Sturgill Simpson is going through it. At the start of his new album, Passage Du Desir, he’s unmoored in Paris, spending his “days in a haze floating around in the Marais” — the city of light and love turned into a “Swamp of Sadness.” The bass offers muffled comfort, an …
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Back in 2021, Sturgill Simpson promised Rolling Stone that he was done making albums under his own name after the release of The Ballad of Dood and Juanita. “I always said there would be five, and I wondered if I’d go back on that. But it really has cemented every …
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The week Sturgill Simpson’s breakthrough, generation-defining second album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, was released, the Number One song on country radio was Brantley Gilbert’s Nickelback-ified ode to women in short shorts and the boys who bring them to the tailgate. It was called “Bottoms Up,” and it wasn’t an …
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Austin City Limits will return in October with headlining performances from Dua Lipa, Tyler the Creator, Chris Stapleton, Blink-182, Sturgill Simpson, and Pretty Lights. The annual music festival, which will be held over two weekends, will also feature appearances from Reneé Rapp, Foster The People, Dominic Fike, the Marías, Leon …
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Outside Lands is celebrating its Sweet 16 this year with a stacked lineup! On Tuesday, the San Francisco-based music festival announced that Tyler, the Creator, Sturgill Simpson, and the Killers will headline its Aug. 9-11 event and that it will also feature Post Malone performing a special set of country …
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Country singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton performed two tracks from Higher, his fifth studio album which came out last November, on Saturday Night Live. Stapleton, making his third SNL musical guest appearance after taking the stage in 2018 beside fellow Kentucky guitarist Sturgill Simpson and in 2016, opened with the album’s lead …
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It’s no secret that artificial intelligence has become 2023’s cultural boogeyman — the vengeful ghost in the machine that now seems closer than ever to possibly “replacing” humanity. (Or, at the very least, replicating our worst instincts and darker desires in a way that’s too dangerous to laugh off.) Musicians, …
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Sturgill Simpson, who plays militiaman Brother Marshall in The Righteous Gemstones, covered Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers Band’s “All the Gold in California” during Sunday night’s episode. Simpson’s studio version has also been released. The a cappella tune with backing harmonizing choir appears under the moniker Brother Marshall and …
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On a recent drive from Cleveland, Ohio, back to his home in Austin, Texas, Miles Miller had ample time to reflect along the 1,400-mile route. “I thought about how much I thought about these moments without knowing what they would look like,” Miller tells Rolling Stone. “Even when I was …
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Max has dropped a new trailer for the third season of The Righteous Gemstones, set to arrive June 18. The clip reveals numerous new additions to the cast, including Steve Zahn, Kristen Johnston, Stephen Dorff, Iliza Shlesinger, and musician Sturgill Simpson. A synopsis for the season teases, “When the spoiled …
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