ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Ashley Monroe, SparrowMiranda Lambert’s sidekick in Pistol Annies loves vintage Countrypolitan drama, and she channels it here in Technicolor, with lots of orchestral strings and “Ode To Billie Joe” folk guitar via retro-wizard producer Dave Cobb. It’s kitsch, emotionally weaponized: See “Hands On You,” a contender …

Gwen Stefani and a Stefani superfan faced off in an existentially mind-bending game of “Who Knows Gwen Stefani?” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday. Stefani’s opponent was a woman named Gaiane, who said she became a fan at 15 and has been to over 100 Stefani and No Doubt shows. Kimmel …

Father John Misty released two new songs, “Disappointing Diamonds Are the Rarest of Them All” and “Just Dumb Enough to Try,” from his forthcoming album, God’s Favorite Customer, out June 1st via Sub Pop/Bella Union. “Disappointing Diamonds Are the Rarest of Them All” finds Father John Misty cutting through a …

Canada is the second largest country in the world, and the birthplace of famous artists like Justin Bieber, Drake, The Weeknd, Shania Twain, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Alessia Cara, Grimes and Carly Rae Jepsen. So, in the second part of Rolling Stone’svideo series, “The Scene,” our correspondent Afika Nxumalo visits …

The Cars returned to their airtight New Wave hits on Saturday when they performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland. The band opened with “You Might Think,” a brisk Top Ten single from 1984, which gave guitarist Elliot Easton a chance to play a …

President Trump‘s attacks on the press escalate with nerve-wracking speed in the trailer for The Fourth Estate, Liz Garbus’ upcoming documentary. Garbus follows reporters from The New York Times attempting to cover an administration that is openly hostile toward journalists. “We’ve been given unprecedented access to capture the challenges, triumphs …

A day before his public debut as a tattooed maestro of symphonic music, the EDM superhero Deadmau5 is reclined in a basement recording studio in West Hollywood, crunching anxiously on nuts and celery stalks. He’s dressed in a Banksy T-shirt and bright red sneakers, scrolling through social media on his …

Kesha takes a road trip to Las Vegas to officiate a same-sex wedding in her new video for “I Need a Woman to Love.” The song appears on the Universal Love EP, which reimagines wedding and other classic love songs to make them more LGBTQ-inclusive. Kesha contributed her rousing rendition …

Eleven dance music artists and DJs – including Paul Oakenfold, Groove Armada and Thievery Corporation – will rework songs from Paul Simon‘s classic Graceland for the upcoming remix album Graceland – The Remixes. The Simon-approved remix LP – which features all 11 of the Graceland‘s tracks reinterpreted, including two versions …

Ninjas take down an evil emperor played by David Guetta, in the action-packed new video for hislatest collaboration with Sia, “Flames.” The Lior Molcho-directed clip stars Lauren May Kim, Erin Wu and Courtney Chen as the Flames, a trio of young ninjas studying under a martial arts master, played by …