Kendrick Lamar’s battle with Drake may or may not be over for good, but it’s clear that it was easily one of the greatest hip-hop beefs of all time, producing no fewer than nine separate songs — including Lamar’s current Drake-savaging Number One hit, “Not Like Us.”
In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we look back at the rapid-fire exchange of songs between the two artists, with Andre Gee joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. Go here to find the episode on...
In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we look back at the rapid-fire exchange of songs between the two artists, with Andre Gee joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. Go here to find the episode on...
- 5/17/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
From “Fortnight” to “The Manuscript,” the latest episodes of Rolling Stone Music Now dive into every single track of Taylor Swift’s longest album ever, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. Along the way, we debate larger issues, including whether Swift intends all 31 tracks to be seen as the album proper, or if the latter half — added by surprise on the night of release — is actually more of a collection of bonus songs.
Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt for the discussions, which also place every song...
Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt for the discussions, which also place every song...
- 5/5/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
On Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé mixes R&b, country, and some hard-hitting guitars, among many other elements, and as the artist herself is well aware, there used to be a name for that kind of American melange: rock & roll. She slyly acknowledges that fact with two Chuck Berry moments on the album, including a segment of “Maybellene,” his first hit, in which a Black genius helped invent rock & roll via revved-up country.
So, there’s an argument that Cowboy Carter — which the artist has made clear is a “Beyoncé album” rather...
So, there’s an argument that Cowboy Carter — which the artist has made clear is a “Beyoncé album” rather...
- 4/7/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock has been known to take as long as eight years between albums, but nearly three decades into his band’s career, he’s ready to pick up the pace. Three years after the release of the well-received The Golden Casket, he’s already recorded enough songs for a new Modest Mouse album with producers including Jacknife Lee and Dave Sardy, and intends to put one out by next spring. “In my early days of putting out records, I wrote music every fucking day,” he tells...
- 4/6/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Chris Pratt listened to a lot of old school music as his Guardians of the Galaxy character Peter Quill. But after a while, he didn’t enjoy the soundtrack nearly as much as his Star-Lord did.
Why Chris Pratt grew tired of Star-Lord’s music Chris Pratt | Anthony Harvey/Getty Images
Pratt did whatever he could to get into the head of his Star-Lord character in Guardians of the Galaxy. This meant working out rigorously for the role so he could get himself into superhero shape. But this also meant listening to Star-Lord’s music nonstop. When audiences are first introduced to Pratt’s Peter Quill in the first movie, the character is seen dancing around and listening to music. The music is a mix of songs Quill’s mother made for him back when he was still living on Earth.
To get into Quill’s headspace, Pratt spent...
Why Chris Pratt grew tired of Star-Lord’s music Chris Pratt | Anthony Harvey/Getty Images
Pratt did whatever he could to get into the head of his Star-Lord character in Guardians of the Galaxy. This meant working out rigorously for the role so he could get himself into superhero shape. But this also meant listening to Star-Lord’s music nonstop. When audiences are first introduced to Pratt’s Peter Quill in the first movie, the character is seen dancing around and listening to music. The music is a mix of songs Quill’s mother made for him back when he was still living on Earth.
To get into Quill’s headspace, Pratt spent...
- 4/5/2024
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Swifties have known since early February that Taylor Swift has a new album, Tortured Poets Department, due April 19, with some notably provocative song titles (“So Long London,” “But Daddy I Love Him”) and big-name guest stars (Post Malone, Florence Welsh). But since then, information on the album has been scarce, so fans have more than filled the void, passing around possibly fake leaked snippets of songs while pranking each other with both ChatGPT-generated lyrics and a ridiculous viral parody where an AI-generated Taylor sings lines like, “I’m so happy...
- 3/29/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Joni Mitchell will have a lot of company when she takes the stage on Sunday for her first-ever Grammy Awards performance. Her friend and collaborator Brandi Carlile will be performing alongside her, as will Jacob Collier, Allison Russell, SistaStrings, Lucius, and Blake Mills, according to executive producer Raj Kapoor. As for what they’ll be performing? “It will be a song that I think everybody knows,” Kapoor tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, “and if you are a Joni Mitchell fan, it’s the song that you want to hear.
- 2/4/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Burna Boy will be the first Afrobeats performer ever to play the Grammys at Sunday night’s ceremony — and he’ll be joined onstage by Brandy and 21 Savage, executive producer Raj Kapoor tells Rolling Stone Music Now. The collaboration will also mark 21 Savage’s Grammy performance debut, while Brandy hasn’t sung on the show since the Nineties. “It’s gonna be huge,” says Kapoor. “It’s gonna get everybody on their feet.”
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Kapoor breaks down what to expect from...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Kapoor breaks down what to expect from...
- 2/2/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The sessions started at Hollywood, California’s A&m Studios the night of Jan. 28, 1985, and didn’t end until well after sunrise the morning of Jan. 29. By that point, it was clear that nothing quite like “We Are the World” could ever happen again. The Greatest Night in Pop, a new documentary on Netflix, brings it all back to vivid life: co-writers Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie joined by Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and an improbably long list of other superstars, all crammed in...
- 1/29/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
One of last year’s most unexpected musical twists was the ascent of Zach Bryan, the rootsy singer-songwriter who sounds not unlike Bruce Springsteen or Jason Isbell — and went all the way to Number One on the Hot 100 with the ballad “I Remember Everything,” assisted by Kacey Musgraves. His self-titled fourth album was one of the best country/Americana releases of the year, but it’s only one of the unmissable 2023 releases in that category, from Jason Isbell’s own Weathervanes to Megan Maroney’s Lucky.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now,...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Boygenius-mania was only the most visible sign of the fantastic year indie rock had in 2023, with strong albums from newcomers (Blondshell, Kara Jackson), established stars (Mitski) and veterans (Wilco, the National). In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we go through some highlights of the year in indie albums.
Jon Dolan, Angie Martoccio, and Simon Vozick-Levinson join host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. Among many other topics, we touch on Mitski’s surprise hit “My Love Mine All Mine,” which our panelists agree isn’t even the...
Jon Dolan, Angie Martoccio, and Simon Vozick-Levinson join host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. Among many other topics, we touch on Mitski’s surprise hit “My Love Mine All Mine,” which our panelists agree isn’t even the...
- 1/22/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
“One of my secrets,” Snoop Dogg tells Latto in their recent Musicians on Musicians conversation, “is that I remain the biggest kid in the room at all times.” The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now includes highlights of that interview (moderated by Rolling Stone staff writer Andre Gee) along with the two interviews from our first-ever live Musicians on Musicians event: Lil Yachty’s conversation with Tierra Whack (moderated by Rolling Stone’s supervising producer of news video, Delisa Shannon), and a meeting of the minds between Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane.
- 12/30/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
“We didn’t know what we were doing,” says Josh Schwartz, creator of The O.C. For the show’s first few episodes, the music choices were simply plucked from his own iPod. But once the now-legendary music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas came aboard, the show turned into a weekly showcase for some of the best music of the ’00s — and a key force behind the mainstream rise of a certain brand of indie-leaning rock in that decade, from Death Cab for Cutie to the Killers. It didn’t hurt that...
- 12/25/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The further we get from the Nineties, the more it looks like a series of musical golden ages all stacked atop one another, a kaleidoscopic moment when grimy hip-hop and future-shock R&b hit artistic and commercial peaks at the same time as a procession of fuzz-pedal-toting rock bands found themselves at the center of pop culture.
It was the best-ever era for one-hit wonders, even as major labels — suddenly uncertain in era when Nirvana or Wu-Tang Clan could beat out manicured product — also threw money at career artists from Fiona Apple to Outkast.
It was the best-ever era for one-hit wonders, even as major labels — suddenly uncertain in era when Nirvana or Wu-Tang Clan could beat out manicured product — also threw money at career artists from Fiona Apple to Outkast.
- 11/29/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
In the Peter Jackson-directed video for the just-released “Now and Then” — touted as the “final Beatles song” — present-day Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are pleasantly haunted by the ghosts of John Lennon and George Harrison, and even their own younger selves. It’s hard not to think that life inside McCartney and Starr’s heads is a little bit like that on a daily basis, burdened as they are by the weight of history. And they may not be alone: “I walk the city at midnight/With the past strapped to my back,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Wu-Tang Clan’s debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), was more than an album — it was a universe unto itself. The album, which dropped Nov. 9, 1993, introduced the world to nine wildly talented rappers at once, along with the crackly genius of RZA’s soul-and-kung-fu-movie-inflected production and an entire cosmology of lyrical references. 30 years later, there’s still plenty to unpack, which we attempt to do on the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now.
Andre Gee joins host Brian Hiatt for a discussion of the album’s greatness and influence, and...
Andre Gee joins host Brian Hiatt for a discussion of the album’s greatness and influence, and...
- 11/10/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Britney Spears’ wrenching new memoir, The Woman in Me, is a classic celebrity tell-all — but she doesn’t quite tell all. There’s not a word in there about the recording her classic second album, Oops!… I Did It Again. Later, she mentions one of her greatest songs, “Toxic,” but again, there’s nothing about the process behind the track.
In the section about Spears’ lip-locked 2003 VMAs appearance with Madonna, Christina Aguilera — who, lest we forget, was also there — is written out of the performance altogether. And Spears never says...
In the section about Spears’ lip-locked 2003 VMAs appearance with Madonna, Christina Aguilera — who, lest we forget, was also there — is written out of the performance altogether. And Spears never says...
- 10/31/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is so dominant in theaters across the country that screenings of the Killers of the Flower Moon have had “Love Story” leaking in from next door during quiet moments. But the nearly three-hour-long Swift concert documentary is an intense theatrical experience in its own right, complete with singalongs, applause, and in some cases, young Swifties leaving their seats to stand, or dance, directly in front of the screen.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we share many thoughts on the tour and...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we share many thoughts on the tour and...
- 10/22/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
What kind of music should the world expect from a 36-year-old Drake? “I want to hear adult Drake rapping for adult people,” rapper-turned-podcaster Joe Budden said after hearing his new album, For All the Dogs. In lieu of any newfound maturity, the album is instead full of very Drake moments, including lyrics about a ruined Bahamas trip, the difficulties of dating 25-year-olds, Esperanza Spalding’s 2011 Grammy wins, and people thinking he’s still hung up on Rihanna. Meanwhile, critics noticed what they described as a growing misogyny in Drake’s work,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
For Teezo Touchdown, his sound started with his look. When the Beaumont, Texas singer/rapper went into the studio in 2019 to record what became the Panic at the Disco-sampling track “100 Drums,” he surprised himself by leaning hard towards rock influences — an approach that would become the template for his recent debut, How Do You Sleep at Night? “I already had made the change aesthetically of going to rock before I even did it sonically,” he says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “I was already painting my [face], I had the hair.
- 10/8/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Thirty years after the release of Nirvana’s final studio album, In Utero, there are somehow still new things to learn about the band, as original biographer Michael Azerrad proves in his upcoming expanded edition of his classic 1993 book, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. The new book, The Amplified Come As You Are (due Oct. 24) more than doubles the length of the original version, with new information from Azerrad’s original interviews, corrections (no, Kurt Cobain never actually lived under a bridge), and reflections on the initial text.
- 9/25/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Fleetwood Mac have unveiled Rumours Live, a live album taken from a concert the band performed at The Forum in Los Angeles in 1977. The record is out today, September 8th, via Rhino. Stream it in full below.
Rumours Live was recorded when Fleetwood Mac were at a zenith of their success. Rumours, their seminal album from February 1977, was No. 1 on the US Billboard 200, and the band was wrapping up its support tour. They rolled into Los Angeles for three shows at The Forum — the one that would go on to become Rumours Live was held on August 29th, 1977, performed to a crowd of nearly 20,000 fans. The set was recorded by engineer Ken Caillat using a mobile recording truck owned by the Recording Plant, the studio where the band recorded most of Rumours itself.
Listening to the version of “Dreams” from that night, the energy is palpable. Stevie Nicks’ inimitable voice...
Rumours Live was recorded when Fleetwood Mac were at a zenith of their success. Rumours, their seminal album from February 1977, was No. 1 on the US Billboard 200, and the band was wrapping up its support tour. They rolled into Los Angeles for three shows at The Forum — the one that would go on to become Rumours Live was held on August 29th, 1977, performed to a crowd of nearly 20,000 fans. The set was recorded by engineer Ken Caillat using a mobile recording truck owned by the Recording Plant, the studio where the band recorded most of Rumours itself.
Listening to the version of “Dreams” from that night, the energy is palpable. Stevie Nicks’ inimitable voice...
- 9/8/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Just two weeks ago, almost no one had ever heard of Oliver Anthony. Then, the Virginia-based country singer-songwriter, whose real name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford, went wildly viral with the instant Number One hit “Rich Men North of Richmond,” a raw, solo-acoustic, undeniably catchy track that combined righteous populist complaints about inflation and taxes with nasty swipes at welfare recipients. (He later clarified that he didn’t intend to attack the poor.)
As Rolling Stone pointed out early on, his initial rise was buoyed by heavy, curiously simultaneous support from conservative politicians and media figures.
As Rolling Stone pointed out early on, his initial rise was buoyed by heavy, curiously simultaneous support from conservative politicians and media figures.
- 8/25/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
If you really want to understand where Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” comes from, you have to go all the way back to Richard Nixon — and before that, George Wallace. Wallace, a former Alabama governor and segregationist independent candidate for president in 1968, got significant support from the country world, even holding fundraisers at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. After defeating Wallace that fall, Nixon saw the right-wing potential of country music, and invited Johnny Cash to the White House a couple of years later for a concert,...
- 8/7/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Producer/engineer Glyn Johns recorded the whole of the Let It Be sessions for the Beatles in 1969, and mixed a raw version of the album that wouldn’t be released for another 52 years — so he’s far from a fan of the Phil Spector-embellished album that came out in 1970. “He did a terrible job,” Johns says on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “Don’t misunderstand me — I respect Phil Spector for his early work tremendously. But somebody like Phil Spector shouldn’t ever be allowed near a band like the Beatles,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
When a “fan” threw a phone at Bebe Rexha onstage last month, it was just one of many bizarre and unsettling recent instances of misbehavior at shows. Concertgoers have pelted GloRilla with bottles, invaded Ava Max’s stage, and forced Pink to become part of a stranger’s grieving process by apparently tossing the ashes of a dead relative onstage. But those incidents are just the most visible signs of a depressing trend: Particularly since the pandemic, people seem to have completely forgotten how to behave at shows.
In the...
In the...
- 7/2/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham had a tumultuous relationship while with Fleetwood Mac. The American duo joined Fleetwood Mac as a couple, but their on-and-off romantic relationship led to many tense recording sessions with the band. One song on Rumours saw the pair going at it while the microphones were off, but they managed to halt their insults to record the song.
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham kept insulting each other while recording ‘You Make Loving Fun’
While Rumours is Fleetwood Mac’s most acclaimed and most successful album, it is riddled with stories of behind-the-scenes drama, especially with Nicks and Buckingham. At one point, the pair were a package deal. When Mick Fleetwood asked Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac, he refused unless Nicks could also join.
After their relationship deteriorated, they were still able to create excellent music, but their rocky relationship made it hard for them to be in the same room.
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham kept insulting each other while recording ‘You Make Loving Fun’
While Rumours is Fleetwood Mac’s most acclaimed and most successful album, it is riddled with stories of behind-the-scenes drama, especially with Nicks and Buckingham. At one point, the pair were a package deal. When Mick Fleetwood asked Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac, he refused unless Nicks could also join.
After their relationship deteriorated, they were still able to create excellent music, but their rocky relationship made it hard for them to be in the same room.
- 6/23/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When 20,000 people start showing up outside Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour stadium shows, it should become clear that something unique is happening. Streaming numbers make it clear as well: Seventeen years into Swift’s career, she’s managed to hit a new height of popularity. Call it Taylormania.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to discuss how Swift re-conquered the world after the 2019 release of Lover. (To hear the whole episode, go here to the podcast provider of your choice,...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to discuss how Swift re-conquered the world after the 2019 release of Lover. (To hear the whole episode, go here to the podcast provider of your choice,...
- 6/19/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Tina Turner died today at age 83, and the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast tells the story of her one-of-a-kind musical journey. Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt for the discussion, which delves into HBO’s acclaimed 2021 documentary Tina (which reveals the lasting trauma inflicted by her late ex-husband Ike Turner’s abuse) and her two autobiographies.
The episode explores the remarkable story of her ’80s comeback, while also making the case for Turner as a rock artist, a label she’s also long chosen for herself,...
The episode explores the remarkable story of her ’80s comeback, while also making the case for Turner as a rock artist, a label she’s also long chosen for herself,...
- 5/24/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Working with Fleetwood Mac during the Rumours era was not easy, and Lindsey Buckingham’s temper made things even harder. The band dynamics were in disarray, and their drug use was ramping up. Producer Ken Caillat said his job became even more complicated when Buckingham physically attacked him. He shared how following Buckingham’s demands landed him in a dangerous position.
Lindsey Buckingham | Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images Lindsey Buckingham grew violently furious with a Fleetwood Mac producer
While recording “You Make Loving Fun,” Caillat said Buckingham worked to get in an “aggressive place.” He believed this would make his playing better. While it might have, it also made him a challenge to be around.
“So, we started recording over our least favorite tracks,” Caillat wrote in his book Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album. “Things got hot and heavy as he got into his guitar solo.
Lindsey Buckingham | Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images Lindsey Buckingham grew violently furious with a Fleetwood Mac producer
While recording “You Make Loving Fun,” Caillat said Buckingham worked to get in an “aggressive place.” He believed this would make his playing better. While it might have, it also made him a challenge to be around.
“So, we started recording over our least favorite tracks,” Caillat wrote in his book Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album. “Things got hot and heavy as he got into his guitar solo.
- 5/23/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour, a stadium-shaking dance party built around last year’s album of the same name, won’t begin its U.S. run until a July 12 show in Philadelphia, but thanks to TikTok and YouTube, stateside fans already have a decent sense of the show. It begins with Beyoncé essentially serving as her own opening act via a mini set of ballads before exploding into a show built around the Renaissance album, with songs from her previous albums worked in among the new hits (or in some cases,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Kurt Loder, the original MTV News anchor (and a longtime Rolling Stone writer) was both taken aback and pleased by the outpouring of affection he received online this week after MTV News officially ended its 36-year run. “I think a lot of those people are just remembering their own youth,” he says in the new episode of our weekly Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “Saying, ‘Wow, that was a great time because, well, I was 15 years old.'”
Find the episode here at the podcast provider of your choice, go...
Find the episode here at the podcast provider of your choice, go...
- 5/15/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
By the time Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie had been a member of the band for years. Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham brought a new dynamic to the group and helped them rise to unprecedented success. McVie was happy to welcome them into the group. According to Nicks, though, she wouldn’t have been happy if she was in the same position. She said she wouldn’t have been as happy to welcome another woman into the band.
Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie | Fin Costello/Redferns Stevie Nicks said she wouldn’t have wanted someone like herself to join Fleetwood Mac if she was Christine McVie
Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, and Jeremy Spencer founded Fleetwood Mac in 1967, years before Nicks and Buckingham became members. The band underwent multiple lineup changes, and by 1974, McVie, her husband John McVie, and Fleetwood were on the hunt for a new guitarist.
Impressed by...
Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie | Fin Costello/Redferns Stevie Nicks said she wouldn’t have wanted someone like herself to join Fleetwood Mac if she was Christine McVie
Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, and Jeremy Spencer founded Fleetwood Mac in 1967, years before Nicks and Buckingham became members. The band underwent multiple lineup changes, and by 1974, McVie, her husband John McVie, and Fleetwood were on the hunt for a new guitarist.
Impressed by...
- 5/13/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
After threatening to quit his musical career if he lost the case, Ed Sheeran was, to say the least, highly relieved Thursday (May 4) when a federal jury ruled that his song “Thinking Out Loud” (co-written with Amy Wadge) doesn’t infringe on the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” But the entire community of professional songwriters was also watching the case closely, and with no small degree of trepidation. “If this case had turned out differently, it would have completely changed the landscape,” says James “JHart” Abrahart,...
- 5/8/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
When the anonymous songwriter/producer Ghostwriter recently dropped “Heart on My Sleeve,” a song built around the AI-cloned voices of Drake and The Weeknd, Universal Music Group moved instantly to remove it from streaming services. But one artist has reacted very differently to the emerging technology. Grimes, whose last album was 2020’s Miss Anthropocene, announced via Twitter on April 23 that anyone can use AI models of her voice “without penalty,” and that she’d split royalties 50/50 with the creator of any successful song doing so. It wasn’t an idle offer; this weekend,...
- 5/1/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Frank Ocean’s Coachella performance last Sunday (April 16) was so bizarre, beginning with the fact that much of it took place backstage, that some critics assumed it had to be a deliberate, brilliant deconstruction of expectations for festival headliners. Or something. Then Ocean himself said it “wasn’t what I intended to show” and canceled his performance for Coachella’s second weekend, a move his reps claimed was made on doctor’s orders due to a leg injury. All in all, it wasn’t what anyone expected from his first...
- 4/22/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
When Rolling Stone broke the news back in January that Boygenius — Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker — had reunited and made their first full-length album, it felt like the first time in ages that young music fans were truly excited about a band. The album in question, The Record, more than lives up to expectations, with Rolling Stone‘s Rob Sheffield giving it an “instant classic” rating.
The new episode of our weekly Rolling Stone Music Now digs deep into the band and the album, with Angie Martoccio, who wrote the cover story,...
The new episode of our weekly Rolling Stone Music Now digs deep into the band and the album, with Angie Martoccio, who wrote the cover story,...
- 4/5/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Christine McVie’s cause of death has been revealed as a stroke, with cancer as a secondary factor, People reports.
Upon her death in November 2022, the Fleetwood Mac artist’s family said she passed away “following a short illness.” But McVie’s death certificate, first obtained by The Blast, notes that she suffered an ischemic stroke, which occurs when a blood clot blocks or narrows an artery leading to the brain, preventing brain tissue from receiving oxygen and nutrients. She had also been diagnosed with “metastatic malignancy of unknown primary origin,” meaning cancer cells had spread throughout her body from an unknown place.
McVie’s death certificate also notes that the artist was suffering from “atrial fibrillation,” an irregular and often very rapid heart beat that can lead to blood clots in the heart. Atrial fibrillation increases the risk of stroke in patients.
McVie’s passing at the age of...
Upon her death in November 2022, the Fleetwood Mac artist’s family said she passed away “following a short illness.” But McVie’s death certificate, first obtained by The Blast, notes that she suffered an ischemic stroke, which occurs when a blood clot blocks or narrows an artery leading to the brain, preventing brain tissue from receiving oxygen and nutrients. She had also been diagnosed with “metastatic malignancy of unknown primary origin,” meaning cancer cells had spread throughout her body from an unknown place.
McVie’s death certificate also notes that the artist was suffering from “atrial fibrillation,” an irregular and often very rapid heart beat that can lead to blood clots in the heart. Atrial fibrillation increases the risk of stroke in patients.
McVie’s passing at the age of...
- 4/4/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Lana Del Rey hasn’t had a solo hit single since 2014, and she’s shown far more interest in pursuing her own singular aesthetic vision than in chasing the charts. “It’s not meant to be popular,” she said, flatly, in her first Rolling Stone cover story, right after the release of 2014’s noir-rock classic Ultraviolence. “It’s not pop music.”
Despite all of the evidence that she is, in fact, a brilliant, alt-leaning singer-songwriter, the world keeps categorizing Del Rey as a pop star — perhaps in part because she is,...
Despite all of the evidence that she is, in fact, a brilliant, alt-leaning singer-songwriter, the world keeps categorizing Del Rey as a pop star — perhaps in part because she is,...
- 3/27/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie bonded over being the only women in Fleetwood Mac, but according to the “Gypsy” singer, there’s one other musician who could have been “the third girl” in the group. Here’s which artist Nicks wished could have been part of the iconic band and what she said about her.
Stevie Nicks | Robin Marchant/Getty Images Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie made a pact as the only women in Fleetwood Mac
Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks are the best-known female members of the classic rock supergroup Fleetwood Mac. Bekka Bramlett sang with the band for two years, but Nicks and McVie have been affiliated with the group for decades.
Men dominated the rock and roll genre, so it was a big deal when singer Nicks became a figurehead of the band started by Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, and Jeremy Spencer. McVie joined the group in...
Stevie Nicks | Robin Marchant/Getty Images Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie made a pact as the only women in Fleetwood Mac
Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks are the best-known female members of the classic rock supergroup Fleetwood Mac. Bekka Bramlett sang with the band for two years, but Nicks and McVie have been affiliated with the group for decades.
Men dominated the rock and roll genre, so it was a big deal when singer Nicks became a figurehead of the band started by Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, and Jeremy Spencer. McVie joined the group in...
- 3/26/2023
- by Grace Turney
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood had an affair after the singer dated their Fleetwood Mac bandmate, Lindsey Buckingham. Here’s how Fleetwood described Buckingham’s reaction to the illicit romance.
(L-r) Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks | ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content Stevie Nicks regrets hurting people, but she’s not sorry for her affair with Mick Fleetwood
Singer Stevie Nicks and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac as a couple on New Year’s Eve 1974. Their relationship was already on the rocks, and it couldn’t hold up against the pressures of fame and working together constantly. Their bitter breakup inspired some of the band’s most popular songs, including “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams,” and “Silver Springs.”
After their breakup, Nicks had an affair with drummer Mick Fleetwood in 1977, during the Australian leg of the Rumours tour. Nicks was in a relationship with the Eagles’ Don Henley,...
(L-r) Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks | ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content Stevie Nicks regrets hurting people, but she’s not sorry for her affair with Mick Fleetwood
Singer Stevie Nicks and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac as a couple on New Year’s Eve 1974. Their relationship was already on the rocks, and it couldn’t hold up against the pressures of fame and working together constantly. Their bitter breakup inspired some of the band’s most popular songs, including “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams,” and “Silver Springs.”
After their breakup, Nicks had an affair with drummer Mick Fleetwood in 1977, during the Australian leg of the Rumours tour. Nicks was in a relationship with the Eagles’ Don Henley,...
- 3/25/2023
- by Grace Turney
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers for Episode 9 of “Daisy Jones & the Six,” titled “Feels Like the First Time.”
At the beginning of Episode 9 of “Daisy Jones & the Six,” viewers are greeted by a needle drop that may seem too good to be true: As Daisy (Riley Keough) wakes up from almost overdosing the night before, Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman” starts to play.
As the mystical track builds, Daisy realizes that her husband, Nicky (Gavin Drea), abandoned her while she was near death, leaving Daisy in the arms of Billy (Sam Claflin), her bandmate and frequent temptation. While Stevie Nicks sings “is it over now, do you know how?/ Pick up the pieces and go home,” Daisy yells at Nicky to “pack his shit up” and leave while the rest of the Six form a united front behind her.
Fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book,...
At the beginning of Episode 9 of “Daisy Jones & the Six,” viewers are greeted by a needle drop that may seem too good to be true: As Daisy (Riley Keough) wakes up from almost overdosing the night before, Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman” starts to play.
As the mystical track builds, Daisy realizes that her husband, Nicky (Gavin Drea), abandoned her while she was near death, leaving Daisy in the arms of Billy (Sam Claflin), her bandmate and frequent temptation. While Stevie Nicks sings “is it over now, do you know how?/ Pick up the pieces and go home,” Daisy yells at Nicky to “pack his shit up” and leave while the rest of the Six form a united front behind her.
Fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Taylor Swift has no fewer than four new albums — Lover, Folklore, Evermore, and Midnights — to cover in the Eras Tour, which was both an opportunity and a major challenge. It wasn’t hard to imagine that she’d end up sidelining the quieter material of Folklore and Evermore in favor of her stadium-shaking pop hits, but instead, she pretty much plays everything, every night.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Waiss Aramesh (who covered opening night in Glendale, Arizona for Rolling Stone), joins Brittany Spanos and host...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Waiss Aramesh (who covered opening night in Glendale, Arizona for Rolling Stone), joins Brittany Spanos and host...
- 3/22/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The 2019 edition of the annual Black List was unveiled by founder Franklin Leonard on Monday, and films about the band Fleetwood Mac, President Trump’s son Barron Trump and a meta-movie about Nicolas Cage are among the best, unproduced screenplays circling the industry.
The 15th edition of the Black List featured 66 different scripts, some of which already have financiers, while others are still seeking backing.
Among some of the notable titles is “Barron: A Tale of Love, Loss and Legacy,” a script by Nicolas Curcio that follows Barron Trump at age 10 ahead of the 2016 election as he attempts to sabotage his father’s 2016 presidential campaign after he fears what becoming part of the first family would have on his personal life.
“Rumours” is a musical biopic about the life of Stevie Nicks...
The 15th edition of the Black List featured 66 different scripts, some of which already have financiers, while others are still seeking backing.
Among some of the notable titles is “Barron: A Tale of Love, Loss and Legacy,” a script by Nicolas Curcio that follows Barron Trump at age 10 ahead of the 2016 election as he attempts to sabotage his father’s 2016 presidential campaign after he fears what becoming part of the first family would have on his personal life.
“Rumours” is a musical biopic about the life of Stevie Nicks...
- 12/16/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
For many, the story of Fleetwood Mac begins with the 1974 arrival of Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, the talented yet combustible American duo who ignited an explosive string of hits that continue to define the band. But Mick Fleetwood wants to move past those rumors. Fans of the group’s pop jewels would hardly recognize their original incarnation as one of the most respected British blues bands of the ’60s. Now the founding drummer is telling the tale of those formative years in Love That Burns: A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac, Volume One 1967–1974, a lavish new book by Genesis Publications due out Sept.
- 8/14/2017
- by Jordan Runtagh
- PEOPLE.com
The time machine has taken many forms over the centuries: Dr. Who, Bill and Ted all ventured through the fourth dimension in a phone booth; Doc Brown used a Delorean; Homer Simpson a toaster; and an illegal Russian energy drink was all it took to send a certain hot tub hopping through the spacetime continuum. When Broad City stars Ilana Glazer and Paul W. Downs, and writer/director Lucia Aniello, decided to put a stoner spin on the genre, they centered their time travel pipe dream around the only logical choice: A bong.
- 4/20/2016
- Rollingstone.com
On Sunday, movie fans will find out if Eddie Redmayne wins Best Actor for his performance as trans woman Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. Should Redmayne be victorious, he'd not only score back-to-back Oscars but he would also become the latest in a long line of actors who have courted Oscar attention by playing the opposite sex, playing a trans person or in some other way playing a character whose gender differs than the one of which the actors themselves identify. Not that it comes without some criticism, of course. Also up for an Oscar this year is the...
- 2/25/2016
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
When Cameron Crowe is firing on all cylinders, you can expect a few things from his films: great dialogue, sparkling chemistry between the cast, and great tunes. And while we'll have to wait for the full movie to weigh in on the first two points, on the latter, things are promising. Two new songs by Jónsi & Alex will feature on the soundtrack that will also include Hawaiian music legends Genoa Keawe and The Royal Hawaiian Serenaders, along with tracks by Beck, David Crosby, Fleetwood Mac, Kurt Vile, Josh Ritter, The Tallest Man on Earth, and more. Not too shabby. And today a couple new clips have arrived. Read More: Contest: Win The Soundtrack For Cameron Crowe's 'Aloha' With Beck, Fleetwood Mac, Kurt Vile, Jonsi & Alex, And More A pretty great ensemble including Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, Alec Baldwin, Danny McBride, John Krasinski, and Bill Murray...
- 5/27/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
This Friday, Cameron Crowe is taking audiences to Hawaii in the star-studded romance "Aloha." As we all know, a movie from the writer/director is always combined with a carefully curated and top shelf soundtrack, and today we have a handful of copies to give away to some lucky readers. Beck, David Crosby, Fleetwood Mac, Kurt Vile, The Blue Nile, Radical Face, The Tallest Man On Earth, and Jónsi & Alex are among the artists lending tracks to the film. These songs will power the movie that features Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, and Alec Baldwin in the tale of a celebrated military contractor who returns to the site of his greatest career triumph and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog (Emma Stone) assigned to him. Read More: Watch Bradley Cooper And Rachel McAdams Face Off...
- 5/26/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, and Madison Gate Records, the in-house record label of Sony Pictures Entertainment, have announced the release of Songs of Aloha (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), the extraordinary musical companion to the upcoming Sony Pictures/Regency Enterprises film, Aloha.
The soundtrack will arrive in stores and at all DSPs on May 26th; Aloha opens in theatres across North America on May 29th.
Songs of Aloha (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was curated and compiled by Academy Award®-winner Cameron Crowe (Say Anything…, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous), the film’s writer/director.
The 19-track collection gathers Crowe’s always wide-ranging musical selections, spanning such renowned artists as Beck, David Crosby, Fleetwood Mac, and The Blue Nile, contemporary singer/songwriters like Kurt Vile, Josh Ritter, and The Tallest Man on Earth, eclectic new acts including Radical Face and Evening Hymns, and acclaimed ambient/electronic musicians Vancouver Sleep Clinic and Jónsi & Alex,...
The soundtrack will arrive in stores and at all DSPs on May 26th; Aloha opens in theatres across North America on May 29th.
Songs of Aloha (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was curated and compiled by Academy Award®-winner Cameron Crowe (Say Anything…, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous), the film’s writer/director.
The 19-track collection gathers Crowe’s always wide-ranging musical selections, spanning such renowned artists as Beck, David Crosby, Fleetwood Mac, and The Blue Nile, contemporary singer/songwriters like Kurt Vile, Josh Ritter, and The Tallest Man on Earth, eclectic new acts including Radical Face and Evening Hymns, and acclaimed ambient/electronic musicians Vancouver Sleep Clinic and Jónsi & Alex,...
- 5/26/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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