Author: Press Room

The Flaming Lips have assembled a bevy of archival material for a 20th anniversary reissue of At War With the Mystics. The 2006 follow-up to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots will be available as a 6xLP or 6xCD set on November 13, appended with two live albums and dozens of rarities, more than 30 of which are previously unreleased. Listen to one of those, “The Sound of Failure [2 Demos],” below.At the time rumored to be a return to the guitar-led sound of their psych-pop origins, At War With the Mystics arrived four years after the Lips’ commercial breakthrough with…

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AEW Dynamite is the wrestling promotion’s flagship program and premiered in 2019 If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Wrestling fans will no doubt be glued to their screens this week as AEW Dynamite returns for its first episode since the sudden death of Benjamin Satterley, a.k.a. “Pac.” The professional wrestling promotion announced the 40-year-old’s death in a post on Sunday night, though no additional details were shared. Satterley had just been in the ring on Saturday, where he lost to Andrade El Idolo in…

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First Aid Kit honoured late country icon Dolly Parton with a cover of her classic hit ‘I Will Always Love You’ last night (September 29). The show was one of two UK only concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, which saw the Swedish duo perform their 2014 album ‘Stay Gold’ in full with the 65-piece Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. The last time they performed at the venue was just months after the record was released, 12 years ago. During the show, the duo discussed how up until ‘Stay Gold’ they were strict on keeping their records acoustic but the songs needed…

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Ashley McBryde will be the first to admit she’s not the stereotypical woman working in Nashville. She favors grit over glam, hard truths over easy cliches. But that didn’t stop Music Row from trying to change the Arkansas native when she moved to town. Her appearance, she says on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, was particularly dissected. “How do you feel about being blond?” McBryde recalls being asked. “I’m not tall like the other options in country music at the time. I’m not blond, I’m covered in tattoos — not as many then as there are now, and that’s how I…

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Mei Semones:10-15 New York, NY – Lincoln Center02-24 Boston, MA – The Sinclair *02-25 Portland, ME – SPACE *02-26 Montréal, Québec – Theatre Fairmount *02-27 Toronto, Ontario – Concert Hall *03-01 Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark *03-02 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall *03-03 Cleveland, OH – Mahall’s *03-05 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer *03-06 New York, NY – Webster Hall *04-09 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club04-10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle04-11 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West04-13 Nashville, TN – Third Man Records04-15 Dallas, TX – Texas Theatre04-16 Houston, TX – White Oak Upstairs04-17 Austin, TX – Mohawk04-20 Tucson, AZ…

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A collection of memorabilia spanning the career of Paul Reubens is headed to auction via Julien’s Auction on Oct. 28. It will feature an array of iconic items from his Pee-wee Herman days, including the quintessential gray suit and custom red Schwinn bicycles used while playing the beloved character. The auction includes more than 400 items from Reubens’ estate, including rare limited-edition dolls from Reubens’ JCPenney line, original production costumes and props, stop-motion puppets and claymation artwork, production scripts and storyboards, signed posters, and personal items. Highlights include the slate gray glen plaid suit Reubens wore in 2016’s Pee-wee’s Big Holiday,…

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Kali Malone has added a handful of U.S. dates next April to her tour itinerary. Scroll down to check out the organist’s full schedule, including new stops in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The announcement comes with a single, “My Eve My Dawn,” from Burning Song, Malone’s solo follow-up to 2024’s All Life Long.The new album is due October 30 via Ideologic Organ, the label that last year reissued Malone’s landmark album The Sacrificial Code. She plays with Stephen O’Malley and Lucy Railton on Burning Song, the same trio that worked on 2023’s Does Spring Hide Its Joy.Kali Malone:10-11…

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The woman charged with shooting at Rihanna’s home has been deemed mentally fit to stand trial. Florida-based Ivanna Lisette Ortiz is accused of firing a semiautomatic rifle at the singer’s Los Angeles mansion at 13:15 local time on March 8, when she and her partner A$AP Rocky were at home. Nobody was injured. She recently pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and police said at the time, Ortiz had also been charged with 10 counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and three counts of shooting at an inhabited vehicle or dwelling. Yesterday (September 29), she was deemed…

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Oasis are reportedly suing an auction house over a planned sale of unheard and rare recordings. A collection of 63 concert recordings, over 100 hours of rehearsals, soundchecks and “unfiltered dialogue” between Noel and Liam Gallagher was due to be auctioned on October 3, with a guide price of between £1.2million and £1.6million. Among the archive, which was listed by Littleton Auctions and dubbed The Desk Tapes, is what is believed to be the only recording of the band’s iconic 1996 concert on the banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland. The master recordings were gathered by Oasis’s former sound engineer…

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Listening through ‘Audacity’ will leave you with one lingering question: is Jae Stephens the next pop diva? The Los Angeles-based singer’s stellar debut album is an impressive argument in support of that, showcasing of the 29-year-old’s many qualities – a witty pen that knows its way around a hook, a rich voice to bring the songwriting to life and a magnetic personality to top things off – all coming together in a fully formed pop package. The former NME Cover star has spent a long time honing her craft – four EPs and a compilation in the lead-up to ‘Audacity’,…

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