Huey Lewis talked about his battle with Meniere’s disease for the first time in This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Huey Lewis Talks Meniere’s Disease: ‘It Can Get Better. It Just Hasn’t...

Post Malone set a new record for most streams in a week and established the best-selling week of 2018 as the rapper’s Beerbongs & Bentleys opened atop the Billboard 200. The album opened with 461,000 total copies in its first week of availability, with This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: On the Charts: Post Malone Breaks Streaming Record With ‘Beerbongs &...

Organizers announced Sunday that this year’s FYF Fest in Los Angeles has been cancelled. The long-running music festival, which was set to celebrate its 15th anniversary on July 21st and 22nd, had booked Florence and the Machine, Janet Jackson and My Bloody Valentine for This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: FYF Fest Canceled Following Organizers’ ‘Difficult...

When Jay-Z released 4:44 last year, millions of listeners heard the story of the rapper’s mother, Gloria Carter: After concealing her sexual orientation for most of her life, Ms. Carter recently told her son she was in love with another woman. The conversation brought Jay-Z to tears and led to “Smile,” which This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: GLAAD Awards Honors Jay-Z’s Mom Gloria...

Donald Glover capped off his triumphant Saturday Night Live episode with the debut of the music video for “This Is America,” the new single from Glover’s musical alter ego This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Childish Gambino’s Caustic Video for New Song ‘This Is...

On April 14th, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its 33rd class: Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (in the Early Influence category), Bon Jovi, the Cars, Dire Straits and the Moody Blues. The induction ceremony, which took place in Cleveland, included tributes to Tom Petty and Chris Cornell, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction 2018: 10 Best...

Nearly a decade and a half ago, California impresario Anthony Tiffith signed an unknown 15-year-old musician named Kendrick Lamar to his fledgling label, Top Dawg Entertainment. Kendrick has gone on to win widespread acclaim as the greatest rapper in a generation, along with platinum plaques, Grammys and This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Kendrick Lamar and SZA Shine at TDE Championship Tour Kickoff in...

Derek Taylor was always one of the most beloved figures in the Beatles’ inner circle. The Apple press officer was famous for his superhuman levels of charm and wit, both badly needed in the band’s dark final days. When John, Paul, George and Ringo fell apart, Taylor wrote his 1973 memoir As Time Goes By, one of the very best books written about the Beatles – but This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: That Time Paul McCartney Debuted ‘Hey Jude’...

Donald Trump credited Kanye West with helping to improve the president’s poll numbers among African-Americans in a speech Friday. “Kanye West must have some power because I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 to 22 in one week,” Trump said during his NRA convention speech This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Donald Trump Thanks Kanye West for Boost in Approval...

Liam Payne and reggaeton star J Balvin host a late-night dance-off in the sleek video for “Familiar.” The duo hold court in Miami throughout the clip, which cuts from a parking garage rooftop to a house party to a nightclub crammed with backing dancers. The bilingual “Familiar” is set to appear on Payne’s upcoming debut solo LP, tentatively titled LP1, which Rolling Stone This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Liam Payne, J Balvin Host Rooftop Dance Party in ‘Familiar’...

Nicki Minaj debuted intricate, visually stunning videos for her recently-issued singles “Chun-Li” and “Barbie Tingz.” Throughout the “Chun-Li” clip, the rapper-singer dons a series of This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Nicki Minaj’s Vivid ‘Chun-Li,’ ‘Barbie Tingz’...

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Liz Phair, The Girly-Sound TapesThe brutally honest Chicago rocker revisits her landmark debut Exile In Guyville with a box set that includes a remastered version of the album, which turns 25 next month. But the real treat is the at-long-last-official version of the cassettes Phair recorded as Girly-Sound, which include early versions of tracks from This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 10 New Albums to Stream Now: Liz Phair, Rae Sremmurd, Leon Bridges and More Editors’...

On a break from touring with his band, the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave is in the midst of a short, unconventional solo tour where he’s holding This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 9 Things We Learned From Nick Cave’s Open Forum...

It’s been so long since onetime 120 Minutes mainstays Belly put out an album, that a rapper with the same moniker now dominates Google searches for the word “Belly.” That lack of activity has relegated a band that put out a Gold album (1994’s Star), scored a video hit with “Feed the Tree” and was nominated for two Grammys to something of a footnote, albeit a wistfully remembered This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Belly’s ‘Dove’ Is About Much...

Rachael Price’s voice comes at you like a muscle car of music history, blues and bebop detailing on a classic soul ‘n’ rock chassis, and her band’s latest set comes with songcraft grown tighter and more polished, shrewdly conjuring retro pleasures per usual. The funky-pop strut “Shame Shame Shame,” for example, isn’t the 1974 Shirley and Company proto-disco hit. But it might make for an This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Lake Street Dive’s ‘Free Yourself...

Alice in Chains released their first new song in five years, the eerie “The One You Know.” The single previews the alt-metal band’s upcoming, as-yet-untitled sixth LP, due out later in 2018.  Guitarists Jerry Cantrell and William DuVall anchor the track with a series of grungy, dissonant riffs. This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Alice in Chains’ First New Song in Five Years, ‘The One You...

Stefan Kozalla is the rare DJ who doesn’t usually dial back his presence when producing vocal tracks, nor does he overwhelm the singer; instead, he insists that everyone shine simultaneously – a fine metaphor for the dance floor’s egalitarian, communal spirit. You can admire this fine touch in much of his remix work, as well as on his magnificent 2013 Amygdala, one of the decade’s This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: DJ Koze’s ‘Knock Knock’ Is a Seamlessly Transporting...

Twenty-five years ago, Liz Phair came up with an interesting concept for her debut album: She would record a song-by-song reply to the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Liz Phair Breaks Down ‘Exile in Guyville’ Track by...

While Smashing Pumpkins are set to embark on their semi-reunion tour in two months, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Billy Corgan Perform Intimate ‘Archer’ on...

Happy 25th birthday to Rid of Me, PJ Harvey‘s goth-punk masterpiece, which dropped on May 4th, 1993. On her second album, the 23-year-old lass from the English countryside seized the wide-open opportunities of early-Nineties rock and opened them even wider. She goes for shameless rock & roll bravado – “Man-Size,” “50 This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: PJ Harvey’s ‘Rid of Me’ at 25: A Salute to Her Funniest, Nastiest...