20-year-old Jack Rutter has an alter ego. The Salt Lake City native moonlights asRitt Momney — a musical project that started out as an indie rock band with high-school friends, before its other members dispersed to follow Mormon missions.As a solo artist, Rutter turned inward to record a 13-song LP, …
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On November 13th, Elton John will release a career-spanning eight-CD box set titled Elton: Jewel Box. John personally selected the tracks for the collection, which includes rarities, demos, B-sides and fan favorites from throughout his long career. To preview the set, John has dropped the previously unreleased 1969 rarity “Sing …
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U.K. soul singer Yola performed Nina Simone‘s “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” onstage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium for a Tuesday night appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. Filmed in the empty venue, with its recognizable stained-glass windows illuminated behind her, Yola and her band delivered an empowering, joyful …
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Stephen Malkmus pays tribute to Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in “Juliefuckingette,” a B-side to his recent LP Traditional Techniques. “Polish the chrome on the ‘Vette/Romeo and Juliefuckingette, the star-crossed lovers,” Malkmus sings over a serene, 12-string acoustic. “You know you wanna be them but you can’t do that quite yet.” Malkmus …
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Eddie Vedder has released a new single, “Cartography,” along with “Cartography (Nick Zinner RFK remix),” on digital platforms as part of Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 5. Vedder originally recorded the instrumental track for the soundtrack to Eric Becker’s 2018 documentary film Return to Mount Kennedy, following Senator Robert Kennedy and his guide …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Juan Passarelli, a documentary filmmaker who recently released The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange. For this week’s Democrats Suck, Matt offers a clip of Democratic Vice Presidential nominee …
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“Everything I do is a temporary fix,” Maggie Rose laments in her new song “20/20,” written and recorded in the early days of the quarantine. Beginning as a gentle solo piano ballad, “20/20” transitions into a full-band swoon, with the Nashville soul singer finding a glimmer of hope in a …
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Joshua Steen wasn’t particularly surprised when he saw his friend Ronnie McNutt, 33, on Facebook Live on August 31st. “He often used a livestreaming platform as his form of therapy,” Steen tellsRolling Stone about his friend, who he met during a community theater production of Footloose and with whom he …
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Justin Sullivan has spent the better part of two decades as a touring drummer for a variety of indie bands, and as a member of Flat Worms and the Babies alongside Kevin Morby and Cassie Ramone. He stepped out into the spotlight in 2018 with In the Break, his solo …
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Eric Burdon of the Animals is the latest artist to take issue with Donald Trump using their music without permission for campaign purposes. On Wednesday, the Animals’ classic “House of the Rising Sun” played over the speakers at a Wilmington, North Carolina airport as Air Force One taxied down the …
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