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George Wein — the legendary festival promoter who helped turn the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals into fixtures of the American concert calendar, founded the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and paved the way for the modern music fest — died Monday at age 95. His spokesperson Carolyn McClair …

The Beatles, no longer satisfied with just being “more popular than Jesus,” have finally matched him on the resurrection front — well, at least on Twitter. On Thursday, September 9th, some of the strangest chatter on the timeline came from the accounts of George Harrison (who died almost 20 years …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. “Let me set the scene,” Kacey Musgraves sings on the lead single from her newest album, Star-Crossed, which finally arrives this week, nearly three years after 2018’s critically-acclaimed …

UPDATE (9/8): Reba McEntire, Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Breland, and Brittney Spencer have been added to the lineup of “Loretta Lynn’s Friends: Hometown Rising,” a benefit concert for victims of last month’s Tennessee floods. The concert will air live on Circle Network on September 13th at 8 p.m. ET …

Somehow, live rock & roll is happening in 2021 America. Dirty Honey capture the energy of their current tour both onstage and backstage in the L.A. band’s new music video for “The Wire.” The clip, directed by the group’s go-to filmmaker Scott Fleishman/APlus Filmz, doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it …

Sting will release a new album, The Bridge, on November 19th via A&M/Interscope/Cherrytree Records. The musician has previewed the release with a breezy, upbeat new single, “If It’s Love.” “I’m certainly not the first songwriter to equate falling in or out of love with an incurable sickness, nor will I …

Lady Gaga will follow-up the release of Chromatica with a remix of the album, out September 3rd via Interscope. The Dawn of Chromatica tracklist features contributions from Charli XCX and A.G. Cook (“911,” which Gaga recently dropped the virtual reality video for), Rina Sawayama (“Free Woman”), and others. The remix …

It almost makes too much sense that the new collaborative mixtape from R&B heavyweights Ty Dolla $ign and Dvsn started at a party thrown by Drake. Over Zoom, Dvsn’s Daniel Daley recalls being invited on Ty’s yacht after they met at Drizzy’s soirée. “We kind of just vibed and played …

Rina Sawayama and Idles have shared their renditions of “Enter Sandman and “The God That Failed,” respectively, from Metallica’s upcoming Black Album covers comp, The Metallica Blacklist. Sawayama’s version of “Enter Sandman” takes the song’s classic riff and filters it through a towering dance beat to create a cover that …

UPDATE (8/25):Vaccines will be offered at Kanye West‘s upcoming Donda listening party in Chicago. “Soldier Field and the Chicago Department of Public Health are pleased to be working together to offer 1,500-plus vaccinations for those not yet vaccinated (Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson) and assist with setting up their second …