“I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star,” Lady Gaga toldRolling Stone for her first cover story in 2009. She was talking about her state of mind before her big breakthrough the year prior, but by the time she spoke to RS, Gaga didn’t need …

In metal as in many other styles, retro reigns. Bands and labels are falling all over themselves to evoke the Heavy Metal Parking Lot golden age via studiously old-school production values and cover art that screams 1987, right down to the cheesy font choices. A lot of the results look the part …

We are a little over a month away from the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest TV shows ever made: The Sopranos, which may be the most-copied series since I Love Lucy. Peak TV would not exist without Tony, Carmela, Paulie Walnuts and friends. In the course of writingThe …

Chris Lane will close out 2018 headlining a series of shows on his newly announced Laps Around the Sun Tour, which gets underway in October. Named for his recently released LP, Lane’s new tour will embark October 12th from Gulf Breeze, Florida, and wrap up December 15th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. …

Wiz Khalifa and Rae Sremmurd‘s Swae Lee unveiled a scintillating new video for their song, “Hopeless Romantic.” The TK McKamy-directed clip uses the power of green screen technology to place Wiz and Swae Lee in a world made up entirely of naked women. The pair dance, spit their verses, set …

Over the weekend, the non-profit organization Leadership Tennessee presented Dolly Parton with the inaugural Dolly Parton Excellence in Leadership Award at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Parton’s award comes after the singer’s lifetime of charitable work in her homestate, from her long-running Imagination Library, which …

EDITORS’ PICK: Jake Shears, Jake Shears For his first solo album, the Scissor Sisters frontman “moved to New Orleans, wrote himself out of a cataclysmic breakup, and then recorded in Louisville, Kentucky,”writes Barry Walters. “The result overflows with the opulence of orchestral Seventies pop – as if ELO and the …

T he first time James Savage used meth it was to avoid shooting heroin. Back when he was 19, working as a baker in the remote town of Beluga, Alaska, Savage fell off a ladder, shattering the bones in his right foot. A camp medic gave him painkillers to cope …

While on tour last fall in support of their symphonic-themed album Synthesis,Evanescence documented a concert they held with accompaniment from a full orchestra. They performed a number of songs from the recent album as well as hits like “Bring Me to Life” and “My Immortal” with added drama. They’ll be …

Wall Street’s got its eyes on music this year, as a number of companies in the industry (Spotify earlier this year and smart speaker company Sonos just last week, to name two) make their public debut. As investors everywhere start to peer more closely at music-tech firms, Citigroup is offering …