Alicia Keys performed her new single “LaLa” alongside Swae Lee for the first time Sunday at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards. Against a shimmering backdrop of New York City, Keys sang a sultry rendition of “LaLa” before transitioning into a candlelit, slow-burning version of her 2009 Jay-Z collaboration “Empire …
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Aaliyah‘s eponymous album — her third and final studio LP originally released in July 2001 — has hit streaming services for the first time at midnight on Thursday via Blackground Records 2.0 and Empire. It is also available for download. Following her death the month after her self-titled LP originally …
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Lindsey Buckingham will tell you that he isn’t about the drama. He leaves that to his former bandmates in Fleetwood Mac. Not everyone in his family subscribes to the same feeling. His son Will issued a declarative statement shortly after he was booted out of the band in 2018: “God, …
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Janet Jackson has offered a glimpse of her forthcoming documentary, Janet, which is set to premiere in January 2022. The clip, posted on social media, previews the documentary, offered in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the singer’s first album. Missy Elliott, Paula Abdul, and Mariah Carey appear in the …
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In a world where Hurricane Ida and other horrific storms hadn’t battered America over the past couple of weeks, Bonnaroo would be kicking off tonight with an evening of music by the Grand Ole Opry and special guests. Foo Fighters and Megan Thee Stallion were booked for tomorrow, with Lizzo, …
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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
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Olivia Rodrigo‘s Sour takes Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart for a sixth week, with over 154,000 project units from August 20th through August 26th. Sour is only the third album in RS 200 history to top the chart for six weeks, after Taylor Swift’s Folklore …
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Drop a pin almost anywhere in reggaeton history and chances are you’ll land on some version of Nicky Jam, a character who’s been around for nearly every chapter of the genre’s unfolding narrative. You’ll find him during Puerto Rico’s underground perreo days in the early Nineties, a 14-year-old kid with …
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Migos appeared on a new edition of NPR‘s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series to showcase three songs from their recent album Culture III. Appearing from the Gallery Dept. in Los Angeles with a backing band, the group performed “Avalanche, “Straightenin” and “Birthday.” At the end of the set, Quavo confirmed, …
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Don’t call it a comeback, since it wasn’t quite that. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/see-journey-perform-dont-stop-believin-at-nyc-homecoming-show-1215220/ On Saturday evening, the long-awaited “We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert” in New York’s Central Park became an unintentional metaphor for the ongoing pandemic when the all-star show was shut down and later cancelled less than halfway through by …
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