M itski has been having nightmares. The 31-year-old musician has always suffered from performance-anxiety dreams, but lately they’ve gotten more terrifying, more elaborate. During one in particular, her cat was stuck in a tree, and she was late to soundcheck. When she finally arrived at the venue, she found out …
Read More »Best Music of 2021: Staff Picks
Here at Rolling Stone, we listen to a lot of new music every year — and we all have our own distinct perspectives and interests when we listen. The choices on these personal Top 10s range from commercial blockbusters and critical favorites like Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour, Doja Cat’s Planet Her, …
Read More »Brothers Osborne Revamp 'Skeletons' Album With 'Younger Me,' Bonus Tracks
Brothers Osborne will reissue their Grammy-nominated 2020 album Skeletons as a deluxe edition in early 2022. The new version, featuring three additional tracks, will be released Jan. 21. Among the newly added tracks is the duo’s single “Younger Me,” which was penned by the brothers and Kendell Marvel about singer …
Read More »One Degree Hotter: How Megan Thee Stallion Made Good on Her Promise to Graduate College
“Leave me alone right quick, y’all!” Megan Thee Stallion says playfully to her glam team. It’s the day after the commencement ceremony at Texas Southern University in Houston, where the hometown hero and Grammy-winner just earned her Bachelor’s degree in Health Administration, just like she always said she would. Shortly …
Read More »Billy Corgan Has Joined Cameo for the Noblest Cause of All: Cats
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for that Smashing Pumpkins fan in your life? Good news: Billy Corgan has joined Cameo, for a good cause. The singer and his partner Chloe Mendel announced Friday that they have joined the personalized celebrity greeting app in an effort to raise money for …
Read More »From 'Downpressor Man' to 'Jokerman': 10 Essential Robbie Shakespeare Tracks
There were great reggae bassists before him, and after, but more than any other instrumentalist, Robbie Shakespeare, in tandem with his drum partner and co-producer Sly Dunbar, defined the bass-centric approach of the genre’s modern era, from the roots-rocker sound of the Seventies to the digi-dub dancehall of the Eighties, …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo Makes the DMV Cool in New 'Tiny Desk (Home) Concert'
Olivia Rodrigo pulled off the seemingly impossible feat of making the DMV a place you’d want to be, performing a stripped-down set of Sour hits at one such location in the latest installment of NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series. The setting — which Rodrigo described as having some “interesting …
Read More »Post Malone, Tame Impala, Halsey to Headline 2022 Hangout Fest
Hangout Festival has been scheduled for another year in Gulf Shores, Alabama, with staple festival performers Post Malone, Tame Impala, and Halsey named as headliners. The event has been scheduled for the weekend of May 20 through May 22, 2022. Post Malone kicks off the weekend as the Friday headliner …
Read More »Tears for Fears Go Back to Basics With New Song 'No Small Thing'
Tears for Fears have shared the new video for “No Small Thing,” the second single and opening track off the band’s first new album in 17 years, The Tipping Point. As Tears for Fears previously told Rolling Stone, after years of false starts and failed collaborations when recording their new …
Read More »Watch Machine Gun Kelly Show Off His Auto-Tune Skills on 'Fallon'
Machine Gun Kelly stopped by The Tonight Show to showcase his Auto-Tune abilities alongside host Jimmy Fallon. Fallon challenged the rapper to a game called Auto-Tune Up, where the pair livened up a series of boring things with the help of the vocal distortion program. In the clip, Machine Gun …
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