Travis Scott has unveiled new song “Watch” featuring Kanye West and Lil Uzi Vert. The rapper teased the new single on Thursday via Twitter. He revealed the track’s artwork, which depicts contrasting imagery that includes a rollercoaster ride, a skull with fire-tipped eye sockets, flowers and a gem-encrusted watch. The This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Travis Scott’s New Song ‘Watch’ featuring Kanye West, Lil Uzi...

Detroit rapper Royce Da 5’9″ reunites with his Bad Meets Evil partner Eminem for a new video for “Caterpillar.” The song hails from Royce’s seventh album, Book of Ryan. In the black-and-white, James Larese-directed clip, the rappers take turns on their fiery verses while the other remains stoic, taking This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: See Royce Da 5’9″, Eminem Reteam for New ‘Caterpillar’...

Meek Mill spoke candidly about his battle with an opioid addiction while he was on probation during a press conference he held in Philadelphia. The rapper was released on bail from prison in This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Meek Mill Talk Hiding Opioid Addiction, ‘Life-Changing’...

When is a stream not a stream? Billboard, which publishes the definitive album and song charts for the U.S. music industry, has had to ask itself that odd question in the last few months. After facing pressure and criticism from subscription music-streaming services, the trade publication announced last October that it would revamp its chart formulas, which it populates with data from This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Music’s New Chart Rules Care — a Lot — About Whether You’re...

It was a sobering way to enter the weekend. On April 26th, the day before the 49th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival opened at the Fair Grounds race track, the news broke around town of the death of Charles Neville, the saxophonist and second eldest of the Neville Brothers, at 79 of pancreatic This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: New Orleans Jazz Fest 2018: The 7 Best Things We...

Pink is extending her massive North American tour in support of her new album, Beautiful Trauma, into 2019. The pop star announced an additional 37 shows, starting March 1st, 2019, at This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Pink Plots 2019 ‘Beautiful Trauma’...

Leon Bridges, 28, grew up listening to Ginuwine and Usher, developed as a songwriter on the Fort Worth, Texas open mic circuit, and got his break hooking up with half of Austin indie-prog-whatever quartet White Denim. None of this sounds like a recipe for retro soul, but Bridges filled his 2016 debut, Coming Home, with vintage Sixties verities so breezily rendered they felt This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Leon Bridges’ ‘Good Thing’ Is a Uniquely Modern Vision of...

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The first Arctic Monkeys album in five years is lush and claustrophobic at the same time – it calls to mind a guy going a little nutty in a small room in a nice house on a hill, constructing a fantasy world in his head and setting his visions to piano. Which, to hear Alex Turner tell it, is more or less This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Arctic Monkeys Start...

U2 faced a big decision when the Joshua Tree Tour 2017 wrapped up late last year. The stadium extravaganza – which featured a complete performance of their 1987 LP and grossed $316 million across just 51 shows – could have become a very lucrative, easy template for all future projects. Why toil in the studio for This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: U2 Dig Deep at Transcendent ‘Experience’ Tour Opener in...

Rae Sremmurd have unveiled the track lists for their triple album, which will be released on Friday. The duo’s third studio album, SR3MM, comes packaged with solo efforts. Slim Jxmmi’s is called Jxmtro and This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Rae Sremmurd Tap the Weeknd, Future for New Album...

Jesse Jo Stark, the brooding singer-songwriter who was one of Guns N’ Roses opening acts last year, released a seductive new video for “Fire of Love.” Directed by Chuck Grant, Lana Del Rey‘s sister, the clip shows the singer writhing around skulls and rocking out in an empty theater.  Stark called This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Jesse Jo Stark Seduces Skeleton Man in Racy ‘Fire of Love’...

“I can kind of be a chameleon,” says Sasha Spielberg. At 27, Spielberg has been making music for nearly a decade – first in Wardell, an indie-folk act with her brother Theo, and then in Just Friends, an electro-pop collaboration with her friend, producer Nicolas Jaar. Yet she’s a woman of many talents: Spielberg has acted in several films (with roles like “Woman with Package” in The This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Sasha Spielberg on New Buzzy Lee Album...

Claude Kelly, who has helped craft Grammy-nominated singles for Bruno Mars, Tamia and Ledisi, earned his first publishing deal as a songwriter in 2007. Around the same time, he started to notice dispiriting new constraints in R&B writing sessions. The genre was paring down rapidly to keep pace with hip-hop, deemphasizing melodic complexity and embracing the austere loops and rhythmic This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: How American R&B Songwriters Found a New Home in...

It’s easy to guess what might motivate an artist to create an entirely new version of a hit song, often many years later. Maybe they didn’t feel like they got it right the first time. Maybe, like Def Leppard, it’s about sticking it to your publishing company. But nine times out of 10, these re-creations smell like desperate grabs at past glory. It’s a seemingly surefire plan, right? Just take This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 7 Pop Music Remakes...

Lauryn Hill remixed her “Ex-Factor” with Drake‘s “Nice for What,” the hit single that samples The Miseducation This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Lauryn Hill Rework ‘Ex-Factor’ With Drake’s ‘Nice for...

Arthur Buck, the new rock duo made of Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, unveiled their first music This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Joseph Arthur, Peter Buck Wander Through Oregon in ‘Are You...

Ray Davies has announced his new album Our Country: Americana II, the follow-up to the Kinks frontman’s 2017 LP This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Ray Davies Announces New Album ‘Our Country: Americana...

The music industry isn’t where investors typically go to get rich quick. The business, despite its sheen of lucrative glamour, took a painful nosedive two decades ago when cheap digital downloads and piracy edged out physical CD sales; its pitiful revenues and unpredictability have caused Wall Street to slap a semi-permanent caution sticker onto it. The mood, though, is changing. This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Wall Street Is Betting on Music for the First Time in...

Even by Neil Young‘s fearless standards, his show at Fresno, California’s Warnors Theater was a bold move. Not only did it mark his first performance with Crazy Horse in four years, but he claims they didn’t rehearse prior to the gig even though this is a new lineup of the band with guitarist Frank “Poncho” This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Neil Young Reunites With Crazy Horse at Intimate Fresno...