UPDATE: Less than a week after accepting Dave Grohl‘s challenge, Nandi Bushell has mastered Them Crooked Vultures’ “Dead End Friends.” “You win round one… but it ain’t over yet,” Grohl warned of their drum-off. “Buckle up, cuz I have something special in mind…” Dave Grohl continues to spend the pandemic …
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Tears for Fears have shared the previously unreleased “Rhythm of Life,” the first offering from their upcoming Seeds of Love box set. The demo was recorded by frontman Roland Orzabal and keyboardist Nicky Holland in 1986, but the track didn’t make it onto the 1989 album. Instead, Orzabal gave it …
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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. If you’re looking for a new TV, you’ve most likely come into contact with a QLED option. And while the features it offers can instantly enhance your viewing …
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Country music tends to go through cyclical changes, often swinging between nods to its stripped-down folk origins and polished takes on current popular trends. One of the latest movements, as exemplified by Luke Combs and Gabby Barrett, finds a way to synthesize both of those approaches — plus many others …
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David Byrne sticks his head out from behind a chain-mail curtain before joining his band for a rendition of Janelle Monáe’s indictment of police brutality against black people, “Hell You Talmbout,” in the teaser for his upcoming concert film, David Byrne’s American Utopia. The movie, which Spike Lee directed, will …
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Jack Sherman, one-time guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers who played on the band’s debut album, has died at the age of 64, the band confirmed Friday. No cause of death was provided. “We of the RHCP family would like to wish Jack Sherman smooth sailing into the worlds …
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With Soundgarden, Kim Thayil often experimented with how he played guitar, changing the strings’ tunings and incorporating feedback into the band’s sound. He brings that sense of musical adventuring to “The Firebird,” a track off the upcoming album by the Barrett Martin Group, a jazz-fusion ensemble that the former Screaming …
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Blues-rock guitarist G.E. Smith and R&B singer-songwriter LeRoy Bell have a rock & roll day at the beach in the video for their new single “Let the Sunshine in.” Directed by Fabian Rodriguez, the visual features Smith and Bell jamming on their guitars while lounging around and exploring the sandy …
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Arcade Fire’s Will Butler has shared a new song and video, “Close My Eyes,” from his upcoming solo album, Generations, out September 25th via Merge. The song has a breezy, bouncing pop groove that opens up into a lush chorus that places Butler’s voice against a wall of backing harmonies. …
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