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Sabrina Carpenter tried to warn you. “The album is not for any pearl clutchers,” the “Espresso” pop goddess told Gayle King, before dropping her new album, the hotly awaited Man’s Best Friend. And she wasn’t kidding about that. Sabrina has returned with her most libidinally charged, riotously funny album — …

Darren Aronofsky wasn’t able to convince his fiancée to agree with his pick of Idles‘ scabrous 2017 track “Love Song” for the first dance at their wedding (they compromised on the Cure), but the director got the next best thing. The hard-edged U.K. band — often described as post-punk, a …

Love him or hate him, Drake isn’t showing signs of slowing down anytime soon. After suffering a blistering defeat in last year’s great Rap Civil War, he’s been methodically picking up the pieces, revitalizing his fanbase, and working to channel as much goodwill as he can. Luckily, long before Kendrick’s …

If Margo Price is taking a sharp turn into her traditional country roots, rest assured that “I’m a hard-headed woman/and I don’t owe you shit” will be the first words on the resulting album. “We need those songs. We need a candle in the darkness right now,” Price tells Rolling …

All bets were off in the Texas punk of the early 1980s. In Austin, the Dicks played drunk punk blues, and were led by Gary Floyd, a fiery queer man and vitriolic Communist. Meanwhile, San Antonio‘s own Fearless Iranians From Hell provoked audiences who were still stung by the 1980 …

K irk West didn’t look like a man trying to slip out of town unnoticed. Dressed in a $350 black-and-gold Versace-style shirt with a dragon perched on a champagne bottle on the back, the six-foot-six entrepreneur carried himself with the same air of confidence he’s projected for years. Yet, as …

Director Rob Reiner has never made a sequel in his long career, and he hadn’t ever contemplated a follow-up to the most beloved rock comedy ever made, 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap. But then Harry Shearer, who plays Tap bassist Derek Smalls, fought a long battle to reclaim ownership of …

Charley Crockett has seen his name in a lot of headlines over the past week, thanks not only to his funky new album Dollar a Day, but for an online feud with the country singer Gavin Adcock. After Crockett posted his thoughts about authenticity in country music on Instagram, Adcock …

Ever since she tested positive for the RAD51D gene, country singer Morgan Wade has taken preventative measures to avoid getting cancer. She underwent a double mastectomy in March 2024 and now is embarking on an IVF journey to get her eggs retrieved so that she can have a hysterectomy and …

This past weekend, Cross Canadian Ragweed capped the final Boys From Oklahoma show of their 2025 reunion in front of 40,000 sweaty fans inside McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas, with frontman Cody Canada promising, “We will see you guys next year.” Days later, the Red Dirt torchbearers are making good …