Mavis Staples Shows Off Range, Relevance at 80th Birthday Apollo Show
Halfway through her star-studded 80th-birthday concert at New Yorks Apollo Theater, Mavis Staples paused her half-century-plusspanning set to take in…
Song You Need to Know: Normani, Motivation
Every blue moon, you can actually hear a pop superstar be born. Motivation is that song, and Normani is that superstar in the making (but already we…
Hear Jeezy, Meek Mill Stomp Down MLK BLVD in New Song
Jeezy and Meek Mill have teamed for the bruising new song MLK BLVD, set to appear on the formers forthcoming album, TM 104: The Legend of the Snowman…
Grammys 2019: Watch H.E.R. Shreds During Smooth Rendition of Hard Place
H.E.R. made her Grammy Awards debut tonight with a performance of her song Hard Place. The rising R&B star is up for five awards tonight, includi…
Hearts Ann and Nancy Wilson Detail First Show Together in Three Years
Ahead of their summer reunion tour, Hearts Ann and Nancy Wilson will perform together for the first time since 2016 at the Love Rocks NYC benefit con…
Watch Ann and Nancy Wilson Play Crazy on You at First Show in Three Years
Last month, Ann and Nancy Wilson announced that Heart were going on a reunion tour three years after their bitter split. And last night they finally …
Hear Motorhead Frontman Lemmy Kilmisters Lost Country Duet The Mask
Lemmy Kilmister started writing the outlaw country song The Mask in 1979 the same year he put out the screaming, hard-rock albums Overkill and Bomb…
Watch Black Keys Perform Lonely Boy With Wayne Newton at Vegas Fest
The Black Keys welcomed surprise guest and Sin City icon Wayne Newton onstage to perform Lonely Boy during the bands set at Las Vegas Life Is Beautif…
Weezer Honor Ric Ocasek: When You Were His Friend, It Was for Life
Weezer paid tribute to Ric Ocasek, the former lead singer of the Cars and renowned rock producer, who helmed three of Weezers biggest albums, includi…
By the Time Fall Became Davidos Breakout Hit, Hed Forgotten About It Already
Last September, the Nigerian artist Davido was a guest on Power 105.1s The Breakfast Club, one of rap radios most popular morning shows. You got Amer…
Bob Dylans Bootleg Series to Tackle 1969 Johnny Cash Sessions
In February 1969, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash holed up in a Nashville studio for two days of loose, free-flowing sessions where they sang each others s…
Read Def Leppards Celebratory Rock Hall Induction Speech
Since forming more than four decades ago, Def Leppard became one of the best-selling bands in the world on the strength of mega-platinum albums like …
Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers Set for Inaugural Railbird Festival
Kentucky is quickly becoming the next great festival state, with the eclectically curated Forecastle Festival and Bourbon and Beyond, the hard-rock d…
George Clinton Reflects on Five Decades of Funk, Retiring From Touring
Whats happening, man? a spry-sounding George Clinton asks when he picks up the phone. The Parliament-Funkadelic mastermind is turning 78 in July, but…
Was Rapper Lil Peep Destined to Be the Next Kurt Cobain?
With the casual charisma of a born star and shamelessly catchy music that combined emo melodies and hip-hop beats, rapper Lil Peep was on his way to …
Hear Untold Stories From the Original Woodstock
Fifty years later, the new episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast takes a deep look back at the original Woodstock, with Country Joe McDonald…
Wanda Jackson on Why She Had to Retire From Touring
There are precious few American entertainers who have been touring longer than Wanda Jackson. In 1955, 64 years ago, the pioneering country-rockabill…
Flashback: America Play a Hazy Sister Golden Hair in 1980
Looking back, it seems odd that one of the Seventies greatest feel-good songs begins in such dispiriting fashion: Well, I tried to make it Sunday/But…
Hear Danny Browns Fast-Talking New Track Best Life
Danny Brown has dropped Best Life, another track off his upcoming album uknowhatimsayin , which drops October 4th via Warp Records. The new song was …
Theres a Musicians Union. Many Musicians Are Unaware or Unable to Join
In a video interview uploaded to YouTube in February, Joe Budden, a former major-label rapper who is enjoying a popular second career as a podcast st…
