“Who’s gonna care if I don’t?” Maren Morris asks in her sharp-eyed new ballad “Better Than We Found It.” “Who’s gonna change if I won’t?” Morris released the song on Friday in solidarity with the summer of Black Lives Matter protests that have taken place across the country. Directed by …
Read More »I Got All My Debate News from Facebook. How Do You Think It Went?
WASHINGTON — On a typical morning, I, an atypically voracious consumer of news, will read several newspapers, devour much of Apple News, spend unhealthy amounts of time scanning Twitter, and monitor trending political stories on sites such as Memeorandum and Political Wire. By 9 or 10 in the morning, I …
Read More »'I Am Woman': How Helen Reddy's Feminist Anthem Quietly Changed Pop
Helen Reddy, the Australian pop singer who died Tuesday at age 78, was an unlikely pop superhero. She sang in a smooth timbre that never lost its becalmed manner — call her the anti-Joplin — and most of the Seventies hits for which she’s known (“Delta Dawn,” “No Way to …
Read More »Who Are the People of Praise?
Since President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court, there’s been a great deal of attention paid to the People of Praise, a secretive Christian and Catholic fundamentalist group of which Coney Barrett is reportedly a member. Coney Barrett has declined to comment publicly on her …
Read More »Rob Halford Recalls 'George Michael Moment' After Public Sex Arrest in Memoir Excerpt
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford opens his autobiography, Confess, with a promise: “I have been totally candid in this memoir. This is the gospel truth.” And judging from the mix of hilarious, heartbreaking, and sordid stories he shares, as he explains how he rose from humble beginnings in England’s Black …
Read More »'The First Time' With SuperM
On the release day of their debut album Super One, K-pop group SuperM discussed their career in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time. The leader of the group, Baekhyun, kicked it off by recalling what it was like to hear their song on the radio for the …
Read More »What Does 'Best New Artist' Mean When the World's on Fire?
Sign up to receive your free exclusive Grammy Preview magazine for next year Conan Gray was ready to conquer. By the time this year began, the rising pop and rock artist had achieved the dreams of guitar-playing teenagers everywhere — building a loyal YouTube following from his suburban Texas home, …
Read More »Alicia Keys, Common, Snoop Dogg Decry Breonna Taylor Decision
Alicia Keys, Common and Snoop Dogg are among a bevy of stars to decry a grand jury’s decision that only one of the three police officers connected to the killing of Breonna Taylor while she slept in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment would face charges. On Wednesday, AKentucky grand jury levied …
Read More »Hear Dave Brubeck's Previously Unreleased Early Version of 'Take Five'
“Take Five,” a 1959 track by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, was always a musical oddity: a swinging, instantly catchy jazz piece written in the uncommon time signature of 5/4. But it was also a huge hit and the first platinum-selling single in jazz history. Roughly 61 years after the release …
Read More »Josh Klinghoffer's Pluralone Previews New Album With 'The Night Won't Scare Me'
Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has shared a new song from his Pluralone solo project, “The Night Won’t Scare Me.” The track will appear on Pluralone’s upcoming album, I Don’t Feel Well, out October 16th. “The Night Won’t Scare Me” is a sprawling bit of piano-driven rock, …
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