Taylor Swift has shared a new version of her 2019 festive track “Christmas Tree Farm” — listen to the “Old Timey Version” of the track below. The new version of the song, released as an Amazon Original, was recorded alongside an orchestra at London’s famous Abbey Road Studios, and sees …
Read More »Carole King Talks Rock Hall Ceremony, Says She'd Induct Taylor Swift When Eligible
Carole King is backstage at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, glowing with excitement over being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame minutes earlier. Taylor Swift inducted the songwriter and her speech sent King through a whirlwind of emotions: One minute she’s crying, and the next she’s laughing over …
Read More »Taylor Swift Pays Tribute to Simone Biles After Her Bronze Medal Win at Tokyo Olympics
Taylor Swift called Simone Biles a “hero” following her bronze medal win for her balance beam routine at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday. The singer narrated a video shared on Twitter for NBC’s broadcast of the events later that evening. Biles responded to the tribute, saying it brought her to …
Read More »Taylor Swift Cancels Tour Amid 'Unprecedented Pandemic'
Taylor Swift has canceled all of her pending tour dates due to the “unprecedented pandemic.” The star had a small slate of shows planned for last summer in support of her 2019 album Lover; they were all postponed in April of last year due to the pandemic. Swift made the …
Read More »RS Charts: Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' Spends Another Week at Number One
All 15 tracks from Taylor Swift‘s Evermore debuted on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. The leader was “Willow,” which arrived at Number Three with more than 25 million streams. It was trailed by “Champagne Problems” (Number Seven, 18.3 million streams), “No Body, No Crime” (Number 12, 16.3 million), …
Read More »The Music That Sustains Us
At the end of last February, just before the world shut down, Bad Bunny stopped by the Rolling Stone offices to play some tracks from his new album, YHLQMDLG. The music was jubilant and daring, pushing reggaeton in radical, genre-defying new directions. Even the title, an acronym for Yo Hago …
Read More »2020 ACM Awards: How to Watch, Nominees, Performers
After a six-month delay as organizers figured out how (and where) to stage an awards show during a global pandemic, the 55th annual Academy of Country Music Awards finally announce their winners on Wednesday night. Dubbed “A Night of Heart and Hits Live From Nashville,” the ACMs, hosted by Keith …
Read More »Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, DJ Khaled Join 'Just Vote' Voter Registration Campaign
Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, DJ Khaled and more have joined a new non-partisan voter registration campaign, Just Vote, organized by Global Citizen and HeadCount. The aim of the campaign is to get young people to check their voter registration status and register 50,000 young voters ahead of the 2020 elections. …
Read More »How Joel Crouse Went From Opening for Taylor Swift to 'Food Stamps'
Joel Crouse was onstage at Gillette Stadium in 2013 singing his debut country single “If You Want Some” while 55,000-plus Taylor Swift fans found their way to their seats. It was a home-state gig for Crouse, a native of Holland, Massachusetts, and the then-21-year-old was wrapping up his leg of …
Read More »Taylor Swift on 'Cats': 'I Had a Great Time Working on That Weird-Ass Movie'
Since Tom Hooper’s Cats curdled into an unprecedented box-office bomb this past December — not to mention a critical failure and future midnight -movie contender — the majority of its all-star cast has done their best to distance themselves from the film. James Corden even claimed to have never seenCats …
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