As December nears, the husband and wife duo of King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and singer/actress Toyah Willcox are getting in the holiday spirit with a cover of “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer,” the latest installation from their series Sunday Lunch. While Fripp and Willcox take turns trading lyrics to the …
Read More »Cardi B Welcomes Release of Medical Records to Judge in STD Libel Lawsuit: Lawyer
Cardi B is welcoming a judge’s ruling this week that will give him a direct line to her STD test results at a California hospital ahead of trial in her libel and defamation lawsuit against a YouTube blogger, her lawyer tells Rolling Stone. In the narrow ruling Monday, U.S. District …
Read More »Young Thug's $1M Lawsuit Over Swiped Bag Containing Cash, Unreleased Music Heats Up
Young Thug’s lawyer is firing back at the management firm behind the rapper’s luxury apartment complex in Georgia after it finally answered his $1 million lawsuit with suggestions the “Bubbly” artist played a role in the loss of his Louis Vuitton bag stuffed with cash, diamond-encrusted jewelry, and a valuable …
Read More »Phife Dawg's Posthumous Album 'Forever' Finally Has a Release Date
Phife Dawg’s long-awaited posthumous album, Forever, is set to arrive on March 22, 2022, the sixth anniversary of the A Tribe Called Quest MC’s death. Forever will feature songs Phife Dawg had begun working on before his death in March 2016. A full tracklist wasn’t revealed, but the LP will …
Read More »FKA Twigs Embraces Her Inner Crooner on New Song With Central Cee 'Measure of a Man'
FKA Twigs and British MC Central Cee have linked up for a new song, “Measure of a Man,” which will appear on the soundtrack for the upcoming spy flick, The King’s Man. Befitting the film it was made for, “Measure of a Man” feels like a classic Bond theme — …
Read More »Former AEG Exec Adam Lublin Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Sexually Assaulting Four Women
Adam Lublin, a former executive at the live music behemoth AEG, was sentenced to four years in prison Monday, Nov. 15, for sexually assaulting four women. Back in August, Lublin — who also once served as the manager for Young Thug and Kodak Black — pleaded guilty to two counts …
Read More »The Audacity and Triumph of Taylor's Versions – Plus, Rob Sheffield's Taylor-Song Rankings
“Nobody’s tried this kind of insane project before,” says Rob Sheffield in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, which is devoted to a discussion of Taylor Swift’s re-recording of her entire catalog — Red (Taylor’s Version) is, of course, the latest — as well as Sheffield’s newly updated …
Read More »Who Died in the Astroworld Tragedy?
On Friday, Nov. 5, at least 50,000 people attended the first day of Travis Scott’s Astroworld in Houston on Friday to catch a lineup that was set to feature SZA, Bad Bunny, and Tame Impala alongside Scott himself. But tragedy unfolded that evening when the massive crowd surged towards the …
Read More »Billie Eilish Duets 'Happier Than Ever' With the Count on 'Sesame Street'
Billie Eilish stopped by Sesame Street to perform a new rendition of “Happier Than Ever” with the Count ahead of the show’s 52nd season premiering on Nov. 11. Eilish’s full episode doesn’t air until June 16. Perched on the front steps of a building, the 19-year-old singer croons: “When I’m …
Read More »Watch Ed Sheeran's Post-Quarantine 'Saturday Night Live' Performance
After a week of rumors that Ed Sheeran would have to forgo his Saturday Night Live performance after recently testing positive for Covid-19, the English singer-songwriter returned to Studio 8H with two songs from his new album, =. Sheeran told Howard Stern there was never a question he would make …
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