This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Dave Grohl on the Foos’ Tour, Classic-Rock Retirements and Lost Nirvana Reunion...

Backstreet Boys joined Jimmy Fallon and the Roots on Thursday’s Tonight Show to perform their signature hit “I Want It That Way” using classroom This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: See Backstreet Boys, Fallon Play ‘I Want It That Way’ With Classroom...

Not long after Dawes released We’re All Gonna Die, their 2016 album that polarized fans of the Seventies-leaning classicist band with its turn toward a poppier, more synthetic sound, they received some advice from a close friend. “He was like, ‘Now that you’ve made We’re All Gonna Die, you can This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Dawes on Learning to Write Political Songs and Following Up a Polarizing...

The Band will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their 1968 landmark debut album Music From Big Pink with a reissue featuring a new stereo mix, alternate takes, outtakes and more. The reissue arrives August This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The Band Ready ‘Music From Big Pink’ 50th Anniversary...

Joe Strummer‘s work outside of the Clash will be collected in the new compilation Joe Strummer 001, featuring rare and unreleased recordings by the late rocker. The compilation – which features Strummer’s solo work This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Joe Strummer’s ‘001’ Box Set to Feature Rare, Unreleased Solo...

At the end of May, Pusha-T stirred up a firestorm of rumors on his Drake diss track, “The Story of Adidon.” On the track, Pusha alleged that Drake was hiding a son from the world. It was a concrete and salacious accusation that pulled from a series of This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Drake Confirms Rumored Son on New Album...

Drake released his fifth official album, Scorpion early Thursday night. The album features a Side A and Side B –  presumably split to show off Drake’s rapping and singing, respectively. Scorpion clocks in at a hefty 25 songs and features the Number One singles “God’s Plan” and “Nice For What” (as well as the decidedly not chart-topping “I’m Upset”). This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Drake Releases Double Album...

Sasquatch! Music Festival will not be taking place in 2019, Willamette Week reports. Founder Adam Zacks announced the news on Thursday. “Today we take a bow and bid farewell to This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Sasquatch! Music Festival Will Not Return in...

This Pittsburgh rapper, his brother Conway and their Griselda Records camp have an innovative aesthetic combining ’90s thug rap and Alchemist-style dusty loops. That, coupled with a canny marketing strategy aimed at vinyl swagbeasts – Westside Gunn’s 2016 breakthrough Flygod now trades for a ridiculous $600 online – has made the Griselda team an unlikely sensation This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Westside Gunn’s ‘Supreme Blientele’ Is True-School...

Tool‘s Maynard James Keenan denied accusations that he raped a 17-year-old woman in 2000, calling the allegation a “despicable false claim.” “Many thanks to those of you who saw right through this despicable false This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Tool’s Maynard James Keenan: Rape Allegation Is ‘Despicable False...

This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: ‘International Artist’ Is A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s Bid for Crossover...

This country duo has quietly racked up hits like “How Not To” and “From the Ground Up” since 2014, and they’ve taken their fair share of shit along the way for daring to have a softer, less rowdy presentation than their peers. On their self-titled third album, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney maintain their low-key approach, delighting in simple, domestic pleasures and providing a reminder to pause This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Dan + Shay Kick up a...

This D.C. quartet’s terse debut grinds and giggles as it flips off the status quo, taking the old saw about dancing’s place in a revolution and repurposing it as a credo for a perpetual-motion, no-jerks-allowed mosh pit. Vocalist Adriana-Lucia Cotes has an urgent yelp that gives her bandmates’ spiky, nimble post-post-punk a giddy jolt, turning the beauty-myth broadside “Glamour” into a This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Mock Identity’s ‘Paradise’ is Explosive...

Steve Soto, a mainstay of the Southern California punk and hardcore scenes and the co-founder of two seminal outfits, the Adolescents and Agent Orange, died Wednesday. He was 54. While a cause of death has yet to be announced, the Adolescents’ Tony Reflex confirmed Soto’s death on Twitter. “With This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Steve Soto, Adolescents Founder and Punk Veteran, Dead at...

Depending on the time of day and the angle from which one chooses to assess their gloried runs, or the spiritual damage, the Jackson family saga can seem like either the African-American Dream or the Blackest Greek tragedy ever. Only in Black America – where the nation’s worst intentions battle with the better angels of its nature over the same double-consciousness riddled bodies – could the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: It’s a Hard Knock Legacy: Appreciating the Lessons...

In a Vanity Fair cover story, Kendrick Lamar reacted to Kanye West‘s controversial comments about This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Kendrick Lamar Talks Kanye West, Fan’s Use of N-Word, Pulitzer...

The Smashing Pumpkins unveiled an utterly bizarre video for their new song “Solara.” The Nick Koenig-directed clip finds Billy Corgan being held captive in an otherworldly asylum. There, he This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Smashing Pumpkins Confront Surreal Horrors in ‘Solara’...

America’s biggest attempt at music copyright overhaul in decades, also known as the Music Modernization Act, passed unanimously in the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, meaning it now only needs to pass a full Senate vote before landing on the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The Music Modernization Act Is One Step Closer to Fixing Music...

Gwen Stefani opened her Las Vegas residency, Gwen Stefani – I’m Just a Girl, with an unexpected cover of Rihanna’s “Umbrella.” Stefani delivered a faithful This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Gwen Stefani Covers Rihanna at First Night of Las Vegas...

Spotify’s RapCaviar and ¡Viva Latino! playlists, already some of the most powerful spheres of influence in the music industry, are now also looking to be some of the most lucrative. The music-streaming service announced tour dates this week for “¡Viva Latino! Live,” a concert series featuring popular Latin music artists from its playlist of the same name that boasts more than 8 million This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The Biggest New Artist on Tour in 2018 Is…...