Author: Press Room
Every year since 2018 — except for 2020, thanks to the pandemic — the Sea.Hear.Now festival in Asbury Park, N.J., has provided a destination for East Coast music fans. Past lineups have included some of the biggest names in rock, including headline sets by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Pearl Jam, Brandi Carlile, Patti […]
Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox has revived his Atlas Sound project for its first show in seven years, debuting eight new songs during the performance. Cox made his return yesterday (September 20) at Philadelphia’s Making Time festival, having been announced as a surprise addition to the line-up little more than a week before the event. Performing solo on the festival’s Transcendental Stage, he sang while playing bass, hand bells and a sampler throughout a roughly half-hour set. He opened the show by leading the crowd in a rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ for his mother Edie, who was in attendance and celebrating…
Everything seems to be coming up roses: Harry Styles will bring his Together, Together tour into 2027. He’s hitting six North American cities and then heading overseas, accompanied by stellar openers that include Caroline Polachek, Tinashe, Tears for Fears, Lainey Wilson, and more (Styles has a knack for choosing excellent supporting acts). Whatever next year brings, we’ll still be able to dance with all our friends. Styles touring for the first time in three years is, as my colleague Rob Sheffield said, “The kind of pop spectacle that leaves feathers all over the floor and hysteria lingering in the air.”…
The day before Miley Cyrus released her new album, Bass Persuades, she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe that life on the road poses too much of a threat to her sobriety, which is heavily reliant on consistent routines and familiarity. Rather than risk it, she’d prefer to stay in one place and have her audience come to her, like the two Hollywood Bowl shows she has coming up. “This is perfect because people like to see me perform and I like to sleep in my marshmallow bed,” Cyrus said. “We can both be happy.” Well, kind of, but not quite. While…
On Sept. 20, Chad Gilbert, founding member and lead guitarist for New Found Glory, died at the age of 45 after a battle with brain cancer. Mark Hoppus, the co-lead vocalist, co-founder, and bassist of Blink-182, got to know Gilbert over the years, both on and off tour. Hoppus, himself a cancer survivor, talked with Gilbert about the disease, but their bond ran much deeper. Hoppus remembers Gilbert in this exclusive tribute.I always thought of Chad Gilbert as my little brother. I don’t remember the day we met. He and a bunch of his shithead friends used to come to…
Bob Geldof has defended Ed Sheeran amid the ongoing controversy surrounding Macklemore being dropped from the singer’s ‘Loop’ tour over pro-Palestine comments. The Boomtown Rats frontman has weighed in on the row, arguing that artists have the right to decide whether they want to use their platform to speak on political issues, while also praising Macklemore and the musicians who subsequently withdrew from Sheeran’s tour. “An artist has the absolute right to choose what he wants to say and when he wants to say it,” Geldof told the Belfast Telegraph. “There are those who say, y’know, at a certain level…
Saturday Night Live UK poked fun at the ongoing Ed Sheeran-Palestine controversy over the weekend. Watch the videos below. In the ‘Weekend Update’ news segment of the show, Ania Magliano joked that “the Israel-Palestine conflict just got serious” as she and co-host Paddy Young delved into the backlash Sheeran has faced of late. “That’s right – Ed Sheeran’s US tour is under threat!” she continued. “Sheeran’s support act, Macklemore, was dropped after saying ‘Free Palestine’ on stage. Will Sheeran have to cancel the tour? There’s a very real risk that he won’t.” She continued: “Genuinely, though – this crisis is…
Four-time Best Direction winner honored with first-ever award celebrating “a sustained and influential body of work from artists who have pushed creative boundaries and developed a clear directorial voice” Taylor Swift will receive the first-ever MTV VMA Artist Director Honors at the 2026 Video Music Awards on September 27. MTV announced the inaugural award and its recipient on Monday, adding that “the MTV VMA Artist Director Honors celebrates a sustained and influential body of work from artists who have pushed creative boundaries and developed a clear directorial voice.” Swift has been nominated for Best Direction at the VMAs eight times,…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Nearly three decades after Double Live became one of the defining releases of Garth Brooks’ career, one of the best-selling albums in U.S. history is finally arriving on vinyl. Brooks is set to appear on a special Walmart Live event tonight, to unveil the first-ever vinyl edition of Double Live, which was recorded during the singer’s 1996–1998 world tour. The interactive broadcast, powered by the shoppable streaming network, TalkShopLive, will feature Brooks sharing songs and stories from the…
A man charged with producing the largest stash of counterfeit vinyl in UK history was sentenced on Monday to three years and six months in prison. Rehan Ahmed, 40, had been running the vinyl-pressing-and-selling scam for seven years before police raided his Phoenix of Vinyl warehouse in 2024, where authorities discovered a staggering 15,000 bootleg LPs spanning 108 different artists—including albums by Taylor Swift, Drake, Rihanna, Bad Bunny, the Beatles, Ed Sheeran, and more. Ahmed later pleaded guilty to two charges of breach of artists’ copyright, and acquiring and using criminal property.According to The Guardian, when police raided the facility,…
