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Kodak Black, the emerging Florida rapper whose rise in hip-hop was put on hold due to a prison sentence, is now a free man after being released from Broward County jail early Saturday morning. The 21-year-old rapper, born Dieuson Octave, served seven months in a Florida jail after authorities raided …

Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16th at age 76, recorded more than 40 full-length albums in her six-decade career. It’s a deep catalog, crowded with indisputable classics and hidden gems. Rolling Stone’s music staff is paying its R.E.S.P.E.C.T.s to the Queen with tributes to our favorite Aretha LPs. First …

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw opened many shows of their 2017-2018 Soul2Soul World Tour with “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),” Aretha Franklin‘s 1987 duet with George Michael off her Aretha album. Following Franklin’s death on Thursday at 76 after a bout with pancreatic cancer (Michael died Christmas Day …

The Kinks meditate on lazy days and mortality in “Time Song,” an unreleased track that’s on the band’s upcoming 50th anniversary edition of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, out October 26th via BMG. “Time lives our lives with us, walks side by side with us/ Time is …

The Struts indulge their glam-rock fantasies in the new song “Primadonna Like Me” as frontman Luke Spiller sings, “Do you wanna be a prima donna like me tonight? Don’t you know it’s all about me tonight?” The song’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink production features layers of synths, a Rolling Stones–style guitar riff and …

Gangsta rap was already a growing genre when N.W.A released their full-length debut, Straight Outta Compton, but none of the group’s peers inspired the same level of public vitriol or interest. Thanks to the notoriety around “Fuck tha Police,” which the FBI condemned, and their single “Straight Outta Compton,” whose …

Teyana Taylor looks back on the start of her career as a fated moment. She was a 15-year-old Harlem rose, singing and dancing in her neighborhood and obsessed with skateboard culture and BMX bikes. Entering the music industry at that age was the furthest thing from her mind until a …

The debut solo song by ex-Gloriana singer Rachel Reinert, Jon Pardi‘s latest blast of modern country, and another wildly adventurous offering from Amanda Shires make up the 10 must-hear country and Americana songs of the week. Lucie Silvas, “Everything Looks Beautiful” Lucie Silvas was once British pop star with Top …

A representative for Demi Lovato said the singer “is awake and with her family” afterbeing hospitalized Tuesday for an alleged overdose. “Demi is awake and with her family who want to express thanks to everyone for the love, prayers and support,” a rep said in a statement to Rolling Stone. …

Troye Sivan and Ariana Grande start their own party in the video for their collaboration, “Dance to This.” Sivan’s sophomore album Bloom is out on August 30th. The clip opens with Sivan sitting in a rec room-cafeteria setting where people are quietly eating and reading. Bored, Sivan brings a CD …