The Byrds‘ Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman will mark the 50th anniversary of the band’s pioneering country-rock album Sweetheart of the Rodeo with a tour that begins this summer. Marty This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Byrds Co-Founders Plan ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ 50th Anniversary...

The year 1998 had some great ideas our culture gave up on too soon: Internet cafes, travel agencies, Jennifer Love Hewitt’s singing career. Plus questionable ideas, like Canadians rapping about Chickity China the Chinese Chicken. But most of all, it was a year full of music. Every genre was booming – rap, modern rock, electronica, R&B divas, Britpop poseurs, indie slop, trip-hop, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The 98 Best Songs of 1998: Pop’s Weirdest...

A group of Prince fans plan to celebrate the late icon’s 60th birthday with a three-day gathering in Henderson, Minnesota, near where scenes from Purple Rain were filmed. Minnesota resident Joel King, who served as a camera operator on Prince’s Graffiti Bridge and several music videos, is This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Fans to Celebrate Prince’s 60th Birthday With Minnesota...

Shawn Mendes became the third-youngest artist to claim three Number One albums as the Canadian singer’s self-titled third album opened atop the Billboard 200. Shawn Mendes sold 182,000 total copies in its first week of release, the best debut week of the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: On the Charts: Shawn Mendes Claims Third Number One...

Taylor Swift delivered a speech in support of Pride Month and the LGBTQ community Saturday during the singer’s Chicago concert. “It’s very brave to be vulnerable about your feelings in any sense, in any situation, but it’s even more brave to be honest about your feelings and who you love when you know This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Taylor Swift Gives Speech Celebrating LGBT Pride Month at Chicago...

Ariana Grande debuted her new song “The Light Is Coming,” a track off the singer’s upcoming Sweetener, during her set at Los Angeles’ Wango Tango Saturday. “So, I’m putting out a new album in August, and I wanted to tell you the pre-order goes up this month on the 20th. And on the 20th you get a This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Ariana Grande Debut New Song ‘The Light Is Coming’ at Wango...

Kanye West talked his new album Ye, his mental health and the meaning of the album title during a video interview conducted at the rapper’s star-studded Wyoming listening This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Kanye West Talk ‘Ye,’ Mental Health in New...

“There is a certain frightening aspect to having things you dreamed were going to happen happen, because it’s always more – and in some ways always less – than what you expected,” Bruce Springsteen This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’: 10 Things You Didn’t...

Big Boi provides an aura of confidence to a young man’s first date in the rapper’s new video for “All Night,” the latest single off Big Boi’s 2017 album Boomiverse. The video follows a bubbly teenager as he prepares for a date, meets the girl’s parents and takes her to the restaurant and, later, a This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Big Boi Soundtrack First Date in ‘All Night’...

At first, Pusha-T wasn’t on board with the idea. When Kanye West pitched him on an album with only seven tracks, that would mean cutting songs that were ready to go for King Push, his long-awaited follow-up to This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: On ‘Daytona’ and ‘Ye,’ Kanye West Proves the Strengths (and Limitations) of a Short...

EDITORS’ PICK: Father John Misty, God’s Favorite CustomerJosh Tillman’s fourth album under the FJM banner sounds “as if Tillman wrote and arranged these songs under the sumptuous, despairing spell of Lennon’s early-Seventies solo records, with time off for the late-Sixties Zombies and the Beach Boys’ Sunflower,” writes David Fricke. Hear: This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 10 New Albums to Stream Now: Father John Misty, Kanye West, Natalie Prass and More Editors’...

While Kanye West was hosting a Wyoming listening party to premiere Ye, Pusha-T was promoting his West-produced new album This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Pusha-T’s Cinematic ‘If You Know You Know’ Performance on...

Well-intentioned or not, Spotify’s controversial policy to reduce “hate content and hateful conduct” on the streaming platform is over, at least for now. The company announced Friday that while it will not “play judge and jury” when it comes to artist conduct. Last month, Spotify announced it would scrub music that was violent or hateful from its platform, and also said it would This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Spotify’s ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policy Is Officially...

“We didn’t have a goal of what we wanted to sound like when we started out,” says Keith Strickland, the multi-instrumentalist behind some of the B-52’s‘ biggest hits. “We just knew we wanted it to be fun.” Since springing out of Athens, Georgia, in the mid-Seventies, the group has always been the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Love Shacks, Rock Lobsters and Nude Parties: The B-52’s in Their Own...

Lily Allen will embark on her first North American tour in four years this fall. The British singer will hit the road in support of her upcoming album No This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Lily Allen Plots First North American Tour in Four...

A Tribe Called Quest‘s Ali Shaheed Muhammad and composer Adrian Younge reimagined Luther Vandross’ “So Amazing” in a jazzy new song on the duo’s upcoming LP The Midnight Hour. The soul icon croons romantic lines from the original recording – which appeared on his 1986 LP, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge Sample Luther Vandross on New...

“I don’t need a dictator to control me,” System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian sings on his heavy new song “Dictator.” The song, which is also the title track of the upcoming album by his side project Scars on Broadway, throbs with tension throughout its three minutes with crunchy guitars, an urgent This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear System of a Down Guitarist’s Heavy, Political New...

Future executive produced and curated the upcoming soundtrack to blaxploitation crime-drama remake Superfly, recruiting several hip-hop and R&B stars to appear on the LP. The Atlanta rapper appears on 11 of the album’s 13 cuts, with Miguel and Sleepy Brown occupying the other two tracks; Lil Wayne, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Future Recruits Miguel, Lil Wayne for ‘Superfly’...

Years ago, Bell Biv Devoe did a one-off show in Amsterdam with Bobby Brown, their former groupmate in New Edition. “It was interesting, because he went on after us, and you could tell he felt like there was some smoke on that stage,” Bell Biv Devoe’s Michael Bivins remembers. “It pushed him to another level of entertainment – he went back to pop lockin’. We were over there mesmerized, saying, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: New Edition’s Ronnie, Bobby,...

Kanye West debuted his highly anticipated eighth studio album, YE, at a star-studded listening party Thursday night in Wyoming. On Thursday, West flew out hundreds of journalists, celebrities and music industry workers to Jackson Hole, Wyoming’s Diamond Cross Ranch for a massive listening party that included Chris Rock, Nas, Kid Cudi, Jonah Hill, Lil Yachty and 2 Chainz among This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Kanye West Debuts New Album ‘YE’ at Wyoming Listening...