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Diane Warren is such a prolific — and relentless  —  songwriter that she was right in the middle of working on a new composition when she paused to join us for the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Warren, who has her first solo album, Diane Warren: …

Randy Houser and Jamey Johnson, known for such country hits as “Like a Cowboy” and “In Color,” are teaming up for a new acoustic tour. The Country Cadillac Tour will play 13 dates, beginning February 5th at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth, Texas. Houser and Johnson go way back. Along …

Justin Bieber‘s “Anyone” debuted at Number One on the first Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart of 2021. Bieber wrote the track with help from Andrew Watt and Jon Bellion, among others, before releasing it on New Year’s day. “Anyone” amassed more than 13 million streams in the first week …

Ahead of their performance at the virtual David Bowie tribute Just For One Day, Duran Duran have dropped their cover of the late legend’s “Five Years.” The band kick up the synths for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars rendition, as Simon Le Bon …

Christmas cheer continued to rule the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart in the final week of the year. Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” finished December at Number One, with 19.1 million streams. Carey’s single was followed by Brenda Lee‘s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Bobby …

Dave Cobb has a tradition for welcoming artists he’s producing to RCA Studio A. When they first set foot in the Nashville studio, he runs through a litany of the greats who’ve previously recorded there. Dolly Parton threw a wrench in that routine when she arrived to sing “Words” for …

So, How Was Your 2020is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Trevor Daniel‘s “Falling” is one of the catchiest songs of 2020, with an insistent hook that …

Paul McCartney discussed his new album, the Lennon/McCartney partnership, the Beatles’ breakup and his Covid-19 “rockdown” during an interview with CBS Sunday Morning. As correspondent Seth Doane noted at the onset of the conversation, while people in quarantine were learning how to bake bread, McCartney was recording McCartney III. “The …

U2’s Bono and the Edge performed an acoustic rendition of the Darlene Love classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” as part of a holiday episode of Ireland’s Late Late Show this week. For the in-studio performance — inspired by the annual all-star Christmastime busking gigs around Dublin’s Grafton Street — …

Paul McCartney celebrated the release of McCartney III by dropping the video for “Find My Way.” Directed by Roman Coppola, the clip features McCartney in his studio in Sussex, England. In the visual, he’s seen in multiple split-screen as he performs the song. He takes on all the parts: singing …