When Long Beach, California, rockers Rival Sons performed at Bonnaroo this past June, the band turned down its amps to record three songs inside the festival’s “Haybale Studio.” Literally a studio made of hundreds of bales of hay, the sessions are unique to Bonnaroo and capture artists in a naturally …

About a mile out, the man says, they’ll put on the music. The kid looks confused: music? Just a classical piece — the boys love it. “Put on ‘PSYWAR OP,’ ” he barks into his headset. “Make it loud.“ The reel-to-reel starts up. Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” from the …

Brittany Howard has shared her soulful new song “He Loves Me,” the Alabama Shakes singer’s contemplative track about reconnecting with God from her upcoming debut solo LP Jaime. “’He Loves Me’ is a very important track on my record. It is a song I deeply want to share to help …

When Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires formed the Highwomen as the female answer to the male country supergroup the Highwaymen, their first order of business may have been considered blasphemy by some: rewriting “Highwayman,” the 1985 theme song of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson’s all-star band. …

Two and a half minutes of careening punk-metal bile, Binky Philips and the Planets’ “Splitsville for Bust” sounds like somethingthat could have been heard blaring out of a downtown New York club in the early Seventies. And there’s a reason for that: It’s a new and inordinately hooky rocker from …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Though it is perhaps most closely associated with Indian music, the harmonium was actually invented in the early 19th century in Europe. Also known as a reed organ …

Nasty Cherry have released their third new single “Live Forever.” The song arrives with a video directed by the band’s bassist Georgia Somary. Guitarist Chloe Chaidez describes “Live Forever” as “a fiery smasher about being yourself and dancing through the sadness of life” while Somary adds that “it’s a spicy …

Oh, what a movie The Kitchen could have been. It seems impossible to screw up a crime thriller starring Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss as mob wives who turn the tables on the men who done them wrong. On paper, it’s a great idea to have Andrea Berloff, …

Caroline Polachek appears as a pirate in her new video for “Ocean of Tears,” a song from her upcoming solo LP Pang. The album from the former Chairlift lead singer – and the first under her own name – arrives this fall. “‘Ocean Of Tears’ is dedicated to the sharp …

On August 5th, it was reported that Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the classic works BelovedandThe Bluest Eye and one of the greatest 20th century American novelists, had died at the age of 88. Although the novelist and essayist had struggled with health issues in recent years, the …