Halsey has tapped rising rapper Juice WRLD to add a new verse to her hit single, “Without Me.” The track finds Juice WRLD slotting himself easily into the gauzy, somber grove of “Without Me.” He matches Halsey’s potent lyrics about a brutal break-up with an anguished verse of his own …
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Rising country artist Travis Denning’s first experience onstage came when he was 14, playing guitar with the Marshall Tucker Band on their enduring 1973 song “Can’t You See.” “That’s when things shifted into, ‘I just want to get better,” says Denning in the latest episode of the My Opry Debut …
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The 2017 year-end report published by the data company BuzzAngle, which tracks music consumption, contained a disturbing statistic tucked away in the report: The most popular 10 percent of songs accounted for 99 percent of all audio streams. While the lucky 10 percent of tracks still encompassed a lot of …
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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 …
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Janelle Monáe, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion, Alessia Cara and Patti LaBelle will perform at an all-star tribute concert honoring Aretha Franklin. Aretha! A Grammy Celebration for the Queen of Soul will be filmed January 13th at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California and air as …
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21 Savage promised a Travis Scott verse was coming for his album i am > i was on its release date, even though it wasn’t ready for its appearance on streaming services. He evenwarned fans that Travis’ verse would blow their headphones up. Thankfully, Savage delivered — even if the …
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W hen Kacey Musgraves attended the Country Music Association Awards in November, she decided to wear the pants: black Versace ones, to be exact, with gold beaded fringe. “I wanted to show up in a suit,” she says, calling from her tour bus in Oklahoma. “When I found out Versace …
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Ariana Grande delivered the debut TV performance of her new single “Imagine” with assistance from the Roots on Tuesday’s The Tonight Show. Draped in a red Christmas sweater, Grande gave her sultry ballad a brassy reworking as the Roots helped transform the single into a bluesy rave-up. Grande also wowed …
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Gerard Way has dropped a Christmas-ready power pop single “Dasher.” This is the rock star’s third new solo single in two months. “Dasher” features Lydia Night of the Regrettes. On the song, Way tells the story of a girl who falls in love with a reindeer. The lyrics are full …
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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 …
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