His white tennis sweater made him feel like an outsider, but watching Janis Joplin perform at 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival, Clive Davis first tapped into the communal power of rock & roll. “I felt my spine tingle and my arms vibrate,” he recalls in The Soundtrack of Our Lives, a …
Read More »Marilyn Manson Cancels Nine Shows After NYC Stage Injury
Marilyn Manson has canceled the next nine dates of his Heaven Upside Down Tour following an onstage incident Saturday in New York in which the singer was crushed by a stage prop. “Marilyn Manson is being forced to cancel several of his October dates on his forthcoming US tour,” the …
Read More »Stone Temple Pilots Break Down 'Core' Track by Track
When guitarist Dean DeLeo reflects on the time surrounding the release of Stone Temple Pilots mega-selling 1992 debut, Core, the thing that strikes him is a constant flow of creativity and the sense of togetherness he felt with his bandmates at the time. “We were all really shoulder to shoulder …
Read More »Watch Harry Styles' Evocative Take on Little Big Town's 'Girl Crush'
Harry Styles breezed into Nashville for a date on his recently launched solo tour Monday night, telling the Ryman Auditorium crowd – populated mostly by girls and young women in full singing (and screaming) voice, “I have to say, when we booked this tour, this was kind of the reason. …
Read More »Watch Tom Morello, Nancy Wilson Lead All-Star John Lennon Cover
Tom Morello, Heart‘s Nancy Wilson, Brandi Carlile and more delivered a rousing cover of John Lennon‘s “Power to the People” to close out the Global Citizen Live concert in New York City Monday. The performance also featured M. Ward, Valerie Simpson, Liv Warfield and Paul Shaffer. Vocal duties were split …
Read More »Review: Prophets of Rage, Rap-Rock Supergroup, Calls for Revolution
This rap-rock supergroup – featuring Public Enemy’s Chuck D and DJ Lord, Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk, and Cypress Hill’s B-Real – revved up old PE and RATM classics on their debut 2016 EP. The band’s first full-length contains 12 hardrocking lefty diatribes against …
Read More »Hear Lee Brice's Seductive New Song 'Rumor'
News tends to spread quickly in small towns, a fact of life that Lee Brice – a native of Sumter, South Carolina – has witnessed firsthand. In Brice’s new song “Rumor,” that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A sultry, R&B-tinged number that suits Brice’s burly growl, “Rumor” recalls Bonnie Raitt’s …
Read More »Granger Smith Plots New Album 'When the Good Guys Win'
Granger Smith is a man on the move, and his latest is the announcement for When the Good Guys Win, out October 27th. Comprised of 14 tracks, the album includes Smith’s latest single, the biographical “Happens Like That.” But for fans of his redneck alter ego Earl Dibbles, Jr., he’s …
Read More »Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Announce 'Wrong Creatures' LP, Tour
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club return to their trademark sound – scuzzy bass, slurry, heavily processed vocals and shrieking guitars – on “Little Thing Gone Wild,” the caustic first taste of their upcoming Wrong Creatures album. Each member battles for the listener’s attention in “Little Thing Gone Wild.” Leah Shapiro smacks …
Read More »Thomas Rhett Talks Mixing Zedd, Tom Petty on New Album 'Life Changes'
Thomas Rhett‘s time hasn’t really been his own in recent months. Back in May, he and his wife Lauren adopted a little girl from Uganda; shortly thereafter, Lauren revealed that she was pregnant and they’d be going from zero kids to two. When he sits down with Rolling Stone Country …
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