In March, the Puerto Rican singer Rauw Alejandro played “Todo De Ti” for his label for the first time. While reggaeton loops served as the jet fuel that helped launch Spanish-language pop into global prominence during the 2010s, the drums in Alejandro’s new single are flat and square, landing on …
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Former My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar is auctioning off the last drum set he used while with the band — on tour and during the recording of 2006’s The Black Parade — to raise money for a Tennessee animal rescue center. Bryar, who left My Chemical Romance (and subsequently …
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Jason Isbell trades the plodding drums and rhythm of Metallica’s “Sad But True” for nasty slide guitar played at breakneck speed. Isbell’s version of the song will appear on the heavy metal pioneers’ upcoming 30th anniversary edition of 1991’s Black Album. Backed by his group the 400 Unit, Isbell careens …
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Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.) …
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Some artists struggle to determine which of their releases is the most vital — it’s like asking a parent to pick a favorite child. But Mary J. Blige has no such hang-ups. “I have 13 albums,” she declares early on in her new Amazon documentary, released on Friday, “but my …
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Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus revealed on social media Wednesday that he is currently battling cancer. He first alluded to having the disease in a quickly deleted Instagram post from Wednesday morning. It featured a photo from what appeared to be a hospital room where he looked to be undergoing treatment, as …
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F rom the outside, the house isn’t terribly different from others on the block: a cozy bungalow in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood with an old lilac tree blooming near the entrance. In fact, it’s legendary: the place where a prodigal teenager and her older brother recorded the album that made …
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My Obsession is a regular column in which our favorite musicians show off their nonmusical passions. Watch a video version of this piece above. Syd grins as she revs the engine of her beige 1975 Ford Bronco, the truck growling and sputtering loud enough to wake the neighbors in her …
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J ack Antonoff has always been a serious, handshake-avoiding, airplane-seat-wiping germophobe, but the past year didn’t faze him much. “I was fine,” he says, “because I was preparing for this.” Instead of freaking out, the songwriter-producer-frontman spent the year hanging with his parents in New Jersey and making music with …
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St. Vincent, Haim, and Charli XCX are set to headline the 2021 All Things Go Music Festival, which will take place October 16th at a new location, Merriweather Post Pavilion outside of Washington, D.C. The one-day festival will take place over two stages, while the move to Merriweather Post Pavilion …
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