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The throughline of Leon Bridges’ decade-plus career has been his voice. Because Bridges’ honeysuckle tenor lends itself so naturally to early-Sixties soul, Bridges got pegged as a Sam Cooke incarnate with his 2015 debut Coming Home. He’s since proven that his smooth-crooning vocals are just as expressive whether he’s toying with contemporary R&B (2018’s watermark Good Thing), waxing poetic about his home state of Texas over Khruangbin’s chilled-out surf rock (2020’s Texas Sun) or singing about his Nintendo-64-filled youth (2024’s opus “Panther City”). But Bridges’ latest — a collaborative album with the British trio Jungle — might be the most…
Elton John will open Apple’s new Apple Music Hall in London next week, with Charli XCX, Chase & Status, Baby Keem and more also confirmed for its first run of shows. The new 600-capacity venue at Battersea Power Station will officially open with a performance from John on Monday (September 28). He will be followed by Baby Keem on October 2 and Skye Newman on October 7, before Troye Sivan, Arlo Parks and Burna Boy play throughout the rest of the month. Chase & Status will then perform on November 26, before Charli XCX rounds out the first announced run…
This post has been updated to include the cancelation of CGBG Festival.All Things Go Festival has canceled its 2026 New York edition due to an incoming Nor’easter, which is forecasted to sweep through the area with gusty winds, rain, and coastal flooding.The festival announced the news ahead of the event’s first day, with organizers writing in a statement that, following “consultation with local officials, Forest Hills Stadium, and trusted weather advisors, we have made the difficult decision to cancel All Things Go NYC on September 25, 26, and 27…due to severe weather conditions in the New York Metro area…. The…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Fashion designer Thom Browne is putting his stamp on Bose‘s QuietComfort wireless headphones, turning the popular everyday tech accessory into a limited-edition, grail-worthy pickup. The Thom Browne for Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones first debuted during the designer’s Fall 2026 runway show in February, and they’re now being made available to the public, retailing for $950 on Bose.com. A classic grey suit is the starting point for every Thom Browne project and it’s similarly the foundation for this new collaboration. The headphones take…
When Taylor Swift announced her new single “Patient Zero” earlier this week, no one really knew what was happening. Then, a day later, the superstar unveiled The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore and people were still confused. What happened to “12 songs” for her 12th album? According to Swift, the four new songs were made during a celebratory trip to Sweden where she and Showgirl producers Max Martin and Shellback relished in the commercial success of the album. (It not only topped the Billboard 200 chart, but did so with a shocking 4 million sales). Fans have been split…
The album SZA recently called “the most beautiful shit I’ve heard all year” is on the way. Laila! is ready to engulf listeners inside her world with a new album,We’ll Never Be This Young Again’,out Oct. 23. Two years after her stunning debut, Gap Year — which earned her a spot on our Future 25 list — the producer-singer-songwriter has transitioned out of her childhood bedroom studio and into legit recording rooms in New York, Atlanta, and Paris for her follow-up. “I think this project really does show the ways I’ve grown up,” Laila! tells Rolling Stone, “I’m buying my…
Note: This article contains references to alleged sexual assault that some readers may find disturbing.In a sworn declaration, the woman who accused Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter of raping her when she was 13 years old now says her claims were false. The woman, who goes by the pseudonym Jane Doe in legal filings, originally sued Sean “Diddy” Combs in late 2024. The complaint alleged that at an afterparty for the 2000 VMAs, Diddy and “another male celebrity” raped her while an unnamed celebrity watched. Later that year she refiled the case with Jay-Z named as the alleged co-assailant. Both Jay-Z and…
Merritt Wever hasn’t had the flashiest career, but when she shows up onscreen, you know she’s going to deliver. From her early turn on the sitcom New Girl to her role as the wet-behind-the-ears nurse on the Showtime dramedy Nurse Jackie (which resulted in the first of her three primetime Emmys — and her memorably stunned speech) to her steely widow in the Western miniseries Godless to her dogged detective in the wrenching sexual assault drama Unbelievable, Wever has flexed her talents for both physical comedy and emotional depth. In her latest role, the To Catch a Predator dramatization Primetime,…
Once upon a time, in a timeline far, far away, there was a verbose country upstart from Pennsylvania who dreamed of becoming so big that no one could touch her. When Taylor Swift released “Mean” in 2010, she could still plausibly position herself as the David to the media’s Goliath, a hearty little engine that could—and would—make it all the way to the top. Yet now, bigger than ever, Swift has never sounded more bogged down in criticism and less assured in her strengths.Nowhere is this as apparent as on “Cleveland!,” the nadir of The Life of a Showgirl: The…
All Things Go Festival has canceled its 2026 New York edition due to an incoming Nor’easter, which is forecasted to sweep through the area with gusty winds, rain, and coastal flooding.The festival announced the news ahead of the event’s first day, with organizers writing in a statement that, following “consultation with local officials, Forest Hills Stadium, and trusted weather advisors, we have made the difficult decision to cancel All Things Go NYC on September 25, 26, and 27…due to severe weather conditions in the New York Metro area…. The safety of our fans, the artists and local crew is our…
