Producer and singer Boots saved a Beyoncé-sized surprise for the last track of his Winter Spring Summer Fall mixtape a duet with Beyoncé titled "Dreams" The track is a slow-building strangely hypnotic and of course dreamy five-minute love song that finds Boots professing his lifelong love for someone A strong...

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President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have shared a letter offering their thoughts and prayers to the friends and family of Chicago house pioneer Frankie Knuckles who died earlier this month FACT reports Check Out these 5 Defining Tracks from Frankie Knuckles "Frankie's work helped open minds and bring people together blending...

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Ronnie Milsap Mac Wiseman and the late Hank Cochran will receive country music's highest honor later this year induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame The 2014 honorees were announced Tuesday at a press conference inside the downtown Nashville landmark's rotunda which houses the bronze plaques of its 121...

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Courtney Love won't release her double A-side single "You Know My Name"/"Wedding Day" until May 4th but the vicious chugging "You Know My Name" has already premiered on Steve Lamacq's BBC Radio 6 show You can check out the track above which finds Love in full beast mode wracking up...

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For their latest album Mind Over Matter Young the Giant told us they were demonstrating "democracy at work" "Sometimes you can think about higher things and the social implications of what you're doing but at the end of the day just being and existing as a group together getting in...

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EDM festival Electric Zoo will return to New York City's Randall's Island this summer with increased security and health measures following the drug-related deaths of two attendees last year The 50 Most Important People in EDM A press release outlined the new security measures which include drug-sniffing dogs stationed at all entrances...

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This year marks not only the 50th anniversary of the Who but also the 50th anniversary of the Brighton Beach battle between mods and rockers immortalized in Quadrophenia To mark the occasion England's University of Sussex is holding a weekend-long symposium on both the album and the film from July...

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Unfortunately the cast of Friends will not be there for you — Courteney Cox put a blunt end to any dreams of a possible reunion in the near future telling David Letterman on The Late Show Monday night "It's not gonna happen" Check Out Our List of 17 TV Shows that Lasted Way...

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When the four members of U2 first began gigging around Dublin as Feedback in 1976 they barely knew how to play their instruments let alone write original songs That meant their show was devoted entirely to the hits of the day which meant covering Peter Frampton the Bay City Rollers...

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George RR Martin addressed the controversial rape scene in last week's episode of Game of Thrones — spoilers of course ahead — explaining how the relationship between the recently reunited siblings/lovers Jaime and Cersei Lannister had a completely different dynamic in the show than in his Song of Ice and...

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Lorde has canceled an eight-date Australian tour after coming down with "a nasty chest infection" and "general ill health" the budding pop star wrote on Twitter Find Out Where Lorde's 'Pure Heroine' Ranked on Our List of 2013's 50 Best Albums "[I] am so gutted to have to do this but my...

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Police recently took producer Chauncey Mahan into custody for allegedly attempting to extort $100000 from Jay Z in exchange for master recordings containing some of the rapper's biggest hits Mahan has been holding onto the tapes – which were made between 1998 and 2002 and provided the foundations for the...

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For the past 25 years former Culture Club frontman Boy George has embraced dance culture and embarked on a second career as an in-demand DJ So it's fitting that for his latest album 2013's This Is What I Do the UK singer has commissioned five official remixes for album closer...

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Rappers and best bros El-P and Killer Mike are already at work on the follow-up to their 2013 collaborative album Run the Jewels and based on a few new Instagram photos the guest list may include Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha Find Out Where...

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Next week Damon Albarn will release Everyday Robots – his first-ever solo album after more than 20 years as the leader of Blur Gorillaz and too many one-off supergroups to list concisely It's an excellent album (now streaming on iTunes) full of melancholy melodies that only Albarn could have written and...

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"When I was singing about 'all you need is love' I was singing about something I hadn't experienced" John Lennon said in a revealing interview animated by PBS' Blank on Blank series "I'd experienced love for people in gusts and love for things trees things like that but I hadn't experienced...

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A sequel to the classic 1985 movie The Goonies is reportedly in the works and might be based around a new story from original writer producer and second unit director Steven Spielberg TMZ reports Find Out Where 'Rolling Stone' Readers Ranked 'The Goonies' On Our  25 Greatest Movies of the 1980s Poll The...

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In January 18-year-old Miriam Weeks — a college freshman studying woman's studies and sociology at Duke — sent students and faculty at the North Carolina university into pandemonium when she was outed as porn star Belle Knox Since then Weeks has done her best to remain a "normal" college student ...

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A year ago little-known writer-director-cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier was about to unveil his second feature a low-budget revenge thriller called Blue Ruin as part of Directors' Fortnight a scrappy under-the-radar festival that's concurrently held down the street from the much-glitzier galas in Cannes The Virginia native had worked on various aspects...

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Serious props to the team at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon who must spend hours on end compiling and stringing together millisecond-long clips of Brian Williams on the NBC Nightly News so that we might be graced with the simple joy of watching the anchor bemoan all the drama in...

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Boston-born Brooklyn-based soul singer Eli "Paperboy" Reed cut his chops in Southern juke joints and Chicago gospel choirs waiting side-stage in Mississippi clubs for a chance to sing between acts He released his first LP of original songs Roll With You in 2008 a major-label debut followed in 2010 and four...

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Welcome back to Rolling Stone's "Everything Index" our weekly ranking of pop-culture's movers and shakers This time out the Top 20 features fictional dinosaurs ultra-addictive apps and high-profile feuds one of which involves famous rappers and melted cheese We've also got fake Daft Punk real Leonardo DiCaprio and the resurrected Afghan Whigs –...

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Just in time for Earth Day Portugal The Man have partnered with Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute to release a limited-edition run of 400 records to raise awareness for critically endangered Sumatran tigers Photo Gallery Portugal The Man Unwind Back in Hometown "[The song is] a metaphor for endangered species...

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Former Kinks guitarist and vocalist Dave Davies has offered support for AC/DC guitarist Malcolm Young following news that the latter was taking a break from the band due to ill health "Never give up" Davies wrote in a Facebook post He recommended that Young remember all the "important 'tricks'" he'd...

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It came from Minneapolis A short-statured dirty-minded monstrously talented funk-rocker named Prince Throughout the 1980s he'd wink and strut his way to worldwide fame thanks to a string of outrageous party anthems and searing slow-jams Here are the most memorable early tunes from Prince's controversy-prone early years