If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. A little over a year ago, global superstars BTS hit the stage for a performance in front of over 50,000 fans for Busan’s World Expo 2030 bid at …
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Jelly Roll is the year’s breakout country star, a larger-than-life character with so much heat right now that the producers of the CMA Awards chose him to open the show. The face-tattooed singer-rapper from Antioch, Tennessee, sang a boisterous “Need a Favor” with help from an unannounced guest: Wynonna Judd. …
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After an inaugural year that featured performances from stars like Lil Baby, Snoop Dogg, Seventeen and Maluma in 2022, Los Angeles festival LA3C is significantly overhauling its sophomore edition this weekend, switching locales from a traditional festival ground at LA State Historic Park to a combo of four venues in …
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Jelly Roll was named New Artist of the Year at the 57th annual CMA Awards. “Most importantly there is something poetic about a 39-year-old man winning New Artist of the Year,” Jelly Roll hollered from the stage. “Keep going, baby! Success is on the other side of it.” But the …
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Mean Girls is headed back to movie theaters in musical form — not that you’d really get that from the highly-anticipated film’s first trailer. Taking the two-minute clip at face value, you’d more or less expect a full-on Mean Girls remake for Gen Z, all the classic bits, quips, and …
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A half-century rock mystery has finally been solved as researchers have discovered the identity of the man on the cover of Led Zeppelin’s IV. As the story goes, singer Robert Plant discovered the photo of the elderly man carrying a bushel of twigs on his back in an antique shop. …
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Laura Jane Grace makes an appeal to your ears — the two most important holes in your head, at least for her purposes — with the short-and-giddy title track of her upcoming album, Hole in My Head. “You can try to outrun all the pain you come from,” she sings …
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Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. Taylor Swift’s Midnights and SZA’s SOS feel like the undeniable front-runners for the Album of …
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J ason Isbell was sitting backstage in Memphis in September, watching the Georgia/South Carolina football game on his laptop when a rock song with a killer riff started playing as CBS went to commercial. “At first I thought, ‘That sounds great, what is that?’” says the four-time Grammy winner. “And …
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A Los Angeles judge has sided with Katy Perry and her partner Orlando Bloom in the superstar couple’s plight to purchase a Montecito mansion from Texas millionaire Carl Westcott. In a tentative decision expected to become permanent after a 10-day waiting period, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph Lipner …
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