Music Features

If you’re ever feeling bored with new music, like you’ve heard it all before, don’t give up – just hit play on a Jlin track. The 30-year-old Gary, Indiana, electronic musician is evolving faster than the world can keep up. A few years ago, she was a rising star associated …

Wu-Tang Clan cofounder RZA has a certain obsession with his group’s one-of-a-kind Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album. In 2015, he sold it to “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli for $2 million. But now the fate of the double-LP, housed in a filigreed silver box, is up in the air, …

Five years after it began in London, the historic “David Bowie Is” exhibit makes its last stop at the Brooklyn Museum, where it runs from March 2nd to July 15th. It’s a stunning tour of Bowie‘s world – whatever your level of Bowie fascination, it’s impossible to walk more than …

Just a few months after they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, Journeywent into complete meltdown mode. The trouble began near the end of their summer tour when guitarist Neal Schon began unloading on keyboardist Jonathan Cain via Twitter and a series of interviews. …

Leaning forward on a couch in his home on the west coast of Florida, two cans of Budweiser in front of him and Duane Allman’s Dobro on a stand nearby, Dickey Betts hesitates. “I don’t know if you want to write this or not,” he says. “But, shit, my career …

Since the Nineties, Vans Warped Tour has been a constant, integral part of Pierre Bouvier’s life. He played the tour a few times with Reset, and later, with bandmate Chuck Comeau, formed Simple Plan. Warped Tour helped Simple Plan not only find their footing in the early Aughts but has …

When Metallica began gathering together everything they had in their vaults to include in a super-deluxe, box-set reissue of their touchstone 1986 LP Master of Puppets, they realized they had a lot more material to work with than on the reissues of their first two albums. “The hardest part of …

When Michelle Zauner, who records as Japanese Breakfast, set out to record her second proper full-length, she looked to the stars for inspiration. What becameSoft Sounds From Another Planet was originally a sci-fi concept record about falling in love with a robot and joining the Mars One project. “I was …

“The good news is we’re far away from those crazy flood waters,” Billy Gibbons says. You can almost hear him shaking his head. The singer-guitarist, one third of ZZ Top, is one of Houston’s most beloved musicians, but he hasn’t been home since Hurricane Harvey displaced 30,000 of the city’s …

Alice Cooper titled his latest album Paranormal because for him, the word is a way of life. “My whole career has been paranormal,” the shock rocker tells Rolling Stone. “So why stop there?” The LP itself is relatively straightforward, though, at least by Cooper’s unapologetically maximalist standards. It contains 10 …