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Any deep-delver into the Beatles‘ catalog is familiar with those raging pockets of sound where this band, so often remembered for their beautiful melodies and graceful harmonic transitions, could be one badass mother of a group. It’s easy to list favorites indicative of this hell-for-leather slant: the guitar duel on …

“I’ve never felt like a pop star,” Malcolm Young told Rolling Stone in 2008. “This is a 9-to-5 sort of gig.” Playing with AC/DC, the guitarist stood in the back, stone-faced, holding down the rhythm as his younger brother Angus soloed and stalked the stage in his trademark schoolboy outfit. …

Patrick Stump was listening to Fall Out Boy‘s almost-complete seventh album, Mania, in July when he realized there was a major problem: It wasn’t very good. “It freaked me out,” the singer says. “I was like, ‘I don’t think this is something the four of us will like, I don’t …

“Events have been happening very quickly in the last year, and it was about me being open to different energies and really listening,” Tori Amostold Rolling Stoneduring an August sit-downin New York’s Flatiron District. The artfully eccentric singer-songwriter says that unpacking and understanding this time period – both on a …

Now that details onBob Dylan’s new gospel-era collection Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979–1981 have surfaced, his team can turn their attention to future archival projects. Nothing is definite, but next year could finally see the release of a long-awaited documentary about the famed Rolling Thunder …

“When I listen to our early stuff now, I’m blown away by the sheer energy of it,” former Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton says. “It holds up pretty well. I think it’s really gonna surprise a lot of people.” The world will be able to share in Norton’s excitement this …