“I feel like there are more reasons to be excited about improvised music today than at any time during my 41 years on the planet,” the jazz critic Nate Chinen tells Rolling Stone. He has a point, and you don’t need to be a diehard fan of the genre to …
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In the latest sneak peek of a track from King of the Road, the tremendously entertaining and star-packed tribute to songwriting legend Roger Miller, honky-tonk queen Loretta Lynn delivers a vintage performance of Miller’s “Half a Mind” that’s as much an homage to Miller’s lyrical genius as it is a …
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This is the second in aRolling Stoneseries exploring the new business models of music’s streaming-dominated era. Here is the firston the gold rush to sign the next rap superstar. In 2016, an Italian millionaire namedGianluca Vacchi – middle-aged with tanned abs and a wardrobe full of skimpy speedos –posted a …
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Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga‘s remake of A Star is Born, Ryan Gosling‘s Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man, as well as new films from Barry Jenkins and Steve McQueen will show at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival. A Star Is Born marks Cooper’s directorial debut and finds the actor playing …
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Drake‘s new album Scorpion captured Number One for the third straight week to rule a quiet week on the Billboard 200. The rapper’s latest sold 260,000 total copies in its third week of release, including 213,000 streaming equivalent albums (SEAs), to make it the first album since Adele’s 25 back …
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Tailgate songs are a dime a dozen in country music, but RaeLynn has released a track that offers a fresh, feisty perspective on the beloved truck trope. Titled, naturally, “Tailgate,” the song begins with punchy acoustic guitar, a laid-back, summer-ready beat, and some sunny, twangy vocals from RaeLynn. The lyrics …
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For more than a year, Rihanna and her label Roc Nation have been hunting for beats as they work to complete an album devoted to exploring the singer’s Caribbean roots, according to conversations with eight sources close to the project. In addition, two of those sources suggest that the singer …
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Luke Combs scored his third Number One song in early June with “One Number Away,” a melancholy tune from his debut album This One’s for You. He’s since shifted his focus to promoting “She Got the Best of Me” to radio, but on Tuesday, he reprised “One Number Away” for …
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On Saturday evening, Chicago police shot and killed Harith “Snoop” Augustus, a 37-year-old barber, prompting a night of protests in the city’s South Shore neighborhood. On Sunday, the police department released body-camera footage of the incident, “in the interest of transparency & to dispell [sic] inaccurate information,” according to CPD …
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Oh god, you want to love it. You really, really want to love it, or at least, y’know, like it a lot, to stand up and cheer with it. I mean, a movie about journalists, real ones, doing what they do best, pounding the pavement and searching for the truth? …
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