UPDATE (3/10): Travis Scott’s lawyers filed new paperwork Thursday defending the embattled musician’s right to “make public statements about his ongoing philanthropic work, even as it relates to public safety.” In their response to a motion filed by a plaintiff’s attorney Wednesday, the lawyers said it would be “overly broad” …
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Chicago electro-soul duo Drama‘s new EP Don’t Wait Up traces the moments in a relationship that keep a person pining, even when it becomes clear the situation is toxic. On opener “3AM,” singer-songwriter Via Rosa sings of only seeing a love interest in the wee hours, with a cheery “Hit …
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“When a drug addict loses a friend, they just do more drugs,” the late Screaming Trees frontman and solo artist Mark Lanegan tells senior writer Kory Grow in an extraordinarily revealing interview on a new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Lanegan, who died Feb. 22 at the …
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Bouffant-era Charli XCX finally got to perform on Saturday Night Live and she did not disappoint. The British pop singer’s original appearance on the show was canceled last December due to a Covid-19 outbreak among the SNL cast and crew. So it felt appropriate that the day after NYC Mayor …
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Earlier this week, Dua Lipa was hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit for her 2020 hit “Levitating.” Florida reggae band Artikal Sound System sued the British pop star, claiming that the Future Nostalgia track is a rip of their 2017 song “Live Your Life.” With cases like The Hollies vs. …
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Missy Elliott, Kali Uchis, Jhené Aiko, Ozuna, and Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals will perform at the inaugural LETSGETFR.EE Carnival. The festival, set for Aug. 20 and 21 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, has set out to be the largest diversity-focused, purpose-driven music experience in the U.S. …
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“I feel heavy,” Chris Carraba sings on “Burning Heart,” the first song on All the Truth That I Can Tell, the first new Dashboard Confessional album in four years. We’re right there with you, man. For most of the 21st century, Carraba, the artist concurrently known as Dashboard Confessional, pretty …
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King Garbage turn trucking into a moody, melodramatic piano rocker on “Monster Truck,” a track from their upcoming album, Heavy Metal Greasy Love. “My baby drives a monster truck,” the duo sings together over pounding piano chords. “Too much is never enough/No fast cars or diamond rings, only heavy-metal, greasy …
Read More »Procol Harum Frontman Gary Brooker Dead at 76
Procol Harum frontman Gary Brooker, who led the band throughout their 55-year history and co-wrote and sang their 1967 classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” died at his home from cancer on Saturday, Feb. 19. He was 76. “His first single with Procol Harum, 1967’s ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale,’ …
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Maude Latour knew bright days were ahead following a painful breakup — even if every moment wasn’t sunshine-filled, as the singer-songwriter addresses in the video for her new single “Headphones.” The video, which premieres on Rolling Stone, was “an absolute dream created out of total imagination,” Latour says. The visual …
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