For a uniquely brutal year, 2020 had more than its share of fantastic music, and in our latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we look back at the year’s best albums, from Bad Bunny‘s Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gan to BruceSpringsteen’s Letter toYou. (The podcast previously …
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“It’s snowing! It’s snowing!” The man gleefully exclaiming this meteorological fact is watching tiny flakes begin to fall on the ground. Seconds before, he was telling the group of folks milling around the room to gather ’round (“Gen-tle-men, congregate!”) with all the authority of a general assembling the troops. Then …
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The newest chapter of Bruce Springsteen‘s ongoing live download series is a show he played at the Hovet arena in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 25, 2005. It’s a solo, acoustic gig from the Devils and Dust tour featuring stripped-down arrangements of songs from his entire career. Here’s a preview of …
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Looking back at some of the strangest cameos in film and TV history, we werestruck by how many of them were by musicians. It makes sense. After all, musicians are already out of place among actors on a TV or film set. What they bring to the table is different …
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Rare and classic footage of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, and others covering Chuck Berry tunes will be compiled in a new tribute to the rock & roll legend, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, set to air February 29th on PBS. The film collects several decades’ worth …
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Bruce Springsteen doesn’t turn 70 until September 23rd, but Lucy Dacus is celebrating early with a surging cover of “Dancing in the Dark.” The track is the latest installment in Dacus’ holiday (and Springsteen birthday)-themed series the singer has shared throughout the year. Dacus first covered “Dancing in the Dark” …
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It would be easy to assume that the new movie Blinded by the Light — which squeezes maximum uplift out of the tale of a 1980s British-Pakistani teen in the gritty U.K. town of Luton who finds liberation in the music of Bruce Springsteen — is part of the current …
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