In a recent interview with Dan Rather on his AXS TV series The Big Interview, Jethro Tull‘s Ian Anderson revealed he suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). “I’m going to tell you something I’ve never told anybody in public before,” Anderson said. “Since it’s you, I will take this …
Read More »16 Great Little Richard Deep Cuts
Though best known for the Fifties classics that defined early rock & roll, Little Richard‘s career was full of fantastic lesser-known moments, as he responded to the arrival of British rock, Sixties soul and Seventies funk, at times returning to his gospel roots while always showing the elasticity of his …
Read More »Leon Bridges, John Mayer Get Cozy at Home in Goofy New 'Inside Friend' Video
Leon Bridges and John Mayer expound upon the joys of sheltering-in-place with that special someone in the goofy new video for their one-off single, “Inside Friend.” Bridges and Mayer filmed the video at their respective homes, with Bridges crooning the song on the couch, in the kitchen and while working …
Read More »Buffy Sainte-Marie, David Byrne Lead Virtual LemonAid Lineup for COVID-19 Relief
Buffy Sainte-Marie and David Byrne are among the artists who will appear during the upcoming Northern New Mexico festival Virtual LemonAid, which will stream for free on May 8th at 10 p.m. ET via Instagram TV, Facebook Live, Youtube Live, with additional channels to be announced on the event website. …
Read More »Billie Eilish to Host Apple Music Radio Show With Her Dad
Billie Eilish will be hosting a new Apple Music radio show, Me & Dad Radio, featuring music and conversations with her dad Patrick O’Connell. The debut episode will premiere this Friday, May 8th at 3 p.m. ET on the music streaming service. “My dad and I have been putting each other …
Read More »RS Charts: Youngboy Never Broke Tops RS 200; Rap and R&B Claim Entire Top Ten
Youngboy Never Broke Again’s 38 Baby 2 debuted at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart, amassing 71.8 million streams across its 17 tracks. Youngboy Never Broke Again is remarkably prolific, and he consistently debuts high on the RS 200: 38 Baby 2 follows February’s Still Flexin, …
Read More »Rolling Stones Kick Off 'Extra Licks' Series With Bonus 'Olé Olé Olé!' Performances
The Rolling Stones kicked off their Extra Licks streaming series Sunday with the bonus footage from their 2017 concert film/documentary Olé Olé Olé! (A Trip Across Latin America), with seven performances from that 2016 South American tour making their digital debut. The performances — “Out of Control” and “Paint It …
Read More »How a Top Producer Is Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Quarantine
This is the sixth installment of Rolling Stone’sMusic in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronaviruspandemic. On March 15, as several states were getting close to ordering residents to shelter in place, the writer-producer Ricky Reed (Lizzo, Halsey, Kesha) published an open …
Read More »Grammy Museum Honoring Amy Winehouse With Instagram Live Event
The Grammy Museum will host a special Instagram Live event to honor the 13th anniversary of Amy Winehouse‘s single “Back to Black” on Thursday, April 30th. It’s a virtual extension of the Los Angeles museum’sBeyond Black — The Style of Amy Winehouse exhibit, which opened in January. Taking place on …
Read More »Flashback: Roger Waters Performs Side 1 of Pink Floyd's 'Animals' in 2000
Earlier this month, Roger Waters told Rolling Stone that he recently sat down for a “peace summit” with his ex–Pink Floyd bandmates David Gilmour and Nick Mason that ultimately went nowhere. “I wrote out a sort of a plan because we’d come to something of a … I don’t really …
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