Colombian superstar Maluma has announced a United States tour that will tentatively kick off this fall. The arena trek — which is arguably one of the biggest to be announced since the Covid-19 pandemic brought touring to a halt last year — is scheduled to start September 2nd at the …
Read More »'Supervillain' Filmmakers Discuss the Making of Their New Tekashi 6ix9ine Docuseries
Ahead of the premiere of the new SHOWTIME ® three-part docuseries,Supervillain:The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine, from Rolling Stone, Imagine Documentaries and Lightbox, director Karam Gill, executive producer Peter Scalettar, and president/COO ofRolling Stoneand executive producer Gus Wenner joinedRSsenior editor Jeff Ihaza for a virtual panel about the controversial rapper and …
Read More »Foo Fighters Cover the Bee Gees' 'You Should Be Dancing' on BBC Radio
Foo Fighters swung by Jo Wiley’sBBCRadio2 Sofa Session to perform a few songs from their new albumMedicine at Midnight, as well as a cover of the Bee Gees‘Saturday Night Fever disco classic “You Should Be Dancing.” You can hear the full 23-minute session here, with the Foos’ Bee Gees cover …
Read More »RS Charts: Morgan Wallen Is Still Number One on Artists 500 Chart Despite Controversy
Morgan Wallen fended off a surge from The Weeknd to stay at Number One on the Artists 500 chart despite continued controversy over his use of a racist slur. While Wallen has faced plenty of industry backlash after video emerged of him using a racist slur, the success stemming from …
Read More »Flashback: When Chick Corea and Jazz-Fusion Acts Were Rock Stars
As Chick Corea witnessed for himself again and again, including on the British music series The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1976, the strangest thing happened in pop during the Seventies. Music fans would buy tickets to arena or amphitheater shows by bands like Return to Forever — founded and …
Read More »No More Bystanders: Why It's Time for Country Music Fans to Step Up
First, there were the drafts of tweets that went unsent. Then there were the profanity-laced text messages to trusted friends. Finally, there were nerve-calming cooking videos on YouTube. Making some sense of the sadness and confusion I felt in the wake of the Morgan Wallen video took time. The disappointing …
Read More »Taylor Swift's 'Fearless': How She Made Her Pop Breakthrough
Taylor Swift is re-recording her first six albums as a way of reasserting control over her master recordings. First up is Fearless: Taylor’s Version, due out April 9th — a new recording of the 2008 album that set her on a course to being one of the biggest pop acts …
Read More »Hayley Williams Delivers Delicate Confessionals on 'Flowers'
A bittersweet truth of this pandemic, among many, is that the “quarantine album” has rapidly become its own genre. While the music industry as a whole has had to make do with recording albums remotely during lockdown for the past year, a distinct sonic concept for many of these releases …
Read More »Zella Day Taps Weyes Blood for New Song 'Holocene'
Zella Day has teamed up with Weyes Blood‘s Natalie Mering for the dreamy new single “Holocene.” The meditative track clocks in at over four minutes, featuring a pastoral lyric video of snow melting on a hill. Day and Mering harmonize across subtle instrumentation: “I’m mad at the weather/It’s wrong for …
Read More »Hayley Williams Teases New Album 'Flowers for Vases / Descansos'
Hayley Williams has announced a new album, Flowers for Vases / Descansos, out Friday.The LP follows her three-part 2020 album Petals for Armor and, like its predecessor, was produced by Daniel James and engineered by Carlos de la Garza. “This isn’t really a follow-up toPetals For Armor. If anything, it’s …
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