Ziggy Marley has shared a new song, “Play With Sky,” off his newly announced album More Family Time, out September 18th. “Play With Sky” is an upbeat, cheerful duet that features Ben Harper. “I’m going to outside, gonna play with the sky,” Marley sings in the opening lines. “Running wild/Play …
Read More »Colter Wall Is Restless and Broke in Cover of Fifties Ballad 'Cowpoke'
Stan Jones wrote one of Western music’s signature songs, “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” But it’s another Jones composition, the restless “Cowpoke,” that Colter Wall interprets on his upcoming album, Western Swings & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs. The song, originally cut back in 1951 by Elton Britt and the …
Read More »Motörhead Prep Massive 'Ace of Spades' Box Set for Fall
Motörhead’s commercial breakthrough, Ace of Spades, will be the subject of a massive reissue this fall with two previously unreleased live albums and a clutch of alternate versions of the album’s songs. The group is previewing the collection with a previously unheard, gritty live version of the ripping title track …
Read More »Lydia Loveless Previews New Album 'Daughter' With Rocking 'Love Is Not Enough'
Lydia Loveless has announced her new album Daughter, the singer-songwriter’s first collection of material to be released on her own label. The LP comes four years after Loveless released 2016’s Real. “I took a break because I was exhausted,” the Ohio-bred singer-songwriter says in a statement. “But it was also …
Read More »Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Channeling the Protest Movement into Real Change
The last of Ayanna Pressley’s hair fell out in the middle of December, on the day before the Massachusetts representative and the rest of the House voted on President Trump’s articles of impeachment. Losing her crown of Senegalese twists — the signature hairstyle that Pressley, 46, had been wearing since …
Read More »Emerging Pop Star Renforshort Talks Missing Friends, Being 'Over' Zoom Writing Sessions
Lauren Isenberg, known to the world as Renforshort, had just come back home to Toronto from a tour in Europe a week before the coronavirus pandemic put her city on lockdown. “I went back to school for a week, and a lot of my close friends don’t go to my …
Read More »Sun Ra Arkestra Revisit Jazz Legend's Classics on New Album 'Swirling'
The Sun Ra Arkestra will revisit some of the late jazz legend’s classic compositions on the outfit’s new album Swirling, their first studio LP in over 20 years. Under the direction of bandleader Marshall Allen, the Arkestra convened in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Soundworks to record new arrangements for Sun Ra standards …
Read More »Metallica to Release 'S & M2' Live Album, Concert Film With San Francisco Symphony
Metallica’s second go-round with the San Francisco Symphony will feature on an upcoming live album and concert film documenting the band’s S&M2 shows. Recorded September 6th and 8th, 2019, at San Francisco’s Chase Center — the first-ever concerts at that new arena — the gigs found Metallica collaborating with the …
Read More »Hear Yo La Tengo's New Ambient Song
Yo La Tengo released a new ambient track, “James and Ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds (Monday),” and launched their Bandcamp page. The nearly six-minute track, which cycles between a pair of droning chords, emerged from an loose collaboration between Ira Kaplan and James McNew in the band’s Hoboken, …
Read More »The Best Universal Remotes to Control Your Entire Home Theater
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Choosing the right TV, audio gear, and media streamer solves most of your home theater system problems, but creates a big one: multiple remotes. Turning each component on, …
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