This is the latest installment of Rolling Stone’sMusic in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronaviruspandemic. While Covid-19 cases in the U.S. continue to surge and cripple live music, Norwegian musician Sondre Lerche is busy playing shows in his home country, crediting …

Olivier Award-winning playwright and activist Katori Hall — who also wrote the book for the Broadway musical Tina — discusses her new Starz show P-Valley on the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s “The Breakdown.” The Memphis native could not wait to depict Southern strip-club culture: “I think a lot of …

Solange‘s “Cranes in the Sky” was a triumph of melancholia, but Big Joanie‘s heavy, fuzzy rendition of the tune makes the original sound positively upbeat by comparison. Solange’s single was so good — Rolling Stone dubbed it one of the 50 Best Songs of 2016 when it came out and, …

Anderson .Paak has dropped a remix of his protest song “Lockdown,” with a verse featuring Noname. The Chicago rapper takes her verse nearly two minutes into the track. “Uh, maybe this round two/Government cinematic, American drive-through/Eat their apple pie in the mornin’ and bury the strange fruit/Then marry the strange …

Earlier this year, Alex “Yung Skayda” Calderon, a vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist in the duo XIX, was trying to make the time pass quickly while working at a warehouse job for Amazon. “I was just by myself for hours, so I would rap flows all the time,” he says. “I …

Folklorists will tell you that la llorona is a ghostly figure said to be a crying mother doomed to grieve for her drowned, dead offspring in perpetuity, and it takes a while to figure out how the Latin American legend fits into Jayro Bustamante’s extraordinary, eerie-as-hell horror movie. (It streams …

Before it hits a bump in the plot that throws it out of whack, An American Pickle rides high on a double dose of Seth Rogen, with the brash comedian plays dual roles separated by a century. The first is Herschel Greenbaum, a ditch-digger from the fictional Eastern European shtetl …

The Streets has released a music video for “None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive,” the title track from his new mixtape that also features British punk band Idles. Directed by Rollo Jackson, the visual features Mike Skinner and Idles frontman Joe Talbot on an existential journey …

Common recounts the story behind the first rap record he bought — and the first rhyme he wrote — in an excerpt from his upcoming Audible original, Bluebird Memories: A Journey Through Lyrics and Life, out August 4th. Common recorded Bluebird Memories at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York …

Brad Paisley matches the all-are-welcome tone of his new song “No I in Beer” with an equally inclusive video, which assembles a small army of quarantined famous faces from the music, sports, and political worlds. The good-natured Paisley’s fans submit their own self-shot cameos too, from all over the U.S. …