Music

St. Vincent performed her two recent singles “Pay Your Way in Pain” and “The Melting of the Sun,” from her upcoming album Daddy’s Home, during her return as Saturday Night Live musical guest. Both performances marked the first time Annie Clark had played the songs live. “Pay Your Way in …

A native of West Tennessee’s cotton-rich Haywood County, Tina Tuner was born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939 and would go on to become a household name in the Sixties and Seventies, performing alongside her soon-to-be-ex-husband, Ike Turner. Her extraordinary career would take her to the pop charts and around the …

Karol G (virtually) stopped by The Tonight Show to perform her recent song “El Barco.” The blue-haired singer offered a soulful of the tune along with two guitarists, appearing to play the track while standing in three floating boats before a vibrant sunset. The singer also spoke with host Jimmy …

A lawsuit and countersuit between Taylor Swift and Utah fantasy theme park Evermore have both been resolved with the involved parties dropping their respective suits, Rolling Stone has learned. “As a resolution of both lawsuits, the parties will drop and dismiss their respective suits without monetary settlement,” a spokesperson for …

The Blues Foundation has rescinded Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s 2021 Blues Music Awards nomination for Best Blues/Rock Artist. According to a statement from the organization, the decision was made over Confederate flag imagery displayed on Shepherd’s The Dukes of Hazzard “General Lee” car replica, and on “guitars and elsewhere.” The organization’s …

For this year’s annualWomen Shaping the Future issue, we asked 12 of today’s top musical acts to talk about the women who have inspired them most in their lives and careers. Here, Waxahatchee‘s Katie Crutchfield talks about her lifelong admiration for Fiona Apple‘s music, and how she helped inspire Waxahatchee’s …

Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez delivered a futuristic performance of “Dákiti” at the Grammys Sunday night. The two Latin music stars made do without an audience by performing inside of a glowing, sci-fi stage setup, rapping close to the camera as they wound their way through a maze of flashing …

Selena Gomez is following in the footsteps of Christina Aguilera as the next major pop star to musically embrace their Latina heritage. Twenty years after Aguilera’s Mi Reflejo LP, Gomez dropped her first Latin project, the Revelación EP. Both titles explore a theme of reflections, like looking into the mirror …

Jorja Smith dolls up while yearning for the full attention of a special someone in the video for her new single “Addicted.” It’s the English singer’s first new music of 2021. In the video, which Smith co-directed with Savana Leaf and shot via webcam, Smith appears in different outfits in …

Maren Morris joined Ellen DeGeneres for an in-the-studio conversation on DeGeneres’ talk show on Thursday to chat about her upcoming performance on the Grammy Awards and why she thinks country music is getting more socially conscious. Morris, whose hit “The Bones” is nominated for Best Country Song at Sunday’s Grammys, …