Music

It’s a privilege befitting an ambient icon who once soundtracked a moon landing documentary: On Tuesday, the science festival Starmus V presented Brian Eno with a certificate commemorating that Asteroid 81948 has been named in his honor. Astronomer Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute, who discovered the asteroid, presented …

Cardi B struts through a perp walk and leaves a trail of blood at a trial in the wild new video for “Press.” The outlandish clip opens with a steamy menage-a-trois scene that soon turns violent as Cardi pulls on a cigarette as she takes out a handgun. From there, …

Migos, Future, G-Eazy and Lil Uzi Vert will headline the 2019 Rolling Loud Bay Area festival. 21 Savage, Juice WRLD, Playboi Carti, Young Thug, Kodak Black, Gunna, Nav, Tyga and Lil Yachty will also perform at the event, scheduled for Saturday, September 28th and Sunday, the 29th at the Oakland …

Lana Del Rey staged the live debut of her Sublime cover “Doin’ Time” during a concert Saturday at Dublin, Ireland’s Malahide Castle. Set against an orange sunset backdrop and palm trees, Del Rey swayed as she sultrily crooned the lyrics to “Doin’ Time” while the audience sang along. The performance …

“I make soulless electronic pop,” Lady Gaga once said. “But when you’re on Ecstasy in a nightclub grinding up against someone and my music comes on, you’ll feel soul.” That kind of contradiction — between the mechanical and the spiritual, between isolation and connection, between escapism and meaning — is …

Near the end of a recent conversation with Rolling Stone, in which he emphasized time and again that his musical tastes aren’t confined to any one style, eminent avant-gardist Anthony Braxton illustrated his point by sharing a nickname he’s earned from those close to him. “My friends call me Anthony …

Interning at Rolling Stone is an incredibly transformative experience. It’s one you never forget, even after you’ve written “Uptown Funk” and “Shallow.” Last night on The Late Show, the Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter-producer Mark Ronson reminisced about his first job in the “business”: researching the music charts page for Rolling …

Late Daptone greats Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley anchor a new all-star rendition of “Hey Brother (Do Unto Others),” the A-side to the label’s upcoming 100th 45rpm record, out June 28th. Along with featuring posthumous performances from Jones and Bradley — who died in 2016 and 2017, respectively — the …

UPDATE: Neil Young, the Who and more than 700 artists may have lost master recordings in the 2008 Universal Music Group vault fire, according to a New York Times magazine follow-up report published on Tuesday June 25th. The massive list of artists, which spans eras and genres, was culled from …

Singer-songwriter and activist Chely Wright made her first appearance at the Concert for Love and Acceptance on Thursday night, performing a pair of her hits as the event celebrated its fifth year. One of those was “Shut Up and Drive,” a 1997 hit for Wright that got a huge cheer …