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For all the talk of authenticity in country music, few artists are truly willing to go there when it comes to opening up about tough times in their lives. That’s not the case with Ashley Monroe, whose new album, the stellar Tennessee Lightning, is informed in part by what she …

D avid Byrne strolls into his downtown Manhattan office around noon and promptly removes all of his footwear. He’s been in this prewar building only for a few months, but it’s already unmistakably his own, looking as much like a work space as it does like a museum of the …

Kiss co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley —who will be among this year’s Kennedy Center Honors recipients after Donald Trump‘s takeover and populist revamping there —haven’t had much to say about the president during his second term. But before that, they were fairly vocal about Trump, with opinions from Simmons, …

Author Peter Ames Carlin, who previously wrote the biography “Bruce,” digs into the origins of one of Bruce Springsteen‘s most beloved albums 50 years after its release in his new book, “Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run.” Carlin conducted new interviews with Springsteen, the E Street Band, …

W hen Jonny Fritz shows up to a six-million-dollar home in Sonoma County, California, for a house showing, the listing agent appears perplexed. “No apologies needed,” Fritz, sporting a black t-shirt, his trademark bushy beard, and a proudly receding hairline, says before entering the 4,000-square-foot home. “I never look like …

Ian Shelton doesn’t remember why he was at the airport that day. Maybe to visit his girlfriend, or perhaps a tour stop with his band, Militarie Gun. Regardless, he was feeling decidedly even-keeled when he recorded the tragic voice memo that kicks off the band’s latest record, God Save the …

They’re the intimate, private moments that fans of classic rockers never get to see. Steven Tyler, hammer and nails in hand, building a doghouse for rescued animals. Mick Jagger, Elton John, and Rod Stewart harmonizing at Ozzy Osbourne’s memorial service. Jagger and Tyler cheering up a bedridden Phil Collins in …

T o tell the truth, Andry Kiddos can’t remember exactly when he started producing music. He must have been around 13 or 14, just tinkering around on a couple of programs he downloaded from the internet, but before he knew it, he was making full-blown songs. “It was just about …

The days leading up to the launch of a new K-pop group are often hectic and intense. Years of training typically go into preparing a group — not just in music and dance, but also often in areas like English, all to get them ready for global stardom. Now BIGHIT …

“I knew I had done something remarkable,” John Fogerty says of his years with Creedence Clearwater Revival in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “In a sense, I did what the Beatles did, but I did it all by myself. I didn’t have two other guys to write …