The Jeff Buckley estate will reissue Grace for the 1994 album’s 25th anniversary as well as a massive digital expansion of the late artist’s catalogue, set for release on August 23rd. More than 50 tracks will be digitally released, including the rare “Sky Blue Skin” demo, one of the last …
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Drake closed out the final night of his annual hometown OVO Fest in Toronto Monday with a bevy of surprise guests. Although Drake was the only artist scheduled to perform, the rapper brought out Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion (who performed “Big Ole Freak” and also teamed up to perform …
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Jesse Dayton releases his new album Mixtape Volume 1 on August 9th. It’s a collection of cover songs that highlight the East Texas songwriter’s diverse influences — Dayton interprets everyone from Neil Young and Gordon Lightfoot to the Cars and AC/DC. Ahead of Friday’s release, the Americana multi-tasker is streaming …
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As the 2010s come to a close, rappers are beginning to look backwards. Drake put his 2009 mixtape So Far Gone on streaming services for the first time in February; Chance the Rapper followed suit, making several of his releases officially monetizable at the end of June. Drake returned Friday …
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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, …
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The first night of the debate in Detroit turned conventional Democratic political dynamics on their ear. In the normal state of affairs, politicians calling for modest course corrections are given the presumption of virtuousness on the public stage, while candidates calling for transformation are forced to make the difficult case …
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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 …
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Update: Following the publication of this article, Chance the Rapper tweeted that the Lyft partnership is “not a bundle,” and Chance’s business affairs team told Rolling Stone that it met with Billboard and Nielsen to note that the Lyft free downloads should not tally on the Billboard 200 in accordance …
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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 …
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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 …
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