Luke Combs has teamed up with bluegrass star Billy Strings for the new song “The Great Divide.” Surprise-released Sunday night, it addresses the bitter cultural divide of the present-day United States and is the first new studio music Combs has released since the deluxe edition of his second album, What …
Read More »Look Back at 2020 One Last Time: Our Podcasts on the Year's Best Music
There’s something utterly unique about all the great new music from the awful year of 2020: Almost none of it has yet been performed in front of a live audience, which makes the recordings feel all the more precious. Our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast rounded up some of last …
Read More »Pearl Jam Ask Tribute Band Pearl Jamm to Change Name for Obvious Reason
Pearl Jamm, a British Pearl Jam tribute act that has performed together for over five years, has responded to a recent legal request from the namesake band’s management and lawyers requesting a change in moniker. According to Pearl Jamm’s response to Pearl Jam, the original band’s management expressed gratitude for …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Navy Blue Featuring Yasiin Bey, 'Breathe'
It’s hard to categorize the music that Navy Blue, né Sage Elsesser, makes. Convenience calls for describing it as rap and calling Elsesser, who moonlights as a professional skateboarder, a rapper. He’s part of a growing cohort of musicians who make what’s been dubbed “lo-fi” rap, which seems just as …
Read More »Watch the War and Treaty Perform Powerful 'Take Me In' on 'Austin City Limits'
Nashville duo the War and Treaty make their Austin City Limits debut this weekend, and deliver a moving, extended rendition of their piano ballad “Take Me In.” “I’ve seen our mothers cry within/From our parents who refuse to call us kin,” the husband-and-wife group’s Michael Trotter sings during the song’s …
Read More »Luke Combs Talks About His Battle With Anxiety, OCD on Dan Rather's 'Big Interview'
Luke Combs is the featured guest on the upcoming episode of The Big Interview With Dan Rather, airing January 13th at 8 p.m. on AXS TV. In a teaser video for their in-depth conversation, the “Better Together” singer opens up to Rather about his longtime struggles with anxiety and how …
Read More »American Music Taste Finally Went Global in 2020
While our feet were planted firmly in the U.S. in 2020, largely barred from international travel,streaming data shows us our ears, at least, were wandering the globe. Figures from Alpha Data, the analytics provider behind the Rolling Stone Charts, show that U.S. listeners gravitated more and more toward global genres …
Read More »Flashback: Bob Seger's Final 'Turn the Page' With Alto Reed
The tragic news came down on December 30th that Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band sax player Alto Reed died at the age of 72 after a battle with stage 4 colon cancer. “Alto has been a part of our musical family, on and off stage, for nearly 50 …
Read More »See Gwen Stefani's Nostalgic 'Let Me Reintroduce Myself' Video
Gwen Stefani has paired her throwback single “Let Me Reintroduce Myself” with a similarly nostalgic music video that touches on the singer’s many looks over the past 25 years. The video opens with Stefani calling Interscope exec Steve Berman to ask for more money for the video shoot, a callback …
Read More »Andra Day to Headline an All-Digital Times Square New Year's Eve
While there will be no crowd, the annual Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration won’t be without its frills and musical performances as the event’s organizers announced its performance slate for Thursday. R&B singer Andra Day will be headlining the event, performing her songs “Rise Up” and “Forever Mine,” and …
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