Duran Duran will perform a special show commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, July 16th at the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The band will perform against a one-of-a-kind backdrop featuring the Saturn 1B launch vehicle and other rockets and …
Read More »See Miley Cyrus Perform 'On a Roll' and 'Head Like a Hole' at Glastonbury
Miley Cyrus – as her Black Mirror alter ego Ashley O – performed both her Nine Inch Nails remake “On a Roll” and a cover of the actual “Head Like a Hole” during the singer’s Sunday set at Glastonbury. The performance marked the first time Cyrus has played both the …
Read More »Meet Phum Viphurit, Thailand's First Indie-Pop Star
Last summer, when Mac DeMarco played a show in Bangkok, Thai singer-songwriter Phum Viphurit got to meet one of his musical heroes. “I kind of knew the promoters of the concert and got to sneak backstage,” Viphurit tells Rolling Stone. “I got to give him a really decent hug and …
Read More »Brian Eno: Astronomer Honors Producer With Asteroid Named 'Eno'
It’s a privilege befitting an ambient icon who once soundtracked a moon landing documentary: On Tuesday, the science festival Starmus V presented Brian Eno with a certificate commemorating that Asteroid 81948 has been named in his honor. Astronomer Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute, who discovered the asteroid, presented …
Read More »Watch Cardi B Flex on Judge, Jury and Executioner in New 'Press' Video
Cardi B struts through a perp walk and leaves a trail of blood at a trial in the wild new video for “Press.” The outlandish clip opens with a steamy menage-a-trois scene that soon turns violent as Cardi pulls on a cigarette as she takes out a handgun. From there, …
Read More »Migos, Future, G-Eazy Lead Rolling Loud Bay Area 2019 Lineup
Migos, Future, G-Eazy and Lil Uzi Vert will headline the 2019 Rolling Loud Bay Area festival. 21 Savage, Juice WRLD, Playboi Carti, Young Thug, Kodak Black, Gunna, Nav, Tyga and Lil Yachty will also perform at the event, scheduled for Saturday, September 28th and Sunday, the 29th at the Oakland …
Read More »Watch Lana Del Rey's Live Debut of Sublime Cover 'Doin' Time'
Lana Del Rey staged the live debut of her Sublime cover “Doin’ Time” during a concert Saturday at Dublin, Ireland’s Malahide Castle. Set against an orange sunset backdrop and palm trees, Del Rey swayed as she sultrily crooned the lyrics to “Doin’ Time” while the audience sang along. The performance …
Read More »Hot Chip Dive Deep Into Dancefloor Bliss on 'A Bathful of Ecstasy'
“I make soulless electronic pop,” Lady Gaga once said. “But when you’re on Ecstasy in a nightclub grinding up against someone and my music comes on, you’ll feel soul.” That kind of contradiction — between the mechanical and the spiritual, between isolation and connection, between escapism and meaning — is …
Read More »Avant-Garde Legend Anthony Braxton on His 'Trans-Idiomatic' Improv Odyssey
Near the end of a recent conversation with Rolling Stone, in which he emphasized time and again that his musical tastes aren’t confined to any one style, eminent avant-gardist Anthony Braxton illustrated his point by sharing a nickname he’s earned from those close to him. “My friends call me Anthony …
Read More »Mark Ronson Was Our Youngest, Most Ambitious Intern
Interning at Rolling Stone is an incredibly transformative experience. It’s one you never forget, even after you’ve written “Uptown Funk” and “Shallow.” Last night on The Late Show, the Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter-producer Mark Ronson reminisced about his first job in the “business”: researching the music charts page for Rolling …
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