The new episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, is a tribute to the life and music of Aretha Franklin, starting with an interview with writer David Ritz, who co-wrote Franklin’s autobiography ...

To come up with the closing theme of the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” a dream team was assembled but had to work independently during the pandemic from L.A., Chicago, Nashville and even Idaho.

Last weekend, I road tripped to the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. with three other girls. It’s about a nine-hour drive, which gave us all plenty of room to expose each other to our respective ...