When the Killers began work on their new album,Imploding the Mirage, they had virtually everything they needed: a batch of new songs, a seven-month break from the road, and a large home studio nestled away in Park City, Utah, where they could work and live without distraction. The only thing …
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The last time the members of X were all in a room together was Friday, March 13th, the day the White House halted international travel and many states enacted stay-at-home orders. The group had finished recording Alphabetland — its first new LP in nearly three decades, which it surprise-released last …
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Mike Dean is best known as a secret weapon. The Houston-born producer’s credits are bedecked with mythical artists: he taught Selena how to sing in the 80s, shaped the sound of Scarface and the Geto Boys in the 90s, has worked on every Kanye West album, and, since then, has …
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On March 9th, Margo Price was performing at the To Nashville, With Love benefit concert, raising funds for a city shell-shocked by a deadly and devastating tornado. A little more than a day later, she was quarantining at home with her husband Jeremy Ivey and two children (including 11-month Ramona …
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Like many of his peers, veteran DJ, rapper, photographer, and producer D-Nice had been living life on the road until the coronavirus pandemic forced everyone to stay home. “Life was great,” he tellsRolling Stone of his touring career, calling from his Los Angeles home. “For it to abruptly end because …
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During Mumford & Sons’ 13 years as a band, Marcus Mumford has rarely done extensive solo sit-down interviews. He likes his band to operate as a democracy writing songs, and doing interviews, together. But Mumford made an exception for our video series, “The Rolling Stone Interview,” which has recently included …
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If you want to truly understand how important Bob Marley is to Jamaica, you have to go there. From the moment you arrive on the island, the reggae superstar’s influence — as the country’s greatest musician, key spiritual icon and righteous revolutionary leader — is unmistakable. Throughout the country, his …
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Less than a month before releasing her band’s debut album, Honeymoon, Beach Bunny‘s Lili Trifilio tweeted something unexpected. “Love honeymoon but I cannot relate to her,” she wrote, confessing to the all-too common dissonance artists feel from the lag between recording and releasing an album. “I’m not saying I won’t …
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So, How Was Your Decadeis a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Wayne Coyne is parked outside his home in Oklahoma City, sitting inside his Prius. …
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Living in Los Angeles in 2019 means that every couple of weeks you’ll be summoned somewhere only coyotes and executive producers live to hear whatever Kanye West has been learning about in Bible study. This time it’s the Book of Daniel; this time it’s being staged as an opera; this …
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