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J.I.D is sitting in the green room of the Universal Music Group’s offices watching a replay of a football game. He had just finished eating some takeout when I walked in. The Atlanta MC has had hundreds of performances in his career, but he’s never quite had a set like …

Since mid-2022, heavy news and speculation have followed Offset. Rumblings of tension among his rap group Migos began when Quavo and Takeoff set off as a duo that May and continued even after Takeoff was tragically murdered last November. In recent months, things began to look lighter: He and Quavo …

When Queen + Adam Lambert launched the 2023 leg of their Rhapsody tour last week, they dipped deep into the Queen catalog and resurrected the 1984 deep cut “Is This the World We Created…?” for the first time since Lambert stepped into the role as frontman. The song was written …

Earlier this year, Darlene Love picked up the phone and heard a voice on the other end she didn’t quite recognize at first. “Doll, hi!” she heard. “This is Cher.” Love asked her to repeat who was calling. “Cher, bitch!” She was calling to see if Love would sing “Christmas …

The premiere of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour was the kind of glimmery spectacle only a superstar like Swift can create. From Swifties exchanging friendship bracelets with Taylor’s mom Andrea (by “Swifties,” we mean the writer typing this) to Beyoncé, yes, Beyoncé, posing for photos with Taylor on the red …

A little more than a decade ago, Alice Gerrard received an invitation to perform at a fiddle camp in Washington state. “Should I bring an older musician with me?” Gerrard, 76 at the time, asked her friend Suzy Thompson, who was organizing the event. Thompson laughed. “Alice,” she told her. …

Tattoos still spiral up the necks of Joel and Benji Madden, and they still dress in an upscale version of all-black skate wear in their forties. But these days, the brothers behind Good Charlotte spend more time in boardrooms than they do onstage, thanks to their management company, MDDN, and …

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 …

T HE STARS FULLY ALIGNED for Allison Russell during the creation of her second album, The Returner. Last year, for six days during the week of the winter solstice, Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles was her home base. Through its walls, she felt the creative buzz lingering from when …

The case for Shooter Jennings as one of the premier producers in music grows more compelling by the day, and you’d get no argument from Tanya Tucker. “He always listens to my heart,” Tucker tells Rolling Stone, offering a simple reason for Jennings’ rise behind the console. For Jennings, such …