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Royal Trux announced their first album in 19 years, White Stuff, out March 1st via Fat Possum. The alt-rock duo previewed the LP with its ragged title-track, a barrage of garage-rock distortion, stomping drums, woozy slide-guitar and echoing tandem vocals. Throughout the swaggering cut, Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty celebrate …

Sadly, SouljaGames appears to be departing as quickly as it arrived. Soulja Boy‘s console and handheld system are no longer on the SouljaWatch website after scrutiny regarding the legality of the young entrepreneur selling emulators — which came installed with other companies’ games — immediately arose. The handheld system was …

Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield stopped by our SiriusXM studio for a recent episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, which takes a wide-ranging look back at an odd year in pop — which was, in large part, a year of Ariana Grande. Sheffield calls Grande’s “Thank U, Next” one of …

Rolling Stone’s Charles Holmes and Brendan Klinkenberg sat down in our SiriusXM studio to look back on an eventful year in hip-hop, from Drake’s never-ending dominance to the continued ascension of Cardi B and our latest cover star, Travis Scott. Rap‘s generational battle continued but, as Klinkenberg points out, “the …

It’s fitting that Cardi B released the music video for “Money” in the same week it was announced she is the first female in history to have all of the songs on an album certified gold or platinum by the RIAA. The gilded visual directed by Jora Frantzis is a …

When Johnny Cash hosted his own variety show for two seasons on ABC in the early Seventies, each episode incorporated the feel of inviting viewers into the Cash home, with his new bride, June Carter Cash, and her mother and sisters, who performed as the Carter Family, singing along with …

Teenaged country singer Chevel Shepherd helped close down the performance portion of The Voice’s 15th season Monday night, channeling Tanya Tucker for the two-stepping fun of “It’s a Little Too Late.” Playing the part of a honky-tonk princess and backed by a twangy group of instruments, Shepherd poured theatrical sass …

It’s an understatement to say that the last year was a bad one for the Grammy Awards when it came to gender inclusivity. Women have never exactly been afforded equal representation at the annual event, but when a study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that only nine percent …

Singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus announced a headlining 2019 U.S. tour launching February 1st in Durham, North Carolina and wrapping March 22nd in Washington D.C. Tickets for the U.S. dates go on sale Friday, December 14th. Following the jaunt, the indie-rock singer-songwriter will perform May festival slots at Atlanta, Georgia’s Shaky Knees …

List to this week’s YouTube Music playlist here. “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart,” Mark Ronson & Miley Cyrus Sounds like: An emotionally fragile pop banger Perfect for: Crying on the dance floor She’s a little bit country, he’s a little bit disco. Mark Ronson recruited Miley Cyrus for the first …