Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood went public earlier this week with the news that he spent part of the pandemic fighting off small-cell cancer. “I’ve had cancer two different ways now,” he told The Sun. “I had lung cancer in 2017 and I had small-cell more recently that I fought …
Read More »Hear David Gilmour, Peter Green Play Fleetwood Mac's 'Need Your Love So Bad'
A previously unheard recording of “Need Your Love So Bad” — a blues song that late Fleetwood Mac frontman Peter Green sang with the group in its early days — will come out in conjunction with the release of a new book about Green, The Albatross Man, this October. Rolling …
Read More »iLe Previews New Album With 'No Es Importante'
iLe asserts her independence over mournful keys in “No Es Importante,” a slow-rolling, nearly drum-less ballad that serves as the first offering from an as-yet-untitled upcoming album. In an email, the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter described her latest single as “a song that speaks from an intimate perspective, when you need …
Read More »Iceage Drop 'Gold City,' Map 2022 Tour
Ahead of their new album Seek Shelter, Iceage have dropped the new track “Gold City.” The song opens with a harmonica and searing guitar as Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s vocals enter. The frontman said of the song: “At home and enraptured in the fleeting moment, the sky becomes technicolor in its …
Read More »Deftones Team With 'Invisible Man' Director Leigh Whannell for New 'Ceremony' Video
The Deftones have dropped a new music video for “Ceremony,” directed by filmmaker Leigh Whannell, who helmed last year’s thriller The Invisible Man. The video stars Cleopatra Coleman as a woman who passes through a maze of increasingly secretive bars and clubs, with the price of admission taking stranger forms …
Read More »Bonnie Raitt, Indigo Girls Appear on 'No More Pipeline Blues (On this Land Where We Belong)'
Bonnie Raitt and the Indigo Girls are among the many voices featured on “No More Pipeline Blues (On this Land Where We Belong),” out on Earth Day (April 22nd) via Rock the Cause Records. The track supports the ongoing fight against Minnesota’s “Line 3” tar sands oil pipeline, which cuts …
Read More »Hear New DMX Song With Swizz Beatz and French Montana
A new song from Epix seriesGodfather of Harlem has arrived featuring late rapper DMX, Swizz Beatz, and French Montana. The track, “Been to War,” drops only days after DMX died at age 50 after suffering a heart attack. The song appears on the soundtrack to the second season of Godfather …
Read More »Oakland Rapper AllBlack Is Nothing If Not Grateful
Oakland MC AllBlack can’t help but laugh. Before getting on the phone with me in March, he was tending to a comedy of errors in his home. “They were mounting one of my TVs up on the walls, so I’m trying to talk to the TV mounters while I’m trying …
Read More »The Black Keys Preview New Album 'Delta Kream' With Ominous 'Crawling Kingsnake'
The Black Keys reconnect with the blues songs that informed their early years on the duo’s 10th studio album Delta Kream. Recorded in Nashville at the studio of Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach, the record finds Auerbach and Keys drummer Patrick Carney paying homage to bluesmen like R.L. Burnside, Junior …
Read More »How to Mix Sound for Masked Singers and Empty Arenas
This is the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s Music in Crisis series, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. When Alex Rangel headed into work on March 12th, 2020, as the lead audio engineer at Denver’s Ball Arena, his professional life …
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