When Slash was putting together the track list for his upcoming blues album, Orgy of the Damned, he had a very distinct voice in mind for his version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well”: Chris Stapleton.
“His singing cadence and that drawl that he has for this particular song, in my mind’s eye, it sounded perfect,” the Guns N’ Roses guitarist tells Rolling Stone.
But despite Stapleton having opened some shows for Gn’R, Slash didn’t already have a relationship with the country crooner. “I had to...
“His singing cadence and that drawl that he has for this particular song, in my mind’s eye, it sounded perfect,” the Guns N’ Roses guitarist tells Rolling Stone.
But despite Stapleton having opened some shows for Gn’R, Slash didn’t already have a relationship with the country crooner. “I had to...
- 4/12/2024
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been almost seven years since the pioneering metal band Metallica released their last album, “Hardwired… to Self-Destruct,” in 2016. But they’re back with a new collection, “72 Seasons,” which dropped on Friday, April 14. Are they back in fine form, or does their new collection disappoint? Critics have been weighing in.
As of this writing “72 Seasons” has a MetaCritic score of 76 based on 10 reviews counted thus far: eight of them positive, two somewhat mixed, none outright negative. That’s a little higher than “Hardwired,” but the “Hardwired” score of 73 was based on almost triple the number of reviews, so the “72 Seasons” number may fluctuate as more journalists weigh in.
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Kory Grow (Rolling Stone) writes that “72 Seasons” is “some of the deepest, hardest-hitting music of their career,” adding that they “have always been masters of corpulent, groove-heavy riffs and labyrinthine song structures,...
As of this writing “72 Seasons” has a MetaCritic score of 76 based on 10 reviews counted thus far: eight of them positive, two somewhat mixed, none outright negative. That’s a little higher than “Hardwired,” but the “Hardwired” score of 73 was based on almost triple the number of reviews, so the “72 Seasons” number may fluctuate as more journalists weigh in.
SEEBoygenius ‘The Record’ reviews: New album shows they’re ‘among the greatest American supergroups’
Kory Grow (Rolling Stone) writes that “72 Seasons” is “some of the deepest, hardest-hitting music of their career,” adding that they “have always been masters of corpulent, groove-heavy riffs and labyrinthine song structures,...
- 4/14/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
From DJ-turned-producer Uncle Waffles’ club-filling take on Amapiano to singer/songwriter Hailey Whitters’ middle-American storytelling, some of the best music of 2022 may have slipped under the radar for some listeners. Even some great albums by veterans, including Willie Nelson’s poignant A Beautiful Time and Ozzy Osbourne’s unexpectedly strong Patient Number 9, may not have connected with as many listeners as they deserved.
The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now is an exhaustive look at some relatively under-the-radar music from last year, drawing from Rolling Stone‘s lists of...
The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now is an exhaustive look at some relatively under-the-radar music from last year, drawing from Rolling Stone‘s lists of...
- 1/8/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The unforgettable Stranger Things scene where fan-favorite metalhead Eddie Munson (played by Doja Cat crush Joseph Quinn) protects his friends from bat-monsters by grabbing his B.C. Rich guitar, cranking his amp, and playing “Master of Puppets” nudged an eight-and-half-minute long, 36-year-old Metallica song into the top 40 for the first time ever. That alone should qualify the show’s fourth outing as the most metal TV season of all time, but there was even more. While the parts with the alternate dimension and super-powered kids and monsters remain as fictional as ever,...
- 7/18/2022
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
From the Weeknd’s Dawn FM to Omar Apollo’s Ivory to Sky Ferreira’s “Don’t Forget” and Lizzo’s “About Damn Time,” the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now dives deep into the best pop songs and albums of the year so far.
Staff writer Tomás Mier joins host Brian Hiatt for the discussion, which touches on the widespread influence of Olivia Rodrigo’s guitar-driven hits (her friend Conan Gray, who also collaborates with her main creative partner, producer-songwriter Dan Nigro, is an obvious example), the innovative...
Staff writer Tomás Mier joins host Brian Hiatt for the discussion, which touches on the widespread influence of Olivia Rodrigo’s guitar-driven hits (her friend Conan Gray, who also collaborates with her main creative partner, producer-songwriter Dan Nigro, is an obvious example), the innovative...
- 7/15/2022
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s Radiohead side project the Smile have announced dates for their first American tour. It kicks off Nov. 14 at Providence, Rhode Island’s Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, and wraps up Dec. 21 at Los Angeles’ Shine Auditorium.
The Smile, which also features drummer Tom Skinner, released their debut LP, A Light For Attracting Attention, on May 22. The group came together during the global pandemic when Yorke was unable to complete his solo tour, and he suddenly found himself with a lot of free time.
“The album...
The Smile, which also features drummer Tom Skinner, released their debut LP, A Light For Attracting Attention, on May 22. The group came together during the global pandemic when Yorke was unable to complete his solo tour, and he suddenly found himself with a lot of free time.
“The album...
- 6/13/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
“When a drug addict loses a friend, they just do more drugs,” the late Screaming Trees frontman and solo artist Mark Lanegan tells senior writer Kory Grow in an extraordinarily revealing interview on a new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast.
Lanegan, who died Feb. 22 at the age of 57, talks about losing Kurt Cobain, Anthony Bourdain, and other close friends, and shares heartbreaking details from his struggles with addiction and homelessness — including how Duff McKagan and Courtney Love came to his rescue.
To hear the whole episode, press play above,...
Lanegan, who died Feb. 22 at the age of 57, talks about losing Kurt Cobain, Anthony Bourdain, and other close friends, and shares heartbreaking details from his struggles with addiction and homelessness — including how Duff McKagan and Courtney Love came to his rescue.
To hear the whole episode, press play above,...
- 3/7/2022
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Back in 2016, the Federal Communications Commission received around 47 pages of angry complaints against Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime performance, which featured the pop star and her dancers marching onstage while dressed in outfits reminiscent of the Black Panthers. But that’s nothing compared to the 1,000-plus emails that the FCC was bombarded with after the night of March 14th, 2021, following Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s raunchy performance of “Wap” at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.
Given that “Wap” is all about embracing female sexuality to the fullest — and...
Given that “Wap” is all about embracing female sexuality to the fullest — and...
- 4/13/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The newest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now podcast is a special Musicians on Musicians edition, drawing on our recent package of one-of-a-kind interviews. The show starts off with Lil Wayne revealing the secrets of his craft to Lil Baby, moderated by Dewayne Gage. Next up is an intimate conversation on songwriting and the bumpy course of the music industry between two artists who are already friends, Brittany Howard and Margo Price, moderated by Marissa R. Moss. Finally, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Phoebe Bridgers find an unexpected amount of...
- 12/9/2020
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Right about now, you might find yourself asking: “Didn’t Record Store Day already happen this year?” Well, yes — three times. Those were the “drops” created to replace the original April 2020 Record Store Day, which was canceled for pandemic reasons. This Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving Record Store Day is happening as planned, making a grand total of four events this year. It might seem like a lot, but independent record stores have really been hurting lately, and your local shop would almost certainly appreciate your business. Here are 16 of the...
- 11/25/2020
- by Angie Martoccio, Simon Vozick-Levinson, Andy Greene, Jonathan Bernstein, Patrick Doyle, Hank Shteamer and Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Each month, the editors and critics at Rolling Stone compile a list of our favorite new albums. Our picks for October include Bruce Springsteen’s first new album with the E Street Band in six years, the highly anticipated debut from K-pop group Blackpink, and a new archive release from Joni Mitchell.
Ariana Grande, Positions
How does someone like Ariana Grande follow one of pop’s greatest, boldest break-up albums? With a horny, campy collection of R&b slow jams, of course. In all its naughty glory, Positions doesn’t...
Ariana Grande, Positions
How does someone like Ariana Grande follow one of pop’s greatest, boldest break-up albums? With a horny, campy collection of R&b slow jams, of course. In all its naughty glory, Positions doesn’t...
- 11/2/2020
- by Angie Martoccio, Jon Dolan, Kory Grow, Jonathan Bernstein, Tim Chan, Daniel Kreps, David Browne, Danny Schwartz, Hank Shteamer and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Bruce Springsteen released his 20th studio album, “Letter to You,” on October 23. It’s his first time recording with the E Street Band since “High Hopes” in 2014. So what do critics think of the beloved rock musician’s latest set?
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As of this writing the album has a MetaCritic score of 89 based on 16 reviews counted thus far, 15 of them positive, one of them somewhat mixed and none outright negative. Springsteen is no stranger to critical adulation, but that score currently makes “Letter to You” the Boss’s highest-rated album of new material since MetaCritic has been keeping track.
Reviewers are saying the collection “delivers something very close” to “the electricity of live music,” with Springsteen and his band recording the songs together live in the studio. It’s “one of the warmest and most reassuring records of his career,...
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As of this writing the album has a MetaCritic score of 89 based on 16 reviews counted thus far, 15 of them positive, one of them somewhat mixed and none outright negative. Springsteen is no stranger to critical adulation, but that score currently makes “Letter to You” the Boss’s highest-rated album of new material since MetaCritic has been keeping track.
Reviewers are saying the collection “delivers something very close” to “the electricity of live music,” with Springsteen and his band recording the songs together live in the studio. It’s “one of the warmest and most reassuring records of his career,...
- 10/24/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
October 24th marks the final release date for Record Store Day’s rescheduled 2020 events. The worldwide celebration, normally held on a Saturday in April, split its offerings this year into three separate “drops,” beginning with August 29th and September 26th. This way, the highest number of record stores have been able to partake, providing revenue during the pandemic while minimizing crowds. We’ve combed through the October drop to pull out our favorite records you can pick up this Saturday, from Miles Davis to Warren Zevon. And don’t worry...
- 10/23/2020
- by Angie Martoccio, Simon Vozick-Levinson, Andy Greene, Kory Grow and Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Each month, the editors and critics at Rolling Stone compile a list of our favorite new albums. Our picks for September include the final LP from late reggae legend Toots Hibbert, a synth-pop stunner from Sad13, protest songs from Neil Young, and reissues of albums by Prince, the Rolling Stones, and Lou Reed.
Alicia Keys, Alicia
Alicia is one of Keys’ most musically engaging LPs, moving easily between moods and styles, from the disco throwback “Time Machine” to “Me X 7” (a bit of moody R&b ache with Tierra Whack...
Alicia Keys, Alicia
Alicia is one of Keys’ most musically engaging LPs, moving easily between moods and styles, from the disco throwback “Time Machine” to “Me X 7” (a bit of moody R&b ache with Tierra Whack...
- 10/1/2020
- by Angie Martoccio, Jon Dolan, Kory Grow, David Browne, Jason Newman, Dewayne Gage, Joseph Hudak and Rick Carp
- Rollingstone.com
At every Metallica show since the Eighties — before the riffs, solos and drum fills — there’s a rumble of timpani and piano and the lonesome keen of an oboe. Those instruments comprise the opening moments of composer Ennio Morricone’s “The Ecstasy of Gold,” one of his most famous compositions from one of his most famous works — the score for 1966’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — and it’s served as Metallica’s walk-on music for nearly four decades.
Morricone died Monday in Rome at the age of...
Morricone died Monday in Rome at the age of...
- 7/6/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Iggy Pop turned 73 on Tuesday and he celebrated by unearthing a cover of the Sly and the Family Stone classic “Family Affair” that he recorded with funk icon Bootsy Collins back in 1985.
“I’ve always loved this song; it came out when I was kinda on the ropes in 1971,” Iggy told the BBC. “There’s a lot of truth in it, especially in the second verse, about all sorts of questions that are coming around again now.”
The song has sat in his archive for the past 35 years. “Then one...
“I’ve always loved this song; it came out when I was kinda on the ropes in 1971,” Iggy told the BBC. “There’s a lot of truth in it, especially in the second verse, about all sorts of questions that are coming around again now.”
The song has sat in his archive for the past 35 years. “Then one...
- 4/22/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
A special new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast focuses on songs of comfort in our all-too-troubled times, with Taylor Swift, Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow, and the National’s Matt Berninger all weighing in the music that’s giving them solace right now.
To hear the entire episode right now, press play below or download and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.
“During this time I’m definitely turning to musical nostalgia to find comfort,” says Swift, who’s posted a Spotify playlist of her selections, doubling as a...
To hear the entire episode right now, press play below or download and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.
“During this time I’m definitely turning to musical nostalgia to find comfort,” says Swift, who’s posted a Spotify playlist of her selections, doubling as a...
- 3/27/2020
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Long before Donald Trump was our omnipresent, problematic president, he was New York City’s omnipresent, problematic gadfly. He flexed his supposed billions to attend any number of events around town, from WWE WrestleManias at Madison Square Garden to baby-boomer rock concerts. In 2008, he went to so many Neil Young shows that my colleague Andy Greene interviewed him about his Young fandom. “[Neil has] performed for me at my casinos over the years and he just brings it down,” Trump said. “I’ve met him on occasions and he’s a terrific guy.
- 11/27/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Roger Waters made a fair bit of news earlier this week when he spoke to Rolling Stone‘s Kory Grow. Not only did he reveal that he tried to make peace with David Gilmour a few months back and fell so painfully short that the guitarist won’t even let him promote his new Us + Them tour documentary on Pink Floyd’s social media accounts, but he also said that he’s planning a new tour that will hit American arenas next summer.
“It will be even more political than...
“It will be even more political than...
- 10/1/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The Grammys love rock music … up to a point. While rock bands from Pink Floyd to The Smashing Pumpkins to Green Day to The Black Keys have earned Album of the Year nominations (and U2 won — twice), hard rock rarely gets its due in general field categories, and metal is usually restricted to its dedicated genre field. But Slipknot‘s sixth album “We Are Not Your Kind,” which was released on August 9, has gotten such stellar reviews that perhaps it will break the mold for metal in the general field.
As of this writing “We Are Not Your Kind” has a MetaCritic score of 93 based on 10 reviews counted thus far — all of them positive. At the moment that makes it the highest rated album of 2019, and it’s the highest rated for the band by 16 points. Coming five years after their last album, “.5: The Gray Chapter,” their new release...
As of this writing “We Are Not Your Kind” has a MetaCritic score of 93 based on 10 reviews counted thus far — all of them positive. At the moment that makes it the highest rated album of 2019, and it’s the highest rated for the band by 16 points. Coming five years after their last album, “.5: The Gray Chapter,” their new release...
- 8/13/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Steven Van Zandt reflects on his early days as a musician, the first time he met and performed with Bruce Springsteen and portraying his beloved character Silvio Dante on the Sopranos in the latest installment of “The First Time.”
Van Zandt traces the first time he played guitar to 1963, when his grandfather showed him a song from his village in Calabria, Italy. He notes this was a year before the Beatles made their American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. “So I got a little bit of a jump on everybody,...
Van Zandt traces the first time he played guitar to 1963, when his grandfather showed him a song from his village in Calabria, Italy. He notes this was a year before the Beatles made their American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. “So I got a little bit of a jump on everybody,...
- 7/11/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
A new episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, breaks down our list of the greatest grunge albums of all time. How did Stone Temple Pilots — once considered faux-grunge at best — make it all the way to number eleven with Core? Why did Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger end up beating out Pearl Jam’s Ten? How did the Stooges’ Fun House, Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Ragged Glory and Black Flag’s My War make it on? And can the Smashing Pumpkins really be considered grunge? Three of the...
- 4/22/2019
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
On Wednesday evening, it was reported that Holden Matthews, the 21-year-old son of a Louisiana sheriff’s deputy, had been arrested in connection with a series of church fires in Louisiana’s St. Landry Parish. Matthews has been charged with three counts of arson of a religious building, which carry a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison per charge.
Although police have yet to reveal a motive, all three of the fires were at historically black churches, which led the NAACP to classify them as hate crimes earlier this week.
Although police have yet to reveal a motive, all three of the fires were at historically black churches, which led the NAACP to classify them as hate crimes earlier this week.
- 4/11/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Three grunge luminaries who were once members of the band Green River — Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament and Mudhoney’s Mark Arm — break down the origins of the genre in the latest episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now. Senior Writer Kory Grow joins host Brian Hiatt to discuss the band’s importance and play portions of his interviews, which were previously published as part of an in-depth oral history of Green River and Seattle’s nascent rock community in the mid Eighties.
Reflecting on the group’s earliest days,...
Reflecting on the group’s earliest days,...
- 3/20/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx tells Rolling Stone that he does not recall a story in the band’s 2001 memoir The Dirt where he realizes he may have participated in a sexual assault during a party.
“I don’t actually recall that story in the book beyond reading it,” Sixx tells Rolling Stone. “I have no clue why it’s in there other than I was outta my head and it’s possibly greatly embellished or made it up. Those words were irresponsible on my part. I am sorry.”
In The Dirt,...
“I don’t actually recall that story in the book beyond reading it,” Sixx tells Rolling Stone. “I have no clue why it’s in there other than I was outta my head and it’s possibly greatly embellished or made it up. Those words were irresponsible on my part. I am sorry.”
In The Dirt,...
- 3/5/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier this week, David Gilmour announced plans to auction off 120 of his most famous guitars to benefit his charitable foundation. He’s holding back virtually nothing, including the Stratocaster he used to write “Wish You Were Here” and the Ovation six-string he’s played on for almost every live performance of “Comfortably Numb.” “These guitars have been very good to me,” he told Rolling Stone‘s Kory Grow. “They’re my friends. They have given me lots of music. I just think it’s time that they went off and served someone else.
- 1/31/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Robyn, Honey
Following a rough patch in her personal life with her first album in eight years, Robyn relaxes the tempos and relentless hook-slinging to let healing, rapturous dancefloor grooves take over. Her beats are more seductive and experimental, the reverence for classic disco and house more explicit, the bliss more redemptive. It’s a perfect night of clubbing reimagined as a very artful pop record. Will Hermes
Read Our Feature: Robyn Reborn
Read Our Review: Robyn Lets the Grooves Take Over on the Excellent Honey
Thom Yorke,...
Following a rough patch in her personal life with her first album in eight years, Robyn relaxes the tempos and relentless hook-slinging to let healing, rapturous dancefloor grooves take over. Her beats are more seductive and experimental, the reverence for classic disco and house more explicit, the bliss more redemptive. It’s a perfect night of clubbing reimagined as a very artful pop record. Will Hermes
Read Our Feature: Robyn Reborn
Read Our Review: Robyn Lets the Grooves Take Over on the Excellent Honey
Thom Yorke,...
- 10/26/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Kory Grow, Elias Leight, Mosi Reeves, Simon Vozick-Levinson, Hank Shteamer, Jon Dolan, David Fricke and Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Elle King, Shake the Spirit
“Whereas fellow retro-loving diva Lana Del Rey played the coy, gothy California dreamer, King came on like a butt-kicking rocker-heroine wailing through her pain,” writes Christopher R. Weingarten. “Turns out, she was living that drama too. King spent the years since her initial success dealing with the fallout of a short, secret, troubled marriage, a subsequent divorce, substance abuse and rehab. You can hear her map out her story, lyrically, as her impressive second album progresses. At the start of the LP, she...
“Whereas fellow retro-loving diva Lana Del Rey played the coy, gothy California dreamer, King came on like a butt-kicking rocker-heroine wailing through her pain,” writes Christopher R. Weingarten. “Turns out, she was living that drama too. King spent the years since her initial success dealing with the fallout of a short, secret, troubled marriage, a subsequent divorce, substance abuse and rehab. You can hear her map out her story, lyrically, as her impressive second album progresses. At the start of the LP, she...
- 10/19/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Kory Grow, Christopher R. Weingarten, Mosi Reeves, Suzy Exposito, Elias Leight, Will Hermes and Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Kurt Vile, Bottle It In
“This indie guitar hero is a master at chill fingerpicking and dry stoner whimsy,” writes Jon Dolan. “The 10-minute ‘Bassackwards’ is lazy, cobweb-minded heaven, and ‘Loading Zones’ big-ups his gift for finding good parking.”
Read Our Feature: Kurt Vile Abides
Ella Mai, Ella Mai
“The ‘Boo’d Up’ singer breaks through her collaborators’ sometimes-monotonous material on her debut LP,” writes Elias Leight. “If the arrangements sometimes sound automated, Mai is adept enough as a singer to enliven them,” he writes. “In particular, she...
“This indie guitar hero is a master at chill fingerpicking and dry stoner whimsy,” writes Jon Dolan. “The 10-minute ‘Bassackwards’ is lazy, cobweb-minded heaven, and ‘Loading Zones’ big-ups his gift for finding good parking.”
Read Our Feature: Kurt Vile Abides
Ella Mai, Ella Mai
“The ‘Boo’d Up’ singer breaks through her collaborators’ sometimes-monotonous material on her debut LP,” writes Elias Leight. “If the arrangements sometimes sound automated, Mai is adept enough as a singer to enliven them,” he writes. “In particular, she...
- 10/12/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Hank Shteamer, Jon Dolan, Elias Leight, Will Hermes and Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Cat Power, Wanderer
“Chan Marshall, aka: Cat Power, lays full claim to the title of her tenth album, Wanderer with the authority of a blueswoman who’s seen some shit,” writes Will Hermes, “alternately conjuring trances and slapping you out of them, projecting clear-eyed, uncompromising strength on one of the most fragile-sounding sets she’s ever made.”
Read Our Review: Cat Power’s Timelessly Haunting Wanderer
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
“One point of A Star Is Born is that everything about Ally’s...
“Chan Marshall, aka: Cat Power, lays full claim to the title of her tenth album, Wanderer with the authority of a blueswoman who’s seen some shit,” writes Will Hermes, “alternately conjuring trances and slapping you out of them, projecting clear-eyed, uncompromising strength on one of the most fragile-sounding sets she’s ever made.”
Read Our Review: Cat Power’s Timelessly Haunting Wanderer
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
“One point of A Star Is Born is that everything about Ally’s...
- 10/5/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Mosi Reeves, Jonathan Bernstein, Kory Grow, Brittany Spanos, Will Hermes, Hank Shteamer and Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Jlin, Autobiography
“America’s most acclaimed new electronic composer scores a piece by choreographer Wayne McGregor with her cutting-edge synthetic textures and brain-blendering pinball beats,” writes Christopher R. Weingarten. “Allowed to stretch, she explores a dripping, hard-panning, evocative ambient music made of bamboo clanks, tubular bells, ticking clocks, birds, bugs and splashing water.”
Read Our Review: Jlin’s Autobiography Shows the Electronic Composer Doing More Than Moving Feet
Lil Wayne, Tha Carter V
The best thing about Tha Carter V is that it simply exists. For the past five years,...
“America’s most acclaimed new electronic composer scores a piece by choreographer Wayne McGregor with her cutting-edge synthetic textures and brain-blendering pinball beats,” writes Christopher R. Weingarten. “Allowed to stretch, she explores a dripping, hard-panning, evocative ambient music made of bamboo clanks, tubular bells, ticking clocks, birds, bugs and splashing water.”
Read Our Review: Jlin’s Autobiography Shows the Electronic Composer Doing More Than Moving Feet
Lil Wayne, Tha Carter V
The best thing about Tha Carter V is that it simply exists. For the past five years,...
- 9/28/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Christopher R. Weingarten, Suzy Exposito, Hank Shteamer, Kory Grow, Mosi Reeves and Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Christine & the Queens, Chris
“Chris is an LP doubled,” writes Will Hermes. “First, there’s a mostly English-language set, with heavily accented lyrics, charmingly off-kilter syntax, and polyglot asides. ‘Let me taste/On a butch babe in La,’ she pleads on ‘Damn (What A Woman Must Do),’ lamenting the extremes of ‘what must a woman do/Para follarse’ (sure, look it up). Then there’s a nearly-identical set sung in French, as the singer sucks, chews, and tongues verses in ways that communicate plenty, even if you don...
“Chris is an LP doubled,” writes Will Hermes. “First, there’s a mostly English-language set, with heavily accented lyrics, charmingly off-kilter syntax, and polyglot asides. ‘Let me taste/On a butch babe in La,’ she pleads on ‘Damn (What A Woman Must Do),’ lamenting the extremes of ‘what must a woman do/Para follarse’ (sure, look it up). Then there’s a nearly-identical set sung in French, as the singer sucks, chews, and tongues verses in ways that communicate plenty, even if you don...
- 9/21/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Suzy Exposito, Will Hermes, Mosi Reeves, Jonathan Bernstein, Elias Leight, Kory Grow, Christopher R. Weingarten, Hank Shteamer, Jon Freeman and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Courtney Barnett’s Tell Me How You Really Feel was noisier and darker than her excellent 2015 debut. But in a taping for our raw “Take One” video series, Barnett decided to show that those new songs work just as well completely unplugged.
Armed with only an acoustic guitar, Barnett delivered the intimate performance at New York’s Brooklyn Botanic Garden before she played a full-band set Prospect Park Bandshell later that night. She began with the album’s optimistic final track, “Sunday Roast,” which Barnett wrote about “seeing your friends...
Armed with only an acoustic guitar, Barnett delivered the intimate performance at New York’s Brooklyn Botanic Garden before she played a full-band set Prospect Park Bandshell later that night. She began with the album’s optimistic final track, “Sunday Roast,” which Barnett wrote about “seeing your friends...
- 9/10/2018
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Paul McCartney, Egypt Station
“Egypt Station flows as a unit, structured like a long ride on a cosmic train, beginning and ending with ambient railway-station noise,” writes Rob Sheffield. “These days, he’s not on any kind of assembly line—he only makes albums when he’s got enough worthy songs saved up, which is why his recent work has been top-notch. … This album’s masterpiece: ‘Dominoes,’ one of those Paul creations that feels both emotionally direct yet playfully enigmatic. An eerie acoustic guitar hook, worthy of the White Album,...
“Egypt Station flows as a unit, structured like a long ride on a cosmic train, beginning and ending with ambient railway-station noise,” writes Rob Sheffield. “These days, he’s not on any kind of assembly line—he only makes albums when he’s got enough worthy songs saved up, which is why his recent work has been top-notch. … This album’s masterpiece: ‘Dominoes,’ one of those Paul creations that feels both emotionally direct yet playfully enigmatic. An eerie acoustic guitar hook, worthy of the White Album,...
- 9/7/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Joseph Hudak, Hank Shteamer, Kory Grow and Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
It is a well-established fact that as a high schooler in El Paso, Texas, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-tx) was in a band, Foss — ::pauses to take giant bong rip:: It’s Icelandic for ‘waterfall’ — with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who would go on to considerable fame fronting the Mars Volta and At the Drive-In. On Tuesday, the @TexasGOP Twitter account tweeted what it believed was a sick burn of O’Rourke about his pre-political days.
Maybe Beto can’t debate Ted Cruz because he already had plans… pic.twitter.com/LdqKTh...
Maybe Beto can’t debate Ted Cruz because he already had plans… pic.twitter.com/LdqKTh...
- 8/30/2018
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16th at age 76, recorded more than 40 full-length albums in her six-decade career. It’s a deep catalog, crowded with indisputable classics and hidden gems. Rolling Stone’s music staff is paying its R.E.S.P.E.C.T.s to the Queen with tributes to our favorite Aretha LPs. Next up: Kory Grow on her second great album of the year 1968.
By the time Aretha Now arrived in the summer of 1968, Aretha Franklin was on one of pop music’s great winning streaks.
By the time Aretha Now arrived in the summer of 1968, Aretha Franklin was on one of pop music’s great winning streaks.
- 8/21/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Mitski, Be the Cowboy
The latest full-length from singer-songwriter Mitski Miyawaki proves that “making complex feelings of powerlessness loom as large as movie kaijus isn’t just a signature talent — it can seem like the main point and power of what Miyawaki does,” writes Will Hermes. “There are no cowboys riding in to save the day anytime soon anywhere, it seems. But Mitski will remind you that saving yourself is usually a good first priority.”
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The latest full-length from singer-songwriter Mitski Miyawaki proves that “making complex feelings of powerlessness loom as large as movie kaijus isn’t just a signature talent — it can seem like the main point and power of what Miyawaki does,” writes Will Hermes. “There are no cowboys riding in to save the day anytime soon anywhere, it seems. But Mitski will remind you that saving yourself is usually a good first priority.”
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- 8/17/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Brittany Spanos, Kory Grow, Christopher R. Weingarten, Will Hermes and Mosi Reeves
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Jake Shears, Jake Shears
For his first solo album, the Scissor Sisters frontman “moved to New Orleans, wrote himself out of a cataclysmic breakup, and then recorded in Louisville, Kentucky,” writes Barry Walters. “The result overflows with the opulence of orchestral Seventies pop – as if Elo and the Bee Gees got together to make a Muppet fantasia of Cajun rock.”
Read Our Review: Jake Shears’ Self-Titled Album Overflows With Opulence
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Nicki Minaj, Queen
The brashly insouciant rapper’s fourth album...
For his first solo album, the Scissor Sisters frontman “moved to New Orleans, wrote himself out of a cataclysmic breakup, and then recorded in Louisville, Kentucky,” writes Barry Walters. “The result overflows with the opulence of orchestral Seventies pop – as if Elo and the Bee Gees got together to make a Muppet fantasia of Cajun rock.”
Read Our Review: Jake Shears’ Self-Titled Album Overflows With Opulence
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Nicki Minaj, Queen
The brashly insouciant rapper’s fourth album...
- 8/10/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Hank Shteamer, Kory Grow, Joseph Hudak, Jon Dolan, Jon Freeman, Mosi Reeves and Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: The Coup, Sorry to Bother You: The Soundtrack
Boots Riley’s feature-directing debut accompanied its surrealist depiction of life in Oakland during capitalist wartime with a clamorous, giddy score by hometown heroes Tune-Yards; the movie’s official soundtrack, which showcases his long-running hip-hop collective The Coup alongside other boldfaced names, is similarly vibrant. Star Lakeith Stanfield guests on the glam-rock-tinged opening stomper “Oyahytt” (an acronym for its chanted “Oh Yeah, Alright, Hell Yeah, That’s Tight” refrain, which is probably seconds away from being repurposed for arena pump-ups...
Boots Riley’s feature-directing debut accompanied its surrealist depiction of life in Oakland during capitalist wartime with a clamorous, giddy score by hometown heroes Tune-Yards; the movie’s official soundtrack, which showcases his long-running hip-hop collective The Coup alongside other boldfaced names, is similarly vibrant. Star Lakeith Stanfield guests on the glam-rock-tinged opening stomper “Oyahytt” (an acronym for its chanted “Oh Yeah, Alright, Hell Yeah, That’s Tight” refrain, which is probably seconds away from being repurposed for arena pump-ups...
- 7/27/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Jon Dolan, Mosi Reeves, Christopher R. Weingarten, Jonathan Bernstein, Kory Grow, Andy Greene and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Lori McKenna, The Tree
One of modern country’s greatest songwriters, the author of Tim McGraw’s winning “Humble & Kind” echoes its themes here, musing on verities of family and community with matter-of-factly hard-earned, time-ripened wisdom. The craft is remarkable and deceptively understated, with fine-turned phrases glinting like dewdrops. Highlight: “The Lot Behind St. Mary’s,” a song about getting busy in blue jeans while in the literal (and figurative) shadow of the local church. Parlor game: Guessing which songs will get remade by mainstreamers wanting an artistic upgrade.
One of modern country’s greatest songwriters, the author of Tim McGraw’s winning “Humble & Kind” echoes its themes here, musing on verities of family and community with matter-of-factly hard-earned, time-ripened wisdom. The craft is remarkable and deceptively understated, with fine-turned phrases glinting like dewdrops. Highlight: “The Lot Behind St. Mary’s,” a song about getting busy in blue jeans while in the literal (and figurative) shadow of the local church. Parlor game: Guessing which songs will get remade by mainstreamers wanting an artistic upgrade.
- 7/20/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Will Hermes, Elias Leight, Kory Grow, Mosi Reeves, Suzy Exposito and Christopher R. Weingarten
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Deafheaven, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
“Deafheaven fancy themselves as a modern-day Bad Brains, but instead of blending hardcore punk and reggae, they combine vicious black metal with expansive space rock,” writes Kory Grow. “Now they’ve returned to their original muse and are splitting the difference between the battering-ram riffage of Darkthrone and the sparkly, soaring melodies of Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky…. It sounds much more organic this time, too, as the styles blend in and out of each other like a lava lamp.”
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“Deafheaven fancy themselves as a modern-day Bad Brains, but instead of blending hardcore punk and reggae, they combine vicious black metal with expansive space rock,” writes Kory Grow. “Now they’ve returned to their original muse and are splitting the difference between the battering-ram riffage of Darkthrone and the sparkly, soaring melodies of Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky…. It sounds much more organic this time, too, as the styles blend in and out of each other like a lava lamp.”
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- 7/13/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Christopher R. Weingarten, Mosi Reeves, Jon Dolan and Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
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