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When award-winning cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto started working on the video for “Willow” with Taylor Swift in November, he didn’t know that it was a part of her new surprise album, Evermore. “I thought maybe it was a video for the previous album,” he tellsRolling Stone. “I didn’t even know what …

Last month, Steve Earle released his take on “Harlem River Blues,” the first taste of J.T., his upcoming tribute album to his son Justin Townes Earle, who died in August. Now, he’s following it up with “Champagne Corolla,” the lead track to JTE’s penultimate album, 2017’s Kids in the Street, …

For the past five years, Patterson Hood has lived in Portland, Oregon, more than 2,600 miles away from his former hometown of Athens, Georgia. But Hood moved to Georgia from his home state of Alabama in the mid-Nineties. And during his two-plus decades living in Athens, the Drive-By Truckers frontman …

Jimmy Fallon tapped the Roots and Coldplay’s Chris Martin for a parody of Taylor Swift’s new film, Folklore: The Long Studio Pond. In the bit — dubbed, Fallonlore: The 30 Rock Sessions — Fallon pretended that, back in May, he started writing an album in quarantine and that he enlisted …

Alanis Morissette has dropped a cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1971 classic “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” along with an accompanying video. In the Victor Indrizzo-directed video, Morissette and her family recreate their own bed-in, mirroring Lennon and Ono’s, with their own handwritten “Bed Peace” sign taped behind …

Billie Eilish’s new song, “Therefore I Am,” cruised to the top of the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, for the week of November 13th through 19th. The track debuted at Number One with a whopping 19.1 million song streams, and comes almost exactly one year after Eilish scored her …

Following the release of Elvis Costello’s massive Armed Forces reissue, the singer has shared an updated video for one of the album’s standout tracks, “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?” The new visual for the 1979 track features artwork by both Costello and the late graphic designer Barney …

Chris Young and Kane Brown team up for a new track that highlights the country singers’ real-life friendship and Tennessee roots. Titled “Famous Friends,” the track is Young’s latest release from an upcoming album project. Written by Young with Cary Barlowe and Corey Crowder, the guitar-driven tune plays up both …

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 …