In an early-Eighties documentary on Roky Erickson, an interviewer asked the late singer-guitarist about his religious background. “Well, I’ve gone through three changes,” Erickson responds. “I thought I was a Christian, then I was with the devil … and then the third one where I know who I am; I …
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“People: repent ” intones Lee “Scratch” Perry to begin what might be his gazillionth LP, Rainford— and his signature spacey West Indian storefront-preacher steez feels perfectly-suited to a cultural moment defined both by widespread institutional criminality and high-grade legal weed. As a founding father of dub reggae and arguably its …
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Related: 1974 Rolling Stone Profile of Leon Redbone Leon Redbone, the singer who built a career out of performing ragtime, vaudeville and American standards with a sly wink and an unmistakable, nasally voice, died Thursday. He was 69. A statement on Redbone’s website confirmed his death, though it did so …
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Related: 50 Greatest Horror Movies of the 21st Century The great Octavia Spencer, a three-time Oscar nominee and winner for The Help, recently decried the fact that starring roles in horror films have long been unfairly denied to women of color (Lupita Nyong’o in Us being an outstanding exception). So …
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Country stars Brooks & Dunn, Martina McBride, Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert are among the recipients for the Academy of Country Music’s 13th Annual ACM Honors, which will be presented Wednesday, August 21st, at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Recognizing the special honorees and off-camera category winners from the 54th Academy of …
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Kanye West opened up about his late mother Donda West in a preview of the rapper’s appearance on David Letterman‘s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. West’s mother died in 2007 from complications after cosmetic surgery and never got to meet her four grandchildren, North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm. “This …
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Rap trio the Geto Boys have canceled their upcoming reunion tour after Bushwick Bill, who recently revealed he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, pulled out of the trek. The four-date tour was scheduled to begin tonight in Pontiac, Michigan. However, TMZ reports that Bushwick Bill exited the trek at the …
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In April 2017, Cate Le Bon moved to the Lake District of Cumbria, England, alone. She spent a year there, learning how to build furniture from scratch while constructing introspective songs on an old piano. Her fifth studio album, Reward, is the result of this isolation—ten sonically diverse tracks that …
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The ghostly voice of Leonard Cohen reflects on love in the trailer for Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, a new documentary about the singer-songwriter’s decades-long relationship with muse Marianne Ihlen, who inspired Cohen classics like “So Long, Marianne.” “When trying to learn some things about love,” the late Cohen …
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In the last couple weeks, Mavis Staples performed two 80th birthday shows and released her third album in three years – “I’m not as sharp as I used to be when I’m talking,” Staples told Rolling Stone recently, “but I feel like I’m ready for another 10 years.” Staples celebrated …
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