Music

When Brandon Stansell was scouting beach locations to film his new video, his manager offered a suggestion: El Matador beach in Malibu, California. They liked the spot, where performer Blair St. Clair (with whom Stansell shares management) had also filmed her latest video, for its natural beauty and because it …

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds has released the first listen from the band’s upcoming EP, This Is The Place, set to drop September 27th. The song, “This Is the Place,” is a rollicking, psych-inspired number with female backing vocals. The EP will also include two other new tracks, as well …

Khalid has released his latest single “Right Back,” featuring Bronx rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. The song comes with a festive music video directed by Director X (“Hotline Bling,” Rihanna’s “Work”) that shows Khalid and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie hanging out with their friends at a summer barbecue …

In the summer of ’89, Bon Jovi were riding high on so much Garden State gratitude after the success of Slippery When Wet that they named their follow-up LP after their home state. The New Jersey tour would, appropriately, give a leg up to their local friends in the warm-up …

Ed Sheeran enjoyed a second week at Number One on the Rolling Stone 200 this week. No.6 Collaborations Project was streamed 53 million times. Sheeran’s only serious challenger this week was Beyoncé with The Lion King: The Gift, a companion album that accompanied the new remake of the Disney classic. …

According to Mary Ramos, Quentin Tarantino’s longtime music supervisor, the process for selecting songs for one of his films starts in a record store—which happens to be in his Hollywood home. What Ramos describes as Tarantino’s “record room” looks like a vinyl boutique, with LPs separated into bins labeled by …

Norah Jones released her new single “Take It Away” on Friday, featuring guest vocals from Tarriona “Tank” Ball of the New Orleans group Tank and the Bangas. It’s Jones’ first new music since her seven-track album Begin Again came out in April. “Take It Away” was co-produced by Jones and …

Blink-182 will release their eighth studio album, Nine, September 20th via Columbia Records. The album announcement follows a string of new songs, all three of which will appear on Nine: “Happy Days,” “Generational Divide” and “Blame It On My Youth.” Blink-182 will also release another new song, “Darkside,” tonight, July …

Nine days before the new Lion King remake hit theaters, Disney released a clip from the “Hakuna Matata” scene in which a CGI-rendered Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa sing the beloved showtune with the facial expressiveness of a Real Housewives cast after two decades worth of intensive botox treatments. The clip …

This story originally ran in the March 22nd, 1990 issue of Rolling Stone. It was a January in Johannesburg of events unimaginable only months earlier. Merchants in the Saturday flea market hawked T-shirts celebrating the release of seven leaders of the outlawed African National Congress. The New Nation, a radical …