Music Features

Sometimes, Paul Janeway admits, when touring the world with his band, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, he’ll find himself with this “weird desire” to return to a more simple life. Like, say, one spent working at one of the body shops in his rural hometown of Chelsea, Alabama. But …

Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16th at age 76, recorded more than 40 full-length albums in her six-decade career. It’s a deep catalog, crowded with indisputable classics and hidden gems. Rolling Stone’s music staff is paying its R.E.S.P.E.C.T.s to the Queen with tributes to our favorite Aretha LPs. Next …

My Great Aretha Adventure began when, as a teenager, I longed to learn the mystery behind the beauty of her voice. So, some 40 years ago, I set out to meet her and document her life. It became my mission. On one level, I accomplished that mission. I met her …

“It’s the perfect tour, I think,” says Rob Zombie about Twins of Evil: The Second Coming, his co-headlining jaunt with Marilyn Manson that kicks off July 11th at Detroit’s DTE Energy Music Theatre. The trek, which pits Zombie’s B-movie-splattered groove metal against Manson’s industrial-goth exorcisms, is a match made in …

The Edge knows that U2‘s ongoing Experience + Innocence Tour – where they play nearly all of their new LP Songs of Experience and skip most of their big radio hits – isn’t for everyone. “We felt like if you wanted to hear the Joshua Tree songs, there was the …

BobDylan fans will forever argue about the precise moment when his career hit rock bottom, but most pin it somewhere around the time that Down in the Groove landed with a thud in record stores in May 1988. Columbia executives held up its release for a full year after he …

While the world was watching Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle this past weekend, producer Anna Barry was handed a precious challenge: Craft an immaculate recording of the music from the Royal Wedding and have it up on streaming services as soon as possible – the label says they had it …

Last summer, Greta Van Fleet were about to tear through some of their Viking stomp rock & roll during a live appearance on a Chicago radio show when lead singer Josh Kiszka leaned over to pick up his tambourine, and out of his pockets poured a stream of colored pills. …

Brenda Lee is sitting inside her spacious Nashville home, sipping a glass of sweet tea and staring at dead friends. She shows off an autographed portrait of the Beatles from when the group opened for her at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962, then points to a wall, …

Almost no band that started after the 1970s has been more successful than Bon Jovi. They have sold a reported 130 million records and packed just about every stadium in the world many times over. Their songs are inescapable on classic-rock radio (not to mention karaoke bars) and their last …