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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 …

Todd Rundgren and an all-star crew are re-recording his 1973 anthem “Just One Victory” and giving it away for free to Democrats all over America running for public office this year. It’s still early in the process, but Joe Walsh, Daryl Hall, and Paul Shaffer have already pledged to join …

Boy bands have always known their way around a good double entendre (see Backstreet Boys’ “Get Down” or O-Town’s “Liquid Dreams”) but when ‘NSync released their sophomore album, No Strings Attached,in March of 2000, one song stood out for seemingly bucking the subtlety trend. Tucked away in the middle of …

As thousands of colleges across the country have shut their doors and transitioned to online learning thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, at least one college plans to resume operation: Liberty University, the private evangelical university founded by Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jerry Falwell, Jr. …

Ricky Reed, a producer behind four songs on Lizzo’s Grammy-winning Cuz I Love You album — six, if you’re looking at the deluxe version, which includes megahit “Truth Hurts” — is imploring musicians, songwriters, producers, artists, and executives to press pause on songwriting sessions, meetings and shows. And “no going …

A former aide to Bernie Sanders tells a story about the old days, when the little-known House Independent used to crisscross Vermont holding town hall meetings. “It was morning to night, and we’d hit every corner of the state,” the aide recalls. “They would go on and on. I’d say …

The presidential primaries tend to siphon all the oxygen away from local races, many of which have more direct impact on voters than whether such-and-so gets a few more delegates from a state. One vital measure in the arena of criminal and social justice that is being decided today where …

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 …

The newest top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination will finally take the debate stage tonight in Las Vegas. That means all of his newfound supporters nationwide, won over by his barrage of broadcast advertising and monied ground game, may finally hear their candidate utter more than these words: “I’m …