Karen O has covered Smashing Pumpkins‘ “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” for an Amazon Prime original series, because nothing says “alt-rock” like Amazon. All kidding aside, it’s an excellent cover. Hanna, which arrives on the streaming service on Sunday, February 3rd, is based on the 2011 film that starred Saoirse Ronan …

In a recent episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Rod Stewart gave Andy Greene a career-spanning interview — and explained the secrets of Rod-style living (step one: never cook a single meal for yourself, ever, unless tea and toast counts). “I’ve never been so content in all my …

British punk collective the Mekons embrace the unreal nature of Joshua Tree in the video for their new song, “Lawrence of California.” The track will appear on the group’s forthcoming album, Deserted, out March 29th via Bloodshot Records. “Lawrence of California” is centered around a thumping drum groove and a …

In a throwback to the rhetoric of Richard Nixon, would-be independent presidential candidate Howard Schultz insisted on Twitter Monday that he’s going outside the two party system to represent a “silent majority.” The phrase has a dark history. Nixon appealed to a “silent majority” in an infamous 1969 speech as …

As Democratic candidates announce their intent to run against President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, none yet has really been a surprise. But, according to CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, one unexpected contender may still enter the race: Hillary Clinton. “Clinton is telling people that she’s not closing the doors to …

Another The Good Place season has come to an end. A review of the finale, “Pandemonium,” coming up just as soon as I set up Drake and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a secret couple … Even a show like The Good Place that takes such pleasure in surprising and confounding …

Boy band PrettyMuch show off their dance skills for the rooftop-set “Blind” video, the group’s first new single of the year. The midtempo, romantic, trap-pop ballad has the boy band lamenting that they would “be better off blind” if they had to go without their lover. “When I close my …

Grimes adds an eerie edge to Bring Me the Horizon‘s “Nihilist Blues,” a single from the band’s upcoming sixth LP, Amo. The art-pop singer appears in the second verse and chorus of the electro-track, balancing out Oliver Sykes’ silky falsetto with an a alluring creepiness. “Light as a feather, stiff …

Brandi Carlile leads a lineup of roots-oriented performers announced for this year’s Americana Spring Celebration, an annual benefit retreat hosted at a Smoky Mountains luxury resort in East Tennessee. Now in its ninth year, the four-day event at Blackberry Farm will take place April 25th – 28th and benefit the …

Indie darlings Broken Social Scene unveiled a new song, “All I Want,” from their forthcoming EPLet’s Try the After – Vol. 1, set to arrive February 15th via Arts and Crafts. The track opens with an synth pulsing over the tinny crack of old-school electronic drums. Andrew Whiteman sings lead …