Mick Fleetwood is among the many people suffering during the expansive wildfires currently sweeping Maui. The Fleetwood Mac drummer and co-founder shared that his restaurant, Fleetwood’s on Front Street, is one of the buildings that has burned down. “Maui and The Lahaina community have been my home for several decades,” …
Read More »Kool Herc and the History (and Mystery) of Hip-Hop's First Day
HIP-HOP WAS BORNINTHEBRONXINthe summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary,“Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout this year. Fifty years on, the details of that historic night in the Bronx — the night everyone now says gave birth to hip-hop …
Read More »Museum Curators Track Down Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Rookie Card' on 'Hip Hop Treasures'
The quest to build the perfect collection for the Universal Hip Hop Museum leads to a trove of Notorious B.I.G.’s artifacts in this new clip from the upcoming series, Hip Hop Treasures. The new show — premiering Aug. 12 on A&E — follows LL Cool J, Ice-T, and an assortment …
Read More »Duran Duran's Andy Taylor Says New Cancer Drug Has Given Him Five More Years
Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor says he expects to live for another “five years” thanks to a new medication he’s using to treat his prostate cancer. In an interview with BBC Breakfast, Taylor said a doctor reached out to him about the new treatment option after he revealed he was fighting …
Read More »Dolly Parton, Blake Shelton, Jelly Roll Will Tip Their Hats to the Judds on New Tribute Album
A little more than a year after the death of Naomi Judd, a couple dozen of her friends and admirers are saluting her and daughter Wynonna on an upcoming album of songs by the Judds. A Tribute to the Judds, due out Oct. 27, will find Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, …
Read More »Yellowcard Is Suddenly Huge Again — And They Don't Know Why
Yellowcard’s career trajectory has been anything but ordinary. The Florida-bred, violin-assisted foursome’s signature hit, the nostalgic title track of their 2003 major-label debut Ocean Avenue, is now a beloved pop-punk classic. But years went by without another smash, and by 2017, with their career seemingly stalled out for good, they …
Read More »Noname Is Back And Ready To Make Trouble on 'Sundial'
L.A.-via-Chicago rap poetFatimah Nayeema Warner took off with her 2015 mixtape Telefone and her 2018 albumRoom 25, with a rude-girl wit all her own. As she famously boasted, “My pussy wrote a thesis on colonialism.” It’s been a long wait, but Sundial is exactly what you were praying the new …
Read More »Daniel Lanois on the Moment Robbie Robertson Reset His Career
In 1986, ten years after the Band had played “The Last Waltz,” its final show with the original lineup, Robbie Robertson decided the time had come to return to music. He’d dabbled in acting and film scoring — not to mention some wild Hollywood times that he would later begin …
Read More »BTS' V Releases Smooth Solo Single 'Love Me Again'
BTS member V is bringing it back with the music video for “Love Me Again,” the first single from his upcoming debut solo album Layover. The visual released on Wednesday and features the star in a gold sequined top surrounded by stalactites hanging from the roof of a cave. Retro …
Read More »Rauw Alejandro Didn't Need to Share His Rosalia Breakup Song With the Entire World
Rauw Alejandro is in his post-breakup, sad boi era — and he just dropped a song dedicated to Rosalía that we could’ve all lived without. On Thursday, the Puerto Rican reggaetonero surprise-released “Hayami Hana,” dedicated to his ex-fiancée, detailing, in rap verses, the “things he wants to get off his …
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