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“The most important collaboration in my life has been with Geddy,” Neil Peart wrote in 2014. As Rush‘s drummer and lyricist, Peart had a profound link with Geddy Lee, the band’s bassist, singer, and keyboardist — though he also emphasized the importance of guitarist Alex Lifeson. “Certainly I don’t want …

Flo Milli is on an impressive run right now, chewing up everything in her path and spitting it back with a double-time bar and an eye roll. The Alabama rapper’s debut mixtape, Ho, Why Is You Here?, was one of last year’s most fun releases in any genre, giving everything …

Nile Rodgers still remembers the first time he heard what would become his favorite album of all time: John Coltrane‘s A Love Supreme. The guitarist grew up in what he describes as a “jazz household” in New York’s Greenwich Village, and one day, his stepfather came home with the deeply …

As part of our newly updated survey of the500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making and impact of key records from the list. Taylor Swift‘s Red came in at number 99. Hear Swift reflect on the album in the second episode of …

Nashville foursome the Cordovas dial up the Flying Burrito Brothers vibes for “High Feeling,” the intoxicating leadoff track of their latest album Destiny Hotel. It’s breezy and wistful, summoning the anything-is-possible outlook of a vision quest in the desert. And for good reason: the band wrote the song in the …

This piece is part of our ongoing coverage of Rolling Stone’s newly updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Prince‘s Purple Rain topped El-P‘s personal ballot and landed at number eight on the overall list. Here, the Run the Jewels rapper reflects on how the album changed him as …

This summer, Shalfi Edu went viral without singing a note. The 25-year-old guitarist posted a video of his playing — full of flitting fingers, though the mood remains insistently tranquil — on the app TikTok, which now functions as music’s primary discovery engine. Edu added a caption out of a …

Last June, Justin Townes Earle sat down for a typically frank and hilarious interview on our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Townes Earle had a lot to celebrate: an excellent new album, The Saint of Lost Causes, and a two-year-old daughter, Etta, at home.Ina free-wheeling, emotional conversation, Earle — who …

“I’m on some new shit,” Taylor Swift sings in the opening lines of Folklore, announcing with a smile and a wink that the many Taylor Swifts of her previous seven albums — even the not-quite-year-old Taylor of Lover — can’t come to the phone right now. Swift has always conceived …

Whoisakin airs a series of romantic frustrations in “Space,” which blends confessional, open-wound R&B with the willowy, propulsive rhythm common in Nigerian Afrobeats. “Space” is part of Whoisakin’s debut EP, but the young singer has already mastered the art of masking blunt, accusatory lines with honeyed tones. “Space” runs down …