Kendrick Lamar’s battle with Drake may or may not be over for good, but it’s clear that it was easily one of the greatest hip-hop beefs of all time, producing no fewer than nine separate songs — including Lamar’s current Drake-savaging Number One hit, “Not Like Us.”
In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we look back at the rapid-fire exchange of songs between the two artists, with Andre Gee joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. Go here to find the episode on...
In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we look back at the rapid-fire exchange of songs between the two artists, with Andre Gee joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. Go here to find the episode on...
- 5/17/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
From “Fortnight” to “The Manuscript,” the latest episodes of Rolling Stone Music Now dive into every single track of Taylor Swift’s longest album ever, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. Along the way, we debate larger issues, including whether Swift intends all 31 tracks to be seen as the album proper, or if the latter half — added by surprise on the night of release — is actually more of a collection of bonus songs.
Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt for the discussions, which also place every song...
Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt for the discussions, which also place every song...
- 5/5/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Foo Fighters kicked off their 2024 tour (get tickets here) on Wednesday, May 1st at Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas, Texas, and paid tribute to hometown hero Dimebag Darrell during the show. Fittingly, Dave Grohl dedicated “My Hero” to the late Pantera guitarist.
In fan-filmed video (watch below), Grohl starts playing “My Hero” on guitar and addresses the crowd: “This one’s for everybody. Actually, you know what, since we’re here in Dallas, I’m gonna dedicate this one to an old friend. He lived around here. His name is Dimebag Darrell. How ’bout that? We’ll sing it for Darrell.”
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From there, Grohl leads the crowd in a rousing sing-along, as the rest of the band joins in halfway through for an impassioned performance of the classic Foo Fighters hit.
Grohl has spoken of his friendship with Dimebag in the past, even recounting a...
In fan-filmed video (watch below), Grohl starts playing “My Hero” on guitar and addresses the crowd: “This one’s for everybody. Actually, you know what, since we’re here in Dallas, I’m gonna dedicate this one to an old friend. He lived around here. His name is Dimebag Darrell. How ’bout that? We’ll sing it for Darrell.”
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From there, Grohl leads the crowd in a rousing sing-along, as the rest of the band joins in halfway through for an impassioned performance of the classic Foo Fighters hit.
Grohl has spoken of his friendship with Dimebag in the past, even recounting a...
- 5/2/2024
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Decarbonisation is complex and different for every business, but its mounting importance cannot be ignored. Agl has partnered with The Peers Project on a new podcast designed to support businesses in starting and progressing their path to decarbonisation. The Net Zero Path For Business hits podcast players today.
The Net Zero Path For Business podcast brings together vast expertise in the sustainability arena and real business stories of making positive change towards Net Zero. The aim is to support business leaders to navigate the landscape with confidence, presenting options, ideas and start- points in a simple to understand format, ensuring that from the moment they begin listening they can see a path forward.
Driving the conversation is Taylor Hawkin (above)s, Entrepreneur and Managing Director of Foundations for Tomorrow. Taylor brings together 6 key areas of decarbonisation including Solar, Ev’s and Batteries with experts and business leaders from across the globe,...
The Net Zero Path For Business podcast brings together vast expertise in the sustainability arena and real business stories of making positive change towards Net Zero. The aim is to support business leaders to navigate the landscape with confidence, presenting options, ideas and start- points in a simple to understand format, ensuring that from the moment they begin listening they can see a path forward.
Driving the conversation is Taylor Hawkin (above)s, Entrepreneur and Managing Director of Foundations for Tomorrow. Taylor brings together 6 key areas of decarbonisation including Solar, Ev’s and Batteries with experts and business leaders from across the globe,...
- 4/30/2024
- Podnews.net
At the very moment Taylormania was hitting preposterous heights, threatening to turn the artist at its center into an untouchable icon, it turns out that the real Taylor Swift was spending her time between glittery three-hour concerts making some of her most fearless art. The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology is stuffed with the rawest, angriest, and most unguarded songs of Swift’s career – quite the opposite of the ingratiating, focus-grouped inoffensiveness that a skeptic might expect from an artist at her current level of visibility.
On the new episode...
On the new episode...
- 4/25/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
With a few lines in a guest verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s chart-topping hit “Like That,” Kendrick Lamar ignited his long-simmering cold war with Drake into what’s become the widest-reaching rap beef in years. Since then, it’s all gotten incredibly messy, starting with J. Cole recording an entire diss track about his erstwhile friend Lamar and then deciding to retract it and apologize — a fairly unprecedented move in hip-hop. We trace the whole saga on the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast — go...
- 4/19/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
On Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé mixes R&b, country, and some hard-hitting guitars, among many other elements, and as the artist herself is well aware, there used to be a name for that kind of American melange: rock & roll. She slyly acknowledges that fact with two Chuck Berry moments on the album, including a segment of “Maybellene,” his first hit, in which a Black genius helped invent rock & roll via revved-up country.
So, there’s an argument that Cowboy Carter — which the artist has made clear is a “Beyoncé album” rather...
So, there’s an argument that Cowboy Carter — which the artist has made clear is a “Beyoncé album” rather...
- 4/7/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock has been known to take as long as eight years between albums, but nearly three decades into his band’s career, he’s ready to pick up the pace. Three years after the release of the well-received The Golden Casket, he’s already recorded enough songs for a new Modest Mouse album with producers including Jacknife Lee and Dave Sardy, and intends to put one out by next spring. “In my early days of putting out records, I wrote music every fucking day,” he tells...
- 4/6/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Swifties have known since early February that Taylor Swift has a new album, Tortured Poets Department, due April 19, with some notably provocative song titles (“So Long London,” “But Daddy I Love Him”) and big-name guest stars (Post Malone, Florence Welsh). But since then, information on the album has been scarce, so fans have more than filled the void, passing around possibly fake leaked snippets of songs while pranking each other with both ChatGPT-generated lyrics and a ridiculous viral parody where an AI-generated Taylor sings lines like, “I’m so happy...
- 3/29/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Just last summer, experts on the intersection of AI and music told Rolling Stone that it would be years before a tool emerged that could conjure up fully produced songs from a simple text description, given the endless complexities of the finished product. But Suno, a two-year-old start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has already pulled it off, vocals included — and their latest model, v3, which is available to the general public as of today, is capable of some truly startling results.
In Rolling Stone‘s feature on Suno, part of...
In Rolling Stone‘s feature on Suno, part of...
- 3/22/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
One of the biggest influences on Ariana Grande’s new album, Eternal Sunshine, turns out be the Beatles’ Rubber Soul. That inspiration isn’t exactly instantly evident within the album’s sleek production and Max Martin-assisted songwriting, but Grande said in an advance listening session for journalists that she had John, Paul, George, and Ringo in mind as she stuffed it full of unexpected melodic twists and half-buried ear candy.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we discuss Grande’s newfound Beatlemania and much more, going...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we discuss Grande’s newfound Beatlemania and much more, going...
- 3/13/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Dave Grohl paid tribute to his one-time Nirvana bandmate Paul McCartney (technically, it’s true!) with a rendition of “Live and Let Die” at the Love Rocks NYC benefit concert Thursday night, March 7.
The Foo Fighters frontman gave a characteristically full-throated performance of McCartney’s hit 1973 James Bond theme song. Though he strained a bit to hit some of the high notes during the ballad-y sections and left the “You know you did” refrain to the backing vocalists, he attacked the hard rock portions the way only Dave Grohl can.
The Foo Fighters frontman gave a characteristically full-throated performance of McCartney’s hit 1973 James Bond theme song. Though he strained a bit to hit some of the high notes during the ballad-y sections and left the “You know you did” refrain to the backing vocalists, he attacked the hard rock portions the way only Dave Grohl can.
- 3/8/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome to the Beatles Cinematic Universe. Continuing the current wave of music biopics — which just saw its most recent box-office triumph with Bob Marley: One Love — director Sam Mendes (Skyfall) has signed on to helm not one, but four separate Beatles biopics, all due in 2027. The movies, set to begin production next year, will each focus a single Beatle’s perspective, so John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and even Ringo Starr each get a turn in the spotlight.
It might seem like overkill, but as we discuss on the...
It might seem like overkill, but as we discuss on the...
- 3/4/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
From J Noa’s speed-rapping to Gale’s polished pop-rock songwriting to Ralph Choo’s electronic experiments, 2023 was packed with incredible Spanish-language music from artists who aren’t superstars — at least not yet. In the last of our four Rolling Stone Music Now podcast episodes on under-the-radar albums from last year, we dig through multiple nations and genres to find the best lesser-known gems.
Rolling Stone‘s Julyssa Lopez joins host Brian Hiatt for the discussion, picking her favorites from our recent comprehensive list of the year’s top Spanish-language albums,...
Rolling Stone‘s Julyssa Lopez joins host Brian Hiatt for the discussion, picking her favorites from our recent comprehensive list of the year’s top Spanish-language albums,...
- 2/28/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Anyone complaining about the state of hip-hop needs only to look beyond the top of the charts, as the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast makes clear. In the episode, Andre Gee breaks down some of his under-the-radar 2023 hip-hop picks, from Zelooperz’ experimental Microphone Fiend to B. Cool Aid’s ultra-vibey Leather Blvd to Nappy Nina’s introspective Mourning Due. To hear the full episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below.
Also in the episode,...
Also in the episode,...
- 2/13/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The 2024 Grammys aired on February 4, and as usual, I have some thoughts. For passionate awards pundits, the Grammys are often best enjoyed afterwards, when you can analyze the results properly and theorize about what they might be telling us about the voting process, the Recording Academy and the music industry as a whole. Here are my five main takeaways.
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Pop voters have refined taste
Listen, I don’t wanna dunk on any artist or song, but Taylor Swift’s remix of “Karma” featuring Ice Spice is just not that good, with some simply feeling like the added verse was out of place. Regardless, the track was predicted to win the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, mostly due to the fact that the original version topped pop radio and all the other nominees were deep cuts and/or album tracks.
Grammy voters rejected “Karma,...
SEEGrammy winners list in all 94 categories
Pop voters have refined taste
Listen, I don’t wanna dunk on any artist or song, but Taylor Swift’s remix of “Karma” featuring Ice Spice is just not that good, with some simply feeling like the added verse was out of place. Regardless, the track was predicted to win the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, mostly due to the fact that the original version topped pop radio and all the other nominees were deep cuts and/or album tracks.
Grammy voters rejected “Karma,...
- 2/6/2024
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
While six-time Grammy nominees Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus won multiple awards and, in the case of Swift, made history, at the 2024 Grammys, fellow six-time nominees and past Grammy winners Olivia Rodrigo and Jon Batiste each went home empty-handed despite their half-dozen nominations apiece. Batiste even won album of the year in 2022 and some prognosticators thought he could emerge victorious for the top prize despite the strong female presence among this year’s nominees and winners.
Instead, Taylor Swift became the first performer to win album of the year four times with Midnights, and she announced a new album would be coming in a couple of months, giving her another shot at more Grammys gold.
Fellow multiple nominee Lana Del Rey, up for five awards, was also shut out, despite nods in a number of the Grammys’ top categories.
Boygenius appeared to be off to a strong start...
Instead, Taylor Swift became the first performer to win album of the year four times with Midnights, and she announced a new album would be coming in a couple of months, giving her another shot at more Grammys gold.
Fellow multiple nominee Lana Del Rey, up for five awards, was also shut out, despite nods in a number of the Grammys’ top categories.
Boygenius appeared to be off to a strong start...
- 2/5/2024
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Joni Mitchell will have a lot of company when she takes the stage on Sunday for her first-ever Grammy Awards performance. Her friend and collaborator Brandi Carlile will be performing alongside her, as will Jacob Collier, Allison Russell, SistaStrings, Lucius, and Blake Mills, according to executive producer Raj Kapoor. As for what they’ll be performing? “It will be a song that I think everybody knows,” Kapoor tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, “and if you are a Joni Mitchell fan, it’s the song that you want to hear.
- 2/4/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Burna Boy will be the first Afrobeats performer ever to play the Grammys at Sunday night’s ceremony — and he’ll be joined onstage by Brandy and 21 Savage, executive producer Raj Kapoor tells Rolling Stone Music Now. The collaboration will also mark 21 Savage’s Grammy performance debut, while Brandy hasn’t sung on the show since the Nineties. “It’s gonna be huge,” says Kapoor. “It’s gonna get everybody on their feet.”
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Kapoor breaks down what to expect from...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Kapoor breaks down what to expect from...
- 2/2/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The sessions started at Hollywood, California’s A&m Studios the night of Jan. 28, 1985, and didn’t end until well after sunrise the morning of Jan. 29. By that point, it was clear that nothing quite like “We Are the World” could ever happen again. The Greatest Night in Pop, a new documentary on Netflix, brings it all back to vivid life: co-writers Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie joined by Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and an improbably long list of other superstars, all crammed in...
- 1/29/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
One of last year’s most unexpected musical twists was the ascent of Zach Bryan, the rootsy singer-songwriter who sounds not unlike Bruce Springsteen or Jason Isbell — and went all the way to Number One on the Hot 100 with the ballad “I Remember Everything,” assisted by Kacey Musgraves. His self-titled fourth album was one of the best country/Americana releases of the year, but it’s only one of the unmissable 2023 releases in that category, from Jason Isbell’s own Weathervanes to Megan Maroney’s Lucky.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now,...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Boygenius-mania was only the most visible sign of the fantastic year indie rock had in 2023, with strong albums from newcomers (Blondshell, Kara Jackson), established stars (Mitski) and veterans (Wilco, the National). In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we go through some highlights of the year in indie albums.
Jon Dolan, Angie Martoccio, and Simon Vozick-Levinson join host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. Among many other topics, we touch on Mitski’s surprise hit “My Love Mine All Mine,” which our panelists agree isn’t even the...
Jon Dolan, Angie Martoccio, and Simon Vozick-Levinson join host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. Among many other topics, we touch on Mitski’s surprise hit “My Love Mine All Mine,” which our panelists agree isn’t even the...
- 1/22/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Kali Uchis’ genre-jumping career has so far been evenly divided between Spanish- and English-language albums, which feels about right for an artist who was born in Virginia but spent chunks of her childhood in her father’s native Colombia. “When you aren’t just one thing and you are as multidimensional of an artist as I am,” she says, “I think it’s a lot harder for people to figure out how to sell me as a product. But I think they don’t realize that being multidimensional is a...
- 1/15/2024
- by Brian Hiatt and Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
It’s hard to imagine a world where Foo Fighters don’t take Best Rock Album at the Grammys this year. They’re rock favorites, achieving 13 wins in the field. Most of the band’s albums have won Grammys, and they hold the record for the most wins for any artist in this category, with five. On top of all that history, their nominated record, “But Here We Are,” is perhaps their most acclaimed yet. It scored 86 on Metacritic, their highest score ever. The album is also a tribute to their late drummer Taylor Hawkins, who passed away tragically in 2022. So history, acclaim and narrative will likely join forces to give Foo Fighters another Grammy win, and one of their most deserved at that.
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Still, the Grammys can always deliver surprises. One could argue that the obvious runner-up is Paramore,...
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Still, the Grammys can always deliver surprises. One could argue that the obvious runner-up is Paramore,...
- 1/12/2024
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
On New Year’s Eve, we learned the improbable fact that a trio of middle-aged, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted punks in notably well-tailored suits can somehow still shock and offend the masses. For Green Day, all it took was changing the “American Idiot” lyric “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of the Maga agenda” during their performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rocking Eve with Ryan Seacrest — a lyric tweak they’ve been using for years.
The ensuing freakout...
The ensuing freakout...
- 1/4/2024
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
“I found a piece of my peace right here in Georgia,” says Chaka Khan, who just started a new life in the big rural property she purchased in that state. She recently sat in her bedroom there, gazing at the trees outside, and looked back at her life and career for our new interview with her, which you can hear on the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. Some highlights follow; to hear the full interview, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify,...
- 12/31/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
“One of my secrets,” Snoop Dogg tells Latto in their recent Musicians on Musicians conversation, “is that I remain the biggest kid in the room at all times.” The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now includes highlights of that interview (moderated by Rolling Stone staff writer Andre Gee) along with the two interviews from our first-ever live Musicians on Musicians event: Lil Yachty’s conversation with Tierra Whack (moderated by Rolling Stone’s supervising producer of news video, Delisa Shannon), and a meeting of the minds between Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane.
- 12/30/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
“We didn’t know what we were doing,” says Josh Schwartz, creator of The O.C. For the show’s first few episodes, the music choices were simply plucked from his own iPod. But once the now-legendary music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas came aboard, the show turned into a weekly showcase for some of the best music of the ’00s — and a key force behind the mainstream rise of a certain brand of indie-leaning rock in that decade, from Death Cab for Cutie to the Killers. It didn’t hurt that...
- 12/25/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
The Foo Fighters have announced their upcoming 2024 “Everything or Nothing at All” summer tour.
This will be the band’s tenth concert tour, which was made to support their 11th studio album, But Here We Are. The tour is set to kick off in Manchester, England, on June 13 and won’t be heading to North America until July.
New York City will be the first North American city the Foo Fighters are set to visit for their tour. From there, they will head to cities like Denver and their hometown, Seattle, before performing their last scheduled stop in Edmonton, Canada.
Opening acts include the Pretenders, Mammoth Wvh, The Hives, Amyl and the Sniffers, L7 and Death Cab for Cutie.
In March 2022, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died of an alleged drug overdose.
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Foo Fighters North America tour dates:
07-17 New York City, NY — Citi Field
07-19 New York City,...
This will be the band’s tenth concert tour, which was made to support their 11th studio album, But Here We Are. The tour is set to kick off in Manchester, England, on June 13 and won’t be heading to North America until July.
New York City will be the first North American city the Foo Fighters are set to visit for their tour. From there, they will head to cities like Denver and their hometown, Seattle, before performing their last scheduled stop in Edmonton, Canada.
Opening acts include the Pretenders, Mammoth Wvh, The Hives, Amyl and the Sniffers, L7 and Death Cab for Cutie.
In March 2022, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died of an alleged drug overdose.
>Get Foo Fighters’ Concert Tickets Now!
Foo Fighters North America tour dates:
07-17 New York City, NY — Citi Field
07-19 New York City,...
- 12/21/2023
- by Rose Anne Cox-Peralta
- Uinterview
Dave Grohl goes in-depth about the Foo Fighters track “The Teacher,” which he penned as a tribute to his late mother Virginia, on the latest episode of the Song Exploder podcast.
Virginia Grohl, a longtime teacher, died in August 2022, about five months after the death of Taylor Hawkins; Foo Fighters’ latest album But Here We Are is dedicated to the two of them.
“I was with her for all of the time leading up to her passing,” Grohl told podcast host Hrishikesh Hirway. “Everyday during that period, I would write something on the guitar,...
Virginia Grohl, a longtime teacher, died in August 2022, about five months after the death of Taylor Hawkins; Foo Fighters’ latest album But Here We Are is dedicated to the two of them.
“I was with her for all of the time leading up to her passing,” Grohl told podcast host Hrishikesh Hirway. “Everyday during that period, I would write something on the guitar,...
- 12/21/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The further we get from the Nineties, the more it looks like a series of musical golden ages all stacked atop one another, a kaleidoscopic moment when grimy hip-hop and future-shock R&b hit artistic and commercial peaks at the same time as a procession of fuzz-pedal-toting rock bands found themselves at the center of pop culture.
It was the best-ever era for one-hit wonders, even as major labels — suddenly uncertain in era when Nirvana or Wu-Tang Clan could beat out manicured product — also threw money at career artists from Fiona Apple to Outkast.
It was the best-ever era for one-hit wonders, even as major labels — suddenly uncertain in era when Nirvana or Wu-Tang Clan could beat out manicured product — also threw money at career artists from Fiona Apple to Outkast.
- 11/29/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Dave Grohl is a man who likes to curse. The United Arab Emeritus is a country where cursing is strictly prohibited; in fact, the usage of the F-word is considered a crime, punishable by up to a year in prison. So when Foo Fighters played the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after-race concert on Sunday, the band’s frontman took no chances.
Grohl went as far to place a sign on stage that read “No Cursing” in all caps. He later taped the sign to his microphone as he marveled at his ability to avoid cursing: “I think that’s the first time ever!” He also joked that the band’s late drummer, Taylor Hawkins, “would have loved this.”
Speaking of Hawkins, Grohl dedicated “Everlong” to the drummer. “I had a dream about him last night that he was bald with a pony tail,” Grohl revealed. “I swear to god, I really did.
Grohl went as far to place a sign on stage that read “No Cursing” in all caps. He later taped the sign to his microphone as he marveled at his ability to avoid cursing: “I think that’s the first time ever!” He also joked that the band’s late drummer, Taylor Hawkins, “would have loved this.”
Speaking of Hawkins, Grohl dedicated “Everlong” to the drummer. “I had a dream about him last night that he was bald with a pony tail,” Grohl revealed. “I swear to god, I really did.
- 11/27/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian’s 12-year-old son, Revel, lived out a rock star fantasy by jamming out with Foo Fighters on “Everlong.”
In a video of the jam session filmed by Anthrax (and Pantera) drummer, Charlie Benante, Revel can be seen playing Pat Smear’s Les Paul alongside Dave Grohl and rest of Foo Fighters, chugging out a guitar part for the beloved tune. Ian posted the clip on Wednesday with the caption: “Rev gave Pat the day off. He deserves it.“
Continuing, Ian expressed his gratitude for Smear and the rest of Foo Fighters. “He’s the nicest guy ever,” he wrote. “All of these dudes are. I love you Foos. There, I said it.” Ian then closed out his message with “#hugs.”
Revel previously appeared on-stage with Foo Fighters in September 2019, performing “Everlong” during their headlining set at the Bourbon & Beyond Fest in Louisville, Kentucky. Last year, Revel...
In a video of the jam session filmed by Anthrax (and Pantera) drummer, Charlie Benante, Revel can be seen playing Pat Smear’s Les Paul alongside Dave Grohl and rest of Foo Fighters, chugging out a guitar part for the beloved tune. Ian posted the clip on Wednesday with the caption: “Rev gave Pat the day off. He deserves it.“
Continuing, Ian expressed his gratitude for Smear and the rest of Foo Fighters. “He’s the nicest guy ever,” he wrote. “All of these dudes are. I love you Foos. There, I said it.” Ian then closed out his message with “#hugs.”
Revel previously appeared on-stage with Foo Fighters in September 2019, performing “Everlong” during their headlining set at the Bourbon & Beyond Fest in Louisville, Kentucky. Last year, Revel...
- 11/23/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Two titans of progressive music came together on Monday night (November 20th) when Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson joined Tool onstage during the latter’s concert at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena.
Tool notoriously don’t allow filming with cellphones during their concerts, but a few fans snuck footage of the historic moment, as seen in the clips below. Lifeson joined Tool for the 10,000 Days track “Jambi,” incorporating the intro and guitar solo of Rush’s “A Passage to Bangkok” from the iconic 2112 album.
Lifeson grew up in Toronto, making the surprise performance a hometown gig for the guitar legend. It marked a rare appearance by the guitarist, who last year performed alongside Rush bandmate Geddy Lee at Foo Fighters’ tribute concert to the late Taylor Hawkins in Los Angeles.
Just recently, Lee has been talking about the future of Rush, who haven’t played a show since 2015. Following the passing...
Tool notoriously don’t allow filming with cellphones during their concerts, but a few fans snuck footage of the historic moment, as seen in the clips below. Lifeson joined Tool for the 10,000 Days track “Jambi,” incorporating the intro and guitar solo of Rush’s “A Passage to Bangkok” from the iconic 2112 album.
Lifeson grew up in Toronto, making the surprise performance a hometown gig for the guitar legend. It marked a rare appearance by the guitarist, who last year performed alongside Rush bandmate Geddy Lee at Foo Fighters’ tribute concert to the late Taylor Hawkins in Los Angeles.
Just recently, Lee has been talking about the future of Rush, who haven’t played a show since 2015. Following the passing...
- 11/21/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
After hinting earlier this month that a Rush reunion could happen, singer-bassist Geddy Lee opened up about the logistics of touring and writing new music alongside the band’s other surviving member, guitarist Alex Lifeson.
Rush haven’t toured since 2015, and the band essentially ended with the death of drummer Neil Peart in 2020. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Lee spoke at length about the potential of working with Lifeson again, including an inspiring conversation between the two and Paul McCartney. A portrait of longevity himself, The Beatles legend encouraged them to hit the road.
Lee has already said that the tribute shows for late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, during which he performed Rush material alongside an all-star band, rejuvenated his urge to play live again. The tribute concerts included gigs at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles (the site of final Rush show in 2015) and Wembley Stadium in London.
Rush haven’t toured since 2015, and the band essentially ended with the death of drummer Neil Peart in 2020. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Lee spoke at length about the potential of working with Lifeson again, including an inspiring conversation between the two and Paul McCartney. A portrait of longevity himself, The Beatles legend encouraged them to hit the road.
Lee has already said that the tribute shows for late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, during which he performed Rush material alongside an all-star band, rejuvenated his urge to play live again. The tribute concerts included gigs at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles (the site of final Rush show in 2015) and Wembley Stadium in London.
- 11/20/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Rush frontman and bassist Geddy Lee, author of the excellent new autobiography My Effin’ Life, talks about many things in his new Rolling Stone Music Now interview, from his childhood as the son of two Holocaust survivors to his earliest musical influences (including the Hollies, Motown hits, Cream and Rhinoceros) to the ups and downs of his band’s synth period. But Rush fans will be most anxious to hear Lee’s extended thoughts on the possible future of his work with guitarist Alex Lifeson in the wake of Neil Peart...
- 11/19/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme revealed earlier this year that he was diagnosed with cancer in 2022, and subsequently underwent surgery as a method of treatment. In a new interview, the singer-guitarist reports that he’s gotten the “all clear” as far as his battle with cancer is concerned.
“I’m good. I’m all clear,” said Homme when asked by ITV about his current health status, adding that he’s feeling “the best I’ve felt all year.”
Homme also opened up the recent losses of several people who were close to him. “A lot of people have passed away near [me], nine people in the last … year and a half now.” While he didn’t name any specific people, among his close friends who have passed away in that time were his former Queens of the Stone Age bandmate Mark Lanegan and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
“I’m good. I’m all clear,” said Homme when asked by ITV about his current health status, adding that he’s feeling “the best I’ve felt all year.”
Homme also opened up the recent losses of several people who were close to him. “A lot of people have passed away near [me], nine people in the last … year and a half now.” While he didn’t name any specific people, among his close friends who have passed away in that time were his former Queens of the Stone Age bandmate Mark Lanegan and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
- 11/18/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
H.E.R’s magnetic take on the Foo Fighters single “The Glass” was first previewed when she joined the band on Saturday Night Live in October. Following the performance, the singer and songwriter laid the track down on her own in the studio. Today, H.E.R.’s solo rendition of “The Glass” is available on streaming as the A-side of Foo Fighters’ double single release.
The other side of the record contains the original Foo Fighters recording of “The Glass,” which appeared on their studio album But Here We Are,...
The other side of the record contains the original Foo Fighters recording of “The Glass,” which appeared on their studio album But Here We Are,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
In the Peter Jackson-directed video for the just-released “Now and Then” — touted as the “final Beatles song” — present-day Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are pleasantly haunted by the ghosts of John Lennon and George Harrison, and even their own younger selves. It’s hard not to think that life inside McCartney and Starr’s heads is a little bit like that on a daily basis, burdened as they are by the weight of history. And they may not be alone: “I walk the city at midnight/With the past strapped to my back,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Geddy Lee seems quite open to the idea of reviving Rush with his surviving bandmate Alex Lifeson, after the 2020 death of drummer Neil Peart effectively ended the band.
Lee discussed his feelings towards performing again in a new interview with The Washington Post, and though the surviving members of Rush have expressed interest in a proper reunion before, they actually did have a de facto reunion last year after Dave Grohl convinced them to perform at the star-studded tribute concerts for the late Taylor Hawkins.
“It had been a taboo subject,” Lee said of the experience. “And playing those songs again with a third person was the elephant in the room, and that kind of disappeared.”
During the Taylor Hawkins tribute shows in both Los Angeles in London, Lee and Lifeson played Rush songs alongside musical friends including Danny Carey, Omar Hakim, Chad Smith, and Grohl himself. They all played...
Lee discussed his feelings towards performing again in a new interview with The Washington Post, and though the surviving members of Rush have expressed interest in a proper reunion before, they actually did have a de facto reunion last year after Dave Grohl convinced them to perform at the star-studded tribute concerts for the late Taylor Hawkins.
“It had been a taboo subject,” Lee said of the experience. “And playing those songs again with a third person was the elephant in the room, and that kind of disappeared.”
During the Taylor Hawkins tribute shows in both Los Angeles in London, Lee and Lifeson played Rush songs alongside musical friends including Danny Carey, Omar Hakim, Chad Smith, and Grohl himself. They all played...
- 11/10/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Wu-Tang Clan’s debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), was more than an album — it was a universe unto itself. The album, which dropped Nov. 9, 1993, introduced the world to nine wildly talented rappers at once, along with the crackly genius of RZA’s soul-and-kung-fu-movie-inflected production and an entire cosmology of lyrical references. 30 years later, there’s still plenty to unpack, which we attempt to do on the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now.
Andre Gee joins host Brian Hiatt for a discussion of the album’s greatness and influence, and...
Andre Gee joins host Brian Hiatt for a discussion of the album’s greatness and influence, and...
- 11/10/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Britney Spears’ wrenching new memoir, The Woman in Me, is a classic celebrity tell-all — but she doesn’t quite tell all. There’s not a word in there about the recording her classic second album, Oops!… I Did It Again. Later, she mentions one of her greatest songs, “Toxic,” but again, there’s nothing about the process behind the track.
In the section about Spears’ lip-locked 2003 VMAs appearance with Madonna, Christina Aguilera — who, lest we forget, was also there — is written out of the performance altogether. And Spears never says...
In the section about Spears’ lip-locked 2003 VMAs appearance with Madonna, Christina Aguilera — who, lest we forget, was also there — is written out of the performance altogether. And Spears never says...
- 10/31/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night.
The Foo Fighters are Grammy catnip, especially given Dave Grohl’s eager participation in the festivities. They’ve been nominated 31 times and won 15 awards, including a record five times for Best Rock Record. While they did win it as recently as 2022 for Medicine at Midnight, the emotional heft of But Here We Are makes it likely...
The Foo Fighters are Grammy catnip, especially given Dave Grohl’s eager participation in the festivities. They’ve been nominated 31 times and won 15 awards, including a record five times for Best Rock Record. While they did win it as recently as 2022 for Medicine at Midnight, the emotional heft of But Here We Are makes it likely...
- 10/30/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Christopher Walken made a guest appearance on this week’s “Saturday Night Live,” which just so happened to include Foo Fighters as the musical guest. Fans of the hilarious way Walken introduced Foo Fighters on “SNL” in 2003 were curious to see if the actor would give it another go, and indeed he did — Walken introduced Foo Fighters on this week’s show. Only this time, he put the emphasis on “Foo” instead of “Fighters.”
For the uninitiated, Walken introduced the band as Foo Fighters – with emphasis on the Fighters – in 2003, and the clip eventually went viral for the actor’s unique delivery. As it turns out, this was all Dave Grohl’s doing.
Recounting the event in a 2017 interview, Grohl remembered Walken asking the band how to pronounce their name.
“He comes up and he asked us if the accent was on Foo or Fighters, and we know who he is,...
For the uninitiated, Walken introduced the band as Foo Fighters – with emphasis on the Fighters – in 2003, and the clip eventually went viral for the actor’s unique delivery. As it turns out, this was all Dave Grohl’s doing.
Recounting the event in a 2017 interview, Grohl remembered Walken asking the band how to pronounce their name.
“He comes up and he asked us if the accent was on Foo or Fighters, and we know who he is,...
- 10/29/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Geddy Lee is gearing up not just for the launch of his memoir My Effin’ Life and nationwide book tour but also for the new Paramount Plus docuseries Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too? The four-part series will feature in-depth conversations between Lee and Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Metallica’s Rob Trujillo, Primus’ Les Claypool, and Hole/Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. It premiers on December 5.
The trailer shows Lee trading licks with Auf der Maur, fishing with Claypool, canning tomatoes with Novoselic, and surfing with Rob Trujillo.
The trailer shows Lee trading licks with Auf der Maur, fishing with Claypool, canning tomatoes with Novoselic, and surfing with Rob Trujillo.
- 10/25/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is so dominant in theaters across the country that screenings of the Killers of the Flower Moon have had “Love Story” leaking in from next door during quiet moments. But the nearly three-hour-long Swift concert documentary is an intense theatrical experience in its own right, complete with singalongs, applause, and in some cases, young Swifties leaving their seats to stand, or dance, directly in front of the screen.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we share many thoughts on the tour and...
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we share many thoughts on the tour and...
- 10/22/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Saturday Night Live fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 49 Episode 3 episode titled Nate Bargatze; Foo Fighters!
Find out everything you need to know about the Nate Bargatze; Foo Fighters episode of Saturday Night Live, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!
Saturday Night Live Nate Bargatze; Foo Fighters Season 49 Episode 3 Preview
“Saturday Night Live” returns with a new episode on October 28, 2023, at 11:29 Pm on NBC.
The host for this episode is none other than the hilarious and talented Nate Bargatze. Known for his sharp comedic timing and witty humor, Nate Bargatze is set to bring the house down with his jokes and sketches as Nate Bargatze takes the stage as the host for the very first time.
The legendary Foo Fighters, making their 9th musical guest appearance on SNL, will bring their iconic rock sound to the stage.
Find out everything you need to know about the Nate Bargatze; Foo Fighters episode of Saturday Night Live, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!
Saturday Night Live Nate Bargatze; Foo Fighters Season 49 Episode 3 Preview
“Saturday Night Live” returns with a new episode on October 28, 2023, at 11:29 Pm on NBC.
The host for this episode is none other than the hilarious and talented Nate Bargatze. Known for his sharp comedic timing and witty humor, Nate Bargatze is set to bring the house down with his jokes and sketches as Nate Bargatze takes the stage as the host for the very first time.
The legendary Foo Fighters, making their 9th musical guest appearance on SNL, will bring their iconic rock sound to the stage.
- 10/21/2023
- by News
- TV Regular
Foo Fighters are set to return to Saturday Night Live as musical guests on Oct. 28. The band will perform opposite of host and comedian Nate Bargatze.
This will be the group’s ninth stop as musical guests and their first appearance on SNL since the drummer Taylor Hawkins’s death in March 2022. While the band was set to appear in May, the episode was canceled due to the writers’ strike, which ended in October.
SNL returned this past weekend and opened its 49th season with host Pete Davidson, and Ice Spice,...
This will be the group’s ninth stop as musical guests and their first appearance on SNL since the drummer Taylor Hawkins’s death in March 2022. While the band was set to appear in May, the episode was canceled due to the writers’ strike, which ended in October.
SNL returned this past weekend and opened its 49th season with host Pete Davidson, and Ice Spice,...
- 10/18/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
If you read that headline and thought to yourself, "Who the hell is Nate Bargatze?", then allow me to direct you over to Netflix to check out his stand-up specials "The Tennessee Kid" and "The Greatest Average American," or head over to Amazon Prime Video to watch "Hello World" from just earlier this year. They're all hilarious, and they'll make you fall in love with him.
Over the past few years, Nate Bargatze has become a new favorite on the stand-up scene thanks to his wry delivery and sensible yet hilarious perspectives. Making him significantly more appealing to a broader audience than some of the other big stand-up comics out there is the fact that Bargatze is one of the rare comedians who works clean and doesn't rely on any profanity, vulgarity, or blue material. However, he might end up getting a little more edgy when he stops by a...
Over the past few years, Nate Bargatze has become a new favorite on the stand-up scene thanks to his wry delivery and sensible yet hilarious perspectives. Making him significantly more appealing to a broader audience than some of the other big stand-up comics out there is the fact that Bargatze is one of the rare comedians who works clean and doesn't rely on any profanity, vulgarity, or blue material. However, he might end up getting a little more edgy when he stops by a...
- 10/17/2023
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
What kind of music should the world expect from a 36-year-old Drake? “I want to hear adult Drake rapping for adult people,” rapper-turned-podcaster Joe Budden said after hearing his new album, For All the Dogs. In lieu of any newfound maturity, the album is instead full of very Drake moments, including lyrics about a ruined Bahamas trip, the difficulties of dating 25-year-olds, Esperanza Spalding’s 2011 Grammy wins, and people thinking he’s still hung up on Rihanna. Meanwhile, critics noticed what they described as a growing misogyny in Drake’s work,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
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