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With their debut EP, boygenius had joined forces and demonstrated to the world that they were truly among the most promising authors of American songwriting. Six songs that demonstrated an enviable harmony and affirmed a common musical and lyrical vision. It was 2018 and since then Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers have released several singles and at least one LP each, managing in the case of Baker and Bridgers' latest monumental albums to surpass what they had done up to that point. On the occasion of their recent reunion live – and while waiting for a new official…
Doug Goldstein, the longtime former manager of Guns N’ Roses, has died at the age of 65. The news was announced by Brandon Weissler, host of the Guns N’ Roses podcast Appetite For Distortion, on Thursday (June 25). No cause of death has been shared. “Doug was much more than a former Guns N’ Roses manager,” Weissler told Ultimate Classic Rock. “He was a friendly ear, a supportive voice and a sensitive man. You don’t survive 17 years with Axl Rose by accident. In many ways, he saved Axl’s life.” “Doug cared deeply about his friends, family, and all GN’R fans. He struggled…
Senza pretese di completismo, ma neanche quella di dare voce in toto alle classifiche della redazione, abbiamo pensato di farvi ascoltare le playlist che meglio rappresentano l’”anno musicale” di ciascuno. Le canzoni che hanno spiccato all’interno di un certo genere, le canzoni-simbolo degli artisti-rivelazione o delle grandi conferme – o, più semplicemente, le canzoni che hanno significato qualcosa per noi che le abbiamo ascoltate. Tommaso Benelli Il 2021 ha fatto schifo per molte ragioni, ma almeno ci ha lasciato tanti bei film e canzoni come “Solar Power”, “Shelter Song” e “Vivo”, così che un motivo per sorridere lo si trovi sempre.…
Kings Of Leon have kicked off the inaugural State Fayre festival with a hits-packed headline set – watch footage below. The Tennessee band topped the bill on the opening night of the new festival at Hylands Park in Chelmsford last night (June 26), following sets from The Black Crowes, Stephen Wilson Jr, Kingfishr and more. State Fayre, which bills itself as the UK’s biggest music and barbecue festival, is taking place across the weekend and combines a rock, Americana and country-leaning line-up with American-inspired food, decor and fairground attractions. With the festival opening during a record-breaking UK heatwave, and the smell of barbecue drifting across the site as the band took to…
California, 1967. If your mind immediately goes to Jefferson Airplane, Doors, Mothers Of Invention, Quicksilver Messenger Service you are off track, at least for the duration of this playlist. The year is the same, the place too, the influences (in part) too, but the tones are quite different: if the psychedelic rock of the Summer Of Love is impetuous, dilated, mocking, often dark or at least inebriating, its polite and pop counterpart is – to the extent possible for years in which everything was in contact with everything – quite the opposite. The sunshine popthis is the expression with which…
Mick Jagger has admitted that the idea of a big-screen Rolling Stones biopic “interests” him. The legendary frontman was asked about the possibility of the band receiving the biopic treatment in a new interview with GQ, in the context of Sam Mendes’ upcoming four-film Beatles project. “Yeah, it interests me,” Jagger replied when asked whether a similar treatment for the Stones would appeal to him. “I don’t want to impart it to you, but, I know how I see it,” he continued. “There’s lots of ways of doing biopics. So most of the time when you do a biopic, you do one small section of someone’s life bookended by some other stuff.” Jagger then pointed to…
The winter season has always been a source of inspiration for songs and sounds of all kinds and types. A classic trend is that of acoustic “winter songs”, bare ballads, often ghostly or desolate, the genre of which Leonard Cohen is the undisputed luminary and which over the years has been carried forward by multitudes of disciples, represented here by top-class authors such as Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Vashti Bunyan, Marissa Nadler, Bill Callahan, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Sarah McLachlan, Balmorhea and our own Fabrizio De André. But the fairy tale (more or less Christmassy) is also a winter classic,…
Messi and Co. are back tonight for a final Group J match against Jordan. Here’s where to stream it without cable If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The reigning World Cup champions are back on the pitch tonight when Argentina takes on Jordan at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Even though Argentina has secured its spot in the next round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (the Round of 32), Lionel Messi is still expected to play against Jordan. The GOAT is currently leading…
Lands with a great pop tradition, flourishing research in metal and rich experimentation in jazz and its surroundings, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland are countries that have also allowed the flourishing of female authorial voices, very often of great appeal, almost always devoted to the search for a unique, peculiar, immediately recognisable language. Moving through the decades, the languages (although English remains dominant) and the styles, the present selection of twenty songs draws on the best that the singer-songwriters from the Deep North have been able to offer and continue to offer. Clearly without any pretense of completeness (the list…
Vanilla Ice’s headline set at Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 State Fair was cancelled less than two hours before he was due on stage. The ‘Ice Ice Baby’ rapper – real name Robert Van Winkle – had been due to perform as part of the troubled ‘I Love The 90s!’ concert at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Friday (June 26), but Freedom 250 announced in the late afternoon that the fair would be closed for the rest of the day “due to inclement weather”. “The safety of our guests, staff, and partners remains our top priority,” the organisation wrote on X, adding that it was “actively monitoring conditions” and that…
