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The lives of novelists, filmmakers, musicians, and athletes have often been fodder for great works of art. But it’s possible that Operation: Wake Up, this odd little concept record from Mike Posner, is the first attempt to turn the slings and arrows of being a pop songwriter for hire into …

As part of their ongoing Hanukkah celebration on social media, Haim have released a hilarious and very 2020 parody of the Waitresses’ 1981 holiday song “Christmas Wrapping.” It’s called “Christmas Wrapping 2020 (All I Want for Christmas Is a Vaccine).” The cover arrives with a low-budget iPhone music video featuring …

Tom Cruise lashed out at the Mission: Impossible 7 crew for apparently breaking Covid-19 protocols in a leaked recording from the film’s London shoot. In the viral rant first published by U.K. tabloid The Sun — and later verified by the New York Times — the actor chastises crew members …

Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices is notably not a fan of the Internet, a sentiment he turns into power-pop perfection on “Electronic Windows to Nowhere,” off the band’s third album of 2020, Styles We Paid For.The record was even initially going to be titled Before Computers — until Pollard …

An all-star group of Broadway actors and performers have lent their voices to a recording of “Georgia on My Mind,” in support of Stacey Abrams‘ Fair Fight organization and their work leading up to the Georgia Senate runoff election. Created by producers Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, along with Broadway …

Kelly Loeffler had been a senator for just a few weeks when she found herself at the pulpit of the Rev. Raphael Warnock’s church in Atlanta. He was only 10 days from entering the race for her senate seat, but she was still included as part of the speaking lineup …

Artists’ influences are never nearly as interesting as what they do with them. Chris Cornell always thrived at taking well-known songs and making them his own. One of Soundgarden‘s earliest recordings was a rendition of Howlin’ Wolf’s steady-grooving, broken-hearted blues “Smokestack Lightnin’,” on which Cornell seemed to find his own …

Now what? After four years of manias and catastrophizing, with constant warnings about the “existential threat” posed by Donald Trump, the monster is dead. Trump, the democratic Saddam, has lost, and his metaphorical statue will soon be dragged out of the White House, to the cheers of nearly every pundit …

The newest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now podcast is a special Musicians on Musicians edition, drawing on our recent package of one-of-a-kind interviews. The show starts off with Lil Wayne revealing the secrets of his craft to Lil Baby, moderated by Dewayne Gage. Next up is an intimate conversation …

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 …