Over six months after Weezer first revealed plans for their ambitious “Seasons” project, the first installment of that song cycle will arrive this Sunday. Now dubbed SZNZ, the year-long endeavor finds Rivers Cuomo and company releasing four new EPs over the next four seasons. SZNZ: Spring arrives first on March …
Read More »Rosalia Drops Video for 'Hentai,' the Overtly Sexual Song That Divided TikTok
Back in January, the Spanish singer Rosalía posted a video on TikTok that showed her perched on a mountain peak somewhere, blanketed in falling snow. A short clip of “Hentai,” a piano-led, daydream of a song, played while she giggled along to its unapologetically explicit lyrics; translated in English, they …
Read More »Cannabis 2022 Trends: The Rise of Video Marketing
Take a moment to scroll through your social media feed. You’ll notice that compared to five or 10 years ago, you’re seeing more and more videos gaining traction. The entrance of TikTok on the social media scene has led to an explosion in video content that we’ve never seen before. …
Read More »'The Torch': Buddy Guy Gives a Lesson on How to Play the Blues — and Keep the Music Alive
That moldy-peaches cliché “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” has rarely applied to anyone as much as Buddy Guy. As his former protégé Joe Bonamassa says in The Torch, a new doc about Guy, the now-85-year-old blues guitarist and singer is “the last man standing.” He really is: …
Read More »Bernard Fowler on His Years With the Rolling Stones, Herbie Hancock, and Michael Hutchence
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 …
Read More »Jack White Convinced the Prince Estate to Let Him Drop the Mythical, Unreleased 'Camille'
Jack White’s Third Man Records is reportedly planning to release Prince’s unreleased 1986 album, Camille. The label’s co-founder Ben Blackwell broke the news in a recent interview with Mojo (via the fansite, Ultimate Prince, and social media screen grabs). While no release date or details were given, Blackwell confirmed the …
Read More »Dear Zoë Kravitz and Robert Pattinson: Stop Making America Horny
Dear Zoë Kravitz and Robert Pattinson, We are the co-hosts of Don’t Let This Flop, a podcast about internet culture sponsored by Rolling Stone.It is, for the most part, a silly little show where we talk about things like Hilary Duff’s dancing and men who eat sandwiches shirtless and whether …
Read More »Terry Allen's Eighties Albums 'Smokin' the Dummy' and 'Bloodlines' to Be Reissued
Two of singer-songwriter Terry Allen‘s Eighties-era releases will be reissued by the indie label Paradise of Bachelors this May: 1980’s Smokin’ the Dummy and 1983’sBloodlines. Both albums have both been long out of print, having last been reissued as a joint single album in 1997 by Sugar Hill Records, and …
Read More »From Kimye to Skete: The Dissolution of the Kanye West, Kim Kardashian Empire
Kimye was once a powerhouse Hollywood couple. Kanye West, music mogul and genius, joined Kim Kardashian, the entrepreneurial queen of reality TV, to form one of America’s richest, most powerful families in entertainment. Their relationship, however, has also been laced with fights with other artists, social media rants, and ultimately …
Read More »Sharon Van Etten Covers Nine Inch Nails for Special Comic Book Single
Sharon Van Etten and Julien Baker will cover Nine Inch Nails and Smashing Pumpkins, respectively, for a special seven-inch single that will soundtrack an upcoming issue of the Image Comics series, What’s the Furthest Place From Here? The vinyl single will boast Van Etten covering Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt,” while …
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