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The tragic news that songwriter-producer Adam Schlesinger died of COVID-19 complications at the age of 52 caused an outpouring of grief and a renewed appreciation for his vast body of work. And although many fans remembered the music he made with his band Fountains of Wayne or his songs for …

The day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Brian Wilson and Mike Love met up and, in a half hour, wrote “The Warmth of the Sun,” triggered by the events of that day. But as Bob Dylan’s new epic “Murder Most Foul” shows, that Beach Boys song was the first, but …

Here at Rolling Stone, we regularly have the opportunity to talk with artists, producers, songwriters, and others in the music world about their current projects, goals and inspirations, highs and lows, and sometimes their take on the state of the country and world. But sometimes we also just have to …

Before the world recognized Black Sabbath as heavy-metal forefathers, the band members wrote a song that gave them the chills. “We knew instantly that ‘Black Sabbath’ was very different to what was around at the time,” guitarist Tony Iommi says of the piece that gave the group its name. “We …

In our new series, we look at eight cities where live music has exploded — from legendary hubs like New Orleans and Nashville, to rising hot spots like Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Portland, Maine. The latest? Chicago, where artists are pushing the envelope at secret clubs, strip clubs and more. Chicago …

Ken Ehrlich, the showrunner of the Grammy Awards for the last 40 years, just wrapped up the awards broadcast and is running off four hours of sleep when he sits down with Rolling Stone in Los Angeles. “I have gotten all these emails saying I have changed the face of …

A little more than 20 years ago, Steve Van Zandt didn’t know if he’d ever work again. He quit the E Street Band in 1984 to pursue a solo career, but that dried up by the 1990s and he didn’t know where to turn next. “I literally went out into …

In 1991, the Supreme Court fielded a case about two warring phonebook companies in northwest Kansas. Rural Telephone Service Company Inc. refused to license its local information to Feist Publications Inc., so Feist went ahead and copied part of Rural’s phonebook. Rural shrewdly placed false entries in its directory, caught …

Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes — A Memoir, by Steve Gorman, the band’s former drummer and co-founder (who co-wrote the book with Steven Hyden), is one of the most jaw-droppingly entertaining rock books in years, painting the recently reunited Chris and Rich Robinson as …

In-between piles of crab legs and an argument over who is the best on-screen Spider-Man, the guys of PrettyMuch reveal that they have big plans for 2020. The first step is their just-released four-track project, INTL:EP. On each song, the American-Canadian boy band partners with a different artist from another …