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It often seems to Henry Stoehr like he’s alone in a crowd. Slow Pulp’s guitarist likes being in Chicago, feeling the hum of the city and the buzz of lives being lived around him, but as he sits in his apartment poring over ideas for songs, he is also keenly aware of his own isolation. The Packers cap he wears throughout our interview is one thing, the tell of a Wisconsin boy in Illinois, but there’s more to it than that – being out of place isn’t only a matter of geography. “I’ve felt like that my whole life,” he…
Accomplished music video director Jon Small, who played drums in Billy Joel‘s early bands the Hassles and Atilla, has died. Joel announced his passing in a brief Instagram post, captioned: “RIP Jon Lord.” His funeral will be held on Wednesday (September 9) in Great Neck, New York, and at the time of writing, no cause of death has been given. Getting their start together as teenagers in New York, Small and Joel first teamed up in the 1960s as members of the Hassles. The group released two albums in the late ’60s before Joel and Small departed to form the…
Bleecker Street shared a teaser trailer for filmmaker Alex Gibney‘s highly-anticipated documentary Musk, which centers on the world’s richest man. The trailer features footage of Elon Musk‘s rockets launching into space and then crashing as people describe him in mostly unflattering terms. “He’s chaotic, random, capricious,” one voice says. “He is manifestly cruel and selfish,” another adds. “In a science fiction novel, he would not be a hero,” one concludes. Someone else describes him as “a man who has lost his mind.” A synopsis describes the four-hour film as “an incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the wealthiest,…
L’attesa è quella tipica del Grande Evento. Reduci da un anno d’immenso successo, il loro migliore di sempre, i Queen stanno per conquistare il Sud America e voglio assicurarsi che il mondo lo sappia. Non c’è da stupirsi, parliamo di una band che ha fatto dello spettacolo la propria ragion d’essere. Per dire, pochi anni fa in occasione del lancio del tour americano di Jazz hanno organizzato a New Orleans una festa con tanto di incantatori di serpenti, spogliarelliste, travestiti e una donna sovrappeso completamente nuda che “fumava” sigarette coi genitali.La sorpresa è che i Queen, che hanno una lunga…
Nobody actually plays an Optigan on Windy & Carl Meet Optigan Conservatory. It’s just as well—the early-’70s keyboard instrument, widely fetishized among gearheads, is infamous for its finicky pitch. But the moniker that Detroit music-scene lifers Frank Rotondo and Fred Thomas have taken for their ambient experiments, Optigan Conservatory, speaks to a fascination with physical objects, the peculiar noises they make, the way they age into strange functions not intended by their makers. Windy & Carl Meet Optigan Conservatory is a celebration of the sound and mechanics of instruments: the rosy plink of an electric piano, the wheezing of an…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Kelly Clarkson covered “Golden” from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack for the final “Kellyoke” session of her eponymous talk show last week, but you can be sure it won’t be the last time you hear the chart-topping anthem at karaoke. Netflix has unveiled an official KPop Demon Hunters karaoke microphone that lets you belt out the HUNTR/X hit or any of your favorite songs at home or on stage, just like the K-pop group (and their boyband rivals…
No one moment can be solely attributed to an artist’s rise, but I remember when it felt like everything suddenly fell into place for Ken Carson. Four summers ago, just a few weeks after his second album, X, came out, he turned a sidestage at Rolling Loud Miami into his little corner of the world. He galloped back and forth in his socks; he whipped his baby dreads and puffed his chest out; he rapped along to his songs for a few syllables at a time, leaving it to the crowd to fill in the gaps. But sometimes he’d just…
In Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2021 film Memoria, Tilda Swinton’s protagonist awakens in the middle of the night to a loud, startling sound with no clear source. The sound seems to follow her around in the days after, repeating at random intervals, but only she can hear it—a mystery that sends her on a journey deep into the Colombian jungle for answers. What she hears, a single note, is jarring and strangely physical, a sort of sonorous thud. It’s also a little musical, like industrial equipment accidentally clanking out a chord, shaking everything around it at a resonant frequency that’s more intriguing…
Lily Seabird has a history of finding beauty in sordid places. Her stage name was borne of an insult riffing off her actual last name, Seward: An ex-boyfriend disdainfully said she ought to be called “Lily C-word,” before a friend compared her more favorably to a “seabird.” Her last record, Trash Mountain, was named for a decommissioned dump on which she and other artists shared a beloved home. On her latest, Lightspheres on Their Way, she chooses seemingly unexpected moments to swap out her raspy, twangy voice for a more straightforwardly beautiful tone. Her voice never sounds more crystalline, for…
Global superstar Rauw Alejandro has never been afraid to leap into a new era as he evolves as an artist. During his two-night headlining Red Bull Chapters show at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens (the second night was added after a sold-out concert on Saturday), Rauw turned his own journey into a three-act performance: Inspiration, Momentum, and Legacy. Chapter one was all about where Rauw comes from: the island of Puerto Rico. He opened with “Santa,” where visual elements from the island, from the sea and the sun to the mountains and the Puerto Rican flag, filled the screen onstage. Rauw…
