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Hayley Williams is taking it back to hard times, or rather, the good old days. The singer surprise-released new R&B-inflected song “Good Ol’ Days” just before taking the stage at Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians event in New York. Hours before Williams was set to join Jack Antonoff for a …

The excitement outside of New York’s Beacon Theatre was palpable on Thursday night. Hours before Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians franchise took over the Upper West Side venue, fans lined up on the sidewalk off Amsterdam Avenue. Some played patty-cake to pass the time before doors opened, while others sported …

A maarae is scrolling through the Notes app on her phone, which is crammed with questions and observations about Tinashe. When she was a teenager in Ghana, Amaarae was obsessed with the singer’s mix of melody and movement. It’s part of why she’s so excited about their Musicians on Musicians …

W ithin minutes of arriving at the studio for their Musicians on Musicians shoot, Redman and Black Thought are exchanging daps and catching up like old friends — because they are. The two voluble MCs, who took parallel paths to fame in the Nineties, laugh and swap stories in the …

S unlight is spilling through the wide windows at Wondaland West, Janelle Monáe’s rustic creative campus tucked in the hills above Hollywood, when Lucy Dacus takes her place on set. The two artists — in matching navy Thom Browne blazers — are sitting across from each other in worn leather …

F orty-two years ago, Cyndi Lauper told the world that “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” on her debut single. And right now, she’s sitting in a north Brooklyn studio with Gracie Abrams and doing just that. They’re bopping their heads to Rickie Lee Jones’ “The Last Chance Texaco” and …

O ne day in 2013, Jack Antonoff was sitting in a car in Los Angeles with his friend Hayley Williams when he decided to play her a new song. Back then, Antonoff was best known as a member of the band Fun., and he hoped to release the track, “I …

Rolling Stone’s latest Musicians on Musicians live event is returning to New York this fall with one of our most exciting lineups ever, and a new venue: the famed Beacon Theatre. The event on Oct. 23 will feature onstage conversations and collaborative performances by two pairs of megatalents — Jack …

T he artist who is perhaps the best young MC of 2024, Doechii, was sitting off in the corner in a Manhattan rehearsal studio, getting ready to be part of Rolling Stone’s second annual Musicians on Musicians event. So of course she was quietly reading a book about the famous …

B usta Rhymes strode into the Apollo Theater with a massive entourage on Nov. 22. But most of his guests were his adult children, beaming with pride as their father readied himself to rock the stage. Busta brought his family to see him headline Rolling Stone’s second annual Musicians on …