The reunited Alice Cooper Group are getting ready to unleash The Revenge of Alice Cooper, the band’s first album in 50 years featuring the surviving original members, on July 25 — and they’ve given another taste from the record with “Wild Ones.” The song follows the album’s first single, “Black …
Read More »Raphael Named Latin Grammy's Person of the Year
The Latin Recording Academy announced on Tuesday that the Spanish singer and actor Raphael will be honored as the 2025 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year at the Latin Grammys. The 82-year-old artist, known for a robust voice and a theatrical performance style, boasts a six-decade musical career. Born …
Read More »iHeartRadio Music Festival 2025: Ed Sheeran, Tate McRae, Mariah Carey to Perform
iHeartRadio Music Festival will return to the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sept. 19 and 20 with performances from Ed Sheeran, Tate McRae, Mariah Carey, Lil Wayne, Jelly Roll, and more. The event will be hosted by Ryan Seacrest, with both days of performances broadcast across iHeartMedia radio stations …
Read More »Live From Macclesfield, It's Cassia!
The post-industrial town of Macclesfield, England, has a rather unfortunate reputation due to its tiny size, perpetually grey skies, limited employment opportunities, and lack of even a single movie theater. At a low point in 2004, the Local Futures Group called it the “least cultured” place in England. When tourists …
Read More »McKinley Dixon Does It All For the Art
McKinley Dixon is a rapper who is deeply invested in the art of writing. His sturdy yet rigid flow might not dazzle, but he impresses with imaginative lyricism. “That’s the summer my mama raised a soldier/I look at pictures now, and all that’s changed is grinded down molars,” he raps …
Read More »Neil Young Invites Donald Trump to Summer Tour After Springsteen Spat
Neil Young is a little over two weeks away from the launch of his Love Earth world tour. And in a new post on the Neil Young Archives, he’s inviting longtime fan Donald Trump to come and check it out. “When I tour the USA this summer, if there is …
Read More »Lil Wayne Celebrates Over 20 Years of 'Tha Carter' With New Tour
It turns out Lil Wayne’s first headlining show at Madison Square Garden on June 6 will kick off an entire North American tour supporting Tha Carter VI, his latest album set to drop the same day. The tour will also recognize over 20 years of the rapper’s Tha Carter album …
Read More »Turnstile's Inspired Hardcore Impressionism
Turnstile’s much-anticipated follow-up to 2021’s massive Glow On is like a mysterious gallery. It’s not so much a collection of tracks, but impressions, aural vignettes that are more about a feeling than a message — a vibe that listeners can pursue at their leisure, like wandering through an echoing portrait …
Read More »Clipse's Kendrick Lamar Reveal Solves Their Mystery Verse Saga — Sort Of
Yesterday, Clipse made waves when GQ revealed that they have left Def Jam Recordings amid a spat over Kendrick Lamar’s appearance on their upcoming Let God Sort Em Out project. The Virginia duo discussed the situation further during a recent Rolling Stone interview in Manhattan. Before we knew that Roc …
Read More »Meet Lily Seabird, an Unflinching Songwriter Who'd Make Leonard Cohen Proud
L ast spring, Lily Seabird was walking through downtown Burlington, Vermont, around 1 a.m., singing to herself. Still a little buzzed from a night out, her phone long past dead, she sang the words out loud as they came to her: “We walk these streets we’ve come to know/Memories live …
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