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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The Renaissance era may be over, but with Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé‘s first full-length plunge into country music is sure to give us all something to “yeehaw” about. And …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The Renaissance era may be over, but with Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé‘s first full-length plunge into country music is sure to give us all something to “yeehaw” about. And …

Beyoncé has shattered another recording record. The Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA) announced Tuesday that Beyoncé has received the most certified titles for a female artist, with 103 titles. “We are so excited to recognize the incredible talent, hard work, and creative spirit reflected across diverse genres,” wrote RIAA President …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. About halfway through the first episode of the new HBO docuseries Ren Faire, Jeff Baldwin likens his workplace to Shakespeare’s King Lear. Baldwin sees himself as Cordelia, the …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Please don’t be alarmed and try to remain calm — nearly six years since her last solo trek, Beyoncé is back and (hopefully) heading to a city near …

Any tour is a massive undertaking that requires an unbelievable amount of planning and logistics. That goes for a band in a van pulling double (or triple, or quadruple) duty as performers, drivers, merch salespeople, and backline technicians, or the biggest pop stars on the planet, who need hundreds of …

Another minute, another few early highlights from Beyoncé’s Renaissance world tour opener in Stockholm, Sweden, today, May 10. This time, dancing robot arms and brilliant era-bending mash-ups. During her performance of “Cozy,” Beyoncé showed off some of the tour’s outrageous and elaborate stagecraft and props. This bit involved two swinging …

Beyoncé sure didn’t hold back with her onstage visuals and props during her long-anticipated Renaissance Tour. During the star’s first stop in Sweden on Wednesday, the singer performed numerous hits, including her sexy and beloved classic “Partition” while riding a pole into… a giant robot vagina? Yeah, that’s right. Show …

Long ago, Beyoncé decided to let her music speak for herself. “I’m grateful I have the ability to choose what I want to share,” she told Harper’s Bazaar last year, in a brief, extremely rare interview that reads as if it may have been conducted via e-mail. “One day I …

One day in 2014, “N—– in Paris” producer Hit-Boy started working with Beyoncé on two songs. One of them, released later that year, became the hit Nicki Minaj collaboration “Feeling Myself.” The other was a track with a seductive house beat that would’ve been a major departure for Beyoncé at …