“I am a pretty normal guy in a very extraordinary situation, that I’m still trying to navigate,” says Fall Out Boy co-founder and lead guitarist Joe Trohman, whose first book, None of This Rocks, is out on Sept. 13. It’s a very different kind of rock memoir from most, offering …
Read More »Drummer David Kemper on His Years With Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia
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 »Harry Styles Gets a Big Round of Applause Going in Honor of Queen Elizabeth II
Harry Styles added to the Queen Elizabeth II tributes Thursday night, leading the crowd at Madison Square Garden in a round of applause honoring the late British monarch, who died at the age of 96. Following his pre-show spiel encouraging everyone to enjoy themselves — which itself was preceded by …
Read More »Rosalía Explores the Trappings of Fame on Deluxe Edition of 'Motomami'
After teasing the possibility of new material during her wildly successful Motomami World Tour, Spanish songstress Rosalía delivered Motomami+ — a deluxe edition of her critically acclaimed album that features her latest single “Despechá,” along several reworkings of Motomami standouts and a handful of new tracks. Rosalía first announced the …
Read More »Titus Andronicus Pursued Rock Perfection — and Learned to Love 'The Monitor' — to Find 'The Will to Live'
Patrick Stickles has returned to the bar’s backyard with a Guinness, finished marveling at the absurdity of a Pringles commercial in which a man dies with a chip can stuck on his hand, and is meditating on the interconnectivity of all life on Earth — bound by the will to …
Read More »Meghan Trainor Strikes a Work-Life Balance on New Single 'Don't I Make It Look Easy'
Meghan Trainor has crafted a clever ode to her work-life balance with her new song “Don’t I Make It Look Easy,” the latest single from her upcoming album Takin’ It Back. “When I started recording the album I was learning how to be a working mom,” Trainor said in a …
Read More »Brandi Carlile Will Tower Over You in a Live IMAX Concert
Brandi Carlile’s new album In the Canyon Haze reimagines the songs on her 2021 LP In These Silent Days through the lens of L.A.’s Laurel Canyon. On release day, Sept. 28, Carlile and her band will bring the album to vivid life with a live performance broadcast to IMAX theaters. …
Read More »Kane Brown Is His Own Kind of Country Star on 'Different Man'
Self-examination has been in the air in country music lately. Luke Combs, the genre’s current biggest superstar, chronicled the sometimes-rocky road to adulthood with his 2022 album Growin’ Up. Maren Morris embarked on her soul-searching Humble Quest. And now, young star Kane Brown’s third album asserts that he’s a Different …
Read More »Maria Becerra Revs Up the Old-School Reggaetón (and Causes a Car Crash) in 'Automático' Video
Automatic perreo from la Nena de Argentina. On Thursday, María Becerra released her single “Automático” and accompanied it with a queer-coded, Fast & Furious-esque music video. “‘Automático’ really is a dream song for me. I have always listened to old perreos and old reggaetones and all the time I wanted …
Read More »Eddie Vedder Just Happened to Cover the Beatles' 'Her Majesty' After Queen Elizabeth's Death
Eddie Vedder made the incredibly specific choice of doing a quick cover of the Beatles’ “Her Majesty” during Pearl Jam’s show in Toronto on Thursday following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Vedder made absolutely no mention of the late monarch, or her death at the age of 96, before …
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