Marilyn Manson’s penalty for pursuing failed defamation and emotional distress allegations against Westworld actress Evan Rachel Wood and artist Illma Gore has ballooned to nearly half a million dollars. The hefty legal tab first hit six figures back on Jan. 29, when a Los Angeles judge ordered Manson, whose legal …
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When Jennifer Lopez started working on This Is Me… Now, she knew a lot of people wouldn’t get the full concept at first. Yes, she was planning an album that would be a direct sequel to her 2002 LP This Is Me… Then, an album she wrote when she was …
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Jennifer Lopez marked the release of her ninth studio album This Is Me… Now with a visit to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday. When discussing the inspiration behind her new record, Lopez said the process of being back in the studio and working on the project made …
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This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published in partnership with Rolling Stone. In many ways,rock musician Wayne Kramer was a true radical. The former guitarist for the protopunk band the MC5 — who died Feb. 2 of cancer at age 75 — was known for the …
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Vampire Weekend will hit the road this summer for a lengthy tour in support of their upcoming album Only God Was Above Us. Following the band’s sold-out, album-introducing, solar eclipse show in Austin, the 45-show trek kicks off in earnest April 27 at New Orleans’ Jazz Fest, and loops around …
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Grupo Frontera isn’t giving up on love. The Mexican American band knows how to pull at the heartstrings, and the group members have done it again with the new single “Quédate Bebé.” In a video premiering exclusively on Rolling Stone, Grupo Frontera performs the song on a rooftop and urges …
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Paramore have declined a Tennessee resolution honoring the band for their recent Grammy win after the state’s House of Representatives rejected a similar resolution celebrating Allison Russell. Earlier this week, Democratic Rep. Justin Jones introduced the two resolutions to honor the Volunteer State’s Grammy winners. While Paramore’s resolution passed through …
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Eddie Wilson could tell stories about the Armadillo World Headquarters, the storied Austin music venue he founded in 1970, for hours. He’ll tell you about how “nowhere else in the world” had ever treated Charlie Daniels so good, or the “phonebook thick” contract ZZ Top made him sign, or maybe …
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If you’ve attended a mainstream country concert in the past decade, you’re probably familiar with the part of the set where the headliner sprinkles in a non-obvious cover from an adjacent genre like pop, R&B, or classic rock. It’s a move with any number of purposes: to show an artist’s …
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Dave Grohl joined Anthrax’s Charlie Benante and Scott Ian (collectively dubbed G.B.I) to cover Bad Brains‘ “The Regulator” from their self-titled 1982 debut album. The rendition is a Record Store Day exclusive with only 3000 copies pressed and will be released on April 20. All proceeds will also go towards …
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