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It’s official: The U.S. is listening to less music in English than ever before. A new midyear report from Luminate found that English-language songs fell to a new low of 87.1 percent of streams in the U.S., from last year’s 88 percent. But what’s just one percentage point, right? Well, considering the fact that the country is streaming more music than ever before (a whopping total of 732.7 billion streams in 2026), it’s certainly not insignificant. As English-language streams dropped, Spanish-language streams rose to a historic peak of 9.4 percent, accounting for nearly one in 10 streams in the U.S.,…
The rock & roll singer has become an integral figure in Americana roots music over the past two decades, thanks to collaborations with Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett Back in 2008, Robert Plant's appearance in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium for the Americana Honors & Awards was still something of a novelty: The rock & roll god in the Mother Church of Country Music! That night, the former Led Zeppelin frontman celebrated Album of the Year honors with Alison Krauss for their LP Raising Sand with T Bone Burnett (the twosome scored Duo of the Year honors too), a feat that…
Oscar-nominated actor stars as a legendary leader in Paul Greengrass' 14th-century historical drama Andrew Garfield trades modern superheroes for medieval revolution in the trailer for The UprisingPaul Greengrass' historical drama inspired by England's 1381 peasant revolt. The Oscar nominee stars as Wat Tyler, an ordinary peasant who steps up to lead an extraordinary fight against King Richard II after crushing taxes and political oppression push the country's working class to a breaking point. The trailer opens in the aftermath of the Black Death, with Garfield's grief-stricken farmer mourning the family he lost to the plague before finding himself at the…
Saturday Night Live had bid farewell to one of its breakout stars of the past decade. After seven seasons of impersonating Timothée Chalamet, Jennifer Coolidge, and Britney Spears, among many others, Chloe Fineman will not return for the long-running sketch show's 52nd season. Fineman joined the show as a featured cast member for the 2019/20 season, and used the Covid lockdown to her advantage as she was able to film and fine tune her impressions by herself, positioning her as star as much as a team player. “It's really hard to leave SNL but it does feel like the right…
Mutoid Man have called out the official FIFA World Cup 2026 anthem for sounding “familiar” to one of their own songs. The heavy metal supergroup, featuring Cave In’s Stephen Brodsky, Converge’s Ben Koller and High On Fire’s Jeff Matz, shared a post on Instagram on July 3, pointing fans towards what they saw as a similarity between FIFA’s new anthem and their 2023 track ‘Call Of The Void’. Posting an image of the FIFA World Cup 2026 logo with “Official Theme” written underneath, the band wrote: “Hey @fifaworldcup that vocal line sure sounds familiar. #goalofthevoid.” The hashtag is a nod to ‘Call Of The Void’, the…
Following similar legislature in his native Vermont, singer-songwriter supports “The Great Divide Act” combating speculative tickets, resale fees, and more Noah Kahan has thrown his support behind a new Massachusetts bill aimed at capping ticket resale prices. Like other states in recent weeks — including Washington, D.C. just a day earlier — Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has announced “An Act Relative to Closing the Great Divide between Ticket Prices and Affordability” — or “The Great Divide Act,” named in part after Kahan’s latest LP — a bill that would limit ticket resales prices, bar speculative tiket sales, and cut down on…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Now you can bring the sounds of Heated Rivalry home (and no, not those sounds), with a new vinyl drop that bottles the show's most buzzed-about tracks into a limited-edition release. Currently available to purchase on Amazon, the record has already claimed the No. 1 spot in the retailer's Movie Soundtracks category, with fans rushing to get their hands on this latest piece of Heated Rivalry memorabilia. Issued in partnership with Milan Records, the rollout includes two special…
Carly Rae Jepsen is revealing in her life's next chapter on “After All,” the second single from her double album Day and Night out Sept. 18. “After All” will appear on the Day side of her next record and was co-written by Jepsen and Kyle Shearer, and co-produced by Shearer and Nate Cyphert. The glistening song finds Jepsen musing on life as a new wife and mother in a series of tableaus; there's terracotta tiles, late-night fireworks, and an apartment with the view of the ocean. The chillwave-esque track then explodes into a spritely breakdown which is sure to serve…
Kris Jenner‘s mom, Mary Jo “MJ” Shannon, had died at the age of 91. The Kardashian matriarch announced the news on Thursday. A cause of death was not given. “Today, we said goodbye to my beautiful Mommy MJ,” she wrote on Instagram. “There are no words that could ever capture what she has meant to me or the heartbreak of having to say goodbye. My mom was the heart of our family. She taught me everything that truly matters … to love your family fiercely, to be kind, to show up for the people you love, and to never take a single…
Last week, in the middle of Jack White’s sold-out show at the Brooklyn Paramount, a five-feet-four-inch bass player got onstage. It was his 20-year-old daughter, Scarlett White, grooving along to “Cannon,” from the White Stripes’ self-titled 1999 debut. She stayed with her dad for two more songs — the White Stripes’ cover of Blind Willie Johnson’s “John the Revelator” and “Black Math,” from the garage rock duo’s 2003 classic Elephant — with White posting a video afterwards like a proud father. Scarlett’s surprise appearance is just one of the many highlights of White’s current tour, which kicked off in North…
