Chappell Roan has taken the title of “The Giver” to heart, gracing fans with album-level promo (Billboards! A secret phone number! An instantly controversial Call Her Daddy interview!) for the Shania-esque stand-alone single. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian …
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ESG’s Renee Scroggins may be over 60, but her voice still has the same mix of joy, mischievousness, and don’t-fuck-with-us sass when she sings “Moody” or “Erase You” that she had when she was a teenager performing with her sisters in the 1970s and early 1980s. “I had never heard …
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Little Brother announced their final tour ever. On Monday, the legendary rap group — comprising rappers Phonte and Big Pooh (and formerly producer 9th Wonder) — shared that they will embark on the aptly-named Curtain Call: The Final Tour in May. The nationwide, 12-city tour will hold its last traditional …
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Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee. During a recent solo performance at the Spookala horror and pop culture convention in Tampa, Florida, the musician performed a stripped-back rendition of Chappell Roan‘s “Pink Pony Club” with a little rock edge. “I know you wanted me to …
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No, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich aren’t vampires (allegedly) — but they do want your blood. On Monday, Metallica announced that it will link up with the American Red Cross to motivate fans to donate blood during several of their M72 World Tour stops this spring and summer. Led by …
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Who better than Kacey Musgraves to bring Finneas into the Nashville headspace? On Monday, Apple Music debuted the singer’s Nashville-recorded, three-song bundle that included a duet of “Giver / Taker” from her recent album, Deeper Well. The performance video opens with the pair joking about breaking guitars and Finneas having …
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If anyone knows her way around protests, it’s Daryl Hannah. The actress and director has been arrested a half-dozen times protesting for environmental causes. But even she can have a hard time getting her head around the almost daily chaos of the second Trump administration. “There are too many horrible …
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Dua Lipa welcomed Crowded House frontman Neil Finn to the stage in Auckland, New Zealand, for a lively cover of the band’s 1986 song “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” The show, at Auckland’s Spark Arena on Friday night, marked the finale of the Australia and New Zealand leg of Lipa’s Radical …
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Elton John and Brandi Carlile teamed up on Saturday Night Live to perform a pair of tracks from their collaborative album, Who Believes in Angels, which came out Friday. For the ’50s rock and roll-inspired “Little Richard’s Bible” and for the title track from their latest collaboration, John was at …
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“There’s a band playing in my head all the time,” Ellis Bullard says. “The real magic is trying to capture what they’re playing and trying to emote it and get it out.” Bullard hails from Austin, where fans in the city’s hardcore honky-tonks like Sam’s Town Point, Sagebrush and White …
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