Dave Chappelle helped Foo Fighters reopen Madison Square Garden for live music by making a surprise appearance and covering Radiohead’s “Creep.” A fan-shot video captured Chappelle sauntering onto the stage and delivering a casual and cool performance of the alt-rock standard. And although the comedian — reasonably enough — couldn’t …
Read More »Wolfgang Van Halen Tells All: His Debut Album, Playing in Van Halen and Much More
Wolfgang Van Halen, fresh from the release of the excellent debut album from his one-man band, Mammoth WVH, joins host Brian Hiatt for a revealing interview in the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. In the episode, Wolfgang talks about how he got Van Halen back together …
Read More »Kat Cunning Celebrates Trans Youth With 'Boys' Video
For Pride Month, Kat Cunning has released the music video for their new single “Boys.” The heartwarming clip serves as a tribute to transmasculine identity, with the entire cast and crew identifying as trans or non-binary. At the end, Cunning and the “Boys” cast are shown wearing jackets that spell …
Read More »Paris Jackson Performs New Song 'Freckles' on 'Red Table Talk'
Paris Jackson, daughter of the late Michael Jackson, appears on this week’s episode of Red Table Talk for an in-depth one-on-one conversation with Willow Smith. In an exclusive clip from the show, Jackson performs her song “Freckles,” which she wrote on acoustic guitar. Along with musical performances, Jackson and Smith …
Read More »Why California Is Building New Houses in the Path of Wildfires
This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. The West Coast housing market is metaphorically on fire — with rotting shacks selling for millions. Decades of policies to restrict housing in desirable neighborhoods has pushed prices up — and it has …
Read More »The Last Word: Lyor Cohen on the Future of Music
This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. A tour of Lyor Cohen’s career can be taken, rather efficiently, through the sheer number of rap lyrics in which he …
Read More »Watch Cheap Trick Play 'Dream Police' at First Post-Pandemic Concert
Cheap Trick played their first post-pandemic concert on Saturday evening at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. Their set mixed classics like “Surrender,” “Voices,” and “I Want You To Want Me” with deeper cuts like “Come On, Come On” and “Stop This Game,” plus selections from their new LP …
Read More »'Censor': British Horror, Banned Movies and Madness
They were called “video nasties” — those 1980s slasher flicks and splatter films filled with sexual violence, graphic depictions of murder and gallons of Caro syrup that, for a brief moment, were considered the root of all evil in Thatcher-era Britain. For years, some of the genre’s most extreme examples, …
Read More »A-ha Detail Evolution of 'Take On Me' in Documentary Clip
A-ha detail the evolution of their Eighties smash “Take On Me” in this clip from A-ha: The Movie, a documentary about the Norwegian New Wave band’s formation, success and disintegration set to premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. As the band reveal in the clip — and as keyboardist …
Read More »Neil Finn on Crowded House's Comeback LP and His Unexpected Stint in Fleetwood Mac
Right up until he joined Fleetwood Mac in 2018, Neil Finn felt it was very likely that Crowded House would never make another record. The band’s lineup had shifted several times over the years, founding drummer Paul Hester was dead, and an attempt to record a follow-up to 2010’s Intriguer …
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