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The world is mourning the loss of Loretta Lynn after the country music veteran died Tuesday morning (Oct. 4) while asleep at home in Tennessee. While many will miss her music and legacy, Dolly Parton will miss the person — someone who has been like family to her from the beginning.The "9 to 5" singer shared her thoughts on Lynn's passing on social media, noting how close the two had become over the years."So sorry to hear about my sister, friend Loretta," Parton writes. "We've been like sisters all the years we've been in...

In Remembrance The musician, who produced Lynn's 2004 album Van Lear Rose, referred to her as a "brilliant genius" As tributes continue to pour in following the death of country music legend Loretta Lynn, Jack White, who produced Lynn’s 2004 classic Van Lear Rose and duetted with Lynn on “Portland, Oregon,” memorialized her with an extensive video on his Instagram page. White called Lynn “a mother figure” and “a very good friend” and remembers producing her album as a learning experience where he “had to take a pause and step...

Margo Price paid tribute to Loretta Lynn today (Oct. 4) shortly after news broke of the country legend's death at the age of 90."It's safe to say I wouldn't even be making country music today if it weren't for Loretta Lynn," Price wrote in a post shared on her social media pages. "She showed me up what it looked like to be a musician and a mama. Her writing was as real as the day is long and she didn't take no s---.""This one hurts on another level," she continued....

Since she began releasing self-produced bedroom pop in the mid-2010s, Willow Smith has been guided by her own muse, smashing genres into one another while telling her story in painstaking detail. All the while, she’s been dragging pop into weirder, darker spaces. The wobbly 2015 bedroom-funk cut “Wait a Minute!” has had streaming-service staying power unmatched by most radio hits of its era, while the 2020 track “Meet Me at Our Spot,” credited to her project with partner Tyler Cole known as the Anxiety, is animated by a furtive yet...

Forty-seven years ago today, on Oct. 4, 1974, the first-ever Volunteer Jam was held at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville.The Volunteer Jam, founded by Charlie Daniels, was originally scheduled as a live recording session for two songs, "No Place to Go" and "Orange Blossom Special," from the Charlie Daniels Band's 1974 album Fire on the Mountain. The group invited Dickey Betts from the Allman Brothers Band and Toy Caldwell, Jerry Eubanks and Paul Riddle from the Marshall Tucker Band to join them for the session, not realizing that it would...

Tove Lo is heading on the road early next year to promote her upcoming LP Dirt Femme, which arrives Oct. 14, and she’s bringing Slayyyter as an opener for the trek. “ARE YOU READY??? North America #DirtFemmeTour is coming in February and it is going to be worth.the.wait,” Tove Lo wrote on Twitter. “Special guest @slayyyter (love u!) will start the party every show.” She added: “It’s going to be magic, so you know, MANDATORY PRESENCE.” For the tour, the singer will start off at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Feb....

Billy Strings is set to release one of his most personal projects to date. Today (Oct. 3) — Strings' 30th birthday — the bluegrass talent revealed that he has recorded a brand new album in collaboration with his father, Terry Barber.Me/And/Dad, set for release on Nov. 18 via Rounder Records, fulfills a longtime dream for the award-winning musician, who has been performing music alongside his dad since he was a young child."As long as I can remember, I wanted to make a record with my dad," Strings says. "I've been...

ROLLING STONE ON TWITCH Live coverage of the first weekend of ACL (Oct. 7th - 9th) will air exclusively on our Twitch channel Fall is here but festival season hasn’t wrapped up just yet. Rolling Stone will once again be taking viewers behind-the-scenes music festival coverage from Austin City Limits. Led by Rolling Stone on Twitch hosts Jon Weigell and Charlie Cooper, we’ll be on-the-ground in Austin’s Zilker Park for the entire first weekend of the annua event. Airing Oct. 7 – 9, from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m EDT,...

Maren Morris was in Las Vegas, Nev., on Saturday night (Oct. 1) to perform as part of The Event, a benefit hosted by Shaquille O'Neal in support of The Shaquille O'Neal Foundation's work with underserved young people in the Vegas and Atlanta, Ga. areas.Of course, the country star couldn't pass up the opportunity to pose for a picture with the NBA great -- especially because she recently released a song celebrating her love for guys who, as she sings, "keep me lookin' up.""Tall guys," Morris wrote in the caption of...

After several years fronting gothy art-punks the Birthday Party, Nick Cave ventured out as a solo artist with a new band, the more traditionally rock-focused Bad Seeds, in 1983. In addition to his Birthday Party bandmate Mick Harvey, the longest tenured original member of the group was Blixa Bargeld, who played expressionistic guitar in the Bad Seeds as a side gig to his long-running industrial group, Einstürzende Neubauten. During his 20-year Bad Seeds tenure, Bargeld cowrote a handful songs, including the haunting “Stranger Than Kindness,” and occasionally duetted with Cave,...

Kelsea Ballerini is currently in the midst of her Heartfirst Tour, and during a stop at Chicago's Rosemont Theatre on Saturday night (Oct. 1), the singer had a very special surprise in store: She brought out her longtime friend and duet partner Carly Pearce for a surprise onstage rendition of "You're Drunk, Go Home.""I did say I love this city," Ballerini told the Chicago crowd from the stage before revealing her special guest performer. "And I have to do something to make it a little bit extra special for you...

Rapper makes runway debut as he leads charge down muddy path for Summer 2023 collection Kanye West was back in his natural habitat Sunday — Paris Fashion Week — where the rapper kicked off Balenciaga’s Summer 2023 collection showcase by leading the march down the muddy “runway.” While Ye has severed ties with the Gap, his partnership with Balenciaga continues on as West was the first “model” to stomp down the dark circular dirt path — “a metaphor for digging for truth and being down to earth,” Balenciaga creative director...

Reba McEntire's For My Broken Heart was, indeed, a salve. At the time of its release, on Oct. 1, 1991 — 30 years ago today — the singer was mourning the deaths of most of her band in a plane crash that happened just over six months prior.The 10 songs on For My Broken Heart, McEntire shared in the album's liner notes, were chosen to serve as "a form of healing for all our broken hearts." McEntire co-wrote just one of the songs, "Bobby," the story of a man imprisoned for killing his ailing...

Nineties Reunion Singer was band’s surprise guest during their Friday set at Roundhouse in London Courtney Love made a surprise appearance during the Lemonheads’ show at Roundhouse in London on Friday, where she joined the band to perform “Into Your Arms.” Before they launched into the song — which appeared on the band’s 1993 LP, Come on Feel the Lemonheads — Love paid homage to her longtime friend, the band’s frontman Evan Dando, whom she called her “one constant” adding that he “doesn’t have a fucking bad bone in his...