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In the least surprising news of the year, the organizers behind Woodstock 50 gave into the inevitable on Wednesday and announced that the festival would not be taking place. “Unfortunately, we ran out of time,” Michael Lang told Rolling Stone shortly after the news broke. “[It] was an unfortunate venture, …

On an afternoon in early 1989, a group of musicians gathered at a house tucked away on a quiet street in New Orleans. Inside, amplifiers were set up in closets, and a studio had been built in the kitchen. “When you looked at the house from the outside, you would …

It’s a safe bet that when Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang approached Watkins Glen International to host the still-up-in-the-air Woodstock 50 festival this summer, he had visions of Summer Jam in his head. On July 28th, 1973, a mere four years after Woodstock, a concert at the same upstate New York …

On Thursday evening at New York City’s newly renovated Webster Hall, BuzzFeed did the best they could to present “the internet,” IRL. The result was as messy and unfocused as any given person’s Twitter timeline at any given moment can be, but was thankfully glued together with moments of irreverent …

Charley Crockett didn’t know how long he had to live when he recorded The Valley. Now that the Texas singer-songwriter has come out the other side, he’s preparing to release the 15-song LP this fall, previewing it with two new songs and a music video for “Borrowed Time.” Cut last …

As Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” remixed with Billy Ray Cyrus, logs a 13th week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 chart, Cyrus premieres “Chevys and Fords,” this one a collaboration with singer-songwriter Johnny McGuire. A gently rocking country tune brimming with Springsteen-inspired, vehicle-based nostalgia, it …

A$AP Ferg offers a personal tour of New York City in the video for his new song, “Floor Seats,” the title track from his upcoming EP. The Valentin Petit-directed video was shot in Harlem and finds Ferg spitting the track as he rides his signature Redline BMX-style bike alongside a …

Sugar Ray has never been known for deep, sad songs. So it’s fitting that their upcoming album Little Yachty — the band’s first collection of new songs in a decade — is packed with joyous tunes ready for a beach party. But when the group’s frontman Mark McGrath got on …

Kentucky-based folk singer Joan Shelley has announced details of her forthcoming album Like the River Loves the Sea, set for release August 30th on No Quarter Records. The album, recorded in Iceland, is Shelley’s first full-length LP since releasing her Jeff Tweedy-produced self-titled record in 2017. “Woven into the melodies …

Common subdues a couple of convenience store robbers with the help of Vince Staples in his new video for “Hercules.” The track, which features Swizz Beatz, appears on Common’s forthcoming album, Let Love, which will be released on August 30th via Loma Vista Recordings. In the new clip, Staples portrays …