If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. You hear the cheers from the crowd before you see Queen + Adam Lambert even step on the stage. That’s how the group’s latest live album-turned-concert film Live …
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Jonny Greenwood, the guitarist and backbone of Radiohead, is slated to score Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s upcoming film starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana. As Indiewire reports, Spencer is set over the course of a weekend in December 1991, as Princess Diana spends Christmas with the royal family and ultimately decides …
Read More »The Billboard Music Awards Gets a 2021 Date
Dick Clark Productions and NBC announced Monday that the 2021 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) will air live on Sunday, May 23rd at 8:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. PT on NBC. The ceremony will air just a little over seven months after the 2020 BBMAs, which were held this past …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: K-Pop Legends Epik High, CL, and Zico Team Up for 'Rosario'
What’s better than one K-pop vet returning to the game? Three such artists teaming up for a Latin-tinged hip-hop track that showcases the seamless way in which Korean artists are weaving their way through different genres to serious success. “Rosario” is the first single from hip-hop trio Epik High’s 10th …
Read More »Jennifer Lopez Embraces Transformation in New Video for 'In the Morning'
Jennifer Lopez has released a new video for her recent single, “In the Morning.” Lopez collaborated on the clip with director Jora Frantzis, crafting a sequence of stunning vignettes that, per a release, grapple with the need to change and grow in relationships, while acknowledging that a person may only …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Graeme James, 'The Voyage of the James Caird'
Every so often, we need a gripping seafaring-disaster song, and that time has come. While shipwrecks have never been at the top of any pop songwriter’s checklist, they’ve nonetheless set sail every so often in the rock era, dating back at least to Gordon Lightfoot’s Number One hit “The Wreck …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Olivia Rodrigo, 'Drivers License'
Is it too early to call song of the year? Olivia Rodrigo’s debut single, “Drivers License,” makes it difficult to not believe that both she and the moving power ballad are meant to completely dominate 2021. Rodrigo’s nostalgic, piano-assisted song builds slowly as a story about the 17-year-old finally getting …
Read More »Bill Callahan, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Enlist Ty Segall for Johnnie Frierson Cover
Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy have revealed their latest cover, performing a rendition of Johnnie Frierson’s “Miracles” with Ty Segall. Directed by Sai Selvarajan, the video features vintage, sepia-toned photos of automobiles and American life, as Callahan takes the lead on vocals. “If you believe and if you try/You …
Read More »Playboi Carti's Reddit Community Never Lost Hope
At midnight on Christmas, Playboi Carti declared himself Santa. After years of hype, false starts, and cryptic messages to fans, the rapper finally shared his album Whole Lotta Red, the hotly anticipated follow up to 2018’s Die Lit. The 24-track, 62-minute record inspired an almost immediate bifurcation on social media. …
Read More »Chuck D on Public Enemy's New Album and the Legacy of 'Nation of Millions'
Public Enemy‘s recent, guest-star-ladenWhat You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? is, undoubtedly, the greatest album ever made by a hip-hop group 35 years deep into its career – in that it’s almost certainly the onlyalbum in that category thus far. That distinction aside, it’s genuinely excellent in its …
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