Producer Infinity Knives’ adventurous, electronic-driven tracks have been the perfect sound bed for Brian Ennals’ sharp social commentary and self-effacing sense of humor, going back to their joint 2020 project, Rhino XXL. That mesh is displayed on the Maryland artist’s latest project, A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears. On …
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It would be hard for Role Model not to feel like he’s on top of the world right now. The 27-year-old musician released his second studio album,Kansas Anymore,back in July with an expanded deluxe version in February, and he spent a month on the road with Gracie Abrams this fall …
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A horse co-owned by Toby Keith will race at the 151st Kentucky Derby this weekend, posthumously fulfilling a longtime dream of the late country legend. The horse, Render Judgment, will start out of Gate 15 when the race takes place this Saturday, May 3, at Churchill Downs in Louisville. Render …
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Mike Peters, frontman for the Welsh New Wave band the Alarm, best remembered for their Eighties hits “Sixty Eight Guns,” “Strength,” and “Rain in the Summertime,” died April 29 after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. The Alarm were often compared to U2 since the two groups forged …
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Reggae and dancehall maven Koffee has returned with a bold new song she named after herself. “Somebody please remind these niggas, this is my industry,” she spits on “Koffee,” her first solo single since 2022 and release since appearing on Sam Smith’s “Gimme” with Jessie Reyez. “Koffee with a K, …
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The Little Monster-KatyCat stan wars can stop: these pop divas are friends! On Sunday night, Katy Perry was spotted in the crowd at Lady Gaga‘s concert in Mexico City, a day after Perry’s performance there. Little Monsters spotted Perry at Estadio GNP Seguros as she approached the stadium’s tech booth …
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Shaboozey has announced a fall tour in support of his breakthrough 2024 album, Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going. The Great American Roadshow Tour is set to kick off off Sept. 22 at the Egyptian Room at Old National Centre in Indianapolis and wrap Oct. 16 at the House …
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The Hall, the Hall will tear us apart. Again. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced its new crop of inductees, revealing that New Order got rejected this year. The Hall nominated Joy Division and New Order as one band, which meant that Hall voters had a chance …
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How did Jeff Goldblum get one of the world’s biggest pop stars to sing on his new jazz album? As he explains on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Ariana Grande‘s lovely take on “I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)” on Goldblum’s Still Blooming, recorded with his …
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Driven by dubious metrics, fumbling with clearly baked-in blind spots and biases, in recurring corrective mode (see Sister Rosetta Tharpe) when it musters the will, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is always missing much of the real action in its attempts to canonize music that, if it sticks …
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