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The Rolling Stones have released two new songs from their upcoming studio album, “Foreign Tongues,” giving fans their clearest look yet at one of the most anticipated rock releases of the summer. The tracks, “Jealous Lover” and “Divine Intervention,” dropped together on June 25 and immediately became one of the most-discussed rock stories online, drawing … Read more
Few modern presidents have blended politics and popular culture quite like Barack Obama. Known for his charisma, relaxed demeanor, and genuine appreciation for music, Obama helped redefine what many considered “presidential cool.” One of the finest examples of that came on February 21, 2012, during the White House concert “In Performance at the White House: … Read more
For years, music industry pundits treated rock as a relic — a genre kept alive by classic rock radio and aging fanbases while pop, hip-hop, and electronic music dominated the charts. That narrative has collapsed. Walking into any major festival in 2026, the loudest, most chaotic mosh pits aren’t full of forty-somethings reliving their youth … Read more
The Rolling Stones have returned with a double dose of new music, releasing ‘Jealous Lover’ and ‘Divine Intervention’, two tracks from their forthcoming album Foreign Tongues. Rather than treating the songs as a traditional A-side and B-side, the legendary rock band has presented them as equal companions, each showcasing a different side of the group’s … Read more
Three weeks ago, the phone shattered the silence of our quiet suburban house at 2:17 a.m. I bolted upright in bed, heart already hammering before my hand even found the receiver. My wife Sarah mumbled something beside me, but I was already speaking. “Dad?” Kayla’s voice was barely a whisper, raw and shaking. “Dad, I … Read more
Janis Joplin performed at Woodstock on the night of August 16, 1969, in circumstances that were chaotic even by Woodstock’s considerable standards of chaos. She went on at approximately two in the morning, hours behind schedule, in front of an audience whose size was impossible to accurately assess in the darkness and whose condition ranged … Read more
Dolly Parton wrote I Will Always Love You in 1973 as a farewell to Porter Wagoner — the country music star who had given her her first major exposure, who had fought against her decision to pursue a solo career, and with whom she had a professional and personal relationship complicated enough that it required … Read more
OK Computer was recorded between 1996 and 1997 in a series of locations that included a rented mansion in Bath called St. Catherine’s Court, where the band set up equipment in rooms that were not designed for recording and that produced accidental acoustic properties that became features rather than problems. The album that emerged from … Read more
Mick Jagger has been imitated by more performers than almost any other rock musician alive — the strut, the lip, the way he occupies a stage as though it was designed specifically for him and could not fully function without him. What is less discussed, and what Jagger himself has addressed in interviews with more … Read more
There are songs that function as entertainment and songs that function as life support — pieces of music that arrive at a specific moment in a specific person’s circumstances and perform a function that the people who wrote them did not intend and could not have predicted. James Taylor has spent fifty years acknowledging his … Read more