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During any performance by the Infamous Stringdusters, fans can count on at least a few moments where the members of the jam-grass quintet gather near one another and transform into a melodic ball of kinetic energy. It’s a phenomenon that can only exist because of the brotherhood the players have built over 20 years as a band. “You can’t learn by yourself and you can’t learn in a practice room or in your bedroom,” Chris Pandolfi, banjo, tells Rolling Stone. “There’s only one way to learn, and that’s to get onstage and try stuff.” Sitting backstage at the Bear Shadow…

The brother of Dr. Amy Acton has lashed out at Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, in response to a political ad featuring the siblings’ estranged mother urging Ohioans not to vote for her.  On Tuesday, Philip Stearns, Acton’s brother, issued a statement condemning the ad targeting the Democratic nominee.  “It’s not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point,” Stearns wrote. Stears added that the siblings’ mother was estranged because she had remained married…

The Knicks will hold a banner-raising ceremony for their first NBA Championship in over 50 years ahead of the marquee matchup If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The NBA season starts with a couple of can’t-miss games, including the San Antonio Spurs vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder. But the marquee matchup is the new-look Philadelphia 76ers vs. the reigning champions, the New York Knicks. The game will see the King of New York, Jalen Brunson, face off against King James, who dons the Sixers…

FKA Twigs has been announced as the curator for Southbank’s Meltdown 2027, and there is also an inaugural localised Hometown Meltdown on the way to support grassroots venues across the country. The singer, dancer and visual artist will take the reins for 11 days at the London multi-arts centre, and curate a run of performances at the 11-acre site between June 10 and 20. As well as headlining one of the days herself, Twigs will create a line-up that reflects the diverse influences that shape her own sound, and bring together artists from across musical genres. The past winner of…

Anyone who caught Yung Lean’s MTV VMAs performance of “Storm,” his short film with director Romain Gavras’ audiovisual project Gener8ion, is no stranger to the complex choreography that went into the project. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped a bevy of copycats from “recreating” the film with AI, subbing in Yung Lean and the video’s crew of young male dancers for dogs, babies, grandmothers, Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein, and even Hitler.The trajectory appears to have left no one more disappointed than Gavras himself, who told Vulture that the AI copies “made me sad for all the people who put in so much…

A lawsuit alleging Drake stole the chorus for “Janice STFU” took a turn overnight, when the reference track at the heart of the dispute leaked on X. The track was recorded by plaintiff Aviel Hirschfield, a Grammy-nominated songwriter who, like Drake, contributed to Beyoncé’s “Heated.” His hand in the Iceman hit, however, is up for debate: Despite clear similarities between the reference track and finished song, Drake’s team strongly denies anyone else was involved in writing “Janice STFU.” A legal representative for Hirschfield confirmed to Pitchfork that the leaked recording—which is public as an exhibit in the lawsuit—matches the one…

The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) — the largest musicians union in the U.S. that covers over 80,000 professional artists — is asking the nation’s major labels to give them contract safeguards as AI technology continues to develop.  On Tuesday, the AFM launched “Human Made, Human Paid,” an advocacy campaign to raise awareness to the AFM’s demands. In November, the group will restart negotiations on the Sound Recording Labor Agreement (SRLA), a written union contract that sets things like royalty rates and healthcare agreements. They are asking Universal Music Group, Sony, Warner, and Hollywood Records (Disney) for new rules giving musicians…

Spotify is making room for more real music as it scrapes more than 75 million songs identified as “slop or spam” from the streaming service. The removed releases were flagged as having made “serious or repeated violations of our rules,” the platform shared in its one-year update on the plans it made to put AI protections in place for artists, songwriters, and producers. An additional 50 million songs have been filtered out of recommendations for users following repeated complaints regarding quality. “We looked closely at the tracks listeners were skipping, ignoring, or telling us they didn’t want to hear,” Spotify…

On Nov. 14, more than five decades after his death, Gram Parsons will finally be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It’s an overdue achievement for the country-rock pioneer, who would have turned 80 on Nov. 5. But the celebration doesn’t end there: As Rolling Stone can confirm, a Parsons tribute concert will take place days before the ceremony, held on Nov. 11 at the Troubadour. Presented by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the lineup for A Song for Gram (a play off his 1973 track “A Song for You”) features Parsons’ friend and musical…

UK Music has launched the ‘Our BBC: Our Music’ campaign, which works to protect the BBC’s government funding and enable it to continue creating opportunities for emerging talent across the country. Speaking in Parliament last night (Monday October 19), MPs, industry leaders and artists opened up about the importance of securing the funding, and argued that in “these very challenging times” we “simply can’t lose our creative ambition”. The campaign comes in response to the two-year Royal Charter Review laid out by the UK Government, which analyses the BBC’s funding model ahead of a new charter being granted in 2027.…