On the new episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, we dig deep into the music movie of the year, A Star Is Born.To hear the entire discussion, press play below or download and subscribe oniTunesorSpotify. Will Lady Gaga win an Oscar for her revelatory performance, and what will …
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Tom Morello has made plenty of big, brazen sounds in his career with Rage Against the Machine and other projects. But even by his standards, his first solo album under his own name is a noisy one. “I’ve been secretly toiling away on this record,” he says of The Atlas …
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Five years ago, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and his future wife Pandora visited the grave of Ament’s former bandmate Andrew Wood. Wood was the lead singer of grunge pioneers Mother Love Bone; his overdose in 1990 at the age of 24 forced Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard to regroup …
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This spring, Elizabeth Stokes quit her day job teaching trumpet to kids in Auckland, New Zealand. The reason: She was ready to tour the world with the Beths, the exuberant pop-punk band she’d started with three classmates from her days studying jazz in college. “The Beths is almost reactionary to …
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When Beyoncé and Jay-Z‘s album Everything Is Love appeared suddenly on Tidal on Saturday night, a surprising name stood out on the credits list: veteran duo Cool & Dre co-produced three of the nine songs on the album, along with a bonus track. Cool & Dre were ubiquitous on much …
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“What else we got?” Willie Nelson asks. He’s sitting with his famous battered guitar Trigger at his recording studio, located on theCut ‘N Putt golf course he owns in Spicewood, Texas. He’s deep into a session of Frank Sinatra covers for a future tribute album. Nelson’s producer Buddy Cannon has …
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Vince Staples is a goosebumps-vivid storyteller, a scathing social critic, and a world-class smart-ass with a comeback in the chamber for anyone who dares to underestimate him. If you really want to get him going, though, try calling him an artist. “It’s not art if you’re not in control of …
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“R&B is dead,” says Watts, California-based rapper 03 Greedo. The melodic-minded MC was answering an innocuous question about how his songwriting process might differ from that of an R&B artist. “If you sing and you don’t rap, nobody wants to hear that shit. Nobody wants to hear no fucking Trey …
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The fifth Tool album has become something like alt-metal’sChinese Democracy. This April will mark 12 years since the release of the group’s most recent LP, 10,000 Days, and 10 since they started teasing a follow-up. Among journalists and fans, Tool albumspotting has become its own pastime. Information has trickled out …
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