Three weeks after postponing their summer Stadium Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts have announced makeup dates for 2021. “All tickets will be honored for the new dates,” they wrote in a message to fans. “If you are a …
Read More »NoCap And Lil Uzi Vert Aren't Here To Celebrate on 'Count a Million'
NoCap is a master of gloom. The Mobile, Alabama, rapper’s music mines a distinct sense of hopelessness; at points, his voice warbles with an unmistakable dread and then swells into a half-rapped, half-shrieked force. “Count A Million,” his new song featuring Lil Uzi Vert, seems at first like it might …
Read More »Neil Young's 'Homegrown' Is Now Streaming
Neil Young‘s long-lost 1975 album Homegrown finally drops on Friday, but you can stream it now in full on his Archives site. Gearing up for its release, Young previously dropped the singles “Try” and “Vacancy,” two of the seven unreleased tracks on the album. “Hi, hoping you’re all holding up …
Read More »Flashback: Joe Walsh Sings Bob Dylan's Favorite Eagles Song
Up until this year, Bob Dylan had never really expressed much interest in the Eagles. But then in his epic song “Murder Most Foul,” released in March, he called out Don Henley and Glenn Frey by name, along with their 1975 classic “Take It to the Limit.” That inspired historian …
Read More »See Sammy Hagar and the Circle Rip Through Van Halen's 'Right Now'
Sammy Hagar and the Circle have mainly tackled covers like the Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and Little Richard’s “Keep-a-Knockin’” in their weekly Lockdown Sessions video series over the past couple of months, but their newest session takes on 1991 Van Halen classic “Right Now.” “When I wrote this song …
Read More »'Aviva' Review: Sexual Healing, One Dance at a Time
The characters in Aviva, writer-director Boaz Yakin’s experimental self-chronicle-meets-Carnal Knowledge update, have a lot of sex. They copulate passionately in suburban teenage bedrooms and expensive downtown lofts, furtively in the backrooms of bars and against nightclub walls, in versions both vanilla and 50-gray-shaded, positions both missionary and magnificently gymnastic, in …
Read More »No-Knock Warrants: Inside Police Tactic That Killed Breonna Taylor
Amid the national protests against police brutality and the deaths of so many black Americans, many crucial questions have been raised about the extent of policing powers. They have also questioned the validity of no-knock warrants, which had been issued and signed off by a judge the night a Louisville …
Read More »'Doom Patrol' Season 2 Trailer: DC Comics' Weirdest Series Returns
The weirdest series in the DC Comics stable of TV shows returns later this month with the season season of Doom Patrol, which will jump to HBO Max for Season 2. The preview reintroduces the offbeat superhero team — Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Jane …
Read More »Avicii Museum to Open in Stockholm in 2021
A new museum dedicated to the life and music of Avicii will open in Stockholm, Sweden next year. Per a press release, the “Avicii Experience” will “bring its visitors closer to the artist Avicii and the person Tim Bergling. The audience will follow Tim’s journey from a reclusive music nerd …
Read More »'In My Room' With Melissa Etheridge
Americana luminary Melissa Etheridge made rock history with her 1993 breakthrough album, Yes I Am — a bold testament to her prowess as a singer-songwriter, as well as her lesbian identity. In Rolling Stone‘s latest edition of “In My Room,” she revives that same trailblazing spirit with an acoustic performance …
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