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When you begin to ask Google a question about Whiskey Myers, the auto-filled options are informative and hilarious. The six-piece band was rocking long before appearing on Season 1of Yellowstone (four studio albums, including one that debuted in the Top 5 on Billboard's Country Album Chart), but the Kevin Costner series amplified their existence.Apparently, many fans of the show were impressed with the group's performance of a song called "Stone" during a romantic scene between Rip Wheeler and Beth Dutton (their slow dance in Ep. 4), so they asked Google if Whiskey Myers was real."Well,...

Madonna discussed her decision to take her biopic into her own hands and gave an update on the Julia Garner-starring film in a new interview with Variety. It was previously revealed nearly two years ago that the Material Girl herself would co-write (with Diablo Cody) and direct the still-untitled movie. “I have a very long script that is really hard for me to make shorter. I’ve been whittling away at it, but it’s like hacking off my limbs,” Madonna told Variety. “I’ve had an extraordinary life, I must make an...

It is nearly impossible to feel cynical at the Newport Folk Festival. Despite the state of the world during any given year (increasingly bad), the annual festival in Newport, R.I., offers a reliable supply of life-affirming moments and incredible performances. This year saw the festival return to full-scale after last year’s COVID-restricted “Folk On” event, and the sense of joy and gratitude among both the performers and audience members was palpable. From Maren Morris’ solo debut to Joni Mitchell’s surprise appearance, here are the best things we saw at the 2022...

Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) on Wednesday introduced the Restoring Artistic Protection (RAP) Act to limit the use of lyrics and “artistic expression” as evidence in criminal cases. The bill’s introduction follows the arrests and charges against Young Thug and Gunna earlier this year, with prosecutors leaning heavily on the musicians’ lyrics. If passed, the bill would restrict the ability of prosecutors in criminal cases, as well as lawyers in civil cases, to use song lyrics as evidence against musicians. That tactic is disproportionately employed against rappers,...

One of the most prolific and beloved artists in country music, Alan Jackson has been delighting fans and critics alike for over 30 years. With 17 studio albums, 10 greatest hits records and even two Christmas cuts, Jackson is one of the best-selling artists of the past few decades, selling over 40 million albums throughout his career.Jackson released his debut album, Here in the Real World, in 1990. Four of that project's singles went to the Top 5 at country radio, and the project also yielded his first No. 1 hit, "I'd Love...

When Brendan Dyer, the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter behind rising noise pop outfit Milly, calls to speak to Rolling Stone on a recent July evening, he does so from the comfort of his car, parked beneath a delicate canopy of trees outside the South Pasadena home he shares with a few roommates. The semi-suburban enclave is located just east of metropolitan Los Angeles — a stone’s throw from the hip Highland Park neighborhood, which used to be home to the city’s working class but is now most closely associated with its...

Twenty years ago today, on July 27, 2002, Kenny Chesney added another No. 1 hit to the growing list of "good stuff" that was happening in his career. It was on that date that the singer soared to the top of the charts with his song "The Good Stuff" and held reign for seven straight weeks."The Good Stuff," which was the second single from Chesney's multi-platinum No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems album, was written by veteran tunesmiths Craig Wiseman and Jim Collins. The mid-tempo song explains that the "good stuff" is...

When Tupac Shakur’s sister, Sekyiwa Shakur, filed her blockbuster lawsuit last January claiming trustee Tom Whalley had “embezzled millions” from her late mother’s estate, the accused music executive who had worked closely with Afeni Shakur-Davis and her world-famous rapper son while they were alive called the complaint “offensive” and “legally baseless.” Whalley admitted he had not yet produced a formal trust accounting following Afeni’s death in 2016, but he assured the court a firm was hired to prepare one. The former Warner Bros. Records boss who signed Tupac to Interscope...

Maren Morris was born and raised in Texas but she quickly found a place in Nashville as one of country music's brightest stars. Though she's a prolific writer whose songs have been recorded by Tim McGraw, Kelly Clarkson and more, Morris' raw performing talent has continued to propelled her into the spotlight.Morris signed with Columbia in September 2015; her debut single "My Church" was so popular, it was certified gold by the RIAA. Her debut record, Hero, dropped on June 3, 2016, garnering Morris four Grammy Awards nods -- including one win for Best...

In the middle of the pandemic, in a little room in Los Angeles, Katie Alice Greer was thinking about Bruce Springsteen. Not the anthemic striver of “Badlands” or the boardwalk poet of “4th of July, Asbury Park”; the Bruce on her mind was the one from Nebraska, the bleak solo album that he’d recorded nearly 40 years earlier in a different little room on the other side of the country. “I was thinking about what that felt like for him,” she says. “It takes a certain amount of faith or...

Thirty-six years ago today, on July 26, 1986, Randy Travis was undoubtedly doing plenty of celebrating. It was on that date that the singer earned his first No. 1 single with "On the Other Hand," from his freshman album, Storms of Life."On the Other Hand," which was written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz, tells the story of a man who is wearing a wedding band on one hand while being tempted by another woman.On_the_Other_Hand_singleWarner Bros.loading..."We were trying to write the theme for another song. It was the idea that when you...

Pura loquera in Rauw Alejandro’s new video. On Monday, the Puerto Rican star went full-throttle with the perreo-inducing sounds on his new single “Lokera,” which features fellow boricuas Brray and Lyanno, proving that summer is far from over. The video — which captures the three artists going wild at a house party, all seemingly filmed in a single take — sees Rauw get into a fight with a woman before the camera pans to the packed house and backyard for endless perreo (twerking), drinks, and hookah at a reventón. And...

Luke Combs has one of the biggest hearts in county music, he proved that once again recently, taking care of a young fan battling acute myeloid leukemia. After hearing Addison (Addi) Conely's story, the country singer went to work making sure she had the trip of a lifetime.Combs flew the 17-year-old and her entire family out from their home in California to Ohio for his performance at the Buckeye Country Superfest on Saturday (July 23.) A driver picked them up at the airport and whisked them over to the venue,...

This story is being published in partnership with Popular Information, an award-winning independent newsletter focused on money and politics. Sign up to receive its biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On June 24, the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Republican Attorneys General Association reached out to its supporters with an urgent plea for money: “very donation will help Republican Attorneys General combat the Democrats’ pro-abortion agenda and stand tall for life.” Several days later, on June 29, according to a filing submitted to the IRS...