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One day in October he left his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and drove east for about an hour. He parked his old Jeep on the side of the road, then staggered through brambles and brush to the cave entrance. He entered the darkness of the cave until he could no longer walk. Then he got down on all fours and crawled until he couldn't even crawl anymore. Like a wounded animal, he was looking for a place to die. That darkness that inhabited Johnny Cash could not be explained by the preachers of the old gospel radios he listened to…
The singer was accused of causing $16,000 worth of damage at a New Mexico resort Charges have been dropped against Bailey Zimmerman, the country singer who was accused of trashing his hotel room at the Sandia Resort and Casino in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in May. In a statement to Rolling Stone on Wednesday, his attorney confirmed that the charges were dropped after Zimmerman “took immediate responsibility for his mistake.” His lawyer added, “We are grateful to the Pueblo of Sandia and the District Attorney's Office for this just and swift resolution.” According to documents previously obtained by Rolling Stonean arrest…
On September 6, 2017, during the very long WorldWired Tour (February 2016-August 2019), Metallica played the second of the two scheduled dates at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam: at a certain point, towards the middle of the setlist, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich left the stage, to make room for guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. In itself it was nothing new, the two had already taken that space to play some jams on other occasions: the unusual factor is that in this case they performed “Radar Love”, anthem by the historic Dutch band Golden Earring, dating back to…
A concert without an audience, immersed in the silence and suggestion of the ruins of the ancient Roman amphitheater of Pompeii. A fusion of the ancient location archaeological and psychedelic rock. This is the idea behind “Pink Floyd Live At Pompei MCMLXXII”, the film directed by Adrian Maben in October 1971 that Rai Cultura will broadcast on Wednesday 24 June at 00.20 on Rai 5 in a completely restored version, with the original audio tracks remastered. Filmed in a unique context, with only the presence of the crew and excavation workers, the film captures Pink Floyd in a dimension suspended…
Ever since guitar amplifiers grew powerful enough to promise total obliteration, there have been people like BIG|BRAVE’s Mathieu Ball and Robin Wattie, staring into that blind conical eye and figuring out how far inside of it they might travel. Over the Montreal trio’s 10 albums, Ball and Wattie have become scientists and poet-explorers of vibrations, coaxing sensuous waves from the sounds electric guitars make when played, as well as the ones they make when they are just turned up and allowed to hum. Ball built a guitar with an aluminum neck and began placing his headstock on top of his…
Dance-music producers are notorious for mellowing in middle age. With enough bangers under their belt and enough sunrises burned into habitually widened retinas, many ultimately decide it’s time to get presentable, responsible, grounded like a barefoot Rick Rubin sipping green tea. But what do you do if you were pretty mellow to begin with?Since 2010, Gold Panda’s Derwin Dicker has been making opalescent, gossamer-tufted tracks in the tradition of Four Tet, J Dilla, and Susumu Yokota. And while he has cut loose on occasion, the emotional gravitas of his music—suffused in wistful sample flips and winsome harps and chimes—has always…
If there still is such a thing as the American Dream, it feels like the type that immediately dissolves as soon as you wake up. The shit your parents may have been promised in their youth—whether they were born here, were forced to come here, or arrived on their own volition—was probably promised to you, too. Go to school, get a job, buy a house, that sort of thing. But anyone too young to recall where they were when the Towers fell could tell you that pathway is all but obsolete. Where true optimism may have once been abundant, it…
OndaRock's monthly playlists are a guide through the vastness of the musical production of the moment. A way to trace the evolutions of rock, contemporary pop with its thousand facets, the new electronic trends, the richness of songwriting, but also the most eclectic experimentation, the mutability of jazz, the vitality of the Italian scene and the darkest sounds of the dark underground. Our editors have curated each playlist by drawing on the vast catalog of new releases, creating agile and engaging selections aimed at enthusiasts with the most disparate predilections. As always, bgood listen! Rock and surroundings September is, as…
Chelsea Wolfe will return to Italy at the end of the year for the only national date of her new “The Dark World Tour 2026”. The Californian singer-songwriter and musician will perform on Saturday 12 December at the Live Club in Trezzo sull'Adda, just outside Milan, accompanied by the British multi-instrumentalist AA Williams as special guests.The announcement comes alongside the release of new music. Wolfe has in fact shared the single “Death Is Not The End”, one of the first pieces of the project that will lead to his ninth studio album. The song features the participation of Robin Finck,…
Billy Corgan has promised that there are “two LPs” of unreleased songs from his short-lived band Zwan on the way – as the band have 60 unheard tracks in the vault. The frontman formed the supergroup in 2001 during a Smashing Pumpkins hiatus, and formed the band alongside Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin as well as A Perfect Circle’s Paz Lenchantin, Slint’s David Pajo and Chavez’s Matt Sweeney. They only released one album, 2003’s ‘Mary Star Of The Sea’, and broke up shortly after. Corgan got back together with Smashing Pumpkins in 2006 and they have been routinely active since then.…
