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Nsqk owes a lot to a broken-down computer his uncle gave him when he was in middle school. “He had given me his old laptop with, like, Windows Vista on it,” the 26-year-old artist remembers with a laugh. “It barely worked.” Yet somehow, Nsqk — whose real name is Rodrigo …

Late last spring, Lorén Aldarondo was halfway through her shift waiting tables when her phone buzzed. It was her music manager, which puzzled her because he typically didn’t call when she was on the clock. Curious, she answered, and was told she needed to get on a conference call immediately. …

There’s no pretense around Anycia, the Southern belle whose alluring voice and unabashed authenticity have made her a rising star. When she logs onto Zoom for this interview, she’s relaxing on her couch. Talking with her feels more like FaceTiming with a friend; at one point, she has to pause …

Lola Young never intended to be a TikTok phenom. And yet, if you thumb through the app right now, there’s a solid chance your entire timeline will be deploying her 2024 megahit “Messy” to soundtrack their daily moments of mundanity. What makes a soul-pop song by a 24-year-old from South …

From the moment Palestinian-Canadian singer-songwriter Nemahsis stepped on stage at Chicago’s Ramova Theater last fall, she had the crowd locked in. Her movements were understated and free, her presence magnetic — graceful twirls one moment, piercing eye contact the next. Performing as part of a benefit concert for Gaza, she …

I t’s impossible to overstate Bootsy Collins’ influence. Since joining James Brown’s band 55 years ago this month, Collins has made sturdy, buoyant bass lines, which stretch out all over the place before returning to the one, the bedrock of funk. The recordings he cut with Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic, and …

When Jesse Colin Young’s death was announced on Monday, it was inevitable that “Get Together” — the peace-and-brotherhood anthem that he and the Youngbloods turned into a decades-long radio staple —would be mentioned first. Young neither wrote it nor was the first to record it. But even after it’s been …

Growing up in North Wales, electronic musician Kelly Lee Owens didn’t have a lot of immediate access to live music. “We had a community center, which was probably the closest that you would get to having some kind of stage,” she recalls, hours before playing the Cardiff date of her …

Rema closed out Rolling Stone’s Future of Music Showcase at SXSW last week with an electric performance of perfected charisma and rage. But, just last month, in a much quieter moment, Rema gave us an intimate look into his habits, tastes, goals, and history for his first Rolling Stone cover …

A new era of Beach Boys history will begin this summer when Al Jardine and the Pet Sounds Band launch what they hope will be their inaugural tour. The Pet Sounds Band is a new name for longtime members of Brian Wilson‘s backing group, who have been inactive since Wilson …