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A woman in Arizona has been charged with stealing and crashing an ambulance that was parked outside an Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte gig. The incident took place outside Talking Sticks Amphitheatre and Resort in Phoenix on Thursday night (August 27), around 11pm. Local police were called to the scene when a 24-year-old named Grace Vicente reportedly got into an ambulance that was parked outside the venue and drove it a short distance before crashing into another vehicle. Vicente was detained by police after the collision, and later charged with DUI and theft of a vehicle. The ambulance was parked…
Miley Cyrus has announced her tenth studio album, ‘Bass Persuades’, alongside two headline shows at the Hollywood Bowl. The record is set to arrive on September 18 and will mark her first release through Atlantic Records. Pre-order/pre-save your copy here. It comes alongside the news that the singer will now be billed simply as Miley, and announcing the record, she wrote on social media: “My tenth studio album, ‘Bass Persuades’, is yours September 18th. 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,…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced the release of their new live album, ‘Hidden In Pieces Live At The Royal Albert Hall’. The album is available to stream now, with an expanded digital edition, as well as vinyl and CD versions, set to follow on October 23. Fans can pre-order those here. The first 250 vinyl orders will also receive a photograph signed by all three band members. ‘Hidden In Pieces Live At The Royal Albert Hall’ primarily draws from the band’s two nights at the London venue in June last year, alongside recordings captured in San Diego, Chicago and New York during their intimate 25th-anniversary theatre tour. Announcing the release, Karen O has said…
Alanis Morissette is accusing her former tour manager of making “extortionate” threats to falsely implicate the singer in airport drug possession and trafficking allegations unless Morissette agreed to hire her under a 15-year contract. “Plaintiff Alanis Morissette is the victim of a calculated blackmail campaign orchestrated by a disgruntled former tour manager,” the new lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court and obtained by Rolling Stone reads. “Morissette will not agree to work with an incompetent blackmailer for the next fifteen years or pay her a ransom under the gun.” The six-page filing alleges that tour manager Keren Urinov…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The push for the postseason is here for Major League Baseball and there are plenty of intriguing storylines on the field, including the battle for the remaining Wild Card spots, and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ push for a World Series three-peat. But one of the biggest stories of the season took place last month — and it didn’t have anything to do with baseball at all. Oakland Athletics star Lawrence Butler became the first known Major League Baseball…
Nearly 30 years after the death of Tupac Shakur, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, former Compton gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty of orchestrating his murder. Davis’ conviction marks the first in a case that has gone unsolved for decades. Davis was convicted on Monday of first-degree murder by a Las Vegas jury and faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In his closing argument, Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal accused Davis of organizing the Sept. 7, 1996, shooting as “gang retaliation” for a beating that…
I t’s late August, and Puerto Rican rapper Villano Antillano is relaxed in a spaghetti strap tank, makeup-less and wearing a delicate gold necklace that says “Villana,” her real name. This is who she is at heart: a laidback, private, homebody. And these days, home is on an entirely new continent. Antillano is now living in Madrid. While she has a close group of friends in Spain, she admits the move has been tough. “I am the only one from my immediate family who has left Puerto Rico,” she says. She goes back often, but she’s honest about the issues…
Little Grandad have announced their debut album, ‘Speak Softly, Son’, and shared the harmonic new single ‘Tiny Feet’ – check it out below. The London band will release their first full-length record on January 22, 2027, and fans can pre-order/pre-save their copy here. The album has been produced by Kev Jones of Wunderhorse, and was recorded in Crouch End, London, during rare breaks from the band’s busy touring schedule. New single ‘Tiny Feet’ shows off the group’s sweet, close-knit vocal harmonies, and opens with gentle, hushed guitar before growing in intensity. The song’s video was directed by Xander Lewis, and you can check it out here: ‘Speak Softly, Son’ arrives little more than a year…
Jason Isbell and several other musicians have filed a lawsuit against Suno, accusing the AI music giant of training its models on the identities of popular artists. While Suno and other AI companies have faced (and in some cases settled) litigation over their alleged use of copyrighted music to train their models, this lawsuit centers on alleged violations of right-of-publicity laws. Filed in Massachusetts federal court and obtained by Rolling Stone, the lawsuit claims that Suno “encoded” the identities of countless artists into its AI model “without consent, and now exploits those identities” for its own “considerable commercial benefit.” To…
Jason Isbell and several other artists are suing the AI platform Suno for allegedly generating music based on their names without permission, reports The Wall Street Journal. The 400 Unit frontman filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boston, alongside artists Guy Forsyth, Eduardo Calle, and David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven.“Jason Isbell’s musical identity does not cease to be his property merely because sophisticated technology is involved,” the suit states. The defendants are seeking unspecified damanges.While Suno maintains that it blocks artists’ names from being used as prompts, the suit alleges that those safeguards are easy to bypass—by,…
