Alex Lifeson’s new band Envy of None are releasing their debut self-titled album on April 8, and they recently rolled out their new single “Liar.” The group is fronted by vocalist Mariah Wynne. “Mariah became my muse,” Lifeson said in a statement. “She was able to bring this whole new …
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When Summer Walker‘s new album, Still Over It, comes out on Friday, commercial expectations will be high. The R&B singer erupted in 2019 with singles that channeled Nineties classics, especially the Top 20 hit “Playing Games” — which built on the unimpeachable foundation of Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name” — …
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Michael Lindsay-Hogg, director of the long-lost 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be, is about to see his 56 hours of original footage recut into an entirely different movie: Peter Jackson‘s three-part, six-hour-long, painstakingly restored The Beatles: Get Back, which debuts Nov. 25 on Disney+. But Lindsay-Hogg doesn’t feel like his …
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Ever since Harry Styles announced his Harryween shows in New York, almost two years ago, anticipation ran high. But Harryween was worth the wait. It was the hottest Halloween party in town, as fans took him up on his challenge to dress up for the occasion in Madison Square Garden. …
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Everyone, including Carl Palmer, thought they’d seen and heard the last of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. In 2010, the trio, who took prog to way-over-the top heights musically and theatrically in the Seventies, played its final show at a London festival. “That concert for me was sad, because as I …
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In the depths of her court-ordered conservatorship, while Britney Spears was performing hundreds of shows for her Vegas residency and raking in millions, the pop star was under a strict budget and intense, 24-hour surveillance that monitored her every move — including a wiretap in her bedroom. Those are some …
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Louis Michot is a Grammy-award winning Cajun punk musician. When he’s not touring with Arcade Fire or the Violent Femmes, he lives outside of Arnaudville, Louisiana, on a stretch of land called Prairie Des Femmes, with his wife and three children. Michot, 42, built their home with the salvage of …
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This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July-August issue of the magazine. At Afropunk’s 2019 New Year’s Eve festival in South Africa, DJ Moma was scheduled to play a 45-minute set following headliner Solange Knowles. He knew exactly what to do. The DJ, …
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For the bulk of her career, Maggie Rose toiled on the fringes of country music, releasing songs and albums that were often too riskyfor mainstream Nashville — see the hyper-specific death-row ballad “Looking Back Now.” Country radio success never materialized, but more importantly, Rose found herself by leaning into the …
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After much anticipation, Atlanta rapper Lil Baby’s and Chicago’s Lil Durk’s collaboration The Voice of the Heroes hit streaming platforms today. Teased in March, the project is a power move from the two acts whose stars rose immeasurably in the past year. Among other successes, last June, Lil Baby found …
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