Slowthai gives birth in the video for “Feel Away,” a new song featuring James Blake and Mount Kimbie. Directed by Oscar Hudson (who previously worked on Radiohead’s “Lift” video), the clip features the U.K. rapper in a maternity ward as he grows a pregnant belly and gets an ultrasound. Shortly …
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Flaming Lips celebrated the release of American Head Friday by reentering their plastic bubbles to perform their new album’s “God and the Policeman” on The Tonight Show. While the American Head version of “God and the Policeman” features Kacey Musgraves, the singer is absent on the Fallon rendition. Throughout the …
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Last October, Tanya Tucker performed a thrilling, sold-out show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Next month, the country singer will release a live document of the concert on its one-year anniversary. Live From the Troubadour arrives October 16th via Fantasy Records. Tucker announced the album on Friday with the …
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As Sacred Bones Records gears up to reissue four Mort Garson albums this fall, the label has shared “Ode to an African Violet,” an alternative take from 1976’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia. Plantasia was an integral part of the plant music genre of the Seventies, made entirely on a Moog synthesizer …
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Some weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Nashville singer-songwriter India Ramey was wrestling with the still-fresh outcome and writing songs, when an image came to mind that provided an appropriately unsettling tone to what she was feeling. “A lot of times when I write a song, I visualize it as …
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Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh spent 18 days at L.A.’s Cedar-Sinai hospital battling Covid-19 in June, he revealed in a harrowing interview with the Los Angeles Times. Mothersbaugh thinks he may have contracted the virus in late May while working near strangers at Mutato, his music production company. He dismissed early …
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Portland punk trio the Wipers played their first hometown gig, opening for a couple of New Wave-y California groups, in 1978. Fifteen-year-old Jerry Lang, a recent Portland transplant, was in the audience, and when the Wipers took the stage, he wasn’t sure what to make of them. “They weren’t really …
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Earlier this summer, Etta Friedman was visiting her family in Yerington, Nevada, when she crashed her cousin’s motorcycle and broke both wrists. “I let go of the clutch on the bike and popped a wheelie,” the 21-year-old musician says. “And then immediately went vroom! and went into the front of …
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“I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this as the first option for both delivering a child and putting a record out,” a very pregnant Katy Perry says, laughing over Zoom for the latest installment of Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition.Both her baby and fifth album Smile are due around the same time …
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Tom Morello, Bob Weir and Jesse Malin and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen were among the artists who covered the Clash classics as part of a livestream event celebrating what would have been Joe Strummer’s 68th birthday Friday. “A Song for Joe: Celebrating the …
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