Jason Isbell’s guitar foil Sadler Vaden, Philadelphia songwriter Roger Harvey, and Dierks Bentley‘s alter-ego Nineties group all have songs on this week’s list. Sadler Vaden, “Golden Child” A solo artist, modern-day guitar hero, and longtime member of Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit, Sadler Vaden has spent the better part of a …

“Expect the unexpected, because it’s going to get weird,” house-band bassist Austin Scaggs warned the crowd at start of the eighth annual Wammy party on Saturday night in Los Angeles. Scaggs was right in more ways than one; about an hour later, in a sort of Hollywood fever dream, Weird …

If anyone’s going to score a horror movie, it should be Girl in Red. Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ulven wrote the spooky-sweet “Kate’s Not Here” for the new Henry James adaptation The Turning, which is out Friday — along with its Nineties inspired soundtrack. Ulven’s characteristically haunted vocals implore the song’s …

“Engage.” This was the simple command that Captain Jean-Luc Picard uttered so often throughout the seven-season run of Star Trek: The Next Generation — the final word before the starship Enterprise headed off on a new adventure. But engage is also what so many recent TV revivals fail to do. …

Several members of Nashville’s artistic community and beyond are coming together to raise money for Australian bushfire relief efforts. Aussie singer-songwriters Ruby Boots (also known as Bex Chilcott) and Jordie Lane are spearheading the event, set for February 1st at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge and presented in partnership with the Americana …

Seth Meyers is good at getting celebrities to spill the dirt while drunk and his latest victims are none other than the Jonas Brothers. In a new segment for Late Night, Meyers takes the trio to Brooklyn’s The Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club for several rounds of drinks. The group is …

Black Pumas’ journey to the Grammys began with a potentially awkward phone call. In late 2017, long-standing Austin-based guitarist and producer Adrian Quesada needed a singer for some new instrumentals he’d been recording. On the recommendation of a mutual friend, he left a message for a local talent, Eric Burton, …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There is little doubt that “I taught myself how to play the guitar” is an extremely cool thing to say at parties, but if you’re going to use …

On Thursday night, word spread among a shocked music biz: Deborah Dugan, the Recording Academy CEO who had been in her new position only since last August, had been removed from her post just 10 days before “Music’s Biggest Night.” Dugan was placed on administrative leave “in light of concerns …

Missy Elliott leads her own girl group, Missy and the Demeanors, in her new video for “Why I Still Love You.” The clip — co-directed by Missy and Derek Blanks — starts off with a little girl looking at a portrait of a Sixties girl group leader (played by Missy) …