Phish frontman Trey Anastasio fittingly covered Bon Iver‘s “Towers” during a concert in Justin Vernon’s hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Monday. JamBase shared a fan-shot video of the performance in which Anastasio turns the lush tune into acoustic ballad. “Oh, the sermons are the first to rest/ Smoke on Sundays …
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Kesha has announced a new studio album,High Road, in a fiery trailer released Monday. This will be her first album since 2017’s Rainbow. Intercut with footage that’s made to look like a vintage travelogue, Kesha explains in a sit-down interview what we should expect from her next album. “I’ve seen …
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A recent episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast tells the story of the Cars‘ Ric Ocasek, who went from struggling folk musician to MTV hit-maker to go-to alt-rock producer. David Browne joins host Brian Hiatt to share details from his reporting on Ocasek, who died in September at …
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“Where is Elton?” yelled a guy in the back benches halfway through the Rocketman: Live in Concert experience at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles Thursday night. The one-night-only event featured the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra scoring the Elton John biopic live to picture, as the film was projected before a …
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Beck has detailed his upcoming album Hyperspace and shared a pair of new tracks from the LP, single “Uneventful Days” and album opener “Hyperlife.” Hyperspace, Beck’s followup to 2017’s Colors, arrives November 22nd. Like its predecessor, “Saw Lightning,” “Uneventful Days” was co-written and co-produced by Pharrell Williams. While the previous …
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“Hey, cowboy!” Even in a city where everyone’s seen it all, the sight of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is still enough to turn a few heads, including one of a guy plopped down outside a bodega. On a recent summer morning, Elliott has returned to his former stomping, singing, and drinking …
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In 1961, a young Jerry Garcia met another struggling artist: writer and musician Robert Hunter. For more than 30 years until Garcia’s death in 1995, the two were friends and songwriting partners; with Garcia supplying the music and Hunter the lyrics, out came most of the Grateful Dead’s most enduring …
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A blood-soaked fable, the latest from South Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho (The Host, Snowpiercer, Okja) starts simply: The dirt-poor Kim Ki-Taek (the superb Song Kang Ho, a Bong regular) is out of work. He and his wife Chung Sook (Jang Hye Jin) squeeze into a dumpy sub-basement where strangers …
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Michelle Williams nabbed her first Emmy for Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, for her role as Gwen Verdon in Fosse/Verdon, at the 2019 awards ceremony. In her acceptance speech, she noted the importance of equal pay in the industry, as well as creating healthy and productive work …
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The third Democratic presidential debate in Houston delivered. The diverse field — narrowed to the top 10 candidates, all sharing the same stage — engaged in a spirited disagreement about Medicare for All, grappled with the party’s (and Barack Obama’s) record on immigration and deportation, as well as shared personal …
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