In mid-December, Donald Fagen sat down in Sirius XM’s studios for an in-depth interview – his first since the September death of Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker – on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, hosted by Brian Hiatt. Here are some highlights from the conversation, which spanned the entire …
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Thomas Rhett‘s Life Changes LP is full of stories both heartwarming and heartbreaking, but few are as bittersweet as the one told in “Marry Me.” With a lyrical hook that goes “Yeah, she wanna get married / But she don’t wanna marry me,” it’s the kind of song that pairs …
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E Street Band guitarist and garage-rock aficionado Little Steven Van Zandt has put his own spin on the Ramones‘ festive anthem “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight),” adding a third verse about Frosty and Christmas carolers. He recorded the track, which sounds much grander in Van Zandt’s hands, …
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Maybe Kenny Omega’s head was still spinning from a loss of blood. After all, it hadn’t even been 48 hours since Chris Jericho busted him open with Omega’s own IWGP United States Championship belt. Or perhaps New Japan Pro Wrestling‘s first-ever U.S. titleholder was exhausted after exacting revenge on Y2J …
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For Christmas 1965, Paul McCartney presented his bandmates with a unique gift: a homemade record produced just for them, consisting of sampled songs, original sketches and avant-garde loops. “Something crazy, something left field, just for the other Beatles, a fun thing which they could play late in the evening,” he …
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UPDATE: The BBC announced they have suspended their relationship with Josh Homme following the Queens of the Stone Age‘s admission to kicking a photographer, The Telegraph reports. Homme had filmed a couple appearances for the CBeebies’ Bedtime Stories series; one episode that aired will not be rebroadcast, while another appearance …
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Niall Horan performed a sleek version of “Too Much to Ask” – a breakup ballad from his recently issued debut solo LP, Flicker – on Thursday’s Tonight Show. The former One Direction singer crooned over a stark piano pattern before the arrangement swelled with a lush electric guitar backdrop. In …
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In a professional world marred with contract disputes and conflicts over ownership rights, the WWE is usually the company flexing its muscles to withhold character names and keeping wrestlers’ gimmicks hostage. But this year, a long-enduring legal dispute kept the WWE from utilizing one of the most popular characters in …
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U2 returned to Saturday Night Live for the first time in eight years to perform a pair of tracks off their just-released new album Songs of Experience. “American Soul” opened with an animated lyric video that paired with Kendrick Lamar‘s spoken word intro; the song itself is a reworking of …
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Radiohead cautiously applauded Canadian authorities for opening a new investigation into the 2012 stage collapse in Toronto that killed the band’s drum tech, Scott Johnson. “Five years on from the Downsview Park Stage Collapse, we have learned that an inquest into Scott Johnson’s death will be formally announced later today,” …
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