The Empty Hearts — Elliot Easton (the Cars), Clem Burke (Blondie), Wally Palmar (the Romantics) and Andy Babiuk (the Chesterfield Kings) — have announced the release of their new album, appropriately titled The Second Album, which arrives on August 28th via Little Steven’s Wicked Cool Records. It’s the follow-up to …
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Little Steven is prepping a new CD/DVD version of his RockNRoll Rebel box set that will feature three rare concert films. RockNRoll Rebel was originally released last December, a seven-LP/four-CD set that boasted Steven Van Zandt’s first six solo albums, over 50 unreleased tracks and a smattering of outtakes, B-sides, …
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Public Enemy recreated their classic “Fight the Power” video with footage from the George Floyd Protests to open the 2020 BET Awards. The iconic rap group were joined by a star-studded line-up of artists to help update the song with timely verses. Chuck D and Flavor Flav reunited for the …
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There’s only one cover on British soul singer Lianne La Havas‘ upcoming fourth album, but it kickstarted the entire recording process. On her self-titled album, the singer, whose blend of breathy coos and emotive belts makes her equally at home in a jazz club or rock venue, takes on Radiohead‘s …
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InRolling Stone‘s series At Work, we go behind the curtain with decision-makers across the fast-changing music business — exploring a range of responsibilities, burgeoning ideas, advice for industry newcomers, and more. Read earlier interviews here. Shane McAnally is a big advocate of finding a crew. When he arrived in Nashville …
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Henderson Clarke wasn’t sold on Jamaal Bowman. “Don’t vote for no politician that’s not coming into your neighborhood and getting their hands dirty,” he said Friday, speaking to dozens of demonstrators who had marched on the evening of Juneteenth from Lincoln Park in New Rochelle, New York, to the front …
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As art critic-cum-biographer Blake Gopnik lays out in this brilliantly granular, not un-critical 976 page hagiography, the man born Andrew Warhola branded “pop art” in many forms: painting, sculpture, photography, filmmaking, sound recording, TV broadcasting, magazine and book publishing, advertising, media appearances, persona creation. His influence still blares on all …
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It was two days before Donald Trump’s arrival, and in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa some ground rules were being laid down. America, incredibly, was just waking up to the fact that a century ago Greenwood included Black Wall Street, the most prosperous black neighborhood in the entire country. Then, …
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Run the Jewels’ masterful, furious new album, RTJ4, instantly became one of the most acclaimed releases of the year, and its themes couldn’t be more timely. The new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast features Jamil Smith’s revealing, wide-ranging conversation with the duo’s Killer Mike about everything from …
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Thirty years ago this month, 120,000 rock fans gathered at the grounds of the Knebworth House in Knebworth, England, for one of the biggest all-star concerts in the history of the U.K. The lineup featured Tears for Fears, Status Quo, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, Robert Plant with surprise guest …
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