When S.G. Goodman was growing up, her farmer father would plant an annual crop of sweet corn for his three kids, which they later harvested by hand and sold for money to buy their school clothes. The farm isn’t Goodman’s home anymore: “I live in a house where the backyard …
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Diana Gordon released her new EP, Wasted Youth, on April 3, but since March she hasn’t been able to tour and perform and connect with her fans the way she’d planned. “Promoting it has been challenging,” she explains about putting out the songs just as the self-quarantine required for our …
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Old Crow Medicine Show‘s Ketch Secor goes it alone in the new song “Quarantined” — but he sure would like to have some company. A lighthearted ode to be being separated from the one you love, the track finds the man-out-of-time musician suffering through two full weeks without as much …
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When Mariah Carey sang about everlasting love on 1996’s “Always Be My Baby,” she probably couldn’t have envisioned its rebirth as “Project Baby,” a story of squalor and perseverance by 24-year-old Mobile, Alabama, rapper Rylo Rodriguez. “Catch a DUI, these bills driving us crazy,” he sings in place of Carey’s …
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James McAvoy and Kat Dennings lead a packed cast for the first audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s acclaimed graphic novel series, The Sandman. The first installment of the multi-part series will arrive July 15th via Audible (you can listen for free with a free trial to Audible). McAvoy will star …
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With late-night performers stuck in quarantine, artists have had to get a little creative with their at-home setups. Last month on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Haim gave their rendition of “I Know Alone” a little pizazz by adding a laser light show to their bedrooms. And, on Monday …
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Kyle Seely never planned to become a soft-rock DJ. But then he found himself stranded in Australia. “I was supposed to be in the States now, but I have no idea when I’ll be back there,” explains the Sheer Mag guitarist, who moved to Melbourne to live with his fiancé …
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Rebellion, outrage, scandal, hypersexual egomania, ripping it up, rocking it up, gigantic hair, and mascara — all these things are in rock & roll because Little Richard put them there. He was the loudest and wildest and rudest of the Fifties pioneers, the most flamboyantly and untamably free. He invented …
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At Workis a weeklyRolling Stoneseries exploring how decision-makers in the fast-changing music business spend their hectic days — as well as what burgeoning ideas they’re keen to explore, what advice they’d give to industry newcomers, and more.Readearlier interviews here. In a world increasingly dominated by TikTok, it’s routine for an …
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There’s an old folk tale I heard a lot back in Hebrew school. In the little village of Chelm, a poor farmer goes to see the rabbi to complain that his house is far too small to accommodate himself, his wife, and their children. The rabbi tells the farmer to …
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