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This is the first installment of Rolling Stone‘s Music in Crisis series, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. ____ In early March, Toni Globis and Brandon Burney were planning for a busy few months ahead. The couple were part of …

Back in 2016, John Prine was having trouble writing new songs. It had been more than a decade since his last album, 2005’s excellent Fair & Square,and the longer he waited to release a new one, the more anxious he felt. “One of the reasons I’m having such a difficult …

Singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt looks like a saint on the cover of her debut album, Expectations. Framed by a cathedral window, she gazes skyward, surrounded by flowers. But instead of a halo, it’s a bright rainbow above her head. “I always thought that churches are all very beautiful, and if I …

In our new series, we look at eight cities where live music has exploded — from legendary hubs like New Orleans and Nashville and Chicago, to rising hot spots like Raleigh, North Carolina and Portland, Maine. The latest? Brooklyn, New York, specifically its Bushwick neighborhood, home to some of the …

Last fall, Steve Harkins was conducting a routine check on a shipment of records and CDs at Ingram Entertainment, a wholesale music distributor headquartered in Tennessee. Instead of vinyl, though, Harkins was amused to find that Ingram’s supplier had sent a pallet packed with bottles of windshield-wiper fluid. “I called …

When One Direction went on hiatus in late 2015, everybody figured Louis Tomlinson was poised for instant pop success as a solo star. After all, he co-wrote so many of the group’s most beloved tunes. But he’s just finding his voice now. His hotly anticipated solo debut, the excellent Walls …

Harry Styles twirls in the center of the floor of the L.A. Forum, dancing wildly to his new song “Golden.” The venue is deserted. It’s Thursday afternoon, just a few hours before the release of his hotly awaited second album, Fine Line. He’s rehearsing for Friday night’s big album-release celebration …

When Pat Goodwin brought an acoustic guitar onstage at a sold-out Great Grandpa show in Brooklyn this past fall, one audience member responded by shouting “Free Bird!” “I wish we fucking played ‘Free Bird!’” Goodwin told the crowd. “I really don’t,” said lead singer/bassist Alex Menne. Acoustic guitars are still …

Owsley Stanley was known as the foremost underground LSD chemist of the 1960s. But he was also an exacting pioneer of live concert sound, a man who helped invent both monitor systems and high-fidelity amplification. When he died in 2011 at the age of 76, Stanley left behind a breathtaking …

While she was in town headlining AfroPunk Atlanta,FKATwigsfigured she’d stop by America’s oldest African-American strip club. In front of the all-female crowd at Blue Flame, the avant-pop star showed off the six months of intensive pole dance training she underwent last year. It wasn’t just a workout. Pole dancing was …