Rolling Stone is one of Australia’s longest-running magazines. Since 1971 it has been the premier music & entertainment magazine in Australia. It reflects both global and Australian popular culture with passion, honesty and attitude.
Queen of Pop MADONNA IS A TRUE INSPI- ration for anyone of any age or gender. She focuses on the fact that no matter what your age or gender, you don’t have to stop doing the things you love. The fact she can still go onstage and perform her heart out the same way she did 30 years ago is another reason why she’s a true inspiration to all women. Caitlin Hart, Green Point, NSW Talent Vs Looks WHILE KID ROCK (RS 762) may be a completely insane redneck, he has an extremely valid point about Beyoncé (and the likes) being the biggest thing on Earth without “a fucking ‘Purple Rain’ [or] at least one ‘Sweet Home Alabama’”. Music is so based on looks these days it’s hard to find…
LIST ROCK’S MOST ICONIC LOOKS Check out our guide to the most distinctive fashion in rock history, from Run-DMC’s gold chains to Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The U.S.A.-era blue jeans. HEAR ALBUM STREAM WE ALL WANT TO’S DEBUT The Brisbane indie rockers, led by ex-Screamfeeder frontman Tim Steward, release their new LP The Haze early this month. TV ‘GAME OF THRONES’ IS BACK OUR GUIDE The fifth season of Game of Thrones is finally here and we’ll cover all the action from all seven kingdoms. BOOK OLIVER MOL LIVING ONLINE We chat to the up-and-coming Australian author about his new semi-biographical book, Lion Attack!, as well as his unique comedic writing style and quest for complete cyberspace habitation. FEATURE ROYAL HEADACHE BACK WHERE THEY BELONG Our extended interview with lead…
Charli Blows Up Charli XCX busted out an inflatable prop at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London. “I wanted to make something dumb and stupid and ridiculous,” she says. SHARP-DRESSED MEN Billy Gibbons caught up with David Byrne at Carnegie Hall during rehearsals for a tribute to Byrne and Talking Heads. “His offbeat vision still rules his marvellous creations today,” says Gibbons. “A gifted artist!” POWER POP Madonna and Taylor Swift caught up at their surprise performance at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Said Swift on Instagram: “#MyFangirlLife.” LAST OF THE BREED Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson soundchecked before a sold-out run of shows in New Braunfels, Texas. “It’s a mutual-admiration society with us,” says Nelson. STREAM DREAM A dapper Win Butler joined Jay Z and Beyoncé at the all-star launch…
BLUR’S NEW ALBUM, ‘THE MAGIC WHIP’, BEGINS with a sombre tour manager and ends with a creative triumph. In May 2013, the English quartet were on a world tour, enjoying playing together again having welcomed guitarist Graham Coxon back into the fold after a long absence, when a cancelled show in Japan left them with five days off in Hong Kong. On hearing the news, Coxon had visions of sleeping in and swimming, but frontman Damon Albarn had a different thought: why not cut the comeback album that everyone was pressing the one-time Britpop heavyweights to make? They could begin the very next morning. Coxon, somewhat to his own surprise, found himself agreeing. “There was no build-up, no-one was saying, ‘We start in the studio on this day in a…
A FEW YEARS AGO, TOBIAS JESSO Jr. was living in L.A., trying to make it as a guitarist and songwriter, when, as he recalls, “everything went to shit”. The Canadian’s visa expired, and his relationship with his live-in girlfriend started crumbling. Then, in the span of a week, Jesso was hit by a car while riding his bike, slicing open his hand, and he found out his mother had cancer. Jesso moved back to Vancouver to live with his parents, picking up a job at a friend’s moving company. As his mum recovered, he started tinkering with his sister’s piano – an instrument he’d never played before – and wrote songs to work through his breakup. On a whim, he sent the tracks to Chet “JR” White of the now-defunct…
TWO YEARS AGO, SCOTT WEILAND was at a low point. He had been down before – a fact of life for one of rock’s most notorious junkies – but now he was a man without a band. Though he had been clean for years, Stone Temple Pilots fired him anyway, citing chronic tardiness and poor onstage performance. His other band, Velvet Revolver, had split in 2008, after a tumultuous tour in which members barely spoke to each other and sniped at one another in the press. Rather than going solo, Weiland assembled a group of L.A. musicians, named them the Wildabouts (after a line in Donovan’s “Mellow Yellow”) and hit the road playing a set of STP songs. “We got really tight as a unit,” says Weiland, 47. “It made…
