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In September, Rolling Stone unveiled the new version of our 500 Greatest Albums poll. It’s a completely updated version of our most read, most argued-over list ever, made with help from a group of voters that included Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Stevie Nicks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and members of U2, as well …

Alex Trebek, television’s consummate quizmaster and the host of Jeopardy! for 35 years, died Sunday morning at the age of 80 following a lengthy battle with cancer. “Jeopardy! is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends,” the show …

Thursday night, as Georgia trended toward a historic victory for the Democratic party in the 2020 presidential election, Jason Isbell mulled the idea of sweetening the event with a new recorded project. Rather than a batch of original songs to follow 2020’s Reunions, though, Isbell says that if Joe Biden …

“How do you sleep at night?” a prospective roommate asks Harper (Myha’la Herrold), the heroine of HBO‘s new, London-based drama Industry, about her work on the trading floor of an international bank. “That level of self-interest is just toxic, isn’t it?” “That’s kind of reductive,” argues Harper, who once wrote …

Luke Combs has climbed to Number One on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the week of October 23rd through 29th, making him the first country musician to achieve this feat. Combs is somewhat of a rarity in the country world — a bona fide streaming star, who typically …

Eminem has allowed Joe Biden’s presidential campaign to use his 8 Mile classic, “Lose Yourself,” in a new ad released Monday, November 2nd, the day before the 2020 elections. The 45-second spot, “One Opportunity,” pulls its title from from the song’s lyrics, and it pairs “Lose Yourself” with a black-and-white …

Stax Records have paired the Staple Singers’ 1971 protest anthem “Respect Yourself” with a new lyric video that features footage from both the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter protests. “Now as then, this song’s message of self-respect, tolerance, and empowerment provides a compass for navigating times of …

Dua Lipa has joined forces with Belgium’s Angèle for the sultrynew song “Fever.” Lipa released her sophomore albumFuture Nostalgia earlier this year. Lipa and Angèle trade verses and their voices intertwine between lines over a seductive beat, with their vocal timbres adeptly complementing the steamy sentiment of the song. “I’ve …

Tracy Chan has spent his career in jobs that never existed in the old music industry. The music-tech entrepreneur started as a product manager at YouTube, then launched his own company, CrowdAlbum, a photo-aggregation algorithm collecting pictures taken by fans at shows. Spotify acquired the startup and brought Chan on …

Grimes has partnered with Endel for AI Lullaby, a new project designed to help babies and adults get some shut-eye. The project was partially inspired by the musician becoming a new mom and wanting something better than white noise to put her baby to sleep. It contains ambient-like sounds and …