More than 50 years ago, four teenaged boys from the small, remote town of Rosa Morada, Mocorito, in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, arrived at the U.S. border, instruments in tow. They explained that they were budding musicians — they’d just spent months working in tiny bars across Mexicali, trying …
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Can’t get to Lollapalooza this year? Rolling Stone has got you covered! This week we will be livestreaming exclusively on Twitch from the festival grounds in Grant Park in Chicago. Rolling Stone’s Jon Weigell and Charlie Cooper will host the two-day event on Thursday, July 28 and Friday, July 29, …
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Nipsey Hussle was brutally murdered outside his Los Angeles clothing store three years ago because his admitted killer, Eric Ronald Holder Jr., harbored bitter resentment over the “obviously beloved” rapper’s success, a prosecutor told jurors in his closing argument Thursday. The prosecutor said Holder, 32, was from the same neighborhood …
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Who isn’t on this album? On Wednesday, Calvin Harris finally announced that his album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 is coming on Aug 5 — and it features a laundry list of A-list collaborations. Sharing a lengthy teaser — backed with a guitar riff and a view of some ocean waves — Harris shared that …
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The two artists who sued Ed Sheeran for copyright infringement over “Shape of You” have been ordered to pay the pop star over $1.1 million in legal fees, Billboard reports. After Sheeran prevailed in the copyright suit, lawyers for the grime artist Sami Chokri and his co-writer Ross O’Donoghue tried …
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With U.K. dream-pop pioneers Cocteau Twins, singer Elizabeth Fraser‘s appeal had more to do with the way she projected raw emotions (joy, worry, uneasiness) than the songs she sang. Instead of attempting poetry, she sang in tongues, shaping her feelings with crude but often beautiful vocal sounds, and a few …
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Lil Wayne has been pulled from the bill of another music festival as his run of bad luck continues. The rapper was forced to cancel his performance at the Strawberries & Creem festival in the U.K. on Saturday, June 18, after he was denied entry into the country “directly by …
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Burna Boy, the Roots, Isaiah Rashad, Freddie Gibs, Tierra Whack, and more have been tapped for the 2022 Afropunk Festival, returning to the live music sector for the first time since 2019. Having taken place virtually for the past two years, Afropunk will return to Brooklyn, New York’s Commodore Barry …
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Ohana Fest is adding a second weekend of music at the beach this October. On Monday, Eddie Vedder‘s music festival announced that it will be extending itself to a second “Ohana Encore” weekend with Vedder headlining, alongside Alanis Morissette on day one and the Black Keys and Haim on day …
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Vance Joy has released a sunshine-fueled new music video for his track “Catalonia.” The song appears on the Australian singer-songwriter’s new album, In Our Own Sweet Time, out now via Atlantic Records. The video was directed by Macari de Golferichs and stars Inés Coca. Recorded largely over the course of …
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