Cat Power, a.k.a. Chan Marshall, released a video for the sparkling “Horizon” from her 2018 album Wandering. The singer also announced a fall headlining tour. Directed by Greg Hunt, the video depicts scenes in both black and white and color, featuring Marshall’s loved ones—a little girl and her father, a …
Read More »Nick Cave to Field Audience Questions on Fall Tour
Update:Nick Cave has added a new New York date. The event will take place on September 21st at the Rose Theater. Nick Cave will return to North America this fall with his unique question-and-answer tour, answering anything his fans dare to ask him. In between the unscripted interrogations, he’ll perform …
Read More »Watch Adam Sandler Perform Touching Chris Farley Tribute on 'SNL'
Adam Sandler closed out his return to Saturday Night Live by performing a touching tribute to his friend and fellow cast mate Chris Farley. Sandler previously played his Farley tribute in his 2018 Netflix stand-up special 100% Fresh, but Saturday’s rendition was especially poignant considering the two comedians were cast …
Read More »Review: Filthy Friends Mourn the State of the World on 'Emerald Valley'
Sleater-Kinney‘s Corin Tucker titled the second album by Filthy Friends — her side project with former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck — after a nickname for her hometown of Eugene, Oregon. She makes it sound like a desperate place on Emerald Valley, where wealthy insurgents have pushed out the area’s farmers …
Read More »See Susan Tedeschi, Dave Matthews Band Cover Neil Young's 'Cortez the Killer'
Dave Matthews Band welcomed blues singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi to the stage on Wednesday night for a searing take on Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer.” The 11-minute version of the sprawling epic, originally found on Young’s 1975 album Zuma, was performed during the band’s show at the Vystar Veterans Arena in …
Read More »With the Formation Suite & Powerbeats Pro, Two Audio Brands Look to the Future, From Very Different Pasts
Early one evening last month, in a charming countryside house about an hour or so away from the U.K. headquarters of Bowers & Wilkins, the 53-year-old performance audio brand was beginning to find its way again. Set among an idyllic British landscape of grassy knolls and tall trees and pools …
Read More »Three Saxophone Cases for Max Sax Protection
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Traveling with your saxophone should be as smooth as the music that comes out of it. But unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Travel can be unexpectedly rough, …
Read More »Field Notes From the Rock Critic Wars
Robert Christgau is one of the most influential rock critics of all time. He’s also an invaluable book critic, and now he’s releasing Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading, via Duke University Press, a collection of reviews covering everything from fiction to cultural theory …
Read More »Woodstock 50 Canceled
Woodstock 50 – scheduled to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the legendary music festival – has been canceled. Although the all-star lineup – featuring Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, Dead & Company, the Raconteurs and dozens more, including acts from the original Woodstock fest – was announced in early March, tickets …
Read More »Bill Maher Destroys Special Counsel Robert Mueller
Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time, went after Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday for not prosecuting “corrupt” President Donald Trump. The comedian criticized Mueller’s “Boy Scout” way of “playing it by the book” during a time when America is “off book.” Maher began his “New Rules” segment by …
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