Strawberry Field, the Salvation Army children’s home in Liverpool near John Lennon’s childhood home that inspired the Beatles‘ 1967 classic “Strawberry Fields Forever,” opened to the public for the first time Saturday. The property – a popular tourist destination for Beatles fans that draws a reported 60,000 people a year …
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Eddie Money, the singer-saxophonist whose string of hits include “Baby Hold On,” “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight,” died Friday in Los Angeles at the age of 70. “The Money Family regrets to announce that Eddie passed away peacefully early this morning,” the family said in a …
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Robbie Robertson recalls his hardscrabble youth on the new song “Dead End Kid,” featuring Irish singer Glen Hansard. The track will appear on Robertson’s new album, Sinematic, out September 20th. “Dead End Kid” boasts a steady and heavy blues groove, over which Robertson scatters psych-tinged guitar licks and reminisces, in …
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Fantoons, an L.A. studio known for creating rock-themed animation, has released a new full-length graphic novel that chronicles the making of Rush‘s 1977 prog-rock classic, A Farewell to Kings. Spanning 144 pages, fully authorized by the band, and based on interviews with Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson and Kings producer Terry …
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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. What would The Beatles be without Ringo Starr or Rush without Neil Peart? While the two are now celebrated as legendary songwriters and producers, they first won acclaim …
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Grimes has released her latest single “Violence” with electronic music producer i_o along with a fantastical music video directed by the musician herself. The track is expected to appear on her forthcoming album Miss_Anthropocene, which currently has no set release date. As the clip opens, Grimes can be seen reading …
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Björk is re-releasing 2015 album Vulnicura in a virtual reality edition, Pitchfork reports. The seven-song set will comprise the VR visuals that are featured in the Björk Digital Exhibition, which has been traveling the world since 2016. The exhibit is currently touring cities in Brazil. The new Vulinicura set arrives …
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Young Thug leapt from Number 44 to Number One on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the week of August 16th to August 22nd. The rapper garnered 161.3 million song streams on the strength of his new album, So Much Fun, which moved 118,400 album units as it also …
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Taylor Swift performed the two most recent singles off her seventh album Lover at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards: “You Need to Calm Down” and “Lover.” Swift is nominated for 12 awards at this year’s ceremony. Swift opened the performance on a lawn chair alongside Todrick Hall doing a slightly …
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That Dog were a beloved band in the Nineties whose legacy has only grown since they released their last LP, 1997’s near-perfect Retreat From the Sun. They just released a deluxe edition of their 1995 debut album, and they recently played their first show in 19 years. In an example …
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