Music

To really get to know the buzzy K-pop boy band, Seventeen, it helps to start with a head count. Despite the group’s name, Seventeen isn’t comprised of 17 members at all, and it has nothing to do with the teen girls’ magazine that peaked in the late Nineties and early …

Each month, the editors and critics atRolling Stone compile a list of our favorite new albums. Our picks for Deceember include Taylor Swift‘s second amazing album of 2020, Playboi Carti‘s cathartic punk-loving rap and a covers LP from the late Chris Cornell. Paul McCartney, McCartney III Every decade should kick …

Listening to new music is part of everyone’s daily life at Rolling Stone, from the writers and editors in the music department to photographers, designers, researchers, copy editors, and more. That might have been truer than ever in 2020, a year when music became an essential source of comfort and …

In 1971, Peter Guralnick published Feel Like Going Home, which told the story of the blues through a series of revelatory profiles of Muddy Waters, Skip James, Howlin’ Wolf, and more. He ended the book with a goodbye: “I consider this chapter a swan song,” wrote Guralnick, who was 27 …

Chance the Rapper will host a surprise virtual concert, dubbed Chi-Town Christmas, on Friday, December 18th. The gig will stream on Chance’s YouTube and Instagram, as well as Oculus Quest’s Venues app, which said of the concert, “Chance the Rapper gifts the world a performance for the holidays showcasing the …

The Hives have planned a tour that will bring them to New York, Sydney, and São Paulo, among other cities, next month — all without leaving Sweden. Rather than plan a universal livestream that people all over the world can watch at the same time, the band has decided to …

Charley Pride, the pioneering black country singer known for such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” and “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone,” has died in Dallas, Texas, from complications related to Covid-19, according to his publicist. He was 86. Born in Sledge, Mississippi, in 1934, Pride picked cotton, …

Riz Ahmed will take his new concept album virtual in The Long Goodbye: Online Edition, premiering December 19th. Ahmed was originally slated to perform live shows in support of the album at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), but the pandemic caused the dates to be postponed until 2021. The digital …

Chris Stapleton was the musical guest on Monday night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where he turned in a gritty rendition of “Devil Always Made Me Think Twice.” The song appears on Stapleton’s recently released album Starting Over. Penned by Stapleton with Al Anderson, “Devil Always Made …

Bleachers and Bruce Springsteen released a live performance of “Chinatown,” recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. Directed by Nick Robespierre, the clip features the band on the studio’s rooftop and finds Springsteen strumming his acoustic guitar in front of a festive wall of lights and greenery. “Get …