Big Thief has released new music in support of L.A. fire relief efforts. The band posted the five-track Passional Relations EP to their official website today, also revealing that the majority of the proceeds will be donated to the Plus1LA Fires Fund, which was created to aid the victims of …
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It’s about to be a holiday from real: Jack’s Mannequin is back. Singer Andrew McMahon has announced the band’s first full-length U.S. tour in 10 years. The MFEO Tour (named for their 2005 song of the same name, where it stands for “Made for Each Other”) will kick off in …
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T here’s no mistaking Echo Mars for anything but a rock star. It’s in the way they carry themselves through the world, with a quick, confident step and a starchild aura that evokes Bolan, Bowie, and multiple characters from the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine. It’s in their ink — DRAMA …
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It’s a few hours before showtime for Dirty Honey and singer Marc LaBelle is backstage at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl, wearing sunglasses indoors. The rest of the band is seated against the wall next to him, all in a row, to field questions about their latest album, Can’t Find the Brakes; …
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Not long ago, Lizzie No had an out-of-body experience while listening to Gillian Welch. The singer-songwriter had spent the past few years trying to make sense of the fractured, frighteningly personal songs she’d been writing, songs that spoke to a pain whose source she couldn’t always name. Many of them …
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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. For several of the most popular leading frontmen and musicians from the heavy rock days of “turn it up to eleven”, the question of developing hearing loss was …
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It is easy to shit on Nickelback. Too easy, some might say. The question is really: Why? What, exactly, is it about this Canadian group that inspires such ill will? Their overwhelming success? Lots of bands are successful, for all of the right and wrong reasons. Their hits? No one’s …
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They say you should never meet your heroes, but you definitely shouldn’t start romancing them in a foreign country when you’re 14 (to their 24), let them ply you with pills, dictate what clothes you wear, and trap you in a mansion while they go off to fuck starlets and …
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Everyone knows the definition of a tribute band. But is there a difference between that and a “revival” band? Whatever one chooses to call it, when is such a project a money-making exercise in nostalgia — and when is it a sincere, concerted (pun intended) effort to recreate and sustain …
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The San Francisco music scene was bursting with magic during the Sixties and Seventies, from the rise of radio DJs and eye-catching poster artists to Rolling Stone magazine and a number of iconic acts who emerged from it, including the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Steve Miller, Santana, …
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