For the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Patrick Doyle sat down with Gary Clark Jr. in our Sirius XM studio for a definitive interview that covers Clark’s entire career. Among many other topics, he discusses his early days in Austin (as a kid, he wanted to …
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Three days before Christmas, Chris Isaak’s longtime bass player Rowland Salley headed for LAC+USC Medical Center, where former Isaak guitarist James Calvin Wilsey, the man behind the dreamy sound of Isaak’s multimillion-selling hit, “Wicked Game,” was hospitalized. “I’d driven to the L.A. hospitalto see him,” Salley said. “I took my …
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Like many singer-songwriters, Olivia Hally and Pepita Emmerichs are good at pouring their melancholy into their music. But that only hints at what makes the Australian duo, who record as Oh Pep!, so great. They’re even better at transforming mundane experiences into anecdotal gold, as heard on their recent LP …
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“Got paid £8 for 90,000 plays. Fuck Spotify.” British electronic-music pioneer Jon Hopkins, writing on Twitter back in 2011, is definitely responsible for the most succinct public attack on the world’s biggest music subscription service. The most memorable attack, however, undoubtedly came from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. Five years ago, Yorke …
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