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Robert Plant is highly amused by Paul McCartney’s dubbing the Rolling Stones “a blues cover band,” perhaps in part because his own old band faced similar criticism. “I don’t think there’s any fighting,” he says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “They’ve known each other since 1963. …

Eric Clapton teamed up with anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to bemoan Covid-19 mandates and Rolling Stone’s scathing articles about him in his first interview in a while — outside of statements posted to Telegram. Posted last week on Kennedy’s The Defender site, the interview features Clapton talking about how …

Molly Tuttle pays tribute to a free-spirited woman in the new song “She’ll Change.” It’s the singer-guitarist’s first release from an upcoming 2022 album, her first with record label Nonesuch. Tuttle penned the song with Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor, and the end result is a sprightly tune …

In 2003, Rolling Stone published its definitive list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the most popular and most argued-over list in the magazine’s history. In 2020, we completely remade the list, adding more than 150 new titles. Then, in the Amazon Original podcast Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest …

The Day N Vegas festival, which starts on Friday, offers a formidable collection of talent — Pulitzer Prize winners (Kendrick Lamar) and vocal virtuosos (Jazmine Sullivan), radio hitmakers (Doja Cat) next to underground stalwarts (Freddie Gibbs). With around 40 performances each day, it’s an almost overwhelming display of the best …

Bharti Shahani, a Texas A&M student, died Wednesday, Nov. 10,after being seriously injured in the deadly crowd surge at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival. She was 22. Shahani’s family and their lawyer confirmed her death at a press conferenceThursday. “She was like an angel to us,” Shahani’s father, Bhagu “Sunny” Shahani, …

Houston Police Chief Troy Finner walked back a story that a security guard at the Astroworld Festival was injected with a mysterious substance during the tragedy that left eight people dead. Police and sources close to Astroworld had previously pushed the injection narrative when the story was beginning to unfold. …

Update: ABC 13 reported Tuesday that Bharti Shahani has shown no brain activity after suffering her injuries at Astroworld. Her family told the station they were deciding their next steps. A 22-year-old Texas A&M senior is among those in critical condition, fighting for her life at Houston Methodist days after …

French Montana has shared the official tracklist for his fourth full-length studio album They Got Amnesia ahead of the project’s Nov. 12 release via Epic Records/Bad Boy Entertainment. The feature lineup includes appearances from Drake, Doja Cat, Saweetie, Coi Leray, Ty Dolla $ign with Latto, and more. They Got Amnesia …

A week after releasing his latest single “Cartier Lens,” Bobby Shmurda has dropped another new track, “Splash.” The Brooklyn rapper continues to unleash new music at a prolific pace since his release from prison in February — he spent six years behind bars on weapon and conspiracy charges — and …