What is a folk festival to do after becoming a global news story? That was the central question for this year’s Newport Folk Festival, which over the past half-decade has drawn increased attention with a slew of surprise guests, world premieres, and special appearances — from Dolly Parton to Chaka …
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Lady Gaga will revive her special “Jazz and Piano” show for a new Las Vegas residency scheduled to kick off later this summer. The 12-concert run will launch Aug. 31 at Dolby Live at Park MGM, with shows scheduled through September and wrapping Oct. 4. Tickets will go on sale …
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People who spend all day spewing hate on the internet have mastered the art of being loud and wrong. A subset of that community recently aimed at Hayley Williams following the postponement of several Paramore concerts while she recovered from a non-contagious lung infection. From their perspective, as people who …
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After his 2018 album Astroworld, Travis Scott reached a commercial steeple that allowed him to sell candles and McDonalds meals and Forgiatto rims and anything else he wanted to pick up and wail, “It’s lit!” with. He carried that eye for consumerism into his Utopia rollout to middling effect. Even …
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Karol G‘s next chapter is on the horizon. The singer has announced that her forthcoming album Mañana Será Bonita (Bichota Season) is on the way. It’ll follow the February release of Mañana Será Bonita, which made history as the first LP from a solo Spanish-language female artist to reach number …
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A concertgoer who claims they were struck by Cardi B‘s microphone at the rapper’s Las Vegas show on Saturday has filed a police report, Rolling Stone has confirmed. “On July 30, 2023, an individual came into an LVMPD police station to report a battery,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department …
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Music runs through Halle Bailey‘s veins. Before she yearned to be part of your world as Ariel in The Little Mermaid, and before she left her stamp on R&B alongside her older sister as Chloë x Halle, the singer and actress was a little girl with an ambitious and musical …
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The late Sinead O’Connor was a major influence on generations of performers — Garbage‘s Shirley Manson among them. In her interview from the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Manson talked in depth about O’Connor. Here are her thoughts in her own words. To hear the whole podcast, go …
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Jason Aldean is riding the controversy behind his single “Try That in a Small Town” all the way to the top of the charts: The song is Number One on Billboard’s Hot 100, the publication announced on Monday. “Try That in a Small Town” was originally released in April with …
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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 …
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