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Jhené Aiko has spent the six years since Chilombo navigating setbacks and false starts. “It’s like every time I tried to lock in, life knocked me on my ass,” she said ahead of Westside Whimsy, a suite of mellifluous odes to her Los Angeles hometown. To mark the occasion, the R&B singer enlisted a slate of trusted pals and L.A. royals—plus Tyga—to join her in an itinerary of languid ballads, jazz-bar jaunts, and pensive, acrobatic monologues that flow like waterfalls but roil beneath with whitewater intensity. Longtime collaborator Kendrick Lamar returns with a verse on “So Good,” and Larry June…
As if playing their smallest Nashville show in nearly two decades wasn’t enough, Kings of Leon surprised the fans who packed the Basement East by bringing out a country music superstar: Zach Bryan. There’s long been a mutual respect between the band and the Oklahoma troubadour: Kings opened several dates on Bryan’s 2025 stadium run and also collaborated on two tracks in the studio. On Thursday night, they played one of them, “Bowery,” as a sea of phones went up to capture the moment. But even before Bryan’s high-profile cameo at one of Nashville’s best and most intimate rock rooms,…
N.O.R.E., the rapper and host of the popular podcast Drink Champs, has responded to a sexual assault lawsuit brought against him by Carmen Bryan, describing her claims as “invented interactions” that are “entirely false.” The denial comes two days after Bryan filed a 20-page civil complaint against N.O.R.E., real name Victor Santiago, alleging the rapper was intoxicated when he forced himself on her in the middle of a packed Manhattan nightclub in 1999. According to the lawsuit, Santiago “physically overpowered” Bryan and “committed an act of non-consensual digital penetration,” all while ignoring her pleas for him to stop. The alleged assault…
Band’s journey from Sheffield, England schoolmates to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees will be focus of ‘Long Live Def Leppard’ Def Leppard’s journey from Sheffield, England schoolmates to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees will be the focus of an upcoming documentary. The band has announced the impending arrival of Long Live Def Leppard, their first authorized full-length documentary, with Bleecker Street’s Crosswalk setting a North American theatrical release for early 2027. Jeff Feuerzeig, the documentarian behind The Devil and Daniel Johnston and Author: The JT LeRoy Story, will helm the film, which will include “never-before-seen footage…
It’s still Donald Trump’s party — and don’t you doubt it. On the second night of the Republican midterm convention in Dallas — an event ostensibly meant to boost the GOP candidates on the ballot in November — the party fully embraced its status as a cult of devotion to a single man: the president. In a video played on the screens throughout the American Airlines Center, a voice declared that “on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’ so God gave us Trump.” The video opened by zooming into planet Earth, landing…
Legendary rock journalist Legs McNeil tells his life story — and goes behind-the-scenes on his encounters with Joey Ramone, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, and more — in his upcoming memoir Resident Punk, out September 15. McNeil founded Punk magazine in 1975 at the age of 19, in this exclusive excerpt from the book, he writes about one of the genre’s most infamous bands, the Sex Pistols, and one of their more infamous gigs, a January 1978 concert at the Winterland in the still-hippie-filled San Francisco. McNeil, who was backstage at the Winterland show, writes that tensions were so high, and…
R ecently, I texted William Biggart Jr. and asked if he was up for talking about his father, Bill Biggart, the only photographer killed when the Towers fell on 9/11. He immediately sent me a photo of a tattoo that covers his entire back. It depicts the Archangel Michael rising above the Old City of Jerusalem, his enormous wings spread over a city that is burning and smoldering. In Memoria Ut William G. Biggart is written across his son’s shoulder blades. The tattoo has been arduous work for William, with setbacks and botched work taking up much of the past…
I was in a state of shock, because [my daughter] Elizabeth lives about fifteen blocks away. We couldn’t get through. In the evening, we managed to get through via South Africa, which was really weird. What I feel from a lot of my American friends, although they’re not really able to put it into words, is a sense of violation. It’s a horrible thing to have that feeling broken – that America was this place where they all felt safe. We’ve lived [in England] for the last thirty years with that – people who would throw bombs in pubs and…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s been 25 years since the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, marking a significant anniversary for one of our country’s worst tragedies. To remember the dark day, most major TV networks have released specials over the last couple of weeks, and others are running commemorative editions of their programs on Friday the 11th. Among this special coverage are ABC’s 9/11 Tribute in Light: Live From Lower Manhattan and 9/11 Reunited, History Channel’s 102 Minutes Inside the Towers,…
Jim Root has said that Slipknot’s new single ‘Arsenal’ will not feature on their upcoming album, and was instead “a tune we could quickly get out there while we work on the rest of the record”. The metal icons returned with the surprise single earlier this week – with the track marking their first new music in three years, and first release since the departure of Sid Wilson and the joining of drummer Eloy Casagrande. Since it dropped, the single has got mixed reviews online, with some fans enjoying the new approach, while many others have criticised it for feeling…
