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Rush and Steely Dan have nothing and everything in common. They each specialize in technically daunting recordings that other musicians envy; they’ve both recorded great songs about the emptiness of the suburbs (“Subdivisions” and “Deacon Blues”). Their lyrics are anomalously cerebral for rock, usually in very different ways, though Donald Fagen and Walter Becker‘s line about the chess piece in “Dirty Work” (“like a castle in its corner in a medieval game”) could easily be Neil Peart’s. Rush’s musical complexity leaned towards proggy adventures with time signatures and song structure, while Steely Dan were more inclined to wedge wild stacks of…
We need to talk about the hologram in Taylor Swift’s apartment. That is to say, her 2024 deep-cut “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus,” where the singer-songwriter conjures the intriguing image of a former flame entrenched in someone new with the opening line, “Your hologram stumbled into my apartment/ Hands in the hair of somebody in darkness.” Released in 2024 as part of the extended version of her 11th album, “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus” has become a beloved fan-favorite despite being tucked into the The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology as Track 20 out of 31.…
It’s 8:30 a.m., and Alice Cooper looks surprisingly serene for a man who’s missing tee time. “Golf is as addictive as crack, and I’ve done both,” he says, laughing, as he slides into a booth of an empty New York hotel bar. “If we’re on a regular tour, my guitar player and I play nine holes every morning before the show. But for a book tour like this, there’s just no time to do it. So I’ve got to go through a little bit of golf withdrawals.” The performer, who is 78 and looks stage-ready in a black leather jacket,…
Before he died in July, Lindsay Graham ruled over South Carolina politics for 23 years. It was a conservative state then — Graham won the seat after the death of the legendary racist Strom Thurmond in 2003 — and it is a conservative state now, but Graham’s death and Donald Trump’s overwhelming unpopularity have created an opportunity for a Democrat to change the state’s future. Enter Dr. Annie Andrews. Andrews is a career pediatrician who turned to politics in the 2022 election cycle, when she unsuccessfully challenged Congresswoman Nancy Mace. The race was enough to push her to the front…
Geordie Greep has canceled dates on his current North American tour following an allegation of sexual misconduct made against the singer, which Greep denied. Greep was scheduled to perform Friday night in Boise, Idaho, followed by a gig Saturday in Salt Lake City, Utah. Both of those shows, as well as concerts next week in Boulder, Colorado and Denver, were canceled following an incident that occurred Thursday in Vancouver, British Columbia. At that show, a person outside the Pearl venue was handing out flyers to concertgoers that read “Geordie Greep A Rapist. You know what you did this morning Oct…
Samurai Jay entra in Amici 26 come uno dei nuovi responsabili artistici e, alla vigilia, ci ha rilasciato un’intervista esclusiva sugli anni che il pubblico non conosce: gli inizi da chitarrista, le prime band, i lavori per finanziare la musica e i momenti in cui ha pensato di smettere. Sotto i post che ne annunciavano l’ingresso, molti hanno scritto che un ragazzo così giovane, con un successo arrivato lo scorso anno, non può fare il prof di canto. Eppure Samurai Jay non è nato nel 2025 con Halo.Leggi anchePagelle Nuovi Singoli 9 ottobre: Mengoni, Jovanotti e Samurai Jay promossi, Baby…
Olivia Rodrigo has revealed that she spent an “exorbitant amount of money” buying the dress worn by Meg White on the cover of The White Stripes’ classic album ‘Elephant’. Speaking in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Rodrigo discussed her long-standing love for the band and revealed that she now owns one of the duo’s most recognisable pieces of memorabilia. The vintage white Gunne Sax dress was worn by drummer White for the artwork of the band’s 2003 fourth album ‘Elephant’, which features her and Jack White sitting either side of an elephant trunk-shaped rope against the duo’s trademark…
The Rolling Stones are already back in the studio again, according to saxophonist Courtney Pine. The jazz musician has revealed that he recorded with Mick Jagger just weeks ago, only three months after the Stones released their 25th studio album ‘Foreign Tongues’. Speaking on BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions, in an episode due to air this Sunday (October 11), Pine said: “I’ve just done another session a couple of weeks ago with him [Jagger] for The Rolling Stones.” “Mick’s an amazing artist,” he added. “That whole pop world is completely different to anything that I know.” Pine has worked with…
Vi sembra strano vederli assieme? Sono più simili di quanto crediate. L’irrequietezza creativa, l’antinostalgia, la sindrome dell’impostore. Un incontro inatteso, un dialogo libero, un’amicizia iniziata per le strade di RomaEra un giorno d’estate del 2024, Harry Styles stava camminando in una stradina acciottolata a Roma quando ha visto un volto noto. Era Thom Yorke, uno dei suoi eroi. Proprio come lui, stava faceva un giro in incognito, senza entourage. Si è presentato e lo ricorda oggi, proprio di fronte a Yorke: «C’è sempre una persona che hai paura di incontrare. Per me quella persona eri tu».I due appartengono a mondi…
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has shared a formative piece of advice given to him by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe as he struggled with fame. Yorke reflected on his decades-long friendship with Stipe during his new Rolling Stone conversation with Harry Styles, which saw the pair discuss navigating fame and the impact it has on their private lives. After Styles recalled feeling confined to hotels early in his career, Yorke said walking and people-watching could help “bring you out of yourself” and recalled how Stipe encouraged him to stop hiding away during Radiohead’s early years. “I remember when we were on tour with R.E.M.…
