From “Fortnight” to “The Manuscript,” the latest episodes of Rolling Stone Music Now dive into every single track of Taylor Swift’s longest album ever, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. Along the way, we debate larger issues, including whether Swift intends all 31 tracks to be seen as the album proper, or if the latter half — added by surprise on the night of release — is actually more of a collection of bonus songs.
Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt for the discussions, which also place every song...
Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt for the discussions, which also place every song...
- 5/5/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and front man for the Who Roger Daltrey has a solo North American tour on June 10. So he stopped by Bill Maher’s Real Time on Friday to do some reminiscing on his long career and what comes next.
After thanking Daltrey “for all the entertainment over the years,” Maher got right to the point: “I don’t remember seeing you with a shirt,” he said, offering a brief montage of Daltrey in his prime, sans shirt.
“A little bit too much information,” Daltrey said, and then admitted, “I get incredibly hot when I sing. It’s like a furnace.” Still, he allowed, at 80 years old, he’s more likely to keep the shirt on this time around.
They tripped down memory lane, with Daltrey revealing the iconic cover of Who’s Next was a composite of an obelisk holding up a slag heap,...
After thanking Daltrey “for all the entertainment over the years,” Maher got right to the point: “I don’t remember seeing you with a shirt,” he said, offering a brief montage of Daltrey in his prime, sans shirt.
“A little bit too much information,” Daltrey said, and then admitted, “I get incredibly hot when I sing. It’s like a furnace.” Still, he allowed, at 80 years old, he’s more likely to keep the shirt on this time around.
They tripped down memory lane, with Daltrey revealing the iconic cover of Who’s Next was a composite of an obelisk holding up a slag heap,...
- 5/4/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
At the very moment Taylormania was hitting preposterous heights, threatening to turn the artist at its center into an untouchable icon, it turns out that the real Taylor Swift was spending her time between glittery three-hour concerts making some of her most fearless art. The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology is stuffed with the rawest, angriest, and most unguarded songs of Swift’s career – quite the opposite of the ingratiating, focus-grouped inoffensiveness that a skeptic might expect from an artist at her current level of visibility.
On the new episode...
On the new episode...
- 4/25/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
With a few lines in a guest verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s chart-topping hit “Like That,” Kendrick Lamar ignited his long-simmering cold war with Drake into what’s become the widest-reaching rap beef in years. Since then, it’s all gotten incredibly messy, starting with J. Cole recording an entire diss track about his erstwhile friend Lamar and then deciding to retract it and apologize — a fairly unprecedented move in hip-hop. We trace the whole saga on the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast — go...
- 4/19/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
“Dance is my language, so it was a lot of fun,” expresses Lorin Latarro about working on the revival of “The Who’s Tommy,” which is a show told as much through the songs by Pete Townshend as the choreography. This production, which arrives on Broadway 31 years after the original, comes from Des McAnuff, who co-wrote the book with Townshend and directed that first staging in 1993. The choreographer “had to learn the music as deeply as Des,” who knows “every millisecond,” and says their work on the revival “unfolded collaboratively beautifully.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
McAnuff has introduced a framing device to this production that begins “in the future.” Latarro immediately understood that move because “‘Tommy’ will go on and on as an album, trauma will go on and on, hopefully healing in tandem with that trauma, is part of the human condition.” It also informed her approach to the movement of this production,...
McAnuff has introduced a framing device to this production that begins “in the future.” Latarro immediately understood that move because “‘Tommy’ will go on and on as an album, trauma will go on and on, hopefully healing in tandem with that trauma, is part of the human condition.” It also informed her approach to the movement of this production,...
- 4/16/2024
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
U.K. band the Wild Things have enlisted the help of Kiss’ Tommy Thayer, Trixie Mattel, and their longtime rock and roll godfather Pete Townshend, for a new EP, Friends With Benefits, out April 26 via Peg Records.
A full track list for the collaborative project hasn’t been released yet, but it’ll feature a new song, “Breaking Madonna,” written and recorded with Thayer after he and the Wild Things met on the 2022 Kiss Kruise. It’ll also include one of the Wild Things’ previously-released singles with Townshend, “Only Attraction...
A full track list for the collaborative project hasn’t been released yet, but it’ll feature a new song, “Breaking Madonna,” written and recorded with Thayer after he and the Wild Things met on the 2022 Kiss Kruise. It’ll also include one of the Wild Things’ previously-released singles with Townshend, “Only Attraction...
- 4/12/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Madonna‘s live performances take a lot of inspiration from the theatrical rock of the 1970s, so it makes sense that her “provocative performances” started with one song by The Who. In middle school, she performed one of The Who’s most famous songs in school and was shunned by her peers. Eventually, that sort of controversy would work out in her favor. However, this doesn’t mean Madonna ever looked at herself as cool or a trendsetter.
Madonna said her brothers introduced her to songs by The Who and The Rolling Stones
During a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone, the Queen of Pop revealed that she has a rockin’ side. “Everyone thinks I was born in a disco,” she said. “My older brothers were in the basement listening to The Who and The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, [Led] Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love,’ The Who’s ‘Baba O’Riley.'...
Madonna said her brothers introduced her to songs by The Who and The Rolling Stones
During a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone, the Queen of Pop revealed that she has a rockin’ side. “Everyone thinks I was born in a disco,” she said. “My older brothers were in the basement listening to The Who and The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, [Led] Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love,’ The Who’s ‘Baba O’Riley.'...
- 4/11/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Members of Led Zeppelin helped create Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” in the studio. The tune paved the way for a lot of the band’s later work. Donovan himself argued that Jimmy Page’s contributions to “Hurdy Gurdy Man” changed rock music.
Why Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page worked on Donovan’s ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’
Donovan is a singer known for two types of songs: folk tunes and psychedelic experiments. His folk tunes include “Catch the Wind,” “Colors,” and “There Is a Mountain,” while his psychedelic jams include “Sunshine Superman,” “Atlantis,” and “Mellow Yellow.” “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” an early heavy metal song, was an uncharacteristic release for him. It sounds the way it does thanks to help from members of Led Zeppelin.
During a 2008 interview with Uncut, Donovan discussed the origin of “Hurdy Gurdy Man.” “Many people have said over the years how important that session of John Paul Jones,...
Why Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page worked on Donovan’s ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’
Donovan is a singer known for two types of songs: folk tunes and psychedelic experiments. His folk tunes include “Catch the Wind,” “Colors,” and “There Is a Mountain,” while his psychedelic jams include “Sunshine Superman,” “Atlantis,” and “Mellow Yellow.” “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” an early heavy metal song, was an uncharacteristic release for him. It sounds the way it does thanks to help from members of Led Zeppelin.
During a 2008 interview with Uncut, Donovan discussed the origin of “Hurdy Gurdy Man.” “Many people have said over the years how important that session of John Paul Jones,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
On Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé mixes R&b, country, and some hard-hitting guitars, among many other elements, and as the artist herself is well aware, there used to be a name for that kind of American melange: rock & roll. She slyly acknowledges that fact with two Chuck Berry moments on the album, including a segment of “Maybellene,” his first hit, in which a Black genius helped invent rock & roll via revved-up country.
So, there’s an argument that Cowboy Carter — which the artist has made clear is a “Beyoncé album” rather...
So, there’s an argument that Cowboy Carter — which the artist has made clear is a “Beyoncé album” rather...
- 4/7/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock has been known to take as long as eight years between albums, but nearly three decades into his band’s career, he’s ready to pick up the pace. Three years after the release of the well-received The Golden Casket, he’s already recorded enough songs for a new Modest Mouse album with producers including Jacknife Lee and Dave Sardy, and intends to put one out by next spring. “In my early days of putting out records, I wrote music every fucking day,” he tells...
- 4/6/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
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- 4/5/2024
- by Sage Anderson
- Rollingstone.com
Ali Louis Bourzgui is currently winning over audiences with his performance as Tommy in the new hit revival of The Who’s Tommy.
We caught up with the 24-year-old rising star, who is making his Broadway debut after previously being featured in the national tour productions of Tony-winning musicals Company and The Band’s Visit.
Tommy just opened on Broadway to rave reviews and the production is currently running at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City.
Check out 10 Fun Facts about Ali below.
Growing up in Massachusetts the other thing to do other than theatre was skiing. All through high school I was a part of the ski racing team and still know how to downhill ski race. I’m a vintage clothing collector. I love finding and styling clothes from the 60s and 70s. Give me a knit polo and a dagger collar any day. My favorite piece I’ve...
We caught up with the 24-year-old rising star, who is making his Broadway debut after previously being featured in the national tour productions of Tony-winning musicals Company and The Band’s Visit.
Tommy just opened on Broadway to rave reviews and the production is currently running at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City.
Check out 10 Fun Facts about Ali below.
Growing up in Massachusetts the other thing to do other than theatre was skiing. All through high school I was a part of the ski racing team and still know how to downhill ski race. I’m a vintage clothing collector. I love finding and styling clothes from the 60s and 70s. Give me a knit polo and a dagger collar any day. My favorite piece I’ve...
- 4/2/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Swifties have known since early February that Taylor Swift has a new album, Tortured Poets Department, due April 19, with some notably provocative song titles (“So Long London,” “But Daddy I Love Him”) and big-name guest stars (Post Malone, Florence Welsh). But since then, information on the album has been scarce, so fans have more than filled the void, passing around possibly fake leaked snippets of songs while pranking each other with both ChatGPT-generated lyrics and a ridiculous viral parody where an AI-generated Taylor sings lines like, “I’m so happy...
- 3/29/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Certainly one definition of great music might include an ability to meet the present – and the future – head-on and come out unbruised, even triumphant. By that standard and many more, The Who’s Tommy, opening tonight on Broadway, is thrilling proof that the premiere concept album of 1969 is great music indeed.
Gloriously directed by Des McAnuff and updated by him and composer-lyricist Pete Townshend from their own 1993 original Broadway staging, The Who’s Tommy is a non-stop surge of electrified energy, a darting pinball of a production that syncs visual panache with 55-year-old songs that sound as vital today as they must have at Woodstock. Themes of enlightenment and connection, trauma and recovery, truth and lies and blinkered hero worship feel more relevant in the 21st Century than Townshend could possibly have imagined way back in the waning days of the ’60s.
With a...
Gloriously directed by Des McAnuff and updated by him and composer-lyricist Pete Townshend from their own 1993 original Broadway staging, The Who’s Tommy is a non-stop surge of electrified energy, a darting pinball of a production that syncs visual panache with 55-year-old songs that sound as vital today as they must have at Woodstock. Themes of enlightenment and connection, trauma and recovery, truth and lies and blinkered hero worship feel more relevant in the 21st Century than Townshend could possibly have imagined way back in the waning days of the ’60s.
With a...
- 3/29/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Pete Townshend led a special performance of The Who’s Tommy on Wednesday’s night episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
A Broadway revival of the musical is set to open Nederlander Theatre beginning Thursday, March 28th. As a preview, Townshend joined the show’s cast to perform a medley of “Pinball Wizard,” “See Me, Feel Me,” and “Listening To You.”
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Townshend also sat down with Fallon for an extended in interview, where The Who guitarist touched on his early days in the band, smashing guitars, and creating a musical adaptation of Tommy.
The rock opera, penned in 1969 by Townshend, is making its return to Broadway after 31 years. The original Broadway production premiered in 1993 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Direction, Best Choreography, and Best Original Score. It also won a Grammy Award for the Original Broadway Cast Recording. Tickets for the...
A Broadway revival of the musical is set to open Nederlander Theatre beginning Thursday, March 28th. As a preview, Townshend joined the show’s cast to perform a medley of “Pinball Wizard,” “See Me, Feel Me,” and “Listening To You.”
Get The Who's Tommy Tickets Here
Townshend also sat down with Fallon for an extended in interview, where The Who guitarist touched on his early days in the band, smashing guitars, and creating a musical adaptation of Tommy.
The rock opera, penned in 1969 by Townshend, is making its return to Broadway after 31 years. The original Broadway production premiered in 1993 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Direction, Best Choreography, and Best Original Score. It also won a Grammy Award for the Original Broadway Cast Recording. Tickets for the...
- 3/27/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
The Who are about to revive their 1969 rock opera Tommy on Broadway and frontman Pete Townshend joined the stage cast on The Tonight Show to perform several songs from the musical. The musician took the stage to showcase “Pinball Wizard,” “See Me, Feel Me,” and “Listening To You” alongside Tommy star Ali Louis Bourzgui. They were joined by several other cast members and Jimmy Fallon’s house band.
Townshend also sat down with Fallon to discuss the Broadway revival, which opens March 28 at the Nederlander Theatre. Tommy was initially released...
Townshend also sat down with Fallon to discuss the Broadway revival, which opens March 28 at the Nederlander Theatre. Tommy was initially released...
- 3/27/2024
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
“Mellow Yellow” by Donovan is the most beloved 1960s song with the word “yellow” in the title that wasn’t released by The Beatles. During an interview, the “Atlantis” singer opined that his catalog was a lot more diverse than The Beatles’, to the point where he sounded like a completely different artist from song to song. Donovan also said something about his background made him similar to George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney. While “Mellow Yellow” might be one of the most unusual hits of the period, it wouldn’t be the same without a little help from Paul.
Donovan said ‘Mellow Yellow’ and ‘Barabajagal’ were more original than any Beatles songs
During a 2016 interview with Best Classic Bands, a reporter asked Donovan why “Mellow Yellow” was so different from the rest of his catalog. “Why were they all so different?” he replied. “I displayed more of the painterly,...
Donovan said ‘Mellow Yellow’ and ‘Barabajagal’ were more original than any Beatles songs
During a 2016 interview with Best Classic Bands, a reporter asked Donovan why “Mellow Yellow” was so different from the rest of his catalog. “Why were they all so different?” he replied. “I displayed more of the painterly,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Who’s Pete Townshend acknowledged in a new interview that he only continues to tour “for the money,” and says fans who “want to see The Who myth” might be better served waiting for a future concert of digital avatars.
Townshend’s comments came in a new interview promoting the Broadway revival of The Who’s Tommy. The article’s writer, Rob Tannenbaum, asked the guitarist/songwriter about the prospects of releasing any new music given that he has only put out three records (two with The Who and one solo) since 1983.
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“I do and I think I will,” Townshend responded before acknowledging the reality of being a 78-year-old musician in a legacy rock band. “It feels to me like there’s one thing The Who can do, and that’s a final tour where we play every territory in the world and then crawl off to die.
Townshend’s comments came in a new interview promoting the Broadway revival of The Who’s Tommy. The article’s writer, Rob Tannenbaum, asked the guitarist/songwriter about the prospects of releasing any new music given that he has only put out three records (two with The Who and one solo) since 1983.
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“I do and I think I will,” Townshend responded before acknowledging the reality of being a 78-year-old musician in a legacy rock band. “It feels to me like there’s one thing The Who can do, and that’s a final tour where we play every territory in the world and then crawl off to die.
- 3/25/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Roger Daltrey welcomed Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin), Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Kelly Jones (Stereophonics), and Glen Hansard onstage for a performance of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” at the Teenage Cancer Trust concert on Sunday night (March 24th).
The show marked the finale of weeklong series of Teenage Cancer Trust performances at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Earlier in the week, The Who had played their only two scheduled shows of 2024.
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“Baba O’Riley” closed out an eight-song performance from Daltrey, who opened his set by singing a cover of Who bandmate Pete Townshend’s solo hit “Let My Love Open the Door.”
In fan-filmed video footage, Daltrey is joined onstage by the aforementioned singers a couple minutes into “Baba O’Riley,” as Plant, Vedder, and company deliver the anthemic song’s famous line, “Don’t cry/ Don’t raise your eye/ It’s only teenage wasteland.
The show marked the finale of weeklong series of Teenage Cancer Trust performances at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Earlier in the week, The Who had played their only two scheduled shows of 2024.
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“Baba O’Riley” closed out an eight-song performance from Daltrey, who opened his set by singing a cover of Who bandmate Pete Townshend’s solo hit “Let My Love Open the Door.”
In fan-filmed video footage, Daltrey is joined onstage by the aforementioned singers a couple minutes into “Baba O’Riley,” as Plant, Vedder, and company deliver the anthemic song’s famous line, “Don’t cry/ Don’t raise your eye/ It’s only teenage wasteland.
- 3/25/2024
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Roger Daltrey wrapped up his 24-year stint as the curator of the Teenage Cancer Trust Sunday night with a grand ‘Ovation’ concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The bill featured longtime Teenage Cancer Trust supporters Eddie Vedder, Robert Plant, Paul Weller, and Kelly Jones of the Stereophonics. The Who played two Teenage Cancer Trust shows earlier in the week, and Pete Townshend was originally on the bill for the ‘Ovation’ event, but he had to travel to New York for the opening of the new Tommy on Broadway.
The...
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- 3/25/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
It was the fall of 1967. The Summer of Love had just drawn to a close. Teens and twentysomethings, when they weren't studying or punching the clock, were down for a revolution. They wanted to change the world, and, in the process, cheese off their parents. And there was no better way to accomplish the latter than to switch on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."
Dick and Tom Smothers didn't look like troublemakers, but their CBS variety show had quickly become an annoyance for the so-called "Tiffany Network." They were a hit with their target demographic, which was, ironically, the problem. Their hip young writing staff was relentlessly satirizing the increasingly uneasy state of the world, which didn't sit well with advertisers or politically conservative executives. And while it was far from provocative to book edgy musical acts, the artists appearing on the Smothers' show were getting young folks to question...
Dick and Tom Smothers didn't look like troublemakers, but their CBS variety show had quickly become an annoyance for the so-called "Tiffany Network." They were a hit with their target demographic, which was, ironically, the problem. Their hip young writing staff was relentlessly satirizing the increasingly uneasy state of the world, which didn't sit well with advertisers or politically conservative executives. And while it was far from provocative to book edgy musical acts, the artists appearing on the Smothers' show were getting young folks to question...
- 3/24/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
An animated video for Mark Knopfler’s all-star charity single “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)” – which brought together a stunning lineup of over 60 guitar gods to raise funds for Teen Cancer America and the Teenage Cancer Trust – has been released. It features the final recording of Jeff Beck along with contributions by Bruce Springsteen, David Gilmour, Slash, Ronnie Wood, Joan Jett, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, and Sting.
The song came out a week ago, but it was difficult to discern who was playing what part throughout the ten-minute song.
The song came out a week ago, but it was difficult to discern who was playing what part throughout the ten-minute song.
- 3/22/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Just last summer, experts on the intersection of AI and music told Rolling Stone that it would be years before a tool emerged that could conjure up fully produced songs from a simple text description, given the endless complexities of the finished product. But Suno, a two-year-old start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has already pulled it off, vocals included — and their latest model, v3, which is available to the general public as of today, is capable of some truly startling results.
In Rolling Stone‘s feature on Suno, part of...
In Rolling Stone‘s feature on Suno, part of...
- 3/22/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The Who performed with the Heart of England Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday night, and surprise guest Eddie Vedder came out near the end to join them on the Quadrophenia classic “The Punk and the Godfather.”
The show was part of a week-long series of events at the Royal Albert Hall designed to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Who frontman Roger Daltrey has curated the concert series since 2000, but is stepping down this year. “The £32 million raised from these concerts has been the foundation...
The show was part of a week-long series of events at the Royal Albert Hall designed to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Who frontman Roger Daltrey has curated the concert series since 2000, but is stepping down this year. “The £32 million raised from these concerts has been the foundation...
- 3/21/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Roger Daltrey is coming to America in June for a rare solo tour that will feature an onstage Q&a with audience members, Who hits and deep cuts, and selections from his solo career. It opens on June 12 in Vienna, Virginia, and closes June 29 in Highland Park, Illinois. Midway through, Daltrey will return to the site of the original Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York. KT Tunstall is opening up seven shows, and Dan Bern is on the bill at two.
Daltrey’s backing band for the tour will feature guitarist Simon Townshend,...
Daltrey’s backing band for the tour will feature guitarist Simon Townshend,...
- 3/19/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Mark Knopfler has teamed up with a host of fellow guitar legends to record a version of his song “Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)” to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.
The Dire Straits frontman tapped Eric Clapton, Slash (Guns N’ Roses), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Brian May (Queen), Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Pete Townshend (The Who), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Bruce Springsteen, Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones), Joan Jett, and many more, forming what he has dubbed “Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes.” Notably, the star-studded version opens with the final recorded guitar track by the late Jeff Beck.
Knopfler’s longtime collaborator Guy Fletcher handled the production of the track, which might be the greatest assemblage of guitar talent to co-exist on a single song. The Sgt. Pepper‘s-style artwork was created by Sir Peter Blake.
The full song can be heard below now, featuring...
The Dire Straits frontman tapped Eric Clapton, Slash (Guns N’ Roses), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Brian May (Queen), Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Pete Townshend (The Who), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Bruce Springsteen, Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones), Joan Jett, and many more, forming what he has dubbed “Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes.” Notably, the star-studded version opens with the final recorded guitar track by the late Jeff Beck.
Knopfler’s longtime collaborator Guy Fletcher handled the production of the track, which might be the greatest assemblage of guitar talent to co-exist on a single song. The Sgt. Pepper‘s-style artwork was created by Sir Peter Blake.
The full song can be heard below now, featuring...
- 3/15/2024
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Few things are as synonymous with rebellious, raucous, no-good rock ‘n’ roll as finishing a set by smashing a guitar — be it Kurt Cobain, Phoebe Bridgers, or Pete Townshend. When it comes to the latter, however, bandmate and The Who frontman Roger Daltrey might not have the same drive to use his axe like… well, an axe. In fact, Daltrey has compared smashing a guitar to breaking the neck of something (or someone) else he holds close to his heart: his wife.
During his recent appearance on Shaun Keaveny’s Daily Grind podcast, Daltrey described the one time he engaged in such destruction, as well as the guilt that followed. “The trouble is the guitar was worth 50 gigs,” Daltrey said. “I’ve only ever smashed one guitar and I’m really sorry I did it.”
To illustrate just how deep his feelings of shame ran, Daltrey turned to the surprisingly violent analogy.
During his recent appearance on Shaun Keaveny’s Daily Grind podcast, Daltrey described the one time he engaged in such destruction, as well as the guilt that followed. “The trouble is the guitar was worth 50 gigs,” Daltrey said. “I’ve only ever smashed one guitar and I’m really sorry I did it.”
To illustrate just how deep his feelings of shame ran, Daltrey turned to the surprisingly violent analogy.
- 3/14/2024
- by Jonah Krueger
- Consequence - Music
One of the biggest influences on Ariana Grande’s new album, Eternal Sunshine, turns out be the Beatles’ Rubber Soul. That inspiration isn’t exactly instantly evident within the album’s sleek production and Max Martin-assisted songwriting, but Grande said in an advance listening session for journalists that she had John, Paul, George, and Ringo in mind as she stuffed it full of unexpected melodic twists and half-buried ear candy.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we discuss Grande’s newfound Beatlemania and much more, going...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we discuss Grande’s newfound Beatlemania and much more, going...
- 3/13/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome to the Beatles Cinematic Universe. Continuing the current wave of music biopics — which just saw its most recent box-office triumph with Bob Marley: One Love — director Sam Mendes (Skyfall) has signed on to helm not one, but four separate Beatles biopics, all due in 2027. The movies, set to begin production next year, will each focus a single Beatle’s perspective, so John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and even Ringo Starr each get a turn in the spotlight.
It might seem like overkill, but as we discuss on the...
It might seem like overkill, but as we discuss on the...
- 3/4/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
From J Noa’s speed-rapping to Gale’s polished pop-rock songwriting to Ralph Choo’s electronic experiments, 2023 was packed with incredible Spanish-language music from artists who aren’t superstars — at least not yet. In the last of our four Rolling Stone Music Now podcast episodes on under-the-radar albums from last year, we dig through multiple nations and genres to find the best lesser-known gems.
Rolling Stone‘s Julyssa Lopez joins host Brian Hiatt for the discussion, picking her favorites from our recent comprehensive list of the year’s top Spanish-language albums,...
Rolling Stone‘s Julyssa Lopez joins host Brian Hiatt for the discussion, picking her favorites from our recent comprehensive list of the year’s top Spanish-language albums,...
- 2/28/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Anyone complaining about the state of hip-hop needs only to look beyond the top of the charts, as the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast makes clear. In the episode, Andre Gee breaks down some of his under-the-radar 2023 hip-hop picks, from Zelooperz’ experimental Microphone Fiend to B. Cool Aid’s ultra-vibey Leather Blvd to Nappy Nina’s introspective Mourning Due. To hear the full episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below.
Also in the episode,...
Also in the episode,...
- 2/13/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler has united with over 60 artists — including Bruce Springsteen, David Gilmour, Slash, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Ronnie Wood, Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend, Sting, Brian May, Joan Jett, Nile Rogers, and Brian May — to create a new version of his 1983 instrumental “Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero.”
The song arrives on March 15, though you can hear a brief sample right now. It’s the final recording Jeff Beck created before his death in January 2023. All proceeds from the release will benefit Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.
The song arrives on March 15, though you can hear a brief sample right now. It’s the final recording Jeff Beck created before his death in January 2023. All proceeds from the release will benefit Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.
- 2/8/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Joni Mitchell will have a lot of company when she takes the stage on Sunday for her first-ever Grammy Awards performance. Her friend and collaborator Brandi Carlile will be performing alongside her, as will Jacob Collier, Allison Russell, SistaStrings, Lucius, and Blake Mills, according to executive producer Raj Kapoor. As for what they’ll be performing? “It will be a song that I think everybody knows,” Kapoor tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, “and if you are a Joni Mitchell fan, it’s the song that you want to hear.
- 2/4/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Burna Boy will be the first Afrobeats performer ever to play the Grammys at Sunday night’s ceremony — and he’ll be joined onstage by Brandy and 21 Savage, executive producer Raj Kapoor tells Rolling Stone Music Now. The collaboration will also mark 21 Savage’s Grammy performance debut, while Brandy hasn’t sung on the show since the Nineties. “It’s gonna be huge,” says Kapoor. “It’s gonna get everybody on their feet.”
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Kapoor breaks down what to expect from...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Kapoor breaks down what to expect from...
- 2/2/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The sessions started at Hollywood, California’s A&m Studios the night of Jan. 28, 1985, and didn’t end until well after sunrise the morning of Jan. 29. By that point, it was clear that nothing quite like “We Are the World” could ever happen again. The Greatest Night in Pop, a new documentary on Netflix, brings it all back to vivid life: co-writers Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie joined by Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and an improbably long list of other superstars, all crammed in...
- 1/29/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
One of last year’s most unexpected musical twists was the ascent of Zach Bryan, the rootsy singer-songwriter who sounds not unlike Bruce Springsteen or Jason Isbell — and went all the way to Number One on the Hot 100 with the ballad “I Remember Everything,” assisted by Kacey Musgraves. His self-titled fourth album was one of the best country/Americana releases of the year, but it’s only one of the unmissable 2023 releases in that category, from Jason Isbell’s own Weathervanes to Megan Maroney’s Lucky.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now,...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Boygenius-mania was only the most visible sign of the fantastic year indie rock had in 2023, with strong albums from newcomers (Blondshell, Kara Jackson), established stars (Mitski) and veterans (Wilco, the National). In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we go through some highlights of the year in indie albums.
Jon Dolan, Angie Martoccio, and Simon Vozick-Levinson join host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. Among many other topics, we touch on Mitski’s surprise hit “My Love Mine All Mine,” which our panelists agree isn’t even the...
Jon Dolan, Angie Martoccio, and Simon Vozick-Levinson join host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. Among many other topics, we touch on Mitski’s surprise hit “My Love Mine All Mine,” which our panelists agree isn’t even the...
- 1/22/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The best music sometimes causes physical reactions in listeners. For example, Peter Frampton said one song from The Beatles’ Rubber Soul gives him “goosebumps.” Frampton also revealed how he learned one of The Beatles’ codenames.
Peter Frampton said John Lennon emoted on a song from The Beatles’ ‘Rubber Soul’
During a 2009 interview with Cleveland.com, Frampton named his favorite Beatles song. He picked “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” from Rubber Soul. “There’s an emotion there in John’s voice,” he said. Frampton’s comment is interesting, as John’s performance on the song could just as easily be interpreted as detached or sarcastic.
“The chord structure of it — the way he put the song together — has always given me goosebumps,” Frampton added. “And don’t forget: Buy the mono versions. That’s all we had. I can’t wait not to hear voices on the left. I want...
Peter Frampton said John Lennon emoted on a song from The Beatles’ ‘Rubber Soul’
During a 2009 interview with Cleveland.com, Frampton named his favorite Beatles song. He picked “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” from Rubber Soul. “There’s an emotion there in John’s voice,” he said. Frampton’s comment is interesting, as John’s performance on the song could just as easily be interpreted as detached or sarcastic.
“The chord structure of it — the way he put the song together — has always given me goosebumps,” Frampton added. “And don’t forget: Buy the mono versions. That’s all we had. I can’t wait not to hear voices on the left. I want...
- 1/16/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Kali Uchis’ genre-jumping career has so far been evenly divided between Spanish- and English-language albums, which feels about right for an artist who was born in Virginia but spent chunks of her childhood in her father’s native Colombia. “When you aren’t just one thing and you are as multidimensional of an artist as I am,” she says, “I think it’s a lot harder for people to figure out how to sell me as a product. But I think they don’t realize that being multidimensional is a...
- 1/15/2024
- by Brian Hiatt and Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
Amid Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas, Jewish entertainment figures have come together to issue an open letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences criticizing their exclusion from being specified as an underrepresented group.
“An inclusion effort that excludes Jews is both steeped in and misunderstands antisemitism,” reads the letter, organized by the group Jew in the City’s Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation. “Jewish people being excluded from the Motion Picture Academy’s Representation and Inclusion Standards is discriminating against a protected class by invalidating their historic and genetic identity.”
The Academy’s standards, unveiled in 2020 as part of its Aperture 2025 diversity initiative, describes a number of identities that it considers “underrepresented groups”: women, LGBTQ+, having cognitive or physical difficulties or being deaf or hard of hearing, as well as underrepresented racial or ethnic groups. The standards, which ask productions to submit self-identifying demographic information...
“An inclusion effort that excludes Jews is both steeped in and misunderstands antisemitism,” reads the letter, organized by the group Jew in the City’s Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation. “Jewish people being excluded from the Motion Picture Academy’s Representation and Inclusion Standards is discriminating against a protected class by invalidating their historic and genetic identity.”
The Academy’s standards, unveiled in 2020 as part of its Aperture 2025 diversity initiative, describes a number of identities that it considers “underrepresented groups”: women, LGBTQ+, having cognitive or physical difficulties or being deaf or hard of hearing, as well as underrepresented racial or ethnic groups. The standards, which ask productions to submit self-identifying demographic information...
- 1/9/2024
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Three decades ago, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong was sarcastically singing “Welcome to Paradise.” Now at age 51, he’s staidly singing “Welcome to my problems” on “Dilemma,” a plaintive, swinging rocker on Green Day’s 14th LP, Saviors, which owes a debt to Fifties rock and the Ramones. “I was sober now I’m drunk again,” he wails in the chorus. “I’m in trouble and in love again/I don’t want to be a dead man walking.” It’s one of the album’s best songs and,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The lineup for the 2024 Teenage Cancer Trust concerts at Royal Albert Hall in London has been announced, featuring a multi-night bill (March 19th-24th) that includes The Who, Noel Gallagher, Eddie Vedder, Robert Plant, and The Chemical Brothers, among others.
The 2024 edition will be the last to be overseen by The Who’s Roger Daltrey, who is stepping down as curator after 24 years. The Who will be playing shows on March 18th and 20th with a full orchestra, along with special guests Squeeze. A March 19th show will feature a night of yet-to-be-announced stand-up comedians, while Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will headline the March 21st show, with support from Blossoms. Other headliners include Young Fathers (March 22nd) and The Chemical Brothers (March 23rd).
The final show (March 24th) of the concert series will be a particularly special one. The evening, dubbed “Ovation,” will feature an all-star lineup of...
The 2024 edition will be the last to be overseen by The Who’s Roger Daltrey, who is stepping down as curator after 24 years. The Who will be playing shows on March 18th and 20th with a full orchestra, along with special guests Squeeze. A March 19th show will feature a night of yet-to-be-announced stand-up comedians, while Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will headline the March 21st show, with support from Blossoms. Other headliners include Young Fathers (March 22nd) and The Chemical Brothers (March 23rd).
The final show (March 24th) of the concert series will be a particularly special one. The evening, dubbed “Ovation,” will feature an all-star lineup of...
- 1/8/2024
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Roger Daltrey will wrap up his 24-year tenure as the chairman of the Teenage Cancer Trust this March with a week-long series of charity shows featuring the Who, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Squeeze, and the Chemical Brothers. The final gig is an all-star blowout where the Who frontman will be joined by Pete Townshend, Robert Plant, Eddie Vedder, Paul Weller, and Kelly Jones of the Stereophonics.
Daltrey’s tenure with the Teenage Cancer Trust — which builds cancer units for teenagers and young adults in hospitals — stretches back to 2000. Since that time,...
Daltrey’s tenure with the Teenage Cancer Trust — which builds cancer units for teenagers and young adults in hospitals — stretches back to 2000. Since that time,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
On New Year’s Eve, we learned the improbable fact that a trio of middle-aged, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted punks in notably well-tailored suits can somehow still shock and offend the masses. For Green Day, all it took was changing the “American Idiot” lyric “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of the Maga agenda” during their performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rocking Eve with Ryan Seacrest — a lyric tweak they’ve been using for years.
The ensuing freakout...
The ensuing freakout...
- 1/4/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Music legend Elton John and Brandi Carlile apparently have recorded a new album together, according to an interview with Elton’s longtime friend, Pete Townshend of the English rock band, The Who.
The interview was published by Clashmusic late last month. Speaking about Elton’s plans now that he’s retired from touring, Townshend said: “Elton is so fraught with loss at not knowing what to do next. He’s just gone over to Los Angeles to make an album with Brandi Carlile,” reports Variety.
He further mentioned: “They made an album together in two weeks. He says it’s one of the best things they’ve ever done.”
As per Variety, Elton himself teased a new album when inducting his longtime songwriting partner Bernie Taupin into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last November, noting that the pair recently completed an album that “is going to surprise the s*** out of you.
The interview was published by Clashmusic late last month. Speaking about Elton’s plans now that he’s retired from touring, Townshend said: “Elton is so fraught with loss at not knowing what to do next. He’s just gone over to Los Angeles to make an album with Brandi Carlile,” reports Variety.
He further mentioned: “They made an album together in two weeks. He says it’s one of the best things they’ve ever done.”
As per Variety, Elton himself teased a new album when inducting his longtime songwriting partner Bernie Taupin into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last November, noting that the pair recently completed an album that “is going to surprise the s*** out of you.
- 1/3/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
“I found a piece of my peace right here in Georgia,” says Chaka Khan, who just started a new life in the big rural property she purchased in that state. She recently sat in her bedroom there, gazing at the trees outside, and looked back at her life and career for our new interview with her, which you can hear on the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. Some highlights follow; to hear the full interview, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify,...
- 12/31/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
“One of my secrets,” Snoop Dogg tells Latto in their recent Musicians on Musicians conversation, “is that I remain the biggest kid in the room at all times.” The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now includes highlights of that interview (moderated by Rolling Stone staff writer Andre Gee) along with the two interviews from our first-ever live Musicians on Musicians event: Lil Yachty’s conversation with Tierra Whack (moderated by Rolling Stone’s supervising producer of news video, Delisa Shannon), and a meeting of the minds between Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane.
- 12/30/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
“Variety shows are complicated,” Tom Smothers told Rolling Stone in 2015. The occasion was the launch of Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, the ultimately short-lived attempt to revive the long-standing song-dance-and-skits format for TV.
Few knew how thorny such undertakings could be than Smothers, who died this week at age 88. With his brother Dick, he injected topical anti-war humor and rock guests like the Who and George Harrison into prime time on the legendary Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-1969), a daring approach that ultimately led to its cancellation. With...
Few knew how thorny such undertakings could be than Smothers, who died this week at age 88. With his brother Dick, he injected topical anti-war humor and rock guests like the Who and George Harrison into prime time on the legendary Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-1969), a daring approach that ultimately led to its cancellation. With...
- 12/28/2023
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
“We didn’t know what we were doing,” says Josh Schwartz, creator of The O.C. For the show’s first few episodes, the music choices were simply plucked from his own iPod. But once the now-legendary music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas came aboard, the show turned into a weekly showcase for some of the best music of the ’00s — and a key force behind the mainstream rise of a certain brand of indie-leaning rock in that decade, from Death Cab for Cutie to the Killers. It didn’t hurt that...
- 12/25/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The final countdown is on, and we’ve been thrust back into the most wonderful time of the year. Festive lights twinkle, and office parties are a thing again. Remember, what’s said around the water cooler stays right there, and it’s okay to revel in those messy nights when suddenly you’re out any day of the week with your ride-or-die crew.
At home, the eco tree is pulled out of storage, and it’s got to be said the artificial tree has seen better days, but it...
At home, the eco tree is pulled out of storage, and it’s got to be said the artificial tree has seen better days, but it...
- 12/7/2023
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
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