“Holy shit, right?” Brandi Carlile asks, speaking with Rolling Stone a few short hours after learning about her six nominations for the 61st annual Grammy Awards, including Song, Album and Record of the Year. Carlile’s six nominations tie the singer with producer Boi-1DA for the third-most nominations of any artist …
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Rufus Wainwright is nearly half his life away from the start of his recording career, but at the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday night, songs from his first two full-length LPs sounded like they were written and recorded just that day. The show was part of the Canadian singer-songwriter’s All These …
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It’s a humid evening in late May when singer-guitarist Emir Mohsseni takes the stage at New York’s Mercury Lounge. He and his Brooklyn-based group, the Muckers, are opening for Mexico City’s Rey Pila, and as the Thursday night crowd shuffles in, several seem impressed by the danceable psych-rock coming from …
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Rob Sheffield recently stopped by our SiriusXM studio to break down his definitive listof the 98 best songs of 1998 on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. To check out the full episode, press play below or download and subscribe oniTunesorSpotify. Sheffield explained why he left off Britney Spears’ “…Baby …
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The Greatest Showman continues to blow past all odds and expectations. Since opening in theaters in December last year, the musical film — despite drawing largely tepid responsesfrom critics — has broken a litany of box office records and music chart records; its success has been so ludicrous that lead …
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The recording console used during the making of Led Zeppelin‘s IV – including “Stairway to Heaven” – and Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Catch a Fire will hit the auction block in December. The HeliosCentric console is actually an “amalgamation” of two separate Helios consoles – Island Records’ Basing Street …
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Kiss expanded their farewell “End of the Road” tour with a new round of 2019 North American dates. The second leg launches August 6th in Sunrise, Florida and wraps September 16th in Oakland, California. General public tickets go on sale starting Monday, December 3rd at 10 a.m. local time. The …
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Not a lot of major rock stars would launch a tour the day before Thanksgiving, as Bob Seger is doing tonight, but he has never been one to play by the rules. This is a guy that kept his music offline for nearly two decades after Napster forever changed the …
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Trumpeter Brian Newman teams with Lady Gaga for a jazzy rendition of “Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” one of the cuts that feature on the musician’s just-released new album Showboat. Gaga’s vocal prowess and Newman’s horn skills take center stage on the powerful version of the track popularized by …
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Mark David Chapman, who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980, recently told a parole board that he finally felt regret for what he did. “Thirty years ago I couldn’t say I felt shame and I know what shame is now,” he said at a hearing in August.“It’s where you …
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