Music Features

Melvins formed a few years before anyone used the word “grunge” as the name of a genre, but they embodied the term perfectly with their deep, sludgy riffs and left-of-center songwriting. Since 1984, they’ve released dozens of albums of uncompromising and sometimes experimental music, and constantly challenged rock norms. When …

Like leaving voicemails and watching baseball, listening to the radio is popular with older people. 70 percent of parents agree with the statement, “FM radio is for people your age,” according to the analytics company Edison Research. Just 34 percent of teens feel the same way. But radio-averse teens aren’t …

Over the course of 50 episodes this year, our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast ranged from longform interviews with superstars to raging, hilarious discussions of music past and present. Here are some of the best roundtables of the year, featuring host Brian Hiatt and Rolling Stone writers and editors, including …

When indie-pop singer Knox Fortune asked his friends Chris Bailoni and Clay Frankel to open for him at Chicago‘s Lincoln Hall last November, they were a little hesitant. “We were like, ‘We’re not even really a band!’” Frankel recalls. “But he was like, ‘Aw, c’mon. We’ll get drunk. It’ll be …

This Scottish singer-songwriter has churned out reliably solid albums since “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” launched her career in 2005 with a pedal-loop heard around the world. These days when Ed Sheeran plays entirely pedal-looped stadium-show sets, he often thanks Tunstall for the inspiration. But if she’s eluded you …

It’s the day before Florence Welch embarks on the North American leg of her current tour, and she’s making the most of her time in Vancouver. This morning, strangely, she went to a museum exhibit that was all about cabins. “I grew up with a Little House on the Prairie …

Paul McCartney‘sEgypt Stationis a moving statement from a guy who’s found love and now wants the rest of the world have it too. And it proves that McCartney is still having lots of fun in the studio — no more so thanon “Back in Brazil,” the album’s weirdest and freshest …

Take a look around: Women are pissed right now – and there are few better places to exorcise that rage than at one of Dream Wife’s rowdy live shows. The U.K. trio has a “bitches to the front” policy that creates perfect moshpit conditions for women to dance off their …

Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16th at age 76, recorded more than 40 full-length albums in her six-decade career. It’s a deep catalog, crowded with indisputable classics and hidden gems. Rolling Stone’s music staff is paying its R.E.S.P.E.C.T.s to the Queen with tributes to our favorite Aretha LPs. Next …

In the first week of May, the American music industry commenced a semi-annual tradition: singling out a lone piece of Jamaican music and sending it up the charts. 2018’s lucky winner is “Walking Trophy,” a confidence-boosting single by Hoodcelebrityy, a Jamaican-born, New York City-based singer. By early July, two months …