The Struts broke through over the past seven years by winning over audiences while opening for Foo Fighters, Guns N’ Roses, the Rolling Stones, and others. Now, they’re hitting the road once more as headliners. In an interview with NME, Dave Grohl called the bombastic group “the best opening band …
Read More »RS Charts: Shakira's 2006 Smash 'Hips Don't Lie' Is One of the Top 100 Songs
Fourteen years since its release, Shakira and Wyclef Jean‘s bilingual mega-hit, “Hips Don’t Lie,” is the gift that keeps on giving. As of Monday, the song has made its debut on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart at Number 79. Following Shakira and Jennifer Lopez’s momentous Super Bowl halftime …
Read More »Watch Justin Bieber Bring 'Changes' Singles, Quavo to 'SNL'
Ahead of the Valentine’s Day release of Changes, Justin Bieber returned to Saturday Night Live to perform a pair of singles from his new album, “Yummy” and the Quavo-featuring “Intentions.” For “Yummy,” the singer turned the Studio 8H stage into a large green box where Bieber and a trio of …
Read More »Kelsea Ballerini Performs a Vulnerable 'LA' on 'Kimmel'
Kelsea Ballerini performed two songs off her upcoming album Kelsea on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night, her latest single “Homecoming Queen?” and the vulnerable “LA.” “I’ve got a love n’ hate relationship with LA,” Ballerini sings in the atmospheric mid-tempo track, which finds the Tennessee native sharing feelings of …
Read More »Zola Jesus on Why She's Voting Bernie, Even Though She's Amy Klobuchar's Cousin
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) wants to convince Americans that she should be the next president of the United States — but her own cousin thinks otherwise. That cousin just happens to be Nika Danilova, a.k.a. goth-pop singer-songwriter/producer Zola Jesus. “I’m not fucking around with my Bernie support,” Danilova tweeted earlier …
Read More »Stone Temple Pilots Work Through Loss on New Song 'Miles Away'
Stone Temple Pilots wrestle with longing on their new song “Miles Away,” the latest single off their upcoming acoustic LP Perdida. The LP, the band’s second with new vocalist Jeff Gutt, was recorded mostly with vintage instruments, with violin and a marxophone — a form of zither — featuring prominently …
Read More »Greta Gerwig and Her 'Little Women' Composer Choose Their Favorite Musical Moments
Little Women director Greta Gerwig tells Rolling Stone that she wanted the movie to be a “ballet, a musical” — and in order to create that effect, she enlisted the talents of composer Alexandre Desplat, who has won two Oscars for Best Original Music Score (for 2014’s The Grand Budapest …
Read More »Watch Meghan Trainor Fan Out Over Dr. Phil on 'Carpool Karaoke'
Meghan Trainor joined James Corden for “Carpool Karaoke” on The Late Late Show, noting, “Dude, I’ve been waiting years to take you to work.” During the segment, the pair join forces to sing a few of Trainor’s singles, including “All About That Bass” and “Like I’m Gonna Lose You.” In …
Read More »Inside Portland, Maine's Wildly Ambitious Music Scene
In our new series, we look at eight cities where live music has exploded — from legendary hubs like Chicago and Nashville, to rising hot spots like Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Raleigh, North Carolina. The latest is a left-field surprise: Portland, Maine, which is drawing promoters from major cities and ambitious …
Read More »Dave Mustaine's Daughter Joins Megadeth for Epic 'À Tout le Monde'
Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine invited his daughter Electra on stage to sing “À Tout le Monde” at the metal outfit’s show in Paris Tuesday. A fan-shot video captured the performance, which found Electra strolling on stage to join her father as he sang the first verse of the band’s 1994 classic. …
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