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Jason Isbell has announced the opening acts for his run of Ryman Auditorium performances in fall 2018. Those artists include the R&B upstart Melanie Faye, indie rock bands Bully, Jeff the Brotherhood and Diarrhea Planet as well as singer-songwriters Molly Tuttle and Amanda Shires, who also plays fiddle in Isbell’s …

Elle King draws from vintage southern soul on her new track “Good Thing Gone.” The song will appear on King’s second album,Shake The Spirit. “Good Thing Gone” borrows from old recordings made at soul studios like Stax and Muscle Shoals. The drummer plays a rock-steady 6/8 rhythm, while the guitarist …

Sam Smith hits the dancefloor and struts a catwalk with Calvin Harris in their “Promises” video, which pays tribute to ball culture and Voguers. The visual opens with a series of dancers describing the sense of freedom found through dance culture. “Growing up in the Bronx you have to carry …

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 …

“Whenever we would pull into a town or a hotel on the road, Gregg would usually say, ‘This place has everything a good man needs,’” says Scott Sharrard. He’s talking about Gregg Allman, the Southern-rock torchbearer whose voice — an instrument every bit as soulful as his Hammond B-3 organ …

Panic! at the Disco‘s Brendon Urie confidently walks up the side of a tall building in the band’s new video for “High Hopes.” The video is also modeled off the cover of their chart-topping new album Pray for the Wicked. “No matter how hard your dreams seem, keep going. You …

Candi Staton’s career has been full of zigzags since she released her first solo album, I’m Just a Prisoner, in 1970. She was an overlooked southern soul singer, working with producer Rick Hall of Muscle Shoals fame; a dancefloor killer in both discos (“Young Hearts Run Free”) and European clubs …

Smashing Pumpkins will livestream their upcoming Seattle, Washington concert via Twitter on Friday, August 24th starting at 11:15 p.m. ET. The broadcast, part of the Live Nation Concert series, will document the band’s ongoing reunion tour featuring three-fourths of their classic line-up: singer-guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer …

Twenty-five years after Aerosmith released their Video of the Year-winning “Cryin,” the Rock Hall-inducted band returned to the MTV Video Music Awards to close out the Radio City Music Hall award show with two gems from the early Seventies about artists just beginning to follow their paths: “Dream On” and …

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 …