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If you go to see Wilco in North Adams, Mass., on June 28, don’t expect to hear “Impossible Germany.” In fact, it’s probably best not to get your hopes up for any of Wilco’s big concert standbys on the first night of their biannual Solid Sound Festival, when they will …

When he takes our Zoom call, Tay Keith is on the move in Nashville, where he’s set up shop for Drumatized, the multifaceted company he runs with three of his former Middle Tennessee State University classmates. It’s the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend and he’s just dropped an EP primed …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Hootie & the Blowfish kick off their 2024 Summer Camp With Trucks Tour on May 30, but in March 2008, the Nineties rock band whose debut album, Cracked …

Drake has always been a magnet for attention. His strange journey has taken him from teen fame on Degrassi to blockbuster rap stardom. In 2024, his beef with Kendrick Lamar has blown up into one of the all-time biggest hip-hop beefs. They went from zero to 100 real quick, sending …

A year after hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, and only a few weeks after Kendrick Lamar’s feud with Drake culminated in a chart-topping track where he calls Drake a “colonizer,” the hottest topic on the rap internet right now is a white kid from St. Louis rapping over vintage-sounding Atlanta rap beats. …

I t’s a cloudy May afternoon in New York’s Greenwich Village as Grace Cummings saunters down Jones Street. The Melbourne–based singer-songwriter, who titled her new album Ramona after Bob Dylan’s “To Ramona,” then pauses positively at West Fourth Street for a photo in the same spot where Dylan posed with …

The Offspring‘s “Come Out and Play” (you know, the “gotta keep ’em separated” song) was all over MTV in 1994 — with a video that cost all of $5,000. The Nineties were full of unlikely breakthrough acts, but the Offspring were one of the few bands of the era who …

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …

Live Nation will have to prove it does not hold a monopoly over live events if it hopes to avoid a breakup with Ticketmaster, legal experts say. But in looking ahead at a possible years-long fight with the Department of Justice following their bombshell, 124-page lawsuit, the world’s largest concert …

Neil Young and Crazy Horse are about halfway through their North American tour, and there’s already a strong fan consensus that this is their best run in recent memory, perhaps even going back to the Nineties grunge era they helped kickstart. A big factor at play is the addition of …