In 2019, Teddy Geiger relocated to Madrid where she lived with a cousin for a few months. She needed to get out of Los Angeles: In the wake of a Grammy nomination for co-writing Shawn Mendes‘ “In My Blood” and experiencing her first full year of living publicly out as …
Read More »Pinegrove Went on Hiatus … Then Went Viral on TikTok
Earlier this week, an enterprising creator on TikTok named @garrettlee39 posted an earnest rendition of himself dancing to the 2014 single “Need 2” by indie band Pinegrove. A palpably moody cut from their album Everything So Far, the song, and dance, have spread across TikTok like wildfire. Garrett Lee’s original …
Read More »Jesse Malin Suffered a Rare Spinal Stroke. He's Determined to Walk and Dance Again
On the last Saturday of March at New York’s Webster Hall, Jesse Malin was doing what he’s done a thousand times before: leaping off the stage and wading through a sold-out crowd toward the back bar, which he climbed atop to lead a singalong of his song “She Don’t Love …
Read More »How Tina Turner Pulled Off Pop's Greatest Comeback
O ne day in London’s Kensington district in 1983, Tina Turner’s resurrection finally appeared within reach. The prior decade had been one of stage-shaking triumphs, personal nightmares, various degrees of mortification, and now, a chance at possible redemption. But as musician and producer Martyn Ware soon learned, Turner’s past was …
Read More »Noel Gallagher on … Everything: 'I F-cking Changed People's Lives!'
Ask Noel Gallagher how the material from his excellent new album, Council Skies, is going over live so far on his U.S. tour with Garbage, and you’ll get an answer only he would dare to give: “Terrible,” he says, blaming crowds who haven’t absorbed the album yet (like all of …
Read More »Chuck Burgi Logged Years With Meat Loaf and Rainbow Before Landing His 'Dream Job' With Billy Joel
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 »PJ Harding Captures the Joy and Cost of Love in 'A Dangerous Thing'
PJ Harding is set to release his new single “A Dangerous Thing” on Friday, a heartfelt ode to the risks we take for love. In support of the track, the Australian singer-songwriter shared an accompanying black-and-white video capturing intimate moments between partners and surreal scenes of people happily falling in …
Read More »Lil Wayne Is So Prolific He Hardly Remembers 'Tha Carter III'
HIP-HOP WAS BORNINthe Bronx in the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary,“Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout this year. When Lil wayne hops on Zoom one recent afternoon, he’s on a tour bus in California between stops on …
Read More »Fresh From Opening For Beyoncé, Nia Archives Delivers A Summer Banger With 'Off Wiv Ya Headz'
The British singer and producer Nia Archives already has fans in Beyoncé and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, as well as scores of young people drawn to the 23-year-old musician’s emotive dance tunes — a sound she describes as “crying in the club” music. In the past few years, she’s toured …
Read More »Twenty Years Later, Radiohead's 'Hail to the Thief' Has Never Sounded Better
Happy 20th anniversary to Hail to the Thief, Radiohead’s most misunderstood album. If you doubt the last part of that sentence, consider the fact that Thom Yorke once described this supremely anxious, stubbornly combative music as being ideal “for shagging.” Our five brainy lads released it in the summer of …
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