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Rockin’ Ryan WELL, IF THAT ISN’T THE sexiest goddamn cover of ROLLING STONE I’ve seen in a long time! As a diehard fan of Ryan Adams, thanks for giving the man the attention he deserves. Love him or hate him, at least Ryan is always pushing the boundaries: long may it continue. Carissa Williams Killara, NSW Monkees Magic IT HAS BEEN AN ABSOLUTE pleasure reading RS 783 from front to back. I can honestly say it has been a long time since I have achieved this. Truly engrossing and enjoyable reading. Topped off with the Monkees scoring a single in the 2016 Top 25. Well, does that bring back memories to this subscriber in the older demographic grouping. L. Flanagan Beaconsfield, WA The Voice FINALLY AUSTRALIA IS slowly but surely…
LISTS BIG IN 2017? THE MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS From Springsteen to Kingswood, Drake to LCD Soundsystem, we list what we’re looking forward to hearing most this year. MOVIES OSCARS 2017 Complete coverage of all the best, worst and what-were-they-thinking moments from the 87th Academy Awards on February 28th. POLITICS TRUMP’S TIME Following his inauguration, we examine the 45th U.S. President’s first few weeks in office, including analysis of his cabinet selections. EXCLUSIVE LIVE AT RS This month we host stripped-back performances from Jimmy Eat World, letlive., Ayla, Cloves, Twelve Foot Ninja and Frank Carter. MUSIC NEWS, AROUND THE CLOCK Get breaking music news from ROLLING STONE’s award-winning staff of writers and reporters 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at RollingStoneAus.com FOLLOW US ON…
Guitar Hero Jam Tom Morello, Richie Kotzen, Nuno Bettencourt and Steve Vai performed together for the first time at a live event in Hollywood on January 11th. Fretboards may or may not have caught on fire. SEX-TALK Legendary Sex Pistol Steve Jones held court at the launch of his book Lonely Boy: Tales of a Sex Pistol with Scott Goldman at The GRAMMY Museum on January 10th in Los Angeles, California SOHO BOY Jon Bon Jovi is finally looking his age as he takes a walk in New York’s Soho Siamese Dream Cyndi Lauper and Billy Corgan played an unlikely cover of the Crystals’ “There’s No Other (Like My Baby)” in New York. “I’ve been a fan for years,” says Lauper. “He’s such a good guy!” HARD-ROCK LIFE Chris Rock…
IN LATE NOVEMBER, 40 years to the month after their debut album was released, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers got together to jam at their rehearsal space in L.A. “We mainly did cover songs,” says keyboardist Benmont Tench. “When we get together, we tend to do a lot of Chicago-style blues songs, but Tom was also making up songs on the spot. We were shaking off the rust.” The rust had built after a three-year hiatus from touring, the band’s longest break in 25 years.Butthe [Cont. on 12] Heartbreakers are making up for lost time in a big way, with a 40th-anniversary U.S. tour that begins in April and runs through August. Besides the anniversary, there’s another reason the tour could stand out: It might be, Petty says, “the last…
Guns N’ Roses JAN. 21-SEPT. 8 Against all odds, GNR’s “Not in This Lifetime” reunion tour went smoothly, with no late starts or signs of onstage tension from a band that fought famously. “Every day we do at least an hour soundcheck,” guitarist Richard Fortus recently said, “and we’ll play through different ideas, put stuff down on tape. It’s really organic.” Red Hot Chili Peppers JAN. 5-SEPT. 24 Coming off a European tour that produced their best ticket sales in more than a decade, the Chili Peppers return January 5th for a sweeping North American run. They’ve been playing all the hits, plus deeper tracks like “Aeroplane” and a cover of John Lennon’s “Watching the Wheels”. Bruno Mars MARCH 28-NOV. 11 After hitting Number One with 24K Magic, Mars sold…
NEIL YOUNG HAS A NEAR-RELI- gious faith in the power of spontaneity, from the first-draft, one-take brilliance of his best songs to the jagged path of his career as a whole. His urgent, political, occasionally jarring (there are some heavily Auto-Tuned vocals and computer voices) new album, Peace Trail, pushes that ethos to the max. “I would just get up in the morning,” says Young, who spent about a week recording the album with veteran drummer Jim Keltner and session bassist Paul Bushnell, “and pick up my guitar, and whatever I did, that was it. I built a song right on that and just wrote about what was on my mind. I’ve done a lot of records, made a lot of songs, played a lot of guitars, so I just…
