During the peak of the pandemic, the Puerto Rican rapper PJ Sin Suela spent countless hours in the hospital. He intubated hundreds of people. He pulled back-to-back 24-hour shifts. He checked pulses and oxygen levels nonstop. He delivered good and bad news to families. He got Covid and recovered. And …
Read More »Young the Giant Seek a Deeper Reality on 'Wake Up'
Young the Giant have spent the past decade-plus crafting music that centers around complex struggles most experience at least once in our lives, and finding deeper meanings to life’s major questions — you know, the type of questions that help when tailoring one’s identity. On their latest single, “Wake Up,” …
Read More »Maggie Rogers Takes Her Song 'Horses' for a Ride Through a Field in New Music Video
Maggie Rogers brings her new song “Horses” to some wide-open fields in the new music video for the Surrender track. The video, which the singer-songwriter co-directed with frequent collaborator Michael Scanlon, was shot in upstate New York. It finds Rogers, armed with an acoustic guitar, delivering an emphatic and effusive …
Read More »Kelsea Ballerini Finds Everything 'Subject to Change' on New Album
Kelsea Ballerini will examine the forces shaping and reshaping her life with the new album Subject to Change this fall. The follow-up to her 2020 album Kelsie, Subject to Change will be released on Sept. 23. “In my younger years, the idea of change scared me. It had proven to …
Read More »Finneas and Claudia Sulewski Make Us Wish We Were Boo'd Up in Paris in New Video
Oh, to have a boo — and to be in Paris. On Friday, Finneas dropped the phone-recorded music video for his new song “Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa,” an ode to his girlfriend Claudia Sulewski — and we’re going to admit it: we’re lowkey jealous of how cute these two are. …
Read More »Paramore Hitting the Road on Tour for First Time Since 2018
Paramore will return to the road on a new tour for the first time in four years this fall. The trek, which kicks off Oct. 2 at the Mechanics Bank Theater in Bakersfield, California, includes some previously announced festival slots, including Austin City Limits and When We Were Young, the …
Read More »Israeli Heartthrob Mergui Drops First English-Language Single 'Sucks to Know You'
Mergui has been a household name in Israel for a while now, but with his first-ever single in English, he’s ready for U.S. audiences to get to know him, too. On Friday, the curly-haired heartthrob released his single “Sucks to Know You,” a middle-fingers-up, guitar-driven anthem about healing from heartbreak. …
Read More »Celebrating — and Arguing About — the Best Pop of 2022 So Far
From the Weeknd’s Dawn FM to Omar Apollo’s Ivory to Sky Ferreira’s “Don’t Forget” and Lizzo’s “About Damn Time,” the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now dives deep into the best pop songs and albums of the year so far. Staff writer Tomás Mier joins host Brian Hiatt for …
Read More »Omar Apollo Gets Romantic on His New Single — and He's Got More New Music on the Way
Omar Apollo has been enjoying a career high since dropping his excellent album Ivory back in April — but he’s not done releasing new music. On Friday, he shared “Archetype,”an emotional R&B song that shows off his vocal range and extends the sonic universe he built on his full-length debut. …
Read More »'J-Hope Isn't Limited to Bright Things': The BTS Star Breaks Down His Full-Length Solo Debut
RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook haveofficially been together as BTS since 2013, working tirelessly while becoming the biggest band in the world. The group recently announced it would be embarking on a new chapter together, one that, for now, places an emphasis on solo activities. Although …
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