When Jack White first met Brendan Benson the late 1990s, White shocked his future Raconteurs bandmate by ashing his cigarette all over the table. “We were standing in a room and I was showing him all my stuff, you know, I was kind of showing off all my crap — …
Read More »RS Charts: Post Malone Holds Number One Spot on Artists 500
Post Malone blew away the competition for the second week in a row to retain the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Artists 500for the week of September 13th through September 19th. While the rapper’s overall song streams number technically plummeted by 137.1 million, he still racked up a …
Read More »Depeche Mode Doc 'Spirits in the Forest' to Weave Fans' Stories With Concert Footage
A new documentary about Depeche Mode, Spirits in the Forest, will trace the stories of six of the group’s fans who live all over the world, as they journey to a concert by the band in Berlin. It mixes the fans’ stories, shot in each of their hometowns, with footage …
Read More »RS Charts: Post Malone Takes 9 of the Top Ten Songs
Post Malone dominated the RS 100 this week thanks to the release of his new album Hollywood’s Bleeding. Songs off the album accounted for nine of the Top Ten and 14 of the Top 20, with the leader being “Circles,” in its second week at Number One. Malone’s chart onslaught …
Read More »See Kid Rock Cover Eddie Money's 'Shakin” at Detroit Concert
Kid Rock paid tribute to Eddie Money with a performance of the singer’s 1982 hit “Shakin’” at the DTE Energy Music Theatre, a Detroit-area venue where Money performed 38 times over the course of his career, the Detroit News reports. “I’m sure you heard that Eddie Money passed away today,” Rock …
Read More »Watch Shakira Overcome Injury in Inspiring Trailer for 'El Dorado' Concert Film
Shakira bounces back after a brutal vocal injury in the new trailer for her upcoming concert film, Shakira in Concert: El Dorado World Tour, which will premiere in theaters as a one-night event on November 13th. Shakira in Concert captures the Colombian pop singer’s tour in support of her 2017 …
Read More »See Vivian Girls Haunt the Valley in New 'Sludge' Video
Los Angeles trio Vivian Girls bring their ethereal fuzz rock to the desert in the new video for “Sludge.” It’s the third single off their highly anticipated comeback album, Memory, out September 20th via Polyvinyl Records. In their latest visual, Vivian Girls teleport like specters between the mountains and the …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, John Oliver to Play New York Veterans Fundraiser
The 13th annual Stand Up For Heroes veterans fundraiser will take place November 4th at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden with a bill that includes Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Ronny Chieng and Hasan Minhaj. It is presented by the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the New York …
Read More »This Is Normal: The Enduring, Knotty Relevance of Randy Newman and Drive-By Truckers
On August 26th, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina stewed above the Gulf of Mexico, the Drive-By Truckers played a show at Tipitina’s in New Orleans. It was a two-and-a-half hour set, 27 songs, most of them from the band’s previous three records, Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day and, their most recent …
Read More »RS Charts: Taylor Swift's 'Lover' Takes Number One By a Landslide
Taylor Swift‘s Lover is Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart this week — out-selling every other release on the chart by a factor of more than ten to one. Lover topped out close to a million with 991,800 album units for the latest tracking week of …
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