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Guiding Light singer Elise Cook is not German by blood or birth; they grew up in the UK before their family relocated to San Francisco and, later, Austin. Yet their cadence and intonation when singing in German are so even-keeled that it makes the band’s Texan roots seem like a punchline: Where’s the last place a band that sounds like this would hail from?Guiding Light introduced themselves as an anomaly of foreign swagger and freeform ideas with their 2024 self-titled EP, where Cook hollered over John Morales’ prickly guitar as if the quartet had been doing this for years. In…

“I think institutions like this are important in people’s lives because it adds a dignity and a gravity to what we do,” said the musician Alex Van Halen has been knighted as a member of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. The legendary drummer received the country’s highest civilian honor in Nijmegen, where he and his brother Eddie grew up before moving to Los Angeles in 1962. During the ceremony, the characteristically humble Van Halen said, “My cousin organized most of this, but I’m very grateful. I think institutions like this are important in people’s lives because it adds a dignity…

When Viv Albertine was 22 years old, she bought her first electric guitar with money from her recently deceased grandmother—more money than she had ever held in her hand before. The future guitarist of the Slits and the Flowers of Romance had never played a guitar, had never even seen another woman play one. Emboldened by early Sex Pistols shows and Patti Smith’s Horses, she chose to risk it all on a 1969 Les Paul Junior. “Just for a second, the impenetrable iron door that is convention has been pushed open a tiny crack,” Albertine wrote in her 2014 memoir,…

Friends don’t tell friends about Billy Strings, the songwriter. They rave, instead, about the guitarist who routes his acoustic through pedals that make him sound like Jimi or Iommi or Hammett or Hanneman, how it’s helped turn him into bluegrass’s first crossover star in decades. Depending on the particular breed of head they are, these zealots may also mention Doc Watson or Tony Rice or Tommy Emmanuel as evidence that it’s not all show, that the kid born William Apostol deserves the nickname an aunt gifted him long ago.But Strings’ life has been the stuff of hardscrabble country or hip-hop…

Lex Walton operates on the extremes of hope and despair; from the outside, it just seems like irony. She will reference cult director Vincent Gallo (as “Vinny Gallo”) and Owl City’s childlike 2009 hit “Fireflies” on the same EP. Her song titles, like “In This House, We Don’t Call the Cops; We Call Chosen Family” and “Preteen on Omegle Blues,” can be off-putting. Walton is prolific and, among a certain Brooklyn trans scene, ubiquitous—aside from appearing in lo-fi trans anthology series Castration Movie, she’s the bassist in Prairie Princess, and this summer, aided the band’s lead singer Emerson Borakove in…

On Tuesday, Miley Cyrus released an elusive trailer for her forthcoming 10th album, Bass Persuades. The promo simply featured her title as, “Miley,” and appeared to usher in a new era for the star, sans surname. The name change was reflected across Cyrus’ socials as well. In one Instagram post alongside a portrait of herself with a white rose in her mouth, she wrote: “Music takes hold of us. We feel it, sing it, sometimes dance to it, let it out and carry on. It is powerful, vulnerable, sweet and strong. Heart full, heartache, every part of life in between.…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Kelly Rowland says she’s rooting for Katseye as the girl group kicks off its 2026 World Tour without two of its original members. Katseye took to the stage for opening night of their Wildworld Tour this week as a foursome, with group leader Sophia Laforteza noticeably absent after announcing a hiatus in August to focus on her mental health. Her (presumed temporary) departure came six months after Manon Bannerman announced that she was stepping away from the group…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Iron Maiden are bringing their Run For Your Lives World Tour back to North America this fall, with an epic supporting lineup that includes Megadeth and Anthrax at select stops. The tour marks a half-century for the metal legends, with the band performing songs from their first nine studio albums. But craft beer fans have an extra reason to celebrate the band’s return to the U.S.: Iron Maiden and California beer icon Lagunitas have teamed up on Trooper…

A couple who went to Leeds Festival have revealed that the lack of house music on offer after a stage was closed meant that they booked an 80 mile Uber journey to Creamfields instead. Aiden Warhurst and his partner were at Leeds Festival over the past weekend, but put out a plea for some last minute Creamfields tickets after a number of dance performances were cancelled at the site. At both Reading and Leeds, multiple dance music sets in the new Warehouse stage were cancelled due to safety concerns. On Saturday and Sunday (August 29 and 30), the new dance-focused…

The bestselling workout program has evolved. Here’s what’s different (and what’s the same) If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. If you were anywhere near a DVD player in the early 2000s, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with P90X. Created by Tony Horton in 2005, P90X (short for Power 90 Extreme) became one of the biggest workout programs of all time for a very simple reason: It worked. The program, which incorporated high-intensity exercises along with a nutrition and dietary supplement plan, helped thousands…