At the start of the summer of 2019, designer and DJ Virgil Abloh debuted his third collection of apparel at the helm of Louis Vuitton with a high-profile show in Paris. In July, not long after a surprising performance at Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards, the trendsetting rap trio Migos headlined …
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The past three days have been a pretty insane time for Oasis fans. On Saturday evening, Liam Gallagher wrapped up his Definitely Maybe 30th anniversary tour with a triumphant set at the Reading Festival in England where he played the album straight through. Not long after he walked offstage, the …
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News of the Oasis reunion has sent shockwaves throughout the music world, especially since Noel Gallagher has spent the past 15 years swearing such a thing would never happen. But should anyone really be all that surprised? Liam and Noel Gallagher may not like each other very much, but they …
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Just over 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan became the first American president to name-drop Bruce Springsteen. “America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts,” he told a crowd at a New Jersey campaign stop in September 1984. “It rests in the message of hope in the songs of …
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After releasing 10 studio albums that run the gamut from rock-opera concept records to collections of cocksure power-pop, Butch Walker is putting a period on his recording career as a solo artist. Ironically, the singer-songwriter came to that decision while gearing up to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his breakthrough …
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I n January 2007, a few months after the conclusion of the On an Island tour, David Gilmour and members of his road band, including Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, convened in a drafty barn on his U.K. property to try out some new song ideas. “I hadn’t thought this …
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G Herbo stands in the wood-paneled control room of a studio in Chicago’s River West neighborhood one afternoon in early May, playing potential tracks for his latest mixtape, Big Swerv (out Sept. 6). He recorded much of it right here in this studio, which served as his second home through …
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When word of an Oasis reunion tour started spreading online over the weekend, it was easy to dismiss it as yet another rumor drummed up by the U.K. press. We’ve seen this many times before with reports of reunions by the Smiths and Kinks that never came close to fruition. …
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In March 2020, when a lethal twister tore through East Nashville just days before an even more devastating pandemic, the storied Woodland Sound Studios — home to the likes of Tammy Wynette’s Soft Touch, Indigo Girls’ Swamp Ophelia, Jimmy Buffett’s A1A, and scores of cherished others — stood tall in …
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“Too twiddly didn’t really exist to us, in our minds,” guitar legend Steve Howe of Yes says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, explaining the musical mission of his band — and of prog-rock itself. “There wasn’t really such a thing. If you could play it, then …
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