Japanese Breakfast performed their slick new single, “Be Sweet,” as well as the very appropriate 2017 track, “Jimmy Fallon Big!” on The Tonight Show Monday. The performances were filmed at the Brooklyn venue, National Sawdust, and “Be Sweet” opened with Michelle Zauner strolling through the venue as her band jammed …
Read More »RS Country Music Picks for the Week of March 15th
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.) …
Read More »Sally Grossman, Bob Dylan Cover Icon and Wife of Manager Albert, Dead at 81
When Bob Dylan fans picked up copies of Bringing It All Back Home in 1965, they weren’t just struck by the electrified folk-rock of “Maggie’s Farm” and “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” Some were also intrigued by its cover, where a dapper Dylan was seen joined by a mysterious brunette in a …
Read More »Watch Spoon Tear Through Tom Petty's 'Breakdown,' 'A Face in the Crowd'
Spoon has revealed two Tom Petty covers, recorded earlier this year at the Catacomb in Austin, Texas. In the video above, Britt Daniel grooves through “Breakdown” from Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1976 debut album. They scale it back for Full Moon Fever‘s “A Face in the Crowd” (below), with Daniel …
Read More »Hear Gwen Stefani's Resilient New Song 'Slow Clap'
Gwen Stefani has dropped her new song “Slow Clap,” the singer’s first single of 2021 and follow-up to her throwback track “Let Me Reintroduce Myself.” Like that previous single, “Slow Clap” once again sees the singer returning to the reggae and ska roots of early No Doubt. Lyrically, Stefani addresses …
Read More »Beatles Producer George Martin: Secret EDM Pioneer?
Sir George Martin is best known, of course, for producing the Beatles, as well as Seventies albums by America and Jeff Beck. But early in his career, did he help popularize electronic music? Two unearthed recordings, to be reissued in May, hint at another, forgotten side of Martin’s story. In …
Read More »King Crimson's Robert Fripp, Toyah Willcox Cover Britney Spears' 'Toxic'
King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and singer/actress Toyah Willcox dropped a cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” and showed their support for Spears in her ongoing conservatorship fight. The cover was part of the couple’s quarantine series, “Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch,” and found them ripping through Spears’ 2003 hit in what …
Read More »DJ Snake, Selena Gomez Share Surreal Video for 'Selfish Love'
DJ Snake and Selena Gomez have teamed up for “Selfish Love,” their second collaboration after “Taki Taki.” The bilingual single will be included on Gomez’s upcomingRevelación EP, set to arrive on March 12th. “Selfish Love” is accompanied by a video directed by award-winning filmmaker Rodrigo Saavedra, which depicts Gomez operating …
Read More »Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield on Why Fiona Apple Is Her 'Icon & Influence'
Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee recalls hearing Fiona Apple for the first time in a dance class.“We did a dance to the song ‘Paper Bag,’ and I remember immediately being like, ‘I’ve never heard anything like this,’ and immediately just clocked it,” she told Rolling Stone for ourIcons & Influences video …
Read More »The Who Prep Giant 'The Who Sell Out' Reissue
The Who will rerelease their classic 1967 album The Who Sell Out as a giant reissue complete with studio outtakes, unreleased tracks, early takes, and Pete Townshend’s original demos for the LP. The Super Deluxe edition of The Who Sell Out, due out April 23rd via UMe/Polydor, boasts 112 songs …
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