Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.) …
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Elle King and Miranda Lambert have teamed up for the exhilarating new duet “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home),” which marks the former tourmates’ second recorded collaboration after the CMA-winning cover of “Fooled Around and Fell in Love.” King wrote the uptempo “Drunk” with Martin Johnson (who also produced …
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Even the most die-hard Bob Dylan fans admit that his Never Ending Tour hit some very rough patches in the Nineties. For proof, check out this disastrous rendition of “New Morning” from his June 19th, 1991 gig in Stuttgart, Germany. It stretches for seven minutes, although much of it just …
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Morgan Wallen‘s Dangerous: The Double Album spent its fifth consecutive week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. Wallen has prevailed the last two weeks even after a video of him using a racial slur emerged on TMZ, causing radio stations to pull his music out …
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Los Angeles chillwave band Poolside has released a remix of Billy Idol‘s “Eyes Without a Face.” The Poolside version stays close to the original recording — from Idol’s second album, 1983’s Rebel Yell — keeping Perri Lister on backing vocals while adding lush, languid beats. “I’m flattered that Poolside chose …
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The 2020 Latin Grammys opened with a splashy, star-studded homage to the salsa legend Héctor Lavoe. While a group of music luminaries, including the singer Victor Manuelle, belted out the lyrics to “El Cantante,” the 28-year-old Puerto Rican artist Rauw Alejandro sauntered onstage holding hands with reggaeton matriarch Ivy Queen. …
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One of the most streamed songs on Morgan Wallen‘s four-week Number One album Dangerous: The Double Album is “Cover Me Up,” Wallen’s version of Jason Isbell‘s signature song about getting sober and the healing power of love. Following Wallen’s industry-wide rebuke last week for using a racial slur, Isbell has …
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Liz Phair addresses the romance between Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, pondering how they might have felt and interacted privately in her new song “Hey Lou.” Produced by longtime collaborator Brad Wood, it’s Phair’s first new song in two years following the Wood-produced “Good Side.” “Hey Lou/Are you feeling all …
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Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.) …
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Danny Ray, James Brown’s longtime emcee and “cape man,” has died at the age of 85. Ray, a staple at the Godfather of Soul’s legendary live shows, died Tuesday night of natural causes, the Richmond Country coroner confirmed to the Augusta Chronicle. “The James Brown estate mourns the passing of …
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