The 55th annual CMA Awards honored winners like Chris Stapleton, Carly Pearce, Old Dominion, Jimmie Allen, and Brothers Osborne during their Wednesday night ceremonies in Nashville. Stapleton was a multiple winner, taking home trophies in categories like Album of the Year for his LP Starting Over and for Single and …
Read More »Post Malone to Replace Travis Scott at Day N Vegas Festival
Post Malone will headline Day N Vegas festival on Saturday. He takes the place of Travis Scott, who canceled his top billing appearance following a massive crowd surge at Friday’s Astroworld, which left at least eight people dead and hundreds injured. The second night of Astroworld was canceled. On Monday …
Read More »Lawyers See 'Hundreds of Millions' in Settlements – and Possible Criminal Charges – in Astroworld Tragedy
The Astroworld Festival tragedy that left eight Travis Scott fans dead and at least 25 others hospitalized will likely result in settlements that add up to hundreds of millions of dollars, and possibly even prison sentences for figures involved with the show, according to lawyers who brought suits over previous …
Read More »Astroworld Victim Franco Patino Was a 'Humble' 'Protector' Who Aimed to Help His Mother Walk Again
Franco Patiño first got into biomedical engineering to help his mother, who suffers from inclusion body myositis, a rare condition that weakens damages and muscles. The 21-year-old thought that if he could invent some sort of exoskeleton for his mother, she could eventually be able to walk with no assistance. …
Read More »Nathaniel Rateliff's Throwbacks Wear Well on 'The Future'
It’s been six years since Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats electrified The Tonight Show with their brawny rave-up “S.O.B.,” delivering a scorching performance that launched one of the more unlikely breakout stars of the viral-sensation era. Rateliff was a burly middle-aged guy from Colorado whom Jimmy Fallon had stumbled …
Read More »Dalex on the Lustful R&B and Dance-Driven Reggaeton of 'Unisex'
Dalex’s new album, Unisex, opens with “Oh Ma,” a dubby cut that captures the upbeat, EDM-inspired direction that reggaeton has been moving toward — only the Puerto Rican vocalist, whose style has always been heavily indebted to R&B, smooths out the corners with his lighter vocal delivery. Across the rest …
Read More »Hayes Carll Casts God as a Woman, Says We're All Gonna Die on His Surprisingly Reassuring New Album
Hayes Carll is in Galveston, Texas, watching the shrimp boats return from the Gulf of Mexico to empty their nets. Later that night, the singer-songwriter will play the first of two shows at the Old Quarter Acoustic Café, a folk club that originally operated in nearby Houston until it closed …
Read More »Josh Homme Testifies at Brody Dalle Contempt Trial As Judge Rejects Sons' Restraining Orders
A criminal contempt trial that could land Distillers founder Brody Dalle in jail amid her ongoing custody war with ex-husband Josh Homme kicked off in Los Angeles Friday, the same day the judge overseeing the case dismissed the pending restraining order petitions filed against Homme on behalf of the former …
Read More »Hear Billy Joel's 'New York State of Mind' From Upcoming 1975 Live LP
Ahead of the release of Billy Joel’s The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1, Rolling Stone exclusively presents the rendition of the Piano Man’s “New York State of Mind” that features on the box set’s unreleased live LP, Live at the Great American Music Hall – 1975. This rendition — recorded at …
Read More »Nile Rodgers to Auction Guitars Behind Countless Dance Hits
Before Nile Rodgers became the virtuoso writer-producer-arranger behind canonical dance hits for Chic, Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Madonna, and more, he was just an eager student looking to buy his first guitar. While he was still in school, he trekked down to the local pawn shop to hunt for a …
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