Pervis Staples, a founding member of the legendary gospel and soul group the Staple Singers, has died. A representative for his sister and former bandmate Mavis Staples confirmed to Rolling Stone that Pervis died on May 6 at age 85. Mavis also issued a statement: “Pervis was one of a kind — comical and downright fly. He would...

You can’t spell “So So Glos” without “solo.” Since 2007, Alex Levine has led Bay Ridge punk band the So So Glos, a band that was a staple of the Brooklyn DIY scene when that scene was arguably at its peak. The band, which also features Levine’s brother and his stepbrother, released a co...

Faith No More’s Mike Patton sang the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song for a new video game called Shredder’s Revenge, a side-scroller in the same vein as arcade staples like 1989’s TMNT and its follow-up Turtles In Time. Patton’s version of the theme can be heard in the just-released trailer for the...

Last night, the Country Music Association held its annual CMA Awards in Nashville. The idea was for this to be a “no drama” evening — a regular in-person event, like the kinds we used to get before the pandemic. That’s not quite what happened. Various announced performers — Florida Georgia Line, ...