Three of Lizzo’s former dancers have filed a lawsuit against the singer, accusing her of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment stemming from incidents that allegedly took place beginning in 2021 and through 2023. The accusations follow the plaintiffs’ participation in a reality TV show contest for the …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo Just Dropped One Hell of a Track List for Her New Album
Days after teasing song titles in a messy bedroom — complete with violet bedsheets, a skateboard, and several instruments on the rug — Olivia Rodrigo has finally revealed the Guts track list. Her follow-up to Sour, out Sept. 8, doesn’t have a single boring song title: There’s “All-American Bitch,” “Ballad …
Read More »Why Tyler Childers Put a Gay Love Story in His New Video
Silas House, the poet laureate of Kentucky, was on a car ride with Tyler Childers when the songwriter pressed play on a new song he’d recorded called “In Your Love.” House was floored by what he heard. But then Childers made a request: Would House — an acclaimed authorwhose first …
Read More »Wilco Contend With Getting Kicked Out of Someone's Heart on 'Evicted'
Wilco are back with a new song, “Evicted,” which will appear on their next album, Cousin, out Sept. 29. “Evicted” is, in many ways, quintessential Wilco, with its easy but moody country-rock palette. But there are flourishes of what celebrated Welsh musician Cate Le Bon — who produced Cousin — …
Read More »A MAGA Preacher Condemned a Drag Queen. Then Her Album Topped the Christian Charts
It’s never a good thing, per se, to get called out on Elon Musk’s Twitter.com by a person with more than 100,000 followers and the descriptor “contributor TPUSAfaith” in their bio. But when it happened last week to drag queen Flamy Grant and singer-songwriter Derek Webb, the pair were more …
Read More »Travis Scott Plots Concert at Rome's Circus Maximus After Canceled Egyptian Pyramid Show
Travis Scott‘s determination to perform his new album Utopia at an ancient international monument is sending him to Italy. The rapper announced that in one week, on Aug. 7, he will bring his latest live show to Circus Maximus, an entertainment stadium and public park in Rome that used to …
Read More »Taylor Swift Gives Over $55 Million in Bonuses to Everyone on Colossal Eras Tour
Taylor Swift‘s Era’s Tour has become one of the biggest live spectacles of the year, lauded for her historical performances, gorgeous set designs, dazzling costumes, cutting-edge lighting effects, and more. The ability to pull off a show of that scale, night after night, takes a phenomenal team to make it …
Read More »Why Sinéad O'Connor Was 'One of the Most Incredible Women of Modern Times'
The late Sinéad O’Connor was “one of the most incredible women of modern times,” Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, praising her as a “monster musician” who was a major influence on her own work —and on the entire Nineties. “Up until …
Read More »Lady Gaga Remembers 'Magical Power' Shared With Tony Bennett: 'I Will Miss My Friend Forever'
Long before the death of Tony Bennett, who died earlier this month at the age of 96, Lady Gaga had been mourning the loss of a dear friend and collaborator. Despite the 50 years between them, the pop singer and the beloved standards crooner found a transformative connection through music …
Read More »Kelly Clarkson Lays Down the Law: If You Throw Something at Her, Make Sure It's a Diamond
As musicians seemingly everywhere face a ceaseless deluge of projectiles whipped from the crowd, Kelly Clarkson is laying down some ground rules: Anyone thinking of chucking something at her on stage better make it worth her while. Over the weekend, Clarkson kicked off her “Chemistry” residency in Las Vegas, and …
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