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How Carole King Transformed Pop With 'It’s Too Late'
On this week’s episode of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs, the songwriting legend herself joins hosts Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos to tell the story of her confessional classic — and a lot more
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Towa Bird is Ready To Be Everyone's New Guitar Hero
The 25-year-old singer-songwriter's debut album is full of rock-star confidence and outspoken flash
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How the Kinks Made Rock History With 'Waterloo Sunset'
The newest episode of our 500 Greatest Songs podcast explores why this quiet classic has been called "the most beautiful song in the English language"
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How 'It Takes Two' Defined Hip-Hop’s Golden Age
On this week’s episode of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs, hosts Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos are joined by Rob Base, who tells the story of how the song came together
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The Softies Announce First Album in 24 Years, Share New Single, 'I Said What I Said'
Legendary guitar duo of Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia will release The Bed I Made on Aug. 23
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John Cale's 'POPtical Illusion' is the Sound of an Eightysomething Legend On a Hot Streak
Six decades into his run, the avant-garde rocker had made an album full of fresh focus and urgency
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Is 'Hotline Bling' Drake’s Greatest Song?
The newest episode of our 500 Greatest Songs podcast looks at Aubrey Graham's finest moment as a smooth R&B singer and certified pop icon
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Billie Eilish Is More Playful, More Pissed, and as Brilliant as Ever on ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’
Her third LP is her coming-of-age album and her coming-out album, with a nonstop rush of emotional and musical quick-change swerves
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The Unstoppable Noise That Was Steve Albini
The legendary musician, producer, and writer lived by his own fiercely stubborn code of punk DIY ethics, reigning as one of rock's most brilliant provocateurs even as he became a model for how to outgrow your own bullshit
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Why 'Be My Baby' Is Still the Ultimate Girl-Group Classic
On the latest episode of our 500 Greatest Songs podcast, legendary songwriter Jeff Barry joins our hosts and discusses the making of the 1963 smash hit
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