Aloe Blacc and Vic Mensa have both contributed to a new benefit album, Defund the Sheriff, that’s part of a campaign to shift funding from police and incarceration in Los Angeles County toward other public services. Mensa appears on much of the album, including the opening track, “Largest Jail System …

Juice WRLD‘s posthumous release Legends Never Die landed the biggest debut week of 2020 on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart,earning 517,800 album-equivalent units. Legends Never Die saw 360 million on-demand audio streams and 238,300 sales, becoming the first album to move over 500,000 units in its first week …

Could your weekend playlist use a little more seasoning? Rolling Stone Latin selects some of the best new music releases from Latin America, Spain, and Portugal.Keep track of the latest in Latin via our playlist on Spotify. Lunay, “Relaciones” He famously pined after an independent woman in his 2019 reggaeton …

Steve Van Zandt is trying to stay busy. “I’ve been producing records, and executive-producing records over the phone, believe it or not,” he says from his Greenwich Village home. “But I am looking for something to do in a semi-permanent way, you know?” Van Zandt’s latest project is Little Steven’s …

Jeff Sessions represented white people in Alabama in the U.S. Senate for 20 years, from 1997 to 2017. But after a brief, controversial stint as U.S. attorney general, the 73-year-old found himself on the wrong side of President Trump, and on Tuesday he couldn’t even manage to win his party’s …

What if it turned out your favorite song had been written by the CIA? That’s exactly what a new podcast aims to determine. In 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, West German band the Scorpions released their prescient ballad “Wind of Change.” With earnest lyrics about togetherness …

“I’m not getting excited,” Elizabeth Stokes vows on the opening track to the Beths‘ new album, Jump Rope Gazers. “‘Cause the thrill isn’t mine to invite in.” She keeps her word throughout the record: “I know,” she later acknowledges. “I’m kind of a bummer.” Stokes’ self-deprecating and vulnerable lyrics, backed …

Judas Priest have been forced to rearrange their 50th-anniversary tourbecause of COVID-19. The metal outfit has postponed a handful of shows to next year, although they were forced to cancel multiple dates as well. The trek was supposed to take place this fall, but will now launch September 13th, 2021 …

Lana Del Rey has been teasing the release ofViolet Bent Backwards Over the Grass — a poetry book and an accompanying audiobook of poems set to music — since shortly after she put out her last album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, in August 2019. As of Thursday, theViolet project finally has …

Blake Shelton is the latest country singer to announce a drive-in concert amidst the coronavirus pandemic. On July 25th, Shelton will perform with Gwen Stefani and Trace Adkins as part of Encore Drive-In Nights, hosted by the production company Encore Live. Granted, you won’t get to see Shelton in person …