BTS, the first K-pop group ever to top the Billboard 200, established some more chart history as their new albumLove Yourself: Answer debuted at Number One. Love Yourself: Answer, which arrives just three months after BTS hit Number One with Love Yourself: Tear, sold 185,000 total copies in its first …
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The Struts perform intimate versions of two new songs, their recent single “Body Talks” and as-yet-unreleased power ballad “Somebody New,” in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “Take One” performance series. “Body Talks” opens with frontman Luke Spiller snapping his fingers and belting over his bandmates’ bluesy, detuned acoustic riffs. …
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You never know quite what you’re going to get when Azealia Banks picks up the phone. Will it be the brash stylist who’s responsible for some of the best rap singles of the 2010s, or the bomb-thrower who’s been repeatedly kicked off social media platforms for her flagrantly outrageous antics? …
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Blood Orange‘s Devonté Hynes performs the soulful “Saint” for a room full of friends in the song’s laid-back video. The singer-songwriter self-directed the clip, set in an intimate apartment living room. Hynes plays synthesizer, drum machine and cello at various points in the visual. Meanwhile, his companions – including India …
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Eddie Willis, guitarist and original member of the famed Motown Records house band the Funk Brothers, died Monday near his hometown of Grenada, Mississippi. Willis was 82. Willis’ daughter Terez Willis told the Detroit Free Press that her father had been suffering from complications from his lifelong bout with polio, …
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When Toots Hibbert plays with the Maytals next Friday night at Virginia’s Lockn’ Festival, it will be the first time the reggae legend has performed in the state since 2013, since he was hit in the head with a vodka bottle during a concert in Richmond, and suffered serious physical and …
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Logic tackles the brutal Trump administration policy of separating immigrant families at the United States-Mexico border in the his new video for “One Day.” In the clip’s opening minutes, a Hispanic immigrant family is caught attempting to make it into America. A border control agent tears a baby away from …
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Editor’s Note: A previous version of the story said that Cardi B will perform at the event. While the rapper will open the show, she will not perform. Rolling Stone regrets the error and has clarified in the post below. Cardi B will open the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, …
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Cat Power unveiled a soulful new song, “Woman,” featuring backing vocals from Lana Del Rey. The track will appear on Cat Power’s upcoming album, Wanderer, out October 5th. “Woman” arrives with a video directed by Greg Hunt. The simple clip captures Cat Power and her band performing the simmering track …
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Justin Timberlake will release his first book Hindsight & All the Things I Can’t See in Front of Me, a collection of “anecdotes, reflections and observations on his life and work,” this October. “I can’t help that my music shows who I am in this moment, what I’m drawn to, …
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