Four Beatles Biopics at Once?! What We Expect From the Beatles Cinematic...
With the news that Sam Mendes will direct one Beatles biopic for each member, all due in 2027, we make some predictions
View ArticleSublime Wars! Rome (Gently) Strikes Back as Band Moves on With Bradley...
Sublime with Rome is touring this year, as is Sublime without him. In his first interview about the drama, Rome Ramirez — who has a new solo single — tells his side of the story.
View ArticleHow Ariana Grande Turned Divorce and Heartbreak Into Pop Perfection
Eternal Sunshine is the most mature album of her career — and one of the catchiest. We break it down, track by track — and try to figure out why Grande compared it to the Beatles' Rubber Soul
View ArticleOur AI-Generated Blues Song Went Viral — and Sparked Controversy
Suno, a ChatGPT for music, is astonishing music fans, and angering them. Hear more uncanny AI creations, learn how it works, and how the company addresses criticism
View ArticleModest Mouse Plot ‘Good News’ Tour, New Album
Isaac Brock looks back at the making of Good News for People Who Love Bad News and reveals some of his band's future in our new interview
View ArticleWhat If Beyoncé Already Made Her Rock Album?
We dig into Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter, going track by track, and ponder rumors of a rock album to come... as well as the idea that in some ways, this already is that album
View ArticleModest Mouse’s Isaac Brock on Making ‘Float On,’ Loving the Cure, and Much More
In our sprawling new interview, Brock looks back at recording Good News For People Who Love Bad News — and also explains why he'd like to live forever via artificial intelligence
View ArticleTaylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’ Was a Pop Pivot With a Sense of Humor
On the latest episode of our 500 Greatest Songs podcast, the hosts explore Taylor Swift's self-effacing hit "Blank Space"
View ArticleThe Old Taylor Swift Is Dead — This Time for Real
On the astonishingly revealing The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, Taylor Swift makes it clear that even if you love her, you don’t really know her
View ArticleWe Decoded Every Track on Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The...
During two episodes of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we do our best to solve every lyrical mystery of Swift's 31-track opus
View ArticleKeep ’Em Separated! 30 Years of the Offspring’s ‘Smash’
Offspring frontman Dexter Holland celebrated the 30th anniversary of his band’s breakthrough with an in-depth new interview — here are four things we learned
View ArticleThe E Street Band Wants the World to Hear Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Electric...
The band versions of Springsteen's acoustic classic have "eluded us," keyboardist Roy Bittan says in our interview for Born in the U.S.A.'s 40th anniversary. "Maybe Bruce, at some point, will get to...
View ArticleLinda Perry Is Finally Ready to Write For Herself Again
Perry put her own singing career aside to write hits for Christina Aguilera and Pink, but after the personal trauma chronicled in a new documentary, she's ready to start over
View ArticleThe Making of Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’
How Eilish (and producer/co-writer Finneas) paired her most confessional lyrics ever with vintage synths, multi-part suites, and dance beats
View Article‘Silvio Dante Helped End Apartheid!’: Stevie Van Zandt Looks Back at His Wild...
From his anti-apartheid activism to his work with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to why he just lost 100 pounds, Little Steven reflects on the highs and lows of his singular career in our new...
View ArticleDid Katy Perry Release the Worst Comeback Song of All Time?
Perry's "Woman's World" is a catastrophic flop. We examine what it means for her career, and look back at other disastrous would-be musical comebacks, from Guns N' Roses to Robin Thicke
View ArticleWhy Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Should Get Album of the Year at the Grammys —...
We look at some of the best R&B, hip-hop, and Afropop of 2024 – and make the case for the greatness of Beyoncé’s country departure and Kendrick Lamar's virtuosic Drake diss "Not Like Us"
View ArticleDid Noel Gallagher Already Write a New Oasis Album?
The musician told us he recently wrote a "very heavily guitar-based stadium-rock album" — now that Oasis is back, he may have the perfect singer for it
View ArticleTony! Toni! Toné! Won’t Reunite Again — And Six More Things We Learned From...
The legendary R&B singer-producer-songwriter dishes on working with Beyoncé on 'Cowboy Carter,' recalls some praise from Prince, and much more in our new interview
View ArticleD’Angelo Is Hard at Work on the Follow-Up to 2014’s ‘Black Messiah’
Artist is in "a good space," and is working on at least six new songs, according to Raphael Saadiq — including a long-lost track from Linwood Rose, the supergroup with Q-Tip, Saadiq, and D'Angelo
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