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Six years ago, Marcus King felt lost. A long-haired, pot-smoking kid going to school in the small town of Piedmont, South Carolina, he struggled to fit in — he hated sports and missed enough classes to nearly be expelled for truancy. “I have nothing good to say about Piedmont, no …

As a young woman in the early Sixties, Janis Joplin was pushing the era’s boundaries well before she ever recorded a note, whether she was hitchhiking solo to San Francisco as a teen or refusing to hide her bisexuality at a conservative Texas college. And all the while she was …

Costco sells everything from diapers to coffins, a kind of lifecycle in retail. Laetitia Tamko’s most vital purchase at the super-store came somewhere in between childhood (baby formula) and adulthood (vinyl siding): the dinky starter Fender she picked up at age 17. “I love Costco,” Tamko — who writes and …

In September 2018, one week before his birthday, the singer-songwriter Ant Clemons got a call from his manager. “He’s like, ‘Pack your bag for Chicago,’” Clemons recalls. “I’m like, ‘Jeremih has a show?’ My manager’s like, ‘He might — but Kanye [West] wants you to be out there.’” Clemons flew …

Billy Idol didn’t just nail the look of London punk rock — he was there at the very beginning, attending the Sex Pistols’ early gigs shortly before starting his own band, Generation X. From there, he made the wildly prescient choice to add synths and dance beats (inspired by Suicide …

Young Thug wants to talk about faith. More specifically, he wants to talk about the faith that we should have in him, the kind he’s always had in himself. At numerous points during our phone conversation, he dances around the low points of the last few years and the arrests, …

The Band thought the whole idea of the Woodstock festival was exciting because of what it stood for. The promoters were telling everybody that it was a show of hands for people who felt a certain way about our generation and the war in Vietnam. It was being called a …

Petra Collins first encountered Billie Eilish when she saw the pop star’s Calvin Klein campaign. “She spoke about what clothes mean to her and how they’re like a shield,” the photographer, director and artist, says. In the video, Eilish specified that she wore baggy clothes to keep her body — …

Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa Dabice has the kind of voice you can’t ignore—a punk yowl with a soul singer’s flair for raw passion. Her Philadelphia foursome raise a ferociously emotional racket on their new breakthrough album Patience, one of the year’s most cathartic rock statements. “Drunk II” is Dabice’s witty ballad …

Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees the Zombies went through their entire careers, in oft-hilarious detail, on a recent episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now. Read some highlights below, and to hear the entire discussion, press play or download and …