The R&B singer Giveon enjoyed the highest debut on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart, arriving at Number Seven with When It’s All Said and Done… Take Time. The 13-song set — which combines two 2020 EPs, Take Time from March and When It’s All Said and Done …
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Multiple music advocacy groups — including the Music Artists Coalition, the Black Music Action Coalition, Songwriters of North America, and the union SAG-AFTRA — threw their support behind California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s newly introduced FAIR Act on Friday. The Free Artists from Industry Restrictions Act (also known as bill …
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The organizers for Outside Lands have announced that the 2021 festival will be held on Halloween weekend (October 29th through 31st) as opposed to its traditional August dates, in order to ensure the safest possible environment in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. “We have been eagerly anticipating our return to …
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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
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Japanese Breakfast performed their slick new single, “Be Sweet,” as well as the very appropriate 2017 track, “Jimmy Fallon Big!” on The Tonight Show Monday. The performances were filmed at the Brooklyn venue, National Sawdust, and “Be Sweet” opened with Michelle Zauner strolling through the venue as her band jammed …
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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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When Bob Dylan fans picked up copies of Bringing It All Back Home in 1965, they weren’t just struck by the electrified folk-rock of “Maggie’s Farm” and “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” Some were also intrigued by its cover, where a dapper Dylan was seen joined by a mysterious brunette in a …
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Spoon has revealed two Tom Petty covers, recorded earlier this year at the Catacomb in Austin, Texas. In the video above, Britt Daniel grooves through “Breakdown” from Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1976 debut album. They scale it back for Full Moon Fever‘s “A Face in the Crowd” (below), with Daniel …
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Gwen Stefani has dropped her new song “Slow Clap,” the singer’s first single of 2021 and follow-up to her throwback track “Let Me Reintroduce Myself.” Like that previous single, “Slow Clap” once again sees the singer returning to the reggae and ska roots of early No Doubt. Lyrically, Stefani addresses …
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Music, movies, and books have gone from physical objects to digital files over the past 10 years, and computer designs have changed with the times. A lot of computers — laptops, all-in-ones, and traditional desktops — don’t have a DVD drive built into them anymore. This is a problem if …
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