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In 2016, at what became an ill-fated celebration to hopefully usher in the first female president, there was not one country music performer at the Democratic National Convention. There were pop stars like Demi Lovato, Lenny Kravitz, and Lady Gaga, but there wasn’t a single performance that drew from the …

O nce, I was sitting in the apartment of WestBam, Germany’s iconic techno DJ, at Berlin Alexanderplatz, when Juan Atkins’ name came up. Without him, we all would be nothing — that’s how WestBam described him. I was surprised to learn that the two had never met. It was a …

It started, as musical happenings sometimes do, with SoundCloud. About five years ago, Matt Sullivan, head of the indie label Light in the Attic, was turned on to a playlist that featured, as he recalls, “funky Seventies stuff, ambient modern classical, and disco.”A few songs reminded him of Cocteau Twins …

When Shelby Lynne returned to Nashville after 25 years, she believed her record-making days were through. “I was over it and tired of it, and I didn’t think there was any interest,” the songwriter tells Rolling Stone in her signature raspy Southern drawl. Perhaps she’d write some songs and perform …

The higher Muscadine Bloodline soars, the more grounded Charlie Muncaster gets. “One of the biggest compliments that drives me,” Muncaster tells Rolling Stone, “is when someone says, ‘I can’t believe how normal you guys are.’ There’s something about this that fuels me, because you really can be who you are, …

Somewhere in the sleepy suburbs of Philadelphia, a 23-year-old jokester is committed to a bit that will either make you laugh, get you to sing along, utterly baffle you, or all three. Earth Kenan Salazar has found his calling in creating pitch-perfect covers of classic rock songs that sub in …

A few months before his death, Craig Mack was finally ready to talk. On the outskirts of Walterboro, South Carolina, where he had been living since 2007, the former rapper made himself comfortable in an armchair inside a well-lit hotel room. Prepping for his first interview in years, he stashed …

Welcome to ourweeklyrundownofthebest new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week is filled with stellar collaborations and highly-anticipated album releases: Lady Gaga roars back on a vocally charged single with Bruno Mars, Lisa and Rosalia mesh their auras to create magic, Tinashe …

Somehow, Donald Trump bolstered his 2024 campaign with a feature on a rap record. Today, Fivio Foreign and Kodak Black dropped “ONBOA47RD,” a Trump endorsement where Kodak concludes that “I ain’t even see this many Black people freed during the Obama days/Told her she can have anything she want, just …

This story was originally published in the April 3, 2003, issue of “Rolling Stone.” JACK RUSSELL MIGHT have piled on a few pounds, but his blues-rock band Great White, twenty-five years old, was thriving in the winter of 2003. Guitarist Mark Kendall had quit drinking — which had nearly killed …