Pop Smoke‘s posthumous debut, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, makes a massive debut atop the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart, pulling in 245,000 units during the week of July 3rd through July 9th. Five months after the Brooklyn drill rapper was fatally shot at 20, his …
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Kanye West revealed that he was likely sick with COVID-19, discussed his presidential aspirations, shared anti-abortion and anti-vaccine views and declared that he no longer supports President Donald Trump in an interview with Forbes. The interview marked West’s first major piece of press since he declared on July 4th that …
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The Prince estate has announced a massive, vault-raiding reissue for 1987’s Sign O’ the Times, featuring more than 45 unreleased studio recordings. The Super Deluxe Edition reissue — available either as a stacked eight-CD or 13-LP set on September 25th — boasts the remastered LP alongside three discs of unreleased …
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The Psychedelic Furs dropped a haunting new track “Come All Ye Faithful,” the latest single from their upcoming LP Made of Rain, out July 31st via Cooking Vinyl. Accompanied by a video that features the song’s lyrics and the Made of Rain vinyl over a purple hue, Richard Butler sings …
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Phil Elverum is set to drop his first album as the Microphones in 17 years, Microphones in 2020, out August 7th on P.W. Elverum & Sun. The new album comprises one 44-minute song and will also include an album-length short film, out August 6th. On Tuesday, June 16th, Elverum released …
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Norah Jones‘ eleventh studio album, Pick Me Up Off the Floor, is out now. On Friday, the singer-songwriter and pianist shared a new music video, “To Live,” alongside the LP’s release. Filmed in quarantine, the clip shows a stylized Jones and several bandmembers — drummer Nate Smith, bassist Jesse Murphy, trumpeter …
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Dead Cross have shared their cover of Black Flag’s “Rise Above,” which the hardcore supergroup recorded in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The band’s rendition of the Damaged classic was accompanied by footage of the recent protests in Los Angeles — as well as instances of police brutality …
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Billie Eilish penned a lengthy essay Saturday that supported Black Lives Matter, touched on white privilege and demanded justice for George Floyd. “I’ve been trying to take this week to figure out a way to address this delicately,” the singer prefaced. “I have an enourmous [sic] platform and I try …
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If you didn’t parade around your room in 1999 wearing blue eyeshadow while blasting “… Baby One More Time” on your stereo, you missed out. It was a golden age for girl groups and boy bands, a time when pop stars flourished and tabloids knew no bounds. The Internet was …
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“I came to Key West [Florida] with a little bit of luggage and a lot of songs,” says Jimmy Buffett, who talks about his entire career, including its earliest days, in a wide-ranging conversation with senior writer Brian Hiatt on the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition …
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