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After five years and 330 Farewell Yellow Brick Road concerts across the globe, Elton John wrapped up his career as a touring artist Saturday night with an emotional show at the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. Fan-shot video of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” captured the last song of the evening. [embedded content] “I’ve had the

Styles is on of several artists including Bebe Rexha, Kelsea Ballerini and Pink to have objects hurled at them in the past several weeks while on stage Harry Styles appeared to be struck in the eye with an unknown object during his concert in Vienna on Saturday, marking just the latest in a troubling trend

When it was released in 2010, Speak Now represented a milestone in Taylor Swift’s career. Penned during her first headlining tour, it was the first time the 20-year-old hitmaker had written all the songs on one of her albums. Thirteen years later, Swift’s third album is also her third re-recorded album, part of her project to

Now, that’s a unexpected crossover — but we’re high-key living for it. Machine Gun Kelly performed at Mad Cool Festival on Thursday, and early in his set, he surprised fans by singing a cover of none other than Don Omar’s smash reggaetón hit “Danza Kuduro.” “Spain, thank you so much for welcoming me to your

MF Doom, the celebrated masked rapper born Daniel Dumile, died suddenly in Oct. 2020 while being treated at St. James’s Hospital in Leeds, England. After news broke earlier this week that the Dumile’s widow, Jasmine, had raised concerns about his care at the time, the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs St James’s, issued an

The singer-songwriter appeared solo for the soaring ballad on Thursday Olivia Rodrigo stripped down the drum-driven pop track “Vampire” for a live YouTube performance on Thursday. The singer-songwriter appeared solo, while playing the single on an elegant grand piano. “I should’ve known it was strange you only come out at night,” she sings. For the

The long run is coming to an end as the Eagles have announced the first set of arenas for The Long Goodbye “official farewell tour,” beginning in September. “The Eagles have had a miraculous 52-year odyssey, performing for people all over the globe; keeping the music alive in the face of tragic losses, upheavals and

Kanye West has involved Dov Charney — the controversial founder of American Apparel who’s been accused of sexual harassment by numerous women and printed West’s infamous “White Lives Matter” shirt — in his Yeezy business, Rolling Stone has learned.  A source familiar with the situation tells Rolling Stone that Yeezy employees have been asked to

The Grammy Awards are getting ahead of the curve when it comes to dealing with artificial intelligence in the music industry. A change to the ceremony’s guidelines last month opened the door for music created with AI to be eligible for awards, however, “a work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any

Enough Already “People are like, forgetting fucking show etiquette at the moment? People just throwing shit on stage, have you seen them?” singer says Adele has had it with the news of people throwing crap at artists while they are performing. While at her Las Vegas residency, Adele called bullshit on an alarming trend that’s

The Weeknd’s controversial, 5-episode show The Idol is over. And with it, viewers of the HBO series got to hear Troye Sivan reimagine “My Sweet Lord,” the beloved, guitar-backed 1970 song by Beatle George Harrison, during the final episode. Sivan’s sweet vocals hum and echo over a haunting, synthy organ as he sings the Harrison

Hip-hop has lived and thrived for 50 years, and some of the genre’s pioneers are reflecting on the genre’s cultural influence. Speaking at Essence Fest over the weekend, KRS-One and Ice-T looked back at the genre’s longevity and its future. “Fifty years ago, some of us knew this was going to happen, most of us

Musician delivered “The Hills of Aberfeldy” and “Eyes Closed” during impromptu set Ed Sheeran made a surprise appearance on Saturday at Tobin Community Center in Boston, where young musicians from the Boston Music Project were giving an outdoor performance. Sheeran’s impromptu set took place ahead of his second headlining appearance over the weekend at Gillette

When a “fan” threw a phone at Bebe Rexha onstage last month, it was just one of many bizarre and unsettling recent instances of misbehavior at concerts. Concertgoers have pelted GloRilla with bottles, invaded Ava Max’s stage, and forced Pink to become part of a stranger’s grieving process by apparently tossing the ashes of a

From its sweet-ass health care system to its foxy nepo-baby prime minister to its absolutely banging national anthem, Canada has always had it going on. Sure, this hellish summer-wildfire shit has kind of been an unexpected plot twist — but no country is perfect, right?  Canada has about a tenth the population of the United

It’s a wish-you-had-gills type of humid September day in Nashville, but Lucinda Williams is comfortably out of the soup, sitting at the kitchen table of Ray Kennedy’s Room & Board Studio telling tales about life on the road to a gang of touring lifers including Tommy Stinson and Jesse Malin. They’re rare, behind-the-curtain anecdotes, many

Friday Special The megastar continued her tradition of performing songs that aren’t on her set list Taylor Swift gifted Swifties gathered for night one of the Eras Tour in Cincinnati on Friday with two surprise songs. The artist performed “Evermore and “I’m Only Me When I’m With You,” continuing her tradition of surprising crowds each

What must the inside of Tainy’s head be like? In there, past the archive of memories — all the awards and reggaeton hits since he began producing as a precocious 14-year-old kid in Puerto Rico — it’s easy to picture an infinite library of unlikely influences: a tangle of obscure anime films, cyborg fantasies, old-school

There’s been so much good music in the first half of this year so far that Rolling Stone included no fewer than 85 albums in our recent best-of list. In the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we spotlight some of the most notable albums, from Paramore to Davido to Amanda Shires.

Fasten your seatbelts, Charli XCX is at the wheel. On Thursday, the British star released her single “Speed Drive” from the Barbie soundtrack, and it’s exactly what you’d expect from the pop queen who forever changed gay clubs with “Vroom Vroom.” On “Speed Drive,” Charli flips Toni Basil’s “Mickey” for the chorus, to “feel quite