJ Paul have announced a string of Three 6 Mafia U.S. tour dates, which begin next month, as Billboard reports. Their 2020 tour follows last year’s reunion concerts. Their 2020 trek will make stops in Denver, Colorado; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Cleveland, Ohio; New Orleans, Louisiana; Charlotte, North Carolina …

Now that Fleetwood Mac have wound up their world tour, guitarist Mike Campbell is turning his attention to his band the Dirty Knobs. The group of Los Angeles-based musicians, led by the Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist, is releasing their debut album Wreckless Abandon on March 20th. You can …