When Amanda Shires first got home from the road in March, she wandered into her barn, lost and confused. “I went from playing in three bands to playing in none,” she says. Shires’ tour had been cut short due to the coronavirus outbreak, and she had driven back to Nashville …
Read More »Flashback: Tom Waits Performs a Moving 'Jersey Girl' in 1986
Bruce Springsteen has no shortage of original songs about New Jersey that he could have played near the end of the Jersey 4 Jersey fundraising event on Wednesday night. “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” would have been a touching tribute to his adopted boardwalk town, while “My Hometown” would …
Read More »Marianne Faithfull Released From Hospital After Three-Week Coronavirus Stay
Marianne Faithfull was discharged from a London hospital Wednesday, more than three weeks after the singer tested positive for the coronavirus. “We are really happy to say that Marianne has been discharged from hospital today, 22 days after being admitted suffering from the symptoms of Covid-19. She will continue to …
Read More »Watch Queen + Adam Lambert Tweak 'We Are the Champions' in Quarantine
Queen + Adam Lambert performed a scaled-back quarantine version of “We Are the Champions” in an Instagram video posted Monday on their respective accounts. And they made one simple —yet significant —tweak, changing the titular pronoun from “we” to “you” in a display of solidarity. The clip unfolds in a …
Read More »Life Is Beautiful Festival Canceled Over COVID-19 Concerns
Las Vegas’ Life Is Beautiful Festival will not take place in 2020 due to concerns over COVID-19, organizers announced on Tuesday. The three-day arts and music festival, which hosted more than 175,000 attendees last year, was postponed indefinitely, with tentative plans to return in 2021. “We were more excited than …
Read More »These Black Light Flashlights Reveal Everything From Stains to 'Substances'
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There is a specific cohort of adults who remember the furtive thrill when, on MTV’s dating show Room Raiders, the contestant retrieved the black light flashlight to scan …
Read More »Hear Bob Dylan's Daring New Song, 'I Contain Multitudes'
“I Contain Multitudes” is Bob Dylan‘s second surprise new song in three weeks, making it seem increasingly likely that the Nobel Prize winner has a new album on the way — which would be his first collection of original songs since 2012’s Tempest. The Walt Whitman-referencing new song is much …
Read More »'In My Room' With Lucinda Williams
“I know we all lost friends and family members and it’s just a helluva thing to be going through, but I want to send out my best wishes to all y’all and let’s just hang in tough,” says Lucinda Williams, offering words of encouragement near the end of her four-song …
Read More »'Devs' Creator Alex Garland Breaks Down the Series Finale
This post contains full spoilers for all eight episodes of Devs. When Alex Garland’s sci-fi thriller Devs premiered last month (as the start of the new FX on Hulu imprint), I was dazzled by the presentation of the story, but just as frequently puzzled about what exactly was happening, and …
Read More »Car Seat Headrest Caution Against 'Hollywood' in Animated Video
Car Seat Headrest have shared the animated video for their new song “Hollywood,” the latest track off their upcoming LP Making a Door Less Open. “This song is about Hollywood as a place where people go to make their fantasies come to life, and they end up exploiting other people …
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