5 Stars Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 40th Anniversary Box SetAt times Elton John’s diverse but filler-free 1973 double album’s vivid Technicolor tunes – from the mournful prog-rock of opener “Funeral for a Friend” to the sunny symphonic pop finale “Harmony” – suggest what the Beatles might have created had…
Rolling Stone spent some time with Adam Levine for a Q&A in our current issue grilling the Maroon 5 frontman on his band’s new album and Begin Again his big-screen debut Eventually conversation turned toward Levine’s haters a group that the singer has learned to embrace “Fuck ‘em” he says “It’s not…
Roger Creager stampeded onto the Texas scene with his 1998 album Having Fun All Wrong featuring signature tracks “The Everclear Song” and “Fun All Wrong” Over the next 14 years the Corpus Christi native released four more studio albums and one live collection that souped-up his catalog with crowd favorites…
Three decades after the record’s original release a group of country and country-influenced artists are reimagining Born in the USA covering its 12 songs with a reduced approach more influenced by that of the acoustic Nebraska Springsteen’s prior release The full LP titled Dead Man’s Town will be released on…
Not long after 2010’s Handwritten reached the Top Five in the US UK and Canada the Gaslight Anthem returned to the studio intent on progressing attempting to shake up their now successful sound The resulting album Get Hurt will be released August 19th on Island Records and here you can…
It’s taken Ryan Adams three years to announce a follow-up to his last album Ashes and Fire which would not be a long time for most artists but for Adams – who put out a record a year for most of the 2000s and three (!) in 2005 alone –…
Close to two decades after Tupac Shakur died of gunshot wounds following an altercation in Las Vegas his death remains shrouded in mystery A segment of the upcoming three-night six-hour National Geographic Channel documentary The ’90s The Last Great Decade? tackles the issue with insight from Arsenio Hall Gobi Rahimi…
On July 15th esteemed record excavators Light in the Attic release Country Funk II 1967-1974 the second compilation of a genre that’s unlikely completely fictional and utterly fantastic It’s the brainchild of Los Angeles digger Zach Cowie 33 a man who makes his living through curation film supervision and DJ…
Over 30 years after writing hits like “Good Times” and “Le Freak” Nile Rodgers has once again become one of dance music’s hottest names In the last year and a half the former Chic guitarist has worked with artists as big as Daft Punk Pharrell Avicii and Disclosure Here you…
Jay Z and Young Jeezy expound on all that’s happened in their lives from cruising the block to trotting the globe on “Seen It All” the latest song from the Atlanta rapper’s upcoming album of the same name Both MCs recall their seedier days slinging dope to make ends meet…
