Willie Nelson performed his cover of Guy Clark’s bittersweet love song “My Favorite Picture of You” on The Tonight Show Tuesday. Nelson’s rendition will appear on his upcoming album, Ride Me Back Home, which arrives this Friday, June 21st. “My Favorite Picture of You” was the title-track of Clark’s final …
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The previously announced hologram trek featuring Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly detailed its North American itinerary. The “Rock ‘N’ Roll Dream Tour” kicks off September 19th in San Francisco and wraps November 20th in Toronto. Citi cardmembers can access a Private Pass pre-sale that runs from June 19th at 10 …
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Bruce Springsteen’s new album Western Stars is here and with it, a new video for the title track. Springsteen and the backing musicians from the album play the song in a bar, crosscut with scenes of Bruce driving a vintage Chevrolet El Camino though the West, roaming the desert and …
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The most demonstrative note that Andrew Cyrille played on Tuesday night — a resounding thwack on the snare — was also the last. The drummer, a key presence across the full spectrum of jazz since the early 1960s, was wrapping up more than four hours of largely improvised exploration on …
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Electropop singer-songwriter Banks announced that her forthcoming album, III, is due out July 12th. She dropped its tortured-love song “Look What You’re Doing to Me,” featuring Francis and the Lights. “The song is about love,” the singer said. “About falling in love, being in love and how you feel when you’re high …
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“It’s really hard to get arrested in New Orleans,” says Dylan LeBlanc, rapping a heavy silver ring he’s wearing on the table in front of him for emphasis. Somehow, though, the singer-songwriter managed that feat in 2014. “I got into some sort of scuffle in the street and I was …
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Guns N’ Roses, Post Malone and Beck will headline the 2019 Voodoo Music and Arts Experience, which takes place October 25th through 27th in New Orleans, Louisiana. Bassnectar, Brandi Carlile, the National, Rezz, Zhu, Interpol, Bring Me the Horizon, Young the Giant and Japanese Breakfast are among the more than …
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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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