Angelo De Augustine and Sufjan Stevens have teamed up for the first time on De Augustine’s new single, “Santa Barbara,” released Tuesday on Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty label. The contemplative track, guided by a Guilele arpeggio, sees De Augustine assessing his loneliness and seeking out love as solace: “All this life …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Finding new ways to have fun at home is always important. As we continue to spend more time self-isolating as part of the mandated coronavirus quarantine, now is …
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Purple Rain star Apollonia Kotero slammed Prince collaborator Sheila E. in a social media post following the release of Sheila E.’s Prince tribute song “Lemon Cake” earlier this week. “Lemon Cake” arrived a week before the Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince special, featuring Sheila E., airs on …
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As part of the ongoing Marley75 celebration — and to spread positivity during this pandemic — Bob Marley’s estate has shared a new animated video for the reggae legend’s “Three Little Birds.” Marley’s daughter Cedella said in a statement of the new video, “This song has helped provide hope and …
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On March 3, the electronic producer Surf Mesa‘s single “ily” debuted on Spotify’s Global Viral chart, which highlights songs benefitting from a recent surge in interest. The track merged an acoustic cover of the Sixties classic “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” originally recorded by Franki Valli, with a downtempo, …
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Iggy Pop paid tribute to Jimmy Webb — the punk style icon and New York City boutique owner beloved by rock royalty — in a statement to Rolling Stone following Webb’s death Tuesday at the age of 62. “Jimmy was a ragged ray of sunshine in a world that’s getting …
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The Pretenders have dropped an introspective ballad, “You Can’t Hurt a Fool.” The track is off of the band’s upcoming LP, Hate for Sale, out July 17th via BMG. “You can’t hurt a fool,” Chrissie Hynde warns, her signature vocals melting over a soulful guitar riff. ” ‘Cause genuine fools …
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The Streets have returned with “Call My Phone Thinking I’m Doing Nothing Better,” a new track featuring Tame Impala. The song marks the U.K. rap project’s first new music in nine years, following 2011’s Computers and Blues. The song’s video features the Streets’ Mike Skinner trying to call Tame Impala’s …
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Pete Davidson provided a pair of homemade music videos, “Drake Song” and “Andre 2000,” for the first Saturday Night Live at Home episode. On “Drake Song,” as the title suggests, Davidson offers his own pastiche of a Drake song, even employing the dance from the Toronto rapper’s quarantine-made hit “Toosie …
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The first Strokes album in seven years picks up pretty much where the last one, 2013’s Comedown Machine, left off — another study in what LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy once called “borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.” Few bands so embody a place and time as the Strokes did New …
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