What is going on here? Why are idiot fans throwing stuff during live shows? It’s reached a crisis point in the past couple weeks—a disturbing and loathsome epidemic of fan aggression against performers. On Wednesday, Kelsea Ballerini got hit in the face when a concertgoer threw a bracelet at her—just …
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Juvenile worked that, bounced that, served that and everything else during his NPR Music’s Tiny Desk concert. The rapper appeared on the popular live performance series to run through a 23-minute long set that featured amped up renditions of 10 songs in the top tier of his catalog, from “Set …
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Welcome to ourweekly rundownofthe best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Olivia Rodrigo returns with a biting single, Lil Uzi Vert leans into his metal influences, and Tainy enlists all of the best of reggaeton for a star-studded debut. Olivia …
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De La Ghetto has been a towering figure in the Latin music industry. The Puerto Rican artist, known for making major reggaeton hits, has always swerved between genres, adding in dashes of rap and R&B to his smooth sound and staying on top of rising artists before the masses. In …
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In the spring of 2021, Lucinda Williams chatted with Rolling Stone about her recovery from a stroke she’d had the previous November that had led to her being unable to play guitar. “The main thing is I can still sing. I’m singing my ass off, so that hasn’t been affected,” …
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With the release of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” just a few days away, Taylor Swift has shared a snippet of one of the album’s most anticipated breakup ballads. On Thursday, the new trailer for season two of The Summer I Turned Pretty released, featuring “Back To December (Taylor’s Version).” Swift …
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When Paul McCartney announced the Beatles were releasing one final song later this year, with vocals extracted from a John Lennon demo via a machine-learning tool, the press jumped on a narrative of an “AI Beatles song.” Confused fans feared they were about to hear an AI-generated Lennon. But the …
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She’s sliving in her music era! Playing off her signature and beloved catchphrase “That’s hot,” Paris Hilton premieres her new single “Hot One” with Rolling Stone Thursday. “Sage, they the shy one/Zane, the always high one/Tess is the lit one/Brett is the fit one/Oh shit, I forgot one!” sings Hilton …
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In May, Detroit rapper Veeze told Rolling Stone that he took things back to the drawing board after his Instagram page was removed last year. His fans were anticipating a follow-up to 2019’s Navy Wavy but felt like he had hit a period of complacency with rap. Having to run …
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For a long time, Olivia Rodrigo has had the title “Vampire” in a Notes App she keeps of potential song ideas. Then one day, after experiencing a personal situation that made her angry, she started playing around on the piano and brainstorming ideas. A song that felt perfect for that …
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