Tegan and Sara have unveiled the new confessional ballad “Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie),” from their upcoming album, Hey, I’m Just Like You, out September 27th. The song — originally written when Tegan and Sara were in high school — examines the ways lies and deceit …
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When the Doors‘ producer, Paul A. Rothchild, suggested adding orchestral strings and horns to guitarist Robby Krieger‘s song “Touch Me,” Krieger was not happy. It was two years after Sgt. Pepper, and he says he was wary of the band being seen as copycats. “I said, ‘Oh, God. Now we’re …
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What’s Harry Styles really like? In the wake of his intimate cover story on one of the most singular artists in modern music, Rob Sheffield joins host Brian Hiatt and Brittany Spanos on our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast to share even more. Sheffield breaks down his time with the …
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Listen to an audio version of this story below: By the time Shannon Scaletta was 25, she had lost her mom, dad, and sister to addiction. At eight, her father died of a cocaine overdose. At 20, her mother was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for killing a …
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UPDATE: SNL has announced that Shane Gillis will not be joining the cast after all. It should have been a slam dunk. On Thursday morning, NBC announced the addition of three new cast members for Saturday Night Live’s 45th season. Among the trio was Bowen Yang, an SNL staff writer …
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Springsteen on Broadway and Leaving Neverland were among the winners of Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday, while Beyoncé was shut out in all six categories her concert film Homecoming was nominated in. Leaving Neverland, HBO’s two-part documentary detailing two men’s sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson, won the Emmy for …
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Quirky, catchy melodies have always been Pixies‘ calling card and on Beneath the Eyrie, their third post-reunion album, the alt-rock icons indulge everything from jaunty, old-timey Kurt Weill oom-pah rhythms to 10-foot waves of surf guitar. Frontman and chief songwriter Black Francis has said that the group embraced their most …
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Prince delivers a delirious rendition of “1999” in a previously unreleased clip from his December 29th, 1982 concert at the Summit in Houston, Texas. The entire show will be released on DVD as part of a new 1999 reissue, out November 29th. “1999” frequently, and fittingly, served as the final …
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Major Lazer light up the club — or in this case, a party cave in the jungle — in their new video for “Que Calor.” With the help of Colombian megastar J Balvin and Dominican dembow veteran El Alfa, the American EDM collective close out the summer with a bang. …
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