In mid-August, Devin Dawson released “I Got a Truck” as the first offering from his upcoming second album, the follow-up to his major label debut Dark Horse. An appropriately driving song about a young person with a dream, the video centers on a truck as the vehicle to get them …
Read More »Becky Warren Previews New Album With Introspective Rocker 'Me and These Jeans'
Nashville singer-songwriter Becky Warren has announced plans for her new album, The Sick Season. Due October 23rd, the project’s first release is the pensive rocker “Me and These Jeans.” On Warren’s previous two solo albums, War Surplus and Undesirable, she took stories of war veterans and the homeless population, respectively, …
Read More »The Slits' Viv Albertine Partners With 'Carol' Producers to Adapt Memoirs for TV
The Slits‘ Viv Albertine is adapting her two memoirs for television after selling the rights to the producers behind Carol, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Albertine has published two memoirs, 2014’s Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, and 2018’s To Throw Away Unopened. The former chronicled her …
Read More »Tom Morello: The Guitar Is Still the 'Greatest Instrument Ever Invented'
When it comes to guitar-based rock, Tom Morello says he’s “raging against the dying of the light.” The Rage Against the Machine guitarist touches on the fraught future of his chosen instrument, among many other topics, in a recent interview captured in both our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast and …
Read More »Amigo the Devil's Cover of Carrie Underwood's 'Before He Cheats' Is Haunted Folk Music
The first time Danny Kiranos heard Carrie Underwood’s 2005 hit “Before He Cheats,” he knew he’d found his go-to karaoke jam. Kiranos, who records and performs as Amigo the Devil, recalls getting a feeling of “pure joy” from the experience. “I remember hearing it for the first time and just …
Read More »'Dark End of the Street' Songwriter Dan Penn Cranks Up the Horns in 'Edge of Love'
Songwriter Dan Penn doesn’t put out albums under his name very often. The celebrated co-writer behind numerous Memphis/Muscle Shoals-era soul hits, including “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man,” “Dark End of the Street,” “I’m Your Puppet,” and “Cry Like a Baby” has released only a handful of studio recordings since …
Read More »Return of the Caribbean King: How Billy Ocean Found His Way Back to Music
In November 1984, Billy Ocean’s “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)” dethroned Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You” to take the Number One spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was a brash fusion of soul, reggae, R&B, and pop unlike anything that …
Read More »BTS Reveal Playful 'B-Side' Video for New Single 'Dynamite'
Following the release of their first English-language single “Dynamite,” pop phenomenon BTS have released a playful “B-side” version of the video. The video broke records when it dropped last Friday, becoming the platform’s biggest live premiere of all time with three million peak concurrents. The alternate take of “Dynamite” doesn’t …
Read More »BTS' New Song 'Dynamite' Is a Contender for Song of the Summer
Global superstars BTS are back with a bright and breezy new track that makes them instant contenders for “Song of the Summer” honors. The boy band unveiled their new song “Dynamite” Friday, marking the K-pop group’s first all-English release. The shimmery, disco-lite track bounces and grooves with an infectious beat …
Read More »Quiet Riot's Frankie Banali Dead at 68
Frankie Banali, who played drums on Quiet Riot‘s best-selling albums and kept the band going for nearly four decades, died Thursday at the age of 68. He had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer last April. The band’s agent, Mark Hyman, confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. Banali joined …
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