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Olivia Rodrigo has finally dropped the video for “Traitor,” the second track and highlight of her breakout album Sour . The clip threads ethereal shots of Rodrigo floating among the stars and skies with home video-esque footage of her hanging with her friends, walking through an arcade, and taking a late-night swim. Although she released a performance of “Traitor” from the Sour Prom Concert Film last summer, this is the official video, which follows clips for Brutal ,” “ Good 4 U ,” “ Deja Vu ,” and her mega-hit “ Drivers License .” Rodrigo recently joined Alanis Morissette on the cover of Rolling Stone for our annual Musicians on Musicians issue, where the duo discussed songwriting, heartbreak, and the power of anger. “I think heartbreak is so universal — the feeling that lots of humans feel the most deeply,” Rodrigo said. “I’ve never felt as deep a sadness as I did when I was truly, truly heartbroken and devastated.” “And when I put out ‘Drivers License,’ …

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If there’s a moment that sums up why Gwen Stefani is so eternally beloved, it’s the surreal scene from The Voice last fall when she led her team through New Radicals’ “You Get What You Give” in a swirl of confetti. Only Stefani could sound so perky while threatening to kick Marilyn Manson’s ass in. This is the first solo album in a decade from one of the Nineties’ most improbably long-running superstars – the dowager countess of our nation’s ska moms. Stefani hasn’t had much spare time since the last No Doubt album, in late 2012; she’s had another baby, joined The Voice, divorced Gavin Rossdale and jumped into a high-profile tabloid romance with Voice co-star Blake Shelton. So maybe it’s not surprising that the album has a rushed feel – a likable but low-personality version of her familiar bubble-pop solo mode, alternating between miffed breakup plaints (the Amy Winehouse tribute “Naughty”) and gushy new-boyfriend songs. In “Send Me a Picture,” Stefani tries to figure out …

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Although he’s closely associated with Texas, Steve Earle , who fused traditional country with raw rock & roll on his 1986 debut LP Guitar Town, was born January 17th, 1955 – 63 years ago today – in Fort Monroe , Virginia. Earle’s father was stationed in the Army and worked as an air traffic controller there and his grandfather was so incensed that his grandson wasn’t born in the Lone Star State , he mailed a tin can filled with genuine Texas soil from the family farm to Virginia to ensure that his deep Texas roots could be imprinted on the infant as quickly as possible. Earle and family returned to Texas before his second birthday, living 20 miles outside San Antonio , and he eventually moved to Nashville , writing songs and spending time with fellow Music Row outsiders, including Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, while penning commercial tunes that would be recorded by such artists as Johnny Lee, Carl Perkins and Connie Smith, …

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Steve Earle and his longtime band the Dukes return to the road this week with a series of City Winery shows across the country, leading up to next month’s launch of the Copperhead Road 30th Anniversary Tour. The newly announced trek will feature the songs from Earle’s third album, issued to widespread acclaim in October 1998. A mixture of hard-driving political tunes and conventional love songs – with the former including the Reagan-era indictment “Snake Oil” and “The Devil’s Right Hand,” (later covered by both Waylon Jennings and Bob Seger) – the bluegrass-meets-metal album garnered Earle considerable airplay at rock radio. The upcoming tour celebrating the anniversary launches in El Dorado , Arkansas , and runs through April 15th in Peekskill , New York . See the list of tour dates below. In addition to performing Copperhead Road in its entirety, the three-time Grammy winner will include tunes from his 2017 release So You Wanna Be An Outlaw . From …

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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features saxophonist Mel Collins. When Robert Fripp resurrected King Crimson in 2013, he could have brought virtually any member from the group’s Seventies heyday back into the fold. The only one he selected was saxophonist Mel Collins. This was a bit of a surprise considering that Collins’ original tenure in the band only lasted from 1970 to 1972, and that he and Fripp had a somewhat bitter falling out in the years that followed. But Fripp recognized that Collins is a musician of extraordinary abilities and that he’d be a huge asset to the new incarnation of the band. …

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Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. The nineties were a great time to be a music fan with fresh new pop artists, genre-defining rappers and alternative rock bands all making waves. If you held onto any T-shirts from that time, you’re in luck: the best nineties tees are being seen all over the fashion world, favored by celebrities from Travis Scott to Justin Bieber to A$AP Rocky. But, for those of us whose nineties gear dissolved in the washing machine years ago, there’s still hope. Some of the best vintage-inspired nineties tees can be purchased on Amazon right now and delivered to your doorstep in days — free of stains or holes. Many are of these tees are officially licensed, boasting nods to nineties icons like Tupac, Aaliyah and NSYNC, as part of the artists’ official merch shops on Amazon. And unlike …

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What kind of person signs up for an antigovernment militia with a government-issued email address? The answer is surprising, revealing — and, as one extremism expert puts it, “really alarming.” The purported membership of the Oath Keeper membership rolls — obtained in a hack and leaked to the transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets — include more than 38,000 names. The vast majority of alleged members are enrolled in a way that leaves them somewhat anonymous: Their registrations are associated with a gmail or other private email address. But a review by Rolling Stone identified nearly 40 memberships linked to public-sector work emails, from domains like nasa.gov , dmv.virginia.gov, and city.pittsburgh.pa.us. Rolling Stone then matched these individuals to public-source information — from LinkedIn accounts, government websites, public salary databases, etc. — to compile a list of everyday Americans who appear to have been dues paying members of the …

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U.K. singer-songwriters Joss Stone and Corinne Bailey Rae are teaming up for a co-headlining tour. The Grammy winners kick things off with a four-day Capital Jazz SuperCruise on January 19th-22nd. Tickets go on sale Friday. The rest of the tour comprises intimate theater dates that wind through the southern U.S. with shows in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Earlier in the year, Stone performed her recent single, “Walk With Me,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert , and the singer won the second series of The Masked Singer in the U.K. in February. Bailey Rae, whose last studio album was 2016’s The Heart Speaks in Whispers , has composed music for film and television, including co-writing 2020’s “New to Me” for The High Note , which was performed by Tracee Ellis Ross in the film. Joss Stone and Corinne Bailey Rae 2022 Tour January 19-22 – Capital Jazz SuperCruise …

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Pebe Sebert — mother of Kesha and a celebrated singer-songwriter who’s worked with Dolly Parton, Miley Cyrus and more — has finally released her first solo song, “Vampire.” Sebert co-wrote “Vampire” with David Vidal in the 1980s, and she went on to record it with acclaimed producer Guy Roche, who was helping her make her debut album. But both the song and album were shelved, and Sebert’s solo career derailed, as she struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. Earlier this year, however, Sebert re-discovered those original recordings, reconnected with Roche and refined the songs so they could finally be released. “Vampire” has a distinctly Eighties edge, blending elements of new wave and goth, though it opens up with a sparkling chorus: “Lacey curtains on my window flutter in the wind,” Sebert sings, “When the room gets icy cold, I know you’re coming in/My heart pounds, anticipating loving you again/When I feel your snow white fingers touching on my skin.” “I felt …

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Mort Sahl , the incisive standup comic who called out hypocrisy as he addressed politics and social issues and served as a trailblazer for future generations in the comedy world, died on Tuesday in Mill Valley, California. He was 94. The New York Times confirmed his death with his friend, Lucy Mercer. Sahl made the Top 10 of Rolling Stone ‘s “ 50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time ” list for his ability to riff on politics “in a way no one had heard before. Just imagine a comic digging through the headlines (sometimes in the middle of a set) looking to expose hypocrisy with the right piece of journalistic evidence – and scoring in a big way.” He made a name for himself performing at the hungry I in San Francisco beginning in 1953, where not only did he buck the system with quick-witted monologues addressing politics and social issues head-on, but he brought a more casual vibe to the then-staid style in the comedian world, where punch lines and mother-in-law jokes ruled and …

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