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In the blistering heat of June 2013, as Egypt teetered on the brink of monumental change, Cairokee, the country’s trailblazing rock band, took the stage in front of hundreds of thousands gathered at a sit-in outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace. What followed wasn’t just a performance — it was an …

Call them the concert illuminati. You’re at a show in an arena or stadium, watching Bruce Springsteen, Chris Stapleton, Coldplay, Madonna, or Weezer, when suddenly the darkness is dotted with dozens, hundreds, then thousands points of light — all from cellphones. The origin story of this concert ritual is a …

Just about a decade ago, Midland, then a newly formed country band, landed in Nashville. Making their way to Broadway and greater Music Row, the Dripping Springs, Texas, trio of Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson, and Cameron Duddy noticed something peculiar. “We all remember vividly just how different we felt walking …

It still haunts him, what happened on the bus after a show in Missoula, Montana. It was 2017, and Chase Rice, on tour to support his album Lambs & Lions, had ordered a bunch of barbecue from a local restaurant and thought it might be a nice gesture to invite …

Hip-hop is ripe to be capitalized on, and GOP operatives are taking advantage while trying to take over swing states. Already, artists like Fivio Foreign, Kodak Black, and Sexyy Red have advocated for Donald Trump in various ways this election cycle (some with the help of Billy McFarland). Trump’s campaign …

Daniel J. Levitin is hardly your typical neuroscientist and writer. With his background as a musician, songwriter, and producer, he’s helped Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell with input on compilations, signed new-wave bands back in the Eighties, and had an uber-backstage pass to the Police reunion tour, where he was …

David Gilmour just released a new album, Luck and Strange, and he’s about to kick off his first tour since 2016 —as for any other future career plans, he’s taking it day by day. Might this be his final tour? “Well, it could be, obviously,” he tells Andy Greene in …

Gwen Stefani has been busy, from appearing on The Voice to releasing standalone singles to a Las Vegas residency to performing with husband Blake Shelton to even reuniting with No Doubt. However, the one thing that’s been missing these past eight years was a new album, but that changes on …

Audrey Nuna has been thinking a lot about duality, and how two polar opposite feelings and emotions can exist at the same time. It’s part of what inspired her album Trench, which she exclusively announces with Rolling Stone. She’s also sharing her new single “Mine,” which showcases a darker and …

Over the past few years, David Gilmour and Roger Waters have beefed about everything from control of the Pink Floyd Facebook page to the war in Ukraine. They communicate primarily through lawyers and extremely caustic Tweets. But they finally found something they could agree on when Ice-T approached them this …