Maggie Rogers appears as one of the guest stars on the latest season of Sesame Street, performing a song about nocturnal creatures called “It’s Nighttime.” Rogers shows up during a backyard camping trip for Elmo, Abby, Rudy, and Charlie, who are in search of some marshmallows that went missing. While the …
Read More »Barack Obama Includes Beyonce, Aretha Franklin, Beatles on Playlist for New Memoir
Barack Obama has shared a new playlist featuring music from Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, the Beatles and more, to accompany his new memoir, A Promised Land, which hits shelves tomorrow, November 17th. Obama announced the playlist on social media and shared a streamable version on Spotify. “Music has always played an …
Read More »Tower Records Relaunches as Online Music Store
Tower Records, the beloved music chain that shuttered all of its U.S. physical locations 14 years ago, has been revived as an online store. After nearly a year of teasing its return via a social media presence, the new Tower Recordsofficially relaunched this week, complete with the return of its …
Read More »Steve Perry Announces Stripped-Down Version of Comeback LP 'Traces'
Steve Perry has revisited eight songs from his 2018 comeback LP Traces for a new album he’s calling Traces (Alternative Versions and Sketches), due out December 4th. It features the tunes in acoustic form, stripped of much of the production from the original album. “When writing these songs, the original …
Read More »Jon Bon Jovi, Gwen Stefani Set for Joe Walsh's Virtual VetsAid Charity Concert
Joe Walsh has tapped Jon Bon Jovi, Eddie Vedder, Gwen Stefani, and many more to participate in his fourth annual VetsAid charity concert, which will take place virtually December 12th. The stacked lineup for VetsAid 2020: Home for the Holidays also includes Alice Cooper, the Killers’ Brandon Flowers, Daryl Hall, …
Read More »Hear Neil Young's Previously Unreleased Version of 'The Losing End (When You're On)'
Neil Young has dropped a previously unreleased version of “The Losing End (When You’re On)” ahead of the release of Archives Volume 2: 1972-1976 10-disc box set, which arrives on November 20th. The six-and-a-half-minute version of the song was recorded and performed live with the Santa Monica Flyers at West …
Read More »500 Greatest Albums Podcast: How Public Enemy Took on 'A Nation of Millions'
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 …
Read More »Jason Isbell Says He'll Record a Georgia Covers Album If Biden Wins the State
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 …
Read More »RS Charts: Luke Combs Becomes First Country Star to Top Artists 500 Chart
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 …
Read More »Eminem Lends 'Lose Yourself' to New Joe Biden Campaign Ad
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 …
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