To celebrate the release of Bob Dylan‘s excellent new album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, Rolling Stone‘s Dylan experts put together a definitive list of his greatest songs of the 21st century, from “Things Have Changed” to “It’s All Good.” In a new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, …
Read More »Inside the 'Oops!… I Did It Again' Video, 20 Years Later
Nigel Dick had already directed videos for Guns N’ Roses, Oasis, and many others by the time he met Britney Spears in 1998, but even the “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine” clips couldn’t come close to matching the culture-shaking impact of “…Baby One More Time.” Dick …
Read More »Inside the Best Songs of 2019 on Rolling Stone Music Now Podcast
Welcome to 2020’s hottest new trend: nostalgia for 2019. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt for an in-depth look at last year’s music, mostly through the prism of its best songs, from Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cash Shit” (with …
Read More »How Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X Are Reshaping Music
The latest episode of our weekly podcast Rolling Stone Music Now tackles the two Gen-Z artists dominating music in 2019 so far: Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish. Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” complete with a video drawn from the video game Red Dead Redemption 2, is arguably the meme-iest …
Read More »Was Rapper Lil Peep Destined to Be the Next Kurt Cobain?
With the casual charisma of a born star and shamelessly catchy music that combined emo melodies and hip-hop beats, rapper Lil Peep was on his way to becoming a key voice of his generation – until he died of an overdose in 2017, just after his 21st birthday. On the …
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