Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper have reunited for new song, “Holy,” and they both appear in its accompanying video. Bieber released his fifth album Changes earlier this year. In the new Colin Tilley-directed visual, singer and actress Ryan Destiny stars as Bieber’s love interest and it also features Wilmer …
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Bruce Springsteen will release Letter to You, a new rock album recorded live in his New Jersey home studio with the E Street Band, on October 23rd. The title track is also the first single and is available now. “I love the emotional nature of Letter To You,” he said …
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Taylor Swift‘s Folklore enjoys a sixth straight week at Number One on Rolling Stone’s Top 200 Albums Chart, extending the record she set last week for the longest consecutive run at Number One in the chart’s history. From August 28th through September 3rd, Folklore pulled in 91,200 album-equivalent units, driven …
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A core concept of quantum physics is that objective reality doesn’t exist until we observe it. For example, a photon can be neither here nor there, neither strictly a particle nor strictly a wave, until we measure it. Or, perhaps a better example: The Song of the Summer. The Song …
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The 1986 Genesis album Invisible Touch is the closest thing the band ever had to a Thriller. Not only did it sell by the millions to a wide demographic of fans, but it produced five huge singles (“Invisible Touch,” “Tonight Tonight Tonight,” “Land of Confusion,” “In Too Deep” and “Throwing …
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Katy Perry— who just gave birth to her first child, and also released her sixth studio album, Smile —is at a career and personal crossroads, which we discuss in detail in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. The episode features Perry’s recent interview with Brittany Spanos (also captured …
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Thirty years ago this week, Stevie Ray Vaughan played the final show of his career when he opened up for Eric Clapton at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin. Shortly after the concert ended, Vaughan and three members of Clapton’s crew boarded a helicopter to travel to …
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One of the defining musical trends of the last decade has been the growing influence of international artists in the U.S. Cross-continental collaborations are now routine, and American major-labels are increasingly open to signing artists with buzz abroad. Even U.S. radio, which is notoriously resistant to change, has made room …
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Mariah Carey has dropped new song “Save the Day.” It appears on her upcoming The Rarities album, which collects the singer’s favorite songs from her vault spanning her 30-year career. The album arrives on October 2nd. The pop star began working on “Save the Day” with early collaborator Jermaine Dupri …
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Alicia Keys and Khalid celebrate freedom and “living the way I want” in their new music video for “So Done.” The single will feature on Keys’ upcoming album ALICIA, set for release this fall. In the visual, directed by Andy Hines, Keys and Khalid perform onstage at a high school …
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