Music

As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions about these unprecedented times. Last week, Lucinda Williams lost two colleagues and friends, John Prine and producer Hal Willner, to the coronavirus. “For a lot of our friends it just …

Drake jumped to Number One on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart, racking up 119.7 million streams for the week of April 3rd through April 9th. The rapper and streaming heavyweight is a mainstay on the chart, typically hovering somewhere in the Top Five, and the release of his new …

Burning Man announced Friday that the 2020 festival — scheduled for August 30th through September 7th in the Nevada desert — has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. “After much listening, discussion, and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision not to build Black Rock City in 2020. …

Few artists loved John Prine more than Iris DeMent. The Arkansas singer-songwriter was one of the very first that Prine took under his wing when DeMent was an emerging artist nearly 30 years ago. When she released her first album in 1992, he wrote liner notes about how her music …

The Weeknd won a very close race for Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. His After Hours album earned 146,500 album equivalent units, just enough to squeeze by 5 Seconds of Summer‘s Calm, which arrived at Number Two with 144,300 units. After Hours enjoyed robust …

The Strokes have released their latest new wave-y single from their forthcoming albumThe New Abnormal, due out April 10th. The track, “Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus,” sees lead singer Julian Casablancas meditating on memories, from old friends to the “Eighties bands” of his youth. He wants to form new relationships but …

Steve Earle joinsRolling Stone for “In My Room,” our new IGTV series that features artists performing music from their own homes during quarantine. The singer-songwriter tuned in from his home in Fairview, Tennessee, with just a guitar and a microphone set up. “This isn’t my room, it’s my living room, …

When Brittany Howard first began touring the U.S. with Alabama Shakes circa 2010, she’d steal a few moments in the grimy tub of the band’s shared Motel 6 room. Later, as the band became a Grammy-winning success, she’d enjoy a finer soak. “It’s the place at the end of the …

Graham Nash performs Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classics in the latest installment of “In My Room,” a new IGTV series in which musicians perform from their homes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Sitting at his piano from his apartment in New York City, Nash played three tracks …

As social distancing becomes a part of everyday life, married singer-songwriters Hayes Carll and Allison Moorer have released their intimate new single, a cover of one of Merle Haggard’s biggest hits, “That’s the Way Love Goes.” The result is a romantic duet that provides the aural equivalent of a warm …