The legal back-and-forth related to plagiarism claims over Lizzo‘s hit song “Truth Hurts” has come to a close. On Friday, a federal judge officially moved to dismiss the lawsuit after attorneys from both sides stated the parties had reached an agreement. No terms of the deal were shared, and each …

Rock Hall nominees Duran Duran appeared on Wednesday’s Late Late Show to deliver a celebratory rendition of “Tonight United” from their 2021 LP Future Past. The performance was a preview of sorts for the band’s upcoming U.S. tour with Nile Rodgers and Chic, which kicks off this August, including stops …

By their third and last decade, Sonic Youth opted for their version of chilling out. Rather than reconceiving the idea and very sound of rock (the Eighties) or trying to contour their maelstrom for the mainstream (the Nineties), they spent the 2000s easing into their status as indie-rock heroes. As …

UPDATE (3/14):Michelle Zauner joined in on the joke about Japanese Breakfast‘s 2021Jubileecover art and Machine Gun Kelly‘sMainstream Selloutalbum art’s loose similarities. “2022’s feud of the year,” she tweeted, sharing the article below. She also discussed the storyin an interview with Pitchfork.“I don’t actually think it looks anything like my album …

Already in the midst of his Radiohead side project The Smile, Thom Yorke dropped a surprise new song titled “5.17” on streaming services without warning Sunday. While it’s unclear why the piano ballad suddenly appeared — reps for Yorke did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone’s request for comment — …

“Chinese Satellite,” the interstellar centerpiece of Phoebe Bridgers‘ Punisher, has received an acoustic rendition. Recorded at Sound City in Los Angeles, the new version of the track is stripped of Ethan Gruska and Tony Berg’s production, leaving Bridgers solely on acoustic — resulting in a dazzling, even lonelier feel. The …

Red Rocks, the famed amphitheater outside of Denver, Colorado, will no longer use Amazon’s palm-scanning technology following an artist-led protest that included Tom Morello and Kathleen Hanna. Denver Arts and Venues, the agency that operates Red Rocks and several other venues and theaters in the Colorado capital, confirmed its decision …

“Cupid,” a 1996 ballad from the R&B group 112, is as gorgeous as it is jarring. It comes on like a lullaby, with feathery guitar and handsome multi-part harmonies. But step into the song and you’re entering a place where sweet nothings are not to be trusted. Suspicion rules, so …

In another reality, it could have been Erin Lee Carr in the submarine with Peter Madsen, the man convicted of the 2017 killing of Swedish journalist Kim Wall. Of course, in a sense, it could have been any female journalist in that submarine. But Carr, whose documentary Undercurrent: The Disappearance …

Noted American documentarian Ken Burns observed that there are moments in history when cultural shifts happen so quickly it’s like lightning striking. Lightning struck in Italy — particularly Florence — during the birth of the Renaissance in the 15th century. Lightning struck in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s when Jim …