The new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast tackles the 2021 Grammys, from the musical highlights (DaBaby, BTS, Megan Thee Stallion, Harry Styles, Haim) to the complex issues raised by two thought-provoking moments: Lil Baby’s trauma-evoking performance and Billie Eilish’s apologetic acceptance speech. Mankaprr Conteh, Brittany Spanos, and …
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Dark Horse Records has released a new compilation of Joe Strummer‘s solo material, titledAssembly. The collection from the late Clash frontman also includes live renditions of the band’s “Rudie Can’t Fail” and “I Fought the Law,” recorded by Strummer and the Mescaleros at London’s Brixton Academy on November 24th, 2001. …
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Justin Bieber performed a live rendition of his new Justice track “Hold On” as part of Vevo‘s Official Live Performance series. “Hold On” is the first of four Justice tracks that Bieber is contributing to the series. “I loved working with Vevo to create these Official Live Performances,” Bieber said in a …
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Drake remained Number One on the Artists 500 for the second week in a row, while logging a record-extending 22nd cumulative week at the top of the chart as well. The musician pulled in 160 song streams for the week of March 12th through 18th, thanks primarily to his recent …
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Ahead of the release of their album Menneskekollektivet, Lost Girls dropped the trippy single “Losing Something.” The track features Jenny Hval reciting lines from The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed, a collection of poems from the early Eighties created by the computer program Racter. “More than iron/More than lead/More than …
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When Paula Cole released her 2016 album, Ballads, a double LP of folk and jazz standards, she felt her work was incomplete. “It didn’t sit right,” the singer-songwriter tells Rolling Stone over the phone from her home in Massachusetts. “I needed it to be more of a diverse patchwork, incorporating …
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Blackpink’s Rosé shared a performance of her new solo single, “On the Ground,” on The Tonight Show Tuesday, March 16th. “On the Ground” is a clever pop track that finds Rosé gliding over understated guitars during the verse before the track opens up with a chorus that boasts just the …
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Beck and Pharrell Williams discuss the future of music, the Capitol riots, social change and streaming in this exclusive excerpt from the pair’s wide-ranging interview from the upcoming episode of Williams’ OTHERtone podcast, premiering Monday, March 15th. At the onset of the clip, Beck discusses how different the entry point …
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W hen Prince Royce arrived at the Forum in L.A. on March 12th, 2020, he had already learned that the growing coronavirus pandemic had wiped out the remainder of his world tour, costing him untold amounts of money. But he had a more immediate concern: that night’s show, and the …
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Jenny Lewis reunited with Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett over the weekend at the Rock ‘N’ Rock Relief virtual benefit concert for a performance of “Let Me Back In.” It was their first time playing together since a one-off rendition of “Portions for Foxes” at Coachella in 2015. Inevitably, it …
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