Music

In the past year, Rolling Stone has significantly increased its coverage of the music business— fitting for a time when streaming is changing everything, the industry is evolving rapidly, and fascinating business stories arise every day. We recently announced the next phase of this evolution: Rolling StoneCharts, which will offer …

Björk’s Cornucopia was billed as the Icelandic pop-iconoclast’s “most elaborate staged concert to date,” and it would be a tough claim to refute. The world premiere of the concert-like multi-media piece, commissioned by the newly-opened New York City art temple The Shed — an avant-garde culture outpost that opened last …

Since 1969, pioneering country group Alabama have been delivering an influential brand of high-energy performances that have culminated in numerous Entertainer of the Year honors and membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Now, the trio of Randy Owen, Jeff Cook and Teddy Gentry have added nearly 30 additional …

British punks Idles unveiled a menacing new song, “Mercedes Marxist,” along with announcing a string of North American concerts this October. “Mercedes Marxist” marks Idles’ first new song since their 2018 album, Joy as an Act of Resistance, thought frontman Joe Talbot noted on Instagram that the song was actually …

An unlikely pair of music acts – Blink-182 and Lil Wayne – will be hitting the road together this summer. The two acts will lead a co-headlining tour through North America, with Welsh punk band Neck Deep as openers. The tour will kick off June 27th in Columbus, Ohio, and …

Savages singer Jehnny Beth has shared her atmospheric new song “Let It Out,” a track off Beth and producer Johnny Hostile’s soundtrack for the upcoming Chelsea Manning documentary XY Chelsea. “It is about being inside Chelsea’s head at the moment she decides she won’t be hiding anymore,” Beth and Hostile …

BTS and Halsey performed their hit collaboration “Boy With Luv” at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The appearance, which marked their first live performance of the song, received one of the loudest receptions of the night, with the audience screaming along to the lyrics. Dapperly dressed, …

Bushwick Bill, a founding member of the Houston hip-hop group Geto Boys, revealed he is battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The rapper discussed his cancer fight in an interview with TMZ where Bushwick Bill, born Richard Shaw, said doctors initially were monitoring what they believed was a benign mass. “‘We …

John Fogerty found out there may not be a Woodstock 50 at the same time most people did — when Dentsu, the financial backer for the festival, announced on Monday that they were canceling the event. (Woodstock 50 LLC denied the shutdown, saying in a statement Monday night that they …

Schoolboy Q tries not to let his life spin out of control on his new song, “Crash,” set to appear on his forthcoming album, Crash Talk, out this Friday, April 26th. Boi-1da produced the track, winding a simple string loop around a head-nodding drum groove peppered with bass synth gurgles. …