Musician and poet Michael Franti was working in a Miami studio when he got the news that a grand jury had decided not to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of unarmed civilian Eric Garner. “I was really shocked,” he tells Rolling Stone. “Having seen the tape of the…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Michael […]
When the Eagles reunited inside a Los Angeles bar on December 6, 1993, to appear in Travis Tritt’s “Take It Easy” video, the guys hadn’t spoken in years. The band broke up in 1980, calling it quits after a benefit show on July 31, 1980. Halfway through that concert, Glenn Frey walked…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: […]
St. Vincent has shared the magnetic, galaxy-spanning music video for “Birth in Reverse.” The clip, directed by frequent collaborator Willo Perron, finds art-rocker Annie Clark displaying her trademark robot stage moves, blinking ominously into the camera and shredding a malfunctioning modem-style solo against a backdrop of smoke and stars. Clark first shared the…… Source: RollingStone Link: St. […]
As D’Angelo just taught us with the surprise release of his astoundingly great LP Black Messiah, the year in music ain’t over until it’s over. For all we know, Madonna, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and Adele are going to drop surprise albums sometime before the ball drops. (They probably won’t.)…… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]
It was, by all accounts, a very good year to be Eric Church, Jason Aldean or Luke Bryan. But which of them was the year’s top country artist overall? It depends on which year-end chart statistics you consult. Church, whose The Outsiders garnered four Grammy nominations, had the best-selling album of…… Source: RollingStone Link: Eric […]
Here’s to messiahs worth waiting for. D’Angelo has kept the world fiending 14 years for the follow-up to his Crisco-thick R&B classic, Voodoo, but as the man himself purrs in “Sugah Daddy,” “Can’t snatch the meat out of the lioness’ mouth/Sometimes you gotta just ease it out.” Black Messiah shows how deep easy can go. D’Angelo…… Source: RollingStone Link: Black Messiah
Few bands looked more promising in the late Nineties than Rustic Overtones. The Maine band spent years building a devoted New England following before recording their fourth album with Tony Visconti (David Bowie, Iggy Pop). Soon, Clive Davis signed them to release the big-budget LP on Arista Records. But before it was released,…… Source: RollingStone Link: ¡Viva Nueva!
You’ve gotta hand it to a 22-year-old who, on the brink of pop mega-stardom, opens her latest LP with a chant of “Fuck you, sucker!” But allow Charlotte Aitchison some cockiness. The writer and singer behind one of the decade’s most irresistible pop jams (Icona Pop’s “I Love It”) as…… Source: RollingStone Link: Sucker
The Pinkprint is Nicki Minaj’s busting-out-all-over magnum opus, a love letter to her supernova star power and hip-hop radicalism, her teeming brain and her body electric. Minaj’s previous album, 2012’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, was dominated by psycho-glam role-playing. Now, as the Blueprint-referencing title implies, she’s more Hov than Gaga. She talks about taking off…… Source: RollingStone Link: The Pinkprint
Last night at New York venue Le Poisson Rouge, Elliott Wilson hosted the latest edition of CRWN, a rap version of Inside the Actors Studio, with Nicki Minaj as his guest. The conversation was pegged to the release of The Pinkprint, her latest LP, but the night quickly became a celebration of the local star’s…… Source: RollingStone Link: 5 Things […]