Car Seat Headrest are hitting the road next spring for a North American tour. The trek kicks off on March 16th in St. Paul, Minnesota, at Palace Theater and features special guests Bartees Strange for their U.S. dates and Floral Tattoo at the end of the run in Vancouver, BC, …
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This piece is part of Rolling Stone’s second annual Grammy Preview special issue, released ahead of the start of first-round voting. We spoke to some of the year’s biggest artists about the albums and singles that could earn them a nomination — or even a statue come January — and …
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The Beatles are angling for a piece of that sweet, sweet TikTok pie, finally joining the platform with their own official account and making 36 of their songs officially available as soundtracks for videos. The band’s account has just two videos so far, and despite having a trove of archival …
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Midway through our phone call last week, the musician Oklou abruptly stopped talking. We were discussing the making of her critically-acclaimed EP Galore, which dropped last year, when she suddenly went silent, only to return a few minutes later, laughing. It turns out she stepped away to gaze at the …
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This April, the Puerto Rican rapper Farruko was in Miami, finishing up a song that is easily his weirdest — in his own words, a “total experiment.” It started with bits and pieces of different sounds: There was reggaeton percussion, but it was infused with guaracha, a style of tribal …
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Alice Cooper opens up about his battle with alcohol addiction — a problem that reached its pinnacle in the late Seventies — in an excerpt from the shock rocker’s Who I Really Am: Diary of a Vampire, the latest installment in Audible’s Words + Music series. “I was drinking more …
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Less than two weeks before they were due in St. Paul, Minnesota, to launch a nearly sold-out, 27-date U.S. tour, British post-punk band Idles headed to the U.S. embassy in London to see if they’d have to cancel the whole thing. They’d spent the past 10 months desperately trying to …
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Coldplay‘s new collaboration with BTS, “My Universe,” launched at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, dethroning Drake‘s “Way 2 Sexy.” This marks both Coldplay and BTS’ first Number One on the chart, and BTS make history as the first Korean act to top the RS 100. …
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My Obsessionis a regular column in which our favorite musicians show off their nonmusical passions.Rick Ross is a man of simple pleasures. He enjoys a fast car, a well-rolled blunt, and the clean look of his own freshly mowed lawn. “It’s something I look forward to,” Ross says, outfitted with …
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Meechy Baby has dropped the video for his new song “Cutlass.” The track will appear on YoungBoy Never Broke Again‘s upcoming compilation, Never Broke Again Vol. 1, slated to drop later this month. In the Rich Porter-directed clip, the rapper cruises around in the classic car and hangs out with …
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