David Bowie‘s legendary headlining set at Glastonbury 2000 will be released in full for the first time November 30th via Parlophone Records, BBC Studios and Glastonbury Festivals. The box set will feature an audio version of the full 21-song setlist and a film of the entire show. Previously, only 30 …
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American hard rock band Shinedown have announced additional dates on their current world tour, featuring 18 headlining shows in the U.S. Fellow alt-rock veterans Papa Roach and English metalcore act Asking Alexandria will join the group on the bill. Prompted by band members’ struggles with mental health — and chronicling …
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Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh contributed $10,000 to a GoFundMe campaign benefitting Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and her family. A representative for Lesh confirmed to Rolling Stone that the bassist did make the donation, though Lesh declined to provide further comment. Lesh ostensibly made his donation last Sunday, September 23rd, …
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The sugar-sharp melodies come in a spree during singer-guitarist Fred Thomas’ great new song “Altar,” a concise little shot of curt, catchy guitar scraping and amiable boy-girl vocals. But the scenes and feelings he rifles through in the song’s lyrics are hardly as easy or comforting: “You can’t feel the damage …
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Nicki Minaj hangs with puppets and teases her fellow rappers in her new video for “Barbie Dreams,” the Notorious B.I.G.-sampling highlight off the rapper’s latest album Queen. The colorful, Hype Williams-directed video opens with a puppet nonchalantly introducing the proceedings before Minaj takes over, delivering a barrage of taunts and …
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Troye Sivan‘s dramatic live version of “Animal” would have likely enraptured the Late Show audience – if only there’d been one. The pop singer presented a more band-oriented version of his dark Bloom ballad on Wednesday, relying on harmonized electric guitars, atmospheric synth-strings, soft piano flourishes and live drums.As the …
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By the time Devo rubbed their sweaty mitts all over the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” it had already been covered by everyone from soul singer Otis Redding to the singing eyeballs in the Residents. Devo‘s take on the song was rigid, mechanical and otherworldly – perhaps less …
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Ariana Grande notched her third Number One album as her latest LP Sweetener opened atop the Billboard 200. Sweetener sold 231,000 total copies, including 127,000 traditional copies, to capture the top spot; Grande’s 2013 album Yours Truly and 2014’s My Everything also reached Number One, while 2016’s Dangerous Woman peaked …
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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 (Aretha: From These Roots) and also went on to write the unvarnished biography Respect: The Life of …
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The guys in Genesis are about as British as it gets, meaning they’ve never been known to get very emotional in public or even in private. But right before they played the final song at the last night of their Turn It On Again reunion tour in 2007, Phil Collins …
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