Following the release of Elvis Costello’s massive Armed Forces reissue, the singer has shared an updated video for one of the album’s standout tracks, “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?” The new visual for the 1979 track features artwork by both Costello and the late graphic designer Barney …
Read More »Nile Rodgers on 'A Love Supreme': 'It Felt Like I Was Getting a Look Into Coltrane's Soul'
Nile Rodgers still remembers the first time he heard what would become his favorite album of all time: John Coltrane‘s A Love Supreme. The guitarist grew up in what he describes as a “jazz household” in New York’s Greenwich Village, and one day, his stepfather came home with the deeply …
Read More »Rolling Stone and Rizzoli Celebrate Mag's Iconic Art in 'Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits'
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Rolling Stone and Rizzoli International Publications are celebrating the magazine’s rich history of incredible original illustration in a new book, titled Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits. Available on …
Read More »Watch Bruce Springsteen Honor Vietnam Vets on 'The Wall'
Bruce Springsteen has written many heartfelt songs about the plight of America’s veterans, from 1984’s “Born in the USA” to 2005’s “Devils and Dust.” But perhaps the most personal one came in 2014 when he released “The Wall” in honor of his teenage buddies Walter Cichon and Bart Haynes. Cichon …
Read More »David Bowie's 'Brilliant Live Adventures' Set to Continue With 'No Trendy Réchauffé'
The second installment in the posthumous David Bowie live series, Brilliant Live Adventures, will capture a 1995 show in Birmingham, England, and arrive November 20th via Parlophone Records. No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham 95) was recorded at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre on December 13th, 1995 as part of the Big …
Read More »Artists Who Don't Repurpose Their Music Are Leaving Money on the Table
It doesn’t matter what kind of artist you are — a weekend-warrior cover band, a multi-platinum singer-songwriter, or a composer, or an instrumentalist — because musicians everywhere are coming to terms with the wrench that Covid-19 has thrown into their livelihoods. The majority are dealing with big losses in income …
Read More »A Guide to Watching the Election Without Losing Your Mind
Election Day 2020 is going to be a wild one. There are two big reasons for this. The first is that Covid-19 has led an unprecedented number of Americans to use mail-in ballots, and different states have different procedures for counting them. This usually doesn’t matter, but since there are …
Read More »'The Mandalorian' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Cowboys and Aliens
The Mandalorian is back for its second season, and we have a review of the premiere, “The Marshal,” coming up just as soon as both suns shine on a womp rat’s tail… Among the many pleasures of Mandalorian Season One was its briskness. Many episodes clocked in between 30 and …
Read More »RS Recommends: 'Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850s-1950s'
In his excellent biography of art curator and collector Sam Wagstaff, Philip Gefter notes how the rise of the gay rights movement in the early 1970s occurred at the same time as the growing interest in photography as an equal among the arts. Once he was turned on to photography …
Read More »Beabadoobee Perfectly Channels the Nineties on 'Fake it Flowers'
In 2019, a new singer-guitarist from London with the intriguing name Beabadoobee released “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus,” an immediately addictive swirl of buzzing guitars and lyrics about her blue hair and mutable moods and sitting at home crying to Pavement while loving every minute of her journey from …
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