Rico Nasty talks primal scream therapy, her idol Rihanna, and crying to Titanic in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s “The First Time.” The rapper kicked things off by discussing the origins of the name Rico Nasty and the first time she performed live. She also touched on learning about …
Read More »In Computero: Hear How AI Software Wrote a 'New' Nirvana Song
Ever since Kurt Cobain‘s death in 1994, Nirvana fans have hypothesized about the music he would have made had he lived. But other than “You Know You’re Right,” the scabrous, throat-shredding meditation on confusion that Nirvana recorded a few months before his suicide, and a few comments he told confidants …
Read More »Dry Cleaning Rock Out in an Empty Carpet Store in 'Unsmart Lady' Video
London art-rock band Dry Cleaning rock out in a vacant carpet shop in the video for “Unsmart Lady,” the latest single from their upcoming debut album,New Long Leg. The song pairs one of the band’s heaviest grooves with lead vocalist Florence Shaw’s spoken lyrics about body image (“Fat, podgy, non-make-up/Unsmart …
Read More »RS Country Music Picks for Week of March 29th
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.) …
Read More »Lil Nas X Shares Unabashedly Queer Video for 'Montero (Call Me By Your Name)'
Lil Nas X has released a new single, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” together with a provocative, self-directed video with Tanu Muino. “In life, we hide the parts of ourselves we don’t want the world to see,” Lil Nas X says in the voiceover to the video’s intro. “We …
Read More »Elton John Celebrates 74th Birthday With Six Vintage Songs
Elton John turns 74 Thursday, March 25th, and he’s marking the occasion by sharing six rare songs from his 2020 box set Elton: Jewel Box on streaming services for the first time. One of them is 1967’s “Scarecrow,” the first song he wrote with Bernie Taupin. “Scarecrow’ will always have …
Read More »The National's Bryce Dessner Releases New String Composition 'Impermanence'
The National’s Bryce Dessner has released a new piece, “Impermanence,” from his upcoming collaboration with the Australian String Quartet and the Sydney Dance Company, Impermanence/Disintegration. The album will arrive April 2nd via 37d03d, the label Dessner founded with his brother/National bandmate Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. While this …
Read More »Lana Del Rey Teases New Album 'Rock Candy Sweet'
Just a day after Lana Del Rey released her new album Chemtrails Over the Country Club, the singer has already teased her next record, Rock Candy Sweet, adding that the LP will arrive June 1st. Del Rey made the announcement in an Instagram Stories post where she was responding to …
Read More »Greta Van Fleet Aim to Bust Down Old Walls on New Song 'Broken Bells'
Greta Van Fleet have released a new track, “Broken Bells,” from their upcoming album, The Battle at Garden’s Gate, out April 16th via Lava/Republic. “Broken Bells” is a sprawling ballad filled with tangled guitar lines and sharp string stabs that builds and exhales with a blazing guitar solo that makes …
Read More »See Three Previously Unreleased Tina Turner Photos From Morrison Hotel Gallery's New Online Exhibit
The Morrison Hotel Gallery has shared three previously unreleased photos of Tina Turner that will be part of an upcoming online exhibition, One Woman Show, opening March 25th. The sequin dress series at the top of this post was taken by Norman Seeff in Los Angeles in 1983. “Working with …
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