Give 2022 some credit—any year with Kate Bush crashing Top 40 radio can’t be all bad. So let’s celebrate a superbly crazy year for music, when brilliant tunes kept exploding all over the stylistic map. These are my 25 favorite songs of 2022. (Although many other gems are over on …
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What a year for music—any of my top half-dozen or so could have been Number One some other year. But these are my faves, with pop idols, guitar bangers, rap poets, disco visionaries. All these albums keep giving up new surprises for me. The double-digit years are always pivotal for …
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Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week we’ve got a blockbuster remix from January issue cover star Rosalía and Cardi B, the Weekend’s epic song from the new Avatar movie, and great tracks from …
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Kendrick Lamar, Rosalía, and Depeche Mode are among the headliners for the 2023 Primavera Sound festival, which will be taking place over two weekends in Barcelona and, for the first time, Madrid. Primavera Sound’s first weekend will run May 31 through June 4 at the Parc Del Fòrum in Barcelona; …
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After teasing the possibility of new material during her wildly successful Motomami World Tour, Spanish songstress Rosalía delivered Motomami+ — a deluxe edition of her critically acclaimed album that features her latest single “Despechá,” along several reworkings of Motomami standouts and a handful of new tracks. Rosalía first announced the …
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When Romeo Santos became the first Latino artist to sell out two consecutive shows at Yankees Stadium in 2014, it was clear he was a force to be reckoned with. Starting with his teenage days in the New York City-based band Aventura, the singer’s youthful falsetto and seductive flow has …
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Rosalía brings mambo, merengue, and her carefree energy to the beaches of Spain in the video for her recent single, “Despechá.” On Wednesday, the Spanish singer released the sunnyside visuals for her track, which she says was inspired by the music of the Dominican Republic. “Baby, no me llames/Que yo …
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Throbbing lights, loud distortion noises, and a neon-lit motorcycle helmet with pigtails — the first few seconds of Rosalía’s Motomami tour stop in Madriddelivered all the spectacle you’d expect. She made her entrance on all fours, crawling, flanked by eight male dancers, motopapis. Together, they thumped to the beat in …
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From the Weeknd’s Dawn FM to Omar Apollo’s Ivory to Sky Ferreira’s “Don’t Forget” and Lizzo’s “About Damn Time,” the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now dives deep into the best pop songs and albums of the year so far. Staff writer Tomás Mier joins host Brian Hiatt for …
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During the first of two nights at Radio City Music Hall for the New York stops of her Solar Power tour, Lorde performed a cover of “Hentai,” the overtly sex-positive song from Rosalía’s latest album Motomami. In a recent email to her fans, Lorde praised Motomami, saying: “I’ve listened to …
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