Rolling Stone Australia February 2017

Fired Up Stones GREAT TO SEE THE REAL ROLL- ing Stones finally out of hiding and seriously back in town with their gutsiest effort since Exile On Main St. Mick’s wailing harmonica exploits along with Charlie’s super-charged timekeeping highlight a hard-hitting band once again playing at the top of its game. Stay around, guys – you can still do it! Christopher Lynch Kilsyth, Vic Mining Music UNDERGROUND DEEP IN A coal mine I’m without music for up to 12+ hours a day, so being able to read your mag on my lunch break is great. If I can’t hear it at least I can read about it. Keep the bloody good interviews coming, and the bang on reviews, ta. Dan Middlemount, QLD The Voice AS A TEENAGER OF 15 IN…

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Tongue Inspo The Voice (US) judge Miley Cyrus got to meet rock legends KISS when they appeared on a recent episode of the show. Of particular interest for Cyrus was Gene SImmons, a pioneer of the tongue-out aesthetic. “Finally met my match!” said Cyrus via instagram. “Somebody who sticks their tongue out as much as me! #OGTongue !!!! Fuck yeah Kiss! So bad ass tonight!” CRUISE CONTROL Joe Jonas rode the zip line on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. His new band, DNCE, also played a gig onboard to celebrate their new Prince-influenced LP. ROYAL RAGERS Lorde says Taylor Swift threw her “the best birthday” – and updated fans about her second album: “The party is about to start.” Check Your Hate! “This is homegrown terrorism for real,” said Adam…

1 Beyoncé Lemonade Beyoncéshuteveryone else down this year with a soul-on-fire masterpiece, testifying about love, rage and betrayal that felt all too true in the America of 2016. The queen delivered a confessional, genre-devouring suite that’s larger than life yet still heartbreakingly intimate, because it doubles as her portrait of a nation in flames. She dropped Lemonade as a Saturday-night surprise after her HBO special, moving in on every strain of American music from country (“Daddy Lessons”) to blues metal (“Don’t Hurt Yourself”) to post-punk-gone-Vegas dancehall (“Hold Up”) to feminist hip-hop windshield-smashing (“Sorry”). Even with “All Night” as an ambiguous resolution, it’s a whole album of hurt, which is why it especially hit home after the election. Beyoncé explores what it’s like to get sold out by a lover –…

1 Beyoncé Formation Beyoncé dropped this battle cry at the Super Bowl, shocking the nation with her Black Panther-inspired imagery. “Formation” was the omnipresent hit that just seemed to get more massive and demanding with time. Even before the rest of Lemonade existed, it stood as Bey’s most lyrically defiant and musically militant statement about who she is, where she’s from and where she’s going, declaring, “My daddy Alabama/My ma Louisiana/You mix that Negro with that Creole make a Texas bama.” That Mike Will Made It synth hook is the hot sauce in her bag, an ominous warning siren. From an artist who’s already spent so long at the centre of American culture, it was a statement of blackness and feminism, and a party invitation nobody could resist. “Formation” is…

1 Pink Floyd The Early Years 1965-1972 Here is the ultimate saucerful of secrets: the definitive alternate history of this band’s odyssey from madcap psychedelia to megastardom in more than two dozen hours of rare audio and video, including film scores and unique collaborations. Early TV clips chart Syd Barrett’s shocking psychic descent; the next five years with David Gilmour show the Floyd pressing through inner space, soon to land on The Dark Side of the Moon. A two-CD set collects 27 highlights. 2 Bob Dylan The 1966 Live Recordings The set lists were the same every night. But it was always a different shootout as Dylan took his transformations in singing, writing and electricity on the road – driving audiences to fury and ecstasy, revelling in the amplified power…