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The Malibu home studio where Tom Petty worked featured a sign reading “Beware: Cranky Hippie.” Every time Shelters frontman Chase Simpson arrived there, however, that’s hardly the man he encountered. “He was that great, genuine, loving person that you saw onstage,” says Simpson, who grew up with Petty’s stepson, Dylan, …

Since Charlie Puth released “Attention,” the emotional first single from his upcoming album Voice Notes, this year, it has shot into the Top 5 and it has been certified platinum, thanks in part to the way he stacked hook upon hook. The singer-songwriter and pop star recently welcomed Rolling Stone …

During a recent interview, Dave Grohl recalled the time that Foo Fighters played an episode of Saturday Night Live that Christopher Walken hosted – complete with an impression of the cult-icon actor. (It starts at the29:44 mark.) Before Walken would introduce the group on the episode, which aired in February …

Grizzly Bear bend reality into reality television in the surreal new video for “Losing All Sense.” The track appears on the band’s new album, Painted Ruins. The Cody Critcheloe-directed clip opens with a glamorous, yet beleaguered woman played by Busy Philipps, emerging from a limousine sopping wet and walking into …

Bruce Springsteenhas revealed that his intimate White House performance for Obama staffers inspired his upcoming Broadway residency. Speaking to the New York Times, Springsteen also provided some details about the Broadway performances, which will run from October to February at New York’s Walter Kerr Theater. In January, Springsteen secretly staged …

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced a massive reissue for their breakout 2003 debut LP Fever to Tell, one of Rolling Stone‘s 100 Best Albums of the 2000s. “A friend of a friend kept asking if we were ever gonna put Fever To Tell out on vinyl as it hasn’t been …

As football players around the NFL took a knee and locked arms during the National Anthem in protest, J. Cole called on his fans to boycott the NFL over the league’s seemingly concerted mistreatment of Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback who started the anthem protests and remains unsigned by any pro …

Tidal is planning to host a benefit concert on October 17th to raise money for natural disaster relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, which devastated parts of Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico in August and September. The event will also benefit those affected by the …

Miley Cyrus imagines leaving a lover behind in her latest retro ballad, “Week Without You.” The song will appear on the singer’s Younger Now album, due out September 29th. Cyrus balances her romantic woes with crunchy instrumentation. “I know that I gave you my heart, but you stomped it to …

In 2014, Amber Giles, who DJ’s as Mija, was performing at Bonnaroo when Skrillex joined her onstage for a back-to-back 6 a.m. set. The gig went viral and her audience nearly doubled overnight. “My career was prematurely launched,” Giles, now 25, tells Rolling Stone. “I didn’t have a plan.” Before …