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Chappell Roan has taken the title of “The Giver” to heart, gracing fans with album-level promo (Billboards! A secret phone number! An instantly controversial Call Her Daddy interview!) for the Shania-esque stand-alone single. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian …

ESG’s Renee Scroggins may be over 60, but her voice still has the same mix of joy, mischievousness, and don’t-fuck-with-us sass when she sings “Moody” or “Erase You” that she had when she was a teenager performing with her sisters in the 1970s and early 1980s. “I had never heard …

“There’s a band playing in my head all the time,” Ellis Bullard says. “The real magic is trying to capture what they’re playing and trying to emote it and get it out.” Bullard hails from Austin, where fans in the city’s hardcore honky-tonks like Sam’s Town Point, Sagebrush and White …

When Craig Finn wants to make an L.A. album, he doesn’t mess around. He might be best known as the Minnesota-via-Brooklyn frontman of the Hold Steady, a punk bar-band wordsmith specializing in down-and-out tales with a Midwest flavor. But on his great new Always Been, he takes inspiration from Southern …

It’s official: the Beatles movie project is really happening. Director Sam Mendes announced this week he’s making four films about John, Paul, George, and Ringo, opening in theaters in April 2028. After months of rumors, he finally confirmed the cast at Cinema Con in Las Vegas. Paul McCartney is Paul …

So you know your Taylor Swift. You’ve heard the albums. You’ve sung along with the classic tunes and traded the friendship bracelets. You’ve spent way too much time decoding all the Easter eggs she hides in her lyrics, videos, album covers. You’ve screamed all 10 minutes of “All Too Well” …

N ew York’s a hard place to do psychedelics,” GIFT frontman TJ Freda says. “It’s really intense here. Stuff’s always moving so quick, and everyone’s getting thrown around. … I’ll save the big cathartic, psychedelic experiences for really special moments.” That said, the city’s hectic pace hasn’t stopped him or …

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Miley Cyrus takes on the calamitous state of the world with Eighties synths and bold proclamations, Ed Sheeran incorporates Persian melodies into his first single of …

On the new Skrillex album, Fuck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!!, which the iconic EDM producer surprise released earlier this week, fans might’ve noticed the absurdist producer tags sprinkled throughout: Drops delivered by what sounds like a radio host reciting lines like: “Shadow Wizard Skrillex …

“I love the fact that people describe Soulection as a genre,” Joe Kay says on Zoom ahead of his newest milestone as a face and co-founder of one of the most influential music collectives of the last decade. For nearly 700 episodes, Kay has hosted Soulection’s once-underground online radio show. …