Burna Boy earned his metaphorical flowers — and his very literal bras — as he ripped through a majestic two-hour set at New York’s Madison Square Garden, the first Nigerian headliner to do so at the famed venue. The first fire-engine red bra was thrust onstage at the beloved Afro-fusionist …
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Van Morrison‘s latest single appears to be the latest move in the singer’s multi-year feud with Robin Swann, the Northern Ireland Minister of Health who, last fall, filed a defamation lawsuit against the 76-year-old singer. Over a breezy R&B groove, Morrison spends nearly eight minutes on “Dangerous” extolling his truth-telling …
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Luke Combs has plotted out a busy touring schedule in 2022, making up for the lost time with various festival appearances at Stagecoach and New Orleans Jazzfest before he embarks on a summer stadium tour. When that trek is over, the “Tomorrow Me” singer will regroup and head out on …
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The Beach Boys will kick off a year-long celebration of their 60th anniversary in June with a vastly expanded edition of their greatest hits comp Sounds of Summer. When it was initially released in 2003, Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys contained 30 of the group’s …
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When she was an infant, Lola Kirke had a nurse who would sing Patsy Cline’s “Crazy” to her as a soothing gesture. She would later encounter the song in a new way in Jumpin’ Jim’s Ukulele Country music book, which she received as a teenager learning to play the ukulele. …
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Tegan and Sara have dropped new single “Fucking Up With Matters.” The track from their upcoming 10th studio album is their first new music released on the Mom+Pop label. Co-produced by John Congleton, the song addresses the “turbulence” the twin sibling musicians have gone through and grown from alongside the …
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A revelatory new biography of the Notorious B.I.G., Justin Tinsley’sIt Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him, is due out May 10, just before what would’ve been the Brooklyn legend’s 50th birthday. On the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Tinsley takes us through the …
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Robert Earl Keen was in his tour bus, riding down the interstate from D.C. to Charlotte in the early morning hours of Dec. 7, 2021, when he realized it was time to come to terms with a major life change. Lying awake in his bunk, Keen couldn’t stop thinking about …
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No need for popping pillies — a new Post Malone album is coming. (For real, this time.) On Wednesday, the musician announced the release of his album Twelve Carat Toothache on June 3 by simply posting a presave link featuring the album artwork: a blurred, red photo of his face. …
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Esmé Bianco, Marilyn Manson’s ex-girlfriend who is suing the singer for sexual assault and human trafficking, among other charges, has expanded her allegations against the singer, claiming that he interfered with her involvement in a planned tour video for Deftones. According to a motion filed Wednesday in the United States …
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