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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It took some time, but Samsung seems to have finally cracked the code on foldables. And all it took was looking to an everyday object that predates the company itself: the passport. Despite its nearly $2,000 price tag, the Galaxy Z Fold8 and its unusual aspect ratio has become a hit for the tech giant, with the phone even going out of stock at one point.  Compared with other foldables, the Galaxy Z Fold8 can actually be used…

Brandy Norwood has been revealed as the mystery vocalist on the new theme song for Netflix‘s A Different World reboot. On Tuesday, Netflix released a video of Norwood performing the reboot’s theme song, which features an original beat and lyrics from previous versions sung by Phoebe Snow, Aretha Franklin, Boyz II Men, and Terrence Forsythe. In the clip, Norwood signals the engineer before launching into a performance of the theme, which captures the songstress delivering impassioned vocals over a pulsating instrumental. The 808 drum and synth-driven track gives the new theme a modernized feel while retaining the soul of prior…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Get YouTube Without Ads for Free With the Best VPNs of 2026 Our editors are known for seeking out — and successfully finding — under-the-radar workarounds to get you access to the best streaming services and entertainment platforms for free. But ad-free YouTube, of all things, has been notoriously hard to crack in that department, making users pay $15.99 per month for the Individual plan of its Premium membership at the conclusion of a one-month free trial. Note that…

DJ Shadow is rereleasing his classic album ‘Endtroducing’ and heading on tour to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Released in September 1996, the record was the debut from the American DJ and record producer, and marked a milestone in instrumental hip-hop. Blending influences from rock, psychedelia, jazz and more, ‘Endtroducing’ was recorded between DJ Shadow’s home studio, The Glue Factory in San Francisco, and Dan The Automator’s studio, and became the first sample-only album. In the three decades since it was first released, the album has become a classic among fans and helped pave the way for modern electronica, thanks to…

The news last week that producer William Orbit had died at age 69 sent people back to revisit one of the most remarkable catalogs in Nineties pop. Along with Madonna’s “Ray of Light,” Orbit’s greatest achievement in the studio might have been producing Blur’s “13,” the sprawling, experimental 1999 album on which the British rock band exploded everything they were known for at that time, incorporating new electronic and noise influences. Blur first encountered Orbit when he contributed an eight-minute reimagining of their 1997 song “Movin’ On” to a remix project. “We really liked what he did,” recalls Blur guitarist…

Ryan Murphy’s production house may be churning out more shows these days than most folks can keep up with, but that doesn’t mean there’s no excitement around his new fare.  In a teaser released Tuesday for Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, we hear the well-known nursery rhyme — ”Lizzie Borden took an axe / gave her mother forty whacks / when she saw what she had done / she gave her father forty-one” — over a montage of Lizzie Borden (Ella Beatty) in various bloodied states. It’s the most thorough look we’ve seen so far at the new entry in the…

The Womack Sisters had a lot to get off their chest. As granddaughters of Sam Cooke and daughters of Cecil and Linda Womack, the three women are carrying on the legacy of classic soul and R&B. Nearly a half-century after that music receded from cultural prominence, sisters Zeimani, BG, and Kucha Womack had been hustling in Los Angeles for more than a decade. They spent much of the 2010s hopping between meetings and short-lived engagements with assorted labels, managers, and agents, trying, mostly in vain, to convince the world that traditionally minded R&B was still worth sharing with the world.…

After sharing “Colors,” his first new song since 2023, back in May, the Tallest Man on Earth has revealed details of his new album. Just Beyond Endless Mountain was inspired by the traditional folk music of Sweden’s Dalarna region, where Kristian Mattson grew up. It’s out October 9 via Anti-. Below, watch a bucolic video for the new single “Deliver Me From Trying,” shot in the Swedish countryside.“Somewhere along the way I’d developed this immature aversion to the whole cultural inheritance I grew up with,” Matsson said in press materials. “But now I live here again. I’ve read an incredible…

Jamila Woods is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her debut album Heavn with a short Stateside tour. The jaunt starts in Los Angeles on November 16 and travels to cities including Portland and New York City before concluding with a hometown show in Chicago on December 6.“Ten years ago today the OG SoundCloud version of HEAVN was born. My first child! The one who showed me a new version of myself / a portal to who I could be,” Woods wrote on Instagram. “Last night I found a journal entry from 2015, a year before the release. My band M&O…

Reading & Leeds 2026 have teamed up with Spotify to help fans discover new artists they’ll love at the festival through personalised playlists based on their listening habits. The new launch comes just over two weeks before this year’s festival kicks off, featuring headline performances from Florence + The Machine, Charli XCX, Fontaines D.C., Dave, RAYE and Chase & Status. In the partnership, a new in-app experience has been launched on Spotify which analyses users’ listening data and reveals the five artists on the festival line-up who best suit their tastes. There is also a percentage to show how closely…