Music

Ahead of Saturday’s UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 2 event, Eminem has dropped his new video for “Higher,” a track off the rapper’s recent Music To Be Murdered By – Side B. In the “Higher” video, Eminem is cast as fighter preparing for battle against his own demons, with the …

Motown/UMe has marked the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s single release for “What’s Going On” — the title track from Rolling Stone’s Greatest Album of All Time — with an all-encompassing digital reissue of the 1971 LP out now on streaming services. “What’s Going On” was released on January 20th, …

On Wednesday morning, Willie Nelson, 87, fired up his car at his Spicewood, Texas, ranch and headed to a drive-up clinic in nearby Cedar Park to receive his Covid-19 vaccination shot. “We’re lucky,” Nelson’s wife Annie tells Rolling Stone. “We made sure that [he] wasn’t cutting anybody — in fact, …

Rush‘s Geddy Lee will participate in “The Show Must Go On: Stories of Resilience,” a virtual music and storytelling event organized by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The show takes place Monday, February 18th from 9:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET. Tickets start at $100 CAD; for an additional “Gala in …

Few artists of any stripe have ever exited this world with the panache of David Bowie, who left us with some of his most fascinating work just before his death on January 10th, 2016. The biggest surprise was his masterpiece of a final album, Blackstar, released just two days before …

Julien Baker performed the lead single from her new album, “Faith Healer,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday, January 7th. Filmed at the Nashville venue Exit/In, Baker and her backing band moved through the expansive track and built steadily toward its final booming chorus. “Oh, faith healer, come …

Alice Glass has released new song “Suffer and Swallow,” the first single from her upcoming debut album, due out later this year. The glitchy track deals in themes of reclaiming power over someone or something that seemingly held the control. “Suffer and swallow (suffer and swallow)/You know there’s no tomorrow …

When we look back on 2020, many sounds will come to mind. The 7 p.m. cheers for frontline workers, Patti Labelle and Gladys Knight’s voices mingling together, the deafening silence of existential unraveling. But perhaps most of all, it will be “Eeh-uhrr.” “The Box,” Roddy Ricch‘s unrelentingly popular, unrelentingly squeaky …

At first, Erin Rae‘s new song “He’s Not Free” sounds like a sweetly rendered Southern pastoral, full of “early summer peaches” and “cold water glasses sweating.” But by the end of the first verse, when Rae rhymes “honeysuckle vines” with “Georgia voters stood in all-day lines” it’s clear that “He’s …

After a series of protracted negotiations that threatened to derail any financial relief for millions of Americans, Congress passed a new Covid-19 relief bill Monday night that will include funding for independent music venues that have been closed throughout the pandemic. The bill will now move to the White House …