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“Ozzy says he’ll keep his fingers in the touring pie. Let’s not see him mumbling ‘Crazy Train’ when he’s 75.” Crazy Collab THANKS FOR THE GREAT Paul McCartney feature [RS 779]. I had to laugh when ol’ Macca said he made a deal with Kanye that if their collaboration “doesn’t work, we won’t tell anyone”. My question is: who broke their promise? That turkey of a song should have stayed in the “never to be released” vault, and the key thrown away for good measure! Pete Harrison, Bunbury, W.A. A Family Affair ZAPPA WAS SUCH A COOL, talented and before-his-time guy – and the family has gone on with that coolness, haven’t they? What a surprise to find out the children of the pioneering art rocker are locked in this…
MUSIC 25 YEARS OF ‘NEVERMIND’ Revisit Nirvana’s landmark with a deep dive into the making of the album and the mysteries behind it. MUSIC LIVE LODGE WRAP-UP We present an exclusive all-access pass to Rolling Stone’s 2016 Live Lodge, featuring interviews, photo galleries and live videos. INTERVIEW STEVIE NICKS ROAD STORIES Nicks talks set lists, staying happy, and Prince-like stamina: “We’re gonna go on for two hours and then go find a club and play the other 14 songs.” WATCH LIVE AT RS OFFICE Our ongoing video series continues. This month we present live performances from Foy Vance, Lisa Mitchell, Passenger and Gooch Palms. MUSIC THE LAURELS INTERVIEW Full extended interview with the Sydney quartet on the line-up changes that led to style-shifting new album Sonicology. MUSIC NEWS, AROUND THE…
Summer’s Last Bash For the fifth time, the Budweiser Made in America festival invaded Philly’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. This year featured big sets by Coldplay, Rihanna and more. But the real show was backstage, where Bill Clinton mingled with fest founder Jay Z, along with Alex Ebert, and Malia Obama hung with Beyoncé and Chance the Rapper. Katy’s Desert Trip Last year, Katy Perry made news for falling off a Segway scooter at Burning Man. This year went off without a hitch: “Alive!” she wrote from the Nevada festival, where other big names included Cara Delevigne and Diplo. VMAs 2016: Beyoncé Slays, Everybody Else OK Britney returned, Kanye rambled and Beyoncé put everyone else to shame with her middle-fingers-up Lemonade set as the Video Music Awards headed back east to…
Beck Title TBD Late spring TBC When he hit the road behind 2014’s Grammy-winning Morning Phase, Beck started noticing a lot of younger faces in the crowd. “It felt like starting over,” he says. That encouragement, along with listening to the music of Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper, inspired Beck to return to the beat-driven sound of his classic albums like Ode-lay and Midnite Vultures. He teamed up with his former bandmate Greg Kurstin (who’s worked with Adele and Tegan and Sara), shaping songs with big hooks and hazy harmonies, including “Seventh Heaven” and “Wow”. “We’d go off on a Talking Heads kick, and then we’d come back six months later listening to something else,” says Beck. “The record started to find an identity. My constant overriding thing…
David Crosby Lighthouse October 21st Crosby wrote with bassist Michael League of the jazz group Snarky Puppy, who Crosby says brought him back to basics: acoustic guitars and stacked vocal harmonies. CRX New Skin October 28th Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi was the last remaining member of the group not to form a solo band – until now. With producer Josh Homme, he recorded a catchy power-pop set full of Strokes-y twin-guitar breakdowns. “That’s my bread-and-butter,” Valensi says. Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker October 21st The 82-year-old will release his third album in just four years, a nine-song set produced by his son Adam. A.B. Original Reclaim Australia Late spring “It was the right time politically for [this] to happen,” Briggs says…
1 POKEMON WOAH! The Florida punkers – who released their sixth LP, Bad Vibrations, last month – are at the tailend of a three-month U.S. tour with Blink-182. “They’re probably in our top three most influential bands of our career, it was the best case scenario for us,” says singer Jeremy McKinnon. Blink immediately made ADTR feel welcome: “Mark Hoppus started playing Pokemon Go with us, we were playing that a lot at the beginning of the tour,” laughs McKinnon. 2 PICKIN’ UP BAD VIBRATIONS To create their latest album, the band decamped to rural Colorado and spent a month writing 40 songs. By the fourth week, the cabin fever had got to them, as reflected in the title-track. “It got to that point near the end, just cos we…
