Coldplay used their NPR Tiny Desk Concert as an opportunity to cover Prince‘s “1999.” The band, who also played their own “Cry Cry Cry,” “Viva La Vida,” “Broken” and “Champion of the World,” was joined by the nine-piece For Love Choir. See the full concert here. “Cry Cry Cry,” “Broken” …
Read More »'Spenser Confidential' Review: Mark Wahlberg's Wicked Smart Excellent Adventure
Spenser (Mark Wahlberg, at his most Mark Walbergiest) is an former Boston cop who’s just finished doing a five-year stretch in Walpole — he beat the ever-loving crap out of his commanding officer, see, and to be fair the guy was a domestic abuser and wicked crooked, but the police …
Read More »Neil Young Plots 'After the Gold Rush' 50 Release, 1971 Concert Film
Neil Young‘s 1970 masterpiece After the Gold Rush turns 50 in September and, according to a new post on the Neil Young Archives, Reprise Records is planning a deluxe rerelease to celebrate. It’ll be the first album in Young’s catalog to receive such a treatment. The album might be paired …
Read More »Danzig Finally Sets Release Date for Elvis Presley Covers Album
Update:Danzig‘s Elvis-themed concerts in Los Angeles and San Francisco will now take place in either late June or July, according to his Facebook. He’s encouraging ticket holders to keep their tickets for the new dates. Original story: More than five years after Glenn Danzig first revealed plans to record an …
Read More »Watch Taylor Swift Perform 'The Man' Live in Paris
Taylor Swift has released a live video of her song “The Man,” recorded during a performance last September at Paris’ L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix. The singer teased the video ahead of release before dropping it at midnight. In the clip, Swift plays acoustic guitar and sings the track, which comes off …
Read More »Damian Lillard Talks Dame D.O.L.L.A.'s NBA All-Star Gig, Pusha T Collabo and His Historic January
Damian Lillard is still seething. Less than 12 hours before Rolling Stone’s scheduled interview with the NBA star’s hip-hop nom de plume Dame D.O.L.L.A., Lillard’s Portland Trail Blazers were victimized by a non-goaltending call on his game-tying lay-up, a mistake that inflamed both NBA Twitter and the usually mild-mannered Lillard. …
Read More »5 Highlights From James Taylor's New Audio Memoir
At the beginning of James Taylor‘s new audio memoir, Break Shot, the singer-songwriter summarizes his catalogue in relation to the tumultuous events within his family.“You could make a case that most of the songs I’ve written have been a way of trying to work out just what happened to us,” …
Read More »Jerry Seinfeld Readies First Comedy Book in 27 Years
Jerry Seinfeld is currently at work on his first book about comedy in 27 years, Simon & Schuster announced Thursday. The still-untitled book, expected out October 6th, is the Seinfeld star’s first book about comedy since his 1993 bestseller Seinlanguage. According to his publisher, Seinfeld organized the upcoming book by …
Read More »'The Turning' Review: Screw This
“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless” — so begins Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, an 1898 novella that’s the closest thing to a template for every haunted house story to thrill and chill you. If you’ve seen the 1961 classic The Innocents, or really …
Read More »Inside the Best Songs of 2019 on Rolling Stone Music Now Podcast
Welcome to 2020’s hottest new trend: nostalgia for 2019. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt for an in-depth look at last year’s music, mostly through the prism of its best songs, from Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cash Shit” (with …
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