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A few years ago, Rico Nasty’s unique style of rap was making her one of the most interesting and exciting voices in hip-hop. Jonny Pierce, frontman of the Drums, saw her do an interview with Narduwar where she mentioned that she was really into his band’s music growing up. “When …

During the time she was married to Joe Strummer starting in 1995, Lucinda Tait would often hear her late husband at work in the kitchen of their house in Broomfield, in southwest England. “He had a typewriter, an old-fashioned one that would go ‘clack clack,’” Tait recalls. “When I went …

Four years ago, 070 Shake made one of the most memorable entrances in recent music history. “I let go of everything that I know,” she belted, two minutes and 30 seconds into Kanye West’s “Ghost Town.” “And nothing hurts anymore/I feel kinda freeeee.” That feeling of spiritual release, a sense …

When Zora Grey was 16, she wanted to be a jazz singer. So she tried out at a vocal audition at her performing-arts high school in Los Angeles — only to be slotted instead into a music technology class where kids learned how to make beats using Ableton and Logic. …

There’s a good chance Fatou Samba is just like you. The 27-year-old Aries, who describes herself as a Myers-Briggs ENTP to a T, enjoys watching anime, Korean dramas, and Dylan O’Brien movies — and above all, listening to K-pop. Like fans around the world, she first encountered the genre through …

Just three years after he debuted with his single “Baby” — which topped charts across Africa and beyond — Joeboy is already approaching superstar status. The Nigerian singer’s warm, down-to-earth energy is all over his 2021 debut album, Somewhere Between Beauty & Magic, a beautifully dreamy celebration of love in …

Bartees Strange needs a new hobby. Back when he wasn’t playing football in high school, studying communications in college, or working a nine-to-five at the FCC, he devoted every free hour to music. Now, his only job is writing, recording, and performing songs that defy the gravity of genre to …

Three years after dropping herstunning debut Beware of the Dogs, Stella Donnelly has returned with “Lungs,” the lead single off her new record, Flood. The track is a masterclass in how to release a single in the spring season: drums frolic across the introduction as Donnelly’s voice soars across octaves …

Jack Harlow had a whole lot to say in nearly a week’s worth of interviews, conducted in Los Angeles and in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, for his first Rolling Stone cover story. With “First Class,” the Fergie-sampling second single from May 6’s Come Home the Kids Miss You, out …

Coffee and menthol. Cold beer and ice cream. Soccer Mommy and a devastatingly direct chorus. Sophie Allison knows her combinations, and she’s back at it with “Shotgun,” a new gem that chases after the perfect metaphor for what it’s like to be emphatically in love. Soccer Mommy released her last …