A day before the 50th anniversary of Blue, Joni Mitchell has revealed a digital EP of outtakes and demos. The highlight of the five-track EP is “Hunter,” an outtake that was only released on the live albumAmchitka, the 1970 Vancouver Greenpeace benefit Mitchell performed with James Taylor. In addition to …
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Rostam has released an expanded edition of Changephobia via Matsor Projects/Secretly Distribution, which features his new covers of the Clash’s “Train in Vain (Stand by Me)” and Lucinda Williams’ “Fruits of My Labor.” While he stays true to the general tone of both covers, he puts his improvisational spins on …
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When a platform is free, you might assume everyone will want to take advantage of it. However, if a customer isn’t spending their hard-earned money on that tool or app, it can also be just as easy for them to forget about it. It can be difficult to encourage repeat …
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The moment Richard Coble has been anticipating will arrive in just over a month. At Dallas’ Globe Life Field on July 24th, the tour manager will gather together the members of Green Day from a warm-up room and walk them to the stage for the first show of their long-delayed …
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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. When Doris Muñoz met Cuco, one of the first things she told him was that his art was pure and should …
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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. People wrote off Lil Nas X as a fluke. His self-released country-and-rap medley “Old Town Road” had pulled in blockbuster streams …
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WASHINGTON — When Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) announced his opposition to the Democrats’ sprawling reform bill to rein in dark money, gerrymandering, and voter suppression, that bill, the For the People Act, was declared all but dead. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), however, says reports of the bill’s death are, …
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When Liz Phair released Soberish this June, it ended an 11-year hiatus between studio albums. “It’s weird to come back and participate in the promotional cycle, and have the business changed so much,” says the songwriter, 54. “And then adding Covid to that has been . . . the word ‘zany’ just came to …
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A new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now celebrates Bob Dylan‘s 80th birthday, starting with a look at our definitive new list of the top 80 Dylan covers, from Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower” to Sam Cooke’s “Blowin’ in the Wind.” Angie Martoccio, David Browne, Andy Greene, and Simon …
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Ranked-choice voting. You’ve heard a lot about it. Maybe you’ve read a lot about it, too. Maybe you’ve been explaining how it works to your friends at social gatherings, which are a thing again. Still, ranked-choice voting, and the degree to which it will impact New York City‘s Democratic mayoral …
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