Music

For a song that starts off painfully real – “Should I call first? I can’t decide/ I want to, but a bitch got pride” – the video for “Ring” is delightfully surreal. Cardi B raps about the emotional heft of having no missed calls from the inside of a floating …

You were instructed to call her “Ms. Franklin.” In 2014, Aretha Franklin sat for her last extensive Rolling Stone interview to promote 2014’s Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, her first project in years with her former Arista Records boss Clive Davis.The timing of the interview was unfortunate: it …

The trappings are all there: the smattering of polite applause, the tinkling piano laying out the chord changes of a familiar tune — Erroll Garner’s “Misty,” in this case. But with the entrance of the singer, something shifts; suddenly the record isn’t jazz as usual. Aretha Franklin lands on an …

Paul McCartney teamed with Grammy-winning hitmaker Ryan Tedder for his new single “Fuh You.” The song has a bouncy piano and harpsichord line, helium-voiced backing vocals and a danceable rhythm, as the former Beatle recalls meeting a lover. “I just wanna know how you feel, I want a love that’s …

Following Radiohead‘s triumphant summer tour, Thom Yorke will next embark on a solo U.S. trek this winter. Like Yorke’s recent solo shows, the concerts are billed as “live electronic performances” with the singer accompanied by longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and visual artist Tarik Barri. The month-long tour begins November 23rd in …

Almost 30 years later, Eddie Vedder still remembers the man who stopped him in his tracks one day on a Seattle street. “He just looked interesting,” Vedder told the crowd packed into Seattle’s Safeco Field Wednesday night for the first of the band’s two Home Shows, the tentpole events in …

Police arrested the fourth suspect in the shooting death of 20-year-old rapper XXXTentacion (real name Jahseh Onfroy) Tuesday. Trayvon Newsome, 20, was taken into custody shortly before 5 p.m. ET, according to a statement posted by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office on Twitter. Newsome surrendered at his lawyer’s office in …

Dionne Warwick rejected an accusation put forth by a new Whitney Houston documentary that claimed her sister Dee Dee Warwick molested Houston during the late singer’s childhood. “I have tried to refrain from responding to that. First of all, it’s totally hogwash. My sister would never, ever have done anything …

Will Hoge recently released his new song “Gilded Walls,” a scathing takedown of privilege and political inaction set to a blistering blues-rock groove. Alongside thepreviously released “Thoughts & Prayers,”the song will be featured on the singer-songwriter’s explicitly political new album My American Dream, due this October and produced by Hoge …

Jorja Smith just wrapped a sold-out show at Chicago’s 1,300-capacity Thalia Hall, but she still has work to do. The 21-year-old London singer takes a seat backstage as her hairdresser appears and begins to meticulously braid each strand of Smith’s hair into tight knots – an eight-hour process that has …