Alejandro Escovedo is the picture of cool as he walks into Grimey’s record shop in Nashville one bright and sunny weekday afternoon in September. Dressed in a black suit and black cowboy boots with a cravat tucked into his shirt collar, he casts a wary glance around the room where …
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Since it began, the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has been full of surprises. Somehow, the musical romantic comedy has been able to churn out — via co-creator and star Rachel Bloom and fellow songwriters Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen — two to three clever and catchy song parodies per episode. And …
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“History repeats the old conceits,” Elvis Costello sang thirty-six years ago on Imperial Bedroom, his finest hour of versatile pop mastery. But even back then, he was rarely interested in repeating himself – going from the angry, young almost-punk of 1978’s This Year’s Model to the literate, political New Wave …
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Quavo is the rapper most likely to survive the apocalypse. The ex-quarterback, recreational basketball player and pop star has an innate talent for adaptability and a wide array of talents he can leverage during end times. That surprising part of the Quavo and Daps-directed video for “B U B B …
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Disco legends Nile Rodgers and Chic head to Abbey Road to uncover the scientific secret behind the perfect groove in the new video for “Sober,” premiering exclusively at Rolling Stone. The New Jack Swing-inspired cut features British singer Craig David and rising rapper Stefflon Don. The eye-popping clip opens with …
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In his book on John Coltrane‘sA Love Supreme, jazz historian Ashley Kahn wrote about how the saxophonist composed the legendary album in near monastic isolation in the summer of 1964. “For five days, Coltrane secluded himself upstairs in his new Long Island home with paper, pen, and saxophone,” Khan wrote. …
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No matter whereLenny Kravitz is, he can write a song. “I write music on anything,” he says nonchalantly. “I write in my head, I write on the guitar, I write on the drums.” For the past three decades, the singer-songwriter has been seizing control of his inspiration and turning it …
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Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their legendary supergroup’s debut album,The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, with a picture disc vinyl reissue out November 2nd via Craft Recordings.The limited-edition 12-inch is available for pre-order. The A-side image features the band’s logo, and the B-side includes an …
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Bruce Springsteen‘s ongoing live archives series finally landed on his 2002/03 Rising tour with the release of Helsinki, Finland June 16th, 2003. The show came nearly a year into the Rising tour and features classics like “Born in the U.S.A.,” “Prove It All Night” and “Badlands” mixed in with Rising …
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A review of this week’s The Good Place, “The Brainy Bunch,” coming up just as soon as my brassiere is very thin but very pure gold… “Also, the Jacksonville Jaguars are good now!” -Judge “Impossible!” -Michael Look, a lot of things happen in “The Brainy Bunch,” even though it’s half …
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