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The White Stripes, Soundgarden, Mariah Carey, Oasis, OutKast, and Phish are among the nominees for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 2025 class.

Other finalists include Joy Division/New Order, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Idol, Maná, Joe Cocker, Chubby Checker, Bad Company, and The Black Crowes.

To be eligible for nomination, an individual artist or band must have released its first commercial recording at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination.

Of this year’s nominees, OutKast, Phish, Idol, Cocker, Checker, Bad Company, and The Black Crowes are on the ballot for the first time.

The Class of 2025 will be announced in late April, and will formally be enshrined during an induction ceremony held in Los Angeles this fall. The inductees will be determined by an international voting body of more than 1,200 artists, historians, and members of the music industry, in addition to a fan vote on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s website.

The nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024 are in – and the list includes Mariah Carey, Phish, Outkast, Oasis, Billy Idol, Cyndi Lauper, Joy Division/New Order, Soundgarden, the White Stripes, Joe Cocker, Bad Company, Black Crowes, Chubby Checker, and Maná.

The inductees will be announced in late April along with the names of the acts receiving the Musical Influence Award, the Musical Excellence Award, and the Ahmet Ertegun Non-Performer Award. The annual ceremony will take place in Los Angeles in the fall.

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DJ Unk, the Atlanta rapper who had a Top 10 pop single with “Walk It Out” in 2006 and followed with the R&b hit “2 Step,” died Friday. He was 42. His wife Sherkita Long-Platt posted the news on social media but did not provide a cause or place of death.

“Please respect me and my family,” she wrote on Facebook. “I just lost my husband and my kids just lost their father. Our life will never be the same. I Love You Anthony Forever.”

Born on November 28, 1982, in the Georgia capital, DJ Unk (real name Anthony Platt) broken into the music game as part of the Atlanta-based Southern Style DJs. He later signed with local label Big Oomp and recorded his debut Beat’n Down Yo Block!, which became the label’s first album to be distributed under a then-new deal with Koch Records.

The disc clicked, fueled by the single “Walk It Out,...

André 3000 has a request: Please stop calling his latest project a “flute album.”

On New Blue Sun, the rap genius does indeed play a number of woodwind instruments, but the eight-track ambient jazz set also features bells, chimes, keyboards, cymbals, piano, drums, sintir, a gong and a wind controller.

“The media has touted it as this flute album and I think it’s a misrepresentation of the album. It’s way more than a flute album. They belittle it by calling it a flute album because there are actual flutists that have made flute albums, like Jethro Tull and Paul Horn,” 3000 tells THR. “I think it could be a turnoff to some people if they think, ‘Yo, he’s just in a room playing this flute.'”

While the media may have tried to put the project in a box, the Grammys are singing its praises. New Blue Sun...

West Los Angeles’ Gjusta Bakery is bustling on a sunny Friday afternoon. Seven-foot-high stacks of flour bags lay near the entrance, soon to be turned into pastries. The main room is full of locals seeking an early-afternoon pick-me-up, but the backyard is quieter, with rustic tables and large plants under a makeshift roof made of golden tarp.

André 3000 walks in unassumingly, dapping me and joking that our shared first name is a great one. I agree as we sit and get acquainted over matcha lattes. Dressed in a camouflage jacket,...

When OutKast dropped “Ms. Jackson” in the fall of 2000, the world was stunned. Nobody had ever heard a hip-hop song that sounded anything like this. But there’s never been anybody like OutKast before. The Atlanta duo, made up of Andre 3000 and Big Boi, brought their innovative hip-hop style to the pop charts with “Ms. Jackson,” from their album Stankonia. “Ms. Jackson” blew up into their first Number One hit, and it’s gone down in history as one of the group’s definitive classics. It comes in at...

In her review of Normani’s debut album Dopamine, Mankaprr Conteh points to the pop-r&b singer’s “creative reverence” for Black culture across its 13 songs. For Normani, staying true to her identity as a Black woman across the LP was more than intentional. It was necessary.

When speaking to Rolling Stone about the album that dropped Friday, Normani shared that she felt like she was “showing up” for herself by embracing her Blackness after feeling like she had to mute it while she was a member of Fifth Harmony.

People have been clamoring and clowning about the whereabouts of Normani’s debut album for a pop-music eternity. The singer made that noise sound pretty fucking silly when she recently reflected that part of the delay was due to her parents’ simultaneous cancer diagnoses. Normani first announced that her solo debut was in the works in 2018, not long after the girl group she came to prominence in, Fifth Harmony, pumped its breaks for an indefinite hiatus. She went on to drop a few massive features and singles (“Love Lies,” with Khalid; “Dancing With a Stranger,...

Coachella 2024 was the year of the A-list guests. Across all three days, top stars made appearances either onstage or in the crowd to support their musician besties. Olivia Rodrigo joined No Doubt, Will Smith pulled up for J Balvin, Justin Bieber sang with Tems, Billie Eilish threw a last-minute party at the DoLab stage, and Shakira even announced a world tour during Bizarrap’s set.

The talk among some festivalgoers ahead of Coachella suggested that this year’s lineup might underwhelm, but the number of stars joining their friends onstage surely helped with that.

There are two things ScHoolboy Q has been trying to wrap his head around.

One of them is the success of Blue Lips, the his sixth album and first in nearly five years, released earlier this month. The South Central Los Angeles rapper with storied backgrounds as both a Crip and a golfer returned with a vengeance on Blue Lips, an exquisite display of his genre’s range and depths. Q bounces from madness to tranquility through lush, rapid beat switch-ups and stylish cadences, often in a single song, like...

Rolling Stone has brought together its most memorable magazine covers, feature articles, quotes, photos, and videos from the Eighties to today ahead of this year’s Grammy Awards.

“We are delighted to showcase our deep archives to a new audience,” said Gus Wenner, CEO of Rolling Stone. “It’s incredible to revisit the icons that have graced our pages over the decades in one place.”

The showcase offers a retrospective look of “Album of the Year” winners and current nominees through the publication’s lens, bringing the stories behind the...

Today, Andy Shauf presents a music video for “Halloween Store” — one of “the best two songs on [Norm]…grounded by acoustic guitar but [featuring] lush instrumental breaks and repeating hooks” (Variety) – and announces a 2024 solo tour. In an enlightening interview with Stereogum in which he shared the story behind every song on the album, Shauf revealed “Halloween Store” was one of the first written for Norm, mulled over and reworked from when he envisioned it as a disco record. “It’s definitely a Halloween story,” he said, “I was hoping to put it out around Halloween, but I missed deadlines.” Now, with Halloween just around the corner, Shauf shines a flashlight on the much-adored Norm standout and “the album’s peak” (Treble). The hand-drawn “Halloween Store” video is charming and timely, a perfect visual accompaniment for the fast-approaching holiday.

Yesterday, Shauf kicked off his European solo tour in Dublin. A full list...

Hip-hop Was Born In The Bronx in the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout this year.

It’S The Middle Of Summer when RZA hops on Zoom one afternoon, but the Wu-Tang architect and Hollywood maven isn’t exactly taking it easy. The Wu-Tang Clan are on tour with Nas for the overseas leg of their New York State of Mind Tour, thrilling crowds while exemplifying the possibilities for hip-hop icons entering middle age.

Outkast’s roots are planted firmly in the realm of hip-hop, with the duo being largely responsible for the surge in popularity of Atlanta hip-hop in the mid-1990s. But “Hey Ya” is a slightly different story. Written, produced, and performed by André 3000 on the duo’s 2003 double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, “Hey…

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Big Boi, who makes up half of rap duo OutKast, has gifted a young girl a puppy after she was paralyzed in a shooting. Rapper Big Boi Gifts Puppy To Paralyzed Girl The girl, Abriya Ellison, 5, was paralyzed from the waist down when she was shot while playing in a bouncy castle in Atlanta earlier […]

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[[tmz:video id="0_3bgkaiz8"]] Here's somebody More happy than Kevin Durant's mom about the Warriors' NBA championship ... Big Boi, who says he won $100k betting on the Dubs. We got the Outkast rap legend out at Bootsy Bellows in L.A. Tuesday night (sans Andre 3000, never see those guys together anymore) and wanted to know why he was rocking a Golden State lid. Fyi -- Big Boi is from Atlanta ... which is not anywhere near Oakland. That's when...

Hard to tell which birthday gift Killer Mike enjoyed more ... the new gold chain around his neck or the $10k worth of weed he scored. We'll go with the weed. Mike's one of the lucky guys whose bday falls on 4/20 -- appropriate for so many reasons -- plus, this year he turned 42. Hence, his massive marijuana-themed bash in Atlanta. Guests included OutKast's Big Boi, Sleepy Brown, Big K.R.I.T. and Pastor Troy, who all got...

In just a few short years, Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano have gone from working at an ad agency in New York to writing about the animals that live in New York on HBO’s “Animals.” At their panel at SXSW this year, moderated by IndieWire’s Eric Kohn and accompanied by producer Jen Roskind, the three of them detailed how a small independent pilot managed to get picked up by HBO. They also offered some sneak peeks into what the unpredictable series has to offer, going into Season 2.

When the first episode was created, with only Matarese and Luciano on board hoping to turn it into a full-fledged web series, screenings of “Animals” was kept exclusively to small crowds in and around their native New York. After being featured at a festival though, they were found by the Duplass brothers, who decided to go ahead and fund the show independently.

Janelle Monáe is shooting for the stars.

After carving out her own unique corner of the pop world, the six-time Grammy nominee has ascended to Hollywood stardom with memorable performances in two of the year’s hottest films, Moonlight and Hidden Figures.

“I allow the universe to rearrange and reinvent me,” she said in American Way magazine’s February issue. “I have had a gathering phase.”

But when the universe came to her with the script for Hidden Figures, a true-to-life film about the African-American women who helped put a man in space, Monáe — who has said that she...

Over a decade after releasing her debut Ep, The Audition, Janelle Monáe made her onscreen acting debut in a very big way. This past year, the 31-year-old singer-turned actor delivered two standout performances: as Teresa in Moonlight, the indie darling and Golden Globe winner for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and as real-life Nasa engineer Mary Jackson in Hidden Figures, which recently topped Rogue One at the box office in its opening weekend.

Both films have earned numerous accolades as well as praise for Monáe’s performances, thrusting the performer into the spotlight of her first awards season. Speaking with Et by phone the Monday after Moonlight, the first film Monáe ever professionally acted in, won the top prize at the Golden Globes, she admits she “didn’t know what to expect.” Of course, how could anyone anticipate the momentum that would build for both projects over the last few months, or for a singer...

Ed Stroud is a guitar player from Atlanta, who’s played with music world luminaries from TLC to OutKast.

His poodle Gracie was determined to keep it that way.

Stroud’s home caught fire on Dec. 20, and he credits Gracie with waking him up in time to escape the burning house.

Stroud told Channel 2 Action News that he was asleep when Gracie began licking his face and barking. When he came to his senses, his home was already ablaze.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m about to die if I don’t do something fast,’ ” he recalled.

Stroud...

Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival is here, and Alessandra Ambrosio shared possible ensemble accessories for the famous event on Instagram Thursday (April 10).

The Victoria's Secret Angel took to her social media account with a selfie snapshot wearing a Native American headpiece.

Miss Ambrosio captioned the photo, "Becoming more inspired for @coachella with this amazing Native American headpiece @jacquieaiche #feathers #festival #coachella #foreveronvacation #inspiration #cocar."

In honor of Throw Back Thursday, Alessandra also shared a pic of her and some gal pals at last year's fest and wrote, "Can't wait for tomorrow @coachella #throwbackthursday #tbt #musicfestival."

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is an annual two-weekend, six-day event that is located in Indio, CA. Over the years, the event has attracted famous Hollywood celebrities including Vanessa Hudgens, Kate Bosworth, Katy Perry and Lindsay Lohan.

This year's lineup features hit bands including OutKast, Muse and Arcade Fire.

The lineup for one of the largest musical festivals of the year is out — and filled with huge names! From Kanye and A$AP Ferg to Elton John and Lionel Richie, Bonnaroo has the most diverse lineup ever.

Hopefully Kanye West won’t walk off stage this time! The rapper is headlining Bonnaroo, along with Elton John, and it will be his big return to the festival since he left the stage six years ago after being booed! See the full lineup below, and get the details on where and when to get your tickets!

Bonaroo Lineup Revealed

Are you ready for this? On Feb. 22, tickets for Bonnaroo go on sale at 12:00 Pm Est, and we’ve got a feeling they’re going to go fast. You can purchase general admission tickets as well as VIP packages right here. On June 12-15th, more than 125 bands and 20 comedic acts...

Eddie Murphy's career has certainly taken a 180-degree turn from his heyday, but that doesn't mean he wasn't making some pretty great films at one time. Over the weekend my girlfriend stopped her channel-surfing on the superb late-'80s comedy Coming to America and as much as I enjoy that film, it got me thinking about another feature. Seeing it reminded me of how she'd never seen what I believe to be the most overlooked Eddie Murphy film of all-time and one of the best romantic comedies of all-time for that matter. Boomerang, which turned 20-years-old on July 1. I don't know how many times I have been in a discussion involving romantic comedies and how bad they are and, in response, have offered up Boomerang as one of the best I've seen only to receive blank stares from those around me. Thing is, it's not like I'm playing pretentious...

Plans to make a Jimi Hendrix biopic starring Outkast's Andre 3000 may have hit a snag: The family of the late rock legend is against it, saying that they won't allow rights to the music. According to the Wall Street Journal, Experience Hendrix LLC, the family-owned company that manages Hendrix's music and publishing, released a statement saying that it does not support the film. "[The Estate] has made it known many times in the past that no such film, were it to include original music or copyrights created by Jimi Hendrix, can be undertaken without its full participation.” That said, Experience Hendrix doesn't necessarily oppose all projects, it just won't sanction any films without the group's approval. "CEO Janie Hendrix, sister of Jimi Hendrix, and the Eh board, have not ruled out a ‘biopic' in the future, though producing partners would, out of necessity, have to involve the company from the...

Justin Timberlake stopped by "Late Night" on Tuesday to hawk his latest film, "Friends With Benefits." This gave the former 'N Sync stud and host Jimmy Fallon the excuse they needed to follow up on their "History of Rap" performance, which went viral after Timberlake's last appearance on the show in September. Also read: Watch Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Stalk Jimmy Fallon on 'Jersey Floor' (Video) Here's their latest musical collaboration, which includes quick snippets of homage to House of Pain, 50 Cent, Outkast and other hip-hop favorites. We've also included...

Entourage is back, as season 7 premiered last night with the episode "Stunted." Let's discuss what happened character by character.

Vince - I'm not sure how much time has passed since the end of season 6, but Vince is back from filming the Ferrari movie in Italy, and he's already working on a new action film directed by Nick Cassavetes. After seeing a take of one of the stunts, Cassavetes is worried about using a stuntman in a future chase scene, and tells Vince he thinks he should do it himself. Despite doubts from everyone around him, Vince decides to do the stunt (with Cassavetes filming from inside the same car). When he lands the jump, the brakes fail and Vince crashes into part of the set. Although he tells everyone he's physically fine and willing to do another take, it's clear that he's shaken by what just happened.

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RIAA list tallies top gold and platinum sellers between 2000 and 2009.

By Gil Kaufman

Beyoncé

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The years between 2000 and 2009 were very good for Beyoncé, 'Nsync, Michael Jackson and Nickelback, according to figures released by the Recording Industry Association of America on Wednesday. The music-industry trade association tallied gold (500,000) and platinum (1 million) certifications for the first decade of the 2000s, and those coming out at the top of the heap also include Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Linkin Park, Flo Rida and Lil Wayne.

The big winner, though, was Beyoncé, who topped all lists with the most total gold and platinum certifications at 64, which includes tallies for cumulative album, digital song, master ringtone and music video certifications. She was followed by classic rock act the Eagles, who had 48 total certifications, and the late Michael Jackson at 44.

The group category in total album certifications was led by Nickelback with...

The film industry may be currently going through a crisis, but it's got nothing on the music biz. Over the past decade, there was a paradigm shift in the industry and huge, fundamental changes in the way people discover, buy and listen to music. Ten years ago, the idea that everyone would cease going to record stores to flip through plastic discs and would instead buy music digitally, completely devoid of a physical medium, only existed in a fringe world called Napster.

Now record stores are all but gone, and the album as an art form exists only in the fringe world of purists. We've become slaves to the mp3 single and the little sweatshop-produced devices we rely on to listen to them. The new Luddite is just the poor iPhoneless wretch who manages to get by with only a BlackBerry.

The volume of music has changed too, in both decibels and quantity.

New York -- In anticipation of its fifth annual "VH1 Hip Hop Honors" telecast, VH1 will premiere two original hip-hop themed programs. "100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs" and "VH1 Rock Doc: NWA: The World's Most Dangerous Group" will air Sept. 29 and Oct. 3, respectively.

"100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs" is a five-part series that will count down the best hip-hop songs of all time, revealing the story behind each hit and updating viewers on what the artists are doing today. It also will feature original interviews and archival performances by Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Run Dmc, Salt-n-Pepa, Outkast, Eminem and Grandmaster Flash.

Written and directed by Mark Ford, "VH1 Rock Doc: Nwa: The World's Most Dangerous Group" takes a look back at the history of the famed L.A. rap outfit. The documentary will be narrated by comedian Chris Rock and will feature interviews with Ice Cube, Mc Ren, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella,...

MIAMI -- Hip-hop duo OutKast and rap mogul Jay-Z split the riches at the 21st annual MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night -- both winning four trophies apiece, with OutKast claiming the top prize -- video of the year -- for its hilarious 1960s sendup "Hey Ya!" OutKast -- rappers Andre 3000 and Big Boi -- which went into the evening with five nominations, also was honored for top hip-hop video as well as for art direction and special effects. Jay-Z's stark "99 Problems" -- in which he is dramatically gunned down at the conclusion -- was nominated six times and won for direction, cinematography, editing and rap video of the year. It also was a good night for five-time-nominee Usher, whose hit single "Yeah!" (featuring Lil' Jon & Ludacris), won in the male video and dance categories. Beyonce, also with five noms coming in, came away with just one of MTV's famed Moonman statues -- top female video for "Naughty Girl". No Doubt was a surprise winner for pop video of the year -- edging pop princesses Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Hilary Duff and Jessica Simpson. The band's hit single, a cover of Talk Talk's "It's My Life," also won for best group video.