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 few weeks after he was placed in solitary, Tunc Uraz lost it. He started screaming and hitting his head on the wall. Trembling, he tied his bedsheets into a noose, but there was nowhere to hang it. “My days were nights and my nights were my days, and after …
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Warren Haynes and Robert Randolph delivered a rousing rendition of the Marshall Tucker Band classic “Can’t You See” as part of this year’s Love Rocks NYC benefit concert, which took place Thursday, June 3rd at the Beacon Theatre. Guitarist and former New York Yankees great Bernie Williams and the event’s …
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Veteran Glaswegian DJ and producer Al Kent acts as a masterful mixologist on “The Loneliest One,” creating a chillingly good single by blending throbbing rhythm from a late-Seventies Ashford & Simpson record with towering vocals from the Four Tops‘ Levi Stubbs in the 1960s. While the original Four Tops cut, …
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In Rolling Stone‘s new video franchise, Best Lines, actors share their favorite — or most memorable — lines across a career-spanning interview. In our debut episode, we dive into Rob McElhenney‘s favorite “Mac” lines from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and wrap up with a memorable moment from the pilot …
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Lil Baby and Kirk Franklin team up on the new song “We Win,” the first song from the soundtrack for the upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy. The aspirational and inspirational gospel-fueled track — produced by Just Blaze — finds Lil Baby rapping, “We will be better than ever/Made a …
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By now, the formula for blown-out editions of landmark albums is set in archival stone. For your extra dollars, you’re handed an updated, sonically enhanced version of the original album, a smattering of alternate takes of its songs, maybe a few tracks that had been relegated to the vaults or …
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In the new HBO Max comedy series Hacks, Jean Smart plays comedy legend Deborah Vance, an aging celebrity who reluctantly hires young comedy writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) to freshen up an act that hasn’t changed much since she was telling jokes about the space shuttle Challenger exploding. This setup is …
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Seth Rogen stated he would no longer be working with his close friend and frequent collaborator James Franco following years of allegations of inappropriate behavior. Rogen was asked about his relationship with Franco in an interview that ran inThe Sunday Times over the weekend. In addition to addressing the allegations, …
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In the early days of Covid-19 lockdowns, Mike Shinoda felt stuck. Unlike many of his peers, the multi-talented Linkin Park co-founder didn’t view virtual concerts as a compelling option. “I saw a lot of artists doing livestream performances, and my reaction to that was, immediately, that’s not for me,” he …
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