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Stark rendition of Mule Variations standout released to celebrate album and record label Anti’s 25th anniversary To mark the 25th anniversary of both Tom Waits’ Mule Variations and the record label Anti, an unreleased “Spiritual” rendition of the standout “Get Behind the Mule” has been unearthed for the first time. While the album version of “Get Behind the Mule” features a lineup of all-star musicians like guitarist Smokey Hormel, bassist Larry Taylor, harpist Charlie Musselwhite and percussionist Stephen Hodges, the “Spiritual” rendition — a variation on Variations, if you will — features Waits alone with his Wurlitzer electric piano, putting…
The Paris 2024 Olympics were clearly saving the best for last — no, not the big finals in basketball, soccer, volleyball, or even the modern pentathlon. We’re talking about the official debut of Breaking (or breakdancing), which bowed with the women’s competition on Friday, Aug. 9. After an introduction provided by the 2024 Olympics’ Number One correspondent, Snoop Dogg, B-girls from around the world hit the Olympic stage to duke it out on the dancefloor (the men’s competition will be held tomorrow, Aug. 10). A lot of anticipation has been building for this moment: The International Committee announced the inclusion…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The 2024 Summer Olympics might be coming to a close this weekend, but one of the Paris games' most-anticipated events is just getting started — and (along with a kickoff by Snoop Dogg) making history in the process: breaking, aka, break dancing. Quick Answers: How to Watch Breaking Online “With this program, we are making the Olympic Games Paris 2024 fit for the post-corona world,” the IOC president previously shared. “There is also a strong focus on youth.”…
Bob Weir's daughter has been photographing the band since 2020 Chloe Weir has been a sharp observer of Dead & Company's residency at Sphere, capturing her dad, Bob Weir, with his band and the many Deadheads who've flocked to Las Vegas this summer to experience some psychedelic magic. “I love to document incredible Deadheads doing what they do,” Weir says over Zoom. “Which is being really cool.” In an interview over Zoom, Weir walked us through several of her photographs from the residency. “What's amazing is there's so many visuals that are dedicated both to the historical moments and to…
“Now he don't know how to act,” joked Simone's sister Adria about the gold chain Simone Biles' dad Ronald celebrated a milestone birthday just days after his daughter made history at the Olympics — and now he has a gift from Snoop Dogg to remember it by. On Thursday, the gymnast's sister Adria shared a photo of their dad Ronald celebrating his 75th birthday with him with a gold chain around his neck — gifted by Snoop himself. “Snoop gave him a chain, now he don't know how to act,” Adria wrote on her Instagram story. The photo sees Ronald…
“Vera baddie” is still the best-selling album of the week Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
As the vibration of cicadas began echoing along the French Broad River in Asheville, North Carolina, last week, the Americana/indie sounds of Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters began to join in. AVLfest, the annual celebration of Asheville music, was underway. “It’s such a windy world out there/everybody keeps on blowing away,” Platt sang in her whimsical tone akin to Bonnie Raitt during “Mirage,” a cut from the Honeycutters’ latest release. “I try to tell myself that I don’t care/but I learn to love the ones that stay.” A longtime fixture on the AVL scene, Platt and her bandmates are…
Travis Scott was arrested in Paris this morning (August 9) for allegedly assaulting a security guard, BBC News reports. The incident took place outside the George V hotel after Scott attended a basketball game with Quavo at the Olympics. The security guard had been trying to break up an altercation between Scott and his own bodyguard, according to police.In a statement reported by Associated Press, the Paris prosecutor’s officer said, “I can confirm that on August 9, 2024, police officers were called to the George V hotel and arrested the rapper nicknamed Travis Scott for assaulting a security guard.”A representative…
The new judge overseeing Young Thug’s problem-plagued gang and racketeering trial has denied the final pending mistrial motion related to the secret meeting between prosecutors, a sworn witness and the trial’s former boss, Judge Ural Glanville, that led to Glanville’s removal from the case. The highly anticipated decision means the longest-running criminal trial in Georgia state history will restart when jurors return Monday after a nearly two-month break. In her decision Friday, Fulton County Judge Paige Reese Whitaker acknowledged that while the secret June 10 meeting with sworn state’s witness Kenneth “Woody” Copeland “was about more than just the parameters…
Sámi singer-songwriter Ella Marie has launched her new single 'Gina', and spoken to NME about the importance of showing solidarity with minorities – especially when it comes to keeping dying languages and cultures alive. Marie, formerly a member of pioneering band ISÁK, is a well-known activist for the preservation of the rights and culture of the Sámi people – the indigenous people of parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Performing twice at this week's Øya Festival in Oslo – once on a boat for visiting music industry and again on the Vindfruen stage to a large crowd – Marie…
