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There was a moment when Megan Thee Stallion was in the studio laying down her latest single, “Cobra,” that hit like an epiphany. Artist/producer Diggy Lessard had just finished unleashing an epic guitar solo from his Gibson SG when the rapper proclaimed: “This is it. This is that thing right …

“I honestly just needed to hear Corin sing.” Carrie Brownstein was headed into a studio in Los Angeles last fall when her friend and longtime Sleater-Kinney bandmate Corin Tucker called to give her the name and number of someone at the U.S. Embassy in Italy. The embassy had been urgently …

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. Taylor Swift’s Midnights and SZA’s SOS feel like the undeniable front-runners for the Album of …

J ason Isbell was sitting backstage in Memphis in September, watching the Georgia/South Carolina football game on his laptop when a rock song with a killer riff started playing as CBS went to commercial. “At first I thought, ‘That sounds great, what is that?’” says the four-time Grammy winner. “And …

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. If the biggest song of the year (Morgan Wallen‘s “Last Night”) has a chance in …

L ately, DJ Khaled has been listening to a lot of Jay-Z. Namely The Blueprint, the 2001 opus that helped solidify Hov as a commercial juggernaut in hip-hop. On an August afternoon in Miami, in the living room of the more-than-12,000-square-foot South Beach mansion he’s affectionately dubbed “the Resort,” Khaled …

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. There’s been intense speculation about just what’s behind the dearth of hip-hop at the top …

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. Prestige carries weight in the Best Rap Song category. In the 20 times this particular …

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. After a couple of years of emerging artists feeling the brunt of how the pandemic …

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. Of all the top categories at the 2024 Grammys, Record of the Year — which …