Like Baz Luhrmann’s groundbreaking 2001 romantic-tragedy movie before it, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a poptastic spectacle with a grab bag of famous pop songs. For the stage production, music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator Justin Levine expanded its sonic landscape, using more than 70 pop songs (credited to 161 writers) …
Read More »Elton John, Taron Egerton Share '(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again' Purple Disco Machine Remix
Taron Egerton stars as Elton John in the biopic Rocketman, and earlier this year, they dueted on a brand new song for the film, “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” penned by John and long-time collaborator Bernie Taupin. On Wednesday, after the track was shortlisted for Best Original Song at the …
Read More »The Betrayal of the Kurds
O n the morning of October 12th, Hevrin Khalaf, a rising young Kurdish political leader, rode along the M4 highway in northern Syria. Seated in the back of a bulletproof Toyota SUV, she rushed past the battle-scarred villages of her homeland, now three days into a brutal military assault from …
Read More »Wu-Tang Clan Associate, Mentor Popa Wu Dead at 63
Popa Wu, the longtime Wu-Tang Clan affiliate and spiritual mentor to the group, has died, a representative for the Wu-Tang Clan confirmed to Rolling Stone. While no cause of death was given, according to The Source, Popa Wu — who was also known as Freedum Allah — died at his …
Read More »So, How Was Your Decade, Mastodon's Brann Dailor?
So, How Was Your Decadeis a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. “What the hell happened in the last 10 years?” Brann Dailor asks Rolling Stone …
Read More »The 10 Most Stoned Moments of the 2020 Presidential Campaign
With Donald Trump on one side and a field huge enough for a seventies ensemble comedy on the other – Michael Bloomberg is the record 29th entrant in the Democratic primary – the 2020 election is already, by far, the weirdest presidential campaign we’ve seen. Because it’s taking place in …
Read More »The Voidz' 'Did My Best' Is Vintage Casablancas
Julian Casablancas is going to spend the rest of his time on earth being asked to talk about the first two Strokes albums. That’s the price of making music that connects with people, but you can’t blame him for chafing a little at all those questions about the work he …
Read More »Watch Kim Gordon's Voyeuristic New Video for 'Earthquake'
Kim Gordon has shared the “voyeuristic” new video for “Earthquake,” a track off the former Sonic Youth singer’s acclaimed 2019 LP No Home Record. Like the previous visual for “Sketch Artist,” “Earthquake” reunites Gordon with filmmaker Loretta Fahrenholz, who shot the video from the perspective of one of those street-mapping …
Read More »Drake Makes Surprise Cameo at DaBaby Concert, Teases New Album
Drake popped up at DaBaby‘s concert in Toronto Tuesday to perform his single, “Money in the Grave,” praise the North Carolina MC and promise a new album in 2020. On Instagram, the rapper shared a snippet of his performance, launching into “Money in the Grave” with abandon as the crowd …
Read More »37 Years Later, Prince's '1999' Leaps to Top 40 of RS 200
Thanks to a “super deluxe” reissue, Prince‘s 1999jumped to Number 31 on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. 1999earned 19,200 album-equivalent units, a total driven almost entirely by sales — 12,100 album sales and 3,200 song sales. In addition, songs on the reissue amassed more than 1.2 million …
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