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“Experimental pop” is probably the most succinct descriptor for the music made by Brooklyn duo Water From Your Eyes. But it’s also a little bland, which is why singer/vocalist Rachel Brown follows it with the more expressive “dance punk, question mark?” and “art rock, shrug.” They also admit they do, …

HIP-HOP WAS BORNin the Bronx in the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary,“Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout this year. I try to be deliberate about describing it as a “car crash” and resist writing “accident,” because I’m …

More than 30 years into his career, Juanes is making music exactly how he wants to. The Medellín-born pop rocker became a household name in the early 2000s with romantic ballads like “Es Por Ti” and pop-rock earworms like “La Camisa Negra.” On his new album, Vida Cotidiana (Everyday Life), …

J anelle Monáe slides down the front zipper on her onesie, slings the suit down her back, and wiggles her bare ass toward about 20 of her dear friends. It’s game night at Wondaland West, the homey Los Angeles campus where Janelle works and communes, complete with a studio, living …

Beyoncé‘s Renaissance tour, a stadium-shaking dance party built around last year’s album of the same name, won’t begin its U.S. run until a July 12 show in Philadelphia, but thanks to TikTok and YouTube, stateside fans already have a decent sense of the show. It begins with Beyoncé essentially serving …

Brandy Clark could probably use a little rest. In the week before she sits down with me in Nashville, she’s been in New York to appear on Today — which required a 5 a.m. glam appointment— then attended a Tony Awards luncheon before heading to Los Angeles for another event, …

James McMurtry took the title of his 2002 song “Red Dress” quite literally while playing a string of concerts earlier this month. The songwriterperformed the song at gigs in Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee —and, on Friday night, in New Braunfels, Texas —dressed in drag to protest an increasing slate of …

Bad Bunny has been laying low after his historic Coachella performance last month, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been working on new music. On Thursday, the Puerto Rican star released “Where She Goes,” an unexpected track that packs a few surprises. First of all, the track title is in …

Forty-nine years ago, a front-page headline in Nashville’s Tennessean proclaimed “Marty’s a Mandolin Pro at 15,” heralding Marty Stuart’s teenaged role in Lester Flatt’s late-period band Nashville Grass. Stuart would also tour with Johnny Cash and achieve mainstream country success before establishing himself and his longtime band, the Superlatives, as …

If you were ever 16, clumsy, and shy, Andy Rourke’s bass is part of the story of your life. That’s why the music world is in shock and grief today, mourning the beloved Smiths bassist, who died from pancreatic cancer, only 59. His bass was the most underrated element in …