When Robert Fripp looked out from the stage of the Anfiteatro Romano in Pompei during a King Crimson show there in July 2018, he saw something he didn’t expect: women. “Seeing men sitting next to their wives,” he marveled during a recent press event in London’s West End. “Seeing young …
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The Zombies‘ “Time of the Season” hit Number One on the Cashboxsingles chart on March 29th, 1969. Fifty years later to the day, the group appeared at Barclays Center to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “The fact is that we’ve been nominated a few times,” …
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It’s kind of amazing how much history Cate Le Bon packs into her music. The Welsh indie-rock artist’s great 2016 album Crab Day evoked the incisively loopy post-punk of Pere Ubu and the Red Krayola, the clattering epiphanies of the Raincoats and Lilliput, the Velvet Underground and Seventies Kraut-rock, as …
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Solange‘s When I Get Home, released on Friday, feels both meticulous and off-the-cuff, hyper-melodic for those listeners enticed by the Seventies references on 2016’s A Seat at the Table, but also attuned to the short track-lengths and loop structures favored by today’s young streamers. Solange oversaw the making of the …
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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 …
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Besides being a pop superstar with a larger-than-life voice,Sam Smith has long beena Harmonizer,heartbroken by Fifth Harmony’s hiatus. Specifically, Smith was an acolyte for the group’s hit “Work From Home,” even telling James Corden that he wants to “walk down the aisle to it in heels.” Naturally, that joy is …
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Richard Hell is known for many things — his short-lived stint in Television, his success with the Voidoids,his long career as a downtown poet. But maybe best of all, he’s known as the handsome lothario of the 1970s NYC punk scene. Yet when cultural historian Carlo McCormick asked Hell about …
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