Run the Jewels’ masterful, furious new album, RTJ4, instantly became one of the most acclaimed releases of the year, and its themes couldn’t be more timely. The new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast features Jamil Smith’s revealing, wide-ranging conversation with the duo’s Killer Mike about everything from …
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Thirty years ago this month, 120,000 rock fans gathered at the grounds of the Knebworth House in Knebworth, England, for one of the biggest all-star concerts in the history of the U.K. The lineup featured Tears for Fears, Status Quo, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, Robert Plant with surprise guest …
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Dolly Parton‘s homespun tales of her humble East Tennessee upbringing and soul-baring tunes of love and loss like “Coat of Many Colors,” “Jolene,” and “I Will Always Love You” will be revealed in an entirely new way with the November 17th release of Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics. …
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More than 75 film and television composers and songwriters will participate in an upcoming benefit digital stream with proceeds going toward the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Celebration for the Film and TV Music Community will honor the composers, songwriters, music editors, music supervisors, studio executives …
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Walt Disney Studios is developing a new movie musical based on Lionel Richie‘s song catalog, as Variety reports. The live-action project is tentatively titled after his 1983 song, All Night Long, and will utilize some of his greatest hits. According to the report, the artist pitched the concept to the …
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Throughout world history, music has served as a balm for those living under oppression, as much it’s served as a tool of empowerment. The latest installment in Rolling Stone‘s new weeklyplaylistseries, “Music at Home,” features 12 tracks honoring the legacy of global Black resistance in song. Feel free to blast …
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N.W.A’s classic 1988 anti-police-brutality anthem “Fuck tha Police” is just one of several protest songs — like Childish Gambino’s “This Is America,” YG’s “FDT” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” — that have seen a resurgence in streams over the last week-plus as anti-police brutality protests continue to surge throughout the nation …
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Lorde expressed her solidarity with Black Lives Matter protestors following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and more, and grappled with the nature of her role during this moment as a white person and musician. Lorde shared her thoughts in a newsletter to fans, which was then …
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You’ve probably heard at least a snippet of “Dance Monkey,” the billion-streamed hit from 2019 by Australian artist Tones and I. But when Toni Watson first heard that her song was becoming a global smash, she had one question: What is a music chart? “I never knew there were music …
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Courtney Marie Andrews does a dance of empathy and growth in the “It Must Be Someone Else’s Fault” video, released on Wednesday. The plaintive song appears on Andrews’ upcoming album Old Flowers, which arrives July 24th via Fat Possum Records. Directed by V Haddad, the clip features Andrews doing the …
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