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For his first feature story in Rolling Stone, Nathaniel Rateliff did not just sit down for an interview. The singer, songwriter and leader of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats sat for a few of them – over drinks, at dinner, between band rehearsals and even while waiting at traffic …

It’s been more than six months since a gunman opened fire on a crowd of country music fans at the Route 91 Harvest festival, killing 58 people and injuring more than 500, but that date of October 1st still hovers over Las Vegas. It remains an open wound, something woven …

Last fall, Maren Morris was chilling on the beach in Tulum, Mexico, with her husband-to-be and fellow country singer Ryan Hurd (the couple were married last month), when she got an email from her manager. It was a demo for a pop song by the German EDM star Zedd and …

Cardi B had a pair of reasons to celebrate on Saturday Night Live as the rapper, whose just-released debut album Invasion of Privacy is bound for Number One, also revealed on air that she is pregnant. Following weeks of speculation into whether Cardi B was pregnant, the rapper confirmed the …

The Voidz,Virtue| ★★★ 1/2Albert Hammond Jr.,Francis Trouble| ★★ 1/2 Julian Casablancas stepped away from the Strokes with a fully loaded scattergun of musical ideas and an itchy trigger finger. With his main band settled into a modest middle age – he’s made no bones about his boredom with it, though …

When Ashley McBryde first moved to Nashville as a bright-eyed singer-songwriter in 2006, she received some suspect advice. “I was told, ‘nothing good would happen to you for 10 years,’” she says. “Completely false. Every ‘no’ I ever received was an inch closer to a ‘yes.’ If you can sing …

Back in 2015, a new country “supergroup” announced itself with the charismatic tune “Western Movies.” Comprising Cory Chisel, Robert Ellis, and Jonny Fritz, Traveller toured and played the festival circuit, but never announced plans for a debut album. A few years later, and Traveller are ready to make their official …

Jack White, Boarding House ReachThe new album from the rocker-turned mogul is a “messy, sprawling, daffy, howling set that sounds spiritually hungry, collectively driven and, instructively, a little bit lost,” writes Will Hermes. “It’s his strangest record, but per usual, it shows his continued devotion to rock’s dark arts: the …

When Megan Mullally and Stephanie Hunt released their debut album as the Americana duo Nancy and Beth last year, they made sure to take their show on the road, delivering not just the cover songs like “He Stopped Loving Her Today” and “Please Mr. Jailer” that made up the album, …

A film version of the London production of Lazarus, the musical that was one of David Bowie‘s last works, will get a special screening in Brooklyn this spring with a live accompaniment by the band that joined the cast on its original run. The event, billed as a “motion picture/live …