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When Paramore released their debut album, only a single member of the Linda Lindas had been born. Hayley Williams and most of her bandmates were teens when they made Paramore’s 2005 debut, and just into their mid-20s when, a couple albums later, they first worked with engineer Carlos de la Garza. By the time de la Garza returned to produce Paramore’s sixth record, he had teenage daughters of his own: Lucia and Mila, who—along with their cousin Eloise Wong and family friend Bela Salazar—had already formed the Linda Lindas, survived a viral moment, and released a formidable debut album—and gotten…
Beyoncé has revealed the 20th anniversary edition of her sophomore album B’Day, marking her actual birthday on Sept. 4. The expanded digital version includes 31 tracks and features collaborations with Maluma and Selena Quintanilla. The remastered reissue includes previously unreleased songs including “Creole,” “Back Up,” “Lost Yo Mind,” and “Can I Watch You” featuring Pharrell Williams alongside the original tracks from 2006. The project also marks Beyoncé’s first collaboration with Maluma on “Cuerpo Tumbao (Get Me Bodied),” which contains a sample from Celia Cruz’s “La Negra Tiene Tumbao.” A press release notes that Beyoncé has “long admired Cruz’s pride in her African…
Al Cisneros surely knew the scrutiny he would attract by resurrecting Sleep without its founding guitarist, Matt Pike. If the monkish Cisneros was the earthly celebrant at the center of classics like Dopesmoker and Sleep’s Holy Mountain, then Pike was the vengeful deity he summoned, a shimmering being of pure, earthshaking volume. His guitar tone was a perpetually overdriven combination of crunch and fuzz that never sacrificed clarity for heaviness, and his riffs, nuanced without being overcomplicated, were the fundamental building blocks of Sleep’s songs. Pike is gone now, a casualty of either Cisneros’s intractability or his own, and Bubba…
Despite the fact that their music sounds nothing alike, Chat Pile are to the 2020s what Deafheaven were to the 2010s. Both groups are nominally metal bands whose breakthrough albums crossed over into indie-rock audiences by blending conventionally unassociated subgenres of extreme metal and alt-rock into audacious hybrids with class-conscious lyrics rooted in wealth inequality. Like Sunbather in 2013, Chat Pile’s 2022 debut, God’s Country, was the album your metalhead friend received texts about all year from people whose taste rarely leans heavier than Deftones. And like the glowing reception to Sunbather’s knockout follow-up, New Bermuda, Chat Pile’s next album,…
What last ideas will dance around your brain when it all ends? I like to believe I’ll be considering something profound, like the meaning of life or the exquisite love I share with the people I care about most. But more than likely, I’ll probably just be thinking about the last person who made me blush, the last bastard who had me fucked up, or how I’m finally going to kick my Instagram addiction. Before the World Blows, the end-of-days collaborative album between Erykah Badu and the Alchemist, is concerned with everyday thoughts placed side by side with big picture…
Hollywood actor Jeff Goldblum has been announced as the first host of the new season of Saturday Night Live UK, with CMAT as musical guest. The British spin-off of the long-running US sketch comedy show debuted on Sky One in March with former SNL US cast member Tina Fey as the host and Wet Leg as the musical guest. Since then, celebrities including Jamie Dornan, Riz Ahmed, and Nicola Coughlan have hosted, while music acts have included Kasabian, Foo Fighters, and MEEK. Last month, it was announced that the series would be returning for season two, with an initial run…
Chicago rapper Lil Durk mounted a rapid-fire defense Thursday, calling nine people to the witness stand — including the wife of one of the government’s star witnesses — on the same day both sides rested their case in the closely watched murder-for-hire trial. The judge then ordered jurors to return Tuesday for closing arguments. Durk, born Durk Banks, is accused of ordering a murder-for-hire plot targeting rival rapper Quando Rondo as “revenge” for the 2020 killing of Banks’ close friend and musical protégé King Von. Prosecutors say Banks placed a bounty on Quando Rondo, whose legal name is Tyquian Bowman,…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Few wardrobe staples are as iconic as a denim jacket, and musicians have long embraced the layering piece as part of their on-stage — and off-stage — looks. From Bob Marley and Bob Dylan to Madonna and Pharrell, a denim jacket can be at once luxe and laidback, spanning genres as varied as country and hip-hop, and all ages, genders and personal expressions too. These days, stars like Ryan Gosling and Drake have brought back the denim jacket…
Iceland Airwaves has announced its final wave of artists for its 2026 programme and unveiled their day splits. The festival will return to Reykjavík on November 5 and 7 this year, and will be the 27th edition of the music festival. So far, Adult DVD, Dove Ellis, PISS, and more joined the first wave of names, with The Itch, Any Young Mechanic, Heartworms and more completing the second wave. Now, 25 new artists have been confirmed as part of last wave of names announced, with NME Cover star Cobrah leading the list. Alien Chicks, Leith Ross, Worldpeace DMT and Cell7 will also appear…
The rapper-singer is ushering a new era ahead of her Press Play EP, which arrives on Oct. 23 Lisa is saying “hello” to her new chapter. The rapper-singer has released her new supercharged single “SaWaDiKa,” which is a Thai greeting for “hello.” The track finds Lisa returning to her rap roots, as she spits bars with the sharp prowess she’s known for. “I’m that bitch on your TV/In my Ferrari, indigo/La Lalisa, la diva,” she raps over sputtering drums. Produced by Thom Bridges, who has worked with Katseye and John Summit among other artists, and songwriting duo Ojivolta, the track…
