At the start of the pandemic, concerns were mounting that the record industry was going to get lacerated. But at least in the case of the major music companies — Universal, Sony, and Warner — a different narrative is now starting to emerge. Not only were Sony’s recorded music revenues …

Election officials in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have distributed more than 4 million mail-in ballots to voters in the lead-up to the 2020 election. State legislators in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, however, have deliberately refused to give those administrators any extra time to open, process, and tabulate all of those ballots. And …

Phoebe Bridgers, who released one of the year’s best albums, the exquisite Punisher, back in June, was the guest on a recent episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. She talked about her songwriting methods, the making of the album, and much more. Some highlights follow; to hearthe entire …

Superchunk have dropped their new Halloween single “There’s a Ghost,” the North Carolina alt-rockers’ first new music since their 2018 LP What a Time to Be Alive. “I didn’t write a song for probably the first six months of the lockdown,” Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan said in a statement on the …

Scottish instrumental post-rockers Mogwai have announced their new album As the Love Continues by dropping the video for the LP’s first single “Dry Fantasy.” For the album, the quartet reunited with long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann — their producer on 1999’s Come on Die Young, 2001’s Rock Action, and 2017 LP …

A documentary special on the R&B group TLC is coming to A&E next year. The two-hour special, titledBiography: TLC, will chronicle the journey of the top-selling girl group throughout their career in the Nineties and beyond, featuring interviews with surviving members T-Boz and Chilli.Biography: TLC will be directed by Matt …

Gang of Four have announced a limited edition box set, 77-81, that collects the pioneering post-punk band’s two albums and singles from the era along with an unreleased concert and dozens of unearthed outtakes. The five-LP, one-cassette 77-81, due out December 11th via Matador, contains two Gang of Four newly …

Sacha Baron Cohen offered some fascinating behind-the-scenes details from the making of Borat Subsequent Movie Film — including how that infamous Rudy Giuliani scene came about — during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday, October 26th. To start, Colbert asked Baron Cohen to respond to Giuliani’s …

The Weeknd and Roddy Ricch each racked up eight American Music Awards nominations, while Megan Thee Stallion followed close behind with five for this year’s show, which will air November 22nd at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. The Weeknd and Roddy Ricch are both up for the night’s biggest prize, …

Cam’s arrival in country music defied a lot of the usual stuffy Nashville conventions: her first single “My Mistake” dealt frankly with the prospect of a one-night-stand and her own pleasure, while her breakthrough hit “Burning House” was a rhythmically complex ballad with no drums. The latter stood out in …