Music Features

The most compelling commercial-country slow jam of the year can’t yet be heard on the radio or on any corporate streaming playlist. It begins as a Luke Bryan-style slow jam before crashing into a guitar-crunch country-rock power chorus that would sound right at home playing between songs by Jason Aldean …

After exiting a Seoul arena full of 5,000 screaming fans, the members of GOT7 walk straight into the arms of their biggest fans of all — their families. You can spot actor-handsome vocalist Jinyoung’s father a mile away — not so much by his face, but rather by his striking …

It’s a mortifying experience to have to admit to the members of the band Goose, in the interests of full disclosure, that you have not yet seen them live. That’s because Goose is, by most accounts, the most talked about jam band in the country right now. How can one …

If you’d taken a wrong turn on the expansive-looking film set for Chicago post-punk group Ganser’s latest music videos, you might have accidentally crashed into a wall. That’s because rather than shoot outside or use a green-screen background, the band tried out an LED Volume backdrop — essentially an array …

Last month, in the expansive parking lot of a door factory turned music venue in Queens, I found myself submerged within a throng of young people waiting to get into the second night of the Swedish music collective Drain Gang’s sold-out New York performances. The crowd chattered excitedly over one …

W ho are these fucking bozos on our turf?” Jack Harlow is in the back of a big black SUV next to his childhood best friend, Urban Wyatt, mock-glaring through his Prada sunglasses at a couple of little kids on a swing set in a Louisville, Kentucky, park. Everyone in …

For this year’s Icons & Influences issue, we asked 10 artists to pay tribute to the women who have shaped their sound, provided an example, and inspired them to break down barriers. Pop rebel Kesha worshiped Dolly Parton growing up, and the country queen has been a “guiding light” throughout …

As a longtime pop songwriter, Priscilla Renea is familiar with the need to adapt to the demands of the music industry. In studio sessions, “You are just there to assist” an act, she says. “You don’t show up trying to be the star.” When working on demo tracks to pitch …

“I just want to be a filmmaker,” Abel Tesfaye told Rolling Stone in 2020, months after he made his big-screen debut in Uncut Gems. “I want to make great cinema.” With his latest album, Dawn FM, he’s channeled his passion for film into one of his most theatrical work yet. …

Chronixx is playing with his two-year-old daughter in Los Angeles when he picks up the phone for an extended chat with Rolling Stone. “All right, come, let me lift you up,” the Jamaican singer, 29, says to the bubbly toddler when she cries out for daddy. “Do you want something …