Music

“People forget that there is such a thing as having a difficult conversation,” says Aaron Lee Tasjan, calling Rolling Stone Country from the road, where he’s touring with Social Distortion. “In real life, you can’t just delete the thread.” It’s a lot harder, even, to delete a song, something that …

Steve Albini won his first World Series of Poker tournament late Saturday night as the renowned producer and Big Black rocker finished first in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event. The producer of albums like Nirvana’s In Utero and Pixies’ Surfer Rosa beat out 309 other players to win the …

With its eternal ties to awkward post-adolescent angst, pop-punk is not a genre that’s meant to carry a band through a full career. So it’s not surprising that on their third album, 5 Seconds of Summer have already aged out of the sound that built their success. Instead, Youngblood goes …

Kip Moore, Cassadee Pope and several other country performers will participate in the 2018 ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp, scheduled to kick off Thursday in Nashville. Running June 14th to 20th, the ninth annual ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp will also feature participants Danielle Bradbery, Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum, …

Thirty Seconds to Marsunveiled the music video for “Rescue Me,” featuring a montage of people expressing various emotions in tight close-up shots. The song appears on their fifth albumAmerica, which was released in April. “‘Rescue Me’ is a song about pain, a song about empowerment, a song about faith and …

With Snail Mail’s Lush, indie rock has officially entered its “Black Crowes era,” where young artists refigure music from the decade they were born. But that’s not a bad thing here. As the brainchild of 18-year-old Lindsey Jordan, who counts Helium’s Mary Timony and Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield as mentors, Snail …

Ahead of John Fogerty‘s tour with ZZ Top, the singer teamed up with the latter’s Billy Gibbons to collaborate on a new song, “The Holy Grail.” The song sports a bluesy, John Lee Hooker–like guitar riff, à la ZZ Top’s “La Grange,” and Fogerty’s lyrics about mumbo jumbo, mystical plains …

When the Who started out, they billed themselves as “maximum R&B.” And before Pete Townshend embraced teenage wasteland and became one of rock’s poet laureates, the group was content playing blues and soul covers. Check out their stirring version of James Brown’s “I Don’t Mind” on My Generation, their myriad …

EDITORS’ PICK: Father John Misty, God’s Favorite CustomerJosh Tillman’s fourth album under the FJM banner sounds “as if Tillman wrote and arranged these songs under the sumptuous, despairing spell of Lennon’s early-Seventies solo records, with time off for the late-Sixties Zombies and the Beach Boys’ Sunflower,” writes David Fricke.Hear: Amazon …

Hayley Kiyoko and Kehlani escape with each other in the video for collaboration “What I Need.” The track appears on Kiyoko’s debut album Expectations. Kiyoko directed the video, which is structured like a short film. It opens with Kehlani’s character fighting with her aunt as she packs her stuff to …