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John Prine would have turned 79 years old on Oct. 10. To celebrate his life and legacy, we joined Prine’s widow Fiona Whelan Prine and country music legend Carlene Carter at one the late songwriter’s favorite Nashville haunts: Brown’s Diner. Tucked into a booth in the dining room, Fiona Prine …

Rhett Miller stares across the classroom at the 14 sets of eyes staring back and lets his curiosity run free. This was early September, during Miller’s second class of the semester teaching a songwriting course at the New School in New York’s Greenwich Village. The Old 97’s frontman, with nearly …

Growing up, Jack Osbourne felt like he had to share his dad with the world. “He was always touring,” Ozzy’s youngest son, 39, tells Rolling Stone over Zoom from his Los Angeles home on Tuesday. “I really feel like it was in adulthood that we got to know each other, …

Leading up tothe Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. “There were so many incredible records,” says J.J. Italiano, head of Global Music Curation & Discovery …

Taylor Swift released her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, last week — and before it was even out for a full day, listeners were already pointing out similarities between her new songs and existing tracks by other artists. The comparisons were harmless, at first, but some of them …

On Nov. 19, Lainey Wilson will become the first woman to host the CMA Awards solo in 34 years. The last was Reba McEntire in 1991. Wilson, during an appearance on this week’s new episode of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, expressed disbelief at that statistic. “I looked it up …

Going into Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, part of the thrill was that it seemed like we were going to get Reputation-style anthems. She’d reunited with Max Martin for the first time since that excellent 2017 LP — and the showgirl themes opened up plenty of possibilities. Thematically, …

Leading up tothe Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. When it comes to country music, the Grammys tend to skew toward the traditional and musically …

As with all things related to the launch of any Taylor Swift album, all the components for The Life of a Showgirl were meticulously worked out and in place starting last week, from teaser trailers to release-day events to talk-show appearances. And all went according to plan — except, say …

Missy Elliott is “super-excited and thankful” that Rolling Stone just named 2001’s “Get Ur Freak On” the greatest song of the 21st century so far — and as the legendary artist reveals on our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, she’s also looking toward the future. For the first time since …