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Camila Cabello was thinking about performing her new album even before she recorded it. After playing stadiums in 2018 as an opening act on her friend Taylor Swift’s Reputation world tour, the 22-year-old entered the studio to record her upcoming second album, Romance, with a goal: to record bombastic songs …

Huey Lewis hasn’t performed live in nearly two years due to severe hearing loss caused by Ménière’s disease. But he did record an album’s worth of new songs before coming down with the condition that’s slated to finally come out sometime early in 2020. Thankfully, he’s still able to hear …

M aggie Rogers has a lot of memories tied to Sleater-Kinney, from discovering their explosive 2005 album, The Woods, when she was in middle school to driving around listening to them on repeat while on vacation in Iceland. “I’ve had all these special moments interacting with your work,” she tells …

R ingo Starr is about to get into a bathtub with Dave Grohl, and he seems a little skeptical. “Is this some sort of bullshit?” the former Beatle says. But he steps in anyway. Soon the pair are chatting comfortably; as Grohl discusses the Foo Fighters’ recent tour, Starr hands …

By Trent Reznor‘s estimation, “Head Like a Hole” was a “throwaway.” He had labored intensely on Nine Inch Nails‘ debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, with all its complex, shadowy textures and abject confessions, revising each song until it was perfect. But he wrote “Head Like a Hole” in about 15 …

On Wednesday night in Salt Lake City, Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard put up 25 points in 29 minutes in a preseason win against the Utah Jazz. The next morning, Dame D.O.L.L.A. — Lillard’s hip-hop pseudonym — dropped his new music video for “Money Ball.” Later that night brought …

When J Mascis thinks about all of the albums Dinosaur Jr. put out in the Nineties, he says his favorite is the one most people know the least: Hand It Over. The record came out in 1997, as the alternative-rock boom was fading away, and the LP barely made it …

THE CALL Her text woke me up. “Not sure if any of these numbers work? It’s HiHat pls call me.” I haven’t finished reading the last word and my fingers have already forwarded a screenshot to alert my team. We rearrange Saturday’s travel to Washington D.C., postpone all meetings, and …

Ken Burns was in Dallas some years ago visiting a good friend, philanthropist Cappy McGarr. The filmmaker was working on his 2012 Depression-era miniseries, The Dust Bowl, and as usual for a workaholic who often has six or seven films brewing, Burns was turning over ideas for his next project. …

Fifty years later, the new episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast takes a deep look back at the original Woodstock, with Country Joe McDonald, Santana percussionist Michael Carabello and Andy Zax — producer of a comprehensive new box set — joining host Brian Hiatt. Zax explains the complex …