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On Nov. 14, Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith stood onstage together at L.A.’s Greek Theater and took their final bow as the Monkees. It was end of a farewell tour that had taken them all across North America. And although it was impossible for fans to ignore Nez’s frailty throughout …

Greg Tate, one of the most incisive, insightful, and influential cultural critics of the past 35 years, has died. His publisher Duke University Press confirmed the author’s death to Rolling Stone, with Tate’s family adding that the critic died of cardiac arrest. “Greg was an amazing son, brother, father, grandfather, …

Drake has removed himself from Grammy contention, withdrawing from the two categories he was nominated for, Rolling Stone has confirmed. Drake picked up a Best Rap Performance nod for “Way 2 Sexy” as well as a Best Rap Album look for Certified Lover Boy. The Recording Academy received a request …

Adele is set to launch a Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace next January. The “Weekends With Adele” residency is scheduled to launch Jan. 21, 2022, and the singer will perform two shows each weekend through April 16, 2022. These are the first live dates Adele has …

U2 may be celebrating the 30th anniversary of Achtung Baby this month, but their focus is on the future as they continue to work on a follow-up to 2017’s Songs of Experience. Just minutes before the Edge hopped on Zoom with Rolling Stone last week to talk about some of …

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss celebrated the release of Raise the Roof Friday by performing a pair of songs from their new album on The Late Show and then on Saturday’s CBS Mornings. For the pre-taped, out-of-studio performance from Nashville, Plant and Krauss — encircled by their troupe of guitarists …

Ahead of the release ofDavid Bowie’slong-shelved 2001 LPToy, Parlophone/ISO Records have shared the album’s unreleased version of “Can’t Help Thinking About Me.” Like many of the Toy tracks — including the earlier single “Karma Man” — Bowie initially recorded “Can’t Help Thinking About Me” during his pre-Space Oddity era, only …

The owners of Los Angeles’ iconic Staples Center announced late Tuesday night that after more than two decades the venue will be renamed Crypto.com Arena. AEG — which owns the arena that opened in 1999 and serves as the home of Los Angeles’ Lakers, Kings, and for a few more …

The Rolling Stones played Detroit’s Ford Field on Monday night, and they honored the city’s musical roots by covering the 1966 Temptations classic “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” “Ever since we were really young, we always loved Motown,” Mick Jagger told the audience. “We can’t come to Detroit and not …

Britney Spears is finally free. The conservatorship she called a “cruel” and “abusive” living nightmare was finally terminated on Friday in the same brutalist building in downtown Los Angeles where it started nearly 14 years ago. “The court finds and determines that the conservatorship of the person and estate of …