Nathaniel Rateliff has previewed his forthcoming album Red Rocks 2020 with a live music video for “All or Nothing.” The clip was shot at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre during the pandemic, where Rateliff performed for 125 fans in the 9400-capacity venue. Red Rocks 2020 is set for release on July …
Read More »Olamide Previews New Album With Sultry Single 'PonPon'
Olamide connects with the rising singer Fave to celebrate a passionate and drama-free relationship on “PonPon.” The minimal, gleaming top-line, courtesy of the producer Eskeez, hints at Jamaican dancehall, while Olamide moves between sing-song ad-libs (an assortment of slick “la-la-las,” “da-da-das,” “bum-bum-bums”) and over-the-top come-ons (“I be loving you crazy …
Read More »Jada Pinkett Smith Reads Unreleased Tupac Poem to Mark Late Rapper's 50th Birthday
Jada Pinkett Smith shared what she believes to be a previously unreleased Tupac poem to mark what would have been the late rapper’s 50th birthday, June 16th (although Smith admittedly got a headstart and posted the poem on Instagram on June 15th). The poem is titled “Lost Soulz,” and while …
Read More »Henderson Cole, Champion of State-Sponsored Streaming — Future 25
This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. Entertainment lawyer Henderson Cole had spent years studying music’s tangled payment system, frustrated by how ill-adapted it was for the streaming …
Read More »Chubby and the Gang Take Aim at a Cruel Carceral State on 'Coming Up Tough'
London punk outfit Chubby and the Gang have released a new song, “Coming Up Tough,” from their upcoming second album, The Mutt’s Nuts, out August 27th via Partisan Records. With a bruising bass chug and razors edge guitar riff, “Coming Up Tough” finds Walker railing against a criminal justice system …
Read More »Meet the Dentist Behind Post Malone's New Diamond Fangs
Post Malone has officially become one of the vampires in his 2019 track “Hollywood’s Bleeding.” The rapper recently added a new smile to his growing collection of body art: a set of sparking diamond fangs. Malone’s new teeth were fashioned by celebrity dentist Dr. Thomas Connelly, cosmetic dentist Naoki Hayashi, …
Read More »Netanyahu Out as Israel Swears in New Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
After 12 years of leadership by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel‘s parliament installed a coalition government Sunday led by Naftali Bennett, the Orthodox head of a small ultranationalist party. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in the history of Israel, but he has struggled in recent years with controversy. He is currently …
Read More »The Shins Share a 'Cliff Notes' Medley of 'Oh, Inverted World' to Celebrate LP's 20th Anniversary
The Shins have distilled their 2001 debut, Oh, Inverted World, into an easily digestible three-and-a-half-minute medley to mark the album’s 20th anniversary. The new video, directed and edited by Jon Sortland, is composed of a series of goofy, loosely connected vignettes that are paired with snippets of each song on …
Read More »2021 CMT Music Awards: The Complete Winners List
The CMT Music Awards recognized country’s best videos and artists on Wednesday night. Ahead of the show’s broadcast, the Video of the Year category was narrowed down to four contenders: Carrie Underwood and John Legend’s “Hallelujah”; Kane Brown’s “Worldwide Beautiful”; Keith Urban and Pink’s “One Too Many”; and Kelsea Ballerini’s …
Read More »How Did BTS Conquer The World?
In the wake of Rolling Stone’s cover-story package on the world’s biggest band, the new episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast zooms in on the unique rise of BTS. Youngdae Kim, Seoul-based music critic, musicologist, and author of the bookBTS The Review: A Comprehensive Look at the Music …
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